<a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conquest_of_Kucha" id="mwGw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Conquest of Kucha">Conquest of Kucha</a>: The forces of Kucha surrender after a forty-day <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege" id="mwHA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Siege">siege</a> led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tang_dynasty" id="mwHQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tang dynasty">Tang dynasty</a> general Ashina She'er, establishing Tang control over the northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarim_Basin" id="mwHg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Tarim Basin">Tarim Basin</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xinjiang" id="mwHw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Xinjiang">Xinjiang</a>.<sup about="#mwt19" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"}}' id="cite_ref-2" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_19#cite_note-2" id="mwIA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 2;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwIQ">[2]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-2"><cite about="#mwt16" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFDi_Cosmo2009">Di Cosmo, Nicola (2009). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=F3baSe8QlPUC" id="mwB3o" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwB3s">Military Culture in Imperial China</i></a>. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p.<span id="mwB3w" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>183. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB30" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB34" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780674031098" id="mwB38" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780674031098"><bdi id="mwB4A">9780674031098</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt16" class="Z3988" id="mwB4E" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Military+Culture+in+Imperial+China&amp;rft.place=Cambridge%2C+Mass.&amp;rft.pages=183&amp;rft.pub=Harvard+University+Press&amp;rft.date=2009&amp;rft.isbn=9780674031098&amp;rft.aulast=Di+Cosmo&amp;rft.aufirst=Nicola&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DF3baSe8QlPUC&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+19"></span></span>