Ming conquest of Yunnan | |||||||
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Part of the military conquests of the Ming dynasty | |||||||
![]() Ming conquest of Yunnan 1381–1382 | |||||||
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Belligerents | |||||||
Ming dynasty |
Northern Yuan (Yuan remnants in Yunnan) House of Duan (Dali loyalists) | ||||||
Commanders and leaders | |||||||
Hongwu Emperor Fu Youde Lan Yu Mu Ying |
Basalawarmi (Prince of Liang) Duan Gong (Governor-general of Dali) | ||||||
Strength | |||||||
250,000[2] | Thousands of Mongol and Chinese Muslim troops | ||||||
Casualties and losses | |||||||
heavy lost due to disease | Thousands killed, hundreds of castrations, 20,000 captured |
The Ming conquest of Yunnan was the final phase in the Ming dynasty expulsion of Mongol-led Yuan dynasty rule from China proper in the 1380s.