Chapter 1031: Conflict

"I have accepted your state letters. I hope that upon returning to your respective countries, you will act according to the contents of these letters, keep to your own duties, and not overstep your bounds," Zhao Xu said slowly to the four kings of Jiaozhi after flipping through the four state letters.

"Yes, Your Highness Yan Wang," the four replied with bows.

Although the person before them was not the Emperor of Great Song, they were clear that all of Great Song's power currently rested in the hands of this Yan Wang.

Zhao Xu nodded. "In some time, officials from the Great Song Trade Department will arrive at your capitals one after another to establish trade terms and promote the integration of your nations into the East Lands Trade Circle established by my Great Song. At that time, be sure to cooperate."

Having said this, Zhao Xu signaled that the four could leave.

With the capture of the four Southeast nations, the East Lands Trade Circle, which used the Song Yuan as its base currency, gained four more member states.

The only ones remaining were the four nations of Siam, Java, Malai, and Tianzhu.

And these four nations were also the regions in the East Lands still under the control of the Westerners.

Now, he had supported the four kings of Jiaozhi, ordering them to restore domestic order and transforming them from previous hostile states into vassal states.

This was equivalent to the Great Song Army gaining a foothold on the Southeast Peninsula.

Through this foothold, he would be able to quickly defeat the Westerners and drive them out of the East Lands.

"Next, we should go and ask the Emperor of Siam whether he intends to follow Great Song or walk down a dark path to the end with the Westerners." After the figures of the four disappeared from the main hall, Zhao Xu looked toward Qin Shan and Guan Tong.

At present, both the Azure Dragon Army and the Vermilion Bird Army were fully equipped and waiting; they only needed one order from him to march on Siam.

There was a reason why he insisted on tackling Siam instead of directly attacking Tianzhu or the north bank of Malacca.

Siam's location was in the center of the Southeast region, bordering the three countries of Piaoman, Nanzhang, and Funan.

Moreover, Siam's area was second only to Piaoman, and its northernmost point was only three hundred li away from Great Song.

Through a river that connected Yunzhou and Siam, one could enter the territory of Yunzhou in two or three days.

At the same time, there was a long, narrow, tail-like peninsula in the southern part of Siam's territory.

On the front part of this narrow tail, the east side was Siam's territory, and the west side was Piaoman's territory.

In the lower part, the extended territory of Piaoman ended, and the entire tail was Siam's territory.

In other words, Piaoman's territory did indeed extend to the north bank of Malacca.

But to reach Malacca directly by land, one had to pass through Siam's territory.

Therefore, whether it was to seize Malacca now or to control the Malacca Strait in the future, this position of Siam was very important.

It was necessary to control Siam just as he had controlled the other four nations.

This was to avoid an unstable factor appearing in Great Song's backyard.

"The officers and soldiers are just waiting for Your Highness's order to set out," Guan Tong and Qin Shan said in unison.

Zhao Xu nodded. "In that case, Guan Tong, you return to Piaoman tomorrow. Six days later, the Azure Dragon Army will set out, striving to arrive in Siam on the same day as the Vermilion Bird Army."

"Yes, Your Highness," the two replied again.

Having ordered this matter, Zhao Xu told the two to return.

For this march on Siam, he had mobilized one hundred thousand soldiers.

The remaining soldiers were arranged in the four nations to assist the four kings in restoring order.

To him, dealing with one Siam naturally did not require one hundred thousand men.

The most important purpose of him creating such a large momentum was to subdue the enemy without fighting and force the Siam Kingdom to submit.

Of course, he had another goal, which was that after the Siam Kingdom submitted, the Marine Corps would cooperate with the Army to officially open up Malacca.

At that time, the Army would be responsible for occupying the north bank, and the Marine Corps would be responsible for occupying the south bank.

Six days later.

Qin Shan led his troops toward Siam according to the plan.

Zhao Xu did not set out with the Azure Dragon Army, but instead headed to the East coast to rendezvous with Zhou Yi.

This confrontation with the Western Lands Allied Forces included both land and sea, so Zhou Yi, this Navy Commander, naturally could not be absent.

And the reason Zhao Xu did not follow the Army but followed the Navy was because the fleet's mobility was higher than the Army's, making it convenient for him to control the overall situation.

"Your Highness, the Marine Corps is already prepared and can launch a large-scale landing on Java at any time,

to wipe out the Stedan army in Java." While riding a warship along the Jiaozhi coast toward Siam, Zhou Yi reported the current preparations of the Navy to him.

Zhao Xu nodded. "Let them wait patiently for a while longer. When the time comes, launch the attack simultaneously with the Azure Dragon Army and the Vermilion Bird Army, so that they cannot support each other between the north and south banks."

According to information gathered by the Navy, the Western Lands Allied Forces had deployed about forty thousand troops on the south bank of Malacca and about sixty thousand troops on the north bank.

This number was only the Western troops; in addition, one hundred and twenty thousand Tianzhu native troops were also deployed in Malacca.

It could be said that in order to hold Malacca, the Western Lands Allied Forces had invested quite a lot of capital.

Also according to intelligence provided by Guan Tong, the Western Lands Allied Forces were currently building defensive fortifications at the border between Piaoman and Tianzhu, deploying about one hundred thousand troops.

Of course, there was no lack of Tianzhu native troops cooperating here, about twenty-eight 【units/ten-thousands】 of Tianzhu troops.

From this, one could see that Britain's control over Tianzhu was very deep, and the kings of the Tianzhu native states all followed the orders of the British.

However, although the number of Tianzhu native troops was huge, Zhao Xu did not take them seriously at all.

Whether here or in the modern era, the combat effectiveness of the Tianzhu people was extremely low.

They were always very easily occupied and enslaved by foreign invaders.

Therefore, nearly four hundred thousand Tianzhu people were nothing more than four hundred thousand pigs in his eyes.

The fleet sailed on the sea for three days and arrived in the waters off Siam.

After waiting on the sea for another three days, the Azure Dragon Army led by Qin Shan finally arrived at the border of Siam after passing through Funanguo from Jiaozhi.

Having established contact with Qin Shan, Zhao Xu ordered him to send an envoy to the Capital City of Siam to see the Emperor of Siam, Songpa.

At the same time.

The actions of the Great Song Navy and Army naturally attracted the attention of the Western Lands Allied Forces.

After judging that the Great Song Army would launch an attack on Malacca, the entire Western Lands Allied Forces suddenly became nervous.

The Frank Army General was transferred to the south bank to command the war effort.

The British Army General Wesley traveled by ship through the night to the north bank of Malacca.

To ensure that Siam would stand on their side in the war, Wesley dispatched a Colonel to the Capital City of Siam.

This Colonel carried with him Britain's generous promises to Siam.

And when Colonel Maduoer arrived at the Capital City of Siam, he happened to encounter an envoy sent by Qin Shan.

He was none other than Shang Yi, one of the three Captains under Qin Shan's command.

The envoys from both sides met outside the city of Siam, and naturally, they were extremely hostile toward each other.

Shang Yi and the two hundred soldiers traveling with him stared fixedly at Maduoer and his party.

Maduoer and the three hundred soldiers accompanying him stared fixedly at Shang Yi.

Seeming to feel that his side had more men, Maduoer held his head high, pointed his index finger at Shang Yi from a distance, and said, "You bunch of swine, we will slaughter every last one of you on the battlefield."

Shang Yi and Maduoer were less than a meter apart.

Maduoer was speaking the British language, so naturally, Shang Yi could not understand him.

But Maduoer's expression and his pointing gestures were enough for Shang Yi to judge that he was saying nothing good.

"You son of a bitch, who are you pointing at!" Shang Yi was instantly enraged and slapped him across the face.

Maduoer clearly had not expected Shang Yi to strike suddenly.

They, the British, ran rampant all over the world; only they bullied others, never had anyone bullied them.

Precisely because he had not expected it at all, he took the slap squarely; with a "slap" sound, he felt as if his teeth were about to fall out.

As Shang Yi made his move, the British soldiers immediately raised the Rifled Muskets in their hands to aim at the Azure Dragon Army soldiers.

The Azure Dragon Army soldiers also raised the Qin-style Rifles in their hands to aim at the British soldiers.

Some soldiers even took Hand Grenades from their waists and pulled the ignition cords.

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