Song Conquest Of Southern Tang
In 975 AD the Song managed through force to subdue the state now known as Southern Tang, to distinguish it from the synonymously named Tang Dynasty, of which the Southern Tang proclaimed itself to be successor, as part of a series of Song conquests to reunify China. Battle on the Yangtze On the river Yangtze near Nanking, the capital of the Southern Tang, a major naval battle took place in 975 between the Song empire and the Southern Tang. Forces Southern Tang The Tang had a fleet of ships that were ten decks high and equipped with multiple flamethrowers. There were at least 150,000 soldiers and sailors under the command of Zhu Lingyun. Song The admiral for the Song was Cao Bin. The Song ships were smaller, but the crew on board were better archers. The ships had flamethrowers and were filled with bundles of reed soaked in oil to be thrown at the enemy ships. Battle The Song ships attacked ferociously, firing so many arrows that soon, the Tang ships were studded with them. Z ...
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Southern Tang
Southern Tang () was a state in Southern China that existed during Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, which proclaimed itself to be the successor of the former Tang dynasty. The capital was located at Jinling, Nanjing in present-day Jiangsu Province. At its terri