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4-561: Caizhou was the location of the Siege of Caizhou , the last major battle of the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty , which took place in 1233. This Henan location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to the history of China is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Siege of Caizhou The siege of Caizhou in 1233 and 1234

8-808: The Mongols in 1215. In the intervening years, the Jin dynasty moved its capital to Bianjing (present-day Kaifeng , Henan Province ). Ögedei Khan , the successor to Genghis Khan, rose to power after his predecessor died in 1227. In 1230, the war effort against the Jin dynasty recommenced. Emperor Aizong , the Jin ruler, fled when the Mongols besieged Bianjing . On February 26, 1233, he reached Guide (present-day Shangqiu , Henan Province), and then moved on to Caizhou (present-day Runan County , Henan Province), on August 3. The Mongols arrived at Caizhou in December 1233. The Southern Song dynasty had rebuffed Emperor Aizong's plea for assistance, and joined forces with

12-494: The Mongols. The Southern Song dynasty ignored Emperor Aizong's warning that they would become the Mongol Empire's next target. Emperor Aizong tried to escape, but eventually committed suicide when he realised that the likelihood of escaping from Caizhou was no longer plausible. Before his death, he had abdicated his throne to Wanyan Chenglin , a general and descendant of the Jin imperial clan, on February 9, 1234. Caizhou

16-586: Was a battle fought between the Jurchen -led Jin dynasty and the allied forces of the Mongol Empire and Southern Song dynasty . It was the last major battle in the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty . The Jin and Mongols had fought for decades beginning in 1211, when the Mongols first invaded under the command of Genghis Khan . The Jin capital, Zhongdu (present-day Xicheng and Fengtai districts, Beijing ), had been besieged in 1213, then captured by

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