A week after the first Siamese siege, the Siamese attacked Thonburi again. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 This time, the attack was even larger, and the Phaya Suri faction, as the main general, led 20,000 soldiers, together with the Siamese army's horse corps and war elephants, to launch a fierce attack on Thonburi.

After summing up the failure of the last time, the Phraya Surian faction came up with more ways to deal with it this time. Within a week, the Tang people requisitioned local people and repaired part of the destroyed city wall, and people could no longer pass directly through the city without the help of tools.

In response to this situation, the Phraya Suri faction has made strategic adjustments. Relying on the superiority of his troops, he distributed the direction of the main attack in different directions this time. The hastily repaired city wall is still relatively easy to breach, so the Phaya Surian faction still uses the broken wall as the direction of attack. However, apart from this, the Phraya Suria faction also had the West Gate and North Gate of Thonburi attacked. The Phraya Surian faction knew very well that the strength of the Tang army was limited, and if he invested a large number of soldiers in one direction, then the Tang people would inevitably strengthen the defenders in this direction and draw troops to support, and at this time, he would be able to invest troops from other directions, so that the Tang people would lose one and provide conditions for breaking through the city.

It has to be said that the tactics of the Phraya Suria faction are still very sober and intuitive, and even have strong enforceability. The Phayasurian faction was supported by Rama I because Rama I understood that he could never afford to lose. Once lost at the city of Thonburi, the powerful nobles of Siam may think that Rama I has collapsed, or find a way out, or surrender to the Tang people. These are all consequences that he cannot accept. So. Even if Rama I had given the Phraya Suriya faction sufficient troops. Offensive against Thonburi.

Of course, Rama I was also very realistic. He knew that too many Siamese soldiers would be killed in this battle, so his descendants and henchmen obviously could not waste their elite forces in this battle. Therefore, Rama I kept his elite and drained the second-line forces of various nobles and generals to act as cannon fodder.

These Siamese generals also knew this, but they could not resist Rama I. can only reluctantly hand over the troops in his hands.

Rama I gathered the strength in his hands, and it was only about 50,000 troops. In addition to the previous losses, a considerable number of the nobles who led the troops were in a wait-and-see state, and pushed Rama I's order. Thailand has a feudal system, also known as the Sakdina. In this kind of land stipulation, the land belonged to the king, who in turn granted the land to noble officials and commoners, and even slaves were also landed. This is because Thailand itself has a relatively small population, but there are a lot of fields.

The nobles did not have a fortune. But Shida can provide what they need. Large tracts of their fields were cultivated by dependents and slaves, and the Ayutthaya dynasty required civilians to be conscripted as soldiers at least 18 years of age. Serve for two years as an active soldier until he retires at the age of 60. When there is no fighting, active soldiers must serve for six months a year, cultivate the land, and provide their own food. Historically, there has been a need for dependent people in the Thai society that practiced the Sadina system of rule.

It is also worth mentioning that this system is tolerant of foreigners entering Siam due to the need for manpower. Many Chinese came to Siam and were given civilian status. At the same time, foreigners are not required to perform military service and hard labor, and they are replaced by paying taxes. However, Siamese male civilians still had to serve, and the frequent wars, many casualties, resulting in a high proportion of women, and finally their marriage to Chinese immigrants, also caused one-third of the people in Thailand to have Chinese ancestry.

Similarly, under the Sakdina system, the nobles were the main contractors of military service, leading their own armies of dependents and slaves to serve the king, with greater autonomy and decision-making power. So when Rama I needed them to go to war, it was not surprising that they picked on them.

In short, in an extreme situation, a country that can pull up an army of 200,000 will eventually have only 50,000 in the face of being beaten by the Tang army.

In the second siege, as in the first, the Phraya Surian faction drove the Siamese soldiers forward continuously, but the Phaya Surian faction "wisely" chose to launch a night attack at night. He counted on the darkness to obscure his troop disposition and make it difficult for the Don army to attack.

The difficulty was indeed caused, because in the dark night, the battleships of the Datang Navy had no way to carry out accurate firing guidance, so the shelling was basically blind fire. The shelling was not accurate, and although it also caused damage to the Siamese army, the fire of the explosion allowed the Siamese army to actively avoid the dense area of the bombing. Because the direction of the shelling does not change, the effectiveness of the shelling is greatly reduced. The same is true for the city defense guns on the city, which are not as effective as they were in the last battle.

It's not that the Tang people don't have a way to deal with night battles, and there were originally searchlights on the city. However, the searchlight is just a beam of light, and the line of sight is still limited. The most effective is the flashbang. Although the night attack of the Siamese army was taken by surprise, as soon as they set out, they were discovered by the Tang people. This was due to the fact that the Tang people had ambushed personnel outside the city, and as soon as the Siamese army moved, they immediately contacted the city by radio. This was beyond the comprehension of the Siamese people, so it was also successfully executed.

The Tang people fired flashbangs, and the entire sky was illuminated, so that the general situation on the battlefield could be seen more clearly. However, there is still a relatively large gap between this kind of clarity and that of daytime, and the visual distance under the flashbang is also relatively limited, so the shelling reconnaissance and guidance are not comparable to the first shelling.

However, this distance was enough for the soldiers operating the machine guns on the city walls. Many soldiers were resting, but when they heard the alarm bell, they jumped out of bed, put on their uniforms as quickly as possible, and came to the wall. This is also thanks to the comparison of the training model of the PLA, and now the soldiers know how necessary it is for them to wash up from the wake up for no more than five minutes and then line up.

Although many people are still a little confused, it is not so complicated to fight when they see the enemy.

This time, the Siamese army besieging the city surprised the Tang army with more than a night attack. The herds of war elephants and horses on the battlefield pushed everyone's tension to the highest peak. (To be continued.) )