Chapter 786: The Surrender of Siam (2)
"Hundreds of years of inheritance? Is it possible for me to keep the centuries-old foundation of Siam? The old Siamese king cried out through gritted teeth. net
If he can still keep it, no, it is still possible to keep it, as for him to compromise with the Ming army and come back to persuade him to surrender?
He is the king, the king of Siam for decades, and he has no face to be defeated and captured, but now he has to come back in person to persuade him to surrender, can you imagine what kind of mood he had, thinking that it was very glorious? But what can he do, this is the only way to keep the royal family from being slaughtered, the people of Siam from being slaughtered, he can only do this.
"You know how powerful the Ming army is, the Burmese Ming army of the Kingdom of Burma perished in less than a month! During this period, the Ming army also killed Taunggyi and wiped out more than 200,000 elite troops of our Siamese country! ”
With tears in his eyes, the old king said angrily, "Do you know? Once the Ming army only put 2,000 people at the city gate, and the 50,000 troops in my city wanted to rush out, but in addition to paying thousands of casualties, even a single Ming soldier could not be killed. ”
Thinking of the helplessness of Taunggyi, the old king wanted to cry! What a tragedy! The gap is so big that there is no hope!
Hearing the words of the old king, everyone present was shocked.
Whether it was the new Siamese king or the royal nobles, they all began to grit their teeth and remain silent.
Yes, the Ming army wiped out Burma in less than a month, and during this period, it also destroyed more than 200,000 of the most elite troops of Siam led by the old king himself. Now that the Ming army has occupied half of Siam, they may have a way to resist it? If there is, why not let the Ming army occupy half of the country.
However, the royal family members present were not reconciled.
"Your Majesty, even if the Ming army is strong, my Siamese country is not without a chance of victory, even if I avoid the dense forest, I must fight the Ming army to the end. The Ming army is not good at fighting in dense forests, it will inevitably not be able to withstand attrition, one day they will retreat, when the time comes, I will still be Siam, please think twice! The representative of the royal family spoke again.
It is true that they did not have the confidence to resist the Ming army, but after all, it is better to be able to delay one day a day, and one more day of happiness if they drag it out, than to surrender to the Ming army immediately and become a prisoner.
"Yes, father, even if you can't defeat the Ming army, you can fight the Ming army to the death" The new Siamese king began to speak again, but before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the old king.
"Fight to the death? If you know that you will fight to the death, won't you think about the survival of the people of Siam and the royal family? The old king said angrily, after being an old king for decades, he is not a complete waste, how can he not know what these people are thinking in their hearts.
The old king scolded angrily: "Even if after the destruction of my Siamese kingdom, the Ming army has promised not to slaughter my royal family, and then my royal family will have a chance to inherit it, even if it is just ordinary people in the future, but the bloodline is still there, no matter how it is better than being slaughtered!" ”
This was the reason why the old king finally compromised.
Siam will inevitably not be able to keep it, he knows very well that the Ming army can come to the city of Bangkok at any time, and if the Ming army takes the initiative to conquer Bangkok, the royal family does not have the commitment of the Ming army, and it is unknown what kind of fate it will be.
The Kingdom of Siam may inevitably be destroyed, but as long as the royal family still has blood, at least they are luckier than the royal family of the previous dynasty, after all, the royal family of the previous dynasty was completely slaughtered by his ancestors.
Left and right are inseparable from the destruction of Siam! And then think that Burma is already extinct!
Siam and Burma have been fighting for hundreds of years, either you invade or I invade you, both sides have defeated each other, but they have fought back and forth, and now they have been beaten by the Ming army, and they have all been destroyed by the Ming army, and they can be regarded as enemies with the same fate.
"I think that the Kingdom of Burma gave up the capital of Burma and fled to Yangon, but how many days can he live, and in the end he was not captured by the Ming army, my Siamese country is inferior to Burma, how can I resist the Ming army!" The King of Siam whispered tragically.
The members of the Siamese royal family were silent, whether to enjoy the glory and wealth for a while longer or to compromise for the sake of preserving the bloodline.
Unlike the members of the royal family, those officials, in addition to die-hard people, more people still agreed to the proposal of the King of Siam, taking advantage of the fact that the Ming army did not reach Bangkok, the whole country surrendered to the Ming army, and the Ming army promised not to slaughter Siam.
"Your Majesty, we will support Your Majesty and surrender the whole country to the Ming army!" Finally, a minister took the lead, and more and more officials came forward.
The elite army has perished, and half of the country has also been occupied by the Ming army, since there is no way to resist the Ming army, surrender is not inevitable.
At present, there is no such strong nationalist sentiment as in later generations, and as long as they are not enslaved, there are few people who are willing to carry it to the end if there is no way.
It is believed that the ordinary people of Siam will not care about who rules them, but only about whether their lives will change in the future and whether they will get worse.
In the end, except for a few officials, more than ninety percent of the officials agreed to the old king's proposal, especially the consent of a few important ministers with huge real power, which was almost the last straw that pressed the camel's back.
Even if those diehards of the royal family disagree, the real power is not on them, and it will not help them to disagree at all.
The king of the new Siam was also silent, he hadn't been the king for a few days after all, many things were not up to him, and he didn't want to be the king of the country who would definitely become the king of the country, and now that the old king was back, he could take the opportunity to retire.
"Father! The sons obeyed their father's arrangement! "The king of the new Siam bowed down to the old king.
For so many days, the news of the fall of the city was piled up on his desk like a tide, and the strength brought by the Ming army made him unable to breathe, he had enough of it, surrender and surrender, anyway, there is an old king staring at it in front, and the position of the king of the dead country is not his turn.
"This, this" The old royal family was dumbfounded, the new Siamese king and a large number of important ministers did not support them, but supported the old king who was captured and returned, so that they could not oppose it.
With the support of a large number of officials, there was no objection in the addition of New Siam.
The old king looked at the old things of the royal family representatives with an unkind face, and his heart was slightly ruthless, and if these people were still obsessed, he would not mind using thunderous means to eradicate them for the survival of the entire royal family.
Finally, one of the royal representatives sighed and stopped talking.
Seeing this, the other royal representatives also sighed and stopped talking.
The whole country of Siam seems to have reached an agreement to surrender to the Ming before the Ming army reaches Bangkok.
The next day, the old king sent someone to send the news to the Ming army as quickly as possible, and Siam was willing to surrender the whole country.
On September 30, the tenth year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the news that Siam was willing to surrender reached the camp of the Ming army, and the commander of the Ming army, Zhou Cao, laughed.
On October 1st, the Ming army after more than half a day of galloping, the soldiers came to the city of Bangkok, the old king and a group of royal family members and officials at the city gate to greet, the Ming army entered Bangkok, received the rule of Bangkok, and the country of Siam, which had been established for hundreds of years, was officially declared extinct!