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Chapter 71: Make a Decision

After lunch break, Zhang Ping'an came to the meeting hall. He first arranged the entire education plan of Ponucheng, and conducted on-site office work for Li Guipin's needs. After sending the satisfied Li Guipin away.

Zhang Ping'an looked serious at this time. When he walked to the wall covered with curtains, Zhang Ping'an picked up a long whip and signaled Gu Xin to open the curtains.

When Guxin opened the curtain, a large map with a radius of 500 miles was caught in everyone's eyes with Ponu City as the center.

Gu Xin then brought a A-shaped ladder and a frame filled with red and black strips, stood in front of the map, waiting for Zhang Ping'an's next instructions.

Zhang Ping'an was facing everyone at this time: "This is my newly established staff. I led more than 500 soldiers from the Jinlang Camp and made a panoramic view of the Pou Nu City in one month. Among them, the center part was drawn by me personally. This picture is the highest secret of my Pou Nu Army and must not be disclosed to anyone else here. I will ask the staff members sent to your departments to send you the map of your respective defense zones! When you want to use it, find the staff members and you must return it after reading it. Each time you use the picture, you must sign it. My General Staff Department checks the records with the picture twice a month. Do you understand?"

Everyone immediately stood up and took the order: "Yes! Grand Marshal!"

Zhang Ping'an waved his hand to everyone to sit down and began to point to the map: "The surrounding area of ​​our Ponu City is swamps and lakes in the east; swamps and lakes in the south; swamps and lakes in the west; swamps and swamps in the northwest. Therefore, after the spring thaws, we are basically not afraid of any enemy attacking!"

Zhang Ping'an pointed to the north of the map with a whip: "I am in the north of Ponu City, surrounded by mountains and many shrubs in the forests. And the mountain roads are difficult to walk, so it is not suitable for large troops to march. As long as you make arrangements at these five points, you can basically ensure that the north is worry-free! However, Guangcai, you must prevent the enemy from setting fires. Therefore, you must set up a fifty-foot fire isolation belt here!"

Yu Guangcai stood up and accepted the order: "Yes! Grand Marshal!"

Under Zhang Ping'an's instructions, Gu Xin marked the fireproof strip with a black cloth strip according to the dotted line on the map. He used a small red round cloth to mark the five key points.

Zhang Ping'an held the coaching stick with both hands and said to everyone: "My basic countermeasure this time is to attack the south and defend the west! Chen Por is responsible for the west, and I am responsible for the south attack! As long as the enemy in the south is defeated, the west is not worth worrying!"

Zhang Ping'an pointed to the east and said to Zhang Li, Xu Liang: "You two, after the spring plowing, will build obstacle fortifications in the southeast. For the specific fortification design, I will let the staff of the army give you the specific fortification design. There is no need to make a big move in your northeast, just dig a small hole and put a four-foot-high small wood!"

Zhang Li and Xu Liang received the order: "Yes! The Grand Marshal!"

Guxin immediately marked the barrier strips on the east side of the map.

Zhang Ping'an pointed to the south of the map again and said to Huang Zhi and Zhang Tong: "You are like Zhang Li and the others. After spring plowing, you must build obstacles. But you two must guard the only passage to enter and exit Ponu City. I heard that you name the trestle bridge, Ping'an Bridge. Don't make these false names. I think it is more appropriate to call it Huoyun Bridge! After hearing this name, the Tartars dare not go up the bridge easily!"

After Zhang Ping'an marked the map in Guxin, he pointed to the west: "The defense in the west is the most difficult. I decided to build a pier in the west after the meeting and demolish it after the fortifications are built! The focus of the defense in the west is directly west of Pingrong City. Relatively speaking, the defense in the west is not conducive to the attack due to the terrain of Rong City. Therefore, your troops must obey Chen Pear's command and complete the construction of the western obstacle belt!"

Chen Poe and others stood up and took the order and said, "Yes! The Grand Marshal!"

Zhang Ping'an picked up the milk tea bowl, took a bite, and sorted out his thoughts: "After repeated deductions, the General Staff and I initially estimated that the attack time of the Jurchen Tatars was in early winter this year. Because it entered the deep winter, the Tartars were in the wild and would inevitably suffer from the invasion of the severe cold, causing unnecessary frostbite damage. This is a stupid thing that no commander would do."

Zhang Ping'an smiled and said to everyone: "I have prepared three lines of defense. Even if we are in the field, we can't beat the Tartars. We can also ensure that the cities we build are worry-free!"

Zhang Ping'an used a teaching stick to draw a circle at the terrain that showed the water surface and the swamp on the map: "The ice surface in early winter is not thick. But it is definitely possible to do it. I am going to make a fuss about it. My personal military camp is responsible for letting the Tartars see what a master is using *!"

Zhang Ping'an said to Rude Yin: "De Yin, go and bring the box I prepared!"

Rudeyin quickly brought a wooden box. Zhang Ping'an opened the wooden box, took out a * sample, and said to everyone: "I started to name this thing*, but everyone doesn't say it well. So I will change the name now: *! You draw 500 strong people from each unit from your troops and go to my personal military camp to learn to drop bombs!"

As Zhang Ping'an said, he handed them the sample of the * and asked them to pass it on. Then he said, "You all know that this thing was a big loss when the two yellow flags of the Jurchen Tatars were in Guangning last time! However, the last time I made the * was too rough and only 30% exploded. This time I improved it and asked my Uncle Sun to specialize in firing it. It charges one pound of medicine. Basically 98% of it can be fried! I passed dozens of experiments and finally set it down."

Zhang Ping'an took out a thick piece of cloth from the box. Seeing everyone's puzzled expressions, Zhang Ping'an showed off: "I have said a long time ago that there are no useless people in this world, and there are no useless things. This is a kind of wild hemp that I accidentally found by the lake on the west when I went to survey and map the map. After hammering, spinning into threads, weaving them into cloth, and then bonding them with gum. As long as three layers of armor are made into armor and ordinary war knives, they will not be cut through! If a layer of cowhide is added outside and two layers of this hemp is attached, the bow and arrows that are ten steps away will not be shot through at all!"

Zhang Ping'an was a little regretful: "I have experimented many times. This kind of armor has little effect on the penetration of spears. It is not very good to protect the musket within 40 meters! The advantage of this kind of armor is that it has good protection for bows and arrows, light weight, very many materials, and low cost. I will experiment a few more times, and after the shaping, I will send the troops."

Zhang Ping'an took out another battle knife like a treasure. He gave each commander a hand and then said, "We will unify the battle knife standards in the future. Look at the difference between the battle knife you wear!"

All the commanders pulled out the knife. Huang Zhi looked at it for a while and asked Zhang Ping'an in confusion: "Master! Nothing is different, just the back of the knife is thicker!"

After hearing this, Zhang Ping'an smiled slightly and said to Huang Wei: "Please take the knife I sent and chop it against your brother's sword!"

After hearing Zhang Ping'an's words, Huang Zhi pulled out his sword. Huang Wei pointed his new sword at Huang Zhi's sword and slashed hard. Huang Zhi's sword immediately broke into two sections.

Huang Zhi was stunned: "Master! What material is this made of?"

Zhang Ping'an was quite proud: "This is my experimental product. It is intended to be used to make muskets. I added this to it."

Zhang Ping'an took out a piece of red ore from the box. Then he said, "Actually, I just experimented, grind this ore into powder, added a little into iron, and used my high-temperature experimental furnace to turn iron into steel. Make more than a dozen knives. How about it? The effect is good!"

At this time, Zhang Ping'an said to Chen Liang and Long Tao: "After going back, I often tell you the people under you, don't keep staring at me all day long. I'm doing serious business, always saying that I'm crazy tricks. If they're full and have nothing to do, they'll go lying on the crack of the widow's door and don't write some useless reports for me. I'm angry, I want them to go to mining!"

Long Tao just nodded and said nothing. When Chen Liang heard this, he immediately decided: "Master! What you did are secret matters of the Slave Army. They didn't know that Chengtai and I went back to draw a report procedure. Try not to disturb the Marshal!"

Zhang Ping'an said angrily: "I'm really anxious this time! I've worked so hard to make good things, but I was in a good mood! But when I saw these bullshit reports, I was so angry that I was so angry. Every time I came here, I wanted to kill someone!"
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