Chapter 783: Attack on Siam
The Burmese king surrendered, and the die-hard Burmese generals and soldiers no longer had any reason to resist, and they surrendered to the Ming army with the Burmese king.
Nearly 50,000 Burmese soldiers surrendered, and the Ming army completely captured Yangon.
The fall of Yangon means that the most important towns of the Burmese army have all been captured by the Ming army, and there are only some small cities that the Ming army has no time to take care of for the time being.
On September 10, the tenth year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army of 77,000 regular troops, 200,000 garrison troops, divided into 20 routes, opened the road to fully occupy the entire territory of Burma.
Because of the surrender of the Burmese king, with the cooperation of the Burmese king, it played a great role in the Ming army's gradual occupation of the entire territory of Burma and the complete annexation of the whole of Burma.
Along the way, wherever the Ming army went, more than ninety percent of Burmese cities were surrendered to the wind.
In just seven days, the Ming army completely captured the entire territory of Burma and incorporated Burma into the territory of the Ming Dynasty.
After conquering the whole of Burma, the next step is naturally to govern and transform Burma, whether it is the entry of Taoism, or the construction of schools, police stations and courts, etc., it is imperative, and the captured nearly 300,000 Burmese prisoners of war and more than 100,000 Siamese prisoners of war will participate in the construction, including the construction of railways and cement roads in the future.
Of course, these will be presided over by the governors and officials sent by the Ming court.
And Zhou Cao and other Ming regular troops still have to continue the original strategy, gradually conquering the four countries in Southeast Asia, and now Burma has perished, leaving only Siam, Nanzhang and Zhendian Three Kingdoms.
Siam's proximity to Burma, and the fact that its main army had been besieged and annihilated by the Ming army in Taunggyi, Burma, and that the kings had been captured, it was certainly much easier to capture Siam than Burma.
Since there were no more threatening troops, there was no need for the Ming army to have four regular armies act together.
On 18 September, Zhou Cao and other regular troops of the Ming army gathered in Taunggyi, an important town in Burma near Siam, accompanied by another 200,000 Ming garrisons, which had just recently been mobilized from the Ming Dynasty to garrison the cities captured by the regular army.
On September 19, Zhou Cao ordered the Ming army to divide into four routes, one regular army and 50,000 garrisons on each road, with a total of nearly 280,000 troops on the four routes, and invaded the territory of Siam together.
Chiang Mai, the most important town in the northern part of Siam, was attacked by Zhou Cao's Second Army.
The King of Siam with more than 200,000 Siamese troops was completely annihilated by the Ming army in Taunggyi, Burma, and the news that the King of Siam was also captured by the Ming army had already spread to Siam. This news was accompanied by news of the fall of the Burmese kingdom.
Even the Kingdom of Burma was destroyed, and it was reported that less than a month after the army attacked Burma, the whole country of Siam was in shock, and before the Ming army began to attack, the people in Siam were already panicked and in chaos.
Chiang Mai's resistance was not so fierce, not only because there were not many Siamese soldiers in Chiang Mai at all, but also because the power of the Ming army was too great, many Siamese generals could not have the idea of confronting the Ming army at all, and the artillery bombardment of less than a stick of incense time, the Ming army had not yet begun to enter the city of Chiang Mai, and there were Siamese generals in the city of Chiang Mai who opened the gate of Chiang Mai and surrendered to the Ming army, and then Chiang Mai, the most important town in Siam closest to Taunggyi, was captured by the Ming army of Zhou Cao.
From the north to the south, the Ming army of the Fourth Route attacked Bangkok, the capital of Siam, with an unstoppable momentum. However, the Ming army was not in a hurry to penetrate directly into Bangkok, the capital of Siam, but the four-way army divided into multiple routes and captured every town in Siam along the way.
The Ming army attacked fiercely and advanced very quickly, and on the first day, the Ming army captured more than 20 Siamese cities.
By the third day, one-fifth of Siam's territory had been captured by the Ming army.
And as the Ming army was so strong, it drove other cities to surrender even more, and the speed at which the Ming army captured the city became faster and faster, and in the end, almost every ten cities attacked seven directly opened the city gate and surrendered.
There is no way, who let the main elite army of Siam be planted in Dongzhi, Burma together with the king of Siam, at this time Siam has no ability to mobilize enough troops to resist the Ming army, and even if it does, no one has the confidence to resist.
Panic spread, and many Siamese cities were in chaos before the Ming army arrived.
Those who were inclined to surrender fought with die-hard people for their lives and futures, and all kinds of intrigues and tricks were used, just to open the city gate and surrender before the Ming army came to the city, and curry favor with the Ming army.
No, in Phiji, an important town in the middle of Siam, the Ming army was still a hundred miles away, and some officials and generals in the city of Phiji gathered together to discuss opening the city gate and surrendering when the Ming army arrived.
There are two main forces in the city, one is led by the defenders of the city, and the other is led by the nobles in the city, who advocate that in order for the family not to be defeated after the Ming army enters the city, it is necessary to open the city gate and surrender before the Ming army comes to the city.
"Wu Yishi is unwilling to surrender, and wants to drag everyone to death together, what do you say?" One of the noble family heads said with a gloomy face.
Wu Yishi was the supreme general of Piji, a person who advocated to resist to the death.
"The Ming army is strong, even Burma, which is stronger than my Siam, has been annexed in less than a month, and the Ming army has also annihilated the king's 200,000 elite troops during this time, and even the king has been captured, the Ming army is so strong, Phiji and the Ming army can only be self-defeating, I and other families are in the city, once the Ming army resists, after the Ming army enters the city, what will happen to it, it is unpredictable!" Another aristocratic head said.
"Bang! Wu Yishi wants to drag the entire Phiji to die together, we can't let him do this! There was even a noble family head who slapped the case and said angrily.
They are all nobles, they are all people with a lot of property, even if they are no longer nobles after the rule of the Ming army, but the family still has a lot of family wealth before, enough for them to have food and clothing for a lifetime, it is better than resisting the Ming army and being killed by the Ming army.
"Yes, Wu Yishi wants to drag everyone to die together, it's better for us to let him die first!"
"That's right, let him Wu Yishi die first!"
Soon, the Siamese nobles of the city reached a consensus.
In the afternoon of the same day, some nobles invited Wu Yishi, the general of the guard, to the palace to discuss the strategy of confronting the Ming army.
Although Wu Yishi had doubts, but the support of this group of nobles was indispensable to the Ming army, so he did not hesitate to go, the ending was very simple, a group of nobles were poisoned first, and then the dead soldiers in ambush rushed in, and Wu Yishi, the general of the Phi Ji guard, was dismembered by the knife, and a group of nobles completely mastered the military power of the Phi Ji.
In the evening, one of the Ming troops led by the Red Lady killed the city of Piji, and the nobles in the city had already received the news and opened the gate of the city of Piji first, and all of them went out of the city to supply the arrival of the Ming army.
"Greetings to the arrival of the Heavenly Soldiers of the Shang Bang, we are willing to accept the rule of the Shang Bang on behalf of the Phiji City! Please allow General Shangbang! A group of nobles said, and bowed to the ground, and the scene was truly spectacular.
In order to make the Red Lady and other Ming army generals understand their words, these nobles also deliberately found nobles who knew Chinese as the leaders.
The red lady nodded faintly, she had seen such a scene more than once in the process of attacking all the way south. The red lady did not pay attention to these flattering nobles, and took the lead in riding a horse with a large army into the city of Phiji, after all, the future rule of the Ming Dynasty does not need these nobles, and these nobles will no longer be nobles in the future.
Phiji City is the largest important town in the central part of Siam, and the city of Phiji is like a city without a fight, and the prestige of the Ming army that has been further boosted has also shaken other Siamese cities even more.
A few days later, the Ming army completely captured the central part of Siam, and at this point, more than half of the territory of Siam occupied by the Ming army had been completed.
The Ming army marched into Bangkok, the capital of Siam, and Bangkok was in chaos.