Wars of Zhenian Unification

The Wars of Zhenian Unification (Seomun: 秦國統一戰爭, Jinmun: 진국통일전쟁) refers to a series of conflicts stretching from 1368 to 1438, in present-day Zhenia and Yinguo. Spanning over 70 years, it is a continuous collection of military conflicts that led to the unification of Zhenia in 1438 under the Empire of Zhenia: thus, it consists of multiple phases each characterized by different military conflicts with different belligerents. It began as a series of military Some historians consider the wars a fought between Shindan-led states in the east and mainland factions led by the Zhu dynasty and its successors in the west. Under such contexts, it is also referred to as the First Zhenian Civil War (Zhenian: 제1차 진국내전), in relation to the Second Zhenian Civil War leading to the Third Republic more than a century later.

The war ended with a Shindanese victory, which, after seizing almost all of Zhenia north of the Chang River, established the Empire of Zhenia on June 4, 1438. Surviving factions and loyalists of the Zhu dynasty fled south of the Chang River and established the Great Yin in 1425, following the Treaty of Zhuhae. The century following the end of the unification wars saw an intense and lasting political and military standoff between the two nations, both of which laid claims to the entirety of the two nations' territories until the end of the Second Great War. While the two nations have entered a with one another, tensions between the two nations remain precariously to this day.

Aftermath
The end of the Zhenian Civil War marked the unification of Zhenia, permanently achieved for the first time since the demise of the Zhen dynasty.