The military orders from the rear had been sent to Wang Shengrong. Fang Nan asked Wang Shengrong to lead the First Army to fight against the enemy Mei Yousong's troops. While ensuring that the number of casualties on his side was small, he would kill and hurt the enemy as much as possible, so that the enemy would not dare to fight again within a few years.

In fact, before the military order was delivered to Wang Shengrong, Wang Shengrong was preparing to lead his army to attack Meiyoumatsube Ming army.

At present, Mei Yousong's army has less than 200,000 troops, and tens of thousands of troops will come to join one after another. Wang Shengrong's army has 150,000 troops, which cannot be increased much in a short period of time. Moreover, the next batch of firearms will take more than ten days to be sent. Before the next batch of firearms is delivered, Mei Yousong's army will be able to complete the assembly and take the lead in launching an attack on Wang Shengrong's army. Wang Shengrong's army passively welcomes the enemy.

Compared to passively facing the enemy, Wang Shengrong prefers to take the initiative to attack. Soon, a combat plan was released.

On the tenth day of August, under the order of Wang Shengrong, the People's Army stationed in Longnan County and Anyuan County began to assemble to the border areas of the two counties.

Mei Yousong was also surprised to learn that the People's Army on the other side had made any moves. Although there were still more than 20,000 troops on the way to Xinfeng County, he already had 200,000 troops in his hand. The 30,000 elite border troops, as the main force, had arrived. How dare the People's Army, which had a smaller number of people than the Ming army, take the initiative to launch an attack?

Song Yingchang, who is temporarily aide to Mei Yousong, persuaded Mei Yousong to be careful. The situation in the first battle between Song Yingchang's army and Wang Shengrong's army was similar to that now. Before Song Yingchang's army arrived, Wang Shengrong's army, with a smaller number of people, took the initiative to attack, and in the end, Song Yingchang's army was defeated.

In response to Song Yingchang's reminder, Mei Yousong nodded cautiously, and then ordered the Ming army located in Xinfeng County and surrounding areas to gather immediately to face the upcoming People's Army.

Just when the Ming army began to assemble, Wang Shengrong's army had already completed the assemble. On the night of the assembly, Wang Shengrong's army was divided into two, led by the military political commissar Gao Wei, and the four infantry regiments under his jurisdiction were first a brigade of the troops, two brigades of the grenadiers, and one brigade of the cold weapons army, with a total of more than 20,000 people. The remaining 130,000 troops in the entire army were led by Wang Shengrong himself.

According to the combat plan, Wang Shengrong led his army to fight the enemy head-on, and Gao Wei's troops, as a side army, launched an attack from the side towards the enemy's area.

Obviously, Gao Wei's troops, which had four infantry regiments of firearms, were not as simple as a side army. Musketeers were the absolute main force in the People's Army. If all four thousand musketeers were given to Gao Wei, Wang Shengrong was planning to use this side army to decide the outcome of the battle.

According to the investigation by the Military Information Department, Wang Shengrong knew that there were a large number of combat chariots in the Ming army. In order to defend against the lead bullets shot from the tiger-headed gun, the chariots were heavy and traveled slowly, and were suitable for use on frontal battlefields or defense operations.

Wang Shengrong personally led most of the troops in his army, and the Ming army would inevitably regard them as the main force and put most of the tanks on the front battlefield. At this time, the role of the tiger-headed spear will be weakened on the front battlefield, so Wang Shengrong's troops do not need musketeers.

Gao Wei's troops will not carry any vehicles, heavy artillery, or light equipment, and their mobility will be much higher than that of Wang Shengrong's troops.

Taking advantage of the night, Gao Wei's troops and Wang Shengrong were partly opened. Gao Wei's troops detoured from Anyuan County to the east of Xinfeng County, and then marched towards Xinfeng County.

At dawn, the People's Army of Wang Shengrong, with only 130,000 troops, marched straight towards Xinfeng County. Wang Shengrong's army was slower, so he bought time for Gao Wei's army.

When Wang Shengrong's troops arrived in Xinfeng County, the Ming army in Xinfeng County had already completed the assembly and, under the leadership of Mei Yousong, welcomed Wang Shengrong's troops. At the same time, Gao Wei's troops had arrived in the east of Xinfeng County, and Xinfeng County was unblocked.

"Report! Sir, a bandit army was found thirty miles east of the east, with no more than 25,000 troops."

Hearing the spies' reward, Mei Yousong frowned and thought to himself: When did the thieves get the troops? I was negligent. When the battle with the thieves head-on, a thief army suddenly appeared on the side, which was very unfavorable to our army. Fortunately, this thief army was discovered in advance.

Thinking of this, Mei Yousong immediately ordered: "Zhao Qing!"

"The last one will be here!"

"Give you ten battalions, plus two battalions of border troops, and eat this thief army for me."

"I will obey the order!"

After receiving Mei Yousong's order, Zhao Qing immediately led 12 battalions of about 36,000 Ming troops to lightly fight eastward to attack Gao Wei's people's army.

When Zhao Qing's troops were dispatched, Song Yingchang felt a little uneasy in his mind, but he didn't know where the uneasiness came from. It was just a bandit army of more than 20,000 people, which should not pose much threat to his 200,000 Ming army. Even if Zhao Qing's troops were defeated, as long as the main force of the bandit army was defeated on the front battlefield, the battle would almost end.

At this moment, the distance between Mei Yousong's army and Wang Shengrong's army was smaller than that between Zhao Qing's army and Gao Wei's army, but Mei Yousong's army had chariots and artillery to drag down the marching speed. Wang Sheng's army also had a large number of artillery and Wang Sheng's army deliberately reduced the marching speed. The light-equipped Zhao Qing's army and Gao Wei's army were much faster than the previous two.

On the afternoon of August 14, Zhao Qingjun and Gao Weijun were the first to meet in the eastern part of Xinfeng County, and the war was about to break out.

Zhao Qing's twelve battalions have more than 36,000 people, the main force is two battalions of elite border troops, and three new battalions have no chariots, artillery, thunder, and musket soldiers.

Gao Wei's army had about 20,000 people, and it had four infantry regiments under its jurisdiction. It first landed a brigade, two brigades of grenadiers, and one brigade of cold weapons. It carried only the four infantry regiments of firearms. Its light artillery tiger head cannon belonging to the four infantry regiments.

Zhao Qing was very hearted. He wanted to eat all the Gao Wei army opposite with his 36,000 troops. After the two armies met, Zhao Qing's army immediately divided into three, three battalions of left and right battalions, and surrounded Gao Wei army from left to right. Zhao Qing personally led six battalions of Ming army (including two battalions of border troops) to fight Gao Wei army head-on.

Knowing Zhao Qing's actions, Gao Wei was overjoyed. The frontal battlefield was not wide enough, and the four infantry regiments of the firearms troops could not be deployed. If Zhao Qing's army did not divide the troops, Gao Wei's army defeated Zhao Qing's army on the frontal battlefield, and the number of people killed and injured would be less than expected.

Now, Zhao Qing's army is divided into three groups. Gao Wei also divided the People's Army he led into three, half of each branch was placed in the central army, and the remaining half was divided into two and divided into two to the left and right armies.

In this way, the Ming army in Zhao Qing's army was finally able to carry out the three left and right sides of Gao Wei's army in Gao Wei's army in the three right and left sides of Gao Wei's army.

Three hundred feet!

Two hundred feet!

One hundred and fifty feet!

"Ignite! Fire!"

In a moment, 180 tiger-headed cannons equipped by four infantry regiments spit out solid shells at the Ming army. A solid shell fell, and the bodies of several Ming soldiers were directly penetrated. One round of cannons was bombarded, and Zhao Qing's army directly killed and injured hundreds of people!
Chapter completed!