I was pulling trees in Daming, and Lao Zhu begged me to come out of retirement

Chapter 104: Divine Soldiers Descend from the Sky? Tuotuo Collapses
At this time, the lights on the quarrying ferry were bright.

Circles of garrisons were stationed along the riverbank to prevent any enemy troops from smuggling ashore.

Tuotuo looked at the peaceful river bank and sneered.
"This Zhu Yuanzhang is nothing more than good at defending the city. I have already found out that the gunpowder for the explosion has been consumed all at once, and it takes a long time to detonate, so there is no need to worry at all."

"The enemy has no navy. We only need to defend the river bank to easily bring them to the other side. With more than 30 troops, I want to see how long they can hold out."

In history, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to attack Caishi and Jiqing as his base because of the food shortage in Hezhou.

Today, Zhu Yuanzhang's army is more than ten times larger than in history, and the consumption of food and grass is naturally terrifying.

With only a few states and counties, Tuotuo didn't believe that an army of this size could be sustained for long.

On the contrary, we can easily make up for the army's expenses because of the supply of food and fodder from all over the country and the control of salt and iron.

Here he also wants to thank Zhu Yuanzhang, although he doesn't know how he did it.
However, if it were not for Zhu Yuanzhang's Tianshen Sect to reinforce the river embankment, their imperial salt fields would not have been able to resume operations.

Know thyself, ever-victorious,

Tuotuo was a talented prime minister who was different from ordinary children since childhood and could pull a strong bow when he was older. He thought that this time he had reached the peak of his importance to Zhu Yuanzhang.

As long as Zhu Yuanzhang's arrogance is thwarted here, the arrogance of the anti-Yuan forces can be struck down across the country at one time.
If there was a narration effect at this time, it should be him, Tuotuo, shouting to the sky, "I, Tuotuo, will borrow another hundred years of life from the heaven for the Yuan Dynasty~!"

A cold look flashed across Tuotuo's eyes.

Although he was praised as the last famous minister of the Yuan Dynasty,

But that is for the Mongolians.
Although Tuotuo, a Yuan Dynasty official, did not oppress the Han people as much as his uncle Bayan, he was also an extreme nationalist.

He basically had two policies towards the uprising:

First, we must intensify our precautions against the Han people and the southerners. Whenever military matters are discussed, Han and southern officials must be avoided.

Once, Tuotuo was reporting a matter to the inner court concerning military power. He turned around and saw Han Yuanshan, the Left Chancellor of the Secretariat, and Han Yong, the Councillor of the Secretariat, approaching them. Tuotuo immediately ordered the gatekeeper to stop them from entering and then sent the two men out.

He then reported to Toghon Temur, saying, "The Han people in Henan are now rebelling. We should post a notice to let the world know and order them to be arrested. All the Mongols and Semites who have been exiled for some reason should be recalled to the capital and not allowed to cause any trouble."

Another time, a clerk from the Secretariat brought a document titled "Rebellion" to Tuotuo. Tuotuo looked at the document and directly changed the title to "Rebellion of Han people in Henan".

These two events show that even at a critical moment concerning the life and death of the Mongolian nobles, Toghto still had to rely on the policy of ethnic oppression to maintain his rule.

The second is to adopt bloody suppression methods.

After the Yingzhou uprising broke out, Tuotuo sent Hesi and Tuchi, two of the co-directors of the Privy Council, to lead the Asu army to suppress it.

Soon after, he sent his brother Yesen Timur and others to lead an army of more than 100,000 to march into Henan.

Toghto also used local landlord armed forces, such as Chagan Temur in Shenqiu (now Linquan, Anhui) and Li Siqi in Luoshan to suppress the Red Turban Army.

Chagan Temur and Wang Baobao, who were involved in the avalanche on the other side of the river, were the ones he transferred from Shenqiu.

Last year, Zhima Li and his men occupied Xuzhou and took control of all the prefectures and counties near Xuzhou.
Xuzhou is located at the confluence of the Yellow River and the Grand Canal, so the Red Turban Army cut off the supply of materials to Dadu through the canal.

The Yuan Dynasty government sent Lu Luzeng to Xuzhou to suppress the rebellion. Due to insufficient cases, it recruited 30,000 salt workers from the Huai River and Huai River areas to form a "Yellow Army" to surround Xuzhou City.

Tuotuo saw that Xuzhou was within his grasp, so in order to gain military merit, he immediately took command of his troops to Xuzhou.

Then in September of the same year, he captured the city of Xuzhou and ordered his soldiers to carry out an inhumane massacre. It was at this time that Sesame Li was captured and sacrificed.

Zhao Junyong, Peng Da and others who had fought with Guo Zixing and others for Haozhou City in history also fled to Haozhou City at this time.

Now they have been recruited by Zhu Yuanzhang and joined the revolutionary army.

Therefore, Tuotuo was called a famous minister only because he was loyal to Emperor Shun of Yuan Dynasty and he was set as an example for later emperors to establish the idea of ​​loyalty to the emperor.

To Zhu Yuanzhang and many Han people and even the lower-class Mongolian people today, Tuotuo is definitely an evil ghost who eats people without leaving any bones.

At this time, the evil ghost was staring at the river surface, imagining the rewards and prestige he would receive after making great achievements.

However, at this moment, a chaotic sound of screams and shouts came from the rear of the army.

Tuotuo's expression changed, and he snorted angrily at Xu Sijian beside him:
"What's going on? Is there someone causing trouble in the army?" Xu Sijian was a member of the Qielie tribe, grandson of Yesianbuhua and son of Yi Lianzhen. He had previously followed Prime Minister Tuotuo to quell the rebellion in Xuzhou, and then came to Jiqing.

Xu Sijian frowned and was also somewhat puzzled.

"I have already issued a clear order not to drink alcohol for the next two days, so there shouldn't be any mistakes."

And at this moment,
It seems that because of the exposure of the whereabouts,
Suddenly, there was the roar of artillery and the flash of explosion from the rear.

bang bang,
The thunderbolt poisonous fire bomb developed by Taoyuan Township exploded directly in the center of the Yuan army.

At this time, the scout's terrified shout was heard:

"Oh no! The Celestial God Cult is attacking us from behind!"

Tuotuo and Xu Sijian both widened their eyes at the same time:

"What!? Impossible!"

They looked at the empty Jiang Xin and roared angrily:
"Unless they can fly over here!"

However, no wise man could give them a real answer.

At this time, the shouts of the revolutionary army had already poured into my ears like a tidal wave.

"Believe in science! Gain eternal life! God's protection! Destroy the tyranny!"

Tuotuo looked in disbelief at a group of lunatics with fanatical lights in their eyes that seemed to be about to pop out of their eyeballs, rushing madly into the rear army.

Those new troops and ranged soldiers collapsed instantly without even a hint of resistance.

Normally when two armies confront each other, the ones who rush to the front are definitely the elite.

Many novels that mention putting the cannon fodder battalion in the front row are all about fantasy worlds. In the era of simple cold weapons, putting rookies in the front row as the leader is purely asking for trouble.

Because in the era of cold weapons, once the front army collapsed, it would be catastrophic for a battle.

This was the reason why Sun Shiwan was slaughtered by Zhang Liao and his 800 men.

In this era of inefficient communications and lack of national faith, once the army collapsed, the only thing in the minds of all the soldiers was escape.

There was no need to think about the enemy being outnumbered or organizing a counterattack to win. At that time, the only thought in the soldiers' minds was "If I run faster than my companions, I can survive."

The soldiers in the back row didn't even know the situation and would inexplicably collapse.

This is the herd effect.

This was the situation of the Yuan army at this time.

The rear troops, which consisted of new recruits and ranged soldiers, suffered an inhumane camp attack at this time.

Some people were strangled in their tents before they could even put on their clothes.

The confused Central Army and Front Army had no idea what was going on.
They could only follow the collapsed rear army in a daze and run towards the river bank.

Tuotuo roared at the soldiers with red eyes:

"Don't run! Don't run! Kill them back!"

However, no one paid any attention to his soldiers at this time.

Xu Sijian, who was standing by, pulled Tuotuo's clothes with a look of sorrow in his eyes and shouted:

"Prime Minister, let's go! It will be too late if we don't leave now!"

However, Tuotuo drew out his sword and yelled like a madman: "Don't leave! No one is allowed to leave!"

Then he rushed to the back like crazy.

(End of this chapter)