Battle of Dulu
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 Wei Gao |
 Lun Mangre | ||||||||
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20,000 Nanzhao Forces 30,000 Tang Forces[5] | 260,000 | ||||||||
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~ 10,000-20,00 killed, 6,000-20,000 captured[6], Surrender of the entire army [7]
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The Battle of Du Lu was a battle between the Tang and Nanzhao forces against the Tibetan Empire and Abbasid Slaves Soldiers that took place at Lu Shui in the spring of the 17th year of Zhenyuan Period of Tang Dynasty (801).
Wei Gao, the governor of Jiannan and Xichuan, and Yi Mouxun, the king of Nanzhao, jointly attacked the Empire of Tibet. The Arabs sent troops to support Tibet. One night, the Tang Dynasty coalition forces crossed the Lu River and destroyed the enemy's main force. After the battle, the Book of Tang says that:
"the Kang, the Abassids Arabs and other soldiers and the Tibet chieftains all surrendered, and 20,000 heads of armor were captured"
This battle was a major event in the introduction of Islam into China through military means.[9]
The Attack[edit]
In 801, Nanzhao participated in another Chinese offensive against Tibet. In the spring of the Zhenyuan reign, Wei Gao leads his troops across the River and attacks the enemy's camps so that five hundred enemy soldiers are killed.[10] later in a concerted action, Tang and Nanzhao forces engaged the Tibetans from the east. More than 10,000 Tibetan soldiers were killed and some 6,000 captured.[11] Seven Tibetan cities and five military garrisons fell into Nanzhao’s hands and more than one hundred fortified places were burned down. This disastrous defeat put the Tibetans on the defensive and changed the balance of military power in favor of the Tang and Nanzhao.[12]
Aftermath[edit]
After this battle, the expansion of Nanzhao would begin, and the decline of the Tibetan empire, being one of the most important victories of Tang and Nanzhao against the Tibetans.
the captured soldiers by the Tang dynasty; were forced into the war in South China on the Tang's side.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ https://books.google.com.br/books?id=7G61UifCEZMC&pg=PA12&hl=pt-BR&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=801&f=false
- ↑ https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/tang-china-in-multi-polar-asia-a-history-of-diplomacy-and-war-9780824837884.html
- ↑ https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/tang-china-in-multi-polar-asia-a-history-of-diplomacy-and-war-9780824837884.html
- ↑ https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/tang-china-in-multi-polar-asia-a-history-of-diplomacy-and-war-9780824837884.html
- ↑ https://chinesenotes.com/xintangshu/xintangshu222a.html 又聞唐兵三萬入南詔，乃大懼，兵戍納川、故洪、諾濟、臘、聿賫五城，欲悉師出西山、劍山，收巂州以絕南詔
- ↑ https://kfcris.com/pdf/c2508c385dd7671ac18676b7178a955a58e09505b194a.pdf
- ↑ https://books.google.com.br/books?id=7G61UifCEZMC&pg=PA12&hl=pt-BR&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q=801&f=false
- ↑ https://chinesenotes.com/xintangshu/xintangshu222a.html 是時，回鶻、太原、邠寧、涇原軍獵其北，劍南東川、山南兵震其東，鳳翔軍當其西；蜀、南詔深入，克城七，焚堡百五十所，斬首萬級，獲鎧械十五萬。
- ↑ https://chinesenotes.com/xintangshu/xintangshu222a.html 十七年春，夜絕瀘破虜屯，斬五百級。虜保鹿危山，毗羅伏以待，又戰，虜大奔。於時，康、黑衣大食等兵及吐蕃大酋皆降，獲甲二萬首。又合鬼主破虜於瀘西
- ↑ https://kfcris.com/pdf/c2508c385dd7671ac18676b7178a955a58e09505b194a.pdf
- ↑ https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/tang-china-in-multi-polar-asia-a-history-of-diplomacy-and-war-9780824837884.html
- ↑ https://dokumen.pub/qdownload/tang-china-in-multi-polar-asia-a-history-of-diplomacy-and-war-9780824837884.html
- ↑ https://kfcris.com/pdf/c2508c385dd7671ac18676b7178a955a58e09505b194a.pdf
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