The main Yellow River garrison of the Xia's northern bend, sacked by the Mongols in 1207 and again in 1209 after a Xia force under Gao Lianghui was beaten outside it (English Wikipedia).
Its exact site is not given in the pages we read; the Wuhai-Hetao stretch is the likely area. It stands beside the first Mongol raid targets, the border forts Lijili and Luosi that the Chinese chronicles name for 1205. Not pinned.
Who holds it
- Title
- Garrison commander under the Heishan Weifu or Chaoshun district
- Since
- not known
- Born
- not known
- Family
- not known
- Confidence
- low
No holder is named for 1200 in the sources we could read.
Lord in 1200
Under the Heishan Weifu or Right Chaoshun district.
Overlord
The emperor Huanzong through the prefect and the military district.
What the town holds
Xia ground since the conquest of the Hexi or Ordos (1028 to 1036 for the corridor).
Allies and rivals
The district commander and the prefect; the Jin across the frontier where there is one.
How things stand that morning
A frontier garrison; quiet.
Wealth
not recorded
Military
the district's garrison and call-up; no numbers
Council
not known; no council, judge or headman is named in the sources we read
Communities
not recorded
Fairs and markets
not recorded
Militia
the district's garrison and call-up; no numbers
Walls and castle
not recorded
Trade and crafts
not recorded
What the year holds
What happened next, if nothing in play changes it. Each event carries what it depends on and what would stop it.
- 1207 and 1209 (after 1200)Mongol attacks on Wulahai.Depends on: Temujin's raids on Xia. Stopped by: A different campaign plan.
Where the sources disagree
- The brief names 'Shuoli (the Mongolian-border Xia forts)': we take this for the Mongolian-border forts of the Mongol accounts (Lijili, Luosi, Wulahai). Sites are not pinned.
Evidence: Thin: the sources give the place, not its people in 1200.
Primary sources for Great Xia
Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.
- Annals of the Western Xia, Wu Guangcheng (吳廣成) (1825 to 1827, compiled from Song, Liao, Jin and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's year-by-year reconstruction of Tangut history from the Chinese histories, since the Xia left no surviving annals of their own in Chinese. Read online
- Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror for Aid in Government, Bi Yuan (畢沅), completed by Feng Jiwu after his death (late eighteenth century, finished after 1801, from Song and Yuan sources). A Qing scholar's continuous month-by-month chronicle of the Song and Yuan centuries, compiled from the Song shi, the Liao, Jin and Yuan histories, Li Tao, Li Xinchuan and other Song sources. Read online
- Record of the Personal Campaigns of the Holy Warrior (Chinggis Khan) (presented to Khubilai in 1288, finished in Mongolian in 1290; the surviving Chinese version dates from 1369). A year-by-year Chinese account of Temujin's wars, drawn from the lost Altan Debter (the same source behind the Yuan shi's first chapter and Rashid al-Din). Read online
- The Secret History of the Mongols (1228 or 1240 (the colophon's Year of the Rat is disputed), with later additions; the surviving Chinese transcription and gloss were made under the Ming in the 1380s). The only Mongol account of Temujin's rise, written within living memory. Read online
- History of the Song, the chapters on Xia and on foreign states, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345). The Song court's accounts of its neighbours, each arranged as an annal of embassies and wars. Read online
- Compendium of Chronicles: the Turkic and Mongol tribes and the life of Chinggis Khan, Rashid al-Din Hamadani (about 1300 to 1311, in the Ilkhanate). The fullest description of who held what on the steppe around 1200, written a century later from Mongol court records (the Altan Debter) and from informants such as Bolad Chingsang. Read online
- History of the Jin, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office, with Ouyang Xuan among the chief compilers (1343 to 1344, from the Jin veritable records and the Jin national history). The official history of the Jurchen empire that ruled north China and Manchuria in 1200. Read online
- History of the Song, Toqto'a (脫脫) and the Yuan history office (1343 to 1345, from the Song veritable records, state histories and the Huiyao). The official history of the Southern Song, which ruled from Lin'an (Hangzhou) in 1200. Read online
5 more in the sources library for The Tarim, the Uyghurs and Xia.
Sources and studies
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.