. . "100,000 Tiele horsemen" . . "Kucha" . . "~10,000 Turkic reinforcements" . . . "Tang campaign against Kucha" . . "* Tang military garrison installed in Kucha" . . "Tang Dynasty" . "Tang campaign against Kucha" . "battle against the Tang Dynasty" . "* Tang establishes control over the northern Tarim Basin" . "campaign against Kucha" . "Unknown number of Tang infantry" . "defeated Kucha" . "0649-01-19" . "DecisiveTangvictory" . . "the Chinese invaded the Tarim" . "50,000 Kucha soldiers" . . "Conquest of Kucha" . . . "Chinese punitive invasion of 648 CE" . "Kucha in 648" . "Kucha fell" . . . "China" . . "Tang dynasty" . .