Rebirth of Zhu Di's son

Chapter 393 The fall of the Li Dynasty
While the ministers of Qianxi were actively working hard to govern the two provinces of Mengdian and Menglao, Si Renfa, Tun Tulu, Dao Mengtai, and Li Li did not stop pursuing power.

In the impression of the King of Siam (King Samphia), Si Renfa, the leader of Luchan, has always been a heroic figure.

Therefore, when he learned that Si Renfa had led tens of thousands of soldiers to seek refuge, he was extremely shocked.

He did not want to offend the Ming Dynasty, so he was unwilling to take in Si Renfa, but he was even more unwilling to go to war with Si Renfa directly.

The reason why the King of Siam reacted like this is because the current system of Siam determines that it cannot expel Siamfa through strong force.

The rule of the King of Siam was limited to the royal territory, and the local areas were managed by the chiefs of each tribe.

In other words, once the two sides went to war, Siam's local army had not yet all assembled, and Sirenfa might have already broken through the Royal City of Siam in advance.

Therefore, after some thinking, the King of Siam sent an envoy to receive Sirenfa and sent him good wine and food. He expressed his willingness to provide food and grass and made way for Sirenfa to join King Chenla.

At this moment, Sirenfa received a secret letter from Tun Tulu and learned that Tun Tulu was on his way to join him with [-] broken troops.

Along the way, Si Renfa saw that Siam's national power was far inferior to Lucchuan before, and the king was weak, so he came up with a plan and decided to play a show with Tun Tulu.

He pretended to agree to the King of Siam's request, but ordered his son Si Jifa to contact Tun Tulu secretly.

In August of the 15th year of Qianxi's reign, just when Sirenfa began to head towards the Kingdom of Chenla via Siam, Tun Tulu relied on the weapons secretly supported by Sirenfa and his son, and burned, killed, looted, and attacked all the way. Arrive at Siam City.

The King of Siam was faced with an urgent matter. In desperation, he had no choice but to ask for help from Si Renfa, who had not yet gone far.

Sirenfa made a comeback and defeated Thon Tulu, earning the gratitude of the people and ministers of the Siamese royal city.

As for the King of Siam, on the surface he was extremely grateful to Si Renfa and his son, but secretly he was thinking about how to survive. He knew that the situation was over and he could not defeat Si Renfa and his son.

In order to live a decent life, the King of Siam, in recognition of Si Renfa's contribution to the rescue, worshiped him as a general, married his sister to Si Jifa, and married Si Renfa's daughter as his princess.

In October of the 15th year of Emperor Qianxi's reign, the King of Siam handed over the power of Wang Ji to the head of state, Si Renfa, citing physical discomfort.

Tun Tulu knew Sirenfa's ambitions and methods, and he also had a good impression of the young Si Jifa. In order to express his sincerity, he accepted Sirenfa's proposal and married his sister to Si Jifa, while he himself married Si Jifa. The thoughtful sister.

In this way, Tun Tulu became Si Jifa's brother-in-law, and Si Jifa became Tun Tulu's brother-in-law.

Si Renfa knew that he was old, so he supported his son Si Jifa to take charge of the core power.

In April of the 16th year of Qianxi's reign, General Si Jifa of Siam relapsed from an old injury and could not recover after half a month of treatment. He later died of illness at the General's residence in the Royal City of Siam. His son Si Jifa succeeded him as General and took charge of the royal power of Siam. .

Just when Sirenfa was attending the funeral, Sijifa suddenly received an urgent report from spies that the city of King Chenla was destroyed by the general of the Champa Kingdom and the entire family of King Chenla was killed.

The so-called general of the Champa Kingdom turned out to be Li Li, who had previously proclaimed himself the King of Pingding.

In October of the 16th year of Qianxi's reign, Si Jifa received a piece of news that shocked him extremely - Li Li had established himself as the king of Yue and was preparing to attack Siam!
It turned out that after Le Li was defeated by the Ming army and fled south, he actually took refuge with the Champa king. Then he attacked Chenla for the Champa king and purchased many old Ming army firearms from Nanyang pirates disguised as spies of the Ming Dynasty.

He used firearms to conquer cities and territories, and rose up the ranks under the king of Champa, becoming a general.

However, Dao Mengtai went to seek refuge with King Chenla shortly after Lili took refuge with the King of Champa.

He led troops to resist Champa and was relied upon by the King of Chenla. However, when Lili attacked Chenla, he cooperated inside and outside and helped Lili open the gate of the city of Chenla.

After Li Li conquered the city of Chenla, he became the most powerful general under the king of Champa with a large number of troops.

In mid-May of the 16th year of Qianxi's reign, Li Li seized power through a coup, killed the entire Champa king family, and established himself as the king of Yue.

In order to demonstrate the power of the Yue King, Li Li sent his son Li Lin and general Dao Mengtai to conquer the east and west, eliminate the disobedient forces in the original Chenla and Champa one by one, and implement the overbearing national policy of "those who obey me will prosper, and those who go against me will perish".

More than five months later, Li Li sent his son Li Lin to lead an army of [-] to conquer Siam westward.

At this time, Si Jifa, the actual ruler of Siam, quickly sent Tun Tulu to lead an army of [-] to stop it.

It is a pity that Tun Tulu was shot and died during the battle.

This cannon is a general cannon produced in the Ming Dynasty that Le Li purchased from the "South Sea Pirates".

Si Jifa believed that Le Li's weapons were too powerful and it would be a matter of time before he could break through the Royal City of Siam, so he finally led his troops to surrender to Le Li's Vietnamese army.

In order to show his ambition, Le Li specially appointed Si Jifa as the right general, and changed the Siam Royal City to the western capital of Vietnam, with Si Jifa guarding it.

Si Jifa is naturally grateful.

However, Le Li took the opportunity to remove half of Si Jifa's young soldiers on the grounds of sweeping away the disobedient forces in various places.

As early as half a month after Li Li established himself as the king of Yue, that is, at the end of May in the 16th year of Qianxi, Zhu Gaoxu, who was far away in the Forbidden City of the Ming Dynasty, received news of the establishment of the Li family's Yue Kingdom.

He knew that the time had come to annex the Funan Peninsula, so he formulated a series of plans and began to annex the Funan Peninsula.

Zhu Gaoxu first sent an envoy to hold Li Li accountable and asked Li Li to hand over the king of Champa and Chenla. After all, Champa and Chenla were vassals of the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty had the responsibility to protect the peace between the two countries.

Li Li did not dare to declare war on the Ming Dynasty at this time. He argued that the king of Champa was killed by bandits. He repelled the bandits and was supported as king by the subjects of Champa.

As for the Kingdom of Chenla, it was destroyed by the Kingdom of Siam. He sent troops to attack the Kingdom of Siam in order to avenge King Chenla's entire family.

Because he destroyed Siam and avenged King Chenla, he gained the support of the subjects of Chenla.

In the end, he had to establish a new country - Yue State with the support of his soldiers and subjects.

Li Li believed that Lord Qianxi wanted him to surrender to the Ming Dynasty, so after personally receiving the angel of the Ming Dynasty with a very solemn etiquette, he respectfully presented a document.

In the document, he complimented Zhu Gaoxu's wisdom and martial arts, and emphasized that Yue was just a small border country and was not worthy of the anger of the Ming Dynasty. He would definitely submit his confession on time to express his surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

To show his sincerity, Li Li also attached a gift list at the back of the document. The gift list contained 3 taels of gold, 40 taels of silver, and various rare and rare treasures.

Li Li said that if Emperor Qianxi of the Ming Dynasty could confer him the title of King of Yue, he would pay tribute of 3 taels of gold and 40 taels of silver to the Ming Dynasty every three years.With the national strength of Li Shiyue's country, let alone 3 taels of gold and 40 taels of silver, he can't even get out 10 taels of gold and [-] taels of silver now.

Therefore, the more beautifully he says this, the more it reflects his cunning.

After Zhu Gaoxu received Li Li's document, he was not impressed by Li Li's praise of Haikou and continued to implement his plan to infiltrate the Funan Peninsula step by step.

So, just half a month after Sijifa surrendered to Li Li, that is, in early November of the 16th year of Qianxi, a small fleet under the Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty sailed into Li Shi while tracking a group of "Nanyang pirates" The southeastern coast of Vietnam was then attacked by the Li clan's Vietnamese coastal defense force and was defeated and fled.

Li Li didn't know that this encounter between the two sides was actually part of Zhu Gaoxu's plan.

A few days later, a 5000-man partial division of the Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty sailed to the southeast coast of Li Shiyue Kingdom.

The partial division of the Nanyang Navy of the Ming Dynasty asked Li's country to hand over the Nanyang pirates who had smuggled Ming artillery. Li Li pretended to agree, but took the opportunity to attack the partial division of the Ming Navy.

The partial division of the Ming Navy was "defeated according to plan", "fleeed" and "abandoned" three ordnance ships.

These three ships actually carried more than 3000 bird guns (matchlock guns) made in Yongle ten years.

Li Li was extremely arrogant after repelling a 5000-man partial division of the Ming Dynasty's Nanyang Navy and harvesting more than 3000 cannons.

In early December of the 16th year of the Qianxi reign, Li Li pretended to be the Emperor of Dayue, and his reign name was Shuntian. He changed the name of Angkor Thom to Shangjing City, granted the title of civil and military meritorious officials, canonized Li Lin as the prince, canonized Dao Mengtai as the hereditary king of all things, and canonized Siji. He became the hereditary king of Luchuan.

At this point, the three kingdoms of Chenla, Siam, and Champa were destroyed one after another, and the Le Dai Viet Kingdom emerged and became the overlord in the southern part of the Funan Peninsula.

However, according to the intelligence collected by Jinyiwei spies, the Kingdom of Dai Viet was newly established. The local wealthy families, chiefs, leaders, etc. in the original Chenla, Siam, and Champa territories were under the rule of outsiders Le Li, Dao Mengtai, and Si Jifa. It's also a double act.

They just couldn't defeat Le Le's guards equipped with muskets in terms of force. It didn't mean that they didn't want to resist Le Le's rule.

Seeing that the time was ripe to eliminate Li Li and others, Zhu Gaoxu issued an edict to attack Li Li in early February of the 17th year of Qianxi.

Subsequently, he appointed Duke Xue Lu of Jiao County as the left general of Pingman to lead the Beijing army of [-] people, Duke Chen Mao of Junjun County as the right general of Pingman to lead the guard army of [-] people, and Marquis of Jingxiang Yang Hong as the middle general of Pingman army to lead the guard army of [-] people. Ping'an, the commander of the Nanyang Navy, led the Nanyang Navy of [-] men as General Dangman. Wei Xian, Guo Jian, Tang Yun, Geng Xuan, Sheng Lei and others were deputy generals.

He also ordered the prince Zhu Zhanyu to supervise the country, and asked the six ministries and nine ministers to assist him.

At the end of February, Zhu Gaoxu led Xue Lu, Chen Mao, Yang Hong and others to personally lead [-] Ming Dynasty soldiers on hundreds of large ships, and joined forces with the [-] Nanyang Navy commanded by Ping An in the southeastern sea of ​​Li Shiyue Kingdom. one place.

In early March, Zhu Gaoxu ordered the Nanyang Navy to be divided into three groups, each with 1 troops. They would cover the [-] troops each led by Xue Lu, Chen Mao, and Yang Hong from the southeast coast of Champa, the southern coast of Chenlan, and the southern coast of Siam. A large army landed to fight.

Zhu Gaoxu commanded the remaining [-] soldiers and took up command on the southeast coast of the original Champa City.

In this way, the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty marched by land and water to defeat the rebels Li Li, Si Jifa and others.

The firearms in Li Li's hands were originally old-style weapons that had been eliminated by the Ming army decades ago. They were powerful enough to deal with the natives, but they were far from enough to deal with today's Ming soldiers.

This time, the Ming army was equipped with a large number of rifled needle-fire muskets with paper-packed fixed bullets, and a small amount of breech-rifled needle-fire guns with built-in primers and fixed metal bullets.

The former was a fire blunderbuss invented by Mo Qiaosi in the seventh year of Qianxi's reign, using a firing pin to strike mercury as the ignition device. In order to distinguish it from the flint-hair blunderbuss that used flint to ignite in the past, this kind of fire blunderbuss was named needle-hair blunderbuss.

The ignition process of paper-packed fixed-pin bullets is to place the percussion powder (mercury) in the middle of the paper-packed fixed-loaded bullet, then use the firing pin to pierce the paper-packed bullet, and ignite the fired bullet by striking the percussion powder. of gunpowder.

The latter uses copper as the shell of the bullet, and then puts the percussion powder at the bottom of the shell. In this case, the entire fixed copper shell bullet is like a tower.

This new type of needle-haired gun was developed by the craftsmen of Mo Qiaosi in the [-]th year of Qianxi. After many experiments, it was distributed to a small number of Beijing and Wei troops.

Because this kind of needle-haired gun is extremely powerful, in order to distinguish it from previous needle-haired guns, it is called simply Qianshi Gun.

Although the production of this extremely advanced dry gun is limited, with only three to four hundred guns produced each year, Zhu Gaoxu brought [-] guns to the south this time.

Of the [-] Ganshi guns, except for [-] worn by Zhu Gaoxu's personal guards, the remaining [-] were worn by the elites of the Beijing and Wei armies.

Nine hundred elites equipped with ten guns were divided into three teams by Zhu Gaoxu, responsible for the safety of Xue Lu, Chen Mao, and Yang Hong respectively when facing the enemy.

The power of the weapons of the Heavenly Soldiers was far beyond what Le Li's soldiers could resist.

In mid-March, when the news of the Ming army's campaign against Le's Yue Kingdom spread, many rebellions broke out within the Dai Viet Kingdom.

Similarly, after learning that the Ming-Vietnam War broke out, indigenous leaders such as Taungoo, Mubang, and Jingmai in Mengdian and Mongolia saw opportunities and launched rebellions one after another.

After Zhu Gaoxu received the news, he attached great importance to the rebellion in Mengdian and Mongolia, and asked Zhang Fu, the chief military officer of Mengdian, and Zhu Neng, the chief military officer of Mengolia, to organize troops to attack Taungoo, Mubang, Jingmai and other departments respectively. The chief carried out beheading operations.

He ordered Wang Ji, Secretary of the Ministry of War, to go south from Tianjin Port to Jiaozhou Prefecture to take charge of the logistics and food dispatch of the Ming army in Mengdian and Meng Lao. He also mobilized [-] elite troops from Guangdong, Guangdong and Huguang to support Mengdian and Meng Lao.

At the same time, Zhu Gaoxu ordered Zhao An and Jiang Gui to organize guardsmen to carry out separate attacks on the indigenous chiefs who were ready to move, making it difficult for them to take care of themselves, thereby preventing the indigenous tribes from joining forces.

The efforts of Zhao An and Jiang Gui gave Zhang Fu and Zhu Neng ample time to prepare their troops.

On June 28, Zhu Neng and Zhang Fu defeated the rebels, beheading more than [-] people, and captured tens of thousands of horses, cattle, and sheep.

The remaining rebels were eliminated one by one by Zhao An and Jiang Gui in September.

In mid-October, the overall situation in Mengdian and Menglao was decided. Zhu Gaoxu ordered Zhu Neng and Zhang Fu to lead his army southward, and cooperated with Xue Lu, Chen Mao, and Yang Hong to launch a two-sided attack on the Li Yue Kingdom.

At this time, another Jinyiwei spy acted as an internal agent of the Ming army.

At the beginning of November, the Ming Dynasty wiped out the Li family's Yue Kingdom with a devastating force, and the entire Li Li, Si Ji Fa, and Dao Meng Tai clans were wiped out.

At this point, the Li dynasty, which had been established for less than ten months, was declared to be destroyed, and Zhu Gaoxu's goal of integrating into the Funan Peninsula was half completed.

The reason why it is said to be only half completed is because only after he established a system of counties and counties under the direct control of the Ming Dynasty on the original territory of Chenla, Siam, and Champa, his goal of uniting the Funan Peninsula could be declared completed.

PS: Two chapters in a row, totaling more than 7000 words.Next, I will stick to the old rules, I will save enough articles and update them together.This situation will continue until the end of the book. After the Funan Peninsula is mixed up, the conquests of Japan and Korea will be briefly mentioned.

(End of this chapter)