Guo Ze's army is preparing for combat, and the Third Mixed Brigade of the People's Army is also preparing for combat.

The Third Mixed Brigade is currently the largest number of people among the four mixed brigades of the People's Army, with more than 22,000 people. As the main force, there are a total of five companies, four infantry companies and one artillery company.

If the Third Mixed Brigade defends the city, it will be difficult to break through the city defended by the Third Mixed Brigade if it increases some force to Guo Ze's army.

However, the goal of Guo Cheng's army is Yong'an County, the central government of the People's Army. The Third Mixed Brigade had to stay away from the city to intercept Guo Cheng's army. The People's Army's firearms are strong, but the number is too small. After a battle, a musket soldier can kill ten enemies. Once the two armies are in close combat, the Third Mixed Brigade will have the possibility of losing.

The battlefield chosen by the People's Army and the Ming Army was large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people in the battle. As the two armies gradually approached, the war was about to come.

Under the command of brigade commander He Yan, the People's Army advanced in a common formation, with firearms troops in front, and cold weapons troops surrounded three sides of the firearms troops.

As for the Ming army, Guo Cheng learned from Ren Jianxiu's defeat and placed a large number of sword and shield soldiers at the front of the array. Behind the sword and shield soldiers were musket soldiers, followed by spear soldiers, sword and axe soldiers and other melee troops.

Guo Cheng knew that the People's Army's firearms were very powerful, so he put the sword and shield soldiers at the front of the array, hoping that the sword and shield soldiers holding shields would resist the lead bullets fired from the People's Armed Forces. As long as they rushed to one hundred meters away from the People's Army array, the musket soldiers could open fire on the People's Army, so that the People's Army could see the power of Ming's arms.

As Guo Ze's killer weapon, the cavalry unit has been staying behind the Ming army. Now the entire Ming army is stared at by the People's Army. If the cavalry unit is dispatched first, it will be easily detected by the People's Army and be prepared in advance, the killer weapon will not be of great effect. It is more than just a firearm to deal with cavalry.

Guo Ze would wait until the two armies were fighting, and then send the cavalry troops out and go around the rear of the People's Army to launch a charge. A battle of 50,000 people would not end so quickly. The cavalry troops had enough time to go around the rear of the People's Army.

As long as this plan is successful, the Ming army will set the victory and defeat the People's Army with one blow.

Three miles

Erli

The distance between the two armies is constantly approaching.

"Report, brigade commander, the enemy is building artillery positions, which are more than three hundred feet away from the front of our army."

He Yan's face remained unchanged and calmly issued an order: "Tell the firearms troops to quickly build artillery positions and launch an attack on the Ming army's artillery positions!"

"yes!"

The 25,000-man army of Guo Ze had hundreds of artillery artillery pieces. The artillery position under construction was a heavy artillery position, and only heavy artillery could send shells three hundred feet away.

Originally, whether it was heavy artillery or light artillery, the Ming army would establish artillery positions less than 500 meters away from the enemy. In order to prevent being attacked by the artillery positions by the People's Army's firearms, Guo Cheng asked the artillery battalion to build a heavy artillery position when it was more than 300 feet away from the People's Army.

The Ming army had as many as hundreds of heavy artillery pieces. It would take a relatively long time to build the entire artillery position and set up the artillery. With this time, the People's Army's artillery company had already set up the twelve Folang machine cannons.

The bombardment began.

Twelve solid shells hit the Ming army's artillery position, smashing seven unlucky guys to death or seriously injured. Only three of the twelve solid shells hit the Ming army, and other solid shells either hit the ground or hit the Ming army's artillery.

Although there were few shells hit, the Ming soldiers killed and injured made others feel scared, and they were almost killed and injured.

As a rapid-fire gun, the People's Army's Folang machine cannons continuously send shells to the Ming army's heavy artillery positions. Each round of gunfire caused very few casualties to the Ming army, but it made the Ming army on the heavy artillery positions frightened. No matter how small the chance, death has appeared in front of them, and perhaps the next one will be their turn.

In fear, the construction speed of the Ming army's heavy artillery position was greatly delayed. After knowing this, Guo Cheng, who was located in the Ming army's formation, was helpless. The Ming army was unable to counter the People's Army's artillery.

Guo Cheng had already thought in his mind that when building artillery positions in the future, he must build more. After building artillery positions, he can attack the enemy artillery positions.

The next moment, Guo Cheng threw away the ideas in his mind. The enemies he had encountered were not as good as the People's Army, and the previous ideas might be difficult to use in the future.

No longer care about artillery positions that were bombarded, artillery that only fired solid shells had a relatively average role in the battle situation, and the outcome of the battle still had to be resolved in close combat. At this moment, the shortest distance between the Ming army and the People's Army was less than 500 meters.

Four hundred and fifty meters

Four hundred meters

"Open fire!"

With He Yan's order, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of war drums, four infantry companies of the forefront of the People's Army, and more than 160 soldiers in the first row opened fire at the Ming army array several hundred meters ahead with guns.

In the blink of an eye, more than 160 lead bullets crashed into the Ming army's array. Even though more than 120 Ming soldiers were hit by lead bullets, they were either killed or seriously injured, the shield in the hand of the sword and shield soldiers seemed to be just a thin layer of cardboard in front of the lead bullets, which was easily penetrated.

The Ming army wanted to use a shield to block the lead bullet fired from the tiger-headed spear, but it was just a dream that only by making a shield with a thick iron plate can it block the lead bullet. However, such a shield was too heavy. Ordinary Ming soldiers even struggled to walk with them, and the Ming army's standard shield was just blocking swords and guns.

Within just ten seconds, the People's Armed Forces completed three rounds of shooting, with more than 480 lead ejections being shot out, and more than 350 Ming troops were shot or seriously injured, which was equivalent to one-seventy-one of the troops of Guo Ze's army being consumed.

Hundreds of casualties could not stop the Ming army from advancing. Instead, because the People's Armed Forces fired, Guo Cheng directly ordered the Ming army to accelerate and advance at the speed of charge! At the same time, he ordered the cavalry battalion to detour the People's Army behind to launch an attack.

"Run!"

A Ming soldier just shouted, and the next moment he was shot and killed by oncoming lead bombs. The Ming soldier around him was scared and wanted to escape, but there were people charging forward everywhere behind him, and there was no place to escape, so he could only rush forward together.

Rows of lead bullets fell down, and soon, the number of casualties in the Ming army exceeded 1,000.

Every 100 meters of advance of the Ming army, the price of nearly a thousand casualties was paid. After paying 3,000 casualties, the distance between the two armies had been shortened to 100 meters. As long as the few remaining swords and shield soldiers in front of the Ming army made way, the musket soldiers could soon use muskets to fire ammunition at the People's Army.

"Run! Rush!" Even Guo Cheng was shouting, killing 3,000 people killed and injured, which made Guo Cheng feel distressed, but as long as he rushed over and fought with the People's Army in close combat, victory would belong to the Ming army.

Bang!

Guo Cheng's head exploded! It exploded!!
Chapter completed!