Battle of Meiling

The Battle of Meiling or Massacre of Meiling is an event from the novel The Langya List, the show Nirvana in Fire and the manhua.

Great Yu invades the north of Liang with 200,000 men, seizing Sutai and moving towards Meiling. The Chiyan Army, garrisoned in Ganzhou, moves to stop their advance. Lin Xie sends a report to the Emperor, who never arrives. Great Yu's forces and the Chiyan Army arrive at Meiling nearly at the same time.

Marshal Lin Xie orders the vanguard lead by Nie Feng to go by Juehun Valley to provide flank support, and the Chiyu Battalion to hold the Northern Valley of Meiling, while the main army stayed in the Southern Valley. Snow begins to fall that night, and the battle rages for three days and nights, before the Chiyan Army defeats Great Yu.

The Chiyan Army having suffered heavy casualties stayed in place. Lin Shu, worried that the vanguard battalion had never arrived, sends Wei Zheng to the main army. Marshal Lin, being also worried, sent Nie Duo to check on Juehun Valley.

Meanwhile, Xie Yu brought 100,000 cavalry units from the western borders, and had attacked before Wei Zheng's arrival. The whole Chiyan Army was destroyed. The Northern Valley was put to fire, and only Lin Shu survived there, helped by Nie Zhen.

After the battle, Xie Yu pretended to have been the one to defeat Great Yu.

Wei Zheng and Lin Shu were rescued by Su Tianshu and Hallmaster Lin. Nie Duo's detachment escaped the second battle.