Battle of Xiaoting

Battle of Xiaoting
	Part of the wars of the Three Kingdoms period
	; Battle of Xiaoting/Yiling
Date	c. August 221 – c. October 222
Location	Yiling and Xiaoting (the juncture between the west of Yidu County and east of Changyang County in Yichang, Hubei); ; Ma'an Hills (east of Changyang County)30°41′31″N 111°17′13″E / 30.69194°N 111.28694°E
Result	Wu victory
Belligerents
Wu	Shu;; tribal forces from Wuling
Commanders and leaders
Lu Xun; Han Dang; Ding Feng; Zhu Ran; Xu Sheng; Pan Zhang; Luo Tong; Song Qian	Liu Bei; Shamoke †; Huang Quan; Feng Xi †; Zhang Nan †; Ma Liang †; Fu Rong †; Cheng Ji †; Wu Ban; Liao Hua; Xiang Chong; Chen Shi; Wang Fu †
Strength
~50,000	40,000–60,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown	Unknown
	class=notpageimage\| Location within Hubei Battle of Xiaoting (China)

The Battle of Xiaoting (猇亭之戰), also known as the Battle of Yiling and the Battle of Yiling and Xiaoting, was fought between the state of Shu and the state of Wu, between the years 221 and 222 in the early Three Kingdoms period of China. The battle is significant because Wu was able to turn the situation from a series of initial losses into a defensive stalemate, before proceeding to win a decisive victory over Shu. The Wu victory halted the Shu invasion and preceded the death of Liu Bei, Shu's founding emperor.

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^ ^a ^b de Crespigny, Rafe (2004). "Chapter Seven: Claim to the Mandate 222-229". Generals of the South: The foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu (PDF). Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2014.
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^ (《魏书》：癸亥，孙权上书，说："刘备支党四万人，马二三千匹，) Wei Shu annotation in Sanguozhi
^ Sawyer, p. 20

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[RDC-6] Crespigny, Rafe (2004). "Chapter Seven: Claim to the Mandate 222-229". Generals of the South: The foundation and early history of the Three Kingdoms state of Wu (PDF). Faculty of Asian Studies, Australian National University. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013. Retrieved 30 December 2014.

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[8] (《魏书》：癸亥，孙权上书，说："刘备支党四万人，马二三千匹，) Wei Shu annotation in Sanguozhi

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