Battle of Tieling explained

Conflict:Battle of Tieling
Partof:the Ming-Qing transition
Date:September 3 1619
Place:Tieling, China
Result:Later Jin occupied Tieling.
Combatant1:Later Jin
Combatant2:Ming dynasty
Commander1:Nurhaci
Commander2:Li Ruzhen
Strength1:unknown
Strength2:unknown
Casualties1:unknown
Casualties2:unknown

The Battle of Tieling was a military conflict between the Later Jin and Ming dynasty. In the summer of 1619 Nurhaci invaded the town of Tieling, the ancestral home of the Li clan. Ming had fortified the town with cannons, but many of their soldiers defected to the Jin, and they were unable to reload their cannons before the walls were taken. Li Ruzhen, one of the last scions of the Tieling Li, fled the battle.