Battle of Chi Lăng

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The Battle of Chi Lăng was a historic Vietnamese military victory, most famously in 1427, where local forces used the mountainous terrain to decisively defeat invading Chinese Ming troops.

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Battle of Chi Lăng canonical 1
Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf battle
military conflict
aftermath contributed to Ming withdrawal from Đại Việt
alsoKnownAs Trận Chi Lăng NERFINISHED
belligerent Lam Sơn rebel forces NERFINISHED
Ming dynasty NERFINISHED
combatant Chinese Ming forces NERFINISHED
Vietnamese forces
commemoratedIn Vietnamese historiography
Vietnamese national memory
conflict Lam Sơn uprising NERFINISHED
Ming–Đại Việt War NERFINISHED
country Viet Nam
surface form: Vietnam
date 1427
era Later Lê dynasty founding period
Ming dynasty NERFINISHED
hasCasusBelli Ming occupation of Đại Việt
hasType land battle
historicalPeriod early 15th century
involves Ming relief army sent to rescue besieged garrisons
languageOfName Vietnamese
location Chi Lăng Pass NERFINISHED
Lạng Sơn Province NERFINISHED
Đại Việt NERFINISHED
militaryTheater border region between Ming China and Đại Việt
namedAfter Chi Lăng Pass NERFINISHED
notableCommander Lê Lợi NERFINISHED
Lê Sát NERFINISHED
objective stop Ming relief forces
opposingCommander Liu Sheng NERFINISHED
Ming relief army commander
outcome capture or death of Ming commanders
heavy Ming casualties
partOf Lam Sơn uprising NERFINISHED
Vietnamese resistance against Chinese domination
region northern Vietnam
relatedEvent Battle of Tốt Động – Chúc Động NERFINISHED
siege of Đông Quan NERFINISHED
result Vietnamese victory
decisive Vietnamese victory
significance helped secure Vietnamese independence from Ming rule
major turning point in the Lam Sơn uprising
strategicImportance control of route from China into Đại Việt
usedTactics ambush
luring enemy into narrow pass
usedTerrain mountainous terrain

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Vietnamese forces notableBattle Battle of Chi Lăng
Mongol invasion of Vietnam significantEvent Battle of Chi Lăng
this entity surface form: Battle of Đông Bộ Đầu