It was already mid-September. In the past few days, the generals of the People's Army and Navy rushed back to Guangzhou City. The last military meeting was about to begin before the outbreak of the war between the People's Army and the Ming Army.

In the conference room, Fang Nan sat on the main seat, Hu Zhuang, Minister of the War and Commander of the Army, Zhou Yi, Deputy Minister of the War and Commander of the Navy, Wang Shengrong, Commander of the First Army, Yan Han, Commander of the Second Army, He Yan, Commander of the Third Army, and Li Zhen, Director of the Military Information Department, and other senior generals of the People's Army sat on both sides of Fang Nan.

The first item of the meeting was that Fang Nan asked about the preparations of various departments of the Army and Navy. The generals of the Army and Navy said that they were ready and could start war at any time.

The People's Army went to war with the Ming Army, and the main forces participating in the war were the three armies. The navy and the second-tier city defense forces would hardly participate in the war.

All the troops of the three army groups of the army were reorganized, with a total of forty reorganized divisions, each division under its jurisdiction, a musket regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a first-row regiment, a grenade regiment, and two ordinary (cold weapons) regiments. In addition, there were more than 8,000 people in the division headquarters, and the total strength of the forty reorganized divisions was as high as 320,000.

The three armies had 40 divisions and 320,000 troops, which was the entire force invested by the People's Army in the next battle. Together with the Army's Second-tier City Defense Forces and Navy, the total force of the People's Army would exceed 360,000.

Under the rule of the People's Army, one person must be a soldier of every twenty-six people, and it is within the scope of the People's Army's ability to bear. If the proportion increases to one-twentieth, it will have some impact on the production and life of the People's Army-ruled areas.

In fact, in the farming era, the limit can increase the proportion of recruitment to more than one tenth, and the limit can be expanded to one million under the rule of the People's Army.

But there is no need for the People's Army to do this. Musketeers, first-board soldiers, and grenadiers are the main force of the People's Army. The number of people cannot increase without limit. No matter how many other troops increase, the People's Army's combat effectiveness will not be much improved. Instead, it will easily collapse within the People's Army.

The second item of the meeting: Ming army trends.

Fang Nan and a group of generals came to the wall opposite the main seat. On the wall was a map of the land of China. Li Zhen, director of the Military Information Department, came to the front and explained the movements of the Ming army to everyone.

"At present, the total strength of the Ming army in Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi and Fujian is close to 700,000, and half of the forces are located in Jiangxi. The forces of the enemy general Li Chengliang are over 100,000 each in Guangxi, Huguang and Fujian.

There were troops in other areas of the Ming court mobilized to the south. It is estimated that the Ming army's troops were at least 850,000 after the war, and the maximum could reach one million. It is basically certain that Jiangxi is still the main attack direction of the Ming army..."

The Ming army explained by Li Zhen actually knew everything about it to everyone in the conference room. He said it again just to make sure and then formulate a combat plan.

As a senior executive of the People's Army, everyone in the meeting could not understand the strength of the People's Army. It is precisely because they understand their own strength that everyone in the meeting was more confident than those outside the people at the meeting that the People's Army won the victory of this war. Even if there were only 320,000 People's Army participating in the war, the Ming army could reach up to one million, and the Ming army's strength was three times that of the People's Army.

Each reorganized division has a musket regiment, with at least one thousand muskets in a musket regiment, and forty reorganized divisions are equipped with at least 40,000 muskets, which only allow 40,000 musket soldiers to face one million Ming troops. One person does not need to shoot twenty times. As long as he can kill seven people, one million Ming troops can be defeated.

Even the People's Army, which attaches importance to ideological education, dare not say that the last person will fight. One-third of the ordinary Ming army's casualties will collapse, and only the elite troops may be defeated if more than half of the casualties are killed or injured.

There is no need for melee combat. The People's Army only needs to use musketeers to shoot the enemy from a distance to defeat the enemy.

The fact that a large number of chariots were equipped in the Ming army. All senior executives of the People's Army knew that chariots could effectively resist the lead bullets fired by muskets, but the tactics of cracking chariots on the battlefield were very simple. In order to block the lead bullets, the chariots would be very heavy as a whole and would move slowly on the battlefield. As long as the People's Army mobilized, attacked the Ming army from the side, or lured the Ming army to abandon the chariots to pursue, it would be easy to defeat the Ming army.

In the following war, musketeers were the absolute main force. They would not engage in close combat without close combat with the Ming army. The Ming army equipped a large number of grenades named Shi Tian Thunder and the Military Intelligence Department has investigated clearly that once the close combat starts, the People's Army will suffer heavy casualties.

As long as the musket soldiers are flexibly used, the People's Army will be able to defeat the Ming army with a small number of casualties on the battlefield. In the first stage of the war, the next thing to welcome the People's Army is the siege war. This is the second stage of the war. The main purpose of the People's Army in siege war is to occupy more territory.

Everyone in the conference room could feel that the number of casualties in the People's Army in the second stage would be higher than that in the first stage.

Occupying a city requires two steps. The first step is to break through the city wall and the People's Army rush into the city; the second step is street fighting, destroying all the rebellious Ming troops in the city.

Earlier, the People's Army formulated many plans to break through the city wall faster:

The city gate was not blocked. The main force of the first-mounted soldiers and grenadiers rushed to the front of the city gate, blew the city gate with explosives, and then rushed into the city;

If the city gate is blocked, you can dig tunnels under the city wall and place a large amount of explosives to blow up the city wall.

Now the People's Army has a better plan. The People's Army mobilized craftsmen to build a simple siege tower. The siege tower can be disassembled into parts for easy transportation. When it comes to the battlefield, it can be quickly assembled. Musketeers can climb the siege tower and shoot at the enemy on the city wall from a high point.

However, this simple siege tower also has a disadvantage, which is that its defense is very low. If it is hit by enemy artillery several times, the siege tower will almost be scrapped. Therefore, if you want to use the siege tower, the People's Army must first use artillery to suppress the artillery of the Ming army defending the city. As long as the siege tower is built, the musketeers on the siege tower will no longer give the Ming army a chance to fire.

As long as you use the siege tower to suppress the Ming army on the city wall, you can do it either by rushing up the city wall with a cloud ladder or quickly digging holes under the city wall to bury explosives and collapse the city wall.

With the simple siege tower, it became simple for the People's Army to break through the city wall. However, street fighting after breaking through the city wall is a troublesome for the People's Army. Muskets cannot be used in street fighting, so they can only be recommended by the combination of first-board soldiers and grenadiers. The enemy also has grenadiers. In street fighting, the People's Army is almost destined to be killed or injured.

In order to reduce casualties, persuading the Ming army to surrender is a necessary step. The main force of the Ming army was defeated by the People's Army. The morale of the Ming army to guard the city will not be very high, and there is a certain chance that the Ming army to persuade them to surrender successfully.

In addition, the MIIS agents lurking in the city must also take action to find people who are afraid of death to persuade them to surrender.
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