Lu Ming

Chapter 634 The embodiment of historical inertia and the promotion of the line of fire
While the fleet broke into the outer port of Saigon, Wang Bo received reports from outlying sentries one after another.

Sentinels are not all the way.Among them were scouts from the Pioneering Army dispatched by Wang Bo himself, as well as scouts from various ministries of the coalition forces.

Without exception, these sentries brought the same news: there was no sign of reinforcements from the north.

After finally gathering the information, Wang Bo could only let out a long sigh and said to the adjutant: "Oh, the fleet will definitely not be able to continue on land when the fleet enters the port. Let's call the team back to attack the city."

"Yes!"

The team mentioned here is their own team, the pioneer army.

For the early attack on Saigon City, several other coalition forces have been taking turns to play.

Doing so, of course, consumes a little cannon fodder, and the meaning of exercising the muscles and bones is in it, but this is not the main thing.The commander of the coalition forces, Wang Bo, stationed troops under the city of Saigon. What he wanted to do most was to besiege the city and fight for reinforcements, and eliminate the reinforcements that the Kingdom of Cambodia might send from the northern plateau.

For this reason, Wang Bo did not hesitate to go to war. First, he arranged for a part of the North Vietnamese Army with relatively poor military discipline to go to the north of Saigon City to "strike grass valleys" to drive out the people and create no-man's land on the battlefield.

Next, he dispatched 1500 main troops of the Pioneering Army to find favorable terrain to station in the north, spread out sentries, and prepare for a comfortable rescue.

However, except for a small number of troops who rushed into the city to support Saigon after receiving the news at the beginning, in the end, Wang Bo did not wait for reinforcements from Phnom Penh.

In other words, the Cambodian plateau kingdom with Phnom Penh as its capital has in fact abandoned Saigon City and the low-growing grain area of ​​the Mekong River represented by Saigon City.

"Is this the so-called historical inertia?"

When Wang Bo ordered the main force to be transferred back and was about to break through the city, he muttered something like this in his mouth.

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The city of Saigon in history was also occupied in a situation of isolation and helplessness.

Prior to this, the Khmer (Cambodia) Empire, which controlled the Mekong Plain, was a powerful empire from the 9th century to the 15th century.

However, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the successive years of war with Siam (Thailand) led to the decline of the Khmer Empire's national strength.In the end, Angkor Thom, the capital, was captured and burned by the Siamese. The Cambodians had to retreat away from Siam and re-established the capital in Phnom Penh.

Since then, the Kingdom of Cambodia, which is basically located on the plateau, has gradually lost its ability to control the Saigon Plain.

In real history, during the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, Saigon was finally occupied by the Ruan clan of South Vietnam.In the same way, when the city fell, Phnom Penh City also did not send support, watching its own territory lose.

"But that's 60 years later!"

Wang Bo was a little puzzled.The fall of Saigon in history was firstly caused by a large number of refugees flooded into the Chao Phraya River plain caused by the Vietnamese civil war. After that, Saigon was taken by the Vietnamese.

At that time, it was already the 37th year of Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty. There were Vietnamese people everywhere inside and outside the city of Saigon. The final fall can be said to be a combination of inside and outside.

This is the point that Wang Bo can't figure out.Now is the "30s", there are not many Vietnamese refugees on the Mekong River plain, and Cambodians are still the majority inside and outside Saigon.

However, under such circumstances, he deliberately besieged Saigon for many days, but he did not see reinforcements from the direction of Phnom Penh. This made Wang Bo feel a sense of loss when his fist hit the air.

For him, eliminating the field corps that may appear in the northern Kingdom of Cambodia is a necessary step for the "long-term stability" in the future.

But in the current situation, he was a little confused: Are the Cambodians really weak and weak, or are they saving their energy to go down the mountain to fuck his ass?

The former possibility is due to historical inertia, which shows that the Cambodians have long been weak.In the latter case, he, Commander Wang, is nodding his head: long-term deployment of defenses against the northern plateau will undoubtedly stretch the Nanyang Governor's Mansion, which is not well-managed.

Commander Wang, who was in charge of the military, felt ashamed at this moment.

"It's really fucking bad luck, and you have to engage in intelligence and defense!"

Wang Bo, who failed to complete his work in one battle, was naturally not in a good mood.This caused him to have a gloomy face all day the next day, even when Saigon City opened.

Saigon Kaesong, and there are no waves.

In fact, if Commander Wang is willing, he can knock on the gate of Saigon on the first day of stationing troops.After all, the stronger Hue city can be knocked open, and Saigon city is not difficult.

The main force of the pioneering army mobilized back, adopted the high-tech means of "breech-loading gun suppression + artificial blasting", and easily blasted the Saigon city gate.

This clean and neat action exposed the large-scale organizational capabilities of the Ming Army for the first time, deterred the enemy and friendly forces, and allowed the various ministries of the coalition forces, which had been lacking intuition, to clearly understand the situation and put away their irrational thoughts.

Yes, it is bronze at home, but when going abroad, in front of these Nanyang bumpkins, the lightly armed pioneer army becomes the king.

After Kaesong, things went smoothly.After all, along the way, enough cities have been opened, and everyone is numb.

But the process has to go.After the pioneering army entered the city, the first step was to surrender the defenders and suppress all strategic locations in the city with muskets.

The operation to control the nodes of the city went smoothly, because the defender knights had already lost their will to fight.Had it not been for Wang Bo's intentional release of water before, there is a high probability that the defenders would not be able to persist today.

This point was quickly verified: According to the captives’ confession, the Cambodian deputy king who was in charge of guarding Saigon ran away from the city with gold, jewels and treasures on the night he saw smoke pillars from burning houses on the horizon.

After hearing the news, Wang Bo's gloomy face relaxed a lot: as the highest-ranking member of the Kingdom of Cambodia, the deputy king must know the inside story of the court.

This time, the deputy king fled without a fight, which most likely shows that the upper echelons of the Phnom Penh Mansion had acquiesced to give up the lowland territory long ago.

Commander Wang, whose mood turned from cloudy to sunny, led his entourage and rode into Saigon City on a tall horse on the afternoon when the army took over Saigon City.

Unlike the prefectures that the Ming people were accustomed to, the architectural layout of Saigon, a city with a lower latitude, was obviously much simpler than that of Vietnam.

The rivers in the city are densely covered, and densely packed boats can be seen everywhere. The largest number of buildings are the bamboo shacks where the poor live, and the frightened Saigon poor are hiding inside. There are few masonry buildings.

After recalling in his mind the South Asian dwellings in some TV footage "before he was alive", and found that it was similar to the real scene in front of him, Wang Bo could only shake his head and led his troops into the Vice-Prince's Mansion.

The messy Vice Prince's Mansion is the most luxurious building in the city, barely worthy of the Ming Dynasty gentry's grade of "deep house compound".

Commander Wang entered the mansion, sat down in the lobby, and executed the order without saying a word.

The first was to send the North Vietnamese away.

Prior to this, the strategy set by the Nanyang Raiders team was to use the North Vietnamese as cannon fodder as much as possible to invade more southern land.

But things are constantly changing.With the development of the current situation, the Nanyang team found that it was a little overthinking before: the huge power of industrialization is omnipresent, even in unfamiliar areas far away from the mainland, it can still make the travelers strong and healthy and everything goes well.

In this case, there are some things that need not be too cautious, and the development process can be promoted appropriately and quickly.

Based on this idea, the traversers turned against Prince Zheng without any scruples about the unification of the North Vietnamese court. Not only did they save the Ruan clan as planned, but they also stepped in and armed the core Ruan troops.

In this way, publicly supporting the rebellion is tantamount to completely turning against the new North Vietnamese dynasty.

But at the same time, it also gained a relatively loyal peripheral force.

Then, on the day when Saigon broke the city, the last remaining value of the North Vietnamese soldiers was also squeezed out: before the coalition forces burned, killed, looted and raided Caogu on the Mekong River Plain, they were all done in the name of the North Vietnamese court.

Now, Wang Bo is going to send the North Vietnamese away.In the future, good things like running the Mekong River grain-producing area and even attacking Siam have nothing to do with the new North Vietnamese court.

Although this journey has been made, the North Vietnamese general also saw the benefits of occupying Saigon for the country.However, the new North Vietnamese court far away in Hue is still busy rectifying its internal affairs, and has no time to cast its sights on the Mekong Plain.

Therefore, in the face of Commander Wang's timely request, the North Vietnamese general, who had just had a little idea of ​​occupying a hole, could only grit his teeth and nod yes, agreeing to take his troops "back to the country."

The North Vietnamese general knew very well that the situation was stronger than the people.Right now, the Ming people's musketeers have occupied the city, and there are soldiers from the Ruan family to support them. They are no opponents at all.If there is a quarrel, the family will definitely suffer a big loss.

Besides, the chief general didn't actually get any authorization to make trouble from his prince.

The arrogant and domineering Commander Wang, if you don't pay attention to the general's actions and don't know the current affairs, you will end up badly. If I see you wandering around Saigon tomorrow, you may be shot to see off the guests.

After dismissing all the boredom, Commander Wang rubbed his face, put on a smile, and ordered to summon a group of guests outside the door.

What guest?Ming merchants.

In later generations, there were buddies who went to Africa to sell small commodities. In the [-]th century, there were also merchant groups of the Ming Dynasty who opened their doors to do business in various city-states in Southeast Asia.

These Ming merchants are familiar with the local conditions, can write and count, and have the same blood. Is there a more perfect leading party than this?

In fact, the reason why the Nanyang Governor's Mansion dared to make big strides in "occupying land" was that these Ming merchants who were familiar with the situation in various places were important bargaining chips, and they had long been included in the overall plan.

This is also the reason why Ming merchants were able to come to the Vice-Prince's Mansion to meet General Wang at the first time: the intelligence department sent people to Saigon to communicate and communicate before dispatching troops.

The businessmen were not disappointed.

As a soldier, Wang Bo was extremely straightforward. As soon as the two sides met, the Commander took out a stack of letters of appointment issued by the General Military Office of Guangdong.

The front-line cadres are copying this time. From this moment on, they really got on the rocket. They were promoted from civilians to deputy county level overnight. He was promoted to deputy second official: county magistrate.

This kind of big scene where everyone has skills and officials do it, the local Ming merchant who originally planned to be a leader for a few days and get a little distribution rights for industrial products was shocked!

At the next moment, Lord Wang promised: as long as you honestly assist the local county magistrates sent by the fleet, then everyone's good days are still to come.At that time, each of your family can staking land on both sides of the fertile Mekong River, open plantations, and earn a family business for your descendants.

(End of this chapter)