Battle of Zhongdu

The Siege of Peking of 1215 was a battle between the Mongols under Genghis Khan and the Jin Dynasty and ended with the capture of the city by the Mongols.

History

The year 1211 marks the beginning of the war between the Mongols and the Jin Dynasty, which controlled northern China. The Jin Dynasty succeeded two years keep the Mongolian cavalry from their territory. 1213 Genghis Khan divided his army into three parts, however, those using siege weapons succeeded in overcoming the Great Wall. His brother Kasar conquered the territory of present-day Manchuria, his eldest son Jochi Khan's Shanxi Province, he even attacked the strategically important Beijing to conquer the Shandong province can.

The relatively long siege of the city ended on 1 June 1215th The king of the Jin Empire, Xuanzong (宣宗), was able to settle in time to Kaifeng, a large part of the population, however, was massacred. With the fall of the city, it was the Mongols possible to have other areas in the region of the Yellow River.