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Cataphracts with Jin dynasty (Jurchen) flags.Ruiyingtu (瑞應圖, Illustrations of Auspicious Omens), Song dynasty painting.. The military of the Jin dynasty (Chinese: 金朝; pinyin: Jīn cháo), officially known as the Great Jin (大金; Dà Jīn), was the military force of an imperial dynasty of China, founded by rulers of Jurchen origin, that ruled over northern China between 1115 and 1234.
Jin soldiers holding shields. The Jin dynasty's military structure was largely inherited from Cao Wei. During the Three Kingdoms period, military leadership was functionally hereditary as long as the successor was loyal to his liege and proved competent.
The Jin dynasty (/ dʒ ɪ n /, [2] Chinese: 金朝; pinyin: Jīn cháo), [a] officially known as the Great Jin (大金; Dà Jīn), was an imperial dynasty of China that existed between 1115 and 1234. [ b ] As the ruling Wanyan clan was of Jurchen descent, it is also sometimes called the Jurchen dynasty or the Jurchen Jin .
The Jin dynasty was founded by Sima Yan, who was known posthumously as Emperor Wu (the "Martial Emperor of Jin"). After succeeding his father as the King of Jin and regent of Cao Wei in 265, Sima Yan declared himself emperor of the Jin dynasty in February 266 and forced the final Wei ruler Cao Huan to abdicate.
The fate of the Jin dynasty was then sealed for good, despite the earlier victory against great odds at Guide. The Southern Song dynasty, wishing to give the Jin dynasty the coup de grâce, declared war upon the Jurchens, and placed a large army in the field. The remainder of the Jin army took shelter in Caizhou, where they were closely ...
The conquest of Wu by Jin was a military campaign launched by the Jin dynasty against the state of Wu from late 279 to mid 280 at the end of the Three Kingdoms period of China. The campaign, which started in December 279 or January 280, [a] concluded with complete victory for the Jin dynasty on 1 May 280 [b] when the Wu emperor Sun Hao surrendered.
Jin united civil and military authority. [6] Traditionally, Jin had three armies: the upper army, the central army and the lower army. Three more armies were added in 588 BC. Each army contained 12500 soldiers. [7] [8] According to the convention of Zhou dynasty, a large fiefdom like Jin was allowed to have as many as three armies. [9]
The military history of the Three Kingdoms period encompasses roughly a century's worth of prolonged warfare and disorder in Chinese history.After the assassination of General-in-chief He Jin in September 189, the administrative structures of the Han government became increasingly irrelevant.