Chapter 837. Warmongers
Chapter 837. War dealer
Why was Iron Man so rich in later generations? His family sold arms, and just happened to catch up with the arms market in World War I and World War II! The accumulated silver is from Haihai! Even if I met Iron Man Stark, a prodigal son, who did not ruin his family, it shows how strong his family is!
This reflects from another aspect that being a war dealer is really profitable!
The Humen War was replicated here by Luo Yu, but this time he played the role of an invader and became a mercenary in the Ming Dynasty! It was really a woman who became cruel and even fought herself. After being attacked by artillery fire, some of the Siamese troops retreated into the three-story cement building of the East India Company in the port to try to hide. As a result, Luo Yu yelled that he had another five more heavy artillery rounds and knocked down the building, and then he stopped.
The shrapnel and solid bombs were fired alternately. After more than two hours of shelling, the city of Bangkok, which was originally a scene in Central and South China, has now been beaten into a hornet's nest. Small buildings made of bamboo and wood collapsed, and the streets were in a mess, and some houses even ignited a raging fire.
In the Opium War, the 800,000 Qing army was defeated by more than 20,000 British troops because of their sluggish morale. The Eight Banners Army was so bad that they dared not fight, and they all looked for the Green Camp Army to take over. The Green Camp was originally the worst-profit Qing army. Who would be willing to work for you? You shot muskets from afar and still wanted to do it. When the British devils were really rushing up with bayonets, they would run away.
At this time, the Ayutah dynasty of Siam also experienced more than 300 years of history, and also reached the middle and late dynasty. The wealth was highly concentrated in the hands of those tribal leaders Pameng and Pamum. The morale of these poor and loud Meng soldiers under their command was not as good as that of the late Qing army. The garrison of tens of thousands of people had collapsed and fled at the beginning of the second round of artillery attacks. Apart from leaving more than 100 unlucky ghosts killed by cannons, no one came to protect this important harbor city.
The sound of heavy objects falling into the water sounded. The mercenary commando of the United East India Company selected from the veterans was on the assault boat with a flintlock gun, and carefully aimed at it and rushed to the mudflat first, occupying a small half of the collapsed company building. Then the heavy ships relied on the well-excavated deep-water port one after another, put down the landing ladder, and the large group of people rushed off the boat.
After being kicked out of Bangkok City, the United East India Company of the Ming Dynasty once again set foot in this important Siam town.
Luo Yu experienced the cruel battle of defense of Tieshan when he was a child. During his time at school, he was requisitioned to assist in the transfer of logistics food and wages for the army. Dongjiang had a weirdo. However, she, a girl, had come into contact with the battlefield earlier than a man. She had no feelings for those Siamese defenders who were beaten by cannons. Instead, she looked at the office building of the East India Company that was crushed by her order. This girl was so distressed that she was so cold that she stomped her boots.
"The building is completely useless. Cleaning up the rubble and rebuilding it will take three months. How much money will it cost to lose? These slaughtered Siamese barbarians can't hide wherever they want, and they have to hide in the company building!"
Following Luo Yu, assistant Chu Tian acted normally. She hurried behind the cloak of the little lady of the Luo family and looked at the battlefield tremblingly. As soon as a person escaped, a big hole was bounced from behind by shrapnel while escaping, he turned his head down towards the Siamese defender who was tilting backwards. The bloody tongue in his mouth clanged and the hideous appearance of her eyes.
She was so scared that she trembled hard that she pulled Luo Yu's sleeve.
"Sister..., it's dead!"
But Luo Yu's reaction almost made the girl so depressed that she vomited blood. She really didn't expect that her eldest lady, who knew everything about piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, antique porcelain, had this side! Listening to her fearful reminder, Luo Yu slapped her head suddenly and shouted like she woke up from a dream: "Yes, come, collect these corpses and throw them into the sea. Where is Accountant Liu? I will make a list later. When I ask for compensation from the Siamese, plus the corpse handling fee, one will be calculated at 5,000 taels!"
Chu Tian: "......"
Those who came from Liaodong were definitely perverts! This girl was thinking sadly in her heart.
.........
Principal Jiang has the habit of promoting the school motto, and Mausoleum also has it. The principal of the business school under Liaodong Academy said: Treat friends as warm as spring, and treat enemies as greedy as vampires, and squeeze out the last copper in their pockets!
The company mercenaries of the four regiments advanced from the four streets and finally joined the rammed earth wall in the north of Bangkok City. This prosperous port fell completely in the hands of the East India Company. Looking north from here, less than a dozen miles away, there was a more majestic city faintly coming into view.
In the afternoon, the pouring sunset is set against the Buddhist spire above the rammed earth city wall, reflecting an extremely gorgeous golden light. The tropical tropics are full of moss. Under the dense stone city wall, exquisite Buddhist statues can be vaguely connected. This is Ayutthaya, the capital of the Siam Kingdom. However, because of its unique magnificence on the Indochina Peninsula, Chinese people who come here are more accustomed to calling it a big city.
However, at this time, the city obviously no longer had the peace and peace of Buddhism that once believed in the Buddhist world. Outside the south gate, the antler barricades made of wood were carried out in panic by the Siamese soldiers wearing bare arms or wearing wicker armor and hats. They were piled up in dense fortifications. Some musketeers traded from the Spanish and the Dutch. The simple mesh rope guns were placed behind the antlers, and many soldiers were holding spears, trembling with big guns hiding behind the musket array.
The Annan Kingdom, which has a narrow territory, now has a population of about three million. Although it occupies the vast central part of the Indochina Peninsula and is five or six times that of Annan, the population of Siam has not been ruled by the Central Plains. Annando, which has received extremely profound Central Plains culture, has a population of about 240,500,000 people across the country.
However, even so, the defensive forces guarding the capital and the defeated soldiers fleeing from Bangkok were more than 30,000, five times the army of the East India Company that landed and invaded. The Siamese did not dare to advance at all. Instead, they only dared to defend tremblingly, which shows its decline.
Just as the city was panickingly defending, on the road extending from the south, more than a dozen figures with dark sunlight shook and appeared in front of them. General Bameng, who was responsible for the garrison, immediately shouted nervously. At the forefront, the Siamese musketeers who were hiding behind Luzhai to defend, also raised the muskets with rapid breathing, but under their gaze, these "enemy" were extremely backboneless, and they all knelt on the road, and they were holding their hands up.
Shocked, a team of cavalry rushed over with a few Central and Southern war horses. After a while, they turned around and shouted loudly with relief.
"It's Lord Pomundari Valley, Bangkok, and his own people!"
It is completely different from Annan, which advocates Central Plains culture and is called Little China. The Thais who left the central and western China are now obviously more influenced by Indian culture. The name of the capital Ayutahya comes from Buddhism, and there are many temples in the city, which is quite similar to the abandoned Angkor Wat.
At this time, the reign of King Nalei was dressed like a monk and more than an emperor. The golden monk hat on his head painted the four heavenly kings of Buddhism, facing each other, and the brocade robes on his body were also scenes of Sakyamuni preaching, eight hundred arhats, and Bodhisattvas and Buddhas listening to lawsuits with humility. However, the robe with a full breath of Buddha could not hide the lazy and extravagant appearance of the person wearing it. On the fat belly, the fat flesh squeezed out a large piece of clothing from the gaps in the clothes. Relying on the Golden Lotus Throne, the elderly old guy closed his eyes in a confused manner while the two palace maids were fanning, and he didn't know whether he was asleep or awake.
Fortunately, there are still some people in a hurry to make a major national event. Listening to the narration of the same fat man as Bangkok, which is almost a tonnage, with a sad face, he was a thin man not far from King Narei, dressed in a monk. The national prime minister Papiro, who was similar in style, roared loudly in disbelief.
"What? Five million taels!"
"That's right, Lord Gong Xiang, the Ming Dynasty not only demanded compensation for the losses of the East India Company in these days, but also required the royal family to send protons to Hangzhou, and classified Bangkok as the East India Company lease area, allowing the company to enter inland trade, etc.!"
This is a typical capitalist war. If you don’t aim to destroy the country and fight for hegemony, you can just cede land and pay compensation and pay money! However, Luo Yu felt that he was already generous enough, but the Prime Minister did not feel that he had a gloomy face like a pig’s liver, and he was roaring like thunder.
"It's simply shameless!"
"We Siamese are the masters of this land! These greedy Ming people plundered our wealth and displaced the people. In the end, we have to compensate them! Dream! The king, I suggest that we immediately summon all the troops of the storm, gather Ayutaya, and drive the Ming people out of the sea!"
King Nare's eyes narrowed and did not even open and close, and the prime minister with high patriotism was already roaring.
"Transfer the king's order! Order the nobles of all the Pameng clan leaders to lead their troops into Beijing, and Siam will fight to the death with the Ming Dynasty!"
.........
Time seemed to pass a little faster in the hot weather on the Indochina Peninsula. That night, Luo Yu received a letter of declaration of war from the Pomundari Valley of Bangkok. In tactics, he completely cut off all relations between Siam and the Ming Dynasty, forbidden the Ming Dynasty to immigrate and do business on the land of Siam, and arrogantly shouted that he would kill all the Ming people who invaded Bangkok.
However, Luo Yu's reaction to this was that he threw the war letter into the sea.
But the war that followed was strange.
On the first day, the East India Company mercenaries strengthened Bangkok's defense, without any intention of going north. Similarly, more than 30,000 Siam Central Forces showed no sign of going south to attack.
On the third day, more than 10,000 troops from the central region merged into the Dacheng Army, but Miss Luo still remained silent.
On the fifth day, everyone stared at each other for more than ten miles.
On the seventh day, the city defense force in the big city had soared to more than 70,000 people. But on this day, the prime minister Papiro, who had just shouted to kill all the Ming people, actually arrived in Bangkok in shame, and respectfully boarded the flagship salt merchant of the East India Service Company under the custody of the Ming army.
Although he was astonished by Luo Yu's youth and beauty, the thin old man bowed deeply with a sad heart.
Chapter completed!