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Chapter 642 King of Chenla
The Lancang River is the largest river in the East other than the Yellow River and the Yangtze River. It is nine thousand miles long. It originates from Qinghai and flows southeast until it flows into the Southeast Asia.Deng Qianlong led the fleet upstream, amazed at such a scene.Who would have imagined that the Lancang River, which originated in the remote inland, would enter Nanyang at this place?

"The Yangtze River and the Yellow River originate from the plateau, and the Lancang River also originates from this place, which means that the Lancang River Basin should also belong to us." Deng Qianlong came up with an astonishing inference.

Ruan Youcai broke into a cold sweat listening to it, is this an excuse?

"General Deng, is it possible that you intend to attack King City of Chenla when you go to it?" Ruan Youcai asked worriedly.

"I'm just going to meet the King of Chenla, don't think too much." Deng Qianlong said.

"That's good. Although the strength of the Chenla Kingdom is weak, there are still more than ten thousand Chenla soldiers in Wudong City, which cannot be violated." Ruan Youcai couldn't help but rejoice that Deng Qianlong didn't go crazy, and led the Nanyang Fleet to raid the capital of Chenla.

The Nanyang Fleet traveled upstream and soon came to the junction of the Lancang River and the Tonle Sap River. Deng Qianlong could see that a huge direct current merged into the main stream of the Lancang River here.The delta area formed by the confluence of rivers is also a fertile plain.

"About 200 years ago, Angkor Kiln, the original royal city of Chenla, was attacked by Siam. The Khmer people thought that Angkor Kiln was too close to Siam, so they moved the royal city to Phnom Penh. Later, due to some reasons, they moved their capital frequently. The current Udong City is eighty miles away from the old city of Phnom Penh." Ruan Youcai told Deng Qianlong about the information about the Chenla Kingdom.

The group of them approached the shore by boat, and they saw the old city of Phnom Penh nearby.

"Leave some people to guard the ship, and the rest will disembark." Deng Qianlong gave an order, and twenty ships berthed and docked.

Among them, there are 2000 people who disembarked, and the rest will stay on the ship to meet them. In case the 2000 people who landed have something to do, there is still a fleet that can be used as a retreat.In Deng Qianlong's view, the Nanyang Fleet's most treasured ships were these ships. Even if something happened to him and the landing force he led, if he could keep these warships, he would be able to give the army leader Chu Yun an explanation before he died.After all, this time he went deep into the Lancang River, which was a step further than the mission given to him by the military department.

The military department only asked him to control Priango as the southernmost port of the Kyushu Army in Annan, but Deng Qianlong felt that he was not challenging, so he entered the Lancang River arbitrarily.

"Each troop brought their muskets and enough ammunition, and pulled down eight field cannons from the ship, maybe it would be useful." Deng Qianlong reminded.

"General Deng, didn't you say that you are only here to meet the king of Chenla? This is armed with guns and cannons..." Ruan Youcai looked at the Nanyang Fleet, and it didn't look like he was going to meet the king at all. Hello!

"The king of Chenla doesn't know me, so what if he harms me? I ordered people to bring guns and cannons, just to save their lives. Don't think too much." Deng Qianlong patted Ruan Youcai on the shoulder, telling him not to go too far Worry.

But Ruan Youcai was still very uneasy, because the Nanyang Fleet's attitude, even if it was to save his life, the King of Chenla would not believe it when he saw it!

Deng Qianlong brought everyone to the old city of Phnom Penh.For some unknown reason, Phnom Penh was abandoned by the Chenla Kingdom and became a dilapidated city with no one living there.

"Do you know why Phnom Penh was abandoned by the Chenla Kingdom and moved the royal city to Wudong Mountain, eighty miles away?" Deng Qianlong asked Ruan Youcai who was more familiar with the place.

"I don't know about this, because Phnom Penh was abandoned a hundred years ago, and I'm also very curious." Ruan Youcai suddenly squatted on the ground, as if he had found some clues, "There is a lot of mud and sand in this city, and there are rare pebbles scattered , it is very likely that because of a heavy rain in a certain year, the water level of the Lancang River rose sharply, flooding the city of Phnom Penh, which was too close to the river."

"It looks very likely to be like this." Deng Qianlong also found shells and fish bones on the street after the flood water receded, which can be used as evidence.

However, Deng Qianlong didn't care much about what happened in Phnom Penh of Zhenla Kingdom. His current goal was Udong City, which is located eighty miles away from Phnom Penh.

Two thousand soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet began to march towards Udong City with artillery.During the period, I met many farmers from the Chenla Kingdom, but these farmers did not know where the army of 2000 people and strange clothes came from, and they were frightened and scattered.

As more and more people of the Chenla Kingdom discovered this army, the King of Chenla Kingdom in Udong City was alarmed soon before the soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet arrived at Wudong Mountain.

The terrified king of Chenla thought it was the arrival of the army of the old enemy Siam, so he hurriedly mobilized the Wudong city and the nearby Chenla army, and got 1000 soldiers, and set up a formation at the foot of Wudong Mountain to face Siam. army.

1000 people, although I don't know how much smaller than the large-scale battles in the Central Plains, but in the Indochina Peninsula, this is already a quite powerful force.

"King, look, this doesn't look like the troops of Siam. Their costumes are very strange." Several generals of Chenla saw the soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet on the top of the earthen wall, and found that they were not very different from their old enemy, Siam. Same, always feel weird.

"Send someone to ask who they are and what they are doing in our country of Chenla." Said the king of Chenla.

Soon someone from the Chenla camp acted as an envoy and walked towards the soldiers of the Nanyang Fleet.Those who act as envoys are also very unlucky. If they do not know the identity and purpose of the other party, they are likely to be slaughtered.

When the envoy came to the Nanyang Fleet, he looked left and right at these strangers, his eyes full of fear.

"What is he talking about?" Deng Qianlong asked Ruan Youcai, only Ruan Youcai waited for the people who had been stationed in Chenla Kingdom for a long time to understand the language of Chenla Kingdom.

"He is an envoy sent by the King of Chenla to question the purpose of our army coming here." Ruan Youcai saw the crowds of Chenla troops on the opposite side, and knew that the matter was getting serious, so he couldn't help sweating. The probability will trigger a large-scale bloody battle between the two sides under Wudong Mountain.

Deng Qianlong was riding a war horse and saw that some people in the opposite army were still holding hoes and sickles, not much different from beggars, so he couldn't help thinking of conquering the Chenla Kingdom.

"Why are their weapons so crude?" Deng Qianlong asked Ruan Youcai to confirm, still a little worried.

"It's mostly due to the perennial wars with Siam, Toungoo and even Champa. They are also lacking in iron ore mining and lack of supplies. They are not as good as our Annan country." Ruan Youcai confirmed Deng Qianlong's conjecture,
"Then tell their envoys, let the king of Chenla go out of the country and surrender, and accept the enlightenment of our heavenly kingdom." Deng Qianlong said.

Ruan Youcai's face turned blue after hearing this.

(End of this chapter)