Fall of Western Xia

Timeline

1. 1227Outside Zhongxing Fu · YinchuanAfter Genghis Khan died of illness, Mongol generals concealed the death, carrying an empty carriage as if the commander were still alive, and intensified the siege of Western Xia's capital Zhongxing Fu. Lingzhou had already fallen and Hexi was breached; Western Xia was beset inside and out, and the city's defenders and people ran out of food and reinforcements, in imminent danger.
2. 1227Zhongxing Fu · YinchuanUnder prolonged siege and fierce assault, Zhongxing Fu's walls were breached. Western Xia's last emperor Li Xian led the imperial clan and ministers out of the city to surrender, and the Mongol army entered to accept. However, the Mongols did not keep their promise to spare the Western Xia royal house; Li Xian and the imperial family were killed soon after, and Western Xia's dynasty ended.
3. 1227All of Western Xia · Western XiaThe Mongol army carried out large-scale massacres and destruction in Zhongxing Fu and throughout Western Xia; palaces, Buddhist temples, and texts were burned, and the Western Xia script was nearly lost. The Western Xia regime, which had existed for nearly two centuries, was completely destroyed; the political landscape of the northwest was rewritten, and the Mongol Empire completed its control of Hexi and the Hetao.