Timeline of the Jin–Song wars

[5] The Jin marched southward with the aim of conquering the Southern Song, but counteroffensives by Chinese generals like Yue Fei halted their advance.

[6] A peace accord, the Treaty of Shaoxing, was negotiated and ratified in 1142, establishing the Huai River as the boundary between the two empires.

The siege of De'an in 1132 included the first recorded use of the fire lance, an early gunpowder weapon and an ancestor of the firearm.

[13] The Jurchens migrated south and settled in northern China, where they adopted the language and Confucian culture of the local inhabitants.

[14] Both the Song and Jin dynasties ended in the 13th century as the Mongol Empire expanded across Asia.