Chapter 128 Post-War Processing

Chenla, Kompong Som.

One month before this battle, Guan Jinpan and others learned of the Vietnamese extermination order and wanted to forcibly launch an uprising in order to survive, but were reported by a traitor.

The Vietnamese sent 20,000 troops. After fighting with them for a day, the Chenla rebels fled Phnom Penh with their families.

Although the number of rebels was only 6,000, the number of people in the escape team was tens of thousands.

This was also unavoidable, because apart from those big soldiers, every official had dozens or hundreds of people in their family.

As for wealthy families like Guan Jin and Pala, there were thousands of people, not counting the slaves.

Such a team must not run fast at first. The Vietnamese official army chased them all the way, and seized countless treasures and supplies. The captured men could be exchanged for rewards, and the women could be sold as slaves. At this time, slavery was still prevalent in Vietnam.

However, there is a saying that goes "Don't chase after a desperate enemy". The rebels fled into a hill called "Dead Man Mountain", where they had prepared food and weapons in advance, so the rebels began to use the terrain to ambush the Vietnamese army.

The weapons of the rebels were originally more advanced than those of the Vietnamese army, and the rainforest terrain was naturally suitable for ambushes. After several battles, they actually defeated the Vietnamese army that was unfamiliar with the terrain.

At this time, the Vietnamese army was a large barracks. Within the Vietnamese army, whoever had more soldiers had the right to speak. The Vietnamese general who led the troops naturally understood this truth, so he didn't want to waste too much of his own manpower.

So he sent Khmer spies Ren Yu and Luo Jian, who had surrendered to Vietnam, to lead the troops to chase and kill the rebels.

The two Khmer spies knew the rules of jungle warfare, so they set fire to the mountain, and Guan Jinpan and others could only flee in embarrassment.

After that, the two Khmer spies brought their own puppet troops to chase and kill Guan Jinpan and others all the way.

However, the Vietnamese did not trust Ren Yu and Luo Jian, and only gave them 4,000 people and some matchlock guns, and the main weapons were still swords and spears.

(Archers actually need long-term training, and the temporarily recruited army rarely uses this kind of thing. As for the projectile, try projectiles in the jungle terrain... See if the opponent will be shot to death by you first, or laughed to death by you first.)

Although the Zhenla puppet army was defeated in one blow when fighting with the Vietnamese, they are not soft-hearted when killing Zhenla people now.

Guan Jinpan and others ran away without caring about their lives. Parasu even left his great-granddaughter in the mountains and let her fend for herself. Of course, Parasu himself did not survive and walked out of the Xiangshan Mountains.

In this way, the team of nearly 30,000 people originally had less than 5,000 people when they escaped from the Xiangshan Mountains, which led to the previous scene.

The puppet army of Zhenla that came to chase them first betrayed Zhenla and joined the Vietnamese. They had been chasing Guan Jinpan and others all the way to Kompong Som and were already bloodthirsty. In addition, there were mountains behind them, so they had no way to retreat.

Ren Yu and Luo Jian often compared themselves to Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng. They fantasized that after Zhenla became the territory of Dai Viet in the future, they would be officials of Dai Viet and would definitely make a big splash in Dai Viet.

So, the puppet army of Zhenla, led by Ren Yu and Luo Jian, attacked the positions of the religious protection army. In their minds, the weapons of the Western barbarians were just large firecrackers, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

Everything went smoothly at first. Those Zhenla people wearing Western barbarian uniforms seemed to be scared silly. However, at a distance of 150 meters, there was a sudden sound of artillery fire, and a shell exploded directly in front of Ren Yu. Countless small steel balls flew out of it and hit him like a sieve on the spot.

Seeing Ren Yu's tragic death, Luo Jian was not afraid but happy, urging the soldiers to come forward, and then gunshots suddenly rang out, Luo Jian's shoulder burst into a blood mist, and he fell to the ground.

The surrounding soldiers wanted to help the commander up, but gunshots rang out again, and most of the soldiers who came forward were knocked to the ground.

After that, the confused soldiers anxiously looked for the commander, and gunshots rang out again, and another group of soldiers fell down.

At this time, the Zhenla puppet army that rushed to the front had been basically wiped out, and the ones who had just arrived behind didn't know what to do.

Suddenly, a group of Zhenla people with bayonets and Western-style military uniforms rushed out from the black smoke, and the Zhenla puppet army without a leader wanted to resist, and some wanted to surrender. They fought on their own and were soon defeated.

One-third of the dead Zhenla puppet soldiers were killed by artillery fire and bullets, and most of the rest were killed by bayonets, and some were trampled to death.

In fact, at the moment when the religious army rushed out of the black smoke and launched a bayonet charge, many Zhenla puppet soldiers were ready to surrender.

However, these crusaders have been influenced by religious ideas for a long time and have become somewhat extreme. When facing pagans, even if the other party surrenders, they have no intention of stopping, and they will stab all living people twice.

The most incredible thing is that the surrendered Zhenla puppet soldiers seem to be accustomed to the killing of prisoners in front of them. They are completely indifferent and just kneel in place waiting. The crusaders pierce their chests with bayonets and do not know how to resist.

Finally, an Austrian military officer stopped the crusaders' killing.

This officer is not a saint, but the construction of Kompong Som really needs manpower.

Kompong Som is no longer a small fishing village at this time, and labor is needed in all aspects of construction.

In fact, these crusaders are also very strange. When dealing with bandits, bandits, and those gentry armed forces, they never leave prisoners.

Why did the commander ask them to stop and capture prisoners this time? However, these skitarii did not care about this, leaving some to collect the prisoners, while others continued to hunt down the fleeing Zhenla puppet troops.

In the end, except for a small number of Zhenla puppet troops, they fled into the mountains, and the wounded soldiers and prisoners were gathered together.

The captives of the Chenla puppet army and the wounded soldiers who were not seriously injured but could still work were asked to dig a big pit and throw their bodies into the pit.

After that, part of the Skitarii was responsible for escorting the prisoners back to the camp and taking away the wounded and dead. The remaining Skitarii gathered the wounded of the Zhenla and puppet troops together, and sent two priests to the wounded soldiers. We pray.

Those Chenla and puppet soldiers are very familiar with this. These foreign monks will most likely be like the monks in the temple, persuading them to put down their butcher knives and become Buddhas on the spot.

These Zhenla and puppet soldiers immediately became arrogant, and they were all wondering whether they would have to deal with these foreign monks before leaving. There were even some injured people yelling, "Treat me quickly! What curses are you chanting! If I die, I will curse you to the eighteenth level of hell."

However, after a simple prayer, the priests left, replaced by the somewhat ferocious-looking skitarii.

The soldiers of the Skitarii used bayonets to drive away the wounded of the Zhenla puppet army and forced them into a large pit filled with dead people. At this time, the wounded of the puppet army finally came to their senses and someone shouted.

"I can work, I'm not injured! I don't want to die."

However, the surrounding skitarii paid no attention to the shouts in the pit, and just poured the kerosene into the pit expressionlessly.

The fire burned for four hours, and while the fire was extinguished the Skitarii began to talk.

"Don't we usually just kill everyone? Why are we in so much trouble today?"

Another small leader of the Skitarii lit up a cigarette, took two puffs and said.

"There are not enough manpower, and the priests are opposed to letting the parishioners work as coolies, but someone has to do the work, so the chiefs want to capture some prisoners to work as coolies."

The little boss from before grabbed the cigarette and took two puffs and said.

"There are so many things to do, building a house is considered hard work? I used to not be able to have a full meal every day. Not only did I have to work for my own family every day, but I also had to work at my master's house. How fucking hypocritical!"

"Didn't you hear what the priests said? We are God's chosen people, and our enemies must be the abandoned people. Isn't it good to let those abandoned people do hard labor?"

"What voters? I spent the first half of my life working as a cow or a horse, eating pig food and living in a stable. Where did they go at that time?"

"But what about you now? Han Jiachang, you now live in the house of the former landlord and have three wives. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

"Satisfied? It's a joke. One day I will kill all these foreign monks, and it will be great to be the boss."

In the evening the flames finally extinguished, and the Skitarii soldiers sprinkled the bodies with white ash, then filled them with earth and buried them.

The priests said that lime powder can completely purify evil souls and prevent them from turning into evil spirits and continuing to harm the world. This is the word of the saints. The soldiers of the Skitarii firmly believe in this and do it very carefully.

The so-called saint naturally refers to Franz. The reason why Franz had such worries was that he knew the seriousness of the epidemic. Of course, it was also because 26 people died in Austria in two years in Chenla, 20 of whom died from the epidemic. .

In fact, this was done to prevent incomplete burning and the spread of disease after the corpses decomposed.

The climate in Southeast Asia is hot and humid, making it extremely difficult to control an epidemic once it occurs.

Especially in this era, the means and drugs to control epidemics are very scarce, so the best prevention and treatment method is to prevent it from happening.

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