The battle between the Second Mixed Brigade of the People's Army and the Ming Army of Fujian was fought from noon to afternoon, or the People's Army pursued the Ming Army from noon to afternoon, until the remnants of the Ming Army fled into Jieyang County, and the People's Army stopped its footsteps and surrounded the west, north, and south sides of Jieyang County, leaving only the east side for the Ming Army to escape.

A night attack, 10,000 Ming troops left 9,000 people, a pursuit battle, the Ming army fled into Jieyang County less than 4,000 people, counting the Ming army originally stationed in Jieyang County, the number of Ming troops in the entire Jieyang County is about 5,000 people.

Five thousand Ming troops defended a city, even if there were not many artillery, even if many Ming soldiers threw away their weapons when they fled, even if the morale of the Ming army was very poor.

But if the People's Army wants to capture so many Jieyang counties defended by the Ming army, the number of casualties will be as high as thousands.

In the previous pursuit battle, the number of casualties of the Second Mixed Brigade had already exceeded 1,000, and in the battle of attacking Jieyang County, the combat effectiveness of the Second Mixed Brigade would be weakened.

What's more, 8,000 people surround a city defended by 5,000 people, and the average city can only allocate 2,000 people on each side, if the 5,000 Ming army directly rushes to a certain side, it is difficult for the people's army to reach and stay, and when the people's army rushes over from other sides, the Ming army is very likely to rush through the encirclement of the people's army.

It is better to encircle three and lack one, let the Ming army escape, the People's Army can easily capture Jieyang County, and in the pursuit, continue to consume the strength of the Ming army.

Although the People's Army is now surrounded by Jieyang County on three sides, and the strength of the two sides has been reversed, Cao Yun has no idea of evacuating Jieyang County for the time being, but only sends people to the rear to ask for help.

Cao Yun thought: "The thief is so strong, at least he must block the thief here in Jieyang County, so that there will not be many sins, and if the other Lu Ming troops also suffer a big defeat, it will be even better." ”

A general of the Ming army actually hoped that other Ming armies would be defeated, what an unimaginable thing, but Cao Yun thought so in his heart, there is no worst, only worse, only other Ming armies were also defeated, and the defeat was worse than Cao Yun, then Cao Yun did not have many crimes, even if he was punished, it would be lighter.

The People's Army outside Jieyang County launched a wave of attacks on Jieyang County from time to time with firearms, and Hu Zhuang had already ordered the troops behind to bring over the artillery and ammunition dropped by the Ming army, and then bombard the Ming army with the artillery captured from the Ming army.

In less than two days, there was a breakthrough in the occupation of Chaozhou Prefecture, and under the rule of the People's Army, there was no need to worry about the Ming army attacking in the east, but the People's Army could continue to expand eastward.

However, the Fujian Ming Army was only one way for the Ming Dynasty to encircle and suppress the People's Army for the second time, with only 10,000 people, and there were other three ways fighting against the People's Army.

Back in the morning, Xiong Jian, deputy commander of the 1st Mixed Brigade, led half of the brigade to fight with the Huguangming Army in the border area between Huizhou and Shaozhou.

At the beginning of the battle, the People's Army inflicted heavy losses on the artillery units of the Huguang Ming Army with firearms, and then inflicted heavy losses on the Ming Army, with nearly 1,000 Ming soldiers killed and wounded.

However, Hu Guangming's army had a relatively strong will to fight, and in the case of nearly 1,000 casualties, it continued to charge, and paid hundreds of casualties, and the distance between the two armies was only more than 20 meters.

At this time, Xiong Jian ordered the firearms troops to retreat quickly, the cold-weapon troops to move forward, and the two armies were close to each other.

At this time, the shortcomings of the large number of recruits of the People's Army appeared, even if there were those who dared to fight and dare to fight in the camp first, but the number of people who first entered the camp was too small, and in a short period of time, the People's Army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the Ming Army suffered more than 500 casualties.

When the two armies were in close contact, the firearms troops quickly came to the edge of the battlefield and continued to fire at the Ming troops rushing in the distance, and after the Ming army paid thousands of casualties, Cui Zhengxin, the commander of the Ming army in Huguang, had to order a retreat.

Looking at the retreating Ming army, Xiong Jian did not order the pursuit, but just let the firearms troops continue to fire until the Ming troops retreated beyond the range of the People's Army firearms troops.

After a big battle, the Huguang Ming army, which originally numbered as many as 10,000 people, still had less than 7,000 soldiers to fight with, including the lightly wounded, and the Ming army lost one-third of its combat strength and could no longer fight.

The original People's Army, which had more than 8,500 people, only 7,000 soldiers left after the battle.

In the battle, the shortcomings of the KPA's weak melee strength have already been revealed, once the cold weapon unit pursues and is hit by the enemy's backhand, the two sides are scuffled together, and the firearms unit is unable to fire at the melee crowd, and finally the KPA will be defeated.

The battle stopped, and each went back to lick his wounds, and then fought again the next day.

On the other side, half of the brigade led by Wang Shengrong, commander of the First Mixed Brigade, launched an attack on the Ming army in Jiangxi.

Wang Shengrong personally led the firearms troops, under the cover of the mountains and forests, constantly launched attacks on the Ming army in Jiangxi, and withdrew to the mountains and forests after firing a few rounds of gunfire, and the Ming army in Jiangxi was unable to catch up every time.

Gather half of the cavalry who know how to bow and arrow, and the cavalry team also attacked the Ming army in Jiangxi.

On this day, the Jiangxi Ming army suffered more than 400 casualties, but there was nothing to be done about the people's army's attack, and Liu Yuanji, the commander of the Jiangxi Ming army, had already led the army to withdraw to the Dingnan county area.

Whether it is the Fujian Ming Army, the Huguang Ming Army, or the Jiangxi Ming Army, they are not the main enemies of the People's Army, and the People's Army can block the three Ming armies with 10,000 soldiers and horses each.

The key is the main force of the Ming army led by Guo Mian, with more than 25,000 people, which is the real enemy of the people's army.

After a day and a half of marching, on the afternoon of December 14, Guo Mian's army finally met the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the People's Army in the eastern part of Boluo County, with 25,000 Ming troops against 22,000 people's troops, and the two armies together amounted to 50,000 horses.

The battle of 50,000 horses still took place within the territory of the Ming Dynasty, which was already a very large-scale war.

The big war is coming, no matter how confident Guo Mian is to defeat the People's Army in front, now Guo Mian is serious-faced, the gap between the two sides' forces is not big, the People's Army still has that sharp firearms, if you are not careful, you may not be able to defeat the People's Army in this battle.

The People's Army had sharp firearms, and it was very difficult for the Ming Army to defeat the enemy with firearms, so Guo Mian put the key to the victory or defeat of the battle on the cavalry unit of nearly 1,500 cavalry in his hands.

This cavalry unit has a very deep hatred for the People's Army, and since Ren Jianxiu led the army to attack Guishan County, this cavalry unit was beaten once and lost hundreds of cavalry.

After the defeat and return to the capital of Huizhou, he was disabled by He Yan and his troops, leaving only more than 400 horsemen.

As Guo Mian became the new commander-in-chief, more Ming troops converged in the capital of Huizhou, and Guo Mian transferred various battalions of cavalry, increasing the number of cavalry in the cavalry battalion to nearly 1,500.

As long as this cavalry is given a chance, it can tear apart the People's Army array and tear it in half, which is exactly what Guo Mian wants to see!