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Chapter 41: The Troubled Army (Part 2)

Zhang Ping'an was lying comfortably in the hot wooden basin. He saw with satisfaction that his body gradually had muscles due to the nourishment of sufficient food. Lu Ruge, beside the wooden basin, blushed, tried the water temperature with his hands, and heated water into the basin from time to time. He looked at Zhang Ping'an, who was shaved into a basin in the wooden basin, fearful and shy.

Zhang Ping'an said that in order to be responsible for the mistakes in this battle, he learned from Comrade Cao Cao, shave his head, and warned the entire army.

Zhang Ping'an wanted to shave like Cao Cao, but he didn't even have the hair on his lower body. What's more important is that because he didn't take a bath for a long time, there were too many lice on his body, he happened to clean it up for himself. Although shaving hair is a great insult to people in this era, Zhang Ping'an did not have many psychological obstacles. Especially when he saw his subordinates, after shaving his hair, ordered his personal soldiers to hang his hair with wooden sticks and declare it to the entire army, they looked so ashamed that they burst into tears, and were extremely satisfied with their faces.

What Zhang Ping'an even more unexpected was that his brothers in the military camp also shaved their hair in order to learn from the commander. After Li Chen returned, he shaved his hair by himself, and then asked the soldiers of his troops to shaved their hair. Then Chen Poe, Zhang Li, Hu Ming, Huang Zhi, Huang Wei and other troops all shaved their hair one after another. The current Possess Army has become a bald army.

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The ice city built by Long Xiucai and Wu Tian has been renamed Ponu City by Zhang Ping'an. A wooden platform that is fifty feet long and two feet high has been built in the wilderness two miles outside the city.

In early December of the first year of Tianqi, Zhang Ping'an began his military reorganization plan after the troops returned to Ponu City. At that time, all the soldiers and civilians of Ponu City came to Mutai.

Wu Tianxing rode a horse to Zhang Ping'an's horse, saluted and shouted loudly, "Master! Get ready, please give me instructions!"

Zhang Ping'an nodded and returned his greetings, rode his horse to the wooden platform alone. After turning over and getting off the horse, he slowly walked up to the wooden platform. On the wooden platform, he looked around. There were 9,000 cavalry troops in the north; there were more than 40,000 people in the city to the south; there were his 1,700 personal barracks of cavalry and more than 500 deserters to be executed today. To the west was Wu Tianxing's 3,700 cavalry troops, surrounding the families of more than 3,000 deserters to be driven away today.

At the second hour of Si, Zhang Ping'an waved his hand at the east camp. The personal camp ran out 200 people, and after leaving the battle, they divided into two rows, headed north and south to the predetermined position. Zhang Ping'an pointed to the north, and a low roar sounded in the military formation first; the roar of the fifty-sided war drums was shocking.

Zhang Ping'an, wearing black armor, pressed his hands on the wooden platform, and the sound of the war drums came to an abrupt end. Zhang Ping'an said loudly: "Brothers of Ponu Army! The elders, brothers and sisters of Ponu City!" He said, and the two hundred loud voices of the personal soldiers who had just come out of the battle passed.

"When I, Zhang Ping'an, started a war, swore to rescue and protect all compatriots enslaved by the Tartars. Therefore, I attacked the Tartars again and again without regard for the danger and rescued you."

Zhang Ping'an turned around to face the people and pointed his hand at the deserter kneeling on the ground: "But these people, when the Tartars attacked us and needed protection the most, actually became deserters on the battlefield! If we were defeated, your brothers would be killed again, your sisters would be * again, and you would become slaves again!"

Zhang Ping'an pointed directly at the people next to him with his hand and shouted loudly: "Tell me, are you willing?"

A tsunami-like shout rang out from all around: "I don't want it! I don't want it!..."

Zhang Ping'an said in a solemn voice: "Military law is ruthless. As usual, deserters behead their heads! The families of deserters were driven out of the camp of the slave army!" Hearing this, crying sounded from the families of deserters in the west.

Zhang Ping'an ignored the crying in the west and continued: "Families of the dead of war, from now on, the food and meat will increase by 20%. The Pou Nu Army will support their families for life! The orphans, regardless of men or women, enter the newly established Golden Wolf Camp, and the food and clothing will be borne by the Pou Nu Army! All children under the age of fourteen in the Pou Nu City, regardless of men or women, must read and recognize words. The two meals in the middle and evening are provided by the Pou Nu Army!"

Zhang Ping'an pointed at the war drum team in the military formation again, and the war drums sounded again. Zhang Ping'an waved at Lu Deyin, and Lu Deyin immediately divided the deserters into five teams, and took the first team of more than 100 deserters to be executed onto the wooden platform, divided them into two rows, facing south and north, and knelt down. Zhang Ping'an turned around and walked down from the wooden platform, and rode his horse toward the military formation in the north.

Zhang Ping'an walked to the military formation, held the reins in his left hand and turned the horse's head toward the south. He raised his right hand and shouted the sound of war drums. Three personal soldiers on the wooden platform raised their swords according to Zhang Ping'an's instructions. One grabbed the deserter's hair in front and one grabbed the ropes on the deserter's body behind the deserter. Zhang Ping'an waved his right hand down. More than a hundred shiny sabers on the platform were cut down at the same time, and blood mist sprayed out three feet away. The military formation was silent, and the people in the south rushed back with a buzzing sound. The crying sounded again from the west, and he did not dare to move forward under the blast of Wu Tianxing's army.

After the execution of the deserter, Zhang Ping'an said to the messenger beside him: "Send the order to Wu Tianxing! Let the families of the deserter be freed and let their families collect the bodies. Then send the rations sent for ten days!"

Zhang Ping'an said to the old brothers around him again: "Everyone goes back for dinner, and come to me to discuss matters less than three o'clock in the afternoon!"

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Zhang Ping'an returned to Wu Tianxing and Long Xiucai's mansion to prepare him for the third visit to the hospital. He was very satisfied with this flattery project. After all, in the cold winter of ice and snow, no one who has the conditions is willing to live in a tent.

Under the service of Lu Ruge, he took off his armor and changed into a loose cotton robe. Sitting at the dining table, Lu Ruge handed him a bowl of hot white rice. Zhang Ping'an almost cried when he saw the rice. Although Zhang Ping'an was from the north, he grew up in the south and loved rice the most. Seeing the rice, he couldn't help but think of all the past in his previous life, and his eyes gradually became wet. Lu Ruge looked at Zhang Ping'an with a strange look. She didn't understand that a bowl of rice actually made this murderous doll handsome man shed tears.

Zhang Ping'an took the rice bowl and was about to eat it when he suddenly remembered something, swallowed his saliva and put down the bowl, and asked Lu Ruge: "Ruge! Do you know how much rice we have?"

Lu Ruge stood by the table and nodded and picked up food for Zhang Ping'an: "I know! Mr. Long said there were more than thirty stones. He told me: If the Dashang likes to eat, he will keep it for the Dashang."

Zhang Ping'an looked at the rice and sighed: "Ru Ge, sit down and eat! There are no outsiders here, so I don't care so much. It's boring to eat alone. If there are no outsiders in the future, we will have dinner together!"

At this time, it was Zhang Ping'an's turn to see it strangely. Lu Ruge shed tears, held up his bowl and sat down. He began to think dirty again: "I want to cry, it's me who remembered my relatives in my previous life. Why are you crying? You won't just give me a promise for a bowl of rice! This is too cheap. It seems that when you trade with the government army, exchange more rice. I don't know how many beautiful sisters can give me a promise!"

Zhang Ping'an actually thought wrongly. The reason why she sat down to eat was that she did not dare to disobey Zhang Ping'an's wishes, but she was a little moved in her heart. She was very discriminated against for women like Lu Ruge who had been harmed by the Tartars and lost her virginity in this era.

Zhang Ping'an was unable to take action for future happiness at this time. So he said to Lu Ruge seriously: "Ruge, it seems that we can only eat this rice. In the afternoon, you ask your personal soldiers to send the rice to the wounded barracks. We are not yet enjoying it!"

When Zhang Ping'an talked about us, Lu Ruge was really moved. It seemed that Zhang Ping'an not only did not discriminate against her, but was sincerely kind to her. So tears and snot burst out. Looking at the beauty in front of her, she wiped tears and snot with her hands while eating. He didn't feel disgusted, but admired her very much. Thinking about his previous life, Zhang Ping'an was at most the overlord of the losers: the old losers! And here, he was the overlord of the tall, rich and handsome: the young rich and handsome!

In order to be a young and handsome man, Zhang Ping'an gentlemanly picked up a piece of meat in Lu Ruge's bowl. Zhang Ping'an knew that women were too skinny and were for others to see. Women were plump for those who knew. So women should eat more meat. Unexpectedly, Zhang Ping'an's move brought Lu Ruge's strong reaction. Lu Ruge ate the meat handed by Zhang Ping'an in one bite, put down the bowl, covered his face with both hands, rushed out of the dining room with tears, ran to his room and bit the pillow. The second piece of meat that Zhang Ping'an picked up could not be handed over, so he could only stop beside Lu Ruge's bowl, and was stunned to see Lu Ruge turn around and run away.

What I didn't expect was that this scene was seen by Hu Ming, the most gossip among the old brothers. Hu Ming was about to step over the gate of the courtyard when he saw Lu Ruge covering his face and crying. So he quickly hid at the door, poked out half of his head excitedly, and looked inside. But the dining room was not in good light, and he saw nothing. He just saw Zhang Ping'an's figure slightly, but this did not hinder his imagination. As soon as he turned around, he saw Zhang Li who was about to walk in. He quickly stopped Zhang.
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