Chapter 770 Chinese People Cannot Be Bullied!
"Taksin is the most important bargaining chip in Tong Luan's hands. How easy is it to rescue Taksin?"
"I am not an unreasonable person."
"I didn't ask them to rescue him immediately."
"I can wait."
"But you, the military intelligence bureau, must guarantee Taksin's personal safety. This is the first priority."
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Chen Liang walked out of the palace, and the emperor's words were still fresh in his ears. The meaning was very clear, but could the military intelligence bureau do it?
Why are the troops stationed in Myanmar and the Nanyang Navy not daring to take real action?
That is because they are afraid that Tong Luan will be desperate and kill Taksin. In that case, the end of Siam will become difficult to clean up. Even this turmoil can affect Myanmar on the left and Annan on the right, radiating to Phnom Penh and Vientiane, affecting Malaysia and Sumatra, and causing unrest in the entire Nanyang.
Siam is the first domino to fall.
Chen Liang returned to his house with a lawsuit, and then plunged into the study.
Rescuing Zheng Xin cannot rely solely on Chao Phraya Chakrimu's power, and the Military Intelligence Bureau must also have its own means. Chen Liang has sent elite soldiers to Bangkok, but he really has no idea whether he can really rescue people safely.
No matter how powerful the killer is, it is impossible to guarantee the completion of every mission, but this is the emperor's order.
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Bangkok is the largest city in Siam in later generations, and it is one of the largest cities in the entire Indochina Peninsula.
This city, which was opened up by the Chinese ancestors with hard work and arduous efforts, is now completely controlled by the Marine Battalion of the Nanyang Navy.
The Marine Battalion of the Navy and the army of Thonburi are separated by the Chao Phraya River, which is also the geographical dividing line on the political map of Thonburi and Bangkok. Bangkok's rise was too short. Now the two sides are facing each other, but day after day, no one on either side has really launched an attack. It's just that while the front line was playing a sit-in war, the security level in each other's territory was rising again and again.
In Thonburi City, soldiers were standing guard in the streets and alleys. The morale of these people may not be too high. Using them to fight a tough battle is asking for trouble, but it is good to use them as guards. At the same time, outside the city, a large number of young and strong men were recruited by the Siamese army, and a large number of trenches were dug on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River and around Thonburi City.
As for Bangkok, the security was more stringent than Thonburi. Because there were a large number of warships parked in the port, and there were also a large number of military supplies on the docks, which were of great value. If they were greeted by rockets, it would be very bad.
Ye Tingyang was the general manager of Bangkok.
He was not old, and he was not yet forty years old. It can be said that he had already secured his position as a leader in the army among Chen Han's second-generation generals. He was a leader of the middle-aged generals of the navy.
"Good." At this time, Ye Tingyang waved the translation in his hand and couldn't help shouting happily.
The pigeons delivered the urgent message. The emperor's order finally came down. The battle could begin.
"Gather all the generals for me." As long as there was an imperial order, whether on land or on water, how could Ye Tingyang be afraid of the 100,000 Siamese troops!
These Thai people, if they were put in front of the Marine Corps, it would be hard to say whether they would have the courage to pull the trigger. The National Defense Army was their teacher, an absolute master. There were thousands of Chinese instructors in the Siamese army. Although these people were arrested now, their prestige in the Siamese army was very high. China, which was originally Siam's big backer, now suddenly wanted to fight Siam. No matter what the Siamese were for, they were "traitors". The responsibility for the war was on the Siamese, not China's intention to annex Siam. The psychological pressure on the Siamese army was imaginable. The teaching of these instructors extended to the entire Chen Han Army. The result of generalization was that the morale of the Siamese army was constantly declining in the bilateral confrontation.
"You have all read it." The translation went through everyone's hands and returned to Ye Tingyang's hands.
Ye Tingyang clasped his hands in the direction of Nanjing and said, "Your Majesty has ordered to punish Siamese rebels and support Siam's national destiny. As imperial soldiers, we should follow your Majesty's orders and use the swords and guns in our hands to implement your Majesty's will in the most perfect way."
"Once the battle starts, no matter it is in the Chao Phraya River or on the sea, you don't need to hold back."
"Hit me hard."
The small Siam, the small Thai people, dared to provoke the Celestial Empire. This is courting death.
In Ye Tingyang's eyes, this Thonburi coup and the Siamese army's entry into Bangkok are all declarations of the Thai people's resistance and counterattack against the Chinese.
Zheng Xin is a Chinese. Although his mother is a Thai and his adoptive father is also a Thai, Zheng Xin's pro-China attitude is very obvious. It is hard to deny whether this is related to the rebellion of the opposition. The Siamese army dared to occupy Bangkok, which was disrespectful to the superior country.
Bangkok is the Bangkok of the Chinese.
In recent years, there are not a single Thai policeman or official in Bangkok, and even a few Thai-Chinese mixed race people.
Although this place is the land of Siam, the officials, policemen, guards, etc. are all Siamese, but they speak Chinese, write Chinese characters, and learn Chinese culture. To Ye Tingyang, it feels that it is no different from China. Just like Ha Tien, Singapore, Penang, etc.
Whether it is economic or political, Bangkok is the territory of the Chinese.
The Siamese army dared to occupy this place. Ye Tingyang felt that his dignity was violated, and a little mouse bit off a hair of the tiger's tail. After being shocked, he was furious - they were just looking for death!
The war was not limited to Bangkok. The counterattack that Chen Ming was brewing would not be limited to Bangkok. The National Defense Force stationed in Myanmar began to cross the demarcation line and entered the original eastern border of Myanmar - which was previously allocated to Siam. The formal attack on Siam began, and the war between Chen Lian and Wen Machu also saw new changes.
A big counterattack was brewing.
It had been so many days since the incident broke out. Even if Chen Ming could not rescue Zheng Xin for a while, he had to control the entire Siamese situation first.
It was the same negotiation. When the general situation of Siam was in the hands of Tong Luan, it was one thing; when the general situation was in the hands of Chen Han and Tong Luan had to be trapped in the isolated city, it was another thing.
The next day, when the sky was bright, all the soldiers in the barracks of the Navy Marine Corps began to wash and eat. Then the Marine Corps of more than 5,000 people lined up in an orderly manner and entered the offensive position.
The whistles and whistles sounded, and the Siamese soldiers who were nervous in the camp were shocked. They grabbed the rifles beside them as if by reflex and began to line up under the organization of the junior officers.
The war began.
The artillery positions on the other side of the Chao Phraya River were just a piece of cake, and the warships on the sea were raining bullets.
Siam also had a navy, but those ships sank to the bottom of the water on the day when the Nanyang Navy arrived. Now the Siamese army in Thonburi is attacking by land and sea, and they will not be stupid enough to think that this is all bluffing.
According to reason, Ye Tingyang should have said hello to Thonburi before the battle. Surrender or not? If you surrender, everything will be fine. If you don't surrender, the battle will start immediately.
But Ye Tingyang was unwilling to say hello. If he wanted to say hello, he had to wait until the soldiers approached the outside of the Thonburi city wall. That was the right time to force Thong Luan to surrender.
Now, he just wanted to teach the Siamese a lesson, so that all Siamese people would remember one truth clearly - Chinese people should not be bullied!
Continuous artillery fire rang out over the Gulf of Bangkok. Not only on land, but also on the sea, the Nanyang Navy was constantly bombarding the garrison stationed on the coast of Thonburi.
The distance between the two sides was six or seven hundred meters. Rockets were useless, and the only thing they could rely on was artillery.
Therefore, the strength of both sides was not questioned.
Siam itself did not have a coastal defense force, and they did not have a coastal defense camp.
The reason for this was that their coastal defense awareness was weak at first, but Siam soon had a boss. After Zheng Xin worshipped Chen Han as the boss, they did not need to worry about the safety of the coastline at all - the investment of the navy was high-cost.
Especially when Chen Han used victory after victory to train Nanyang, Siam did not say that it had no coastal defense awareness. Even if they had coastal defense awareness, they did not dare to build coastal defense artillery in a big way.
The entire Nanyang is already your boss's territory. Why are you still building a coastal defense fort here? Who are you trying to defend against? Your boss. What a big dog's guts.
This is directly related to an attitude issue, not simply believing or not-your boss can keep you safe.
In the Eastern vassal system with China as the main body, the respectfulness of this "attitude" is the most direct reflection of the intimacy between China and other countries.
Why did the Ming and Qing dynasties regard Korea as the first vassal state? That's because Korea's attitude is respectful. You don't care whether this attitude is true or false. Anyway, they can do it themselves, this is the ability.
And Siam's position is far less important than Korea. If it were in the past, the Qing Dynasty would probably not care. But Chen Han is different. Chen Han's navy can attack Thonburi at any time, and the "magnanimity" of Chen Han's founding emperor is not much bigger than a needle eye.
Moreover, as a founding emperor, this Wansuiye's "martial arts" are not ordinary grand. He dared to fight a war thousands of miles away, not to mention at his doorstep. Moreover, they have so many helpers fighting at their doorstep. The Siamese dared to bet that if Chen Han really wanted to fight Siam, Annan and Phnom Penh would be happy to rise up and actively respond to the call of the upper state to get a share of the pie.
Just like Siam's "expansion of territory" in the previous Burmese war.
The Indochina Peninsula is too small to tolerate any country that wants to establish hegemony. No matter which country becomes strong, it will harm the interests of other countries.
The artillery group of the Marine Corps on the east bank of the Chao Phraya River is bombarding the opposite bank without hesitation, just to take the lead.
Although the Marine Corps is affiliated with the Navy, they also have conflicts of interest with the pure warship sailors.
In recent years, the Marine Corps has become more and more powerful, and its size has become larger and larger. They have become more and more important and influential within the Navy and the Chinese Grand Commandery.
As the saying goes, there can't be two tigers in one mountain. The Marine Corps, which has become stronger, will certainly pursue greater power and higher status. This undoubtedly touched the cheese of the Navy. After all, they are both "the same branch of the military".
No one wants their interests to be damaged, let alone their right to speak to be divided.
From the navy's perspective, no matter how powerful the Marine Corps develops, they are still an arm dependent on the navy - Chen Han's Han Marine Corps is not an independent arm at this time. The first impression given by the Marine Corps is that of infantrymen on boats. Now that the Marine Corps wants to devour the interests of the Navy, it feels like putting the cart before the horse. My son wants to become my father's family. This is treason.
Therefore, when the battle on land and sea begins, both sides want to seize the upper hand and suppress the other's temper.
The Chao Phraya River is the largest river in Siam. Bangkok in this era was still a floating city with canals and boats. Of course, the area covered is far from comparable to that of Bangkok in later generations, so there are still a lot of potholes and swamps around it.
But now these canals and potholes have become the starting point for the Marine Corps' offensive forces.
Small boats and bamboo rafts were floating on the river, and they were all loaded with Marines with live ammunition. They are all waiting for the signal bombs to go off. As long as three signal bombs rise into the sky, hundreds of large and small rafts will cross the Chao Phraya River.
By the way, these Marines are all holding percussion cap guns and are not afraid of rain. Siam has now entered the rainy season.
The morale of the Siamese army was low, but they were outnumbered, and in addition they had another advantage - they could recruit a large number of laborers.
The Siamese army on the other side of the Chao Phraya River requisitioned tens of thousands of civilians inside and outside Thonburi City, and built several trenches on the defense line that stretched out along the Chao Phraya River. But how can the war consist of just a few trenches? of?
Without thousands of Chinese instructors to teach the Siamese army to outline the march route, arrange the dispatch order and time, design the defense line, dispatch logistics, and advise all military aircraft, the entire Siamese army's action speed and execution ability have dropped a bit. .
Digging trenches was a strategy that Tongluan had decided on early, but Tongluan didn't even know where to place the ammunition reserves and the placement of wounded soldiers. And because the trenches were close to the river, the groundwater was high, and supervision was not strict, the trenches were dug very shallowly.
How strong is the defensive line stretched out along the west bank of the sparkling Chao Phraya River by such a demoralized army? It is worth thinking about and considering.
The shelling started at nine o'clock in the morning. It will end at eleven o'clock. After two hours of bombardment, the artillery positions of the Siamese army were destroyed to pieces. The breastworks and fences were all beaten to pieces. Under the guidance of the hot air balloon, the artillery of the Marine Corps could not hit them. So accurate.
The Siamese army's artillery also kept firing back at the beginning, and also sprayed a lot of shells.
In terms of ammunition, these Siamese troops had more than the attacking naval and marine forces.
But it's no use.
Without instructors and instructors to calculate bombardment coordinates, the Siamese artillery was just a blast.
Finally, when the bombardment ended, the signal flares were raised, and hundreds of boats and rafts rowed towards the messy west bank of the Chao Phraya River.
From the school balloon view, the entire section of the Chao Phraya River facing Bangkok is more than ten miles wide, filled with thousands of boats racing.
Fortunately, the Chao Phraya River has just entered the rainy season, and the river flow has only increased and has not yet reached its peak. Otherwise, the Marine Corps would not have even thought about crossing the river smoothly.
The Siamese army on the other side was still in chaos. During the continuous artillery fire, the brigade commander who was in charge of the front line was not sure whether he was killed or escaped before the battle. Anyway, he could not be found.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, the Chinese are starting to cross the river. Lord Mengluan can't be found..."
Ishara Sumtun soon received a bad piece of information, which made him so angry that he cursed his mother.
Thongluang is the regent of Siam, also known as the prince. Yishara Sumtun is his son, so of course he is also ‘His Royal Highness’.
When the artillery shells falling outside began to become sparse, he began to ask people to organize his reserve troops. He knew that the troops on the front line were not effective. But it has been twenty minutes now, and the reserve troops have not yet finished reorganizing. In the past, a platoon of Siamese troops was scattered and urgently assembled, but it didn't even take ten minutes!
Now the Chinese are about to launch an attack, and the frontline commander has disappeared again. God is going to kill him.
"Tell the palace that I need support, I want support. Otherwise, the Chao Phraya River cannot be defended!"
This is not simply a matter of combat effectiveness. There are more than 10,000 Siamese soldiers on the west bank of the Chao Phraya River. The enemies they have to face are only one-third of them. However, the gap in their hearts makes the three-fold advantage in strength difficult. Turn into clouds and smoke. Eggs are useless.
Yishara Sumtun can only ask people to ask for help from Thongluang. Then, regardless of whether the reserve troops were in chaos or not, they were pulled up and headed straight to the front line.
The Siamese army soldiers who emerged from the bombholes looked as gray and gray as mud monkeys.
At this time, thousands of boats were racing on the Chao Phraya River. Although the Marine Corps soldiers were not professional sailors, their rowing speed was not slow at all. When Ishara Sumtun led his troops to the front-line battlefield, some fast Marines were already approaching the shore.
Looking at it, there seemed to be sixty or seventy boats and rafts scattered along the river bank defense line five to six miles wide. In the Chao Phraya River, there were ten times more boats and rafts crowded together, making the river surface seem densely packed. Ishara Sumtun was shocked at first sight.
"Calm down, calm down. Buddha will protect us. Now raise your guns, fire, fire."
Isha Rasongtun howled hysterically. As the son of Thong Luan, his presence at the front line did indeed boost the morale of the chaotic Siamese soldiers, and their hearts also felt a little more stable. But when the sound of gunfire rang out again, when the charge and shouts of killing rang loudly in their ears, the morale of the Siamese army was once again greatly reduced, and the chaos that had just been suppressed became even worse.