Chapter 449 - The End of the Second Year of Apocalypse
The King of Siam and the commander of the elephant team, Papi Luotan, looked at each other. They both felt that the battle could no longer be fought: the enemy was not injured at all, but their own soldiers were bleeding like rivers. So, the retreat signal began to blow in the Siamese army formation. , those Siamese soldiers who had plucked up the courage to rush forward were suddenly discouraged and ran back like a tide, at a speed no slower than those war elephants.
The Siamese soldiers had lost their will to fight. The reason they were still rushing forward just now was because it was the first time they faced these rapid-fire repeaters. They didn't know what to do. No matter how they ran, they couldn't outrun the bullets. , and now when they suddenly heard the signal to withdraw their troops, their spirit and will immediately collapsed, and they turned around and ran away: No matter what, the farther away from these firearms that unscrupulously harvest lives, the better.
The entire left wing of the Siamese army collapsed immediately, and a large group of broken troops turned around and ran wildly with the main generals in tow. The Malay-Turkish federal troops on the right wing were stunned for a moment. After a while, they woke up and dispersed like birds and beasts with a loud bang.
At this time, there was a continuous sound of flintlock musket shooting from the side and rear of the Siamese army. This was the Marine Corps led by Mader intercepting the main force of the Siamese army.
They came from the mouth of the lower reaches of the Kelantan River, and suddenly blocked the Siamese army's left wing. At this time, the Siamese Royal Army, which had some order at first, immediately completely collapsed and lost any level of organizational command relations. It completely became a The army was defeated.
The Siamese rushed northwest and west, bypassing the position of the Chinese Marines, and rushed into the retreating right-wing Malay allied crowd. The remaining war elephants also ran along the flow of people and were trampled to pieces. Bodies were everywhere. The Siamese army collapsed as soon as they said it would. Zheng Zhilong failed so quickly and completely that Zheng Zhilong did not expect it at all. He rushed the infantry troops across the river and launched a pursuit. He could only watch from a distance as the enemy fled. After the cavalry posts under the garrison crossed the river upstream, they pursued the Siamese and their Malay allies until nightfall. Only 120 cavalrymen captured nearly 3,000 Siamese. Prisoners, the Siamese fought desperately in battle, but once they failed, their courage disappeared quickly. The prisoners were very obedient and were escorted back to the Kelantan River by the Chinese cavalry No. 100.
In the next five days, the Chinese army and the Chinese militia marched all the way north without encountering any resistance. The Sultan of Pahang surrendered, while the Pattani army surrendered under the city walls of their own country's capital city because five days ago, the Chinese Navy's Taiwan Fleet had already Attacked Pattani from the sea, landed 2,000 marines, and captured the defenseless Pattani city.
The remnants of the Siamese army were scattered everywhere. Until Zheng Zhilong led his headquarters to settle in Pattani, there were still scattered Siamese soldiers who fled to Pattani and became prisoners of the Chinese army. The commanders of the Siamese army led There are more than 4,000 troops directly under the army and the King's Palace Guards. They can still maintain a little organizational structure and have more residual war elephants, so they can run faster. Before the Chinese army blocked the Pattani border, the Siamese King Uncle Wang, commander of the elephant team, Phra Piratham had fled into Phuket Province in southern Siam.
At this point, about 10,000 people in the Siamese royal army died in battle or were trampled to death by elephants or their own people. The remaining Siamese soldiers were completely disintegrated. 12,000 people became prisoners of the Chinese army. The rest are unknown and may have been scattered. After escaping back to their country, the Malay allies of Siam actually suffered very little combat losses. Most of their nearly 1,000 dead were trampled to death by elephants and allied forces while fleeing.
On the other hand, Zheng Zhilong's troops destroyed three "Lightning Cell Guns", and five artillery pieces exploded due to too long firing time, resulting in the death and injury of more than ten artillerymen. The rest were more than ten cavalrymen injured, and more than a hundred militiamen were injured.
After crossing the river, there were casualties in the battle to guard the bridgehead. In the battle report, Zheng Zhilong also mentioned: The Chinese army captured more than a hundred war elephants and could form an elephant transport team. He added this sentence in the battle report sent to Taiwan Port
: A white war elephant, said to be exclusive to the King of Siam, symbolizing blessings from the gods, was also captured this time. He specially used a large transport ship to transport the white elephant back to Taiwan and gave it to the princess who loved animals.
Yin Qian and Zheng Zhilong knew that Yin Feng did not like superstitions such as "auspiciousness", so the excuse was to give toys to Yin Feng's eldest daughter. He was very careful and had already understood that among his children, Yin Feng was the most
It has always been the eldest daughter, Yin Qian, who is known as the eldest princess, who she loves most.
...On the same day he entered Pattani, Zhao Xuanming also wrote a battle report at the gate of the mosque, the only intact building in Gotaracha City, the capital of Aceh, and sent a communication ship of the Nanyang Fleet to Taiwan.
The Sultan of Aceh died in the civil war in his palace. His son, together with the Prime Minister of Aceh and other nobles, fled. In addition to the partial damage to the palace and mosque, most of the buildings in Aceh City were destroyed by fire. On the night of the general attack, the people fled to avoid the fire.
Most of the Acehnese and private soldiers of North Sumatra lords who left the city were killed by the Chinese army and militia. A total of 8,000 people were captured. About 5,000 Acehnese nobles and civilians surrendered in the city, and the rest were several thousand.
More than 40,000 Acehnese, old, young, women and children, died in the fire and bayonets.
After the war came to an end, the Chinese army divided its forces to encircle and suppress the remaining enemies. Zhao Xuanming stationed on the ruins of Aceh and followed Yin Feng's orders to carry out post-war disposal work.
In accordance with Yin Feng's order, the Aceh Kingdom, the son of the original Sultan Iskandar Muda, succeeded the Sultan and signed a surrender agreement with the Chinese King Yin Feng to pay tribute. In the future, the Aceh Kingdom will be limited to the northwest corner of Sumatra Island.
One end is the place where they first rose hundreds of years ago. The rest of Aceh's territory, except for the mountainous and dense forest areas in central Sumatra, is still owned by local feudal lords. They must pay tribute to Yin Feng, and the rest of the coastal areas
The fertile land and the rivers flowing through it will be allocated to the Chinese company for management.
All the princely states in Sumatra who participated in the anti-China rebellion were required to reduce their territory, pay fines, send protons to Taiwan, sign a surrender document and pay tribute to King Jinghai of China. The princes who did not participate in the anti-China rebellion would retain their current status.
The territory remains unchanged, but tribute must also be paid to Yin Feng.
In the Yin Feng Plan, the treatment of the princely states in the Malay Peninsula was almost the same.
However, Zheng Zhilong reported to Yin Feng: He believed that the Kingdom of Johor was originally a small country with a small population. Now that it has experienced wars and massacres, and many members of the original royal family have died, it is better to abolish the Kingdom of Johor and allocate the land to Chinese immigrants. Moreover, in China
After the army defeated the Siamese army, the lords of various princely states in the Malay Peninsula were frightened. Many lords had fled to Siam and Myanmar. Now there are nearly 600,000 Chinese immigrants in the Malay Peninsula.
There are also 100,000 overseas Chinese businessmen, who can firmly control the grassroots political power in some places. Those Malays at the bottom who have lost their lords do not care about changing to landlords somewhere, as long as they have food to eat.
During the implementation of Yin Feng's large-scale immigration plan in Nanyang, several major immigration areas were inadvertently formed: Java, the southern part of the Malay Peninsula, and Palembang in Sumatra. These are places suitable for large-scale agricultural farming, regardless of whether the Chinese Wherever they are, apart from business, they are best at agriculture. In the Malay Peninsula, the Chinese have already formed a great advantage in local economic strength.
Yin Feng once again discovered that he was still influenced by the world view before time travel: Today's Malay Peninsula and the entire Malay world do not have a unified nationalist ideology, and the Islam spread here is not an extreme sect, no matter what the rule No matter which ethnic group the person belongs to, as long as religion is not touched at the beginning, there will be no change in the life of the Malay people at the bottom here.
After discussing with Xu Hongji, Zeng Shan and others, Yin Feng adjusted the plan for the Malay Peninsula: all the feudal states that participated in the siege of Malacca would have their territories cancelled, and the families of the feudal states would be left with 500 acres of land for self-sufficiency, and the rest of their land would be The remaining land will be confiscated, with the exception of the company retaining half of it for the exclusive use of Chinese military settlements and immigrants. The rest of the land will be measured by the Chinese company in the coming year and then publicly auctioned to major merchants across the country.
They participated in the rebellion early and later switched sides in time to help the Chinese army. The territory of Pahang, Kelantan and other princely states remained unchanged, but they had to pay a fine and send a hostage to Taiwan to sign an agreement to surrender and pay tribute. Pattani because it is The Kingdom of Siam is a vassal state and must be dealt with separately after the war with Siam has come to an end.
By the end of September of the second year of Tianqi, large-scale wars in the Southeast Asian region had ceased. No matter whether it was the Malay Peninsula or Sumatra, only a few die-hards were left hiding in the deep mountains and forests waiting for action. The Chinese army could be said to have completely controlled the situation.
The third war in Nanyang in just over ten years has ended, and the Chinese king Yin Feng has consolidated his control over the entire Nanyang Islands and the Malay Peninsula.
There is still one small tail left in the war, and that is Siam.
After capturing Pattani, the Taiwanese fleet pulled anchor and set sail, heading north to the Gulf of Siam against the northwest wind. Within a few days, the fleet's cannons were aimed at the mouth of the Chao Phraya River. Along the river, they could reach the city of Ayutthaya. The Chinese called Ayutthaya the center of the Siamese dynasty.
At this time, the Siamese fishing boats and sailing boats at the mouth of the river were still doing their jobs, and they were completely unwary of the Chinese fleet coming from afar. The sailing boats of the Chinese company flying the Chinese flag with a blue background often appeared here, so the Siamese Unprepared; on the other hand, the news of the Siamese army's defeat in Kelantan has not yet reached here, and even His Majesty King Songtan does not know that his army has been defeated.
Mai De and a group of admirals of the Taiwan Fleet - now battleship captains are all called admirals - faced the peaceful residents, but it was difficult to fire immediately, so the fleet lowered a centipede boat and carried the messenger to a fort on the shore of the river mouth. The fort Although the defenders of Upper Siam knew that the royal army was going south to fight in Pattani, they could not figure out who the enemy was. They thought that the Chinese fleet was just passing by and wanted to take shelter from the wind, so they warmly welcomed several envoys.
These few people who were selected as envoys were all sailors of Chinese merchant ships. They had been to Siam and could speak fluent Siamese. They met the Siamese officers and soldiers who welcomed them warmly. Some Siamese soldiers of Chinese origin even talked to them. They were friends with fellow countrymen. These Siamese soldiers used to do business with passing Chinese merchant ships. This time they also wanted to do business with such a large fleet and make a fortune. Suddenly, several envoys from the Taiwan fleet I almost forgot my mission,