On November 20th, outside Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, Li Laosi waved his hand, and 10,000 Tiger Army soldiers began to attack the city.
The rainforest in Cambodia was dense, and the troops escorting the artillery moved very slowly, lagging far behind. It had been three days since the 10,000 Tiger Army arrived in Phnom Penh, and they had prepared well railings, ladders and other siege facilities. Li Laosi decided not to
After waiting, they attacked the city without heavy weapons.
The level of civilization in Cambodia in this era was very low. It was a country that did not border the Ming Dynasty and could not obtain the culture and technology of China. Western colonists had not yet affected this country, so Cambodia's overall technology and culture were very backward.
Not only is it lagging behind, but it has not made progress for hundreds or thousands of years.
The most direct reflection is that Phnom Penh City is very small and looks like a county town in the Ming Dynasty. The crooked city wall makes people wonder whether this is a capital city.
In fact, not only is Phnom Penh a small city, there are not many people in Cambodia as a whole.
There are several small cannons on the walls of Phnom Penh City, but Li Laosi estimates that the range of those cannons is not as far as the range of the Tiger Army.
The soldiers of the Huben Army shouted loudly, and hundreds of well-railed vehicles that were higher than the city wall were pushed towards the city wall. The well-railed vehicles were filled with soldiers of the Huben Army holding sniper rifles. The well-railed vehicles finally stopped outside the city wall.
Four hundred meters away, the Huben troops using sniper rifles began to shoot fiercely at the soldiers at the top of the city.
"Bah bang bang!"
"Pop!"
The battlefield was suddenly dominated by the sound of gunfire. The Cambodian artillerymen operating the cannons were killed immediately. On top of the city, there were soldiers holding spears, bows and arrows, and an unknown number of them were killed. Some were still alive and scurrying around.
Huddled tightly behind the wall, not daring to look up.
After killing the artillery, the manhole barricade continued to press towards the city wall, further suppressing the defenders at the top of the city.
The tiger soldiers under the well railing raised the ladder and put it up the city wall of Phnom Penh.
The Cambodian soldiers on the city wall were suppressed by the riflemen on the well fence and did not dare to raise their heads. They were unable to stop the ladder soldiers from attacking the city.
The soldiers of the Tiger Army on the ladder grabbed the grenades and climbed to the edge of the city wall and stopped. They lit the fuses on the grenades with fire and threw the grenades towards the city head one after another.
The city top immediately exploded like a fireworks display. Huge flames rushed out one by one, and the steel slag in the grenades flew around the city wall like flying knives, cutting the Cambodian soldiers who were basically without armor to flesh and blood.
Flying horizontally.
After the three grenades of the soldiers in front exploded, the soldiers in the back passed more grenades up. More than a thousand ladders continued to cause a series of explosions on the city wall.
Where have the Cambodian soldiers seen such firepower? After being hit by the grenade, their skin and flesh were torn apart, their hands and feet were severed, and they were even killed alive. After being injured and killing thousands of people, the Cambodian soldiers
He screamed, threw down his weapon in embarrassment, and fled towards the city.
After exploding thousands of grenades, there was basically no one on the wall.
The soldiers of the Huben Army confirmed that there was no one at the top of the city before climbing up the city wall. On the city wall, the soldiers quickly moved to occupy all the city gates and arrow towers, and raised their rifles at the Royal Palace of the King of Cambodia in the city.
The city gate was opened, and the soldiers stormed into Phnom Penh with weapons raised. They began to check street by street to see if anyone resisted.
How could the people in Phnom Penh dare to resist? One by one, they knelt down and surrendered.
Li Laosi stood outside the city, holding his chin and thinking about how to attack the king's palace with the lowest casualties. While he was thinking about it, he saw a battalion commander running out of the city with two soldiers.
"Uncle, the doors of the Royal Palace of Cambodia are wide open, and King Serona and all his officials are kneeling down!"
Li Laosi smiled and said secretly that the king was wise and spared the tiger and Ben army from attacking the city.
Li Laosi waved his hand and said: "Enter the city and take over Phnom Penh City."
With a hundred personal guards, Li Laosi rode into Phnom Penh City. He kept moving forward and soon rode into the Royal Palace of Cambodia.
The king of Cambodia is an old man in his fifties, with white beard and hair, and a thin figure like the natives of Southeast Asia. He is wearing a golden dragon suit. He is kneeling behind the palace gate like the county government gate.
The face looked downcast.
The king held up the royal seal of Cambodia in his hand. Li Laosi asked someone to take it and look at it. He found that the ribbon was similar to the royal seal of China, and was also made of jade. There were several rows of small characters written on the jade seal in Cambodian.
, the writing was in alphabetical form, it looked like Western writing, and even Li Laosi couldn’t understand it.
Li Laosi rode into the small palace, walked into the main hall, and looked at the center of Cambodian power.
The main hall is a multi-column building, which may be influenced by Indian culture. It looks a bit like Western culture, but the roof is oriental. There are many utensils made of gold in the hall, which looks magnificent. Even the one in the middle
The throne is also carved with gold and silver, shining brightly.
Li Laosi didn't dare to sit casually on the throne. Li Laosi asked someone to move the throne away and put an ordinary chair in the original position of the throne before he sat down.
The King of Cambodia and all the ministers knelt in the hall, prostrate in front of Li Laosi.
Li Laosi looked at the surrounding furnishings and asked: "King Sherona of Cambodia, what is the population of your country?"
The translator hired by Li Laosi translated Li Laosi's question, and Sherona fell on the ground and said: "General of the Celestial Empire, I in Cambodia use officials to manage various places. Officials are highly independent and only need to pay taxes to the royal court.
So I don’t know exactly how many people there are!”
Li Laosi said: "Then you can roughly estimate the population."
The King of Cambodia turned around, discussed with the ministers behind him for a few words, and finally turned around and said: "It is estimated that there are 900,000 people."
Hearing Sherona's words, Li Laosi shook his head and smiled.
Cambodia in this era had not yet been invaded by Vietnam. It had the Mekong River Delta, which was much larger than Cambodia in later generations, and was twice as big as Shandong Province. However, such a large country had a population of less than one million, which made it extremely backward.
If the prince emigrates a little further from Jianghuai Province to reclaim the rainforest, he can turn the local indigenous people into ethnic minorities.
Li Laosi stood up and walked a few steps in the hall and said: "Serona, if you had surrendered early, we would have spared you. But you were unwilling to perish and sent many Cambodian soldiers to ambush our tigers in the rain forest.
army, causing more than 200 casualties."
"This blood debt is here, your life cannot be saved!"
When the King of Cambodia on the ground heard this, his body softened and he fell to the floor.
Li Laosi said calmly: "There are more than a hundred blood debts here. I won't kill more. I will kill you and all your sons and grandsons. The other members of the royal family can forget the blame and live ordinary lives as civilians.
