Cambodia, the capital of Phnom Penh, the Grand Palace of Four Arms Bay.

Located in the eastern part of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, this royal palace faces the Four Arms Bay formed by the confluence of the Mekong, Tonle Sap and Basa rivers. Since the ninth year of Xuande, the king of Cambodia, Ponghea Yate, moved the capital to Phnom Penh, and built this royal palace in Phnom Penh. Since then, this royal palace has become the symbol of Phnom Penh and the center of power that governs Cambodia, and has a history of about 150 years.

Like the Burmese royal palaces in Taungoo and Bago, the Grand Palace in Phnom Penh is also a wooden building, but almost all of the buildings are painted with gold paint or pasted with gold leaf.

In contrast, it seems that only the original Annan Palace was not in this style, but more similar to the architecture of the Ming Dynasty - of course, on the whole, it is nothing more than a "miniature version" of the Forbidden City.

The Cambodian royal family has a long history, and it is said that if the maternal line is included, it is even more than Japan, which is known as the "one line for all generations", and even if it is only counted as the paternal line, it has a history of hundreds of years, at least in this regard, it can beat the Zhu family of the Ming Dynasty.

However, it is not of particular significance, because the strength of the Phnom Penh Dynasty is very poor, which can also be seen from the area of the Sijiwan Grand Palace - this royal palace, known as the Great Palace, is actually not as large as the highly pragmatic Beijing suburb courtyard Jianxinzhai, only slightly larger than the Baiyulou complex in the high-pragmatism personal residential area of Jianxinzhai.

Of course, the White Jade Tower itself is an imitation of a French-style palace, which is not easy to say.

The current king of the Phnom Penh dynasty is Geeta I, who has been on the throne for nearly ten years, about ten years older than Zhu Yijun, and can be regarded as a monarch in the prime of life.

Most monarchs in their prime were more ambitious, and Geeta I was no exception. However, although he has ambitions, this ambition is not big, he just hopes to recover the northwest territories lost by the Angkor Dynasty more than 150 years ago, "Zhongxing Angkor", and mix the name of a Cambodian holy monarch.

Unfortunately, the Phnom Penh dynasty was so weak that it missed several opportunities.

Previously, when the White Elephant King of Burma pressed Siam, the Phnom Penh Dynasty thought about taking the opportunity to recover the lost territory, but unfortunately Mang Yinglong was too domineering, and he didn't care about the so-called "sending troops to assist" proposed by the Phnom Penh Dynasty, thinking that he could defeat Siam and create a hegemony by himself.

Mang Yinglong did so, Siam offered his submission, and the Phnom Penh dynasty could only continue to hide in Phnom Penh and wait for the right time.

During this period, there was even an unfortunate incident of the invasion of the southern state (Laos), but fortunately, that time it was inexplicably won, and finally earned some face on the ground of southern Xinjiang, and was not beaten for a period of time.

Of course, this is thanks to Mang Yinglong, Mang Yingli father and son, if they hadn't beaten Siam and Nanzhang at every turn, how could there be more than ten years of peace in the Phnom Penh Dynasty?

In addition, it is also thanks to the three small countries of Huaying, Champang, and Nanpan for blocking the way for the Annamite people to go south, otherwise the northeastern border of the Phnom Penh Dynasty would be difficult to calm down.

Unfortunately, these conditions for peace are now almost non-existent.

The once invincible Golden House White Elephant King was easily defeated by the Great Ming Dynasty, Siam, Nanzhang, and Annam changed their masters together, and even with Huaying, Champang, and Nanpan were also taken lightly by Annam, and the Phnom Penh Dynasty looked around, in addition to the sea in the south, the east, west, and north sides were all surrounded by the Ming people.

Akito, to be exact, that strange organization called Kyoka.

The Phnom Penh dynasty, which was not very well-informed, only knew that Jinghua was a "trading company" at first, so it didn't care at all. Later, it turned out that this trading company seemed to be a bit large, not only with a huge army of at least tens of thousands of horses and infantry, but also a huge sailor with a large scale, known as a sailor covering the sea.

Moreover, in addition to doing business, this "trading company" also "operates" other industries, such as ...... Take control of the royal family.

From the Annam royal family at the beginning, to the Bago royal family, the Siamese royal family, and the Nanzhang royal family after the Yunnan-Burma War, almost all the royal families in southern Xinjiang were controlled by the Jinghua "trading company".

Although Geeta I is not a saint, he also knows that his situation is very bad in this situation - if he changes who is "Jinghua Trading Company" or "Jinghua Group", it is time to fight his idea.

On the side of the couch, how can you allow others to snore?

Geeta I don't know if he's heard this sentence, but he still understands it.

So when the Siamese rebels began to contact the local defenders of the Phnom Penh dynasty, Geeta I personally intervened, not only "vigorously" providing assistance, but also privately expressing his willingness to lead an army in response after the other side raised troops.

Fortunately, General Kampong Thanh Yang was more sober than him, and changed this sentence slightly, saying that "once your army achieves initial success, the Kingdom of Cambodia will directly send troops to fight jointly with your army" - he emphasized that "your army has achieved initial success".

Facts have proved that this sentence is not wrong, because if it were not for this sentence, Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin might have fought directly with the Cambodian army at that time - the rebels in eastern Siam did not achieve any "initial success" at all, and they were annihilated by Liu Xin who fell from the sky in one fell swoop.

For this situation, Geeta I, who learned the news, was shocked into a cold sweat.

He knew the strength of the rebels in eastern Siam, at least 20,000 or 30,000 troops, and when they were guarding Angkor and other places, they could even threaten Cambodia, so that the Cambodians only dared to guard the border carefully, and did not dare to look west at all.

However, such an army, which seemed to them to be strong enough, was annihilated in one fell swoop by a little-known female general of the Ming army, and the so-called rebellion eventually became only a topic of conversation among passers-by after dinner.

Gita I was shocked and angry, he never doubted the strength of the Ming army, but this Ming army was too weird, the previous deputy commander of Annan was a female general, and this time the rebellion was actually a female general?

Do you Ming only have female generals, or do you look down on the countries in southern Xinjiang at all, thinking that you only need female generals to clean them up?

Well?

However, whether Geeta I was shocked or angry at this time, it didn't make any sense, because then his mood quickly turned into panic.

Huang Zhiting, who was in Siam and privately called "Mulan of Southern Xinjiang" by the countries of Tiannan, quickly discovered the connection between Cambodia and the rebels in eastern Siam, and "King Daitan Maroyan sent a letter to His Majesty to inquire about it."

Of course, Gita I flatly denied it, insisting that this was a trick of the Siamese rebels, in order to drive a wedge between "Siamese and Cambodia and friendly diplomatic relations" and "make Siam tired of using troops, and they will have another opportunity to take advantage of it."

If there is no evidence, this "truth" makes sense, but unfortunately Huang Zhiting has a letter of communication between the two sides, obviously does not agree with the nonsense of Geeta I, so he does not reply, but directly sends 6,000 troops eastward and soon arrives at Angkor.

The Siamese and Cambodian wars seem to be on the way and have to be sent.

Gita I was terrified, and while desperately mobilizing troops to the northwest front, he sent envoys to Dingnan City in succession to "explain the suspicions".

For Geeta I, it can only be delayed for a while, after all, it will definitely not be able to fight.

The Siamese who have been pressing Cambodia for more than 100 years are not the enemies of the Ming Dynasty, let alone Cambodia? Even if he is dreaming now, the best dream is just like fighting against Nanzhang before, accidentally winning a battle, killing or capturing the enemy's main general for some reason, and then the other party judged the situation and felt that it was meaningless to fight him Cambodia, so he collected his troops and returned to the DPRK.

As for calling the minister a tribute or something, Gita I does not refuse at all now - anyway, it is the proper meaning of the question to call the Ming Dynasty, and according to hundreds of years of experience, it is not a loss to be a minister to the Heavenly Empire, and most of them even have to earn, so in the current situation, it is natural that they cannot resist for a little face.

So Gita I went to the Temple of the Emerald Buddha every day, the temple in the palace of the Great King, to worship the Buddha, hoping to move the Buddha and help him and Cambodia survive this catastrophe.

Perhaps it was the sincerity of Geeta I that really moved the heavens and the earth, and the Ming army, which was extremely powerful, suddenly turned to the defensive inexplicably.

Geeta I was ecstatic, but also fearful that the Ming army would be cheating, so while strictly ordering the front line not to relax its vigilance, he frantically sent spies to find out the news of the Ming army.

The news of the Ming army was easier to get than he imagined - the spies sent back the news very unanimously, saying that the Ming army on the front line was now all paid double salaries, and the reason was that Deputy Huang Dutong was preparing for production, and the double salaries were paid in order to accumulate virtue for the children who were about to come to earth.

Aha, and this kind of good thing?

Geeta I was overjoyed to hear the news. It's no joke for a woman to have a child these days, and if you don't get it right, you may lose your life. Even if she is "Southern Xinjiang Mulan", her health is very good, and there is no danger in giving birth, but during the period when she gives birth, including the recuperation period after giving birth, it is impossible for the Ming army to launch a large-scale military operation, right?

Geeta I pinched his fingers, and in this way, he had at least half a year or so to prepare for the war.

Besides, preparing for war is preparing for war, in addition to preparing for war, he can also do some other things, such as finding a way to go directly to Yanjing to pay tribute, begging the emperor of the Celestial Dynasty to forgive him for his previous "little mistake", and issuing an edict to let Huang Zhiting collect his troops, etc.

The emperor of the Celestial Empire, there are a large number of adults, and they have always been too lazy to care about this little matter in their southern Xinjiang, and most of the time they are persuaded to make peace.

If it was Siam in the past, the emperor of the Celestial Empire might not necessarily be useful in persuading peace, after all, Siam did not think that the Ming would hit him on the head, but now it is different. Tanmaro may not take the Ming Emperor seriously, but it is impossible for Huang Zhiting not to take the Ming Emperor seriously - she herself is still an official of the Ming Dynasty!

There is only one trouble in front of Geeta I: how can his own people go to Yanjing?

Surrounded by Siam, Nanzhang, and Annam, the land route will definitely not work, so you can only take the sea route. However, the sea route is also the world of Jinghua, and the Francophile who was rampant in Nanyang a few years ago has recently disappeared for some reason, and it seems that it is not easy to take this sea route.

However, it is easy to go, it is not easy to go, and Geeta I no longer has much power to choose, not even the time to choose.

He wasted all his efforts, and finally recruited a few fast ships that could sail far in the open sea, and immediately sent the messenger there, and prepared a large number of various tributes on board.

It's a pity that he didn't know that the Jinghua side only won a disastrous victory because of the Battle of Cape Dangwa, and during this time, he happened to drive the fleet back for repair, and happened to meet the pitiful Cambodian mission fleet on the way, and then ......

And then it was captured by the way - not even the cannon was fired, just surrounded, and the mission flotilla directly waved the white flag.

It is impossible not to surrender, and their four small boats together are equivalent to the size of one Langshan in Jinghua, and Jinghua's fleet at this time has more than 30 sea ships, what to fight? That's not how death is sent.

Besides, the envoy himself is a landlubber, he doesn't understand the sea situation at all, and his courage at sea is nine points smaller, and when he looks at the size of the Jinghua fleet, he can't even stand on his feet, so he sacrifices his life for the king...... No drama at all.

Gao Jing this guy is also very lucky, originally after the tragic victory in the Battle of Dawei Point, he was afraid of being blamed by Huang Zhiting, but he didn't know that Huang Zhiting was influenced by Gao Pragmatism, and has always attached great importance to the Portuguese Navy, and regarded it as a great enemy.

So on the way back to Daming to repair the ship, Gao Jing has been repairing, revising and rewriting the report, for fear that it will not be detailed enough and delay the master's major event. The result report has not been written, but I actually picked up a credit for it and learned the most detailed first-hand information in Cambodia.

And the even better news is that entrusted by Huang Zhiting, Liu Xin, the real commander of the war against Cambodia this time, is in Gao Jing's fleet at this time!

Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin's plan is actually not complicated at all, it is a simple sound of the east attacking the west - perhaps it should be called the sound of the west attacking the east.

The Ming army (garrison) on the Angkor side was just a virtual army, although the number was not mixed with water, it was indeed an army of 6,000, but only more than 1,000 of them were veterans, and the rest were all new soldiers. The only purpose of this garrison in Angkor was to attract the attention of Cambodia and let them gather their manpower, material and financial resources to the northwest border, while Liu Xin took the tailwind ship of Gao Jing's fleet to Annam, and led the Annam army with the Golden Port garrison as the main force, taking advantage of the weakness from eastern Cambodia and taking Phnom Penh directly!

Of course, at the appointed time, the garrison of Angkor in the west will also move, bluff, and make it look like a major war is about to start, so as to firmly attract the main force of the Cambodian army to the northwest border, and he will not be able to move a single step.

And now, not only can the previous plan be implemented smoothly, Liu Xin even further learned the detailed information in Cambodia, and the outcome of this battle has basically been decided before it starts.

Four days later, Liu Xin disembarked at the Golden Harbor, and the envoys of Geeta I were also escorted down and imprisoned in the Golden Harbor, awaiting Gao's pragmatic decision.

The next day, Liu Xin, who was holding a high-level pragmatic token (handed over by Huang Zhiting), gathered troops in Jingang and selected troops to be dispatched.

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