These three areas are remote areas ruled by Siam, and the French army thought that attacking these three places would be very smooth, but what they did not expect was that the French army attacking Siem Reap was ambushed after setting out, and more than 1,000 French troops suffered more than 100 casualties.

At first, the French side thought that the Cambodian guerrillas had done it, but then it occurred to them that the people who did this could not be the Cambodian guerrillas, because the Cambodian guerrillas were extremely poorly equipped and did not dare to touch the French army, which numbered about 1,000.

The French governor in Cambodia immediately thought: it was the Siamese army that ambushed them, and these Siamese troops were able to ambush them only because of the help of the Cambodian guerrillas!

The French governor had a premonition that the attack would be very difficult, because the area they were going to attack was full of mountains and jungles, and the Siamese army, which had been helped by the locals, was at ease in the jungle, and their own troops would suffer great losses if they forced the attack.

Sure enough, after the French attacking Siem Reap Province were ambushed, the French troops attacking Battambang and Sesophon were also ambushed, and although the losses were small, they greatly damaged morale.

At eight o'clock in the morning of October 8, the French army had to withdraw to the area controlled by the French army, in order to fight again, at the same time, the Siamese army continued to attack Luang Prabang, with the help of the locals, the tax points and checkpoints set up by the French in the mountains were destroyed one after another, and at 12 o'clock at noon on October 9, the advance of the war elephant army entered Luang Prabang City, but the war elephant army was long in the jungle group and was not good at attacking fortifications, so it retreated after reconnoitring outside Luang Prabang.

The French governor in Laos, who was in Vientiane, saw that the French army was no match for the Siamese army in mountain warfare, so he ordered the remaining troops in the mountains to withdraw to Luang Prabang and hold the city, and then reported the news to the Viceroy of the French Indochina Federation in Hanoi, Vietnam, who reported the news to the French ambassador to China in Beijing at the same time as reporting to the country.

The French ambassador did not report the news to Lin Yuan, because France had already decided that China would not help them and was determined to defeat Siam by its own strength, and on the evening of October 9, the Chinese diplomatic department held a reception, which was attended by both the French ambassador and Lin Yuan, and Lin Yuan took this opportunity to ask the French ambassador about the war.

The French ambassador did not hide it at all, and said: "The Siamese army, led by the War Elephant Legion, has entered the city of Luang Prabang, but our city is so impregnable that it is impossible for the Siamese army to take it down." ”

Lin Yuan smiled and said: "Defending the city is dead, attacking the city is alive, there is no city that cannot be attacked, I hope your country will pay more attention to the movements in the city, no matter how strong the city is, it is afraid that the inside should be combined with the outside." ”

The French ambassador didn't like Lin Yuan's words, so he laughed a few times and found an excuse to chat with others, Lin Yuan looked at the back of the French ambassador with a wine glass and smiled secretly in his heart: "Although the French army has a geographical advantage, but the Siamese army has people and peace, Luang Prabang City will be captured by Siam sooner or later, you will come to beg me sooner or later." ”

At this time, in the Prasin Temple in Chiang Mai, Siam, Chulalongkorn was toasting with Barclay, the glass was filled with golden champagne, the wine was slightly foamy, reflecting the golden halo, Chulalongkorn said: "Our strikers have arrived in Luang Prabang City, and the Laotians in the city are also actively organizing**, and they will be able to cooperate with the outside and take Luang Prabang City in a few days." ”

Barclay laughed: "An artillery unit of our British Empire is already passing through the mountain jungle, and it is estimated that we will reach Luang Prabang at midnight today, when we will blast a hole in the strong city wall, and we will soon be able to enter the city, and the War Elephant Corps has also been specially trained in urban warfare, which is more than enough to deal with the street fighting of the French army." ”

Chulalongkorn smiled and listened to Barclay's boasting, when a waiter came over and whispered to Chulalongkorn: "Your Majesty, the Empress invites you to go back." ”

Chulalongkorn said goodbye to Barclay with a smile and came to an empty room, where the attendant said, "Your Majesty, Prince Doma and Princess Arlinn have sent a telegram. After speaking, he handed over the two telegrams to Chulalongkorn, who took them and looked at them, the first one was sent by Prince Dorma, and there was only one line on it: "We have arrived at the port of Guangzhou, and the Chinese side is arranging a plane to take us to Beijing." ”

The second letter was sent by Princess Arlinn, and it filled a full page: "Father, Mother, Arlinn is going on a plane, and I have bought a lot of beautiful dresses in China, and I will go back to show my father one by one......" Chulalongkorn looked at the telegram, and his daughter's cute appearance appeared in front of him, and he couldn't help but feel a trace of warmth in his heart.

At 11:30 a.m. on October 9, four British-made 105mm howitzers arrived outside Luang Prabang and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the northwest corner of the city.

As soon as the cannon sounded, the Luang Prabang rebels, a civil organization in the city, immediately attacked the governor's palace, barracks and prisons, among which the prison was the weakest, and was quickly overcome, and the rebels released the prisoners, many of these prisoners were felons, who regarded human life as a mustard on weekdays, and were extremely hostile to the society, and began to take revenge as soon as they were free, they killed people, robbed, set fires, and raped all kinds of evil in the city, and the city was full of women's cries and fires that rose to the sky for a while.

This shows the difference between the Siamese army and Lin Yuan's army, which often engaged in internal and external cooperation, but never released prisoners. The French army in the city had to deal with the Siamese army outside the city and the resistance army inside the city, which had already been struggling, and now they had to deal with the prisoners in the city, and they were in a hurry for a while.

At 0:00 on October 10, a unit of the Siamese War Elephant Regiment entered the city, tearing a big hole in the French defense line, and then the Siamese army poured into the city like a flood, and an hour later, the Siamese army occupied half of the city, and the French governor of Luang Prabang saw that the general situation had gone, and hurriedly sent a message of "Luang Prabang City is lost", and then led the remnants to withdraw from Luang Prabang City and fled to Vientiane.

At 10 a.m. on October 10, the Siamese army occupied Luang Prabang City, and the commander-in-chief of the army, Prince Aida, sent a telegram announcing to the world: "The Siamese army has captured Luang Prabang City!" ”

When the news spread to all over the world, the most surprised person was the French ambassador to China, because he had just told Lin Yuan that their city was impregnable, but it was lost in the blink of an eye!