Battle of the Fei River
A small Jin army halts the Former Qin drive south
In 383 Fu Jian, the Former Qin ruler who had united north China, sent a vast army against Eastern Jin. At the Fei River his troops, pulling back to manoeuvre, broke into panicked flight; the Former Qin state soon fell apart and the south kept its independence.
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