"The bandit army entrenched in Guishan County has come out and is coming north? OK, pay close attention to the movements of the bandit army and cannot let them run away."

When Guo Cheng learned that the Third Mixed Brigade of the People's Army was coming north, Guo Cheng smiled. As long as the bandit army did not defend against the city, he would be sure to defeat the bandit army. The number of bandit army was large, with more than 20,000. However, in Guo Cheng's view, it was just a group of native chickens and dogs, most of which were farmers who had put down their farm tools for a while, and how much combat effectiveness could they have.

In order to prevent the Third Mixed Brigade of the People's Army from escaping, Guo Cheng did not turn to pursue, but continued his previous plan and marched towards Yong'an County. It is necessary to let the People's Army know that the Ming army was going to march into Yong'an County. In order to protect Yong'an County, the People's Army must catch up and intercept the Ming army.

At the same time, the Ming army led by Guo Cheng also slowed down a little, worried that the People's Army would not be able to catch up.

On December 13th, the first battle between the People's Army and the Ming Army broke out. It was not the battle between the Third Mixed Brigade of the People's Army and Guo Ze's army, but the battle between the First Mixed Brigade led by Wang Shengrong and the Ming Army in Jiangxi.

The Ming army from Jiangxi was stationed in Dingnan County, bordering Jiangxi and Guangdong. To the south was Heping County. The People's Army and the Ming army were only dozens of miles apart, but no one acted rashly.

Liu Yuanji, commander of the Ming army in Jiangxi, knew from Guo Cheng that the People's Army had powerful firearms, and it was very difficult to capture a large number of cities stationed by the People's Army. Moreover, the Ming army attacked and more People's Army supported him.

So Liu Yuanji was waiting, and when all the Ming troops launched an attack on the People's Army together, Liu Yuanji led the Ming army to attack again, and the People's Army opposite had no reinforcements.

Liu Yuanji's plan is very simple. First, try to attack Heping County, which is heavily guarded. If you can't defeat it, you will take a detour to attack other counties. It is best to lead the People's Army out of Heping County without a city wall as a support. Liu Yuanji believes that the army he led can defeat the People's Army on the opposite side.

When the attack time came, Liu Yuanji led 10,000 troops from Dingnan County and came to Heping County. After receiving the news that the Ming army in Dingyuan County was dispatched, Wang Shengrong also led more than 8,000 people's army to the north.

The Ming army spies returned with the news of the People's Army marching north. When they received the news, Liu Yuanji laughed.

"This is the heaven that will destroy the thief. The city is not guarding, and he dares to face our army. I have won several battles and I don't know what his surname is, right?"

Hearing his own adult words, other Ming army officers and leaders laughed, as if they thought they could take down the People's Army in Heping County in one battle.

The gap between the more than 8,000 People's Army and the 10,000 Ming army was only more than 1,500. One side of the People's Army believes that it is strong, and the other side of the Ming army also believes that it is strong. Whoever is strong has to fight and see.

Before three o'clock, the two armies met in the northern part of Heping County. Because the People's Army notified in advance, the people of this generation had already moved in advance. As a battlefield, there were almost no trace of the people.

The People's Army and the Ming Army began to prepare for combat when they were more than four miles apart.

The two infantry companies of the People's Arms Firearms Force came to the front of the team, and half of the artillery company and the artillery in the infantry company gathered to the flanks.

The Ming army was equipped with a large number of muskets and cannons, and some archers also had some archers, but the shooting distance of archers was not as good as that of muskets, so musket soldiers were placed at the forefront of the team.

The Ming army's muskets were big and small. A relatively small musket could be used by one person. A relatively large musket would require two people to use, almost like a small cannon.

The musket soldiers were followed by swords and shield soldiers, spear soldiers, archers and various cold weapons troops, and the artillery troops of the Ming army were also preparing for combat.

The two armies were four miles apart, and the heavy Folang machine cannon could reach the farthest range of four miles, but the Ming army did not have the idea of ​​firing in the direction of the People's Army across four miles.

The distance is too far, whether the shells can be shot is a question, and where the shells land is another question. With the technology of this era, it is very difficult to make the artillery fire at a long distance.

In most cases, the Ming army would place artillery at a place 500 meters or even closer to the enemy array to fire, preferably only about 100 meters. At this time, the cannon can fire a shotgun, and one can shoot a large piece, which is equivalent to the volley of hundreds of muskets.

The People's Army and the Ming Army chose to fight in this open area. As long as the open area can exert the power of artillery, if they fight in the mountains, they can only fight in close combat.

The firearm is not only the main force of the People's Army, but also the main force of the Ming army. The Ming army was almost the army equipped with the most firearms in this era, and it was impossible for it to voluntarily give up the use of firearms troops.

Three miles

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One mile

The distance between the Ming army and the People's Army is getting closer and closer.

The Ming army infantry continued to move forward, and the artillery troops were ready to build positions.

People's Army Array

"Report to the brigade commander, the enemy is building an artillery position!" The scout came to Wang Shengrong to report.

"Build an artillery position and send an order to the artillery company to see if it can destroy the enemy's artillery position." Wang Shengrong gave the order without hesitation.

"yes!"

The position of the Ming army's artillery position was determined, and soon the People's Army's artillery fired together and poured shells into the Ming army's artillery position.

When the solid shells hit the Ming army's artillery position, there was no sound of explosion, only the sound of solid shells hitting the artillery, the earth and the human body.

The first two can barely resist the power of solid shells, but the human body is not good. When the shells hit, they either smash their heads or their arms or legs, or leave a blood hole as big as a bowl of mouth on their body. If several people stand in a row, they may be penetrated by solid shells.

Suddenly, many screams rang out from the Ming army's artillery position.

The number of artillery equipment in the 10,000 Ming army was more than 100, and the artillery positions were relatively large. The People's Army had only twelve artillery pieces, and only twelve artillery shells were fired at a time. Most of them fell on the Ming army's artillery positions, which only brought not much chaos and relatively small casualties to the Ming army's artillery positions.

It is a relatively difficult thing to knock out all the Ming army artillery with twelve artillery pieces. Wang Shengrong did not want the enemy's shells to land on his head. Now the shortest distance between the two armies is only 400 meters, the Ming army has as many as 10,000 troops, and the People's Army has relatively few firearm troops, so it is impossible to defeat the enemy in one battle.

In that case, it's time to let the tiger-headed spear show its power!

Dong! Dong! Dong! Dong!

The rhythmic sound of war drums sounded, which was the sound of musketeers firing. The musketeers who had already stood in three rows of combat formations quickly opened fire to the Ming army ahead according to the command of their superiors.

Two more than 240 musketeers in the two companies, each time more than 80 tiger-headed guns opened fire, and more than 80 lead ejections were shot at the Ming army array in each round.
Chapter completed!