In the blink of an eye, it was already late March, and as the Ming troops from all over the south continued to converge, Song Yingchang's troops increased rapidly from 70,000 to 100,000.

More than half a month has passed, Song Yingchang's army has basically walked out of the shadow of defeat in the previous war, morale has recovered, and with the increase in troops, the strength of Song Yingchang's army has been greatly improved.

In this half a month, in addition to continuing to build chariots, Song Yingchang was also discussing with the generals how to defeat the People's Army.

After discussing and discussing, Song Yingchang finally made a battle plan.

Song Yingchang did not have the idea of leading the Ming army to make a detour to attack the territory of the People's Army, the army is the most important part of the People's Army, as long as the army is destroyed, it is very simple to destroy the entire People's Army.

On the other hand, if the People's Army invaded the territory of the People's Army but did not eliminate the People's Army, and without the Ming Army's containment, the People's Army could also attack the Ming Court, so the main goal of Song Yingchang's plan was to eliminate Wang Shengrong's army in front of him.

The battle plan is very simple, that is, Song Yingchang's army will continue to fight head-on with Wang Shengrong's army and eliminate Wang Shengrong's army, but this time Song Yingchang's army will be divided into three routes: left, center, and right, and the middle route army will be on the frontal battlefield, and the left and right roads will go around to the two flanks of Wang Shengrong's army, attack together on three sides, and directly start a full-scale war.

According to the ideas of Song Yingchang and the generals of the Ming army, the main force of Wang Shengrong's army was the firearms unit, the first landing unit, and the grenadier unit, and the number was limited, and more of Wang Shengrong's army were recruits with low combat effectiveness.

In this case, Song Yingchang's army attacked from three directions of Wang Shengrong's army, and the main force of Wang Shengrong's army was limited in number, and with the main force, it was able to block one side, but it could not block all three.

If the main force with a limited number of people is dispersed on three sides, it is more likely that all three sides will be broken by Song Yingchang's army.

Regardless of whether the main force of Wang Shengrong's army is dispersed or not, as long as Song Yingchang's army can break through on one side, the victory will belong to Song Yingchang's army.

The battle plan set by Song Yingchang made full use of the advantages of the Ming army's large number of troops and the shortcomings of the people's army's large number of recruits, and it was also this battle plan that restored Song Yingchang and his generals' confidence in defeating the people's army.

In the past half a month, the strength of Wang Shengrong's army has increased from nearly 60,000 to 65,000, which is only an increase of 5 or 6,000 new soldiers, and the total strength is only two-thirds of Song Yingchang's army.

The number of troops has not increased much, but the strength of Wang Shengrong's army has also changed a lot.

First of all, the firearms unit sent more than 360 tiger head guns from the rear, and the firearms unit added an infantry battalion, bringing the total strength of three battalions and nine companies to a total of more than 1,000 musketeers.

As long as the tactics are correct, with these three battalions of musketeers, it will not be a problem to defeat tens of thousands of enemies in frontal combat.

In the last battle, more than 1,200 men were killed or wounded in the first brigade, and in the middle of the last half month, on the basis of replenishing the lost troops, the first troops were expanded by one regiment to four regiments with more than 5,000 troops.

The grenadiers unit, the best partner of the first troops, did not increase in size, but only filled the vacancy, but because a batch of grenades was sent from the rear, the grenades consumed in the last major battle were effectively replenished.

In fact, if the grenadier unit does not have grenades, the melee strength is not strong, and without grenades, the grenadier unit does not need to use this name anymore, and if you want the grenadier unit to maintain combat effectiveness, you must prepare a sufficient number of grenades.

Although the number of troops was small, relying on the firearms troops, the first troops, and the grenadier troops, Wang Shengrong had the confidence to block Song Yingchang's army.

Wang Shengrong had been paying attention to the Song Yingchang army on the opposite side, and when he saw that Song Yingchang's army in Xinfeng County was moving, Wang Shengrong felt that a new battle was coming, and immediately ordered the people's army in Longnan and Anyuan counties to assemble.

On March 23, on the battlefield of the last battle, Song Yingchangjun and Wang Shengrongjun were about to face each other again.

The Ming army was divided into three, and Song Yingchang ordered General Zhang Pu to lead 30,000 Ming troops as the left army and attack Wang Shengrong's army from the east side of the battlefield; Song Yingchang also ordered General Su Anyan to lead 30,000 Ming troops as the right route army to attack Wang Shengrong's army from the west side of the battlefield, and Song Yingchang personally led 40,000 Ming troops as the middle route army to attack Wang Shengrong's army from the front.

This time, Song Yingchang must defeat the People's Army in front of him, regardless of the casualties of the Ming army.

Getting the news of the Ming army's three-way attack, Wang Shengrong's face was full of caution, if the two armies fought head-on, the people's army was not afraid of the Ming army with more troops, but now the Ming army is attacking the people's army from three sides in three ways, this is a problem, one is not good, one side is broken through by the Ming army, and the people's army will be defeated in this battle.

But there is good news, only the Ming army on the front has chariots, and the Ming troops on the east and west sides do not carry heavy chariots.

After some brief consideration, Wang Shengrong immediately made troop arrangements, with three infantry battalions of the firearms unit and one regiment of the Xiandeng unit to the right flank (west) of the KPA, one regiment of the Xiandeng unit and one regiment of the grenadier unit to the left flank (east) of the KPA, and two regiments of the Xiandeng unit and two regiments of the grenadier unit to be left in front.

In this battle, Wang Shengrong decided to put the breakthrough point on the right flank, hoping that the three infantry battalions of the firearms unit would be able to defeat the enemy as soon as possible, and as long as the Ming army was defeated all the way, the victory in this battle would belong to the people's army.

On the battlefield, Wang Shengrong's army had already stopped, and the firearms troops, advance troops, and grenadier units, which were originally all in the front, quickly rushed to the two flanks of the army after receiving Wang Shengrong's order.

In front, on the left and right sides of Wang Shengrong's army, 100,000 Ming troops were steadily advancing, and when the distance between the People's Army and the Ming army on the frontal battlefield was less than two miles, the artillery of the two armies opened fire one after another, and dozens or hundreds of solid shells smashed into the arrays of both sides, bringing a lot of casualties to both sides.

On the battlefield on the west side, the 30,000 Right Route Army led by Su Anyan did not carry heavy artillery and chariots, and quickly advanced towards the KPA array, and the distance between the two sides became closer and closer.

Three hundred zhang!

Two hundred zhang!

One hundred zhang!

More than 1,000 musketeers from the three infantry battalions of the firearms unit on the west side of the KPA were ordered by many platoon commanders, and more than 360 soldiers in the first platoon were armed with tiger head guns to open fire on the enemy rushing forward.

In the blink of an eye, more than 360 lead bullets collided head-on with the rushing Ming army, and when more than 300 Ming troops were hit by lead bullets, most of the Ming troops who were shot were directly hit by heavy losses and fell on the battlefield.

This is not over, within five or six seconds, three waves of more than 1,000 lead bullets crashed into the Ming army's array, and more than 1,000 Ming troops were hit by lead bullets, either seriously injured and dying, or unable to continue fighting, which is equivalent to the direct loss of one-thirtieth of the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's right army.