Battle of Yangcheng

Battle of Yangcheng
Battle of Yangcheng
Traditional Chinese	陽城之戰
Simplified Chinese	阳城之战
Hanyu Pinyin
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Yángchéng Zhī Zhàn

Battle of Yangcheng
	Part of the wars at the end of the Han dynasty
Date	191 CE
Location	Dengfeng, Henan
Result	Yuan Shu victory
Belligerents
Yuan Shao	Yuan Shu
Commanders and leaders
Zhou Yu (Renming); Zhou Ang	Sun Jian; Gongsun Yue †

The Battle of Yangcheng was fought between the warlords Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu as the coalition against Dong Zhuo fell apart in 191 in the late Eastern Han dynasty. Sun Jian, Yuan Shu's nominal subordinate returning from his triumphant capture of the abandoned capital of Luoyang, became involved in Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's personal feud as the former allies turned against one another. Yuan Shao's forces, under Zhou Yu,^[1] first got the upper hand against Sun Jian's forces, but were beaten back by Sun's counterattack.

^ ^a ^b Historical sources disagree on whether it was Zhou Yu, Zhou Ang, or Zhou Xin that was involved in this battle. Historian Rafe de Crespigny accepted the version which described Zhou Yu as the one in the attack on Yangcheng. See de Crespigny (1990), p. 121 note 70. This is not the same Zhou Yu who served Sun Jian's sons Sun Ce and Sun Quan.

[zhounote-1] Historical sources disagree on whether it was Zhou Yu, Zhou Ang, or Zhou Xin that was involved in this battle. Historian Rafe de Crespigny accepted the version which described Zhou Yu as the one in the attack on Yangcheng. See de Crespigny (1990), p. 121 note 70. This is not the same Zhou Yu who served Sun Jian's sons Sun Ce and Sun Quan.

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