Chapter 273 Sports Battle
The Ming army's tactics were basically determined, with chariot propelling, bows and arrows shooting, grenade bombing, big swords slashing, and long spear stabbing.
In order to train elite troops, the rioters, thieves, and bandits in various parts of the south were in great danger. Li Chengliang sent the Ming army to encircle and suppress them again and again. A group of hundreds of thieves fled into the mountains, and more than ten times the Ming army would enter the mountains to pursue them.
Only by constantly honing in battle can you be called elite soldiers. New recruits who have never seen much blood have been intimidated. The first time they see a bloody and cruel battlefield, they are likely to be intimidated.
Currently, there are about 40,000 new recruits under Li Chengliang's 500,000 army with less than half a year of military service, accounting for a very small proportion. Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen also have about 40,000 new recruits under each command. With the troops under the command of the three, the new recruits account for a relatively large proportion.
If Li Chengliang's 500,000 army faces Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen's 400,000 army, then Li Chengliang's army can win more easily.
The Ming army has been mobilizing in the past two years, and the People's Army has also changed with the Ming army's mobilization. At present, the deployment of the People's Army troops has stabilized.
The Third Army led by He Yan faced Tang Qi's unit of the Ming army in Guangxi. He Yan's unit had six reorganized divisions with nearly 50,000 troops, and Tang Qi's unit had nearly 140,000 troops.
The Second Army led by Yan Han fought against the Ming army Zheng Yuewen's unit in Fujian. Yan Han's unit also had six reorganized divisions with nearly 50,000 troops, and Zheng Yuewen's unit had more than 140,000 troops.
Part 1 of the First Army led by Xiong Jian fought against Li Zhengmao's troops in the Ming army in Huguang. Xiong Jian's troops also had six reorganized divisions with nearly 50,000 troops, while Li Zhengmao's troops had as many as 130,000 troops.
Wang Shengrong led most of the First Army to fight against Li Chengliang's troops, the main force of the Ming army in Jiangxi. Wang Shengrong had 22 reorganized divisions of up to 180,000 troops, and Li Chengliang's troops had a force of up to 500,000.
Just after the New Year, the People's Army began to assemble. Li Chengliang was very surprised to learn about this situation.
There were a large number of People's Army agents in the Ming army. The People's Army had a relatively good understanding of the Ming army. It was difficult for Ming army spies to integrate into the rule of the People's Army, but the Ming army could also roughly determine the strength of the People's Army.
Li Chengliang knew very well that the People's Army had arranged about 300,000 troops in the border areas, and his own side had a million troops. The troops were several times different from each other. The People's Army seemed to want to take the initiative to attack the Ming army.
After being surprised, Li Chengliang smiled. He gave the People's Army a definition in his mind: pride and arrogant.
Li Chengliang knew more about the process of the People's Army from raising the flag to the present. The People's Army had never been defeated in battle with the Ming army. This is probably the reason why the People's Army was so proud that they wanted to take the initiative to attack the millions of Ming troops with about 30 people.
It is good for the People's Army to take the initiative to attack. If the People's Army defends the city, it will be a big trouble for the Ming army. When the People's Army defends the city, the Ming army's chariots are not high. The People's Army can easily hit the Ming army behind the chariots with muskets. In order to occupy a city defended by the People's Army, the Ming army will definitely have to pay a heavy price.
Now that the People's Army is so arrogant that it gives up defense and takes the initiative to attack, Li Chengliang seems to have fantasized about the scene where his army defeated the People's Army in one battle with chariot tactics.
Understanding Song Yingchang, Mei Yousong led the Ming army to fight against the People's Army three times. Each time the Ming army had an advantage in its strength, but it did not have much more than the People's Army, at least not to double. Li Chengliang did not believe that the People's Army was invincible, but it was just grenades and muskets that gave the People's Army some advantages.
The Ming army had three times the strength of the People's Army, including grenades and artillery, and the Ming army's muskets of the People's Army could also resist with chariots. Facing the Ming army, the People's Army had no advantage, but the Ming army had a huge advantage of more troops.
After thinking about it, Li Chengliang did not think that the People's Army could block the Ming army when he gave up defending the city. Then Li Chengliang summoned the Ming generals to discuss the People's Army. The thoughts of the Ming generals were similar to that of Li Chengliang. He believed that the People's Army was arrogant and arrogant, and that the arrogant soldiers would be defeated!
Some were worried about scaring the People's Army back to defend the city, Li Chengliang ordered the Ming army to gather slowly. When the People's Army came, the Ming army just completed the assembly and fought directly with the People's Army.
The Ming army is discussing how to deal with the People's Army, and the People's Army is also discussing how to deal with the Ming army.
At the headquarters of the First Army of the People's Army, Wang Shengrong convened a meeting of 22 division commanders under his command, and another regional head of the Military Information Department attended the meeting. The main content of the meeting was mobile warfare.
The biggest advantage of the Ming army is its large number of troops, and the advantage of the People's Army lies in its muskets. However, the Ming army built a large number of combat chariots and hoped to use combat chariots to resist the lead bullets fired by the People's Army muskets. If it was on the front battlefield, this was indeed a very good tactic, but the People's Army understood this very well and would not let the Ming army get what it wanted.
In addition to muskets, the People's Army has many advantages, but its advantages are not as big as muskets. One of the advantages is the marching rush.
The People's Army has queue training, weight-bearing training, urgent marching training, etc. One escapes and the other pursues the battlefield. The People's Army can catch up with the Ming army, but the Ming army is difficult to catch up with the People's Army.
The advantage of marching allows the People's Army to engage in mobile warfare, and mobile warfare can perfectly crack the Ming army's chariot tactics.
In order to reach the lead bullets of the People's Army, the chariots built by the Ming army must be very bulky. The chariots on the battlefield are slow to move. The People's Army marched quickly and could go around the flanks of the Ming army without the chariots, or attract the Ming army to give up the chariots and pursue the People's Army. As long as the Ming army lost the chariots, the People's Army could use muskets to educate the Ming army as a human being.
During the meeting, Wang Shengrong and a group of division commanders formulated several plans. These plans were made by a reorganized division or several reorganized divisions to act freely from the large army, either to attract the attention of the Ming army to pursue the Ming army, or to hide it and attack the Ming army from the side.
The plan for the mobile warfare was determined and the meeting was not over yet. Wang Shengrong wanted to determine how the MIIS agents who were infiltrated into the Ming army should cooperate with the People's Army.
The war between the People's Army and the Ming Army is not a positional war. It slowly consumes the troops of both sides. On the battlefield, it is more likely that the opponent will be defeated in one battle and the battle will be decided quickly. In this case, if the MIIS agents do not leave the Ming army, they will easily be injured by accident.
The Military Intelligence Department originally planned to let the agents lead the Ming soldiers who were eager to the People's Army to riot one night and then flee from the Ming army. However, if this plan is implemented, it is likely that the Ming army will retreat and temporarily give up the decisive battle with the People's Army.
The new plan is that the agents cannot leave the Ming army before the war begins, and the agents can only stay in the Ming army. When the battle begins, the agents lead the Ming soldiers who are eager to the People's Army to revolt in the uprising, or cause some chaos within the Ming army.
By implementing a new plan, the agents who mingled into the Ming army may be accidentally injured, but for the sake of victory of the war and for the poor and poor people all over the world to live a good life, the agents are willing to continue to stay in the Ming army at the risk of being accidentally injured.
Chapter completed!