Battle of Xiaoting

Battle of Xiaoting
Part of the wars of the Three Kingdoms period

Battle of Xiaoting/Yiling
Datec. August 221 c. October 222
Location
Yiling and Xiaoting (the juncture between the west of Yidu County and east of Changyang County in Yichang, Hubei);
Ma'an Hills (east of Changyang County)
30°41′31″N 111°17′13″E / 30.69194°N 111.28694°E / 30.69194; 111.28694
Result Wu victory
Belligerents
Eastern Wu Shu Han
Tribal forces from Wuling
Commanders and leaders
Lu Xun
Han Dang
Ding Feng
Zhu Ran
Xu Sheng
Pan Zhang
Luo Tong
Song Qian
Liu Bei
Shamoke 
Huang Quan
Feng Xi 
Zhang Nan 
Ma Liang 
Fu Rong 
Cheng Ji 
Wu Ban
Liao Hua
Xiang Chong
Chen Shi
Wang Fu 
Strength
~50,000 40,000–60,000
Casualties and losses
Unknown Unknown
Location within Hubei
Battle of Xiaoting (China)

The Battle of Xiaoting (猇亭之戰), also known as the Battle of Yiling and the Battle of Yiling and Xiaoting, was fought between the states of Shu Han and Eastern Wu, in the years 221 and 222 during the early Three Kingdoms period of China. The battle is significant because Wu was able to turn the situation from a series of initial losses into a defensive stalemate, before proceeding to win a decisive victory over Shu. The Wu victory halted the Shu invasion and preceded the death of Liu Bei, Shu's founding emperor.