Several countries in Southeast Asia, the history is actually very interesting, Zhenla was also a small overlord during the Angkor Dynasty, but then the capital Angkor did not hold, and it was a third-rate small country, basically no one could beat it.

But it's precisely because of his weakness that Zhenla knows very well that he must hold a thick leg, not like Siam Jue, who is not bad and wants to remain neutral, but he is beaten and doesn't even have a helper.

It's just that although Zhenla found the thigh of the Ming Dynasty, the situation is still not very optimistic, and the reinforcements of the three countries of Guangnan were defeated by the Dutch, which made Zhenla a little worried.

However, although King Zhenla was a little worried in his heart, his determination to stand on the side of the Ming Dynasty would not change.

In addition to the strength of the Ming Dynasty, but also because of the economic erosion of the Ming Dynasty over the years, the Zhenla Kingdom now produces almost nothing except rice and various fruits, cloth, porcelain, ironware, and many materials are exchanged for rice in the Ming Dynasty, forming a huge dependence on the economy.

Under this model, the Zhenla Kingdom can only be close to the Ming Dynasty, and the Netherlands is just a second-class dealer, and they produce nothing.

In fact, without this Dutch attack, King Zhenla was also prepared to invite him as a vassal in the coming year, joining the new tributary system of the Ming Dynasty and seeking refuge.

Chenla is close to Champa and is located in the west of Champ, and the Dutch want to attack Champa by land, they must use the country of Chenla.

In September, after a short rest in Siam, the Dutch entered the country and demanded that the country take advantage of the land and provide food.

After being refused, the Dutch directly entered Chenla, defeated the blockers of Chenla and Quang Nam, killed 10,000 people, and entered the city of Phnom Penh.

At present, the allied forces composed of the three kingdoms of Chenla and Quang Nam are about 20,000 people, hiding in the city of Phnom Penh and not daring to fight.

Phnom Penh is the capital of Zhenla, and it is also the largest city in Zhenla, but after the fall of the Angkor Dynasty, Zhenla is a small country and poor, and it is said to be the capital, but in fact it is not as big as a county town in the Ming Dynasty.

The army in the city was about the same number as the enemy outside the city, but the pressure on the garrison was great, mainly because of the disparity in weapons, the Dutch used flintlock pistols, they used arquebuses, and the defenders did not have any artillery.

With the military strength of Zhenla, it is natural that it cannot hold Phnom Penh City, and the people who are responsible for defending the city are the people and horses of the Zheng Lord of Annam and the Nguyen Lord of Quang Nam, these two families often fought before, so the people and horses still have some combat effectiveness.

Because Zheng Ruan was not in harmony, they simply guarded a city wall.

Nguyen Lord Nguyen Phuc was on the verge of guarding the western city, while he was hiding behind the battlements and looking down, the Dutch were camping in the rice fields and woods outside Phnom Penh, and the sultan's soldiers dressed in white or green were lining up in the rice fields, and more than 200 war elephants were wandering in the rice fields and woods.

Outside the woods, three miles from the city, more than thirty pieces of Dutch artillery were lined up, the muzzles of which were facing the city walls.

The soldiers in the city are squatting on the city, and do not dare to leak their heads, morale is very low, Ruan Phuc can not help but regret a little in his heart, the Ming Dynasty gave them the order is to stick to Chenla, waiting for the arrival of the imperial army, as a result, he and Zheng Zhu attacked, and did not wait in Phnom Penh according to the orders of the Ming Dynasty, but took the initiative to attack, was defeated by the Dutch, and lost 10,000 people, of which he Ruan lost the most, accounting for forty percent of the loss.

"Father, the artillery of the Dutch is powerful, there is already a panic in the city, if the reinforcements do not come, the city will not be able to hold it sooner or later!" Ruan Fuwei's third son said worriedly.

Ruan Fuwei frowned, "The Ming Dynasty agreed to arrive in Phnom Penh in early October, and now it is the end of September, and the reinforcements should be arriving soon." Moreover, this king has already sent someone to Zhancheng to inform the governor of Qiandu, and there should be people and horses coming over there soon. ”

"Father, I'm not worried about Daming's reinforcements, I'm worried about whether Lord Zheng's side will sneak away!"

This is a problem, but Ruan Phuc Wei quickly shook his head, "They don't dare, before the Li clan privately used the emperor name to designate the capital as Shenglong, they were reprimanded by the Ming Dynasty." Lord Zheng hurriedly sent Lê to the emperor's name, and changed Thang Long to Hanoi, and they were afraid of angering the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Ming Dynasty has just recovered Shenjing, the King of Chu has entered the prison country, and his martial arts are flourishing, the Zheng family is even more untouched by the Ming Dynasty's brows. ”

As the two were talking, a drum of "dong dong dong" suddenly sounded outside the city, and all kinds of bird songs spread to the city, Ruan Fu's face sank, and then he waved his hand and said, "Okay, don't talk about it, the enemy army is going to attack the city, and immediately warn the soldiers, so that the soldiers can cheer up." ”

The warning bell is ringing at the head of Phnom Penh! While! When the sound sounded, the Nguyen soldiers rushed up to the city, with bows and arrows and firearms in hand, and waited for the battle.

Outside the city, the soldiers and war elephants of the various sultanates formed a phalanx and walked in the wilderness and waist-high grass.

This is different from the roar of hundreds of thousands of people on the battlefield of the Central Plains, the entire battlefield is very quiet, the formation is not dense, and there is a large distance between the phalanxes, but there is a different kind of killing atmosphere.

Wood Hauswell, the commander appointed by the East India Company, was using a monocular clairvoyant to observe the city, the sparse banners, and the Nguyen army, who did not dare to show their heads, made him full of contempt for the defenders.

After successive victories, the Dutch were full of confidence, and Constantine Nobel, the deputy commander of the Dutch army, couldn't help laughing and saying: "These yellow-skinned monkeys are really vulnerable, and when we take down Phnom Penh, the company should give us a little more proportion of the wealth we get." ”

As early as after defeating the Siamese army, Constantine wanted to attack Ayutthaya directly, seized the capital of Siam, and robbed the property inside, but Wood did not agree, and the company asked them to fight the city, and they would give the Ming Dynasty the opportunity to occupy the city.

Wood was also more excited in his heart, Phnom Penh is also the capital of Zhenla anyway, and they will definitely be able to grab a lot of gold and silver if they fight down.

"When Phnom Penh is conquered and Champa is captured, as long as the company gives me 5,000 people, I can take Guangzhou, and the wealth there is enough for us for several lifetimes." Wood laughed too.

"Your Excellency Commander, the artillery team is ready!" A Dutchman suddenly came to report.

Wood looked back and saw thirty nine-pounder cannons lined up in a rice field, and the Dutch had already lit torches. There were no long-range weapons in the city, and the earthen cannons could not reach the Dutch artillery array, so they were very leisurely.

"Herald fire! Give these natives a little color! ”

A whistle sounded, and a Dutchman standing in front of the artillery emplacement, waved the red flag in his hand downward, and shouted, "Shoot!" ”

The artillery position of the Dutch suddenly erupted into a deafening sound of cannons, thick white smoke covered the long front, the artillery mounts retreated, and about ten catties of iron bullets rushed out of the muzzle and smashed into the city wall, and the dust on the city of Phnom Penh was flying, and countless gravel rose into the air and fell like raindrops, hitting the Ruan army holding his head at the head of the city.

Guangnan also has cannons, but very few, and mainly from the Ming Dynasty from the old artillery, they really haven't seen so many cannons together to bombard the city, the soldiers feel the city shakes, the heart is terrified, one by one squatting on the city, let the stones hit the body.

At this time, the Dutchmen of each cannon began to clear their chambers with sticks wrapped in wet towels, and the slightest sound of water vapor evaporation came from the chambers, and the other man then loaded a new packet of propellant and loaded the iron bullets, and the Dutchman who cleared the guns used the stick wrapped around the towel to compact the iron bullets, and the artillerymen adjusted their positions again, and the second round of fire came.

The Dutchmen moved skillfully, and soon fired three rounds of cannons, and as the shells flew out, the entire artillery array was shrouded in clouds of white smoke, and the air was filled with the smell of gunsmoke.

The walls of Phnom Penh were constantly filled with the sound of falling masonry and cries, mixed with many screams and cries of panic, and the city was in shambles, covered in raised dust.

At this time, the soldiers in the rice fields, under the command of generals wearing Persian-style chain mail and turbans on their heads, the soldiers of each phalanx began to rush towards the dusty city with long ladders.

The Sultanate's soldiers, dressed in long robes and armed with scimitars, roared towards the walls.

Ruan Phuc in the city patted the dust on his body, looked down at the city, looked at the enemy troops scattered and rushed towards him, and immediately shouted loudly: "Shoot arrows, shoot guns!" ”

When the soldiers in the city heard the sound, they leaked half of their bodies in the middle of the ring, and shot arrows at the city, they did not have a very strict organization, basically they shot freely, where there were more people to shoot. The soldiers of the Sultanate who charged under the city also scattered and charged, without any formation.

As the soldiers on the city wall began to shoot downward, the running Sultanate soldiers, constantly hit arrows and guns, straightened up and fell to the ground.

After the Ming Dynasty changed the outfit of the army, it eliminated a large number of firearms, some of which were assembled with government soldiers, some of which were given to the tunhu and chambers of commerce in Nanyang, and a large part of which were sold to subject countries at low prices.

The shooting on the city quickly suppressed the attack of the Sultanate's soldiers, and their main siege equipment was only a long ladder, although the city of Phnom Penh was short, but it was not easy to attack the city.

At this moment, however, three groups of Dutch musketeers, a total of nine hundred men, stepped forward to a place one hundred and fifty paces below the city of Phnom Penh.

These Dutchmen raised their guns and fired, three rows of shots in turn, and under the smoke of gunpowder, the projectiles kept shooting at the head of the city.

The arquebuses in the city were originally slow to fire, and there was no organization, the Dutch finished fighting in one row, on the second row, and on the second row and on the third row, the movements were uniform, and the projectiles kept hitting the city, and immediately suppressed the Ruan army.

For a while, the screams of the city head came and went, and people continued to be shot and fell down the city, and the defenders above did not dare to show their heads at all.

A Nguyen gunner, loaded with ammunition and sweating behind the battlements, listened to the sound of a row of guns, gritted his teeth and stood up, ready to shoot at the city, but the Dutchman's musket opened fire again, the bullet made his body tremble, and he fell down the city screaming.

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