The Dzungar, despite the defeat at Jao…

The Dzungar, despite the defeat at Jao Modo, are again embroiled in war with the Qing twenty years later.

In 1718 Galdan's nephew and heir, Tsewang Rabdan, invades Tibet to settle a prolonged dispute over the successor to the Dalai Lama.

His troops seize Lhasa, imprison the Dalai Lama, and ambush a Manchu relief force.

Kangxi retaliates in 1720; two Chinese armies defeats the Dzungar and drives them from Tibet.

This is the first war in which Mongol forces make extensive use of musketry; they are not very effective, however, against the larger, better-armed and better-equipped Qing forces.

After the death of the Dalai Lama, a new Dalai Lama is installed by Kangxi, and a Manchu garrison us left in Lhasa.

Meanwhile, another Chinese army invades Dzungar territory to capture Urümqi and Turpan.

Additional Chinese punitive expeditions eventually defeat the Dzungar in 1732 and virtually end Mongolian independence for nearly two centuries.