After a long journey, Mei Yousong and his group finally arrived at Xinfeng County. Song Yingchang personally went to the city gate to greet Mei Yousong and his group.

"Mr. Mei."

"Mr. Song."

"Mr. Mei, I am a sinner. I cannot be called "Mr.". Just call my name."

"No, our army will not be blamed for the defeat. If we were the leader of the army, we would have been defeated even if we were defeated."

Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang made a few polite words, and then called each other "Brother Mei" and "Brother Song", which brought the relationship much closer.

After traveling to Xinfeng County for a long journey, Mei Yousong did not rush to rest, but asked Song Yingchang about the People's Army as soon as possible. Although Mei Yousong already knew some of the People's Army's affairs through letters, the letter could not fully express everything about the People's Army. From the former commander around Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong could understand the People's Army better.

Only by knowing the People's Army thoroughly can Mei Yousong think about how to lead the Ming army to defeat the People's Army without ending up with Song Yingchang. Obviously, Song Yingchang did not have a thorough understanding of the People's Army in the previous two battles, and was found by the People's Army to defeat the Ming army.

In the room, Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang sat down face to face. Song Yingchang told Mei Yousong in detail about the situation of the People's Army.

"The thieves are located on three sides of Guangdong and are no less powerful than our army. Moreover, there are a large number of new recruits among the thieves, seven or eight out of ten are new recruits, but it is such a bandit army that has defeated our army many times.

The strength of the bandit army lies in two points. One point is a musket with a long range and powerful range. It has a range of more than 200 feet. Our army must rely on combat vehicles to be able to fight the bandit army in close combat.

The second point is a kind of firearm that bursts after igniting gunpowder in the iron sheet. This kind of firearm is relatively heavy and can only be thrown five or six feet away at most. However, with this kind of firearm, the thief will be invincible in close combat. Hundreds and thousands of firearms can kill thousands of soldiers by throwing them forward."

Song Yingchang told Mei Yousong the People's Army's tiger-headed gun and grenade. After listening, Mei Yousong was very moved by these two types of firearms of the People's Army.

"I don't know where the thief got these two firearms. If our army can have these two firearms, it will be no problem to defeat the thief."

Song Yingchang said: "The former kind of firearm is not available, but the firearm that comes later was obtained by me (the army) and the craftsmen dismantled it and found that this kind of firearm is very simple and can be built with time. I have ordered the firearm to be built in the rear, and our army will soon be able to use it."

"Very good. If our army has this kind of firearm, the thieves will have less advantage. The thieves' muskets are sharp, but our army also has combat chariots to resist. The thieves only occupy a land of Guangdong, with a population of only tens of millions. Our Ming Dynasty still has a population of millions, and a million troops will be able to wipe out the thieves at any cost!" Mei Yousong said with a smile.

After talking about the military strength of the People's Army and the Ming Army for a while, Mei Yousong learned about the situation under the People's Army's rule from Song Yingchang. Through letters, Mei Yousong learned about some of the situation under the People's Army's rule, which made Mei Yousong sigh that it is rare to treat thieves as good as the People's Army, and it also made Mei Yousong pay more attention to the People's Army.

Throughout history, the landlord class is very important. Only when the landlord class supports it can rebel be successful. There is no possibility for a group of rioters to succeed in rebellion.

But don’t forget that the people at the bottom are the main source of military strength. The People’s Army is good to the people. Only when the people can take the initiative to join the People’s Army, but if they force young and strong people to join the People’s Army, problems will arise.

Mei Yousong asked, and Song Yingchang naturally wanted to explain to Mei Yousong in detail the situation under the rule of the People's Army. Part of this information was collected by Ming army spies entering Guangdong, and part of it was sent by the gentry and merchants of the Ming court. Combining the information between the two parts, you can almost understand most of the situation under the rule of the People's Army.

From scouting evil gentry and merchants, to dividing land for the people, to clearing out bandits and bandits, the People's Army has done a lot of things that the government should have done, quickly gaining the support of the people under the Ming Dynasty, attracting many young and strong people to join the army, making the total strength of the People's Army more than the Ming army gathered on three sides in Guangdong, but most of the People's Army are new recruits.

Listening to Song Yingchang's remarks, Mei Yousong felt more emotion about the People's Army. Just the part of the People's Army's military strength, with the population of Guangdong, the People's Army has won the hearts of the people. As long as the People's Army wants, it can gather at most a million troops.

Even if most of this million-dollar army are new recruits, and the People's Army's two types of firearms will be no problem for the People's Army to defeat the Ming army on three sides of Guangdong. The People's Army will be able to occupy more territory and even sweep one-third of the world.

But the People's Army did not do this. At present, the People's Army only has 200,000 or 300,000 troops, and not many young and strong people recruited, allowing the people under the People's Army to continue to carry out normal production and life.

This made Mei Yousong feel that the People's Army did not take the Ming army seriously, but the Ming army was defeated by the People's Army during the two battles.

At this time, Mei Yousong felt why Song Yingchang hurriedly led the Ming army to attack the People's Army for the first time. If the People's Army was given time for a long time, the People's Army would be able to rely on Guangdong and the people under their rule to have a foundation. More Ming troops were needed to be dispatched to wipe out the People's Army.

Unfortunately, Song Yingchang still underestimated the strength of the People's Army. The Ming army was defeated twice and suffered heavy losses, so Mei Yousong took office.

Mei Yousong still has no complete understanding of the situation of the People's Army, but in Mei Yousong's heart, the People's Army has become a very powerful enemy, which has made Mei Yousong, who has just taken office, dare not act rashly and will not send small troops to test the People's Army.

Now all Mei Yousong can do is wait. Wait for the northern border troops, Ming troops from all over the north, and new troops from the south to gather, and build more firearms from the People's Army to equipment the Ming army. Only then will Mei Yousong lead the Ming army to launch an attack on the People's Army.

After learning about the People's Army from Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong still had a big doubt in his heart. Song Yingchang also had this doubt, where did the People's Army emerge?

According to the People's Army itself, the top leaders of the People's Army are all from mountain citizens, but the top leaders of the People's Army are literate and can still manage a place or lead troops to fight. How could this be something that people from mountain citizens can do?

Obviously, there is a big secret behind the People's Army. Perhaps there was a force under the Ming Dynasty, intending to overthrow the Ming Dynasty, so they secretly cultivated the People's Army and raised the anti-flag flag in Guangdong, a remote place far away from the center of the Ming Dynasty, and occupied most of the Guangdong area in a short time.

Song Yingchang once ordered people to investigate whether there was really such a force under the Meiji Dynasty, and Mei Yousong was also preparing to investigate this.

It was impossible for both of them to imagine that the People's Army was completely supported by Fang Nan.
Chapter completed!