Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Assassination of Fan Jingwen Sha. Jahan meets the empty city

Fan Jingwen's VIP post house where they lived was guarded by many officers and soldiers. That night, a squad of Siamese officers and soldiers, led by a general, suddenly arrived. The officers and soldiers of the guards all knew him and hurriedly saluted and asked, "Is the general here to patrol the night?" ”

"Yes, His Majesty the King is not worried about the safety of the envoys of the Ming Dynasty, and ordered me to come and inspect it!" The general looked around for a while, and then said to the officers and soldiers standing guard, "Leave it to us here today!" You can go! ”

At this time, the officer who led the troops and stood guard felt that something was wrong. Because the general in charge of the internal security of the capital is their own general, although this general is also a very important general, but they cannot meddle in the affairs of the internal guard, and the king generally will not hand over the affairs of the capital to the outside general. The officer immediately became vigilant and said, "General, we dare not leave without our general's order, please forgive the general!" ”

The officer's words were also a reminder to the soldiers who were standing guard with him, and these soldiers were also vigilant, holding waist knives.

The general couldn't see that he could do anything, and suddenly pointed behind the officer, "What are you doing?" ”

When the officer looked back, he knew that he had been fooled, but it was too late, and the sharp blade of the general's sword cut off half of his neck. Unwillingly, he fell to the ground at the same time, behind him, several soldiers were also forced by the soldiers brought by the general with spears. They were all hacked to death.

After the soldiers standing guard outside were killed, the general knocked on the door and tricked the door open, and the soldiers inside were also tricked out and killed. Then they had to start entering the post house and packing up the soldiers inside.

The people who accompanied Fan Jingwen to live in the post house included officials and generals of the imperial court, as well as intelligence officials and security personnel sent by Yaogang. The people who can be selected by Li Zhi to accompany Fan Jingwen on the envoy are also top masters, and even the prince wanted to send someone to follow, but Li Zhi denied it. Because the princes and their masters are only strong in martial arts, but in terms of other technical means, they are too far behind.

Fan Jingwen and the others lived in an independent courtyard in the post house, and the guards inside this courtyard were the responsibility of the people brought by Fan Jingwen and the others.

On the roof of the house where Fan Jingwen lived, there were two guards from the kiln who slept, although they were asleep, but their ears did not let go of the sound outside. The sound of the general killing the soldiers standing guard was not loud, but it had already been heard by them. One of them, sleepy-eyed, said, "Come, guest!" ”

The other seemed dissatisfied, "! Don't even let Lao Tzu sleep well! ”

"Let's get to work! I'm afraid I didn't sleep today! As he spoke, he threw a stone into the courtyard, and the man on duty in the courtyard immediately knew that there was a situation. They immediately quietly woke up Fan Jingwen and the others and placed them in a large room. All civilian and military personnel took out their guns. The guns were brought in by them in the gift box they had brought with them in the gift box they had brought to the King of Siam and in their salutes. Even Fan Jingwen was equipped with a small pistol.

When Yaogang and Fan Jingwen discussed the details of his mission to Siam, Fan Jingwen was really shocked, and after Ouyang He had a conversation for a long time, Fan Jingwen admired Ouyang He from the bottom of his heart. It turned out that Fan Jingwen had a very high opinion of himself, but he didn't expect Ouyang He to be so knowledgeable, and he had a very thorough view of politics and the current situation, and he thought very carefully about the various possibilities when he went to Siam. Fan Jingwen thinks that it is simply providential for the kiln gang people to win the world. A person like Ouyang He, none of the Manchu Dynasty's civil and military forces can be compared. Especially when Liu Yun and his group of staff officers planned various situations and deal with the details for him, Fan Jingwen simply admired the five-body throw. Originally, he thought that the East Factory and the West Factory were very impressive, but seeing that Liu Yun and his group of staff officers were very careful about the details of various situations, he understood that the Ming Dynasty was too much worse than the people of Yaogang. Li Zhi came over to talk to him about intelligence and security work, and Fan Jingwen simply had to obey the arrangement.

Fan Jingwen didn't expect that after a trip, there would be multiple departments in the kiln gang to make detailed plans and arrangements. This was unimaginable when I was in Beijing.

At first, Fan Jingwen resolutely did not wear a pistol, but later Li cured and persuaded him to reluctantly agree to wear a small pistol, and conducted shooting training at the basement shooting range. Fan Jingwen, who had fired a gun, fell in love with small pistols. He knew in his heart that with this small pistol, although he was powerless, he was not afraid to face a strong man. Wearing a small pistol on his body, he felt that his courage was extraordinarily strong.

Not only Fan Jingwen conducted shooting training, but all the entourage of the Ming Dynasty mission conducted shooting training. The situation has changed, and each of them has been assigned weapons.

At this time, Fan Jingwen was still very calm, he knew that the King of Siam didn't need to use such a trick if he wanted to do something against him, and the King of Siam had not yet made up his mind to surrender or fight, let alone do it. The biggest possibility is that those ministers of the main war faction want to kill themselves and force the King of Siam and the Ming Dynasty to turn their faces.

Things really made Fan Jingwen guess right.

The general who came here was a resolute main battle faction. He was sent by the ministers of the main war faction to assassinate Fan Jingwen. There is one more thing, which Fan Jingwen does not know, Siam Ayutthaya is not only the capital of Siam, but also a very commercially developed metropolis with a population of more than one million. These ministers had their own business, and they had a lot of dealings with the red-haired fan, the British, the French, and the Franciscans. This is also the reason why these ministers will not give up their vested interests even if they die. The Siyi people who are now in Ayutthaya are more reluctant than their Siamese kings to surrender to the Ming Dynasty. In addition to the **** to the king of Siam, they also constantly cheered up these ministers of the main war faction, encouraging them to persuade the king not to surrender to the Ming army. However, they also saw that the will of the King of Siam to resist was not strong, especially after suffering losses on the docks, whether to fight or to hesitate. They knew that it would be difficult to change if the King of Siam had made up his mind to surrender.

After careful deliberation, they felt that it was important to settle the matter before the king made up his mind. In the end, they thought of assassinating the envoys of the Ming Dynasty and forcing the king and the Ming Dynasty to turn their faces.

The general who participated in the discussion took the initiative to ask the Ming envoy to take someone to assassinate him. With the determination to die, he asked everyone to take care of their families in the future. At the same time, they also sent a group of men and horses to take advantage of the night to sneak attack the Ming warships. The two sides forced the king to surrender again.

The general who entered the post house quietly came to the courtyard where Fan Jingwen and them lived with people. The general was very experienced, and he knew that it was impossible to enter through the gate. Arrange for people to seal the gate, take people around to the back, and set up a ladder to climb the back wall of the courtyard.

But as soon as a few heads appeared, they were hit by the guards inside with ****, and the person fell off the wall.

Although the general outside didn't know what kind of weapons these people were injured, he could still hear the sound of them being shot in the head, and he understood that the people inside were prepared. However, he was still confident in his heart that he would take down the people inside, and during the day they learned that there were not many inside, and the people he brought were all elite soldiers.

Unable to sneak attack them, he simply left some people to watch the back, and came to the front with a large group of people, and after knocking on the door and not opening, he ordered someone to directly bring a wooden stake and start banging on the door. At this time, the gun was fired on the room in the courtyard, and at the same time, the hand ** was also thrown, killing all the soldiers who carried the stake and hit the door. The general was in a hurry, not because he had died so many people, but because he was worried that the king would send him soon, and the consequences of not killing the envoys would be unimaginable.

The general ordered the soldiers who came with him to jump over the wall and enter the courtyard from several directions. Many people jumped over the wall and entered the courtyard, and were knocked down by the people inside. However, the general brought a lot of people who entered the hospital from several directions, and as soon as there were many soldiers who entered the hospital at night, some people crawled over and opened the gate. As soon as the courtyard door opened, more soldiers rushed into the courtyard, but when they wanted to attack Fan Jingwen's room with them, they encountered stubborn resistance from inside. There were several automatic rifles inside, with tongues of fire, and the shooting accuracy was very high, and they quickly killed a lot of attackers, and the people in the room were condescending, not only shooting accurately, but also throwing their hands ** at crowded places from time to time.

The Siamese army had never encountered such weapons and had never fought such a battle, and was quickly defeated.

Just when the general reorganized his people and wanted to attack again, there was another explosion in the direction of the dock outside the city. Then there was another shot of gunfire.

The general immediately regained his spirits and ordered the soldiers to make a final charge. He knew that someone outside the city had launched an attack on the Ming warships.

Although Fan Jingwen and their civil and military forces shot tenaciously together and killed many people, there were still many opponents who took advantage of the cover of night and approached the room where Fan Jingwen and them were defending. The soldiers attacked the house several times, but the pistols worked very well at such a close range.

Many soldiers were killed at the door.

Just when the two sides were anxious, a large number of horses' hooves were heard outside the post house. The King of Siam sent his troops. The general who came to assassinate saw that the situation was not good, so he left the people he had brought and fled.

A large number of officers and soldiers sent by the King of Siam, carrying lanterns and torches, illuminated the inside and outside of the post house and arrested the Assassins everywhere. The one who led the team was the envoy to the Ming Dynasty, and he came to Fan Jingwen's room and said sorry again and again!

Fan Jingwen didn't complain too much about them, he knew that the King of Siam had good intentions in sending this person over. Because others came to Fan Jingwen, they didn't want to believe it, and they were afraid that they wouldn't be able to see the envoys of the Ming Dynasty.

Seeing that there was nothing else, Fan Jingwen said to the envoy: "We have nothing to do here, you better go out of the city to see, what happened to our warship?" ”

In fact, as soon as there was a situation, Fan Jingwen asked the reporter to use the radio to notify the warships on the dock. When the captain learned of the situation, he stepped up the security arrangements on the ship. Sure enough, many small boats rowed silently on the water. This was the main battle very sent to attack the Ming warships. The Fran machine told them that the ships of the Ming army were made of steel armor, and that ordinary weapons were useless and that they had to be attacked with fire. So the boats were filled with fish oil and firewood.

These sneak attackers thought that the people on the Ming warship were asleep, how did they know that someone was waiting for them. When the boats on the river were approaching, the searchlights on the Fenzhou suddenly turned on and shot at the river, and the soldiers on the boats on the river couldn't open their eyes at all because of the lights, and they were so frightened that they were terrified, they had never seen such a bright thing, and they felt that it was like the sun. However, the soldiers on the boat threw their hands at them from afar, and the fish oil on many small boats was blown up and caught on fire, and the river was on fire. The ship fired flares into the river, and then the light and heavy machine guns and automatic rifles on board began to shoot together.

The boats on the river that were not lit by fire also floated away. The battle came and ended quickly.

Tonight, the King of Siam could not sleep, and discussed tonight's affairs with the envoy who had returned from the inn.

The envoy said, "Your Majesty, needless to say, this was done by those people who have a very good relationship with the Xiyi people!" ”

The king said, "I know this." Tonight, though, they're giving me a dismount! If I insist on surrendering to the Ming army, they will most likely rebel! ”

The envoy said, "Yes! Their strength is not to be underestimated! They have a lot of silver and they have a lot of armies at their disposal! If you dare to do it under your nose in Dacheng today, it shows that they still have nothing to fear! ”

"Alas! It seems that this bloody war in Siam is inevitable! The King of Siam said, "We may not be able to win the war, but if we don't fight, we will soon have a civil war!" ”

"The envoy of the Ming Dynasty said, tomorrow I will come to ask you for an explanation, you see that it is almost dawn now, what should you say?"

"Forget it, I won't see him! When it is dawn, you can send someone to send them back to the ship, and tell them about our helplessness here! "The King of Siam didn't know what the Ming envoys said, and he didn't want to see them.

This made Fan Jingwen never expect that Fan Jingwen had prepared a lot of words to persuade the King of Siam again!

On the way back to the ship to send Fan Jingwen and them, the envoy told the king of Siam about his helplessness. Fan Jingwen said: "Alas! I am ashamed of what our emperor expects of me! Our emperor just doesn't want our two countries to see each other! ”

"Master Fan, you've done your best! Now the situation in Siam is very complicated, and there are many important ministers who are too powerful. We, the king, had to accommodate them. The envoy said.

Fan Jingwen and the others returned to the boat and immediately sent a telegram to their home to explain the situation.

The Yaogang command center called him back to report to him, and acted according to the original plan. Fan Chengkun and the others sent a few more flat-bottomed boats to cooperate with Li Zicheng and they attacked Siam. Fan Jingwen: They first went to Myanmar to rest.

When Emperor Chongzhen heard the news, he couldn't help but sigh: "Alas! The last thing I wanted to see happened. ”

Zhang Zhimu said: "There are also advantages to solving the problem by force. We can get rid of a lot of troubles, and we won't have too many scruples about it! ”

Qin Peng and the others received this telegram, and discussed it with Fan Chengkun and them by telegram, and felt that the matter of Siam would be a few days later. Because after a few days of confrontation between the army of the Mughal Empire and the army of Yaogang, it is likely that they will not be able to bear it, and they have the intention of acting. Qin Peng meant that the remaining flat-bottomed boats would not go away first, and intercept the retreat of the Mughals from the waterway.

Fan Chengkun also felt that it would not be a few days to fight Siam. Maybe when Fan Jingwen arrives in Myanmar, there will already be a war here!

After suffering a loss last time, the Mughals retreated and quickly established a defensive line. They thought that this defeat was due to the large number of ** buried in the ground of that mountain col, otherwise the more than 300,000 elite soldiers were not at all what the Ming army could eat. They judged that the Ming army would not be too numerous, and there was another reason, that is, their long line in the long valley had actually caused chaos, but the opponent did not have enough troops to come and eat them. So they concluded that the Ming army was seriously undernumbered.

After the Wolmore army had laid out the defensive line, the army was reorganized and reorganized, and the troops and supplies that had not crossed the river were transported across the river.

The Yaogang people did not attack their defensive line, and Sha. Emperor Jahan felt that this further validated his judgment that the Ming army was insufficient in numbers.

Due to the rain for several days, there was no major military operation on either side, which was nothing, because the heavy rain affected both, but the sky was sunny for a few days, and the food and grass of the Mughal army were in place. Sand. Emperor Jahan knew it was time to act, or they would be defeated if they continued like this. Besides, the purpose of their dispatch this time is to drive the Ming army out of Burma and occupy the whole of Burma, and they must not stop here.

However, the sand. Emperor Jahan also knew that the forward attack road they walked once, it was a very long valley, such a terrain, it was easy to encounter ambushes. And their army can't be unfolded, and the advantage of being large in numbers can't be brought into play, which is probably the path that the Ming army is looking forward to them taking.

But the sand. Emperor Jahan was not a fool, and he decided that the army would advance slowly, and with each section of the valley to be occupied. Walk one section at a time, roll forward.

Not to mention, sand. Emperor Jiahan's trick was still very effective, Qin Peng and the others wanted to find a place in the valley to eat some of them, to demoralize them and provoke them. But I never found the opportunity.

There was no way, so they simply retreated to the second line of defense and waited for the Mughal army.

Sand. Emperor Jahan commanded the army, and once again came to the col where their more than 300,000 troops were bombed and finally annihilated, although he knew that the Ming army would not bury ** here for the second time, but he still ordered many people to go to investigate, and only after finding no problems did he order the army to station.

Further forward was the construction of a defensive line between the two mountains by the Ming army. The line was built with a continuous wooden fence, and it looked very tall from this side, but many times people were sent to learn what was going on inside.

Sand. After Emperor Jahan made an inspection, he ordered to rush and bring the cannons up as soon as possible. He was ready to blast his opponent's camp away with his cannons.

When most of the army arrived, the artillery behind was also pushed up. Emperor Jahan said in his heart, give me the opportunity to avenge the more than 300,000 troops and the navy. On this day, the Mughal army got up early in the morning and had a war meal, and the bright armor was lined up in front of the Burmese army's defense line. Hundreds of cannons, as well as countless small cannons, have been laid out. Not only were the infantry in front neatly arrayed, but the elephant army behind was also on standby.

After everything is in place, the sand. Emperor Jiahan looked at the Ming army battle line with flags fluttering and human heads looming, and ordered with a wave of his hand: "Artillery start attacking!" ”

With the sand. Emperor Jahan gave an order, and the artillery, large and small cannons of the Mughal imperial army opened fire at the same time. Even the perennial sand of war. Emperor Jahan felt that today's artillery fire was too fierce, and the empire had never used such fierce and dense artillery fire in a war before.

The shells blew many wooden fences in the Ming line. Fierce artillery fire blew up the smoke billowing from the camp inside the Ming army. But let the sand. What Emperor Jahan didn't understand was why the Ming army didn't return fire with artillery.

Didn't wait for the sand. Emperor Jahan figured it out, the shelling stopped, and the infantry lined up and attacked. A startling scene appeared, on the front of the Ming army, no one fought back. When their army attacked the Ming army's battle line, they found that behind the Ming army's defense line was an empty camp. It turned out that the soldiers standing in the position were all scarecrows in military uniforms.