The Fall of Qin and the Rise of HanExpansion eras
262 BC–202 BC
The Fall of Qin and the Rise of Han (262 BC–202 BC). You start as Foot soldier and could rise all the way to General, if you survive. This era covers 45 historical battles.
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Historical battles
| Year | Battle | Est. casualties |
|---|---|---|
| 262 BC | Battle of YewangBai Qi attacked Han, and Yewang surrendered to Qin. Han's Shangdang Commandery was cut off from the capital, and its governor handed Shangdang over to Zhao. | ≈4% |
| 260 BC | Standoff at ChangpingWang He took Shangdang, and its people fled to Zhao. The old general Lian Po built fortified camps at Changping and refused to come out. The two armies faced each other for months. | ≈6% |
| 260 BC | Battle of ChangpingTaken in by Qin's agents, the King of Zhao replaced Lian Po with the young Zhao Kuo. Qin secretly put Bai Qi in command. Zhao Kuo attacked, the Qin army pretended to fall back, and a hidden force cut the Zhao army's line of retreat and its supply route. | ≈45% |
| 259 BC | Siege of HandanThe Qin army surrounded Handan, the capital of Zhao. The relief armies outside were slow to come, and the people inside grew hungrier by the day. | ≈10% |
| 257 BC | Relief of HandanInside Handan, people had come to splitting bones for cooking fuel and trading children to eat. Lord Pingyuan shared out his family fortune among the soldiers and put the women of his household to work alongside them. Lord Xinling of Wei had the King of Wei's favorite concubine steal the army tally, seized command of Jin Bi's army at Ye, picked eighty thousand of the best men, and marched to save Zhao. Lord Chunshen of Chu brought troops as well. The Qin army was badly beaten beneath the walls of Handan. | ≈15% |
| 256 BC | Battle of YangchengGeneral Jiu attacked Han and took Yangcheng and Fushu. According to the Annals of Qin, forty thousand heads were taken in this battle. | ≈6% |
| 251 BC | Battle of HaoYan believed Zhao's fighting men had all died at Changping and sent Li Fu to attack. Lian Po crushed the Yan army at Hao and killed Li Fu. | ≈6% |
| 247 BC | Battle of HewaiLord Xinling returned to Wei and, at the head of five states' armies, crushed the Qin general Meng Ao at Hewai and chased him all the way to the Hangu Pass. | ≈12% |
| 244 BC | Meng Ao's Attack on HanMeng Ao attacked Han and took thirteen cities. | ≈6% |
| 242 BC | Battle of Dong CommanderyMeng Ao attacked Wei and took twenty cities in one sweep. Qin made the land into Dong Commandery. | ≈12% |
| 241 BC | Five-State Alliance Against QinThe last time the eastern states joined forces against Qin. The Zhao general Pang Nuan led the allies' best troops as far as Zui, not far from Xianyang, but could not take it. The Qin army struck back, and the allies went home one by one. | ≈8% |
| 239 BC | Tunliu RebellionChengjiao, Lord Chang'an, the King of Qin's younger brother, was sent to attack Zhao and rebelled at Tunliu. Chengjiao died at Tunliu, the officers who followed him were all beheaded, and the people of Tunliu were moved to Lintao. | ≈5% |
| 238 BC | Battle of XianyangLao Ai, Marquis of Changxin, secretly used the King of Qin's seal to raise troops in revolt. The king ordered Lord Changping and Lord Changwen to send troops, and they defeated the rebels at Xianyang. That year the King of Qin was twenty-two and had just been capped as an adult. | ≈1% |
| 236 BC | Battle of YeWang Jian, Huan Yi and Yang Duanhe attacked Zhao on three fronts and took Ye and nine cities around it. | ≈10% |
| 234 BC | Battle of PingyangHuan Yi attacked Pingyang and killed the Zhao general Hu Zhe. The Records of the Grand Historian say a hundred thousand heads were taken. | ≈35% |
| 233 BC | Battle of FeiThe King of Zhao brought Li Mu down from the north. Li Mu drove Huan Yi back at Fei and was made Lord Wu'an. | ≈12% |
| 232 BC | Battle of PanwuThe Qin army came again, this time against Panwu, and once more Li Mu drove them back. | ≈8% |
| 230 BC | Conquest of HanTeng, Prefect of the Capital, attacked Han and captured King An of Han. Han was the first of the six states to fall. | ≈4% |
| 229 BC | Wang Jian's Attack on ZhaoWang Jian attacked Zhao with a great army, and Li Mu and Sima Shang held him off for a full year. Qin bribed Guo Kai, the King of Zhao's favorite, with a fortune in gold. | ≈7% |
| 228 BC | Fall of HandanWith Li Mu dead, the Zhao army could no longer hold Wang Jian back. Handan fell and King Qian of Zhao was captured. Prince Jia fled to Dai and made himself King of Dai. | ≈20% |
| 226 BC | Battle of the Yi RiverAfter Jing Ke's attempt on the King of Qin failed, the Qin army broke the combined armies of Yan and Dai west of the Yi River. The next year, Qin took Ji, the Yan capital. King Xi of Yan fled to Liaodong. | ≈6% |
| 225 BC | Siege of DaliangDaliang, the capital of Wei, had strong walls. Wang Ben dug channels from the river and flooded the city. Three months later the walls crumbled, and King Jia of Wei came out and surrendered. | ≈25% |
| 225 BC | Battle of ChengfuThe young Li Xin said he could conquer Chu with two hundred thousand men. At first he won battle after battle, but the Chu army dogged him for three days and nights, broke into two of his camps, and killed seven of his commanders. | ≈25% |
| 224 BC | Battle of QinanThe old general Wang Jian marched into Chu with six hundred thousand men, dug in and refused battle, and had his soldiers bathe and eat their fill every day. When the Chu army pulled back east, Wang Jian went after it with everything he had and crushed it south of Qi. | ≈25% |
| 223 BC | Conquest of ChuFuchu, King of Chu, had already been captured. Xiang Yan put Lord Changping on the throne and fought on south of the Huai. Wang Jian and Meng Wu beat the Chu army again; Lord Changping died, and so did Xiang Yan. | ≈30% |
| 222 BC | Battle of LiaodongWang Ben drove into Liaodong and captured King Xi of Yan, then turned back and captured Jia, King of Dai. | ≈4% |
| 221 BC | Surrender of LinziWang Ben marched south from Yan straight into Qi. King Jian of Qi surrendered without a fight. All six states were gone. | ≈1% |
| 215 BC | Meng Tian's Campaign Against the XiongnuMeng Tian led three hundred thousand men north against the Xiongnu and took the land inside the great bend of the Yellow River. | ≈12% |
| 214 BC | Conquest of LuliangThe court formed an army of former fugitives, bonded sons-in-law and merchants, sent it south beyond the Five Ranges, and set up the three commanderies of Guilin, Xiang and Nanhai. | ≈12% |
| 209 BC | Dazexiang UprisingThe nine hundred rebels took Dazexiang and Qi county, gathering men as they went. By the time they reached Chen, they had six or seven hundred chariots, more than a thousand horsemen and tens of thousands of foot soldiers. Chen Sheng declared himself king at Chen and named his state Zhang Chu. | ≈5% |
| 209 BC | Battle of XiThe Zhang Chu general Zhou Wen led several hundred thousand men as far as Xi, not far from Xianyang. The Second Emperor pardoned the convict laborers at Mount Li and put them under the Privy Treasurer Zhang Han, who drove Zhou Wen back. | ≈35% |
| 208 BC | Battle of ChenZhang Han pushed east and took Chen. Chen Sheng fell back to Xiachengfu, where he was killed by his own charioteer, Zhuang Jia. He had been king for only six months. | ≈30% |
| 208 BC | Battle of Dong'eXiang Liang made Xiong Xin, a grandson of King Huai of Chu, king, and gave him the same title, King Huai. That year Xiang Liang defeated Zhang Han at Dong'e. | ≈10% |
| 208 BC | Battle of DingtaoAfter his string of victories, Xiang Liang grew careless. Zhang Han was reinforced and fell on Dingtao in a silent night attack, his men with gags in their mouths. Xiang Liang was killed. | ≈20% |
| 207 BC | Battle of JuluXiang Yu crossed the Zhang River and ordered the boats sunk, the cooking pots smashed and the tents burned, carrying only three days' food. The Chu army fought the Qin nine times, cut the Qin army's walled supply road, and captured the Qin general Wang Li. The relief armies of the other lords watched from their ramparts; not one dared come down. | ≈30% |
| 206 BC | Battle of ChencangMade King of Han, Liu Bang burned the plank roads behind him on the way to Hanzhong. A few months later he burst out along the old road and defeated Zhang Han, King of Yong, at Chencang. | ≈6% |
| 205 BC | Battle of PengchengThe King of Han led the allied lords' 560,000 men into Pengcheng, and they feasted day after day. Xiang Yu raced back from Qi with thirty thousand picked troops and, fighting from dawn to noon, smashed the Han army. More than a hundred thousand Han soldiers were driven into the Sui River, and the river was choked with bodies. | ≈35% |
| 205 BC | Battle of Jing and SuoThe King of Han gathered the remnants of his army at Xingyang, and Xiao He sent even the old and the weak from Guanzhong to the front. The Han army stopped the Chu between Jing and Suo. | ≈8% |
| 205 BC | Battle of AnyiBao, King of Wei, turned from Han to Chu. Han Xin lined up boats at Linjin as if to cross there, while his main force crossed the Yellow River at Xiayang on wooden jars, took Anyi by surprise, and captured King Bao. | ≈5% |
| 204 BC | Battle of JingxingHan Xin drew up ten thousand men with their backs to a river, and the Zhao army laughed at the sight. When the Zhao troops left their camp, two thousand light horsemen rode in, pulled down the Zhao banners and raised two thousand red Han flags. The Zhao army fell apart. Chen Yu was beheaded on the Zhi River, and King Xie of Zhao was captured. | ≈5% |
| 204 BC | Siege of XingyangThe Chu cut the Han supply line, and Xingyang was besieged. General Ji Xin dressed up as the King of Han and rode out of the east gate in the royal carriage to surrender, while Liu Bang slipped away through the west gate. Xiang Yu had Ji Xin burned alive. | ≈12% |
| 203 BC | Battle of the Wei RiverThe Chu general Long Ju came to rescue Qi. In the night, Han Xin dammed the upper Wei River with more than ten thousand sandbags, then crossed and feigned defeat. When Long Ju followed him across, the sandbags were pulled away, and the flood cut the Chu army in two. Long Ju was killed. | ≈30% |
| 203 BC | Battle of ChenggaoXiang Yu went east to attack Peng Yue, leaving his Grand Marshal Cao Jiu to hold Chenggao. The Han army hurled insults at him day after day until Cao Jiu could stand it no longer and crossed the Si River to fight. When his men were halfway across, the Han army struck. Cao Jiu killed himself on the bank of the Si. | ≈20% |
| 202 BC | Battle of GulingChu and Han made peace, with the Hong Canal as the border. Xiang Yu headed home east, but Liu Bang broke the treaty and went after him. Han Xin and Peng Yue didn't come as promised, and the Han army was beaten by the Chu at Guling. | ≈8% |
| 202 BC | Battle of GaixiaThe armies of Han Xin, Peng Yue and Ying Bu had all arrived, and the Chu army was surrounded on every side. Xiang Yu broke out by night with some eight hundred horsemen; by the time he reached Dongcheng, he had twenty-eight left. The ferry master at the Wu River offered to take him across. He said, "Heaven is destroying me. Why should I cross?" and cut his own throat on the riverbank. | ≈50% |
Casualty rates are the game's estimates from historical sources, used to work out the chance of dying. Treat them as approximate.
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