The Straw Emperor and the Shallow Lake — How a Beggar Monk, Seven Boats of Fake Soldiers, a Northeast Wind, and One Arrow on 4 October 1363 Burned the Biggest Fleet in the World and Still Shows the Exact Hour to Stop Chaining Your Ships Together
Picture a freshwater sea the color of weak tea, low from a summer that forgot to rain. Lake Poyang, in what is now Jiangxi, is...