The Siamese were not scary, but the Ming Army and the Daming Empire behind it were the real threat. Min Qide thought that the Ming Army was much scarier than the Siamese. Although the Siamese could always defeat the Ming Army's attacks, it was mostly because they had the geographical advantage when it came to defense. In a field battle, the Siamese were not even as good as the Ming Army, and they were suppressed. Otherwise, they wouldn't have been forced to the capital several times.
It could only be said that Na Ruixuan was good at defending the city and defense. If it was a field battle, he might not be able to defeat Prince Min Qide.
Therefore, not only did he pay attention to the Siamese's movements, but he also paid attention to the Ming Army's movements. However, the information from the frontline did indeed say that they were fighting with the Siamese's vanguard. All the corpses they found were Siamese, and there was not a single corpse of a Han. The Han were not in the Siamese's vanguard, so they didn't know where the Han were. However, one thing was for sure, the Han army must have come.
The Siamese army and the Burmese army, one from the south and one from the north, respectively, headed towards the Khorshala area. The two feuding armies clashed here, and there were fierce sparks.
On the morning of the 28th of August, the Siamese army arrived at the Khorshala camp first. They were the first to set up camp and occupy the advantageous terrain. They searched everywhere for enemies and searched for the Burmese army. In the end, they came to the conclusion that the Burmese had not arrived yet. Na Ruixuan breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the army to immediately reorganize and prepare for a tough battle, because the Burmese would outnumber the Siamese.
At the same time, he sent a message to the Ming Army for the third time, telling the Ming Army that he had set up camp in the Khorshala area and was ready to fight the Burmese at any time. The Burmese were powerful, and without the help of the Daming, it would be difficult for him to win. He hoped that the Ming Dynasty Army would speed up.
Of course, the Ming Dynasty Army would speed up. Xiao Ruxun wouldn't just watch as Na Ruixuan was finished. That wouldn't be fun. He had already sealed and preserved most of the gunpowder well. A small portion of the gunpowder was taken out for people to see, including some cannons. Who would push a few hundred cannons and follow the army on a muddy road? There were only fifty or so cannons that had been assembled along with them, and they were all light and portable Francs. Even the gunpowder pouches carried by the gunners were mostly empty.
In such a humid place, one had to pay attention to keeping the gunpowder dry. If the gunpowder wasn't dry enough, then there was no need to fight. For example, the battle of Saar Hu happened to be the second day after the rain. The air was humid, and the wind was cold. The gunpowder of the Ming Army was all damp, so they couldn't fire. Before the battle, they had to use fire to dry the gunpowder, which was extremely inefficient.
Then, when they could finally fire before the battle, because of the sudden change in the wind, the Ming Army's gunners all fired. As a result, the smoke drifted towards the Ming Army's own position, causing the infantry soldiers to lose their sight. The army formation was broken by the Jurchen cavalry, and the Ming Army suffered heavy casualties. Before the fire was used, the blades were already at their necks.
Xiao Ruxun, who knew the weakness of gunpowder, naturally wouldn't do anything stupid. The Spanish, Portuguese, and French gunners who had lived in Siam for many years seemed to be prepared. When the Siam Army set off, Xiao Ruxun saw that the gunners wrapped their gunpowder pouches with leaves of an unknown plant, so the gunpowder wasn't damp. He guessed that this was also a local secret recipe. However, time was tight, so Xiao Ruxun didn't ask much. He had his own methods.
Xiao Ruxun ordered the army to set off a day after the Siam Army had set off and the sun had been scorching the ground for a day and a night. They were slower than the Siam Army by about a third, but they weren't in a hurry. In order to not arouse the suspicions of the guides left behind by Narexuan, they had specially arranged for a large number of carriages and small cars. This caused the supplies and the road conditions to greatly slow down the marching speed of the Ming Army.
The guides could only be anxious, but they couldn't say anything.
When Xiao Ruxun was still a day and a half away from the Khorasala area, the main force of Min Qide's Burmese army had already arrived at the north of Khorasala. Not far from Narexuan's camp, he also set up a camp and put on a show of fighting. Then, he sent his general with 3,000 soldiers to challenge the Siam Army.
Narexuan knew that he couldn't show weakness, so he also sent his brave general with 3,000 soldiers to fight. First, two generals rode elephants and sat on the backs of the elephants. The elephants fought against the elephants, and the people on the elephants fought. The fight was quite intense. Then, the general under Narexuan's command stabbed Min Qide's general to death with a spear. The Burmese army's morale suffered a blow, and the Siam Army took advantage of the situation to kill a few hundred people. They fled back to the camp in a panic under the cover of arrows and guns.
The people were all dead. Although Min Qide was very unhappy, he didn't punish the defeated soldiers. Instead, he personally led his troops to challenge Narexuan.
Since the commander had gone up, Narexuan couldn't lose his momentum. He had to go up, so he also rode his own war elephant and brought his troops to meet with his old friend Min Qide again. It had been more than ten years since they last met in the school of the Burmese royal palace. During this time, neither of them had forgotten each other.
Min Qide had always felt that something was secretly helping Narexuan succeed. Otherwise, there was no way to explain how he could make the declining Siam Army strong again.
Mang Yinglong had enough power to kill Min Qide and his father, but his father was very respectful and submissive. Mang Yinglong had no reason to kill him. Later, his father used his daughter to exchange for his son, so Mang Yinglong had even less reason to kill him. In addition, Mang Yinglong didn't seem to care about this black boy at all. Therefore, Narexuan was very lucky to survive under Mang Yinglong's hands.
Because of Min Qide's reminder, Mang Yingli paid more attention to Na Ruixuan. He was very vigilant against Na Ruixuan. He wanted to kill Na Ruixuan more than once, but that feeling wasn't as strong as Min Qide's. He thought that Na Ruixuan had angered Min Qide and made him unhappy. Mang Yingli didn't have the time to care about these things. Later on, he fought with the Ming army and was badly battered, so this matter was put aside.
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