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

Chapter 79 The Confused Minister of Industry
In the wild, the three magic weapons of the Mongolian cavalry to win were mobility, firepower and trickery.

After encountering the enemy, the Mongolian cavalry regiments would usually concentrate their firepower and shoot a swift rain of arrows from a distance to harass the enemy or even destroy the enemy's formation.

Then, they rushed towards the enemy camp on horseback, shooting arrows as they galloped. They fired the last round of arrows 40-50 meters away from the enemy camp, turned their horses' heads to the right and retreated to their camp.

This distance was enough to penetrate armor, but it was not convenient for the enemy to launch a counterattack. The Mongolian cavalry turned around and shot arrows backwards.

This action is called "Parthian archery" in the West and "mo shuang" in China.

Assuming that each cavalryman carried sixty bows and arrows, the Mongolian cavalry could repeatedly attack the enemy formation in this way for up to an hour.

They would use their mobility and skilled horsemanship to break through the enemy's formation. The defeated enemy soldiers would also have to face almost endless pursuit by the Mongolian cavalry until their entire army was wiped out.

It also combines the "half-turn tactics" with other tactics such as feigning defeat, bluffing, delaying and tiring the enemy, and flanking attacks.

It can be said that the Mongolian cavalry is the most powerful field army in the world in history.

However, even such a powerful force, with all its advantages, has one obvious shortcoming: it is not good at attacking cities.

Genghis Khan's successor Ogedei Khan launched the "Western Expedition of the Eldest Son". His prince Guyuk (later the third Great Khan) offended his elder Batu on the front line.

When Ogedei Khan heard about this, he scolded his son: "Who dared to slander your brother?"

Then he threatened to punish Guyu: "I will send him as a sentinel until his ten fingernails are peeled off, and he will be asked to attack a city as big as a mountain; I will send him as a scout until his five fingernails are worn off, and he will be asked to attack a city as big as wrought iron!"

Therefore, in the primitive concept of nomads, they naturally feel a sense of familiarity with fighting in the wilderness, but are instinctively disgusted and averse to sieges.

Originally, when Tetsuji Buka saw that Zhu Yuanzhang dared to set up camp in such a close plain area, he thought that this guy was a rookie who was here to die.

As a result, they built a three-meter-high defensive fortification on the spot within five minutes.

The original field battle instantly turned into a siege, and the unprepared Tanma Red Army was directly defeated.

No one can understand why a 3-meter-high stone wall suddenly appeared when everything was going fine.

Tetsuli Buhua lay on the bed with a gloomy expression on her face.

He recalled the rumors that had spread from the Wan Hu Mansion that had been defeated and defected six years ago.

There is a person with great magical powers among the rebels, he is suspected to be the immortal praised by the southerners!

At this time, a court official in official robes entered the tent.
He angrily yelled at Tetsuji Fuka on the bed:
"Asshole! Where's the supervisor of the river repair? You said a few days ago that we needed to transfer a Wan Hu to suppress the bandits and he had to return within two days, but now it's almost three days and you still haven't returned! If you delay any longer, there will be a mutiny over there!"

The visitor was none other than Jia Lu, the Minister of Works and River Defense Commissioner, a water conservancy expert.
He followed Tuotuo's order to repair the Yellow River and redirect it back to its original course into the sea, thus solving the flood once and for all.

During the seven years since the Yellow River flooded, the poor farmers along the riverbank suffered from floods, droughts, plagues and famines. They had long been struggling on the brink of death and hated the dark rule of the Yuan Dynasty.
The treatment of the forcibly conscripted workers is now extremely low. In addition, the officials supervising the river control projects treat them brutally and withhold their food rations, causing them to feel resentful.

The river digging could continue only because of the deterrence of these 20,000 soldiers.

Now that Chelibuhua has withdrawn all his soldiers from the riverside, the already dissatisfied people have become even more restless.

Now the officials on the construction site dared not withhold the laborers’ food rations any more, for fear that a riot would be sparked by their dissatisfaction and they would be beaten to death.

Even so, the food supplies for hundreds of thousands of civilians became increasingly unsustainable due to the embezzlement by higher-level officials.

At this moment, Huanglinggang is like a huge powder barrel, which will explode completely if you are not careful.

It seemed that if we stayed any longer, something bad would happen.

The Minister of Works Jia Lu quickly fled the construction site under the cover of night and ran to the military camp to question Cheli Buhua. Jia Lu snorted coldly at Cheli Buhua:
"Let's not talk about the dirty things you do every day, such as killing innocent people and taking credit for your achievements. If you cause the people repairing the river to riot, you will have your house confiscated!"

Cheri Buhua looked at Jia Lu with a MMP expression,

If you hadn't been so stingy, these people wouldn't have been forced to this point.

Tetsuji Buka had a look of sorrow on his face.

"Sir, it's not that I left my post without permission. I encountered a powerful enemy who knew witchcraft. Look, the wound on my butt hasn't healed yet."

Jia Lu looked at Cheli Buhua as if he were a mentally retarded person.

Although he also knew that most of the military were illiterate idiots, but it was simply treason to hear words like witchcraft coming from the mouths of those who believed in Changshengtian.

Cheli Buhua seemed to see Jia Lu's expression, and he shouted innocently:
"It's true. Those guys are setting up camp five miles away now."

Jia Lu's eyes widened when he heard this.
Damn it, you actually let the enemy camp five miles away? It's hard to say that you didn't have some PY deal with the bandit leader.

"How dare you collaborate with the enemy!"

Jia Lu shouted angrily,
Tetsufuka roared with grief and anger:
"My loyalty to your majesty is unmatched! The other party is actually skilled in sorcery, so I'll give you the tiger talisman! From today on, I will resign from this job in the river service army to prove my innocence!"

After saying this, Cheribuka quickly threw the tiger talisman to Jialu, then angrily left the tent regardless of the injury on his butt.

Jia Lu looked at the tiger talisman in his hand in confusion.
He always felt something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.

"No, wait a minute!"

Jia Lu suddenly frowned.
I didn't come here to seize power. I just asked him to go back to the river to intimidate the people. How could he run away just after saying that?
Jia Lu hurried out of the tent,

Just when he was about to call out to Cheli Buhua, he found that he was riding a fast horse and running away using both his hands and feet.

The arrow wound on his butt was torn apart by the horse's shaking, but it did not make him stop at all.

It looked like he had seen a ghost.

Just when Jia Lu was confused and didn't know what was going on with Cheli Buhua,
A crossbow fell from the sky and, with a buzzing sound, nailed into the ground in front of him.

Jia Lu: “???”

He turned his head to look in the direction where the arrow came from.

The stone pillars reaching into the sky have been standing high in the sky since who knows when.

On top of the stone pillars, soldiers holding crossbows were continuously shooting arrows towards their own military camp.

Arrows fell from the sky like rain.

Jia Lu's mind was full of black question marks at this time.

He suddenly thought of Tohri Buka's escape as if he had seen a ghost.

"Toshiro Buhua! I'll fuck you! %#￥&!"

(End of this chapter)