焉耆国 / Yanqi Kingdom (late Han)

Overview

焉耆国 / Yanqi Kingdom appears in this wiki as the remaining Western Regions polity that has not submitted after Ban Yong restores broader Han alignment. Hanji 807 makes Yanqi less a fully profiled state than the target whose surrender exposes a Han command-credit failure.

Current Profile

In Hanji 807, Yanqi is presented after most Western Regions city-states have returned to Han alignment. Its king, rendered by the source as Yuanmeng, has not yet submitted, so Ban Yong asks to attack.

The campaign against Yanqi is designed as a coordinated two-route operation. Ban Yong mobilizes more than 40,000 troops from Western Regions polities, while Zhang Lang brings more than 3,000 from the Hexi four commanderies. Zhang Lang attacks early, kills many people, and Yanqi’s king submits to him out of fear. That surrender clears Zhang Lang’s penalty risk but produces the report environment in which Ban Yong is recalled, jailed, and removed.

Key Characteristics

• Western Regions polity defined in the source as the last holdout after wider Han reattachment.
• Campaign target rather than an internally synthesized polity in the current wiki evidence.
• Its surrender is induced by fear after Zhang Lang’s early attack rather than by Ban Yong’s planned synchronized operation.
• Functions as the stage where frontier military outcome and court blame attribution diverge.

Evidence

• Last holdout status: Hanji 807 says all other Western Regions city-states have submitted and only Yanqi’s king has not.
• Planned campaign: Hanji 807 says Ban Yong requests an attack and arranges to meet Zhang Lang by date at Yanqi.
• Early surrender: Hanji 807 says Zhang Lang’s early assault kills many people and causes Yanqi’s king to send envoys and surrender.
• Blame consequence: Hanji 807 ties Yanqi’s premature surrender to Ban Yong’s later imprisonment for supposed lateness.

Qualifications

The source transcript writes Yanqi as 燕齐 and the king as 元梦; this page uses the received Western Regions route 焉耆国 / Yanqi because the Ban Yong context supports that normalization. The king, exact location names, casualties, and long-term settlement after surrender remain source-scoped.

What Changed

• Created a narrow Yanqi page to capture Hanji 807’s remaining-holdout and premature-surrender case.

Relationships

• 班勇 - Han Western Regions commander who plans the coordinated Yanqi campaign.
• 张郎 - Dunhuang administrator who attacks early and receives Yanqi’s surrender.
• 军功归属错置 - concept for how Yanqi’s surrender produces distorted blame.
• 车师后王国 - neighboring Western Regions dependency already brought back into Han alignment before the Yanqi operation.
• 北匈奴 - outside frontier power shaping the wider Western Regions security field.