Chapter 53 Siam Reunion
After occupying the city for a while, Zhang Ming's troops continued southward. Before he could go south, Siam, Chenla, and other countries had already sent people over.
If we say that during the Annan War, these countries had not yet reacted. This is understandable, after all, Annan is geographically separated from other countries by mountains and rivers.
There is no direct connection.
But Champa is different.
Champa, Siam, and Chenla were geographically closely connected and fought against each other.
Champa, Chenla, and Siam are all Hindu countries.
There is also a marriage between them.
In this case, there is no reason why they should not pay attention to it. These countries don't know whether they understand the story of Zhu Zhiwu's retreat from the Qin army. But what they do is exactly the same.
These countries have raised some grain, grass, gold and silver to labor the army.
This time, Zhang Ming was in a dilemma.
They mobilized the entire nation to fight against Zhang Ming. It's just a backhand break. However, this situation made Zhang Ming very embarrassed.
Zhang Ming didn't know what to do.
Fortunately, after Tie Xuan found out, he immediately went to Champa to gather envoys from Siam, Chenla and other countries.
He only talked about one thing, and that was to fight against pirates.
As mentioned earlier, it is completely impossible to do business in various countries without taking care of the local nobles. After all, there are still many car gangsters and road bullies in the Ming Dynasty, local snakes that make people have to sell their face.
Not to mention overseas.
The situation overseas is only worse than that of the Ming Dynasty, not better. Even the Ming Dynasty's own merchant ships, many of them have remained unchanged.
Not to mention these vassal states.
To put it bluntly, although they claimed vassalage to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's management of the vassal state was thick and thin. Almost no care. That is to say, if something really happened, it would be difficult for the Ming Dynasty's dignitaries to start from within Siam or the Chenla court. If you get anxious, you just send people to kill people.
Speak with swords and guns.
But everything has a cost. Sending people to kill people for revenge also costs money.
Even after weighing the pros and cons, large companies can only give some shares to these local snakes. Even under this situation, even though the leader of Siam and others had a certain respect for Ming Dynasty. But the nobles below have no such thoughts.
After all, there are always conspicuous people in any team.
There are some unexplainable and unmentionable characters in the Ming Dynasty clan, and among the nobles of Nanyang, there are even more such people. He gained 2,500,000 to 80,000 yuan in his own territory. He was cruel to Ming merchants.
Now Tie Xuan has revealed all these things and asked these countries to give an explanation. It is Siam. King Chenla could not figure it out for a while.
Because those who dare to do this are all high-ranking officials, either powerful figures in the country, or the backstage behind it is the king himself.
It is impossible for them to take out their own team to pay for their crimes. Otherwise, without Daming coming to fight, they would be in chaos internally.
After all, Siam, Chenla and other places were never really centralized countries. .
As far as Southeast Asia is concerned, Annan is considered a powerful country. That's because Annan modeled his system on the Chinese system, a series of systems that were the most concentrated in power among the Southeast Asian countries.
The internal situation in Siam and Chenla is also very complicated, and the great nobles of all parties are complicated.
The king is not always decisive.
Tie Xuan was occupying the city, and these big nobles were colluding with each other. After all, the Ming Dynasty ruled this place under the rule of the Xia monarch and the Yi people. There is just one more king named Zhu.
It is not impossible to betray the king.
After more than three months of back and forth. Siam and Zhenla were finally left speechless. The so-called mastermind behind a series of cases cannot be handed over. Tie Xuan naturally declared against the two countries, punished the people and brought order to the chaos. It was requested that the two royal families go to Nanjing to apologize to the emperor.
It's come to this point.
Naturally, the royal families of the two countries understood that they were determined not to compromise. But it was no longer possible for them to resist.
The reason is very simple. After full communication, the soldiers from all over the world have already responded one after another before the soldiers and penfeng arrived.
Zhang Ming broke through Zhenla all the way and went to Siam. There was little resistance of any kind. Wherever they went, people came forward to help. Many people transformed and became loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty.
This made Zhang Ming very depressed.
The reason is simple. It is as smooth as marching and is of no use at all. The army also had little income.
The whole army thinks about fighting, but they want to eat meat, not for armed marches. No war, no spoils for senior generals. I no longer care about these small profits. But the soldiers below cannot do it.
Although the imperial court gave him a good salary. But most soldiers are willing to fight on the battlefield. Not for this little paycheck. But for the added benefits.
Even Zhang Ming was a little anxious and wanted to get some gold and silver for the center. This doesn't work either.
Fortunately, the local nobles are also sensible.
Naturally, I know how to make sacrifices to the army. To ensure peace.
This can be regarded as reluctantly getting rid of the matter.
In this way, later generations of Thailand, Cambodia, the Mekong Delta and even the vast area of Laos entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
After Zhang Ming broke into Siam and captured the capital of Siam. Prepare to attack westward and attack Burma.
In ancient times, Myanmar and Siam had always been enemies. Today, Myanmar is divided into several countries. Siam is relatively powerful. So much so that Siam remained strong against Myanmar.
Zhang Ming naturally wants to achieve more military exploits.
Just, no need. Because Muchun had already called from Myanmar.
There is nothing good to say about Muchun's attack on Burma from Yunnan. From the map, Myanmar looks very big and organized, but in reality, there are only a few roads and rivers during the actual march and war.
In most tropical rainforests, it is impossible to march at all.
Many things are unavoidable and are nothing more than battles over a few key points.
This is no problem at all for the Ming army. Fighting in formation and firing volleys of fire and cannons, the Burmese army has never seen it. After a few rounds, there is no one that doesn’t collapse.
Just hold on to the fortified city and bombard it with artillery from the rear.
Not to mention the city defense of Myanmar, even the strongest city wall of the Ming Dynasty cannot withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery. Once it is breached, the following things needless to say.
Of course, the Mu family is much more aggressive towards Myanmar than Zhang Ming.
The reason is also very simple. Among the troops under Muchun's command. There's plenty of toast. Under Huang Zicheng's control, a large number of Yungui chieftains came out from the local area and followed the army southward. As for the territory of many toasts in the southwest, they were not cut off but cut off.
Huang Zicheng even established several new prefectures in Guizhou. Although each prefecture had one or two counties, it governed a large area, and after the main chieftains from various places had left. Those who remain will become the old, weak, sick and disabled. He even dared not resist the imperial court.
Unless it's really in the deep mountains and old forests, it's inconvenient to get in and out. Even if the entire village is dead, no one knows about it outside. The rest are relatively close to roads and have relatively good roads.
All entered the management of the Ming Dynasty.
Of course, the coexistence of Guizhou chieftains and prefectures and counties has not ended. It won't end for a long time in the future. But the kind of chieftain who could easily mobilize an army of tens of thousands no longer exists.
Even if these tens of thousands of troops are just strong men.
Migration, division, relocation, and other means. It can be considered that the chief envoy of Guizhou has been truly confirmed. Rather than just a fictitious provincial unit. It should be noted that in the early Ming Dynasty, the chief envoy of Guizhou had no more than a few counties under his jurisdiction, not even one prefecture in ordinary places. Even the provincial-level imperial examinations must be taken in Kunming together with Yunnan.
This shows the downturn of Guizhou.
Now, in any case, Guizhou's shelf has been established.
It is precisely because of Huang Zicheng's policy.
Therefore, it was impossible for Muchun to remain tolerant of local Myanmar when he went south. Without him, there would be many toasts behind him, all following him to grab money.
The ground grabs the girl's.
Mu Chun raised his hand, what should we do with these chieftains who followed the Mu family?
It should be noted that not all the toasts below Huang Zicheng are willing to do this. Nonsense, it is actually not a good thing for local powerful people or chieftains to go to another place and start over.
It will seriously damage the foundation.
How could they be willing if it was just Huang Zicheng who used both soft and hard tactics? Needless to say, it is the Ming Dynasty's army that is tough. It is somewhat difficult to maintain several armies in Myanmar because the logistics lines are too long. But there is no problem in maintaining a few armies in Guizhou.
The soft one is naturally the promise, and they made large-scale compensation when they arrived in Myanmar.
How can we compensate these chieftains without taking away Myanmar?
Muchun's men were merciless, so naturally the people below him resisted desperately. However, these chieftain troops are not vegetarians. The Ming Dynasty also provided cold weapons, such as long knives, spears and steel crossbows from the Hongwu period. It was placed in the warehouse and was given to these toasts as a reward.
There is no difference between the fighting methods of these chieftains and the local Myanmar army. But there are advantages in equipment. Naturally, he can beat the opponent to a pulp.
And the casualties of the Ming army were avoided.
Just let these chieftain soldiers do some street fighting, public security warfare, suppression warfare and other battles that require hand-to-hand combat.
Most of the time, the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were responsible for urging the enemy to attack Yu Zhengrui, or using artillery to attack fortified cities and provide fire support, and the rest was left to the chieftain soldiers.
Facts have proved that Muchun's model is quite acceptable.
There were constant battles, big and small, along the way, which were much more exciting than Zhang Ming's. But in the end, the casualties were only over a hundred. Most of them died of the epidemic and were considered non-combat attrition. The number of unlucky guys who actually died in battle was only a few dozen.
In this era, it is simply an incredible miracle.
Of course, the imperial court did not include the deaths of those chieftain soldiers in the statistics.
More importantly, fewer people die, but more loot.
Because the chieftain soldiers were very unreserved and did not care about dignity. There was no military discipline, and everything he did was terrible.
