Chapter 57: The Father and the Son
"Father! Nguyen Van Thanh, a native of Quang Nam, was brave and good at fighting, and his son wanted to take them with him to attack the Burmese fortress on Mount Anh Tan, and His Royal Highness the Second King also agreed to send his Tiger Army to help! ”
After hesitating for a long time, the future Rama II Ishara Songtun still knelt on one knee and said his thoughts loudly.
Just as Rama I needed to recover Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen and the LinkedIn Tan Mountains to prove that he was far greater than Cheng Shin, Ishara Songtun needed a feat to prove that he was the most suitable successor to the King of Siam.
Although he had been on the battlefield with Rama I since he was a few years old, no feats could compare to the reconquest of Chiang Rai, Chiang Saen and other places that had been under siege for 200 years.
"Is your uncle willing to support you?" Rama I, who had a square face and sword eyebrows, sharpened his eyes!
Looking at his son, who was a little bald and looked very old, he suddenly found that his son was already an adult, and he was no longer the follower who followed him before!
"Yes father, His Royal Highness the Second King also thinks that my choice is right, we don't care where the Burmese will appear, just take back the Yingtan Mountains!" Isarathun plucked up the courage to make eye contact with his father.
His Royal Highness was none other than Rama I's younger brother and Ishara Songtun's uncle, Sura Sinhana.
According to Thai tradition, the first in line of succession after Rama I at this time was not Prince Laha Ishara Songtun, but Sura Sinhana, who held the title of second king.
Sula. Sinhana was a compatriot of Rama I's mother, and when Rama I was a minor officer in the Ayutthaya dynasty, his younger brother Sura Sinhana was the most powerful assistant to Rama I.
He assisted Rama I from a petty officer who could only manage seventy or eighty people to the right-hand man of Thonburi the Great.
Even in 1782, when King Rama I decided to seize the throne from the Burmese front, his most powerful supporter was his younger brother Sura Sinhana.
Moreover, the prison army that monitored them at that time, Zheng Xin's son, Prince Zhaoshui, was personally killed by Sura Sinhana!
It can be said that without Sura Sinhana, there would be no yellow robe of Rama I, and the relationship between these two brothers is actually the same as that of Zhao Da and Zhao II in Chinese history.
Zhao Kuangyin launched the Chenqiao Mutiny under the pretext of resisting the Khitan in the north, and Rama I was sent by Zheng Xin to carry out the coup d'état on an expedition to Guangnan.
Like Zhao Guangyi, the god of the sorghum river, Sura Sinhana took the opportunity to put his brother on the throne.
However, Ishara Songtun is much luckier than Zhao Defang, because Sura Sinhana has no qualified heir, and his health is not too good, and he may not survive his brother Rama I (historically, Rama I died six years after his brother's death).
So Surasin Hana has always been the staunchest supporter of his nephew Ishara Songtun.
"Very good!" Rama I said lightly and quickly turned his head, a slight breathing sound came, and Rama I, who turned around, seemed to touch his face.
"However, Mount Intan is too important for us Tai people, I have decided to personally raise a large army to go and finish the battle, as for you, my son, I need you to go north and take back Chiang Rai Province for me!"
"Father!" Ishara Songtun's eyes widened suddenly, as the king of a country, Rama I had no reason to personally lead his army to attack the Burmese fortress on Mount Intan, because no matter who he sent, the greatest credit for recovering Mount Intan must be his, the king of Siam!
I asked for this, and I moved out of my uncle Sura Sinhana, and I was still sent to attack Chiang Rai, what is this?
Maybe only that Champasak woman Concubine Wan is his wife, and he must still be hoping that Champasak woman can give birth to an heir for him! (Many books only record that Concubine Wan was Laotian, but the time when the two brothers of Rama I attacked the Kingdom of Champasak coincided with the time period when Rama I married Concubine Wan, so the tiger believes that Concubine Wan should be the sister or daughter of King Champasak Sayakumam, and may even be the concubine of Sayagumam!) )
"Go ahead! Call Phra Zhao Gawila in, Quang Nam Nguyen Van Cheng and I will be gone, you look at the arrangement, but I have to stay by my side! ”
Rama I turned around slightly, and his face was also calm, without any mood fluctuations!
Le Van Thanh and Nguyen Van Thanh were Quang Nam generals sent by Nguyen Phuc Anh to help in the war, and they brought a total of 5,000 people, all of whom were the elite of Quang Nam who had experienced a hundred battles.
Although they have always lost more than they won, they are also elites who have gone through big battles and have not been defeated.
I can't beat Ruan Hui in Xishan because Ruan Hui is too fierce, and it's not that our army doesn't work hard, but the communist army has the meaning of Gundam.
At least in Ye Kai's opinion, the Quang Nam army, which is fully armored, armed with a big gun or big sword, has a short sword hanging from its waist, and has a firearms rate of up to 70 percent, is much more elite than the ordinary Thai army!
They can only be compared to Rama I's own Guards and Sura Sinhana's Tigers.
Ye Kai was also counted in the Guangnan People's Army, and his supplies were all distributed by Ruan Wencheng personally, but although Ruan Wencheng was polite to him for the sake of Ruan Fuying's brother-in-law, he didn't take Ye Kai seriously, and there was no inevitable connection between the strength of martial arts and the strength on the battlefield, Ruan Wencheng just regarded him as a gold-plated person.
And Ye Kai is now holding a bowl of porridge and drinking, since there are only three or two kittens under him, he doesn't put any scores, eat, drink, and sleep Ye Kai is with them.
Thirty French mercenaries and thirty queues selected by the Ye family were relatively well trained to form a four-column horizontal formation.
The remaining thirty members of the Ye family were used by Ye Kai as a backup, because Ye Kai was afraid that these guys, who couldn't even line up horizontally and were very slow to load, would become a drag on the other sixty people.
As for the pirates and the party members in Huashan Hall, Ye Kai had given up the idea of teaching them to play queue up and shoot.
Without experiencing it yourself, you will never understand how difficult it is to teach these guys who don't know a single word and are used to being unrestrained!
Ye Kai taught for three days, these guys still can't even tell the difference between left and right, and they have a natural resistance to practicing loading every day.
Ye Kai, who had a headache, had no choice but to select fifty more clever ones from the more than two hundred pirate associations, let them mix with the remaining thirty Ye family disciples, and put them behind the thirty French mercenaries at the front and the thirty Ye family children who had already practiced similarly, as a reserve.
The remaining more than 100 party pirates were simply handed over to He Yu'er to manage, they love to play with shield javelins, play shield javelins, and if they fall in love, they will chop and chop with knives and axes, as long as they basically obey orders!
The more he practiced, the more Ye Kai admired the champion Hou Huo for getting sick, he could lead thousands of people across the desert grassland as a fledgling, he couldn't even manage more than 300 people, he was really more popular than people!
"Mr. Ye! Master Ye! A Quang Nam Tang horseman with a small flag on his back hurried over.
"General Nguyen has an order, and the right army will set off immediately to escort Prince Le Rai to Chiang Rai!"