On the tenth day of the first month of February, inside and outside the city of Baoqing Mansion in Huguang, 100,000 Ming troops and four integrated divisions of the People's Army gathered here, and the war was about to break out, which would be the second major battle since the People's Army and the Ming Army started the war, and the battle of Ganzhou Mansion City was not completed before.

Xiong Jian, deputy commander of the First Group Army of the People's Army, was holding a telescope and looking at the city of Baoqing Mansion in the distance.

There are 100,000 Ming army commanders in Baoqing Fucheng, but there are only 32,000 people on his side, but Xiong Jian's face is calm, a few days ago Xiong Jian learned that the Ming army was gathering in Baoqing Mansion City, Xiong Jian understood that Hu Guangming Army planned to fight a decisive battle with the People's Army in Baoqing Mansion City.

In Xiong Jian's view, as long as the Huguang Ming Army is defeated in the first battle, the People's Army will no longer have a strong enemy in the process of occupying the entire Huguang.

100,000 Ming troops fought against 32,000 people's troops, but they only dared to defend Baoqing Mansion City and wait for the people's army to attack.

Li Chengliang's 500,000 troops were defeated by the People's Army, and there were only 100,000 Ming troops on Huguang's side, and the People's Army had fewer troops, but the gap between the ratio of the People's Army and the Ming Army in the Jiangxi Battlefield and the Huguang Battlefield was not large.

100,000 Ming troops defended the city, Xiong Jian also dared to command only four divisions of the People's Army to attack, compared with Jiangxi's Li Chengliang army, Huguang's Li Zhengmao's army was more than a step worse in strength, one-third of Li Zhengmao's army were recruits who had been in the army for less than half a year, and the number of firearms troops, grenadier troops, and elite troops was also relatively small.

In the face of such an opponent, even if it is a siege battle, the People's Army will not be afraid.

In fact, Li Zhengmao commanded more than 100,000 horses, and in Baoqing Mansion City, 100,000 horses, recruits accounted for almost half, and half of the elite troops under his command were placed in the rear by Li Zhengmao.

Li Zhengmao did not have much confidence in this battle at all, once the battle situation was not good, Li Zhengmao would quickly withdraw with people, and the elite troops were not completely placed in Baoqing Mansion City because they were worried that the losses in the battle would be too serious, these were his most important team.

The war is about to begin, the four divisions of the People's Army are gathered in the south of Baoqingfu City, 100,000 Ming troops are still too much, if Xiong Jian uses four divisions to surround Baoqingfu City, there can only be 8,000 people on one side, even if it resists 50,000 Ming troops There is a big problem, for the People's Army, this battle is a victory as long as the Ming army runs away from Baoqingfu City.

"Let's get started!"

Xiong Jian gave the battle order, and not long after, the artillery unit of the People's Army began to exert its might, and hundreds of Franc machine guns fired solid shells at the city of Baoqingfu, and finally only one-tenth of the solid shells smashed into the city wall, bringing a small number of casualties to the Ming army.

Li Zhengmao's 100,000-strong army had more than 500 artillery pieces, but there were only a few dozen artillery pieces with a range of more than 1,000 meters, and only one-third of them were placed on the southern city wall, and the Ming army's counterattack was very fragile.

The artillery units of the People's Army bombarded five rounds in a row, the drums of war sounded, and one after another siege vehicles slowly advanced towards the city of Baoqingfu, and behind the siege vehicles were tens of thousands of People's Army soldiers, and there was no one on the siege vehicles, which slightly increased the speed of the siege vehicles.

A tall siege vehicle appeared on the scene, which made Li Zhengmao feel a little bad, and immediately ordered artillery with enough range to fire at the location of the siege vehicle, in a vain attempt to smash the siege vehicle with artillery.

For nearly ten minutes, the siege vehicle slowly advanced a distance of several hundred meters, and three siege vehicles were hit by solid shells fired by the Ming artillery, causing some damage to the siege vehicles, but the siege vehicles were already able to use them.

The siege vehicle was less than 700 meters away from the southern city wall of Baoqing Mansion, and had already entered the range of the tiger head gun.

"First column, fire!"

As soon as the commander gave the order, the musketeers on the top floor of the siege vehicle began to shoot at the Ming troops on the distant city wall, and a wave of lead bullets struck, and more than a dozen Ming soldiers were shot and fell.

The musketeers on the siege vehicles opened fire one after another, and for a time hundreds of Ming troops had fallen on the city wall.

"Dodge, dodge."

There are Ming army officers shouting to dodge, and the Ming soldiers will not stand on the city wall and take the initiative to find death, but the musketeers on the siege vehicles shoot condescendingly, and there are too few places on the city wall to dodge, at least one-third of the Ming soldiers run under the city wall, and the other Ming soldiers on the city wall are either hiding behind the battlement wall or shrinking their heads or even lying on the ground.

The artillery area erected on the city wall was the key target of the people's army musketeers, and under the attack of the musketeers, the Ming artillery had all been muted, and no Ming gunner dared to come out and manipulate the artillery.

The musketeers continued for several minutes, until they could no longer find a target on the walls, and then they ceased firing, their guns still aimed at the walls, ready for battle.

Because the musketeers boarded the siege vehicles, the advance speed of the siege vehicles slowed down, and one after another the siege vehicles slowly advanced towards the city of Baoqingfu, and the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty occasionally showed their heads to look at the approaching siege vehicles in the distance, and their hearts were filled with fear.

"Can we really defeat the thieves?"

There were several agents of the People's Army in the Ming army on the city wall, they hid carefully, not wanting to be injured by friendly soldiers, and then whispered to the surrounding Ming soldiers and soldiers, and after a while, dozens of Ming soldiers were connected by the agents.

The city wall was so dangerous that Li Zhengmao did not dare to climb the city wall, so he carefully dodged on the back of the city wall, and arranged for his personal guards to go back and forth up and down the city wall to transmit the battle situation and Li Zhengmao's changes.

The People's Army is still more than 400 meters away from the city wall, the Ming Army has killed and wounded thousands of people, and the morale is almost completely gone, Li Zhengmao really understands the strength of the People's Army, you must know that the Ming Army is defending the city, but the People's Army is beating its head and does not dare to show it, if it comes to the field battle, it is really possible to be beaten to the touch of a collapse.

Li Zhengmao really wanted to evacuate Baoqing Mansion City with the Ming army with little losses now, but Li Zhengmao was very unwilling.

"Wait, wait, the KPA is just sharp in muskets, and when it comes to close combat, it won't be pressed and beaten."

Li Zhengmao did not forget the grenadiers of the People's Army, and there were also grenadiers under Li Zhengmao's command, but the number was very small, only one battalion of about 3,000 people, and the number of grenades was relatively small, so he could not even hold out in a big battle.

Thinking that there were more grenadiers in the People's Army, Li Zhengmao only transferred 1,500 grenadiers to Baoqing Mansion City, and now they are all waiting under the southern city wall to participate in the battle.

The People's Army was getting closer and closer to the city of Baoqingfu, and Li Zhengmao ordered some soldiers on the city wall to go down the city wall and make way for the grenadiers.