Chapter 53 The Battle of Ayutthaya
Hai Rui naturally knew who Mang Yingli was, and he was the son of Mang Yinglong who made the Ming Dynasty lose all his face in the southwest.
As mentioned earlier, the southwestern territory of the Ming Dynasty penetrated into the Indochina Peninsula. The three Xuans and six comforts, including Myanmar, Laos, and northern Thailand, were all the territory of the Ming Dynasty. However, as the national strength of the Ming Dynasty declined, the "gold-word and red card" system was seriously challenged, and the Indochina Peninsula inevitably slid into the warlord melee situation.
As a result, during the Jiajing period, the Myanmar Xuanwei Office produced a fierce man named Yinglong, who openly pulled the flag and rebelled, claiming to be the Dongyu Dynasty. Taking advantage of the fact that the imperial court was so anxious that it was captured by the northern and southern Japanese, he annexed most of the three Xuan and Liuwei, and destroyed the Siam Kingdom.
However, Siam's energy has not yet been exhausted, and the puppet King of Thailand supported by Mang Yinglong actually gave birth to a little god - Panalai, known as the "Black Prince".
When Panalai was young, he was a hostage in Touo for a long time and suffered humiliation from the Burmese people. Later, his sister was given to Mang Yinglong, who was over 60 years old, and was released and made the crown prince.
The humiliating experience made Panarai extremely anti-Myanmar, but he knew that it was not enough for Thais who wanted to defeat the powerful Tohyu Dynasty and restore Siam independence to eat vegetarianism and chant Buddha alone.
So he had the idea of asking for help from the Celestial Empire, and took advantage of Zhao Hao's alliance with the princes of the South China Sea to ask the Queen of Green to introduce him. Zhao Hao also needed an obedient agent to control the Indochina Peninsula, so the two sides hit it off.
The Black Prince promised to stay in the throne like Annan, and to win the support of the Jiangnan Group for Siam independence.
Moreover, when the world came, the world worked together, and luck stood on his side. After the Chinese New Year, Mang Yinglong died of illness in the ninth year of Wanli. Although the prince Mang Yingli, who succeeded him, was already 46 years old, he was arrogant and arrogant and powerful.
Mang Yinglong believed that Dongzhao was strong and powerful, and he was full of powerful generals. He was invincible on the Southeast Peninsula, so he set his sights on the north and began to continue to commit suicide... Oh no, he continued to attack the southwestern border of the Ming Dynasty.
He obviously knew nothing about the changes in the Celestial Empire. After Zhang Juzheng's reform, the Ming Dynasty had already swept away the style of civil and military play, and the combat effectiveness of officers and soldiers was greatly improved.
In the first month of the eleventh year of Wanli, the Burmese army brazenly invaded, siege cities and land in Yunnan, murdered and set fire, and attacked Shunning Prefecture, spyed into Dali and other places!
The military information reached the capital, and the Ming court was shocked!
Under the strict order of Zhang Xianggong, Duke Qian and Yunnan General Mu Changzuo immediately moved from Kunming to Erhai Lake. Yunnan Governor Liu Shizeng also moved to Chuxiong, mobilizing tens of thousands of troops, and ordered the generals Liu Jing and Deng Zilong to lead elite troops to the front line and fight back with all their might!
As a result, with the cooperation of the local chieftain army, Liu and Deng defeated the Burmese army south of Yao Pass. Then they won consecutive battles and recovered the land occupied by the Burmese army. Then Liu Jing summoned the chieftains and built an oath, and the chieftains in the border areas surrendered to the Ming Dynasty one after another.
Liu Jing and Deng Zilong were also famous all over the world and became a new generation of famous generals!
But it is not advisable to exaggerate the victory of the Ming army this time, because the main force of the Burmese army still exists. The reason why Mang Yingli hurriedly withdrew his troops was because the Thais rebelled and threatened his country.
In the 12th year of Wanli, Mang Yinglong ordered the black prince Panalai to lead the Thai army north to assist him in attacking the Ming Dynasty.
With the support of Zhao Hao, Panalai led his army into Myanmar and declared independence to his subordinates and attacked Bogu, the capital of the Dongzhao Dynasty!
Mang Yingli was shocked when he learned that he was stabbed by the black prince and hurriedly led his army back to Bogu. Fortunately, the combat effectiveness of the Thai army was really not satisfactory, so the black prince did not invade Bogu City.
After learning that the Burmese army had withdrawn, he had to collect more than 10,000 Thai people near Bogu and hurried back to the local area.
Mang Yingli was very angry at the Thai rebellion and immediately led his army to attack Siam, hoping to eliminate the "rebel" Panarai!
Panarai was also a cruel person. He adopted the scorched earth policy of firming walls and clearing the fields, so that after the Burmese army entered the country, no Thai man could catch him or even a grain of food could be snatched. He shrank almost all his troops into the royal capital and defended him with the strong city!
As a result, Mang Yingli was in a hurry to send troops, was not prepared enough, and could not replenish supplies on the spot, so he had to retreat.
But how could he give up? In the 13th year of Wanli, he sent troops to attack Siam twice in the 14th year. Especially last year, Mang Yinglong was very prepared. With the support of Cambodia, he personally led an army of 250,000 to besiege the city in three directions, and attacked for thirteen months!
Under the continuous fierce attack of the Burmese army, the Thai army in the big city was in turmoil. The Siam princes who were habitually surrendered collapsed one after another. Even the Thai king, Panalai's father, felt desperate. If it weren't for Panalai's strong support from the Jiangnan Group, he would have cut his head long ago and given it to Mang Yingli to relieve his anger.
Moreover, Zhao Hao's support was not just a verbal statement. Under his order, Nanyang Shipping continuously transported food, grass, weapons, medicines and other materials to the city through the Chao Phraya River, otherwise the Thai army would have collapsed long ago.
But the country where shemale people were born after eating vegetarian food was too bad, and such support was still in a hurry. In desperation, after the rainy season of 7 years, Zhao Hao ordered Lin Feng, commander of the Nanyang War Zone, to provide military support to Siam as appropriate.
Although the Great City is 80 kilometers away from the sea, the Chao Phraya River, which has good water transportation, is not considered a violation of the "ten-kilometer iron rule" of the coast guard.
After receiving the order, Lin Feng sent a fleet into the Gulf of Siam and set up a naval base at the mouth of Chao Phraya River.
Then Ma Kalong, the commander of the Nanyang War Zone Marine Corps, was appointed as the frontline commander by Lin Feng, responsible for the subsequent operations.
Macaron commanded the inland river support boat detachment to cover 1,000 Marines and 4,000 soldiers up 50 miles along the Chao Phraya River. According to the instructions of the General Staff, a fishing village surrounded by rivers and easy to defend and difficult to attack was established to establish a forward base.
Oh by the way, Commander-in-Chief Zhao also named the fishing village Bangkok.
Subsequently, the army, supplies and equipment arrived continuously at the Bangkok base. After establishing a complete logistics, support and defense system, the inland river support fleet headed north again.
This time, the inland river support fleet finally appeared under the city of Dacheng with Chao Phraya River as its moat.
The new inland river support boat of the Coast Guard Marine Corps is improved by the Avengers model, which once shined in the battle to recover Manila. It has a full metal hull, complete protective armor, and more powerful firepower.
More than twenty "black dragons" broke into the Burmese army fiercely. Hundreds of new hand-turned-bar cannons shot like hail at the Burmese army, which was siegeing the city in a dense formation, and took away the lives of thousands of Burmese troops in just one wave!
Mang Yingli was naturally furious at Cheng Yaojin who had come out of the middle of the way, and immediately ordered to eliminate these uninvited guests first!
However, the biggest advantage of the hand-turned-tube gun, a big killer that combines the Big Bo Lang machine and the Thunder gun, is that the firepower is longer.
It uses an open magazine located above the barrel to supply bullets with gravity. The hand-crank handle provides power to push the falling shells into the cannon chamber. In this way, as long as you continue to press pre-loaded shells like the electric gun gun into the magazine, and constantly turn the shake handle, you can shoot continuously.
Moreover, the airtightness of this continuous artillery is better than that of the Flang machine, so although it is also a rear-loaded gun, its power is greater than the latter. The continuous shotgun within a range of 150 meters is completely a life-saving harvester.
No matter how Mang Yingli urged the army to attack from both sides, he could not even attack the riverside, but only let waves of subordinates die in vain!
It was not until the death and injury on the banks of the Chao Phraya River that Mang Yingli woke up like a dream and hurriedly ordered the troops to retreat and stop the meaningless death and injury.
He decided to use artillery with a longer range to fight against the enemy.
Myanmar had come into contact with the Portuguese very early, and the adjacent Arakan dynasty, which was later Bangladesh, was a former ally of the Portuguese. The South Asian sailors hired by Portugal back then were basically Bangladeshis. Later, the Portuguese responded to Sebastian's call and withdrew from Asia to restore the country.
Of course, there were many Portuguese people who did not have the patriotic sentiment and were unwilling to go back to the smelly and dirty Lisbon, so they quietly stayed. They basically became mercenaries in the Kingdom of Arakan.
The terrible Ming Coast Guards were there, and they dared not hang out at sea, so they all made a living on land. Because Mangyingli gave a lot of money, many Portuguese joined the Burmese army and also brought them artillery technology.
The bronze cannons cast by the Portuguese for the Burmese army had a maximum range of more than one kilometer. However, the cannons were too bulky and could only be used to defend the city. The Western bronze cannons used by the Burmese army in field battles could hit more than 400 meters and ensure effective killing within 200 meters. They caused considerable trouble to the Ming army in the north.
The Portuguese mercenaries had just seen it. The enemy's range was within 150 meters, which was far worse than their field artillery.
However, when they were confidently commanding the Burmese to launch artillery and prepare to set off outside the enemy's range, they heard a row of crisp gunshots, and were shot down five hundred meters away...
The surviving Portuguese lay on the ground and looked around, and finally found that the smoke of gunpowder was still rising from the iron ships.
The Wanli-style rifle equipped with a scope is completely beyond their understanding! The poor Portuguese mind can't figure out how the musket can hit so far? So accurate?
They tried several more times, but were still suppressed by the long-range firepower on the iron-shelled ship, and they could not even enter the range of their own artillery.
In fact, what the Portuguese didn't know was that as long as those hand-turned-barrel guns were replaced with solid bullets, they would still be farther than their small cannons of three or four hundred pounds. It was just because the accuracy was touching, and the coast guard was unwilling to show his timidity.
As a result, Mang Yingli had no choice but to withdraw his troops.
The Siamese monarch and ministers on the Great City City witnessed the battle scene of the coast guards killing gods and descending to earth, and immediately swept away the decline and their morale was greatly boosted.
Panale was even more proud. He finally proved that his choice was correct and he no longer had to worry about being betrayed...
The Burmese army was kicked out of this blow and had no choice but to have no choice but to have a very low morale. Panarai learned again that the coast guard set up a forward base downstream and hoarded a large amount of supplies and troops.
He knew that there was no chance at this time...
Chapter completed!