Ming conquest of Yunnan

Ming conquest of Yunnan
Part of the military conquests of the Ming dynasty

Ming conquest of Yunnan 1381–1382
Date1381–1382
Location
Result Ming victory[1]
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.

  1. ^ Frederick W. Mote; Denis Twitchett (26 February 1988). The Cambridge History of China: Volume 7, The Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644. Cambridge University Press. pp. 144–. ISBN 978-0-521-24332-2.
  2. ^ Dardess 2012, p. 6.