After Trịnh Duy Sản killed the king, Trần Cảo's rebels entered the burning, abandoned capital and he proclaimed himself emperor; loyalist armies retook the city after a hard fight and Trần Cảo fled across the Đuống river.
Battle
Trần Cảo takes Đông Kinh
- 1516
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