Chapter 416: The Pension Is in Trouble

Ji Lunhai seems to have found out about his arrow, but now that the battle is in full swing, he can't spare the strength to take care of Ta Long, and everything that happened to him is the best material to motivate the Donghu soldiers.

"Brothers, Your Majesty is injured, kill, avenge Your Majesty!"

"Kill, avenge Your Majesty!" The Donghu soldiers seemed to have been suddenly beaten with duck blood, and all of them were stainless steel and indestructible, and they pounced on the soldiers of Ayutthaya desperately.

The soldiers of Ayutthaya saw the Toungoo soldiers they were familiar with again, and although they had the advantage of the geographical advantage, the Toungoo soldiers seemed to be crazy, all of them, along with their commanders.

When the narrow road meets, the brave wins.

The Ayutthaya soldiers retreated, and although their warlord slashed and killed three soldiers who had retreated without permission, they could not stop the Donghu soldiers, and once the floodgates were opened, the flood would be difficult to contain.

The Donghu soldiers, led by Ji Lunhai, finally broke through an opening.

It wasn't until there were too few remaining Donghu soldiers in the back and the impact weakened that the Dacheng soldiers reclosed the opening under the officer's butcher's knife, but the surrounding Donghu soldiers were less than 5,000, and more than 10,000 Donghu soldiers broke through.

The Ayutthaya soldiers vented all their anger and frustration on the 5,000 Donghu soldiers, and the 30,000 Dacheng soldiers attacked from all directions, and they had let more than 10,000 Donghu soldiers escape, and they wanted to atone for the lives of these Donghu soldiers to the Ming army.

When Mu Qiyuan crossed the Baigu River, the battle on the river bank was basically over, and the soldiers of Ayutthaya were harvesting the wounded soldiers of Donghu, and none of the more than 5,000 Donghu soldiers who were surrounded escaped.

Hearing that more than 10,000 Donghu soldiers escaped, Mu Qiyuan frowned, these Dacheng soldiers couldn't even stop Ta Long and wait until the Ming army arrived, it was really a waste, but the Dacheng soldiers told them that Ta Long was dead, and when the corpse was on the river embankment, his face was slightly better.

In Mu Qiyuan's eyes, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of Ayutthaya, he has seen it, not the ordinary weak, but he forgot that the strength of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is based on flintlock pistols and artillery, and the soldiers of Ayutthaya are the same as the soldiers of Donghu, they are all swords, guns and bows and arrows, and there is more than a generation behind them in weapons.

Mu Qiyuan was temporarily unable to hold the Ayutthaya army responsible, they had done their best, and they also shot Ta Long, solving the problem of Daming £dǐng£diǎn£ small £ said, .2 ◆ 3.↑ os_ (); The biggest hidden danger, but Mu Qiyuan did not intend to let go of the 10,000 escaped Donghu troops, he ordered Liu Zhenyu's 55th Division to immediately pursue lightly, and by the way to recover the land southeast of Donghu up to the Malay Peninsula, he would then send a corresponding army.

Liu Zhenyu pursued him all the way to the southernmost part of the Taungoo Dynasty and along the northern part of the Malay Peninsula between the Andaman Sea and the Gulf of Siam, but Gillunhai led his army to Manchurian in the south.

The fall of Baigucheng and the death of Talong marked the basic end of the Donghu War, and the Ming army collected more than 60,000 prisoners of war in Baigucheng, including more than 50,000 people in the Middle East Army, and more than 10,000 civilians who assisted the Donghu army.

Mu Qiyuan sent a military report to the National Defense Institute to report the results.

In the military report, Mu Qiyuan also planned his next step, there are still scattered troops and resistance forces in Donghu, which need to be cleared in time.

Mu Qiyuan is actually carrying out Zhu Youzhen's secret decree, although Ta Long is dead, there are still powerful people in Donghu, of course, all those who oppose the Ming Dynasty are regarded by Mu Qiyuan as the powerful people of Donghu.

There was no longer a formed army in the whole territory of Dongxu, and a large area of land in the north had been firmly controlled by the Ming army, so Mu Qiyuan dispersed the army and began to extensively clear the anti-Ming forces in Donghu.

When Lin Chengxiang cleared along the southern coastline, he found that on the southwest coast of Donghu there was another country called Aragan, which was the only small country that the Donghu Dynasty had not conquered.

This is not that Aragan's army is particularly strong in combat, when Mang Yinglong of the Donghu Dynasty attacked Aragan, he happened to encounter the attack of the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and Mang Yinglong was forced to withdraw his troops, and later the direction of the Donghu Dynasty's invasion was mainly the Ming Dynasty in the north and the big city in the east, where there was enough land to attract the successive Donghu kings.

Aragan was ignored and fortunately preserved.

Now that Donghu has been destroyed and the Ming army has come here, Lin Chengxiang has no intention of letting Aragan continue to keep it.

Aragan was located on the southwest coast of the Taungoo Dynasty, across the Rakhine Mountains from the Taungoo Dynasty, and is also known as the Rakhine State in the Ming classics.

When Lin Chengxiang entered the Rakhine Mountains, he coaxed and deceived and suppressed the land of Arakan and expanded the land of the original Donghu Dynasty to Chittagong.

In the middle of May of the fifth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty (1632 AD), the army completed the clearance of the entire territory of Donghu, but Mu Qiyuan's 100,000 troops were still stationed in Donghu temporarily, and he was waiting for the imperial court to send civil officials to Donghu.

Zhu Youzhen sent an envoy delegation with Li Tengfang, the former left attendant of the Ministry of Rites, as an envoy to Donghu.

Li Tengfang brought Zhu Youzhen's decree to commend and commend the 100,000 soldiers and three army commanders who participated in the war against Burma.

The main goal of the envoys was to negotiate a contract with the Ayutthaya dynasty.

According to the agreement reached between Ayutthaya and Huang Xiaofu, the deputy minister of foreign affairs of the Ming Dynasty, after the Ming Dynasty sent troops to Donghu, the Ayutthaya Dynasty gave the Ming army 300,000 stone grain and 2 million taels of silver as compensation, returned part of the land that was previously occupied by the Ming Dynasty and later belonged to the Ayutthaya Dynasty, and advised Laos to return to the Ming Dynasty.

Now that Donghu has been extinguished and the external troubles of the Ayutthaya Dynasty have been lifted forever, Li Tengfang came to Ayutthaya on behalf of the Ming Dynasty and demanded that Ayutthaya fulfill the promise in the contract.

The king of Ayutthaya, Parase, returned to see Li Tengfang at the palace.

"See His Royal Highness!" Li Tengfang bowed to Palase, he represented the Ming Dynasty, so he called Palasse His Royal Highness, not His Majesty, and did not kneel to pay homage.

"Your envoy has worked hard!" Palasé's face was pale, his eyes were blank, and he seemed to have not slept all night.

"Thank you Your Highness for your concern!" Li Tengfang saluted Palasse again, "I was appointed by His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty to discuss with His Highness the implementation of the contract. ”

"Oh! I see, I don't know what your envoy thinks? Parase glanced at Li Tengfang uneasily, and then turned his gaze to Puti.

"Thoughts?" Li Tengfang was shocked, could it be that Parase wants to repay the debt? If Palasse does not recognize the contract signed by Puti, Mu Qiyuan's 100,000 army is in Donghu, and it is convenient to fight, but as a messenger, it will be difficult to complete the task, "Daming and Dacheng have already signed a contract, as for the responsibilities of both parties, the contract is clearly written, and now is the time to fulfill all the treaties." ”

"Well," seeing that Putty did not speak, Parase had no choice but to answer, he had thought about it all night last night, and he had not thought of any excuses.

"According to the contract, Dacheng should compensate Daming for 300,000 stone of grain, 50,000 stone has been delivered, and the remaining 250,000 stone is still there." Li Tengfang saw that Parase didn't like Shuangli, so he had to recite the content of the contract.

"The remaining 250,000 stone grain can be shipped at any time, and your envoy will not be worried." Palase was not worried about food, the Ayutthaya Dynasty had abundant food, and as long as there was no war, there was a lot of food surplus in the country.

"Then on behalf of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, I will thank Your Highness in advance," Li Tengfang saluted again, "There is also a pension of two million taels of silver, and now that the war is over, it is time to issue a pension." ”

"As for the pension, can you be accommodating?" Putty finally spoke, originally the contract was signed by him on behalf of the city, when the city was in a critical situation, he cried and shouted and begged for others, he thought that the Ming army would suffer tens of thousands of casualties, but the Ming relied on advanced firearms, and the soldiers killed were less than a thousand, and Parase felt that the pension of two million taels was too high.

"What does the national teacher mean by this?" Li Tengfang had already vaguely guessed that Dacheng was going to reduce the pension, he sneered in his heart, and His Majesty guessed correctly.

"Ayutthaya is only a small country, two million taels of silver, and Ayutthaya really doesn't know when it will be fully paid." Putty followed Li Tengfang's example and saluted Li Tengfang.

"The national teacher said this badly, the contract is obviously two million taels, this is discussed earlier, in the next envoy to the city, just to implement the contract, the national teacher to reduce the pension, in the next return to China, once the emperor is angry, how to deal with the difference? Even the national teacher who signed the contract, I'm afraid it's also discredited, right? ”

"This ......," Putti said, "Xia Guan originally thought that in order to defeat Donghu, the casualties of the Ming soldiers would be at least tens of thousands, but now the casualties of the Ming soldiers, as far as the Xia Guan knows, are less than 1,000 in total, and this pension ......"

Li Tengfang's face showed a look of anger, "Could it be that the national teacher wants the Ming soldiers to suffer tens of thousands of casualties?" ”

"No, no, that's not what Xia Guan meant," Putty hurriedly denied, "Xia Guan just thinks that since the Ming army suffered less than 1,000 casualties, the amount of this pension should not be set at 2 million at that time." ”

"Is the national teacher going to cross the river and tear down the bridge? The casualties of the Ming soldiers were not large, but because the Ming Dynasty used the latest firearms, these firearms are sharp weapons to kill the enemy, but the consumption itself is also very amazing, the bullets of the flintlock pistol are one or two silver, a flowering bullet, and it is more than two hundred taels of silver, and the Ming consumed these money, all for the city. Li Tengfang's face was expressionless, as if he was recounting a fact that had nothing to do with him.

“……”

Not only Puti, but even Parase was so shocked that he couldn't close his mouth, and the embarrassment on his face froze there.

"Daming has paid so much for the brotherhood of Dacheng, not only silver, but also sacrificed precious soldiers, but Dacheng does not appreciate it, I know today, why did my Daming soldiers go on an expedition?" Li Tengfang seems to have forgotten that the original intention of the Ming Dynasty was to conquer Burma, and he locked all the goals of the Ming Dynasty on rescuing the city.

"It's not that we don't appreciate it," Putty glanced at Palase, but I'm a big city and a small country, and I really can't afford to pay these silver taels.

"Yes, we can't afford it, so look at it...... See if you can waive some? Parase followed Putty's words, and finally said what he wanted, he really couldn't bear the two million taels of silver, and besides, even if he sold the palace, he didn't have two million taels.

"Your Majesty the King, the national teacher, the contract was made on a voluntary basis, and no one forced you," Li Tengfang cast his gaze on Puti's face until he lowered his head, "I am only here to collect the pension on the orders of the emperor, and I have no right to waive the pension." ”