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Chapter 695 Capture of Siam King City
"It's collapsed, the city wall has collapsed, everyone avoid it!!!"

The Siamese soldiers staying above the city wall were horrified to see the cracks on the ground, and the cracks quickly spread to their feet like spider webs, and the center of gravity was empty, and they fell down with the city wall.

Just now there was a sudden violent explosion under the city wall, the flames shot up into the sky, and black smoke enveloped the sky. What followed was that the city wall that had been crumbling under the artillery finally collapsed!

Ayutthaya in Siam once fell under the attack of Taungoo, and now it is being bombarded more violently by the Kyushu Army, so it cannot escape the same fate of falling.

At the moment when the walls of Ayutthaya collapsed, it was equivalent to declaring its fall!
Changyi put down the binoculars with satisfaction, and handed the binoculars to Huang Degong beside him.You don't need a telescope, you can see the flames of the city wall with the naked eye.

"The blasting explosives produced by the Ordnance Bureau are becoming more and more powerful. It would be great if they could be used on artillery in time. If the power of the artillery can achieve such an effect, the city wall will collapse soon after one round of destruction. No Like now, we still have to fight for several days to win the inner city." Changyi said.

Huang Degong saw the power of the blasting explosives made of picric acid from the telescope, and he was quite surprised: "This is the first time I have seen such a large amount of blasting explosives. Ordinary artillery uses gunpowder to push iron balls to create explosives." damage, but blasting explosives rely on the explosion of gunpowder itself to cause damage, I wonder if the principle of the latter can be applied to artillery?"

"I don't know either, but those weirdos in the Academy of Sciences are studying such things."

Changyi and Huang Degong have already explored the principles of artillery and gunpowder, but they still don't understand the deeper things.

"Kill, kill!"

Once the walls of the inner city collapsed, it was equivalent to the last barrier of the [-] Siamese troops inside being flattened, and soldiers of the Kyushu Army began to attack along the gap.

The Siamese generals trapped inside were unwilling to be captured without a fight. Some generals resisted with the help of streets, palaces, and temples, while some generals led the army to break through, and the inner city was in chaos.

The royal palace, which has always been sacred, then declared its fall, and the Kyushu army blocked all the entrances and exits of the palace, and no one was allowed to exit, so as to prevent deserters and maids from taking away the gold and silver treasures.

As a big country in the southeastern region, Siam has accumulated a lot of wealth. The Kyushu Army urgently needs this sum of gold and silver to make up for the financial losses caused by the war.

The chaotic inner city was also caught in the flames of war, and the turmoil lasted for two days before it gradually subsided.

When Huang Degong broke through the inner city, he led the Second Corps to move to the north of Ayutthaya, blocking the King Qin's army of the local general in the north of Siam in the north.He needs to buy time for the First Corps to clear King Siam City.

Changyi came to the royal palace of Siam, which is a symbol of Siamese kingship and wealth.

"No one has touched the vault here, has it?"

Changyi brought statistics officials from the Intelligence Department, the Supervision Department, and the Logistics Department to personally check the treasury of Siam.

"My lord, when we captured this place, the Siamese army was trying to transfer the treasure here, and we intercepted it. Except for some treasures that have been swept away by the Siamese deserters, the rest of the gold and silver treasures are here." Temporarily The battalion officer guarding the treasury said.

"Everything you said has been recorded by our three departments. If someone reports it and traces it later, if it doesn't match what you said, you will bear all the consequences." The statistician of the intelligence department will say coldly.

"Yes... yes..." The battalion officer was sweating profusely.

Everyone in the Kyushu Army is afraid of the mysterious intelligence department. Once they are targeted, they will basically lose their heads.In addition to the intelligence department, there are also officials who also hold important positions such as the supervision department and the logistics department. If he, a battalion officer, really takes the opportunity to make a fortune, if he can't keep everyone's mouths shut, the consequences will be disastrous.

"The military department treats you well. As a soldier, you should not think about anything except your own duties, understand?" Changyi took the opportunity to lecture his subordinates with the majesty of the three departments.

This infantry battalion, from the battalion officer to the ordinary soldiers, was sweating profusely. Their immediate superior and people from the three departments were here, so how dare they play any tricks.

After Changyi sent officials from three departments to check the treasury, he had other things to deal with.

Gold and silver treasures are what Kyushu needs most to make up for losses at present, but they are only short-term benefits, and long-term deployments to Siam are also needed.

"Has King Basaiton of Siam been captured?" Changyi summoned the generals who blocked the palace.

There were beads of sweat on the general's forehead: "The subordinates are incompetent...not...not able to catch their king."

Changyi frowned: "What's going on?"

"According to the captured captives, when the inner city was breached by us, their king broke through the northern city gate under the cover of the king's guards and fled to the northern Sing Buri Prefecture." The general replied uneasily.

"How far is Sing Buri from Ayutthaya?"

"About two hundred miles."

"With a distance of two hundred miles, it is already difficult to hunt him down."

"It's all due to the incompetence of the subordinates, who made their guards protrude from the encirclement. At that time, the subordinates wondered that they were blocked by a very tenacious army. Now I think it should be because they are fighting with their lives to protect their king... "

Chang Yi shook his head: "Siam, Toungoo, and Annan are listed as the three major countries in Southeast Asia. It is not without reason that they have stood firm for hundreds of years. In addition, our military strength is still too small. 1 It is not your fault that a human army surrounds a city guarded by 2 people, and some fish slip through the net."

The general who blocked the palace said: "However, sir, we have captured many princes, nobles, court ladies and eunuchs. Some of them escaped too late, and some of them were to cover the king's escape and became victims that attracted our attention. Including the younger brother of King Basaiton. There were about 200 Siamese soldiers protecting him at that time, and we drove them back to the palace. After the palace fell, some of the Siamese soldiers guarding him died in battle, and some surrendered. This guy saw that the situation was over, so he wanted to The palace hanged himself with white silk. Fortunately, our soldiers rushed into the palace in time and captured him."

"It's really a good harvest..." Changyi was a little surprised, "Did he try to commit suicide again after being captured?"

The general sneered and said, "This guy thought about committing suicide, but it fell into our hands. Even if he wanted to commit suicide, he couldn't help it. After all, as a prince, he still has many concubines and children to worry about..."

"This person is good to entertain, and he has some uses." Changyi said.

(End of this chapter)