I want to be emperor

Chapter 600
The comparison of casualties in Thonburi is relatively normal for the soldiers of the Great Chu Empire.

Since the Funiu Mountain uprising, the Chu army has always suffered very few casualties in battles. Relying on more advanced weapons and equipment and sufficient supplies, it has brought about innovative new tactical concepts.

This allows the Chu army to gain almost crushing advantages when fighting against other enemies who are still in the era of alternating cold and hot.

This point has been fully reflected during the period of the Civil Unification War.

In many cases, the Chu army fought a battle with tens of thousands of people against the Ming army or the Eastern captives. The enemy suffered thousands or even tens of thousands of casualties, but the casualties of the Chu army were generally only a few hundred.

The casualty ratio has been maintained at one to ten or even higher levels for a long time.

And this is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire was able to sweep across the north and south of the Yangtze River and unify China in just a few years, and overthrew the captives in the east.

Without the support of a powerful army, how could Luo Zhixue unify China?

Just because he is handsome and compelling, he can learn from others?
Of course, a powerful army also needs productivity as a support. Guns, ammunition, other military supplies, and even elite soldiers need a lot of money and food as support.

And this is actually what Luo Zhixue is better at.

He has the basic experiments of the later generations, and after he has a starting platform, he can continue to snowball through innovative productivity. After the snowball rolls to a certain level, he does not need any superb military command ability at all. It's over.

This is also the model of the Great Chu Empire after it took over Huguang and the Jiangnan area.

In the early days, you can see that the Chu army also played various surprise attacks and long-distance raids, especially the series of field battles with Lu Xiangsheng in the early days. From the perspective of command art, it was actually considered wonderful.

But after the mid-to-late stage, you can hardly see the Chu army playing so-called surprise attacks...all of them are mechanical battles that are pushed flat.

This is not to say that the command level of the generals in the Chu army has declined. In fact, although the command level of the Chu army in the early days has not been good, it is impossible to regress, but it continues to rise.

What's more important is that the Chu army after the snowball has grown, there is no need to take risks at all.

This point is also reflected in a series of expansion campaigns after reunification.

How did the Chu army fight in the previous battle in the Qingkang area?
It is just pushing it step by step. It seems to be very slow, but it is very stable and solid. The Heshuo special department and the local chieftains were out of breath. In the end, the Heshuo special department directly took the Qingkang area The chieftain was sold to the Great Chu Empire.

Going forward to fight against the captives is basically a routine.

Now in Southeast Asia, it is no exception!
In the battle against the Ayutthaya Kingdom, the Chu army dispatched more than 100 ships of various types in one breath, and the first batch of ground troops to land in combat had 7000 people!
You must know that the Western colonists fought against the indigenous countries of Southeast Asia several times before, and they basically sent hundreds of ground troops, no more than a few hundred people.

And the Great Chu Empire... brought 7000 people here in one go.

And there are tens of thousands of people waiting to come to Cam Ranh Bay behind. At the same time, the Great Chu Empire also recruited troops through the puppet kingdom of Cambodia controlled by its own side.

It won't take long for the Great Chu Empire to organize at least several thousand troops, plus ten thousand servants to come from the ground to kill them.

This is completely a crushing situation... It would be hell if Dacheng Kingdom could stop it.

On May 13th, [-]th year of Chengshun, more than [-] people from the landed Chu army killed Ayutthaya, the capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

However, the king of Ayutthaya Kingdom fled to the north with a group of dignitaries three days ago, calling it "Northern Patrol", leaving only some nobles to preside over the defense of Ayutthaya City.

At this time, Ayutthaya City actually had a lot of troops. The tens of thousands of remnant soldiers who retreated from the front, and the thousands of troops who originally stayed in the city, added up to an estimated 5000 people.

And the Chu army that killed the city of Ayutthaya and was about to attack the city is now only 6000 people.

Logically speaking, the attacking side's strength is only about [-]% of the defender's. This kind of fortified battle cannot be fought. Under normal conditions, the attacking side's strength must be at least several times or even ten times that of the defender's. There is a relatively high degree of confidence to take it down.

However, this routine is useless to the Chu army!

In all previous battles of the Chu army, no matter whether they were domestic or foreign battles, on the face of it, they seldom gained an advantage in military strength.

However, this does not mean that the Chu army is really at a disadvantage. In fact, the Chu army is still at an advantage, and it is a great advantage.

Because the firepower comparison between the two sides is not at the same level at all!

Before the Chu army fought in Thonburi, the ground troops used more than 50 field artillery pieces of various types, and the navy also temporarily supported more than ten heavy artillery pieces.

The Siamese army on the opposite side seems to have more than 3 people, but there are always more than a dozen artillery pieces, and they are all old and not very powerful guys.

The same is true of the current city of Ayutthaya. There seem to be more than 5000 Siamese troops in the city, but many of them don't even have spears... Well, there are tens of thousands of people out of the [-] They all escaped from the Battle of Thonburi. When they got there, they wished that their parents had lost two legs. In order to escape, they naturally threw away everything they could.

With so many Siamese troops, they can't even have a cold weapon in their hands, and guns are even more scarce. There are only a few old short-barreled artillery on the top of the city who don't know how many years old they are.

In addition to poor weapons and equipment and low morale of the army, the more important thing for these people is that they did not build a new type of artillery fortification...

Judging from the experience of the Chu army, as long as the opponent does not build various anti-grenade fortifications in advance, then the fight will basically be a unilateral situation...

And the fact is indeed the case, the Chu army rested for a day after arriving, and began to attack the city the next morning!
Dozens of field artillery opened fire in unison, and by the way, large-caliber siege howitzers transported by many ships also fired at Ayutthaya City.

A large number of 24-jin, 48-jin, [-]-jin, and [-]-jin grenades fell inside and outside the city, causing a large number of Siamese army casualties on the spot, which in turn triggered a large-scale escape.

Fighting the enemy is not terrible. What is terrible is that the enemy infantry is still hundreds of meters away, but the enemy continues to suffer heavy casualties from the enemy's shelling.

The next thing is simple. After the enemy was defeated from the city wall, the grenadiers of the Chu army also entered the field!
These grenadiers wearing heavy full-body plate armor, under the cover of long-range firepower from the rear, hold steel knives and thick shields. Some grenadiers also carry several quick-fire pistols, and some directly drag two Jinban field artillery rushed up.

These grenadiers, armed to the teeth, are basically living targets in a field battle... As long as a volley of guns comes from the opposite side, these grenadiers will be finished.

But in this kind of fortified battle, especially if the enemy is still an aboriginal army with no firearms, let alone flintlock guns, these heavily armored grenadiers are almost invincible.

This is also the reason why the Great Chu Empire has clearly entered the era of flintlock guns, and even after howitzers with wooden bullet holders and wooden fuzes, they are still equipped with armor on a large scale, and continue to equip the grenadiers with full-body heavy armor.

It is because when dealing with enemies with cold weapons - armor can still bring great protection to musketeers.

And in the battle of tough battles, commandos in heavy armor are still the best choice!

How should I put it, the enemy doesn't have a lot of guns, and if you still use cold weapons, assaults, and a small number of guns, you can't have armor and let the soldiers fight naked.

Whether the weapons and equipment are good or not depends on the enemy a lot of times...

If the enemies around the Chu army all use flintlock guns, even if it is an army that uses matchlock guns and spearmen in a large phalanx like Europe, the Chu army will not hesitate to give up their armor, and then concentrate on playing queuing and shooting and adding grenades !
But the problem is that many areas around the Chu army are still using cold weapons. Although there are guns and cannons, they are very few in number, and the large square formations of musketeers and spearmen in the West are rarely used.

In this case, the armor becomes very valuable.

When the grenadiers were dressed in heavy armor and turned into heavy-armored commandos to kill, the city of Ayutthaya was officially declared to have fallen into the hands of the Chu army.

Seeing that nothing could be done, a member of the royal family of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, who was in charge of the defense of the city, was forced to surrender.

Only three days later, the king of Ayutthaya Kingdom, who had already toured the north, also sent envoys to seek peace... expressing his willingness to fully agree to several requests made by the Great Chu Empire before, including opening up all markets and ceding coastal ports.

Several consecutive battles have completely scared the Ayutthaya Kingdom, and the reason for the Ayutthaya Kingdom to sue for peace is related to another piece of news!
On May 2, the Taungoo Dynasty of Myanmar dispatched more than [-] troops to enter the territory of the Ayutthaya Kingdom!

Myanmar and Thailand have been fighting for the supremacy of the Southeast Asian peninsula for hundreds of years. After the Toungoo Dynasty saw the audacity of the Ayutthaya Kingdom to provoke the Chu Empire, they had already anticipated the disastrous defeat of the Ayutthaya Kingdom.

Starting more than a month ago, they are ready to beat the dog in the water...

No, after the Chu army officially launched the war in the second half of the month, it was early May when the news was urgently delivered to Burma. As soon as the news of the Chu army's landing was received, the Burmese army did not even know the victory of the Thonburi battle at that time. I don't know the outcome of the subsequent battle of Ayutthaya City.

But out of confidence in the Great Chu Empire, they chose to send troops without hesitation.

I want to come here to take advantage of your illness to kill you, and I am going to bite off a large piece of meat.

Of course, they did not forget to notify the Great Chu Empire urgently, saying that as a vassal state of the Great Chu Empire, the suzerain state wanted to control the Ayutthaya Kingdom. Naturally, the Toungoo Dynasty would not sit idly by and sent troops to launch an attack to contribute to the great cause of the suzerain state. a force...

What he said... immediately positioned his troops to help the Great Chu Empire.

The Great Chu Empire is too lazy to respond to this, you can fight as you like, as long as it doesn't affect the strategy of the empire anyway.

After being attacked by the Toungoo Dynasty, the Ayutthaya Kingdom felt deeply that it was on the verge of subjugation... On the one hand, it urgently assembled troops to march westward to face the Burmese army, and at the same time sent envoys to seek peace from the Great Chu Empire.

The reason is to ask the Chu army to dispatch troops to resist the Burmese army, not the other way around...

That's because the Great Chu Empire needed a market at most, and if it was exhausted, it needed a coastal port to build a colony.

But the Taungoo Dynasty in Myanmar wanted a large tract of territory, and what they wanted was the destruction of the Ayutthaya Kingdom. If this was not handled well, the country would be destroyed.

Between ceding land and indemnity to open the market and subjugate the country, a fool should know what choice to make.

It's just that after the envoys of the Great City Kingdom came to sue for peace, the appetite of the Great Chu Empire was no longer just to open the market and cede a coastal port.

"That's the condition before we send troops!"

"Now, we have dispatched more than 100 warships and tens of thousands of soldiers, and spent millions of military expenses. In addition, during the war, imperial merchants suffered great losses, and these must be compensated adequately. The initially proposed amount It is 1000 million Chu Yuan, paid in equivalent gold."

"In addition, the ceded coastal port is not one, but at least three, one is the Chao Phraya River estuary, one is on the east coast of the Malay Peninsula, and one is on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula!"

"The Great City Kingdom must hand over the citizens of the Great Chu Empire who slaughtered us, and the criminals who started the war will be tried by the Great Chu Empire!"

"Ayutthaya Kingdom surrendered to the empire, paid tribute, accepted the canonization, and sent the royal daughter to Jinling to get married"

"In order to avoid hostile empires and wrecked nationals of the empire from happening again, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya must accept the supervision of officials and generals sent by the empire, and allow the empire to send soldiers to garrison Ayutthaya to protect the subjects of the empire."

"The imperial army can freely pass through the territory of the Ayutthaya Kingdom without any interference!"

"In the future, Ayutthaya Kingdom will sign foreign treaties with any country or force, and it must obtain the approval of the empire!"

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There are more than a dozen new conditions in a mess!

If the Ayutthaya Kingdom really agrees, although the country will not be subjugated, it will be no different from the subjugation of the country.

Naturally, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya would not agree easily, especially in terms of allowing imperial soldiers to garrison Ayutthaya, granting military access, accepting the supervision of officials sent by the empire, and the right of diplomatic approval.

If this is agreed, it means that even the internal power, military power, and diplomatic power will be completely lost.

At that time, it will be no different from a puppet country.

Well, the Great Chu Empire is really rushing to create a puppet state.

Tens of thousands of troops were dispatched, and the military expenditure was not a small amount, but it was not really just to open up the market and a commercial port in the concession.

The Great Chu Empire wanted to turn the Ayutthaya Kingdom into a replica of the Kingdom of Cambodia.

Otherwise, they would not directly kill their capital, land directly at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River and fight, and then blockade the Gulf of Siam. In the end, the Ayutthaya Kingdom would still succumb to the conditions of the Great Chu Empire.

But the Great Chu Empire was not. They directly occupied the capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom, and successively defeated tens of thousands of their troops.

They came here for a big harvest.

But in fact... this war has already paid off after winning the city of Ayutthaya!

Ayutthaya City has been the capital of the Ayutthaya Kingdom for hundreds of years. Countless wealth has been accumulated in the city, including various precious metals such as gold and silver, and various other precious gems, handicrafts and so on.

Leaving aside other things, the hundreds of years of wealth accumulated by the King of the Great City King’s teachers were all wiped out by the Chu army... After the Chu army invaded the city, they directly started the relocation mode, even the precious wood in the palace. moved away...

And there is no need to talk about other places in the city... Basically, they can be moved, especially those temples with a lot of wealth, and there are many kinds of gold products in them.

In countries where religion prevails, places of worship are often places where wealth is concentrated.

The Chu army had already seen it when they were doing things in other places before, so this time they fought in Siam, and naturally they would not forget the various temples when they searched for spoils.

In addition, they also robbed a wave of merchants from other countries in the city of Ayutthaya... Well, it can't be said to be a gun, but to clean up the battlefield.

Anyway, during the war, there were a lot of messy things. The defenders in the city were too brutal, and they directly killed the merchants from all over the world and took away the goods. Afterwards, the Chu army maintained order, killed all kinds of native soldiers and got some loot. This is normal!
Because there are too many spoils of all kinds, the Chu army even had to requisition a large number of nearby ships for transportation.

It is conservatively estimated that the gold, silver, copper and other precious metals obtained in this military operation are worth 500 million Chu yuan.

Then there's also the massive amount of loot that's not good stat value.

These seizures alone are enough for the Chu army to make up for the military expenditure of this military operation, and even make a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)