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The Battle of Loulan in 108 BC marks the earliest Chinese military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 venture into Central Asia
Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is a large endorheic basin occupying an area of more than 400,000 km2. It is located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in PRC's far west....
, after a conflict of the Han Dynasty
Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
 with Loulan
Loulan

Loulan or Kroran is an ancient oasis town founded in the second century on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert. Loulan, also known as Krorayina, was an ancient kingdom along China's Silk Road in Xinjiang....
 and Jushi and a switch of allegiance to the Xiongnu
Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic tribes from Central Asia with a ruling class of unknown origin and other subjugated tribes. They lived on the steppes north of China, and appear in Chinese sources from the 3rd century BC as controlling an empire stretching beyond the borders of modern day Mongolia....
. The Han launched an attack by first arresting the king of Loulan, and turned on the offense against Jushi. The battle resulted in the submission of both Wusun
Wusun

The Wusun were a nomadic steppe people who, according to the Chinese histories, originally lived to the northwest of China near the Yuezhi people but fled circa 176 BCE to the region of the Ili river and Issyk Kul and formed a powerful force there after being defeated by the Xiongnu where they remained for at least five centuries....
 and Dayuan
Dayuan

The Dayuan or Ta-Yuan were a people of Ferghana in Central Asia, described in the Chinese literature historical works of Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han, which follow the travels of Chinese explorer Zhang Qian in 130 BCE and the numerous embassies that followed him into Central Asia thereafter....
, and an increased role, reputation, and status for imperial Han Chinese politics in Central Asia.

Loulan
Loulan

Loulan or Kroran is an ancient oasis town founded in the second century on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert. Loulan, also known as Krorayina, was an ancient kingdom along China's Silk Road in Xinjiang....
 kingdom ceased to exist in 77 BC, as the last king of Loulan, Angui, was assassinated by two of Fu Jiezi
Fu Jiezi

Fu Jiezi , born in Qingyang, was responsible for the assassination of Loulan king Angui in 77 BC....
's men during a banquet
Banquet

Image:State Banquet Serving the Peacock Fac simile of a Woodcut in an edition of Virgil folio.A BANQUET is a large public meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts....
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The Battle of Loulan in 108 BC marks the earliest Chinese military
Military

A military is an organization authorized by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its country by combating actual or Threat of force ....
 venture into Central Asia
Tarim Basin

The Tarim Basin is a large endorheic basin occupying an area of more than 400,000 km2. It is located in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region in PRC's far west....
, after a conflict of the Han Dynasty
Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
 with Loulan
Loulan

Loulan or Kroran is an ancient oasis town founded in the second century on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert. Loulan, also known as Krorayina, was an ancient kingdom along China's Silk Road in Xinjiang....
 and Jushi and a switch of allegiance to the Xiongnu
Xiongnu

The Xiongnu were a confederation of nomadic tribes from Central Asia with a ruling class of unknown origin and other subjugated tribes. They lived on the steppes north of China, and appear in Chinese sources from the 3rd century BC as controlling an empire stretching beyond the borders of modern day Mongolia....
. The Han launched an attack by first arresting the king of Loulan, and turned on the offense against Jushi. The battle resulted in the submission of both Wusun
Wusun

The Wusun were a nomadic steppe people who, according to the Chinese histories, originally lived to the northwest of China near the Yuezhi people but fled circa 176 BCE to the region of the Ili river and Issyk Kul and formed a powerful force there after being defeated by the Xiongnu where they remained for at least five centuries....
 and Dayuan
Dayuan

The Dayuan or Ta-Yuan were a people of Ferghana in Central Asia, described in the Chinese literature historical works of Records of the Grand Historian and the Book of Han, which follow the travels of Chinese explorer Zhang Qian in 130 BCE and the numerous embassies that followed him into Central Asia thereafter....
, and an increased role, reputation, and status for imperial Han Chinese politics in Central Asia.

Aftermath

The Loulan
Loulan

Loulan or Kroran is an ancient oasis town founded in the second century on the north-eastern edge of the Lop Desert. Loulan, also known as Krorayina, was an ancient kingdom along China's Silk Road in Xinjiang....
 kingdom ceased to exist in 77 BC, as the last king of Loulan, Angui, was assassinated by two of Fu Jiezi
Fu Jiezi

Fu Jiezi , born in Qingyang, was responsible for the assassination of Loulan king Angui in 77 BC....
's men during a banquet
Banquet

Image:State Banquet Serving the Peacock Fac simile of a Woodcut in an edition of Virgil folio.A BANQUET is a large public meal or feast, complete with main courses and desserts....
. The Han
Han Dynasty

The Han Dynasty followed the Qin Dynasty and preceded the Three Kingdoms in China. The Han Dynasty was ruled by the family known as the Liu clan who had peasant origins....
 deposited one of his kin, Weituyan. They also changed the name Loulan to Shanshan
Shanshan

Shanshan is the Chinese name for a kingdom that existed roughly from 200 BCE-1000 CE at the north-eastern end of the Taklamakan Desert including the great salt lake known as Lop Nur....
 in the same year, as the capital was moved south west to the city of Wuni
Ruoqiang County

The Ruoqiang County is a county in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and is under the administration of the Bayin'gholin Mongol Autonomous Prefecture....
 (which was no longer situated in the Lop Nur
Lop Nur

Lop Nur is a group of small, now seasonal salt lake sand marshes between the Taklamakan Desert and Kuruktag deserts in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang in the People's Republic of China....
).