Such a large construction project naturally required a stable domestic environment, but soon after the signing of the Treaty of Calcutta, the Chinese Republic once again used military forces abroad, targeting Siam, which had previously passed through the British with the British. The reason why the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info is so anxious to start because Siam has entered the so-called "cool season" since November, the climate is relatively cool and dry, and the threat of tropical diseases is greatly reduced. Tropical diseases also remain the main reason for the attrition of the Chinese army in the Nanyang Theater.

Siam is neither as big as China nor as strong as Japan, but it has historically become the third Asian country not to be colonized, and naturally there are some difficulties, such as their king Rama V Chulalongkorn is even more popular with his own country than the Meiji period before the First Sino-Japanese War, and has also carried out a certain degree of Westernization reform (more thorough than China, but not as good as Japan). However, it doesn't do much good.

The main reason why Siam was able to stand alone among a large number of Western colonies in history, in addition to its own little strength, was its geographical advantage, which happened to be located between the British and French colonies and became a natural buffer zone. In addition, the British and French colonizers were limited in the forces they could invest in Southeast Asia, and there was a weaker China in the north that could invade, so it was not worth using their limited strength in Siam to survive the country.

But with the complete expulsion of the British from Southeast Asia by the Chinese Republic, the balanced diplomacy that Siam relied on to survive can no longer be implemented, and now Southeast Asia is China's dominant power, and the French are afraid that their Indochina will not be guaranteed, and it is too late to kneel and lick the Chinese, how can they dare to stand up for Siam as before?

More importantly, the Chinese Republic could invest far more power in Southeast Asia than Britain and France, after all, it was too close to each other, and it was even more directly adjacent after annexing Burma and Malaya. The centralized form of government in China allowed it to bear huge losses, and as long as the Chinese government made up its mind, Siam would not be able to afford it.

According to the war losses announced by both sides after the end of the Sino-British war, the British army (counting only whites) lost nearly 40,000 people, and it took less than 2,000 Chinese troops to wipe out, and the exchange ratio was as high as 20 for one, and most of the deaths of the Chinese army were still due to disease......

The Siamese army is far inferior to the British army in terms of personnel quality and weapons and equipment, so what extent is it difficult to see the exchange? Chulalongkorn calculated 100:1 with a little weakness, and then found that even if all the Siamese people were exhausted, they would only be able to kill tens of thousands of Chinese, and such a small number of troops was just a drop in the bucket for a huge China with a population of 40,000, not to mention that the maximum number of troops that the Siamese government could mobilize would be more than 100,000 people......

However, even though he knew that he would be defeated, Chulalongkorn could only stubbornly resist, because the Chinese government did not hesitate to refuse the request of Siamese Nagong to be a vassal and demanded that the Siamese government surrender unconditionally, which Chulalongkorn could not accept under any circumstances. In addition, the troops sent by China to attack Siam were far less than they expected, which also gave Siamese monarchs a little hope of victory, but they underestimated the huge gap in the combat effectiveness of the two armies, and only one in the south and one in the north completely collapsed the main force of Siam, and Siam lost more than 30,000 people, while the casualties of the Chinese army were less than three digits......

Due to the Sino-British war, the commanders and fighters on the front line generally reported that Miss 75 was too bulky and very inconvenient to follow the infantry in street battles, the Dazeshan Arsenal urgently developed a light artillery named "infantry artillery" by Li Hui, she partially retained the advantage of Miss 75's high rate of fire while greatly reducing her own weight, the total weight of the march was only less than 400 kg, and two soldiers could push it on the streets of the city in good road conditions.

Although indirect fire support is not the most important use of infantry guns, it still has advantages in rate of fire and accuracy over old mount guns, which is enough to easily destroy enemy artillery outside the firing range.

For the Siamese army, which can only be regarded as semi-modern, once it has no artillery support from its own side, and is attacked by accurate artillery fire from the enemy, it is inevitable to collapse. Those two advance regiments didn't fight any tough battles at all, they were chasing the dead and chasing the north all the way, and it was no wonder that the losses could be big!

At this time, even the Siamese subjects, who were most loyal to the royal family, could see that the Bangkok dynasty was about to fall, and no matter how high Chulalongkorn's usual prestige was, it was inevitable that everyone would betray their relatives.

As traitors betrayed the Siamese army's map of the mines in the self-proclaimed port of Bangkok, a fleet of the Chinese Navy quickly captured the port and then sent an entire brigade of marines ashore......

Chulalongkorn decided to abandon the capital and flee to the mountains, but the Chinese army deployed faster than he had imagined, blocking the escape of the remnants of the Siamese army from all directions. Chulalongkorn, who was desperate, decided to surrender, staying in the green mountains, not afraid of running out of firewood, as long as he was alive, even if Siam was lost, there was still hope for the restoration of the country.

However, this Siamese "puppet king" never imagined that the Chinese army would actually refuse his surrender, and even asked the minister who surrendered on his behalf to bring back a passage, "We will treat you as your ancestors treated Zheng Zhao back then." ”

Chulalongkorn naturally knew that after Rama I usurped the throne by Tongluan, in order to prevent future troubles, he not only killed his former benefactor Zheng Zhao, but also killed Zheng Zhao's descendants to no one left, leaving only the girl to marry his family to consolidate the throne. Now, Chinese said that, it was natural to prepare to kill all the men of the Bangkok Dynasty in the same way and in his own right, leaving only the female members, as Rama I did to Zheng Chao back then......

"I won't leave women to you!" Chulalongkorn, who fell into madness out of despair, ordered all the women in the palace to be killed, and then committed suicide by poisoning himself with several sons who were trapped in the palace together.

However, Chulalongkorn married very early and was particularly capable of giving birth (33 sons and 44 daughters in history), and the older daughters were all married, most of whom escaped without being in the palace, and two of them were lucky not to die in the war, and later received preferential treatment from the Chinese government as descendants of Zheng Chao rather than the Bangkok royal family.

Chulalongkorn's sons were also not dead, and three of them fled into the mountains and continued to fight until 1898, when the Bangkok dynasty finally came to an end...... (To be continued.) )