Han campaigns against Minyue
| Han campaigns against Minyue | |||||||
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| Part of the southward expansion of the Han dynasty | |||||||
Map showing the expansion of Han dynasty in the 2nd century BC | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
| Han dynasty | Minyue | ||||||
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138 BC Yang Pu Wang Wenshu Two marquises of Yue |
135 BC | ||||||
The Han campaigns against Minyue were a series of three Han military campaigns dispatched against the Minyue state. The first campaign was in response to Minyue's invasion of Eastern Ou in 138 BC. In 135 BC, a second campaign was sent to intervene in a war between Minyue and Nanyue. After the campaign, the Han dynasty divided Minyue among the Minyue king Zou Chou (騶丑) and the Dongyue king Zou Yushan (騶餘善). In 111 BC, the rebellion instigated by Zou Yushan in the hope of self-governance was suppressed, prompting the Han dynasty's complete annexation of Dongyue into its dominion and the conquest of the residual territories that constituted the former Minyue, effectively consolidating the permanent integration of both domains into the Han empire indefinitely.