Han campaigns against Minyue

Han campaigns against Minyue
Part of the southward expansion of the Han dynasty
Map showing the expansion of Han dynasty in the 2nd century BC
Date 138 BC, 135 BC, and 111 BC Location Minyue (modern Fujian) Result 138 BC Minyue surrender and withdrawal from Eastern Ou 135 BC Minyue defeated and partitioned into Minyue and Dongyue 111 BC Cultural assimilation and displacement of the Dongyue by the Han Empire Eastern Ou annexed by the Han Empire[1][2][3] Han settlement and migration southward Contact and establishment of commercial trade with various foreign kingdoms across Southeast Asia
Belligerents
Han dynasty	Minyue
Commanders and leaders
138 BC Zhuang Zhu 135 BC Wang Hui Han Anguo 111 BC Han Yue Yang Pu Wang Wenshu Two marquises of Yue	135 BC Zou Ying 111 BC Zou Yushan

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, Minyue was partitioned into Minyue, ruled by a Han proxy king named Zou Yushan, and Dongyue.^[1] During the concluding months of 111 BC, after the unsuccessful uprising led by Zou Yushan in thwarting General Yang Pu's conspiratorial intentions to undermine him, the aspiration for autonomous rule in Dongyue gradually waned. The rebellion instigated by Zou 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.^[1][2][3]