As soon as the third day of the Lunar New Year passed, the KPA immediately entered a busy state, with 40 integrated divisions stationed in the border areas assembling at their predetermined locations, and most of the officials of the People's Army governments in various localities were also packing up their bags and preparing to go to the border areas under orders.

Seeing the situation of the KPA, the people in the KPA-ruled areas understood that war was coming.

Since the end of the last war, the People's Army has been actively preparing for this war, and even if the Ming Army wants to drag it out, the People's Army will not continue to drag it out with the Ming Army, and Guangdong alone can no longer meet the development of the People's Army, and at the latest in early February, the People's Army will take the initiative to launch an attack on the Ming Army.

Fang Nan did not publicize the assassination a few years ago.

Under normal circumstances, during the armistice between the two countries, if the head of one country is assassinated by another assassin, the country can use the assassination as a pretext to start a war against the other country, and the people will support this just war of revenge.

But the People's Army does not need to use the assassination as an excuse to start a war, the People's Army has always been aiming to make the poor people of the world live a good life, and the People's Army's war against the Ming Court is just in the eyes of the people in the People's Army-ruled areas, and there is no need to add the assassination of a major governor.

The People's Army moved, and the Ming Army followed suit, and both sides unanimously chose to go to war at the beginning of the year.

On the side of the Ming army, the commander Li Chengliang sat in Jiangxi and commanded an army of 500,000; Deputy Marshal Tang Qi, sitting in Guangxi, commanded more than 100,000 troops; Deputy Marshal Li Zhengmao, sitting in Huguang, commanded more than 100,000 troops; Deputy Marshal Zheng Yuewen, sitting in Fujian, commanded more than 100,000 troops.

The four Ming armies together have exceeded 900,000, numbering a million troops.

Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen were all sent by the Ming court to hold Li Chengliang hostage, Li Chengliang commanded millions of troops, and the Ming court could not rest assured, for fear that Li Chengliang would become another people's army, even stronger than the people's army, and the remaining troops in the hands of the Ming court were not as many as Li Chengliang's troops, so it was impossible to say that the Ming court would die in the hands of Li Chengliang.

The Ming court was worried that Li Chengliang would be opposed, and Li Chengliang, who supported the army and could not be promoted, did have a different idea, and Li Chengliang sent Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen to Guangxi, Huguang, and Fujian to command the Ming army in accordance with the "rules."

Although the 900,000 army under the direct control of Li Chengliang is only 500,000, there is no one else in the army to hold it hostage, and this is the most important thing.

Moreover, in the past two years, Li Chengliang has continuously mobilized the Ming army of various departments, transferred the Ming army where the subdued generals were located to Jiangxi, and transferred the generals who were unwilling to take refuge in him to Guangxi, Huguang, and Fujian.

For the Ming army under his control, Li Chengliang directly took out a large amount of silver for training, and most of the silver allocated by the imperial court was intercepted by Li Chengliang, and only half was divided into the Ming army in Guangxi, Huguang, and Fujian.

Not only the silver allocated by the imperial court, but also the silver that Li Chengliang earned in Liaodong in the past, as well as the large amount of silver that he had received from the glass business in the past year, were all invested by Li Chengliang into his army of 500,000 yuan.

It can be said that among the 900,000 Ming army, four-fifths of the elite troops were under the command of Li Chengliang, and the remaining one-fifth was divided by Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen.

For example, it is explained that the total strength of the Tianzhen battalion is close to 50,000, of which 40,000 are under Li Chengliang, and less than 10,000 are divided by Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen.

What is very amazing is that the number of grenadiers of the Ming Army is about the same as that of the People's Army, and the People's Army has 40 integrated divisions, each of which has a grenadier regiment, and a grenadier regiment has about 1,200 people, and 40 grenadier regiments are 48,000 people.

However, the actual situation cannot be looked at very much, if calculated according to the number of grenades, the number of grenades in the KPA reserves far exceeds that of the Ming army, and if the number of grenades in the Ming army's reserves can only support one big war, then the grenades in the KPA reserves can support at least two and a half major battles.

According to the ratio of grenades to grenadiers in the Ming army, the number of grenadiers in the People's Army can reach more than 100,000, but the total strength of the People's Army is only so large, and it is impossible for the grenadiers to directly occupy one-third of the number.

The Ming army pursued the annihilation of the People's Army in World War I, and the People's Army pursued the defeat of the Ming Army in World War I and the ability to continue fighting in the face of the new Ming Army.

Because of the great role of grenadiers in the war between the People's Army and the Ming Army two years ago, the Earthquake Battalion has become one of the three main forces of the Ming Army, the other two main forces, one is a cold weapon unit armed with a big sword and a spear, and the other is an archer.

The number of firearms units (not counting grenadiers) in the Ming army was quite large, almost double the number of the Zhentian battalion, accounting for about one-tenth of the total strength, in fact, this proportion was relatively low two years ago.

In the past two years, the Ming court has recruited troops on a large scale, and new recruits need weapons, compared to broadswords and spears, the construction speed of muskets and artillery is relatively slow, and the smelting town of Foshan has been lost, so it is very good to make the proportion of firearms troops of the 900,000 Ming army reach one-tenth.

The artillery equipped by the Ming army was almost the same as that of the People's Army, but on the muskets, the People's Army distanced itself from the Ming army.

The Ming army also wanted to build a long-range and powerful musket like the tiger head gun, which could not be bought from Westerners, so it was difficult to get a few tiger head guns from the people's army-ruled area and bring them back to the Ming ruled area to imitate them.

Many skilled craftsmen worked together for several months to successfully imitate a musket similar to a tiger head gun by hand, but the musket only fired a few times and the barrel was scrapped, and more importantly, the production efficiency of this musket was very low, the pass rate was even lower, and hundreds of qualified muskets could not be created in a year.

Li Chengliang directly gave up building this kind of musket, and instead built a front-loading flintlock smoothbore gun, which has been equipped with thousands of guns, and the range and power are almost the same as those widely equipped in the Ming army, and the success rate of firing is less than 50 percent.

The Ming army was equipped with thousands of front-loading flintlock smoothbore guns, which were still far from being able to compare with the tiger head guns equipped by the People's Army.

When it was a few tens of meters away from the People's Army, the archers in the Ming Army could shoot at the back of the chariot, which could have a greater lethal effect on the people.

However, if you want to decide the outcome of the battle, you have to rely on melee combat, and the grenadier is also a melee class.