The second year of natural selection, the beginning of February

The Yi Dynasty sent an envoy to Ayutthaya (1) and ordered the Siamese king Wu Lunshi to immediately retreat to Annam.

At this time, Siam had already annexed a lot of land in Annam, and if all of them had to be returned because of a sentence brought by the envoy of the Yi Dynasty, Wu Lunshi felt that the people of the newly established Yi Dynasty were inevitably dreaming.

Not to mention that the Yi Dynasty is not the suzerainty recognized by Siam, even if the Yi Dynasty is the suzerainty of Siam, what can it be? There is no reason for Siam to give up the land that has been annexed so easily.

Moreover, in Wu Lunshi's view, the Yi Dynasty was just a thief who rose up while the Manchus were not paying attention for a while. For this kind of rebel who self-righteously established the imperial court after seizing some land, Wu Lunshi felt that he was not afraid in his heart.

After all, this kind of thing has not happened in the Manchu Dynasty, but those people are bent on how to survive the next encirclement and suppression of the Manchus, instead of swaggering everywhere like them.

Whether or not Siam admits to their court is still a problem. Now he is still traveling thousands of miles to criticize Siam, which is too ignorant of Siam.

Moreover, even if the Yi Dynasty had the ability to resist the Manchus, what could it do? Can you send troops thousands of miles to attack Siam? Are my Siamese warriors vegetarians?

Therefore, Wu Lunshi thought of cutting down the envoy of the Yi Dynasty with a knife, and then sent the head back to the Yi Emperor Zhang Rui, so that he could understand: Siam is not an existence that he can call the shots with a word.

In the end, under the persuasion of the ministers of Siam, the Siamese king Wu Lunshi reluctantly dismissed the idea, but still humiliatingly drove the Yi Dynasty envoys out of Siam.

Annam, Quang Ngai Province.

To the north of Quang Ngai Province is Quang Nam Province, and to the south of Heng Son is Hue and Quang Nam districts, which are the southernmost points of Annam's original borders.

The area is hot and humid all year round, with dense forests, long mountains running through the whole territory, rivers and valleys crisscrossing the territory, and fertile plains between the mountains and the sea.

"Report, General, thousands of enemy troops have been spotted in front, claiming to be the army of the Yi Dynasty, and asking us to surrender immediately." Outside the camp of the Siamese army, a scout returned to report to the leading general, Maro Goyu.

Due to the fact that the Tay Son Dynasty had to resist the "invasion" of the Yi army, most of the troops of the former Quang Nam Kingdom of Annam were transferred to the north by Nguyen Hue to participate in the war, resulting in very few troops in the southern provinces of Annam that could be used to defend against resistance. It is precisely because of this that the Siamese army can be overwhelming in the southern provinces of Annam.

Now Marogo couldn't help but be stunned when he heard that thousands of troops had appeared in front of him. After all, they had not encountered such a "large-scale" enemy army since they entered Annam.

The Annan army they had encountered before was mostly a few hundred people, and the enemy army of those few hundred people either fled when they encountered their tens of thousands of Siamese troops, or they were not enough to kill them.

Originally, he was still a little annoyed that Maroguo, who had occupied so much land in Annam so easily, after all, he had not fought a few major battles, and it was not easy for him to show off his merits to the king when he went back, but now thousands of enemy troops suddenly appeared.

Or, that's a nice credit.

"What did you just say?" Marogo, who was thinking about the question, seemed to catch something from the scout's words, and asked again.

"General Hui, the small thing is to say, there are thousands of enemy troops claiming to be Yi Dynasty in front, and they want to... We are required to surrender to them. The scout thought for a moment and then shouted again.

"The army of the Yi Dynasty?" Marogo was talking to himself.

"General, the army of this Yi Dynasty should be the army that Annan transferred troops to resist, I didn't expect them to hit here so quickly." At this time, Muwalag, the general of the Chambaser State not far from Marogo, spoke up.

Marogo glanced at Muwalag and didn't speak.

Although the Siamese army claimed to be 100,000 troops, it was actually less than 40,000 troops. Among them, Siam's 30,000 infantry was the mainstay, while Vientiane, as a vassal state, sent 4,000 troops, and the weaker Champasak country could only send 2,000 troops.

Although the two vassal states sent few troops, the armies of the two vassal states came first in each battle. According to Marogo, in order to better train the soldiers of the two countries and improve the military strength of the two countries.

Of course, this is just Marogo's statement to the outside world, and everyone understands the specific reasons. It's just that, as a vassal state of Siam, the weaker two countries can only endure it.

Fortunately, the main army in the south of Annan was transferred by the Xishan Dynasty to deal with the army of the Yi Dynasty, so the strength of the remaining defensive forces of Annan faced by the two countries was not strong, and the casualties of the sergeants of the two countries were naturally not large.

Now he has encountered an army that claims to be the Yi Dynasty here, which means that the main force of Annam has also been defeated by the Yi army.

Is Annan's main force strong?

Siam and Champas, who have been fighting with Chenla for many years, have their own measurements in their hearts.

Under the encroachment of the original Annam Quang Nam Kingdom, Zhenla almost became a vassal existence, and although Zhenla was not good, it was still barely able to resist them Siam. It can be said that if it were not for the transfer of the main forces of Quang Nam, Siam would not have dared to invade Annam at all.

However, the main force of Annan still failed to defeat the Yi army, indicating that the Yi army's military strength should be stronger than Annan's.

However, having never fought against the Yi Army, Marogo never believed how strong the Yi Army could be.

Because from the burning, killing and looting of the Siamese army led by him all the way to Annam, the so-called powerful Annam is just like that. Annam's army could not defeat the Yi army, and it did not prove that their Siamese warriors could not defeat the Yi army.

Moreover, according to the scouts, there were only a few thousand Yi troops on the opposite side, and tens of thousands of Siamese troops behind him. Wouldn't it be a joke if he led tens of thousands of troops and didn't dare to fight with thousands of enemy troops? Will you have the face to continue to live and be a person in the future?

Looking at the gloomy face of Muwalag, Marogo couldn't help but laugh in his heart. So, I saw him comforting again: "General Muwalag, don't worry, I think these thousands of Yi troops may have bypassed Annan's main force to reach here." ”

"No matter how incompetent Annan's main force is, it won't be defeated so quickly, I think these Yi troops should want to encircle the Annan army in the north, but I didn't expect to meet us. In order not to disturb them, all of them said the words that made us surrender. The purpose is to make us worry about and delay time, so that they can deal with the main force of Annam in the north first. ”

Note (1): Ayutthaya, Ayutthaya is the customary name of the Chinese, located on the plains north of Bangkok. Ayutthaya means "City of Eternal Victory".