Song conquest of Northern Han explained

Date:February – 3 June 979
Place:Northern Han (present-day Shanxi)
Result:Surrender of Northern Han; annexation of Northern Han by Northern Song; end of the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period
Combatant1:Northern Song dynasty
Combatant2:Northern Han dynasty
Liao dynasty
Commander1:Emperor Taizong of Song
Pan Mei
Cui Yanjin
Li Hanqiong
Cao Han
Liu Yu
Mi Xin
Tian Chongjin
Guo Jin
Commander2:Northern Han:
Emperor Yingwu of Northern Han
Fan Chao
Guo Wanchao
Yang Ye
Liao:
Yelü Sha
Yelü Xiezhen
Yelü Dilie

The Song conquest of Northern Han occurred in 979, when Northern Song forces captured the Northern Han capital of Taiyuan in present-day Shanxi Province after a two-month siege. A relief attempt by forces of the Liao dynasty, which was allied to the Northern Han, was easily defeated by the Northern Song. Yelü Dilie, a cousin of the Emperor Jingzong of Liao, was killed along with Yelü Sha's son Yelü Deli (耶律德裏).

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