Fang Nan was very busy, and Zhou Lei, Zhao Hong, Cheng Xinyuan, Hu Zhuang and other high-level officials of the People's Army were even busier.

Fang Nan's busyness is mainly to formulate various development plans, government affairs are mainly to deal with some important matters at the national level, and secondary matters are handed over to Zhou Lei and the ministries themselves.

Obviously, there are not too many important matters that affect the whole country, secondary matters occupy most of them, the affairs of individual ministries are handled by themselves, small things do not need to be reported, important things need to be reviewed by Zhou Lei, and things involving multiple departments also need to be handled by Zhou Lei.

In this way, other high-ranking people of the People's Army are even busier than Fang Nan, and they don't even have enough sleep time, but the high-ranking members of the People's Army are full of energy.

Once they were just a mountain people in the mountains, their dream was very simple, that is, to eat enough, but they did not expect that under the leadership of the teacher, they actually succeeded in overthrowing the Ming court and becoming the new ruler of the land of China, ruling hundreds of millions of people.

Although they are stepping from the mountain people to today's status, they are still very excited in their hearts, and at the same time, they also keep in mind the teacher's advice, since they are in this position, they must be conscientious and must not slack off.

They are very tired of dealing with government affairs every day, but they are very happy, this is the country that the teacher led them to lay, they hope that the country they build will be better and better, even if they are tired, it doesn't matter.

Wuchang City continues to be busy, and a new war is about to break out in the northeast region.

In June, the Jianzhou Jurchen and Japanese troops were frequently mobilized, and Han Lin, the commander of the People's Army stationed in Liaodong, could basically determine that the targets of the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Japanese were both the People's Army, and it was expected that the incoming enemy would be as many as several hundred thousand, and the People's Army should also prepare for battle as soon as possible.

At present, the total strength of the army under Han Lin's command is as much as more than 170,000 people, including 12 integrated divisions of the People's Army, totaling 100,000 people, and more than 72,000 people in the 20 battalions of the original Ming Army left behind.

With the mobilization of the troops of the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Japanese Invaders, Han Lin also began to mobilize the various departments under his command, concentrating most of the troops in the border area with the Jianzhou Jurchens and the Japanese Invaders, and the small half of the army guarded the coastal areas, but there were few and few troops stationed inside.

Time passed quickly, and the 100,000 horses of the Jianzhou Jurchens and the 200,000 horses of the Japanese Invaders had almost all gathered, but the two sides did not gather together to attack, but attacked in two directions, the Japanese invaded from the east, and the Jianzhou Jurchens attacked from the north.

The 200,000-strong army of the Wa Kingdom was personally led by Ukita Hideya, who wanted to invade the Liaodong region garrisoned by the People's Army in a war and occupy the entire Liaodong region as much as possible.

The 100,000-strong Jurchen army in Jianzhou was led by Nurhachi, Nurhachi didn't want to really fight this battle, but only planned to make a feint and show it to the Japanese Kou, and the Jurchens who did not obey his orders would choose to retreat, but if the People's Army was not strong, Nurhachi was willing to kill and wound some more people to attack Liaodong.

The time entered the end of June, the Jianzhou Jurchen army and the Japanese army advanced, the target was Parrot Pass and Jiulian City, stationed at Parrot Pass is the 33rd Division of the People's Army, the division commander Yu Xi, stationed in Jiulian City is the 19th Division of the People's Army, division commander Duan Xiaolou.

At present, each of the two regions has one division of the People's Army and two battalions of the Auxiliary Army, and in addition, when he learned of the offensive targets of the Jianzhou Jurchen and the Japanese Invaders, Han Lin urgently dispatched two musket regiments from other places to support the two places, so that the garrison strength in these two areas exceeded 15,000.

The Jianzhou Jurchen army was not in a hurry to attack, and the Japanese were in a hurry, first approaching Jiulian City, preparing to attack.

It is impossible for all the 200,000 Japanese troops to arrive, and the vanguard army has 50,000 people, which is already close to Jiuliancheng, where the 19th Division of the People's Army is stationed.

According to the information detected by the scouts, the division commander Duan Xiaolou learned that the distribution of the Japanese troops was similar to that of the previous Ming army, mainly infantry, with very few cavalry, and the infantry was equipped with a small number of muskets and artillery, and there were not many people wearing armor among the Japanese invaders.

"It seems that the combat effectiveness will not be higher than that of the elite of the Ming army." Duan Xiaolou guessed.

Speculation is speculation, no matter how much you think of the strength of the Japanese Bandits, Duan Xiaolou must fight seriously in the upcoming battle, and the People's Army has been very serious in every battle since its establishment, and the commander must not have any arrogance

It was already afternoon when the Japanese Pioneer Army approached Jiulian City, but the commander of the Japanese Pioneer Army, Konishi Yukinaga, did not have any idea of letting the army rest, and the army continued to advance, wanting to take Jiulian City in one fell swoop, and rest in Jiulian City after dark.

It has to be said that the Japanese who came out of the Warring States period defeated Goryeo and the Haixi Jurchens successively, and even if they were just an ordinary soldier in the Japanese army, they were arrogant to the extreme, thinking that the Japanese army could easily defeat all the enemies, and Konishi Yukinaga gave the order to attack, and no one objected.

It was only a thousand meters away from Jiulian City, and the Japanese Pioneer Army continued to advance slowly, and at a distance of one thousand meters, the Franc machine guns and howitzers equipped with the 19th Division could be powerful.

However, Duan Xiaolou did not rush to order the artillery regiment to open fire, obviously the Japanese on the opposite side did not understand the strength of the People's Army, and could not fire the artillery immediately, the artillery could not bring much damage to the Japanese invaders, let the Japanese invaders get closer, and when the time came, the muskets and artillery would fire together, and the Japanese would be caught off guard.

At this time, as the vanguard army of the Japanese invaders, Governor Konishi also had some doubts in his heart, it was already so close to Jiulian City, why hadn't the enemy fired artillery, and the enemy was not equipped with artillery?

The enemy is better off not equipped with artillery, and it is easier for his side to capture Jiulian City, and the enemy stationed in Jiulian City by Captain Konishi is more and more despised.

Eight hundred meters

Six hundred meters

Four hundred meters

It was not until they reached a distance of 400 meters that the artillery units of the Vanguard Army of the Japanese Invaders stopped and prepared to build artillery positions.

Duan Xiaolou naturally did not wait for the Japanese to finish the construction of the artillery position and be bombarded, and immediately ordered the artillery units and musket units of the whole army to open fire.

In an instant, the musket unit launched the first wave of attacks, and more than 700 buckshot shells collided head-on with the Japanese pioneers, and more than 500 Japanese were directly shot.

This was the first time that the musket unit had targeted the Japanese artillery positions, and if they attacked other areas where the Japanese were concentrated, they would have caused more damage.

The first wave of attacks ended, and three seconds later a second wave of lead bullets struck, followed by hundreds of artillery pieces spewing out hundreds of shells.

The Japanese vanguard army that was attacked by the People's Army was a little blindsided, and at a distance of 400 meters, how could the enemy's firepower be so ferocious?

"Attack! Offensive! Governor Konishi shouted as he rushed out his command knife, not caring about the slightest casualties on his side.

The order to charge has been given, and the Japanese have crossed the bodies of their comrades and launched a charge towards Jiulian City!