Chapter 242: The Heavenly Power of My Great Qing Dynasty
"Your Royal Highness Zhao Liushu, you are so hard to force each other, I don't know if His Majesty the Qianlong Emperor of the Heavenly Empire ever knew?"
When the atmosphere became more and more delicate, he followed him all the way to the tea room, and Ruan Thi Ngoc Wan, who was also squatting behind a gauze curtain, asked out loud.
Zhao Liushu is the name of the Guangnan Ruan family for Rama II, and Ye Kai was also stunned, how could this be related to Emperor Qianlong?
Ye Kai has no good impression of the old man, his cowhide plaster stamps flying all over the sky, he has written more than fifty or sixty thousand poems in his life, but he has never met the standard of recitation by primary and secondary school students, and of course, his gaudy agricultural heavy metal killing Matt aesthetics!
However, Rama II's face was dark, and his senses were very complicated for Emperor Qianlong, the Keri family, or the Siamese nobles.
Because if Emperor Qianlong hadn't been able to save face and attack Burma four times in a row, Siam would probably have been wiped out.
You must know that at that time, the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty was the largest country in the Indochina Peninsula, with a great reputation, not only basically destroyed Siam, but also hit the Indian state of Manipur, and even beat the Dutch and French colonists in Salem.
But from Ye Kai's point of view, whether it is in his cognition or in the jokes on the Internet, the four expeditions of the old man to Myanmar are full of slots, and there are unbearable head irons everywhere.
In addition, the old man's face is too thick, and he actually put a battle for Burma that can be said to have a draw and the upper hand into the ten perfect martial arts, which made future generations laugh at it.
This is actually the Chinese have always been thinking of the Celestial Empire, I don't care what Burma's most fierce dynasty you are, I don't care what dynasty you are starting, in the rising period of unity, the Qing Dynasty, which rules 40,000 people, can't even deal with Myanmar, which is at war with Siam at the same time, that is incompetence, that is stupidity!
But from the perspective of the other natives of Southeast Asia, this was not the case at all, because they saw the terrible war potential of the Qing Dynasty!
In the four Qing-Burma wars, the number of Qing troops did not have much advantage, and the soldiers were even more unadaptable, and the equipment was needless to say, the Qing army was still using bird guns and carrying guns, and the Burmese were basically half of the flintlock pistols.
They also had a French captive corps of more than 300 men, a dozen three-pounder field guns, and the Qing army had far fewer shotguns than the Burmese flintlock muskets.
Under such circumstances, the Qing soldiers transferred from the northeast and northwest were even brought to the vicinity of Awa, the capital of Burma, under the leadership of Ming Rui, and finally forced the Burmese to have to clear the wilderness before starving the Qing army.
When they were surrounded by 50,000 Burmese troops, the commanders Mingrui, Zarafona, Guanyin Bao and others personally led more than 500 elite Jianrui battalions to the Eight Banners Palace, in order to make the army retreat smoothly, more than 300 full of Eight Banners soldiers, and forcibly blocked thousands of Burmese pioneers for most of the day.
Among them, Guanyin Bao held a clear bow, dismounted and shot, and actually shot more than ten Burmese musketeers, and after exhaustion, he committed suicide by piercing his throat with the last bow and arrow.
This battle greatly shocked the Burmese, and after breaking the Qing army's interception, they thought that Mingrui was not dead, and they did not dare to continue the pursuit.
These sand sculpture Burmese, holding flintlock pistols, were killed and wounded by bows and arrows, and their own accounts also mentioned that the Burmese soldiers who held muskets and pike darts and did not approve the armor were extremely afraid of the cavalry archers of the Qing Dynasty, and fought on the ground, and were often killed and scattered by only half or one-third of their own Eight Banners.
In addition to showing the combat effectiveness of Southeast Asian countries, it can also be seen that the Eight Banners of the Qianlong period have not completely decayed!
Beijing's Jianrui Battalion, Xiaocai Battalion, as well as the Sauronites recruited from the old forests in the northeast, and even some green battalion soldiers, still have a certain combat effectiveness, and the soldiers are not afraid of death, so they cannot be said to be rotten.
It can be said that the four Qing-Burma wars directly brought down the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty, which was the dominant dynasty in Tiannan and a large family, and at the most tragic time, the ministers of the Burmese king Meng Di even persuaded him to flee.
In the end, the Burmese sent 50,000 troops to the occupation force in Siam and handed over to the general Maha Murphy. Hip Hop Shua and Nei Miao. Led by Hissius.
Also let Denga. Taking advantage of his geographical knowledge, Minkang constantly attacked the long supply lines of the Qing army from present-day Mubang to Mandalay.
In this kind of situation, which cut off the grain route of the Qing army and fought 65,000 to 15,000, the Qing army was driven away.
Moreover, the commander of the Qing army, Ming Rui and others, personally returned to the country with 123 out of 15,000 Qing troops, and the strength and weakness were judged!
And brought back 50,000 troops from Siam, the Burmese left in Siam army of less than 8,000 people, Zheng Xin and others took advantage of the situation to rebuild the Siamese country, the Siamese people who had reached the moment of extinction of the country, and miraculously succeeded in recovering the country!
A Burmese Gongbang Dynasty in the rising period was directly dragged down by the four Qing-Burma wars, and the Jianbi Qingye seemed to be very fierce, but in fact this was a helpless move to kill 800 enemies and lose 1,000 themselves, and after that, the Burmese people have never been able to recover their majesty.
Therefore, on the Internet in later generations, the old man Da Bu won the reputation of the father of Siam, and was as famous as King Louis XVI, the father of the United States who decapitated his head to aid the United States!
At the same time, this war also allowed the natives of Southeast Asia to re-understand the Qing Dynasty, which is not to say how well the Qing army fought, but to let these Southeast Asian natives see the war potential of the Qing Dynasty!
This battle that dragged down the Burmese was nothing to the Qing Dynasty, and it cost a total of more than 9 million taels of silver in military spending.
Yes, the next time you have a special meow, Jiangnan will spend ten times as much on this, and you can smash a small target into a small target.
In such a comparison, more than nine million taels of silver fought four battles, which is really nothing!
But the Burmese people were miserable, the domestic people's livelihood withered, the army was war-weary, the treasury was empty, and the newly occupied Siam was lost.
What's more, this is the Qing army in the case of an absolute disadvantage in equipment, seeing these situations, the natives of Southeast Asia will automatically make up for it, with such a strong national strength of the Qing Dynasty, replace a batch of flintlock guns, get hundreds of field artillery What is it, it can be done in minutes!
The navy is not strong and simple, in the South China Sea, there are a total of more than 100,000 South China pirates!
Qianlong can completely spend no soldiers, only need to sprinkle official hats, thousands of lucky ships, red single ships, and hundreds of thousands of navies can be obtained immediately!
Although most of the pirates are from Hongmen, and they have all said that they are against the Qing Dynasty and the restoration of the Ming Dynasty, they can even afford the official position of the Xishan Dynasty.
It's just that of course they don't know that the Manchu rulers are far more wary of Han people than foreigners, and if they all change to flintlock pistols, the population is only a million Manchurians, and they can still rule 40,000 Han people!
So until 1840, Daoguang Lao'er's army was still using arquebuses.
So Rama I and the Siamese nobles were very afraid of the Qing Dynasty, uh, it may not be accurate to say that they were afraid, they should be with three points of gratitude, slightly tilted their heads, squinted their eyes and looked up, revealing a feeling that this is a strong man!
Rama II straightened up slightly, and he looked at Ye Kai deeply.
"What's the matter? Guess Luan, your family has already gone to Nanyang, when the Dutch massacred the Chinese, His Majesty the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty once said that they would not care about the overseas people who abandoned the country! ”
Ruan's Yuwan behind the curtain first glanced at Ye Kai, and saw that he was not displeased at all, so he stood up and said loudly: "Thirty-seven years ago, it was because it was unprofitable, and it was just a waste of national funds to send troops thousands of miles!"
But now it's different, it is rumored that His Majesty the Emperor has an important minister named Niu Colu. He Shen likes yellow and white things very much, our Ye family should scatter all the family property to seek, His Royal Highness Zhao Liushu, do you think it's okay?
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