Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 715, attacking Siam

Ayutthaya City, the capital of the Ayutthaya Dynasty in Siam (the Ming people habitually call it Dacheng, so it is also called the Dacheng Dynasty), on the vast plain outside, [-] Ming troops surrounded this so-called invincible city. .

Liu Jin, who just came from Malacca, took a telescope to carefully observe the capital of the Ayutthaya Dynasty of Siam.

The scale of the capital is still very large. Although it cannot be compared with Nanjing and Beijing in the Ming Dynasty, it is still larger than the average cities in the Ming Dynasty. Moreover, the city wall is actually made of hard marble, which is two or three feet high. It is a very towering city wall.

In addition, when choosing the location of this king's capital, it was chosen to be on a large island where three rivers converged. It was surrounded by water on three sides, and only one side was connected to the land. When defending, it only needed to defend the land side.

"No wonder you dare to call it an invincible city!"

After seeing the structure of the royal capital, Liu Jin couldn't help but nodded.

In the era of cold weapons, such a city is the most difficult to attack. It is surrounded by water on three sides, which means that you only need to concentrate on one side and stick to it. Come down, it is almost very difficult, very difficult.

Of course, in history, this royal capital was breached by the Burmese in 1767, which also announced the demise of the Ayutthaya dynasty. No matter how powerful the city wall is, it will be breached sometimes.

"They're just boasting. Once the cannon fire goes down, I don't believe it can't be fired."

Zhang Mao, who was beside Liu Jin, said indifferently, he led the army from the Xianglin Province, all the way to kill, invincible, invincible, invincible, the Siamese killed were defeated, and now they have shrunk Arrived in this king capital.

This is not because Zhang Mao has great military command ability. In fact, the most important thing is to rely on the powerful artillery. If there is something that cannot be solved by one artillery, then it will be two.

Coupled with powerful muskets, excellent equipment and strict training, the Ming army is really invincible here.

Zhang Mao is also more and more fond of artillery, and has a feeling of being obsessed with bombarding with artillery.

"We still have to find a way to force them to surrender and negotiate. We're not here to snatch their land. We're just here to teach them a lesson. Just leave a deep impression on them."

Liu Jin said with a smile.

"How is the situation in Malacca?"

Zhang Mao nodded slightly. Although he was attacking the city along the way, Zhang Mao did not divide his troops to occupy it. Instead, he concentrated his forces and attacked Ayutthaya, the heart of Siam. Puti II signed the alliance under the city, so that he can get the most benefits for himself.

"It went very well. The city of Malacca was taken down with one shot of artillery fire, and they were forced to sign an agreement to pay us 100 million taels of silver. The payment will be paid in [-] years. A total of [-] million taels including principal and interest will be required. Silver, pay one and a half million taels of silver every year."

"In addition, we will cede the land in the Malay Peninsula north of Malacca to us. I plan to set up a new Zheng He province here. After winning Siam, let them cede some land in the north. almost."

Liu Jin smiled and told the achievements of Malacca and his party.

"It's still shameless of you. Malacca is such a small country. How can they pay for a compensation of [-] million taels of silver a year."

When Zhang Mao heard this, he couldn't help shaking his head immediately. When it comes to shamelessness, Liu Jin really deserves the number one.

During the expedition to the Wa Kingdom, Liu Jin also forced the Wa Kingdom to pay Daming [-] million taels of silver, and also ceded the Shi Jian Country and leased Hyogo Tsu.

It's all right now, and I'm really not soft on killing a small country like Malacca again.

"Ahem, Mr. Zhang, I'm doing this for Daming."

"Only when I have money in Ming Dynasty can I do things well, can support a strong army, can build more concrete roads, can reduce taxes and exempt more places, and so on."

"My face is worthless at all, as long as it can benefit my Daming, I don't care."

Old Liu Jin blushed a little, Daming people are too good-faced, so most of the time it is hard for themselves and cheap for others.

Just like paying tribute, why do you have to return it several times, slapping your face to make yourself fat, and finally the tribute trade can't last, and you have ordered to limit the number and scale of other people's tribute.

Liu Jin, who came from later generations, is the same. After nine years of compulsory education, he understands that there are only interests between countries, and there are no so-called permanent friends. The real way to go abroad is to do everything around interests.

Daming's interests are above all else.

"As it turns out, you were right."

Zhang Mao nodded after pondering. He had watched a lot, so he naturally understood that what Liu Jin did was in the interests of Daming and beneficial to the prosperity of Ming, even though it was based on the pain of these countries outside.

The huge Wang Shouren has not spoken, but he has been thinking about this question.

In fact, he didn't understand that everything Liu Jin did was completely contrary to the ideological and spiritual values ​​advocated by Confucianism. When speaking to the outside world, he only talked about interests, not feelings, and didn't care about face.

Everything is similar to robbers, burning, killing, looting, and forcing people to sign an alliance under the city. This is both land cession and compensation.

It is too far, too far away from the gentleman's way advocated by Confucianism.

But he has noticed the changes in Daming over the years.

From a situation of internal and external troubles, the Ming Dynasty gradually became strong and prosperous. The internal prosperity continued, while the external struggles continued for years, but the fighting became stronger and richer.

This made him unable to figure it out, and his thoughts and concepts were also greatly impacted. He is a person who is very good at thinking, and he has been investigating things to gain knowledge and explore the truth of this time.

But now, he was stumped by everything in front of him.

Who is right?
Wang Shouren couldn't figure it out, but he knew that Daming had indeed entered a new era, and stood on the cusp of a new era.

"Boom~Boom~"

Here in the big city, accompanied by the sound of drums, the huge city gate slowly opened, and a large number of Siamese troops rushed out. Among them were elephant soldiers composed of huge elephants.

Elephants are huge in size and powerful, and they are covered with hard armor. When fighting, elephants are rampant. They have always been the most powerful arms in the southeast peninsula.

The Dacheng Dynasty of Siam in this era was at its peak, with a strong national power, maintaining an elephant army composed of 200 elephants.

If it was the period of cold weapons, relying on the charge of these two hundred elephants, even the most powerful army would be smashed to pieces. This is where Siam Megatron's southeast peninsula relies.

At this moment, the ruler of the Siamese Ayutthaya Dynasty obviously did not intend to wait for the Ming army to take the initiative to attack the city, but was preparing to compete with the Ming army in this field.

I saw elephants wearing red and hanging colors, and several people were riding on the back of the elephants, some were holding bows and arrows, and some were holding spears. The elephants were arranged in a line, with a distance of four or five feet from each other. Behind him, followed by a mighty army.

"Like soldiers?"

Seeing this scene, Liu Jin couldn't help being interested immediately, and picked up the binoculars to look carefully.

"It seems that they don't intend to be obedient anymore. Sure enough, they still have to give them a hard lesson, so that they will be obedient."

"This King of Siam, who claims to be the largest country in the Nanyang region, dares to contact all countries in Nanyang to target our Ming Dynasty. He not only imposes heavy taxes on our Ming merchants, but also dares to rob our Ming merchant ships."

"This time, if you don't give them a hard lesson, they won't know how powerful it is."

Zhang Mao looked at the huge lineup of the Siamese army. The Siamese king almost dispatched troops from all over the country to this big city, ready to fight to the death with the Ming army.

At this time, the number of Siamese troops gathered here in the entire city was more than [-], and almost the entire Siamese elite gathered here. Naturally, they would not be willing to wait for the Ming army to attack the city.

They all knew that the artillery of the Ming army was sharp. If the Ming army were to attack the city, even though the city was very tall and hard, it might not be able to defend it.

Moreover, even if it is defended, the capital of the king may be turned into ruins at that time, so only by taking the initiative to fight against the Ming army in the wilderness can there be any hope of victory.

"What Zhang Gong said is true. Only when you hurt them, will they know how to be afraid, and will respect me, Da Ming."

Liu Jin nodded solemnly.

When the two were talking, on the wall of the big city, King Ramatipti II of Siam also looked at the Ming army outside the city with a serious face.

The Ming army's formation was dense and neatly arranged like squares. The pennants were fluttering and the Ming army in uniform uniforms rushed towards them with an aura of momentum. People couldn't help but be deeply shocked by it.

"Send someone to talk to the people of Ming Dynasty. As long as they withdraw their troops now, we in Siam will never collect taxes from the merchant ships of Ming Dynasty again, and we will also pay tribute to Ming Dynasty every year."

Rama Tiepti knew very well that even though his strength was more than twice that of the Ming army, his chances of winning were very slim. The strength of the Ming army was achieved all the way.

After destroying Annan one after another, Champa surrendered voluntarily. Cambodia and Chenla even surrendered to Ming. For the army to transport supplies and provide logistical services, it is short of sending troops directly to follow them.

Fighting all the way from the border, Siam was beaten into an army. Facing the extremely powerful artillery attack of the Ming army, even the powerful elephant soldiers were no different from tofu cubes.

He didn't want to fight this battle with the Ming army.

　Is the elephant soldier powerful?
　　
　
(End of this chapter)