Zhao Qing's army fled, Gao Wei's army chased. This pursuit took a few quarters of an hour. Just as Zhao Qing's personal guard was about to arrive at Mei Yousong's army with a message, on the front battlefield, Mei Yousong's army and Wang Shengrong's army finally started fighting.

The two armies fought, and artillery fire first attacked. Hundreds of solid artillery shells intersected in the sky, smashing into the array of the two armies, piercing through the bodies of countless soldiers.

The cannons that caused hundreds or thousands of casualties could not stop the two armies from continuing to approach. When the distance between the two armies was less than fifty feet, the musket soldiers behind the Ming army's chariot rushed out and spitted lead bullets into the People's Army array with muskets in hand.

The distance of fifty feet is too far. With the power of the Ming army's muskets, it cannot even penetrate the shields in the hands of the soldiers who first landed the troops. At most, it will accidentally hit the feet or calves of the soldiers who first landed the troops.

Faced with the shooting of the Ming army's musket soldiers, the People's Army soldiers accelerated their charge and rushed towards the Ming army with great strides.

When the distance between the two armies was less than twenty feet, the Ming army's musket soldiers shot out a second wave of lead bullets. This time, many casualties and injuries were finally brought to the People's Army. Hundreds of soldiers who first boarded the troops fell on the battlefield, and the soldiers behind quickly rushed towards the Ming army.

The Ming army's musket soldiers had no time to carry out their third shooting. They quickly retreated. The Ming army soldiers holding spears, swords and bows and arrows stepped forward, and hundreds of arrows passed through the air and fell into the People's Army array.

Most of the arrows were blocked by the shields in the hands of the soldiers who first landed the troops, but a small number of arrows were not blocked, which caused considerable casualties to the People's Army.

Arrows were falling like rain, and the arrows of the Ming army had already caused thousands of casualties to the People's Army. Finally, the distance between the two armies was shortened to less than three meters. Grenadiers in the People's Army ignited the grenades in their hands and threw them at the Ming army array.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Amid the explosions of thousands of grenades, a long area in the Ming army array suddenly "cleared" and all the Ming soldiers in this area fell to the ground, either seriously injured and dying, or lying on the ground, wailing constantly.

The Ming soldiers behind them moved forward under the command of the officers and wanted to make up for the vacant space.

The soldiers of the first troops finally met with the Ming soldiers, waving their swords and spears. Every second, dozens or even dozens of people fell down. Behind the soldiers of the first troops, the grenadiers kept throwing grenades into the Ming army array.

Mei Yousong was always paying attention to the situation of the front army. Seeing the heavy casualties of the front army, Mei Yousong was not angry because there were only a few elite troops in the front army, basically half of them were new recruits and half were ordinary Ming army. As the main force, the border army and the newly formed "grenadiers" troops were all slightly behind.

There is no doubt that the front army of the Ming army was all cannon fodder, which was used by Mei Yousong to consume the grenades of the People's Army. Mei Yousong did not have the idea of ​​putting the main force into the front army. The People's Army was not weak, especially the grenades, which the border army could not withstand.

After discussion, Mei Yousong chose to use cannon fodder to consume the grenades of the People's Army. Perhaps doing so would cause many people to be killed or injured, but as long as the battle is won, it doesn't matter how many people are killed or injured. What Mei Yousong wants is victory. If he is defeated by the People's Army, that is the most terrifying thing.

The battle continued, and the deaths and injuries of the Ming army were increasing wildly. Mei Yousong felt that if he continued for a while, the main force could appear.

At this moment, the news of Zhao Qing's defeat was sent to Mei Yousong. When Mei Yousong heard the news of Zhao Qing's defeat, she was furious.

"What? Zhao Qing was defeated? I gave Zhao Qing more than 35,000 troops, but why was he defeated by more than 20,000 thieves?" Hearing the news, Mei Yousong couldn't believe it. He could not imagine that Zhao Qing's army, which was far more numerous than the thieves, was defeated like this.

Zhao Qing's personal guard came to Mei Yousong and described the scene of Zhao Qing's defeat by the People's Army musketeers. Mei Yousong, Song Yingchang and others immediately understood that Zhao Qing's army was defeated by the People's Army musketeers, and they actually breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

They all knew that musketeers were the main force of the People's Army. When the Song Yingchang army fought with Wang Shengrong's army last time, they had the record of defeating 30,000 Ming troops. Since the enemy musketeers were all in that side army, it means that the enemy in front of them did not have musketeers, which was actually good news for Mei Yousong's army, and they were more sure of defeating the fighting People's Army!

As long as the People's Army that is fighting is defeated, and then turn around and defeat the People's Army that pursues Zhao Qing's army, the victory of this battle will belong to the Ming army!

Because the news of Zhao Qing's defeat came to delay a little time, the time for the border army and grenade troops to appear was already here. Mei Yousong immediately ordered the border army and grenade troops to advance and replace the front army that was almost defeated. Mei Yousong guessed that the People's Army's grenades had been consumed at this time.

Soon, a Ming army, which looked unique, quickly moved towards the front of the battlefield. This Ming army was the most combat-capable border army in Mei Yousong's army. Behind the border army was the only grenadier unit in the Ming army, with only a few 5,000 people. All the thunderstorms in the Ming army were led by the grenadier unit of the five thousand people.

"Kill! Kill! Kill!"

More than 20,000 elite border troops rushed to the front of the battlefield. However, before they had contact with the People's Army, hundreds of grenades were smashed into the border army array in the sky, causing thousands of casualties to the border army. This was not over yet. The continuous grenades were thrown into the Ming army array by the People's Army grenadiers, as if endless.

Even the most elite border army was killed and injured under the grenade bombing. Some border soldiers turned around and fled. However, they did not take a few steps and were killed by the officers for desertion.

"Go on, hurry up, there are not many thunderstorms in the thief."

The officers shouted and encouraged the soldiers. Under the shouts of the officers, the soldiers mustered up the courage to continue moving forward, but what was still greeted was the continuous grenades of the People's Army.

A group of Grenadiers of the People's Army threw away all the grenades they carried and retreated to the back. Another group of grenadiers stepped forward to ignite the grenades and threw them at the Ming army array. Wang Shengrong's grenadiers had as many as two divisions. Even if there were two brigades in Gao Wei's army, Wang Shengrong's army still had four brigades of grenadiers. Until now, the four brigades of grenadiers had consumed less than half of the grenadiers.

Brave the People's Army's grenade bombing, the elite border troops continued to rush forward. Some border soldiers finally fought with the People's Army first, but more border soldiers fell on the battlefield.

Mei Yousong felt extremely distressed when he learned that so many border troops were killed by grenades from the People's Army.

"Damn thieves, how many thunder do they have?"
Chapter completed!