Gao Pian's 5,000 men, newly arrived from Haimen, fell on a Nanzhao army of 50,000 while it was gathering rice from the villages and routed it, opening the Tang reconquest of Annan.
Battle
Gao Pian surprises the Nanzhao army at the harvest
- September 865 CE
- Southeast Asia
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