Chapter 396: The Battle of Ayutthaya
When Liu Wenxiu received the military order from the imperial court, he had already led his army into the territory of the Lanna Kingdom and met with the Lanna king, who took the initiative to come to meet him.
The Lanna king Luan Tipani was over fifty years old, he refused the support of his attendants, trembling to the big tent of Liu Wenxiu, the Duke of Shu, kneeling down in front of Liu Wenxiu, and chanting:
"The King of the Lower Kingdom, meet the Great General of the Upper Kingdom."
Liu Wenxiu's face was expressionless, listening to the relay of the Chinese translator who entered with King Lanna, and then the expression on his face became serious, and he said coldly: "This general was ordered by the Son of Heaven to march south against Sun Kewang's rebels, Sun rebels were defeated and fled south, passing through the country of Er, and you are really guilty, but the Son of Heaven is known as benevolent and virtuous, and he is unwilling to pursue your crimes.
The translator relayed Liu Wenxiu's words to the king of Lanna in Dai language, and after hearing this, the latter's body trembled even more, and he hurriedly muttered a bunch of things, and the translator also said:
"Please know that Sun Kewang has bullied a small country and is also the enemy of a small country, but the small country has a weak army and a weak heart, but the strength is insufficient.
Liu Wenxiu listened to his translation, the expression on his face loosened a little, nodded, and said, "Then go back and prepare, prepare a guide, Wang Shi will go south to pursue on the same day."
Shortly after the king returned to the city, the imperial court order was sent to Liu Wenxiu, who was given the right to act cheaply and pursue the remnants of Sun's army.
He ordered Liu Zhenguo and Lin Zhong to lead the army south in the near future to rebuild Menggen's mansion as the forward base of the army's southern expedition, and he waited for the king of Lanna to raise enough grain and grass before continuing to go south.
Taking advantage of this time, he sent a number of scouts to the south first, following the footprints left by Sun Qin's army to investigate and find out the final movements of the Qin army.
By the time Liu Wenxiu discovered the last movement of the Qin army, it was already nearly a month later.
As Fan Yingxu proposed, Sun Kewang led the army to smash the Yellow Dragon, and before the Ayuthaya army reacted, he went all the way south along the city of Sukhothai and killed the city of Ayuthaya.
King Sri Sutamaraja ascended the throne in June, and his predecessor, King Chao Phat Chai, reigned for only 43 days before his sudden death.
The rapid change of the throne of Ayutthaya was not expected by Sun Kewang's ministers, but this inadvertently fulfilled their wishes, and when the domestic political situation in Ayuthaya was turbulent, the Qin army approached the city of Ayuthaya and made an attack posture.
Seeing that the Qin army was besieging the city, and there was no news from the soldiers and horses of the king of Qin in various places, the king climbed the city wall with anxiety, looked at the military tent of the Qin army for several miles, and cursed Sun Kewang's treachery in his heart, but in the end he could only grit his teeth and send an envoy to the Qin army camp to ask the Qin army's withdrawal conditions.
He didn't know much about what happened to the Qin army in the north, he only knew that Sun Kewang defeated the Donghu State and forced Mang Bai to submit, and the Xia Dynasty further north sent troops to recruit Sun Kewang, and he didn't know much about what happened after that.
As a result, now that the Qin army is approaching the city, he still can't figure out the situation and don't know what the Qin army's intention is to fight.
However, he soon learned that after the king's envoy trembled into the Qin camp and met with the Great Qin Emperor Sun Kewang, the latter reprimanded Dacheng with harsh words for sending troops to attack Daqin and seize Daqin's vassal states, and demanded that the king of Dacheng sign an alliance under the city and cede land and pay compensation.
The envoy reported the Qin army's demand for land reparations to the king, who was immediately furious, and roared in the court, claiming that he would never give in to the damned Han Chinese, and that he would mobilize all the strong men in the city to fight the evil Qin army until the last moment.
The king then ordered the recruitment of Japanese ronins and Portuguese mercenaries to help defend the city, and the kingdom of Ayutoya had hired Japanese ronin and Portuguese mercenaries since ancient times
The tradition of fighting soldiers, even if the Japanese were powerful, could directly influence the evidence of Ayutthaya.
In 1620, a group of Japanese samurai broke into the Ayutthaya Imperial Palace, forcibly kidnapped the then Sukhothai king Sishowapa, and forced him to swear never to harm the Japanese.
The kidnapping of the king of Ayutthaya was enough, and the Japanese also took the spiritual leader of Siamese Buddhism as a hostage, which immediately aroused the anger of the whole Ayutthaya against the Japanese, and after that, the Japanese continued to run rampant in the country of Ayuthaya.
It was not until ten years later, when the Thai dynasty was established, that the founding monarch of the country, Basha Thong, decided to eliminate the Japanese threat and shelled the Japanese town, which was a Japanese town, and set it on fire, and most of the townspeople fled to Cambodia.
Around 1633, Nihoncho was rebuilt, but it never regained its former glory, but King Basathorn's successors did not learn the lessons of the Sukhothai dynasty and still hired Japanese ronin to fight.
To get back to the point, after King Ayutoya's order was issued, the Japanese ronin and Portuguese mercenaries in the city responded one after another, joining the Ayutthaya army for gold, silver and money, and the defenders in the city swelled rapidly for a while.
Seeing this, Sun Kewang knew that he had to teach King Ayutbaya a lesson, so he was willing to negotiate with him, and he immediately lined up all the artillery in the army and launched a fierce artillery bombardment on the city wall.
At the same time, he also extended a poisonous hand to the villages around the city of Ayutoya, which has a history of hundreds of years as the capital, and its surroundings are naturally densely populated and extremely rich, but after Sun Kewang gave the order, the Qin army turned into butchers and carried out a bloody massacre of the villages and residents around the city of Ayutoya, robbing everything of value, and the villages were set on fire.
The black smoke from the burning of the surrounding villages soon rose and attracted the attention of the city's rulers and ministers, which immediately made the nobles living in the city feel heartache, their fiefs and family possessions were outside the city, and their hearts were bleeding as they watched their property being plundered by the Han Chinese.
After a long time, the nobles in the city couldn't sit still, they didn't care that the Qin army's condition was to cede the land and pay compensation, it was not their land that was cut, and the compensation was not paid by them, but if they continued to let the Qin army plunder, the loss would really come out of them.
Therefore, the nobles entered the palace one after another, forcing the king to negotiate peace with the Qin army at any cost, although they did not say it explicitly, but the king saw very clearly, if he did not agree, this throne may be replaced by someone else the next day.
In order to stabilize his position, he had to compromise with the aristocratic forces in humiliation and send his close ministers to the Qin army to negotiate peace with the Qin army.