Chapter 53: The Siamese Meeting

After occupying the city, Zhang Ming's troops continued to the south. Before he could go south, Siam and Chenla, the countries had already sent people over.

If we say, at the time of the Battle of Annam, these countries had not yet reacted. It is understandable, after all, that Annan is geographically separated from other countries and mountains.

There is no direct connection.

But Champa is different.

Champa and Siam, Chenla are geographically closely connected and fight each other.

Champa and Chenla, Siam are both Hindu countries.

Between them, there is also marriage.

In this case, they can't help but ignore it. The allusion of Candle Zhiwu's retreat from the Qin Division, these countries don't know if they understand it. But they do the same thing.

These countries have raised some, grain, grass, gold and silver to labor the army.

This moment made Zhang Ming embarrassed.

They mobilized the whole country and fought against Zhang Ming. It's just a backhand. However, this situation made Zhang Ming very embarrassed.

Zhang Ming didn't know what to do.

Fortunately, after Tie Xuan found out, he immediately went to Champa to gather envoys from Siam, Chenla and other countries.

There is only one thing to say, and that is the fight against piracy.

As mentioned above, it is completely impossible to do business in various countries without dealing with the local aristocracy. After all, there are still many car bandits and road rage in Daming, which makes people have to sell face.

Not to mention overseas.

The overseas situation is only worse than that of Daming, and it will not be better, that is, Daming's own merchant ships, and there are many people who have changed their lives to do the same vote.

Not to mention, these feudal states.

To put it mildly, although they were vassals to the Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty's management of the vassal state was thick and thin. Hardly cares. That is, something really happened, and it was difficult for the dignitaries and dignitaries of the Ming Dynasty to start from Siam or from within the Zhenla court. In a hurry, it's just sending people to kill people.

Speak with a knife and a gun.

But everything, there is a cost. Sending people to kill people to retaliate also requires a cost.

Even after weighing the pros and cons, large companies can only give some share to these landlords in the end. Even in this case, even if the lord of Siam and others have a certain degree of respect for the Ming Dynasty. But the nobles below don't have these ideas.

After all, in any team, there are conspicuous bags.

In the Ming clan, there are characters who can't be said and can't be mentioned, and among these nobles in Nanyang, there are even more such people. in his own territory, he has two hundred and fifty eighty thousand. Vicious to the Ming merchants.

Now Tie Xuan has turned all these things out, and asked these countries to give an explanation, that is, Siam, and King Chenla couldn't figure it out for a while.

Because, those who dare to do this are all high-ranking officials and dignitaries, either domestic real power figures, or the backstage behind them, or the lord of the country himself.

It is impossible for them to take out their own team to atone. Otherwise, if you don't need Daming to fight, they will be in chaos internally.

After all, places like Siam, Chenla, etc., were never truly centralized states.

As far as Southeast Asia is concerned, Annan is considered a powerhouse. That's because Annan is modeled after the Chinese system, a series of systems, which is the most centralized among the Nanyang countries.

The internal situation in Siam and Chenla is also complicated, and the great nobles of all parties are intricately intertwined.

Nor is the king a word.

Tie Xuan is in Zhancheng, and there are these big nobles colluding with each other. After all, the Ming Dynasty's rule here is Xia Jun Yimin. It's just that there is one more king surnamed Zhu.

It is not impossible to betray the king.

After more than three months of vertical and horizontal struggle. Finally left Siam and Jinla speechless. The so-called masterminds behind a series of cases cannot be handed over. Tie Xuan naturally announced that he would punish the people of the two countries and set things right. Demanded that the royal families of the two countries go to Nanjing to apologize to the Son of Heaven.

To the point where it has come to this.

The royal families of the two countries naturally understand that they must not compromise. But it is impossible for them to resist anymore.

The reason is very simple, after full communication, the great tomorrow soldiers, the pen has not yet arrived, and all places have already responded.

Zhang Ming broke all the way to Siam. There was little resistance. Everywhere they passed, they came forward to work together. Many people have become loyal courtiers of the Ming Dynasty.

This made Zhang Ming very depressed.

The reason is simple, such a smooth one is like a march, and it is of no use at all. The army also has little income.

The army wants to fight up and down, and it is to eat meat, not to march for arms. If there is no war, there will be no spoils, for high-ranking generals. I don't care about these small profits anymore. But the soldiers below can't.

Although the imperial court gave a good salary. But most of the soldiers were willing to go to the battlefield and fight hard. It's not for a little bit of money. Rather, it's for the added benefit.

Even Zhang Ming was a little anxious and wanted to get some gold and silver for the center. It doesn't work either.

Fortunately, the local nobles are also interested.

Naturally, they know to make offerings to the army. to keep the peace.

This is a reluctance to get things done.

In this way, in later generations, Thailand, Cambodia, the Mekong Delta and even the vast areas of Laos entered the territory of the Ming Dynasty.

After Zhang Ming entered Siam, he took the capital of Siam. Prepare to attack westward, attack Burma.

In ancient times, Burma and Siam have always been rivals. Today, Myanmar is divided into several countries. And Siam is relatively strong. So much so that Siam remained strong on the Burmese side.

Zhang Ming naturally wanted to make more achievements.

Just, no. Because Mu Chun has already called from the direction of Myanmar.

Mu Chun's attack on Burma from Yunnan has nothing to say. From the map, Myanmar is very large and has all the rules, but in fact, the real march and battle are just a few roads and a few rivers.

Most of the rainforests are simply not allowed to march.

There is no way to avoid many things, and it is nothing more than a battle for a few points.

This is not a problem at all for the Ming army. Fighting in formation, firing a volley of firearms, the Burmese army has not seen it at all. After a few rounds, there is nothing that does not collapse.

Hold on to the fortified city and bring in artillery from the rear to bombard.

Not to mention, how well the city defense of Myanmar, even the strongest city walls of the Ming Dynasty could not withstand the continuous bombardment of artillery. Once breached, the following things will go without saying.

Of course, the Mu family is much more fierce to the Burmese side than Zhang Ming.

The reason is also very simple, among Mu Chun's army. There is a large amount of toast. Under Huang Zicheng's dispatch, a large number of Yungui Tusi came out from the local area and followed the army south. And the territory of many toasts in the southwest has been cut without cutting.

Huang Zicheng has established several new prefectures in Guizhou, although each prefecture has one or two counties, but the jurisdiction territory is very large, and the main forces of Tusi in various places have left. Those who remain will become old, weak, sick and disabled. He didn't dare to resist the imperial court.

Unless it's really in the deep mountains and old forests, it's inconvenient to get in and out. Even the whole village is dead, and the outside doesn't know the place. The rest are closer to the road and the road is better.

All entered the management of the Ming court.

Of course, the coexistence of Guizhou Tusi and Fu County is not over. It won't end for a long time to come. But the kind of toast that can easily pull out tens of thousands of troops does not exist anymore.

Even if these tens of thousands of troops are just strong men.

Migration, division, reversion, and so on. It can be regarded as a real confirmation of the political envoy of Guizhou. And not just a fictitious provincial unit. It is important to know that in the early Ming Dynasty, Guizhou was a political envoy, and there were only a few counties under its jurisdiction, and it was not even as good as an ordinary place. Even the provincial first-level imperial examination had to be taken in Kunming together with Yunnan.

It can be seen that Guizhou is down.

Now, no matter what, the shelves in Guizhou have been built.

It is because of Huang Zicheng's policy.

Therefore, it is impossible for Mu Chun to be tolerant of the local Myanmar when he goes south. Without him, a lot of toast behind him followed to grab money

Ground robbery.

Mu Chun raised his noble hand, what should I do with these toasts who follow the Mu family?

It must be known that Huang Zicheng is not willing to do the following toast. Nonsense, whether it is for the local Haoqiang or the toast, it is actually not a good thing to go to another place and start over.

It's going to hurt the foundation.

If it's just Huang Zicheng, using both soft and hard, how can they be willing. Needless to say, it is naturally the army of the Ming Dynasty. It is somewhat difficult to maintain several armies in Burma, the logistical line is too long. But there is no problem in maintaining a few armies in Guizhou.

Soft nature is promised that they went to Myanmar to compensate on a large scale.

If you don't take Burma, how to compensate for these toasts.

Mu Chun's subordinates were not merciful, so they naturally let the people below resist desperately. However, these toast armies are not vegetarians either. The Ming Dynasty supplied cold weapons, long knives, spears, and steel crossbows in the Hongwu period. It was placed in the warehouse, and it was also put away, and it was given to these toasts as a reward.

These toasts are no different from the local army of Burma in terms of fighting style. But with the advantage of equipment. Naturally, you can beat the opponent to the ground.

And the casualties of the Ming army were avoided.

Some street battles, law and order battles, clearing battles and other battles that must be fought in close combat, just let these Tusi soldiers do it.

More often, the Da Ming soldiers will do to urge the enemy to attack Yu Zhengrui, or attack the fortified city with artillery to provide fire support, and the rest will be left to the Tusi soldiers.

It turns out that Mu Chun's model is quite okay.

There were many big and small battles along the way, which was much more exciting than Zhang Ming. But as a result, the casualties totaled more than 100 people. Most of them died of epidemics, which can be regarded as non-combat attrition. The unlucky ones who really died in battle were only a few dozen.

In this day and age, it's an incredible miracle.

Of course, when those Tusi soldiers died, the imperial court did not count them.

What's more, fewer people died, but more loot.

Because the Tusi soldiers are very unreserved, and they are not dignified. There is no military discipline, and the places that have passed are miserable.