Chapter 862 The Kingdom of Siam is destroyed and Nanzhang surrenders

Author: Linglinghou

Chapter 862 The Kingdom of Siam is destroyed and Nanzhang surrenders

When the Ming Empire attacked Siam, they mobilized troops and horses from the southwest nearby, but it still took more than a month for the officers and soldiers of each army to have the food, grass and baggage in place.

It was not until November 7, the 14th year of Zhaowu, that three armies began to attack Siam.

Siam has been communicating with the West for hundreds of years. Today, the firearms equipment rate is considered to be the highest among the southwestern countries, and the army also has many artillery pieces.

It is a pity that the Siamese army is still vulnerable to the Ming army, whose soldiers' combat quality and equipment are among the best in the world.

Coupled with the three-pronged army attacking together, Siam focused on one thing and lost another. In less than half a month, Li Dingguo, the Marquis of Jingxi (who gained the title after conquering Vietnam), captured the capital city.

King Narai was not willing to fail. Before the city was surrounded, he led part of the Siamese Guards and three thousand French troops to flee to the north of Siam, hoping to rely on the vast jungle in the north to continue to resist the Ming army.

However, after the three-pronged Ming army was suppressed, and the Fusi spies of Jinyiwei North Town had already lurked among the Siamese Guards and some important officials and servants of Siam.

Therefore, after King Narai fled to the north of Siam, he only persisted for more than a month before being surrounded by the Ming army on an unknown hill.

Faced with this outcome, King Nalai still had some backbone, and finally chose to commit suicide with a glass of poisonous wine instead of becoming a prisoner of the Ming army.

However, nearly half of the Siamese Guards and three thousand French troops who followed King Narai were captured.

In the fifteenth year of Zhaowu, on January 13th, the Kingdom of Ayutthaya (Great City) was destroyed, and Siam was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

As a result, in the southwest, only the Nanzhang Kingdom became a state within a state in the southwest region of the Ming Dynasty.

Nanzhang Kingdom, also translated as "Lancang", "Lancang", and "Lanzhang", is originally the Thai name for the Mekong River.

In the middle of the 14th century AD, the Thai state "Meng Sao" successively annexed the states of "Wanxiang", "Xiang Khouang", "Meng Chan" and other states, and established the kingdom "Meng Nanzhang" in the nature of an alliance of states, that is, the South

Take charge of the country.

In the early fifteenth century, Nanzhang was forced to submit to Dai Viet (Vietnam) due to its weak national strength. Even Japan had requested that Nanzhang be a vassal state and pay tribute to Japan.

It was not until the late sixteenth century that the Nanzhang Kingdom gradually developed and gained the strength to be on an equal footing with neighboring countries.

In the mid-to-late sixteenth century, Nanzhang not only fought with Burma, but even invaded Chenla for a time.

Nowadays, Nanzhang Kingdom has reached the late stage of the kingdom.

However, this generation of King Solinna Wangsa of Nanzhang was a promising king.

Solinawangsa succeeded to the throne in 1637 and has been in power for 23 years now. In another history of time and space, Solinawangsa will have reigned for 57 years!

During his reign, Nanzhang's country was stable and stable, and its national strength was increasing day by day. It was called the golden age of Nanzhang.

Originally, Solinnawangsa had been living a happy life in these years - the country was stable and its strength was steadily increasing. Although it was unable to seek benefits from neighboring countries, it also made neighboring countries dare not provoke it.

In addition, he was in good health. Apart from dealing with some common state affairs throughout the day, he stayed in the harem and made little babies with his concubines.

It can be said that the life he lived was an enviable life of a king.

But since the Ming Dynasty came back to life under the leadership of Emperor Zhaowu and became more powerful than before, successively attacking and destroying the two great powers of Taungoo and Vietnam around Nanzhang, and forcing Chenla to surrender directly, Solinna Wangsa felt that

Times are hard.

In the past few years, he has sent out missions every year, bringing a large amount of treasures to Nanjing to pay tribute, hoping to keep the Nanzhang Kingdom alive by currying favor with Emperor Zhaowu.

On the other hand, he was also deepening exchanges with Westerners, spending a lot of money to purchase foreign guns and cannons to enhance the combat effectiveness of the army.

At the same time, he did not forget to form an alliance with Siam and rely on each other.

Also because Siam, a stronger country, was there, it gave him a little psychological comfort - there were still two kingdoms in the southwest. If the Ming Dynasty was to be destroyed, his southern palm might not be touched first.

What he never expected was that King Narai of Siam would seek death, detain the merchants of Ming Dynasty, and even let two of them die violently in prison.

After that, the Ming Dynasty conquered the capital of Siam in just half a month, and completely destroyed Siam in two months!

At this time, Nanzhang became a kingdom in the Ming Empire. Understanding this, Solinna Wangsa was on pins and needles, and in just a few days, he looked much older.

King Solinna Wangsa was not the only one who was uneasy, the nobles and ministers in the country were also worried.

After suffering for many days, Solinnawangsa finally made a ruthless decision and petitioned Emperor Zhaowu of the Ming Dynasty to surrender...

In the fifteenth year of Zhaowu, on the second day of February, the dragon raised its head.

After visiting Yanzhou and the northern part of Yingzhou, the eastern princes' territory and the various residences of Yingzhou Dusi, Zhu Yuesheng finally came to the territory of King Hui in the southeast of Yingzhou.

"Prince Hui's Crown Prince Zhu Huiyan and his servants from Prince Hui's Palace are here to see Her Royal Highness Princess Kunqing!"

At Huicheng Pier, a large group of people saluted Aunt Zhu who had just stepped off the Mingyue.

Aunt Zhu hurriedly stepped forward to help Zhu Huiyan upright, and said with a smile: "I'm just here for fun, why does Sister Huiyan have to mobilize so many people?"

Zhu Huiyan also smiled, and then said seriously: "Her Royal Highness the Princess is the major shareholder of Prince Hui. This is the first time she has come back. How can we not pay attention to it?"

Zhu Yushan said: "I definitely want to know about the development of King Hui's territory, but now we should arrange for us to rest first."

"yes."

Zhu Aosheng was not lying when she said she wanted to rest.

Although she is strong and has been on the ship for more than half a year, she has become accustomed to life on the ship. But resting on land and resting on the ship are completely different things.

For the sake of her health, every time the Mingyue docked, she and her companions had to rest on land before setting sail again.

Because she planned to stay in Prince Hui for a longer period of time, Zhu Yueshan rested in Prince Hui's Mansion for three full days before taking the four sisters of the Ming family, Chen He, and Zhu Huiyan and Yang Shang to visit Prince Hui.

collar.

The starting point of this tour is naturally within Huicheng City.

"I never thought that in just seven years, King Hui would be able to build such a city." Zhu Aoshan couldn't help but sigh as she sat on a spacious four-wheeled carriage and looked outside through the glass window.

Zhu Huiyan, who was sitting in the car with him, smiled when he heard this and said: "I heard that the length and width of Lu City are three miles, and the city wall is one foot and eight feet high. Our Huicheng City is only two miles long and wide, and only one foot high. Why?"

As for making His Highness sigh?"

Aunt Zhu shook her head and said, "King Lu's city was very tall, but rough.

And I heard that tens of thousands of natives were forced to work hard to build the city. After the city was built, there were only less than a thousand of those natives left, and the rest were exhausted.

Therefore, when I walk into Lucheng, I always feel the smell of blood, which I don't like very much.

Although Sister Huiyan's Huicheng is small, it is quite elegantly built. When I came in that day, I seemed to have arrived at some small town in the south of the Yangtze River."

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