After a fierce battle of words, King Ayutoya finally agreed to the conditions proposed by the Qin army under great pressure from inside and outside.

The Ayutthaya Kingdom was to cede the three provinces of Ratchakuri, Phetchaburi and Kanchanaburi south of the Yegong River in the west, and publicly renounced its claims to the south of the Yegong River, handed over the Han Chinese immigrants in the country to the Qin army, vowed never to harm the Han Chinese, never go to war with the Qin army, and provided a hundred well-trained war elephants.

It was a humiliating contract.

King Ayutthaya was reluctant to sign it, but under tremendous pressure from inside and outside, he was forced to agree to the contract and put the seal on behalf of the king.

Sun Kewang, who got the contract, ordered the siege to be lifted with satisfaction and released a large number of captured Thai people, but the property they had looted was not returned, and Sun Kewang personally took dozens of carts full of booty to the south, leaving Fan Yingxu and Wang Ziqi to receive the Han immigrants who had moved.

Sun Kewang does not believe in the army composed of natives, but he believes in the Han people who have the same blood in his body.

When the news spread, the entire kingdom of Ayutoya was in an uproar, and the nobles from all over the country criticized the king's weakness, and the nobles of the three provinces that had been ceded were even more unwilling to accept the rule of the Qin army, and began to recruit troops in their fiefdoms, intending to fight the Qin army by force.

Sun Kewang had already prepared for this, and after he led his army across the Yegong River, he launched a bloody massacre against the resistance forces of Sanfu, which killed a large number of Tai people, and the armed forces of the nobles were easily crushed, and all parts of the country were subjugated, and they no longer dared to resist the Qin army.

Soon after the signing of the contract, the king of Ayuthaya Sri Sutamaraja finally knew the outcome of the war that broke out in the north, and he looked at the contract with a wry smile, his heart was full of remorse, if he persevered, when the army of the Xia Dynasty came to chase him, he would not have to cede the city in humiliation.

Haunted by great remorse, King Sri Sutamaraja died half a month later in hatred, a few months earlier than in history, and after his death, a member of the royal family named Nalai succeeded to the throne.

He is the famous Narai the Great in the history of the Ayutthaya Kingdom and one of the five emperors in the history of Thailand.

After succeeding to the throne, Nalai decisively sent an envoy to the north to ask for help from the Xia army, which had already moved south to the Lanna Kingdom, and asked the Celestial Dynasty to conquer the rebels of Sun Kewang, who had rebelled against him.

At home, he deliberately found an excuse to delay the transfer of Han Chinese and war elephants to the Qin army, so as to avoid strengthening the Qin army.

In the political arena, he quickly gained a foothold with the strength of his maternal family, finding a balance between the powerful nobles and containing each other, and he also recruited a 500-strong Portuguese mercenary as the royal guard, and based on these 500 people, he recruited and trained a forbidden army that only used firearms.

Regardless of Nalai's behavior after succeeding to the throne, Liu Wenxiu learned of Sun Kewang's movements in Siam from the scouts and the envoys of Ayutthaya, and immediately led his army south to kill Wang Ziqi, who was still stationed outside the city of Ayutbaya and waiting to receive the Han Chinese.

However, the Qin army had been keeping an eye on the movements in the north, and the scouts they sent soon learned of the Xia army's southward movement and reported it to Wang Ziqi and Fan Yingxu outside the city of Ayutoya as soon as possible.

Wang Ziqi could only scold at this, cursing the Xia army is really ghostly, and he can't care about continuing to stay outside the city of Ayutoya and waiting to receive Han immigrants, they know very well that the Thai people hate them, if they know that the Xia army is going south, they will definitely organize an army to crusade against the Qin army.

Therefore, after some discussion between Wang Ziqi and Fan Yingxu, they decided to give up receiving the remaining Han people and war elephants, and drove to the Yegong River with a thousand Han people and more than ten war elephants that had been handed over to avoid the Xia army's troops.

When the king of Narai in the city saw the withdrawal of the Qin army, he immediately thought of the Xia army in the north, and he immediately cheered up, and ordered to gather troops from all over the country and enter the posture of rearmament.

At the same time, he also sent an envoy north again to show the Xia army that he would fully cooperate with the Celestial Empire to destroy the rebels.

In August, the Xia army arrived at the city of Ayutoya, the capital of Ayutoya, and the king of Nalai personally went out of the city to meet Liu Wenxiu, the commander of the Xia army, and he presented Liu Wenxiu with gold, silver and precious jewelry prepared in advance, hoping to get Liu Wenxiu's support

to stabilize their position in the country.

Liu Wenxiu, in line with the principle of not wanting nothing in vain, accepted all the things offered by the Thai people, and then went to visit the military camp of the Ayutthaya army outside the city at the invitation of King Nalai.

To his surprise, in addition to the native Thai and Khmer troops, the Ayutthaya army now assembled outside the city also included Hongmaoyi and Japanese in Japanese light armor wearing plate armor and holding firearms, as well as dark complexions and tall black soldiers.

The prevalence of firearms in the Ayuthaya army was relatively high, but it was basically the military equipment of foreign mercenaries and the direct royal family, and the low-level soldiers did not wear armor because of the hot climate, they were either naked or only wearing a thin short coat, and their weapons were rudimentary.

After inspecting the Ayutoya army, Liu Wenxiu and the generals of the Xia army had a preliminary understanding of the military strength of this small southern barbarian country, and the Ayutoya army did not fight with the Qin army in time, but Liu Wenxiu had no doubt at all that once the battle really started, the Qin army would definitely not be defeated.

This army can't even defeat the Qin army, let alone the Xia army that ran away with the Qin army.

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Liu Wenxiu did not rush to conquer Sun Kewang, he led his army to be stationed in the small city of Bangkok hundreds of miles south of Ayutoye, waiting for the soldiers and horses of Lu Shanbo Liu Zhenguo and Hou Linzhong who were still in the north, and constantly sent scouts to spy on the Qin army.

After taking over Sanfu, the Qin army immediately recruited a new army among the locals, purchased many firearms and artillery from Hongmaoyi, who were active in the kingdom of Ayutoya, and built many camps on the south bank of the Yegong River, apparently to guard against the attack of the Xia army.

"Just in vain."

Liu Wenxiu commented.

In mid-August, Liu Zhenguo and Lin Zhong's soldiers and horses finally joined Liu Wenxiu, and after counting the number of soldiers in the army, Liu Wenxiu swore to march on August 18, and ordered the Kingdom of Ayutoya to send troops to assist in the name of the above country.

Seeing this as an opportunity to enhance his majesty, King Nalai personally led his army to accompany Liu Wenxiu, and the army marched westward, reaching the north bank of the Yegong River eight days later.

When the army arrived on the north bank, the generals of both armies could clearly see that the Qin army on the other side of the river had built a large number of camps, dug several trenches between the camps, and the black holes of the European-style artillery could be seen from time to time on this front.

Seeing this, Liu Wenxiu couldn't help frowning, the Qin army waited for work, and built a tight defense line in advance, unless it was to bypass the Qin army's defense line and cross the south bank from the upper reaches of the Yegong River, otherwise it could only cross the river at the risk of great casualties.

Liu Wenxiu quickly made a decision, and he ordered Bai Wenxuan, the Duke of Gongguo, to lead 5,000 elite soldiers to go along the upper reaches of the Yegong River under the leadership of the guide, cross the river in the unfortified section of the Qin army, and flank the Qin army with the frontal army.

In order to prevent the Qin army from being prepared and dividing his forces to fortify, he would lead the coalition forces to attack from the front and contain the Qin army.