With the People's Army's musketeers firing round by round, the soldiers at the front of the Ming army's array continued to be shot and fell, and the Ming army's array was so densely formed that a round of more than 80 lead bullets attacked, at least 60 Ming soldiers and soldiers were hit by lead bullets, and there were almost no minor injuries.

In just ten seconds, three rounds of firing, more than 100 people had fallen at the front of the Ming army's array, and there were screams.

Seeing that his colleagues were shot by the firearms of the People's Army from such a long distance, and the others could only run around in order to avoid the lead bullets flying in front of them, the front of the Ming army array suddenly became a mess.

"Don't mess around! Don't mess around! There is no mercy for those who are in chaos! ”

Burst!

The Ming army reacted quickly, the array was just chaotic, and the commander of the Ming army tried to calm the chaos, and the commander of the Ming army directly drew his knife to kill a soldier who ran around nearby and caused the chaos of the array, and the other Ming army commanders also took action, and with the death of several soldiers, the chaos will soon be calmed down.

But the People's Army will not let the chaos of the Ming army array calm down so quickly, after the first three rounds of rapid fire from the tiger head gun, the fourth round of shooting followed, and more than 80 lead bullets were brought by the Ming army with more than 60 casualties, and the chaos in front of the Ming army array intensified!

None of the Ming soldiers were willing to wait or continue to die, and in their opinion the enemy's firearms were more terrible than the broadswords in the hands of the officers.

Liu Yuanji, who was riding on a war horse in the middle of the Ming army's array, naturally saw the situation at the front of the array, and he learned from Guo Mian that the people's army's firearms were sharp, but the number of firearms was relatively small, and Liu Yuanji despised the people's army's firearms.

Unexpectedly, the artillery of the People's Army first bombarded the artillery positions that the Ming army was building, and then the Ming army was shot with guns from a distance of several hundred meters, causing chaos in front of the Ming army's array.

Seeing these scenes, Liu Yuanji was taken aback, for example, the People's Army bombarded the artillery positions of the Ming army with artillery, which did not happen many times in all the wars of the Ming Dynasty, of course, the main thing was that the opponents of the Ming army basically did not have artillery.

Although the number of casualties in the Ming army is relatively small, only more than 200 people, only 40 or 50 times of the 10,000 army, it is a bit bad if this continues.

Braving the artillery fire of the People's Army, the artillery positions of the Ming army are being built rapidly, and it will take a while to complete the construction, the front of the array has been mixed into a group, and the Ming army's guns must at least enter the range of fifty zhang before they can fire, and now the Ming army can only be beaten passively.

Just as Liu Yuanji was thinking about whether the army should continue to attack forward or retreat first, another round of lead bullets was fired into the chaotic Ming army's array, adding more than sixty casualties to the Ming army.

"Hurry up and withdraw your troops!" Liu Yuanji shouted.

Soon, the gong sounded on behalf of the retreat, and the officers and commanders in front of the Ming army array no longer aimed at the soldiers who had caused confusion, and chose to retreat almost immediately, they didn't want the soldiers to run away, expose themselves to the enemy's field of vision, and then be shot by the firecrackers.

The Ming army began to retreat, the People's Army did not pursue, Wang Shengrong just asked the firearms troops to continue to fire at the retreating Ming army, killing and wounding as many as they could.

From the retreat of the Ming army when the two armies met, the number of dead and wounded of the Ming army was more than 300, and the strength was still more than the people's army, and the strength was still stronger than the people's army.

The battle came and went quickly, the two armies had not yet met with swords, separated by a distance of several hundred meters, under the attack of the firearms units of the People's Army, the Ming Army left hundreds of corpses and hundreds of seriously wounded and chose to retreat, and no one on the side of the People's Army was killed in battle.

More than 600 people were killed and wounded, which was quite painful for Liu Yuanji, equivalent to the loss of one-sixteenth of 10,000 soldiers and horses.

Before issuing the retreat order, Liu Yuanji had considered braving the firearms of the People's Army to continue the offensive of the army, but after thinking about it carefully, when the Ming army rushed to a range of 50 zhang and the musketeers could open fire, the number of casualties of the Ming army might be close to 1,000, and all the dead were firecrackers.

When the Ming army is closer to the People's Army, the artillery of the People's Army can fire scattered bullets against the Ming Army, and the Ming Army has more casualties, and it may not be enough for the two armies to fight in close combat, and the Ming Army will be defeated.

It is possible that the attack may fail miserably, it is possible to defeat the enemy but lose heavy losses on its own side, or it is possible that both sides will suffer heavy casualties and retreat, with more than 600 dead and wounded, but the main force can be preserved and can find a way to defeat the enemy, these thoughts are the real reasons why Liu Yuanji chose to withdraw his troops.

Liu Yuanji is the commander of the 10,000 Ming Army, and Liu Yuanji doesn't care if the bottom soldiers die more, the key is that when he is not sure that he can win, Liu Yuanji will not take risks.

The Ming army retreated all the way to the territory of Dingnan County, Jiangxi, and chose a place to be stationed, and the People's Army also retreated a little back and chose a place to be stationed.

In the People's Army barracks, Wang Shengrong convened the officers to discuss how he should deal with the Ming army next.

"In this battle, the Ming army saw the strength of our army, and it may not act rashly in a short period of time, the Ming army did not move, but our army could not move, except for the firearms troops, the strength of our army was still much worse than that of the Ming army.

I decided that the next attack and harassment battle would be on the Ming army, and the attack and harassment battle would be dominated by firearms troops and cavalry, and the firearms troops would attack and harass the Ming army through the cover of mountains and forests, and the cavalry would quickly maneuver on the road and retreat after a fight.

Large units of our army are still stationed here. ”

In the People's Army, except for the Third Mixed Brigade, which formed a cavalry company, the other four mixed brigades did not have a cavalry establishment, and mainly equipped high-ranking officers, heralds, and scouts with war horses.

Wang Shengrong had no cavalry troops in the People's Army along the way, so all the cavalry equipped with war horses could only be gathered and used.

Scouts belong to the fighters with strong combat effectiveness in all units of the People's Army, especially the cavalry equipped with war horses, which basically draw bows and shoot arrows, simply put, archers.

The archers rushed to the front of the Ming army, shot a wave of arrows and retreated, and the Ming army could not catch up, so they continued to harass the Ming army in this way.

Firearms troops, without artillery, the speed of the march of firearms troops is far less than that of cavalry, but there are cavalry in the Ming army, if in the open field, only more than 200 firearms troops, can not even reach double the number of cavalry, through the cover of mountains and forests to launch an attack on the Ming army is the best way.

The firearms troops attacked the Ming army and retreated into the mountains and forests, and the Ming cavalry rushed over, but they could not rush into the mountains and forests on horseback, and the firearms troops could easily retreat from the mountains and forests, and then change places to continue to harass the Ming army.

Although the elimination of the Ming army is the ultimate goal of the People's Army, in the case of a small difference in strength, the best way is to first continuously weaken the enemy's strength, and then defeat the enemy in one battle!