It was already mid-September, and in the past few days, the generals of the army and navy of the People's Army had rushed back to the city of Guangzhou, and the last military meeting before the outbreak of the great war between the People's Army and the Ming Army was about to begin.

In the conference room, Fang Nan sat on the main seat, and Hu Zhuang, minister of the Ministry of War and commander of the army, Zhou Yi, deputy minister of the Ministry of War and commander of the Navy, Wang Shengrong, commander of the First Group Army, Yan Han, commander of the Second Group Army, He Yan, commander of the Third Group Army, Li Zhen, director of the Military Intelligence Department, and other senior generals of the People's Army sat on both sides of Fang Nan.

In the first item of the meeting, Fang Nan asked about the preparations of the army and navy departments, and all the generals of the army and navy said that they were ready to go to war at any time.

The People's Army went to war with the Ming Army, and the main forces participating in the war were the three army groups, and the navy and the army's second-line urban defense units would hardly participate in the war.

All units of the three army group armies have been reorganized, with a total of 40 integrated divisions, each of which has a musket regiment, a heavy artillery regiment, a pioneer regiment, a grenadier regiment, and two ordinary (cold weapons) regiments, plus the division headquarters, a total of more than 8,000 people, and the total strength of the 40 integrated divisions is as high as 320,000.

The 320,000 troops in the 40 divisions of the three group armies are all the troops invested by the KPA in the next big war, and the total strength of the KPA will exceed 360,000 with the addition of the army's second-line urban defense army and navy.

Under the rule of the People's Army, on average, one out of every 26 people is a soldier, and it is still within the limits of the People's Army, and if the proportion is increased to one-twentieth, it will have some impact on the production and life of the areas ruled by the People's Army.

In fact, in the agrarian era, the limit could increase the proportion of conscripts to more than one-tenth, and with the population under the rule of the People's Army, the limit could expand the army to one million.

However, there is no need for the KPA to do this, as musketeers, advance fighters, and grenadiers are the main force of the KPA, and it is impossible to increase the number of people indefinitely, and no matter how many other units increase, the KPA will not increase its combat effectiveness much, but it will make it easy for the KPA to collapse internally.

The second item of the meeting: the movement of the Ming army.

Fang Nan and a group of generals came to the wall opposite the main seat, on the wall was a map of the land of China, and Li Zhen, director of the Military Intelligence Department, came to the front to explain the movements of the Ming army to everyone

At present, the total strength of the Ming army in Guangxi, Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian is close to 700,000, half of which is located in Jiangxi, under the command of the enemy general Li Chengliang, and the troops in Guangxi, Huguang, and Fujian are more than 100,000 each.

It is estimated that after the war, the strength of the Ming army will be at least 850,000 and up to 1 million......

The general movement of the Ming army explained by Li Zhen was actually clear to everyone in the conference room, and it was just to make a decision and then make a battle plan.

It is precisely because of their own strength that everyone at the meeting is more confident than anyone outside that the People's Army will win this war, even if the People's Army participating in the war is only 320,000, the Ming Army participating in the war can reach up to 1 million, and the strength of the Ming Army is three times the strength of the People's Army.

Each integrated division has a musket regiment, a musket regiment has at least 1,000 muskets, and forty integrated divisions are equipped with at least 40,000 muskets, so that only 40,000 musketeers can face a million Ming troops, and one person does not need to shoot 20 times, as long as he can kill seven people, he can make a million Ming troops rout.

Even the People's Army, which attaches great importance to ideological education, does not dare to say that it will fight to the last man, and the ordinary troops of the Ming army will collapse after more than one-third of the casualties, and only the elite troops may be defeated when more than half of them are killed or wounded.

There is no need for melee combat, the KPA only needs to use musketeers to shoot the enemy from a distance, and the enemy will be able to crush the enemy.

The Ming army is equipped with a large number of chariots, and all the high-ranking people of the People's Army know that chariots can effectively resist the lead bullets fired by muskets, but it is very simple to crack the chariot tactics on the battlefield, and the chariot will be very heavy in order to block the lead bullets, and it will move slowly on the battlefield.

In the next war, the musketeers were the absolute main force, and if they could not fight with the Ming army in close combat, they would not engage in close combat, and the Ming army was equipped with a large number of grenades named Earthquake Thunder, and the military intelligence department had investigated clearly, and once the melee combat began, the People's Army would also suffer heavy casualties.

As long as the musketeers are used flexibly, the People's Army on the battlefield can defeat the Ming Army with a small number of casualties, and in the first stage of the war, the next thing to meet the People's Army is the siege war, which is the second stage of the war, and the main purpose of the People's Army in the siege war is to occupy more plates.

Everyone in the conference room could feel that the KPA would have more casualties in the second phase than in the first.

It takes two steps to capture a city, the first is to break through the city walls, and the KPA rushes into the city; The second step was street fighting, which wiped out all the rebellious Ming troops in the city.

Earlier, the People's Army made a number of plans to break through the city walls faster:

The city gate was not blocked, and the main force of the soldiers and grenadiers rushed to the city gate, blew up the city gate with explosives bags, and then rushed into the city;

If the city gate has been blocked, you can dig a tunnel under the city wall and place a large amount of explosives to blow the city wall down.

Now the KPA has a better plan, the KPA mobilizes craftsmen to build a simple siege tower, the siege tower can be disassembled into parts for easy transportation, and when it comes to the battlefield, it can be quickly assembled, and the musketeers can climb the siege tower to condescendingly shoot at the enemy on the city wall.

However, this simple siege tower also has a disadvantage, that is, the defense is very low, if it is hit by the enemy's artillery several times, the siege tower will almost be scrapped, so if you want to use the siege tower, the people's army must first use artillery to suppress the artillery of the Ming army defending the city, as long as the siege tower is built, the musketeers on the siege tower will not give the Ming army a chance to open artillery.

As long as the siege tower suppresses the Ming army on the city wall, the next step is to rush up the city wall with a ladder, or quickly dig a hole under the city wall and bury explosives to blow up the city wall.

With a simple siege tower, it became easy for the People's Army to break through the city wall, but the street fighting after breaking the city wall was a trouble for the People's Army, and the musket could not be used in the street fighting, so it could only be recommended with a combination of the first soldier and the grenadier, and the enemy also had grenadiers, and in the street fighting, it was almost destined that the People's Army would kill and wound a lot of people.

In order to reduce casualties, it is necessary to persuade the Ming army defending the city to surrender, the main force of the Ming army has been defeated by the people's army, and the morale of the Ming army defending the city will not be very high, and there is a certain chance that the persuasion will succeed.

In addition, the MI agents lurking in the city also have to take action to find people who are afraid of death to persuade them to surrender.