The military order from the rear had been sent to Wang Shengrong, and Fang Nan asked Wang Shengrong to lead the First Army to meet the enemy's Meiyousong Division, and to kill and wound the enemy as much as possible and inflict heavy losses on the enemy while ensuring that his casualties were not large, so that the enemy would not dare to fight again for several years.

In fact, before the military order was sent to Wang Shengrong, Wang Shengrong was preparing to lead the army to attack the Ming army of Meiyou Songbu.

At present, the strength of Mei Yousong's army is less than 200,000, and there are tens of thousands of horses that will come to converge, and Wang Shengrong's army has 150,000 troops, and it is impossible to increase much in a short period of time, and it will take more than ten days for the next batch of firearms to be sent.

Compared with passively facing the enemy, Wang Shengrong preferred to take the initiative to attack, and soon, a battle plan was released.

On the 10th day of August, under the orders of Wang Shengrong, the People's Army stationed in Longnan County and Anyuan County began to assemble in the border areas of the two counties.

Mei Yousong was also surprised to learn that the People's Army on the opposite side had moved, although there were still more than 20,000 people and horses on the way to Xinfeng County, but he already had 200,000 troops in his hands, and the 30,000 elite border troops as the main force had arrived, how could the People's Army, which was less than the Ming Army, dare to take the initiative to attack?

Song Yingchang, who was temporarily Mei Yousong's staff, persuaded Mei Yousong to be careful, the situation in the first battle between Song Yingchang's army and Wang Shengrong's army was similar to now, Song Yingchang's army had not yet arrived, and Wang Shengrong's army, which was smaller in number, took the initiative to attack, and finally Song Yingchang's army was defeated.

In response to Song Yingchang's reminder, Mei Yousong nodded cautiously, and then ordered the Ming army located in Xinfeng County and the surrounding area to immediately assemble to meet the incoming People's Army.

On the night of the end of the assembly, Wang Shengrong's army was divided into two, one was led by Gao Wei, the political commissar of the army, and the four infantry regiments of the firearms unit under its jurisdiction, one brigade of the Xiandeng troops, two brigades of the grenadier troops, and one brigade of the cold weapons troops, totaling more than 20,000 people, and the remaining 130,000 horses of the whole army were personally commanded by Wang Shengrong.

According to the battle plan, Wang Shengrong led his army to meet the enemy head-on, and Gao Wei's troops launched an attack on the enemy's area from the flank as a partial army.

Obviously, Gao Wei's division, which has four infantry regiments of firearms troops, is not as simple as a partial army, and the musketeers are the absolute main force in the people's army, and Wang Shengrong is ready to use this partial army to decide the outcome of the battle if Gao Wei gives all the 4,000 musketeers.

According to the investigation of the Military Intelligence Department, Wang Shengrong knew that there were a large number of chariots in the Ming army, and the chariots were relatively heavy and slow to defend against the lead bullets fired by the tiger head gun, which was suitable for use in frontal battlefields or defensive operations.

Wang Shengrong personally led most of the troops, and the Ming army would inevitably take it as the main force and put the vast majority of the chariots on the frontal battlefield, at this time, the role of the tiger head gun on the frontal battlefield would be weakened, so Wang Shengrong's department did not need musketeers.

Gao Wei's troops will not carry any vehicles or heavy artillery, and they will go into battle lightly, and their mobility will greatly exceed that of Wang Shengrong's troops.

Taking advantage of the night, Gao Wei and Wang Shengrong separated, and Gao Wei will detour from Anyuan County to the east of Xinfeng County, and then march to Xinfeng County.

At dawn, Wang Shengrong's People's Army, which had only 130,000 troops, marched in a straight line towards Xinfeng County, and Wang Shengrong's troops marched slowly, giving Gao Wei's troops time.

When Wang Shengrong's troops arrived in Xinfeng County, the Ming army in Xinfeng County had completed the assembly, and under the leadership of Mei Yousong, they greeted Wang Shengrong's troops, and at the same time, Gao Wei's troops had arrived in the east of Xinfeng County, and the undisguised Xinfeng County attacked.

"Report! My lord, I found an army of thieves thirty miles east, and the strength did not exceed twenty-five thousand. ”

Hearing the spies' report, Mei Yousong frowned, thinking in his heart: When did the thieves get the troops, they were negligent, and when they were fighting on the front battlefield with the thieves, a thief army suddenly appeared on the side, which was greatly disadvantageous to our army, but fortunately, this thief army was discovered in advance.

Thinking of this, Mei Yousong immediately ordered: "Zhao Qing! ”

"The last general!"

"Give you ten battalions of men and horses, plus two battalions of border troops, and give me to eat this thief army."

"The last general obeys!"

After receiving Mei Yousong's order, Zhao Qing immediately led twelve battalions of about 36,000 Ming troops to the east to meet the incoming Gaowei People's Army.

Zhao Qing's Ming army was dispatched, but Song Yingchang was faintly uneasy in his mind, but he didn't know where this uneasiness came from, it was just a thief army of more than 20,000 people, and it should not pose much threat to his own 200,000 Ming army, even if Zhao Qing's army was defeated, as long as the main force of the thief army was defeated on the frontal battlefield, then the battle would almost be over.

At this moment, the distance between Mei Yousong's army and Wang Shengrong's army is smaller than the distance between Zhao Qingjun and Gao Wei's army, but Mei Yousong's army has chariots and artillery to drag down the marching speed, and Wang Shengrong's army also has a large number of artillery and Wang Shengrong's army deliberately reduces the marching speed, and the lightly armed Zhao Qingjun and Gao Wei's army march much faster than the first two.

On the afternoon of 14 August, Zhao Qingjun and Gao Weijun were the first to meet in the eastern part of Xinfeng County, and a big battle was about to break out.

There are more than 36,000 people in 12 battalions of Zhao Qingjun, the main force is two battalions of elite border troops, and another three battalions of the new army, which do not carry chariots, artillery, earth-shaking thunder, and have firearms.

The Gao Wei Army has about 20,000 men, and has four infantry regiments of firearms troops, one brigade of the advance troops, two brigades of grenadier units, and one brigade of cold weapons troops.

Zhao Qing's heart is very big, he wants to rely on the 36,000 men and horses in his hands, directly eat all the Gao Wei army on the opposite side, after the two armies met, Zhao Qing's army was immediately divided into three, three battalions of the left route army, three battalions of the right route army, left and right outflanking the Gao Wei army, Zhao Qing personally led six battalions of the Ming army (including two battalions of the border army) to fight the Gao Wei army head-on.

Knowing Zhao Qingjun's movements, Gao Wei was overjoyed, the frontal battlefield was not wide enough, and the four infantry regiments of the firearms unit could not be deployed, if Zhao Qingjun did not divide his troops, Gao Weijun would defeat Zhao Qingjun on the frontal battlefield, and the number of casualties would be less than expected.

Now it's okay, Zhao Qing's army is divided into three routes, and Gao Wei also divides the people's army led by himself into three, half of each army is placed in the middle army, and the remaining half is divided into two and assigned to the left army and the right army.

In this way, the three roads of the Ming Army of Zhao Qingbu were on the left, center and right of the Ming Army against the right, center and left of the Gao Wei People's Army, and the Gao Wei Army firearms unit was finally able to deploy.

Three hundred zhang!

Two hundred zhang!

One hundred and fifty zhang!

"Ignition! Fire! ”

In a moment, one hundred and eighty tiger head cannons equipped with four infantry regiments sprayed solid shells at the Ming army, and when a solid shell fell, the bodies of several Ming soldiers were directly penetrated, and a round of artillery bombardment fell, and Zhao Qingjun directly killed and injured hundreds of people!