At night, in the area bordering Puning County, the capital of Chaozhou, and Jieyang County, the barracks of the Second Mixed Brigade of the People's Army and the barracks of the Fujian Ming Army were set up in one west and one east, and both sides sent personnel to keep an eye on each other's barracks to guard against each other's night attacks.

The Second Mixed Brigade of the People's Army has four companies of firearms, three infantry companies and one artillery company, and seven regiments of cold weapons, totaling more than 8,800 people.

This Ming army from Fujian had more than 10,000 soldiers.

The gap between the strength of the People's Army and the Ming Army was more than 1,000, and there were very many new recruits in the People's Army, and the fighting on the battlefield was certainly inferior to that of the Ming Army's non-commissioned officers, and the People's Army could only rely on a firearms unit of more than 500 people.

Hu Zhuang guessed that on the battlefield tomorrow, the possibility of the People's Army defeating the Ming army is relatively small, and the greatest possibility is to block the Ming army, and the two armies will fight, each killing and wounding some people, and then retreat and fight again the day after tomorrow.

This situation is very bad for the KPA, there are so many KPA troops, and if they die, there really will be no more.

The Ming army, the first encirclement and suppression of the People's Army dispatched more than 20,000 troops, the second encirclement and suppression of the People's Army dispatched 60,000 troops, this time failed, the next time can send more troops, the People's Army needs to preserve its own strength as much as possible, to deal with the Ming army's encirclement and suppression again and again.

Hu Zhuang thought of the first time he led the army into the territory of Chaozhou Mansion, and soon attracted a Ming army of nearly 3,000 people to come and pursue, and finally led the firearms army to attack at night and defeat this Ming army.

Night raids are a very good tactic, but there are Ming army spies hidden in the shadows outside the KPA barracks, and it is more difficult for the KPA to attack the Ming army barracks at night.

However, the difficulties are used to overcome, the People's Army sent out a night attack on the Ming army, this is an impossible thing, it will definitely alarm the Ming army spies, but only send firearms troops to attack at night, the number of firearms troops is small, the target is small, it is very likely that the Ming army spies will not be alarmed.

As the night grew darker, Hu Zhuang personally quietly left the barracks with more than 370 people from three infantry companies of the firearms unit, and made a detour towards the location of the Ming army's barracks.

The People's Army occupied Puning County for so long, and the terrain of Jieyang County, a neighbor, had already been explored clearly, and people who were familiar with the road led the way in front, easily passing through the mountains and forests, and getting closer and closer to the Ming army camp.

The Ming army has more than 10,000 troops, so many people, the military camp covers a very large area, with the mountainous and forested terrain of Guangdong, the existence of mountains and forests can not be avoided around the Ming army barracks, and the goal of Hu Zhuang is the mountains and forests in the northeast of the Ming army barracks.

Cao Yun knew that there had been a night attack by the People's Army on the Ming Army in Chaozhou Prefecture, and constantly sent spies to monitor the People's Army camp, and around the Ming Army camp, a large number of people were sent to patrol and guard against the night attack of the People's Army.

Although the army is very vigilant, and Cao Yun also knew from Guo Mian's side that the People's Army had powerful firearms, he couldn't imagine that the Tiger Head Gun of the People's Army had a killing distance of more than 750 meters!

It was already the second half of the night, and Hu Zhuang's team finally came to the predetermined position, as long as they walked out of the jungle, they were only less than 400 meters away from the edge of the Ming army's barracks.

Of course, there are mountains and forests closer to the Ming army camp, the shortest distance is only a few tens of meters, but those positions are not good, the distance is too close, the patrolling Ming army is relatively close to the mountains and forests, how to let the People's Army sneak attack, only one attack, it will attract a large number of Ming troops to pursue.

"Quick, reload!"

"Be careful, don't go off."

In the dark, the KPA soldiers reloaded their tiger head guns in the dark, and the speed was not much slower than during the day.

This is a very normal thing, compared with the large number of recruits in the cold weapons unit, the firearms unit is basically a veteran, even if several companies are expanded after the flag is raised, it is also transferred from the reserve.

The soldiers of the firearms unit have been through many battles, and the process of loading ammunition and firing is not known how many times, and it is an exaggeration to say that they can quickly reload ammunition even with their eyes closed.

"Everyone in a company is ready!"

"Everyone in the second company is ready!"

"Everyone in the third company is ready!"

"Action!"

Hu Zhuang gave an order, and the soldiers walked out of the mountains and forests one after another, quickly forming a three-stage shooting array, and the muzzle of the tiger's head gun was facing the Ming army camp.

In the dark night, at such a distance, there was not much movement, and the patrolling Ming army was obviously unable to spot the firearms units of the People's Army walking out of the mountains and forests.

"Fire!"

Suddenly, with the light of fire and black smoke, more than 120 buckshot bullets flew towards the camp of the Ming army.

A ten-member squad patrolling the northeast of the Ming army camp was directly destroyed by more than a dozen lead bullets, and more lead bullets hit the Ming army camp and hit the sleeping Ming soldiers.

"Ahh

The sleeping Ming soldiers were woken up by the pain and wailed miserably.

The other Ming soldiers who were not shot were pleasantly surprised by this wail, and the Ming soldiers who reacted quickly reacted immediately.

"Enemy attack!"

"It's the enemy attacking at night!"

"Where is the enemy!"

The first round of lead bullet crashed into the Ming army barracks, the second round of lead bullet, the third round of lead bullet followed, and the third round of lead bullet fell, hundreds of Ming soldiers were shot, and there was a wail, and chaos gradually rose.

In fact, the first round of shooting of the People's Army did not bring too many casualties to the Ming army, except for that patrol team, most of the other Ming troops were lying and sleeping in the barracks, and for such a target, the probability of hitting was relatively low.

On the contrary, after the other Ming troops woke up, they sat up or even stood up, and at this time, the number of casualties in the second and third rounds of lead bullet increased rapidly.

The 10,000-strong Ming army camp was very large, and it was divided into five battalions, the front, the middle and the rear, and the left and right battalions.

Round after round of lead bullets continued to shoot at the right battalion of the Ming army, hundreds of Ming troops had fallen, and the entire right battalion of the Ming army had been mixed into a group.

The panicked Ming soldiers fled from the right camp and brought the chaos to the other battalions, and at this time, Cao Yun, who had woken up from his sleep, already knew about his own night attack.

"Order the front battalion and the rear battalion, gather manpower to bypass the right battalion and destroy the enemy attacking at night as soon as possible, there will not be too many enemies attacking our army at night, quickly assemble the manpower of the middle battalion to stop the chaos of the right battalion."

Cao Yun quickly issued one order after another, and after giving the order, under the service of the guards, Cao Yun put on his armor, and for the rest of the night, Cao Yun did not plan to sleep.

Compared with the previous rounds of shooting, because many people in the right battalion of the right battalion fled from the camp, the number of casualties caused by each round of shooting is now declining rapidly, and it is more likely to increase the confusion for the Ming army.

It was not until the scouts who monitored the battalions of the Ming army came back to report that the Ming army was attacking this side, that Hu Zhuang gave the order to retreat.