Bach Dang Wine Cellar

938AD, Ngo Quyen led his forces at the Battle of Bach Dang River, close to Halong Bay and the Cat Ba Archipelago, to defeat the invading forces of the Southern Han, a Chinese state, and put an end to centuries of Chinese domination in Vietnam.

At high tide Ngo Quyen lured the enemy up the river, where he had secured poles in the riverbed. At low tide the Han found their ships impaled on the poles and they subsequently sunk. Ngo Quyen’s tactic would later be reused by Tran Hung Dao in another battle at Bach Dang River, this time against the Mongols, in 1288.