The king of olden time ordered all his officials and men to mobilize the residents in every part of the kingdom to engage in the effort to cut down trees for the construction of his royal palace as well as to restore and clear up the water bodies in the capital.
The royal order instigated outrage among the people. Fearing that they would have been punished under his rule, they had to hold back their anger and obeyed it instead.
In the group of the recruited residents, there was a dark-skinned and heavily-built young man named Kranhoung. One day, it was his tum to work at the camp and cook for the recruits, while they were working. When the rice was cooked, Nhoung found nothing on his both sides to stir up the rice, but he then saw a black thorny kapok tree (Rakar), he stretched out and broke a branch of it to use as a stirring stick. Suddenly, the white rice became blackened as it was stirred by the black branch of the tree. Out of tiredness and hunger, Nhoung ate up all cooked grains of rice. Then he cooked new rice for the workers. This time, he wanted to stir up the rice again, but the branch was gone. Note that he was 21 years old at that time.
Soon after finishing his meal, his strength grew gradually out of the blue. His power was as strong as that of 7 elephants, which it was only known to him when he bent the branch of hard-wood (Chhoeuteal) tree to use as a carrying frame for rice grains.
Nhoung could bend, break up, and uproot the whole hard wood tree easily and with less effort. The mobilized workers, after witnessing his superpower, became fearful, respected, and praised him as a demigod. They, together, came to join and serve him and asked him to be their king.
While his strength was growing gradually as strong as the strength of 7 elephants, immediately there surprisingly rose a stick. Nhoung picked it up and used it as his weapon which was approximately 5 hath I cham-am (roughly 2 meters long or so). He brandished it very fast like a turning wheel and he jumped up 5 hath (over 6 meters) high. The people, who saw his supernatural ability, named him "Dambangkranhoung" ever since. Strongly confident on his ability, he came up with a new idea of becoming a king as suggested by his followers.
Nhoung called on all the workers to stop felling the trees for building of the royal court anymore. And all the workforces had to make sticks from the wood instead, equipped themselves with other weapons such as knives, swords, spears, axes, arrows and bows, and were trained as soldiers to surround the palace and attack King Chakrapoat. All mobilized workers were willing to follow him. Therefore, they were freed from cutting down the trees and transporting rocks to build the king's palace.
Dambangkranhoung set off with 10,000 soldiers to encircle the capital during the battle, seriously-ill King Chakrapoat assigned his two military forces. The first group had to battle against the enemies directly, while the other stood still to protect the capital. The battle camp was covered with the deadliest combat. The soldiers of both sides died and suffered injuries in a great number.
No longer after which, Dambangkranhoung’s army was a little over the first military force of the king and defeated the combat. The solider continued their mission, reaching the capital, and surrounding it.
On the king side, only the guard army was remained. However, Dambangkranhoung’s army had not controlled the capital yet, so he ordered all his army to take torches and wood oil with them.
As soon as the darkness fell at midnight, his army started fierce attack on the capital, by leaning the ladders against the capital's wall, vaulting over, and throwing the torch of fire and wood oil over the houses in the capital. Shortly, the gate of the capital was successfully destroyed, and Dambangkranhouug's army stormed into the capital and killed the royal forces and the innocent residents mercilessly.
At that time, King Chakrapoat who was seriously sick and laying down on his royal bed, while he heard the strike among the weapons, fire burning his palace, and loud cry of cheering and suffering, with his full effort, got up to hardly stand and took out his divine sword about to fight, but he fell down from his bed and died instantly.
Dambangkranhoung, a son born into a very simple farming family, was coroneted as a king of Cambodia. Dambangkranhoung became the 17th king in range after King Chak Krapoat with his new title, Preahbat Kodom Amradevaraja.
Just shortly after defeat, holding power, and coronation as a king, Dambangkranhoung, without further ado, ordered all his men to be in pursuit of the living royal family members in all parts of the kingdom and killed them by burning them alive.
- THE END -
The royal order instigated outrage among the people. Fearing that they would have been punished under his rule, they had to hold back their anger and obeyed it instead.
In the group of the recruited residents, there was a dark-skinned and heavily-built young man named Kranhoung. One day, it was his tum to work at the camp and cook for the recruits, while they were working. When the rice was cooked, Nhoung found nothing on his both sides to stir up the rice, but he then saw a black thorny kapok tree (Rakar), he stretched out and broke a branch of it to use as a stirring stick. Suddenly, the white rice became blackened as it was stirred by the black branch of the tree. Out of tiredness and hunger, Nhoung ate up all cooked grains of rice. Then he cooked new rice for the workers. This time, he wanted to stir up the rice again, but the branch was gone. Note that he was 21 years old at that time.
Soon after finishing his meal, his strength grew gradually out of the blue. His power was as strong as that of 7 elephants, which it was only known to him when he bent the branch of hard-wood (Chhoeuteal) tree to use as a carrying frame for rice grains.
Nhoung could bend, break up, and uproot the whole hard wood tree easily and with less effort. The mobilized workers, after witnessing his superpower, became fearful, respected, and praised him as a demigod. They, together, came to join and serve him and asked him to be their king.
While his strength was growing gradually as strong as the strength of 7 elephants, immediately there surprisingly rose a stick. Nhoung picked it up and used it as his weapon which was approximately 5 hath I cham-am (roughly 2 meters long or so). He brandished it very fast like a turning wheel and he jumped up 5 hath (over 6 meters) high. The people, who saw his supernatural ability, named him "Dambangkranhoung" ever since. Strongly confident on his ability, he came up with a new idea of becoming a king as suggested by his followers.
Nhoung called on all the workers to stop felling the trees for building of the royal court anymore. And all the workforces had to make sticks from the wood instead, equipped themselves with other weapons such as knives, swords, spears, axes, arrows and bows, and were trained as soldiers to surround the palace and attack King Chakrapoat. All mobilized workers were willing to follow him. Therefore, they were freed from cutting down the trees and transporting rocks to build the king's palace.
Dambangkranhoung set off with 10,000 soldiers to encircle the capital during the battle, seriously-ill King Chakrapoat assigned his two military forces. The first group had to battle against the enemies directly, while the other stood still to protect the capital. The battle camp was covered with the deadliest combat. The soldiers of both sides died and suffered injuries in a great number.
No longer after which, Dambangkranhoung’s army was a little over the first military force of the king and defeated the combat. The solider continued their mission, reaching the capital, and surrounding it.
On the king side, only the guard army was remained. However, Dambangkranhoung’s army had not controlled the capital yet, so he ordered all his army to take torches and wood oil with them.
As soon as the darkness fell at midnight, his army started fierce attack on the capital, by leaning the ladders against the capital's wall, vaulting over, and throwing the torch of fire and wood oil over the houses in the capital. Shortly, the gate of the capital was successfully destroyed, and Dambangkranhouug's army stormed into the capital and killed the royal forces and the innocent residents mercilessly.
At that time, King Chakrapoat who was seriously sick and laying down on his royal bed, while he heard the strike among the weapons, fire burning his palace, and loud cry of cheering and suffering, with his full effort, got up to hardly stand and took out his divine sword about to fight, but he fell down from his bed and died instantly.
Dambangkranhoung, a son born into a very simple farming family, was coroneted as a king of Cambodia. Dambangkranhoung became the 17th king in range after King Chak Krapoat with his new title, Preahbat Kodom Amradevaraja.
Just shortly after defeat, holding power, and coronation as a king, Dambangkranhoung, without further ado, ordered all his men to be in pursuit of the living royal family members in all parts of the kingdom and killed them by burning them alive.
- THE END -
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