It was already August, and more and more Ming and People's Army gathered in this small area of ​​Ganzhou Prefecture in southern Jiangxi.

Mei Yousong served as the commander of the Ming army. He mobilized ten battalions of about 30,000 border troops from the northern border, and at least 60,000 Ming troops from various parts of the north, and recruited young and strong men from various parts of the south, expanding at least 100,000 troops, which together amounted to 200,000 troops.

Now, these 200,000 soldiers have recruited about 40,000 young and strong men in Fujian, Guangxi and Huguang, and are all directly assigned to the Ming army in the three places. Nearly 130,000 of the remaining 160,000 people have arrived and gathered in Jiangxi, and more than 30,000 people are on the way to Jiangxi.

After more than 30,000 people arrived, there were as many as 220,000 Ming generals who were directly under Mei Yousong's command, including more than 30,000 elite border troops and more than 60,000 new recruits.

There were 220,000 Ming troops, even though there were 60,000 new soldiers, but the number was too large. In the first round of battle between the People's Army and the Ming army, Song Yingchang had only 80,000 Ming troops commanded, and only 100,000 were defeated in the second round. The third round was more than the first two rounds of the Ming army.

In fact, Mei Yousong's initial thought was to send all the young and strong men recruited from Fujian, Guangxi and Huguang to Jiangxi. The main force of the People's Army was in Jiangxi. Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang had similar ideas, and they all planned to directly eat up the main force of the People's Army. After the battle, the People's Army would no longer block the Ming army's strength.

However, the People's Army increased its troops elsewhere. Mei Yousong was worried that the People's Army would break through from Fujian, Guangxi and Huguang, so he could only allocate the young and strong recruited by the three places to the Ming army in the three places. Fortunately, it was just new recruits and was not strong in combat. The outcome of the battle still depends on 30,000 elite border troops.

In order to prepare for this battle, Mei Yousong's army had prepared a large number of combat vehicles, and the grenades obtained from the battlefield had been mass-produced, but the output was relatively low. The grenades produced by Huguang and Jiangxi within a few months were not as many as one-third of the number of grenades in Wang Shengrong's army.

These grenades were concentrated in Mei Yousong's army and were not dispersed to the other three Ming troops. Mei Yousong planned to use these grenades as a killer weapon to catch the People's Army off guard.

When the Ming army demonstrated the use of grenades, Mei Yousong was shocked by the grenades.

A grenade has a relatively small power, and it is good to be able to kill a person, but if hundreds of grenades explode together, it will definitely be a large number of casualties.

The heavy grenade cannot be thrown too far is its biggest flaw, but there are artillery, muskets, bows and arrows in the long range, and there is no room for grenades to be used better in melee combat. It can be called a melee weapon. No wonder the People's Army has so many new recruits, but it can defeat the Ming army in melee combat.

Mei Yousong gave the grenade a name - Zhentian Lei.

However, the time was too short and there were too few thunders produced. Mei Yousong really wished that the Ming army could be equipped with more thunders, making it easier to defeat the People's Army.

Yes, in Mei Yousong's view, he had the previous experience of the Ming army's failure, had a large number of battlefields, and the number of Ming troops was much larger than that of the People's Army, so the Ming army would win this battle!

As the war approaches, Mei Yousong has conveyed the reward regulations for defeating the People's Army, mainly three types: promotion, wealth (including fields), and women.

The Ming soldiers knew about the reward regulations from the officers, and their morale, which had been sluggish, suddenly rose.

Promotion represents an improvement in status, making money represents a prosperous future and a spicy drink, and a woman represents a family tradition. Which Ming army soldier doesn’t want these three? Even if the Ming army soldiers who are unwilling to fight and kill, they have already made up their minds to go to the battlefield to kill more enemies.

Wang Shengrong's army, opposite Mei Yousong's army, had already reached 150,000 at this time.

Originally, a new tiger-headed spear was created in the rear of the People's Army, which would be sent to the First Army, Second Army and Third Army in a ratio of 2 to 1 to 1.

However, when it was discovered that the main force of the Ming army was still concentrated in Jiangxi, and Jiangxi was still the main battlefield, Fang Nan handed over more tiger-headed spears to Wang Shengrong's army.

At this moment, there were as many as four firearms infantry regiments in Wang Shengrong's army, with more than 4,000 tiger-headed spears. Two-thirds of the current equipment of the People's Army were all in Wang Shengrong's army.

Relying on these 4,000 musketeers alone can resist or even defeat the 40,000 Ming army. If other troops cooperate with these 4,000 musketeers, only 30,000 people can reach the 100,000 Ming army.

With four thousand musketeers here, Wang Shengrong's confidence in relying on the 150,000 People's Army to resist and even defeat Mei Yousong's army.

In addition to musketeers, the number of artillery units in the firearms unit has also increased by several batches. Although the number of artillery in Wang Shengrong's army cannot be compared with the number of artillery in the Ming army, it is not too far apart, especially for artillery with a range of more than one thousand meters, Wang Shengrong's army needs more.

The firearms unit is followed by the first landing troops and the grenadier units.

In the past four months, the first-row unit has been expanded to more than 12,000 people in one division, and the grenadier unit has been expanded to more than 25,000 people in two divisions.

The First-Carrying Force is the most powerful close combat force among the People's Army. It charges in front of melee. Even if the most casualties and injuries in each battle are the first-Carrying Force, the First-Carrying Force will have a higher reward for killing the enemy. There are many People's Army soldiers who are willing to join the First-Carrying Force. At present, only selected People's Army soldiers can join the First-Carrying Force.

The grenadiers have a very large size, and under normal circumstances, they should only have two brigades. The grenades in Wang Shengrong's army can be used by the grenadiers in three major battles.

Nowadays, each of the grenadiers of two divisions carries a sufficient amount of grenades, and can carry all the grenades in Wang Shengrong's army in one go.

For this reason, Wang Shengrong changed the tactics of the grenade troops. During melee battle, the grenade troops in the front immediately retreated after throwing the grenades, and let the grenade troops fill the positions and continue to throw grenades. The battle was not over, and the grenades had to be thrown until all the grenades were thrown away. The grenade troops would join the melee battle with their knives.

The tactics changed because of the last battle between Wang Shengrong's army and Song Yingchang's army. If the grenadier troops were larger at that time, the number of grenades used in the battle would have been greater, but it would have reduced the number of casualties of Wang Shengrong's army. If the grenades were lost, they would continue to be sent here, and if the people were gone, they would never come back.

Wang Shengrong really wanted to see whether all grenades would be used up in one battle in the upcoming war.

The firearms unit first arrives, and the three main forces of the grenadier unit are ordinary cold weapons units. After a series of battles and months of training, the recruits quickly matured, and their overall combat effectiveness has greatly increased, which can better assist the three main forces.
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