Battle of Fei River
383 CE · Fei River, Anhui, China
Quick Facts
- Year
- 383 CE
- Location
- Fei River, Anhui, China
- Era
- ⛩️ East Asia
- Difficulty
- hard

The Battle of Fei River was one of the most decisive battles in Chinese history, where the vastly outnumbered Eastern Jin forces defeated the enormous army of the Former Qin. When the Qin commander ordered his troops to pull back from the river to allow the Jin forces to cross for a set-piece battle, the withdrawal turned into a panicked rout. The victory preserved the Eastern Jin dynasty and ensured the continued division of China between north and south for another two centuries.
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The Former Qin emperor Fu Jian reportedly commanded over 870,000 soldiers at the Fei River, but his massive army was so poorly coordinated that a simple order to withdraw became an unstoppable rout.
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