The Thousand Mask Warrior

Gunong Pucok The Belang Tiger

Since the reign of the Ayutthaya kingdom in Siam, the Kedah Sultanate was one of the tributary states. Ayutthaya did have a great influence in the area adjacent to it. Countries such as Sukhothai, Lan Na, Cambodia to the countries of the Malay Peninsula, including Kedah and Kahthaung, namely the areas of the Burmese people, are, it is part of the nations that recognize its power by giving tribute as a form of respect.

No wonder the Sultanate of Kedah became a ketar ketir when he heard the news that the Pranggi state ruler of Malacca was about to be attacked by the Walanda people.

The land of Siam, which was controlled by the Ayutthaya kingdom, already had competition with Pranggi. Good trade relations with Walanda were started around 1605 AD by the Third Sanphet king Ekathotsarot. Ayutthaya also had a good relationship with the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, where the king had trade and army relations with a trader and a leader of a mercenary army named Yamada Nagamasa.

Songtham, Ekathotsarot's successor king increasingly had good relations with Walanda and Japan. Even specifically Japanese, he had Japanese troops serving him as well as Ayutthya. The power of Siam and Japan, with the support of Walanda, was the one who drove out Pranggi and his influence in the land of Siam.

Pranggi who controlled Malacca certainly could not bother to attack Ayutthaya who had defeated them first, while Malacca itself was under threat Walanda. Kedah, especially, which was originally a tributary country, would be in a difficult situation and location. Kedah could not ask for Pranggi's help when Ayutthaya Siam was ready to annex their country.

The power of the landlord Khun Wanchay na Ayutthaya who felt as part of the Siamese rule that once drove out the Tartar forces Hundreds of years ago still rests on their memory and self-esteem. On the contrary, although the government of the Sultanate of Kedah is worried about the problem of inter-nation governance also has several groups of warriors who have believed for decades in the rise of Kedah.

It is said that Kedah was then named Langkasura, a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom in Malay land founded by Merong Mahawangsa. He was a descendant of Iskandar Zulkarnain, also known in Caucasian tongues to Alexander the Great, knight and king of Macedon, in ancient Greece.

Merong Mahawangsa who is the ruler of this country often travels from one kingdom to another, including from his residence in Rome to China through the Arabian Sea. At sea, he was attacked by an unknown force so he was stranded in Bujang Valley. It was there that he founded the Langkasura kingdom. This event was recorded around the 2nd century AD.

This great kingdom is ruled by the descendants of Merong Mahawangsa, namely Merong Mahapudisat so that the king can return to his country, Rome. The country located in Kedah also controlled Pattani, as well as Siam regions such as Saiburi and Yala.

With a great history like this, no wonder the Malay warriors of Kedah also maintain the history of the glory of the nation, especially when it relates to the people of Siam.

It was then, in the afternoon, when the sun was slowly sinking into his contest, giving orange arrays, two groups of warriors faced each other. On two spacious low hills, within the border area between the state of Siam, the Sultanate of Kedah and the Sultanate of Pattani are still often contested, and, fifteen Kedah Malay warriors armed with keris face to face with ten bare-chested Siamese warriors, tying their upper arms and fists with straw ropes without weapons.

"The people*the Siamese bastards have gone too far. They can face us with their bare hands. They underestimate us too much, sir," said one of the warriors to the person who dotengarai is the leader of the Malay swordsman group.

"I don't care, Larong. If that is what they want, we grant them their desire to be able to finish all quickly at the end of this krisku," said the master to the young swordsman named Larong.

Shouts of Malay warriors blurted out a moment later. The leader circled his fighting force while raising his keris high. "I, Pucok Gunong the Tiger of Belang, will today lead the Malay swordsmen of Kedah Langkasura to return to harvest the victory against the Siamese bastards. Won lost to the Malay swordsman alternately, but the swordsman under the leadership of Pucok Gunong the Tiger of Belang never raised his hands and bent his knees in front of the opponent. Lift up your keris, we'll wet it again with the blood of those Siamese bastards!" exclaimed the master named Pucok Gunong and held the shortness of the Tiger Belang.

The cries of war returned. The warriors, who had slung the scabbard around their waists, in dark silk clothes, dressed in sebetish clothes and tied their heads high, raised their husks high up.

Pucok Gunong the handsome-faced Belang Tiger is actually still fairly young. Long hair fluttering in the grassland hill wind, similar to the pace of his battle to see the enemy, the Siamese warriors bare-handed under Khun Wanchay na Ayutthaya.