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As time passed, the rainy season on Indochina slowly ended, and the climate became drier. However, the clouds of war looming over Siam are getting thicker and thicker. Squadrons of several divisions have already appeared on the Siamese border. The Gulf of Siam has also been blockaded by warships of the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy. China's attack on Siam will be on the verge of breaking out!

King Chulalongkorn of Siam addressed the nation on August 15. He claimed that Siam was a great country and that the process of the Bangkok dynasty's rise to power was legitimate. Rama I was not the murderer of Zheng Xin, but a Chinese slander against Siam, the result of China's invasion of Siam. Chulalongkorn called on all Siamese people to unite and prepare for the Chinese invasion. He frantically shouted that as long as China dared to invade Siam, eight million Siamese people would be China's enemies, and China would shed all its blood in Siam.

Many Siamese people were inspired to become fanatical. They frantically wanted to sign up for the army, but the regular army of Siam was no longer conscripted, and the millions of regular troops were already too much for Siam to afford. Plus there is not enough weapons and equipment, and it is useless to call up more troops. However, the Siamese government came forward and organized these Siamese people who enthusiastically joined the army into various militias, calling on them to defend their homeland and country, and once China invaded, they used various weapons to attack the squadron to let the Chinese know the power of Siam.

British Prime Minister Arthur Balfour also made a public statement, claiming that this was a Chinese invasion of a sovereign state. The greedy and evil Chinese, they are not satisfied with the current territory, they want to expand the territory as much as possible. This greed of the Chinese will sooner or later pose a threat to the whole world. He called on the world to unite. Let go of the current preconceptions and work together to resist China.

Other members of the Entente have made similar statements. China's image among the citizens of these countries has once again been tarnished. In the minds of those ignorant citizens, China has become a truly evil country. However, in those members of the Central Powers, it was a different story. The act of war launched by China against Siam is said to be the revenge of the king, the descendants of the king who were killed by traitors. After two hundred years, a war of revenge is waged against the vile and shameless enemies. This is allowed in Europe. In the Middle Ages in Europe, this kind of revenge war was very common.

Any comments from the outside world. For China, it will not have any impact. China's military preparations are still progressing according to plan. By order of the General Staff, the 31st, 22nd and 53rd divisions, already in their assigned positions, have already arrived. The 15th Division, which is directly under the General Staff, and the 2nd Marine Division, have already boarded the transport ship. Start your journey towards the Gulf of Siam. The Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy will dispatch a support fleet mainly composed of the battleships Qin Shi Huang, the battleships Taizi Fusu, and the battlecruiser Wang Ben to provide fire support for the landing in Bangkok Bay. The firepower of two battleships and one battlecruiser was enough to destroy all the artillery in the whole of Siam. As for Siam's weak navy. There were just a few old light cruisers, and they were now locked off in Bangkok Bay. As soon as the war begins, the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Chinese Navy will be the first to deal with them.

On the morning of September 11, 1901, the Chinese General Staff was directed at the front. An order was given to march on Siam. In the Gulf of Siam, two heavy cruisers and five light cruisers of the Indian Ocean Fleet. An attack was launched on the Siamese Navy. The old light cruisers of the Siamese Navy fought to the death. However, in the face of a huge gap, the courage of the Siamese did not have the slightest effect. In less than an hour, the Siamese Navy was completely annihilated. After that, two battleships and one battlecruiser of the Indian Ocean Fleet sailed into Bangkok Bay and launched an attack on the small city of Bantaro on the coast of Bangkok Bay. Here, it will become the landing place of the 2nd Marine Division and the 15th Army Division.

"Boom! Rumble! Rumble! "Two battleships and one battle cruiser of the Indian Ocean Fleet, as well as two heavy cruisers, less than 7 km from Bantaro, crossed the hull and aimed their sides at the shore and launched a fierce artillery attack on the positions of the Siamese army. The high-explosive bomb, weighing more than 380 kilograms, pierced the air under the action of huge kinetic energy, emitted a sharp whistling sound, and smashed fiercely into the position of the Siamese army.

In order to prepare for the landing of the squadron, the Siamese army deployed a large number of troops along the coast of the Gulf of Siam. And most of them are elite troops. Garrisoned in Bantaro were the 5th and 11th Divisions of the Siam Army, two divisions, totaling more than 25,000 people. It's just that even the so-called elite army of Siam still looks so weak in front of the battle-hardened squadron. The Siamese army has not fought in roots in recent years. The same tactics they had used when they had fought with the colonial armies of Britain and France a dozen or twenty years earlier. Even though the Siam Army sent many students to Britain and France to learn advanced tactics, they only learned a little bit of it.

The Siamese army's fortifications in Bantarore were nothing more than simple civil fortifications. The roots were not poured using reinforced concrete. The consequences of such fortifications, in the face of the powerful naval guns of the Chinese Navy, can be imagined.

"Boom! Rumble! "The high-explosive shells fired by the 305-mm naval guns, each shell, can create a large crater with a diameter of several tens of meters in the ground, and all the buildings within a radius of 100 meters are leveled, and it is impossible for Gen to see a living thing in this range.

"Lord Buddha's blessing!" A Siamese soldier is praying earnestly to the Lord Buddha in the hope of surviving the brutal war. However, in the next second, a 305-mm naval artillery shell exploded more than thirty meters in front of him. The shock wave from the explosion of the cannonball directly tore the soldier's weak body to shreds. His prayer to the Lord of the Buddha did not play a role.

Siam is a Buddhist country, and almost all of its citizens are Buddhists. However, in the face of the indiscriminate bombardment of the Chinese navy, these Buddhists, their prayers, did not play any role.

During the half-hour-long shelling, the whole of Bantaro was blown into rubble. The defense line of the Siamese army was even more bombed. The Siamese army, which defended two divisions here, also suffered heavy casualties. Nearly half of the people were killed and injured in the shelling, and the morale of the remaining people was also greatly affected. In the eyes of these Siamese soldiers, the squadron has become synonymous with the devil. Isn't that the exploding orange-red flame the devil spewing out clusters of flames? Many Siamese soldiers collapsed directly. They threw away the weapons in their hands, turned around and fled, and the officers' reprimands and the like, Negen ignored them. Nothing is as important as saving your life.

At half past nine in the morning, after the Indian Ocean Fleet of the Navy cleared the obstacles, the 2nd Marine Division launched a landing on Bantaro. The strength of a battalion, on small landing craft, launched a beach-rushing landing. Several destroyers sailed less than a kilometer from the coast to provide fire cover for the Marines at close range.

The commander of the Siamese army, the commander of the 5th division of the Siamese army, ordered the Siamese army to counterattack. Thousands of Siamese troops plucked up their courage and launched an attack on the Chinese marines who had just landed on the beach. However, they were greeted by ferocious machine-gun bullets and shells.

"Da Da Da!" Once on the beach, the Marines set up their light and heavy machine guns and opened heavy fire on the Siamese troops who were counterattacking. The fleet on the sea also launched a fire suppression on these Siamese troops. The whole beach, in an instant, turned into hell. Countless Siamese soldiers fell on the way to the charge, their limbs and arms scattered all over the ground, and the blood stained almost the entire beach red.

After lightly crushing the counterattack of the Siamese army, a large force of the 2nd Marine Division began to land. As soon as the forces of a regiment came ashore, they immediately launched an attack on the city of Bantaro under the cover of the fire of the naval fleet. The two divisions of the Siamese Army guarding here have already suffered heavy losses. After barely resisting for a while, they retreated to Bangkok. The squadron took Bantaro at the cost of fewer than a few dozen casualties. Moreover, nearly 20,000 casualties were inflicted on the Siamese army.

At the same time, three infantry divisions of the Ninth Army also launched an attack on Siam. The 31st Division crossed the border of Khmer and Siam and stormed Prachin. The Siamese army was routed lightly, and Gen could not withstand the attack of the 31st Division. The 53rd Division also entered Siam from the Khmer and approached Bangkok along the coastline. In addition, they were supported by two light cruisers of the Navy, which made their progress even faster. To the west, the 22nd Division entered Kanchanaburi from Burma, routed the defenders of three divisions of the Siamese army, and made a rapid advance in the direction of Bangkok.

Although the Siam Army has deployed hundreds of thousands of troops in the border areas, these troops are all newly formed recruits, and many of them do not even have rifles. After a heavy artillery attack from the squadron, these Siamese troops were immediately frightened. With just one charge, you can crush them with ease.

The combat effectiveness of the Siamese Army was completely beyond the imagination of the Chinese General Staff. Perhaps, Southeast Asians are not suitable for being soldiers in nature! The General Staff immediately gave the order to march to Bangkok. Ask the ministries, within a week, to take Bangkok!