Chapter 82: Intensifying
Li Siqi politely persuaded Wang Baobao's envoy back, and said that he still had something to do and could not go to support. Let him be cannon fodder, and the dogs won't do it.
Wang Baobao knew that Li Siqi had always been dissatisfied with himself, he was promoted by the imperial court, Wang Baobao changed from an ordinary general soldier to a figure on an equal footing with Li Siqi, Li Siqi was not convinced by the decision of the imperial court, but Wang Baobao was the son of Chakhan Timur after all, Li Siqi and Chakhan Timur originally established the same team, and now they don't look at the face of the monk but also look at the face of the Buddha, and no longer convinced, his father has also worked with him, so he has been suppressing these disconvincing in his heart. But it was clear that the king knew this, and he sent an envoy to order him.
Li Siqi's persuasion of the envoy back was already his biggest concession. However, there is one thing to say, Wang Baobao's combat ability to lead troops is indeed much stronger than Li Siqi, of course, the general may have other factors, but Wang Baobao's own quality and ability are also strong enough.
Wang Baobao saw that Li Siqi persuaded the envoy back, sighed, and finally he chose to report to Tuhuan Timur in Dadu, and let Tuhuan Timur put pressure on Li Siqi, so as to achieve the goal of letting Li Siqi attack.
On July 30, the 23rd year of Zheng, the Khmer officially prepared to launch an offensive, a few days of war mobilization, so that the Khmer mobilized more than 200,000 troops, which hollowed out more than half of the young and strong population of the Khmer, the expedition was personally commanded by Suriyadie, the Khmer army only took one day to break through the empty Tong Ai, this battle they used all the advanced weapons in the country, those old-fashioned cannons from the Yuan Dynasty have been dragged into the battlefield, the empty boy Ai's defensive force is not strong, only half a day to fall.
"Soldiers, we have to pay them back everything that those Chinese and Thai people have done." Suryadi's words clearly expressed their meaning, so the Khmer army began to massacre and loot, and completely destroyed the city defenses of the empty boy Ai, and finally did not even garrison the army, and directly abandoned the empty boy Ai and went to the next city.
Suryadi was very cautious in attacking the city, not sparing anyone to leave, preventing them from passing the news to Ayutaya, so that Rama Tiebodhi was on guard, and then it was not conducive to their battle.
On the 31st day of the seventh month of the 23rd year of the reign of the Khmer army, the Khmer army left Nakhon Ay, and the next step was to attack Ayutthaya and make Rama Tiebodhi admit defeat.
The Khmer announced the general mobilization for the civil war, and the well-informed Cham people naturally knew that Lancang also received some news, but Lancang did not dare to confirm it, thinking that these were all rumors. Since the mobilization for the war, Suryadi has strictly controlled the spread of news, and Ayuthaya has not received any news.
However, even if the rapid march from the empty boy Ai will take five days to reach Ayutaya, and now how to prevent the news from leaking has become a big problem, and Suriyadi directly adopts the policy of slaughtering wherever he goes, although this does increase many casualties, but it also avoids the leakage of news, it can only be said that for the sake of victory, sacrifice is necessary, as for why not threaten the people to help them keep the secret, the dead will not tell the secret, right?
On August 1, the 23rd year of Zhizheng, He Zhen and Chen Youliang launched their first confrontation, and the two sides fought for the first time in a plain in Hengzhou. Chen Youliang is not good at using firearms, not even using them. I bought the sea cannon before because I was completely scared of the sea artillery.
The artillery that He Zhen bought from Cham is a castrated version of the artillery with less lethality, although the cannon sound is very loud, but the final lethality is very preferred, and the cooldown time is also very long, but there is a big difference between having firearms and not having firearms, after all, with artillery there is a chance to strike first.
Although the Han army did not cause many casualties under the artillery bombardment, the dust dispersed, and their soldiers were discouraged, looking very embarrassed, this kind of weapon they had seen when fighting the Yuan army, the Yuan army's Xi'an gun was much more powerful than this, and the Han army did not bother to use these weapons, they thought that their strength was strong enough.
As the dust cleared, groups of cavalry rushed towards them, and in an instant the soldiers in the front row were scattered, and then the cavalry went their own way, stabbing the enemy on their horses with spears. With the gradual loss of time, the cavalry turned and retreated, and it was expected that the infantry of the Cantonese army was about to arrive on the battlefield, and there were more people, and the combat space of the cavalry was greatly compressed, so it was better to withdraw from the battlefield now, and wait for the right opportunity to enter the field again.
A new round of fighting began again, and the first round of confrontation ended with Chen Youliang killing and wounding more than 400 people and He Zhen killing and wounding 20 people, and the next army confrontation was the main event.
On August 2, the 23rd year of Zheng, both sides took a step back and withdrew from the battlefield, and both sides counted the casualties: 11,000 Han troops were killed and wounded, and 12,000 Cantonese troops were killed and wounded. Even if there is a gap in science and technology between the two sides, in the end the casualties on both sides are about the same, Chen Youliang's army has experienced a hundred battles, has conflicts with the Yuan army, and has also fought many times with the Wu army and the Fujian army, while He Zhenyue's army has participated in many battles in different regions except for many battles with the local armed Shao Zongyu and others, and finally produced the result that the Han army has a slight advantage.
On August 3, the 23rd year of Zheng, the battle of the Liang-Yue coalition army in the Yongzhou battlefield ended, this battle made them feel thrilled, the Han army was holding an inch of land to fight with them, in Jianchang, these people issued a military order, even if the last drop of blood flowed, to repel the Liang army.
The Liang-Yue coalition was greatly surprised by the attitude of the Han army towards death, although the Han army was not as numerous as them, but it fought a great combat effectiveness, and now the Han army has already suffered one-third of the casualties. Even so, the Han army still did not attack, even if their enemy Liang-Yue coalition army only had a quarter of the casualty rate, the Han army's combat effectiveness was already very strong, and the Liang-Yue coalition army's casualty rate was already more than that of the Han army.
On the other hand, Chen Youding and the Han army were also in a stalemate, and Chen Youding transferred troops from Fujian during the stalemate, and at the same time mobilized local Yuan troops from all over the south, which was expected to arrive on August 5, the 23rd year of Zhizheng.
On August 2, the 23rd year of the Zheng Dynasty, another issue of the Zhan Bao was issued in the Champa country, and now the scale of the Zhan Bao has been expanding, and it has changed from the original one to two, and the price has remained the same, and the newspaper has announced the current situation of the Ayutthaya battlefield has been Chen Han Battlefield, and also interviewed General Maya Kuiyudo to analyze the situation in various places.