Guo Mian's army is preparing for battle, and the 3rd Mixed Brigade of the People's Army is also preparing for battle.

The Third Mixed Brigade is currently the largest of the four mixed brigades of the People's Army, with more than 22,000 troops, and the firearms unit as the main force has a total of five companies, four infantry companies, and one artillery company.

If the 3rd Mixed Brigade is allowed to defend the city, then it will be difficult to break through the city defended by the 3rd Mixed Brigade if it adds some troops to Guo Mian's army.

However, the target of Guo Mian's army was Yong'an County, the center of the People's Army, and the Third Mixed Brigade had to stay away from the city to intercept Guo Mian's army, the People's Army's firearms unit was strong, but the number was too small, and after a battle, a musketeer could kill ten enemies was considered a lot, and once the two armies fought in close combat, the Third Mixed Brigade had the possibility of losing the battle.

The battlefield chosen by the People's Army and the Ming Army was large enough to accommodate tens of thousands of people in this battle, and as the two armies drew closer, the Great War was coming.

Under the command of brigade commander He Yan, the KPA advanced in a common formation, with the firearms troops in front and the cold weapons troops surrounding the firearms units on three sides.

In the Ming army, Guo Mian learned the lesson of Ren Jianxiu's defeat, and put a large number of sword and shield soldiers at the front of the array, behind the sword and shield soldiers were fire guns, and then spearmen, sword and axe hands and other melee arms.

Guo Mian knew that the firearms of the People's Army were very powerful, and he put the sword and shield soldiers at the front of the array, hoping to let the sword and shield soldiers holding shields resist the lead bullets fired by the People's Army's firearms, and as long as they rushed to a distance of 100 meters from the People's Army array, the firecrackers could fire at the People's Army, so that the People's Army could see the power of the firearms of the People's Army.

As Guo Mian's killer cavalry troops, they have been staying behind the Ming army, and now the entire Ming army is being watched by the people's army, if the cavalry troops are dispatched first, it is easy to be detected by the people's army, and they can take precautions in advance, then the killer weapon will not play a big role, and there is more than just firearms to deal with the cavalry.

Guo Mian would wait until the two armies were fighting, and then send out the cavalry troops to go around to the rear of the People's Army to launch a charge, a big battle of 50,000 people would not end so quickly, and the cavalry troops would have enough time to go around to the rear of the People's Army.

As long as this plan can succeed, the Ming army will win the game and crush the KPA with one blow.

Three miles

Erli

The distance between the two armies is getting closer.

"Report, brigade commander, the enemy is building an artillery position, more than three hundred feet away from the front of our army."

Hearing the scout's report, He Yan's face remained unchanged, and he calmly gave an order: "Order the firearms troops, quickly build an artillery position, and launch an attack on the Ming army's artillery position!" ”

"Yes!"

The 25,000-strong Guo Rong army has hundreds of large and small caliber artillery, and the artillery positions being built are heavy artillery positions, and only heavy artillery can send shells to 300 zhang away.

Originally, the Ming army, whether heavy artillery or light artillery, would set up artillery positions at a distance of less than 500 meters from the enemy, and in order to prevent the artillery positions from being attacked by the firearms of the People's Army, Guo Mian made the artillery battalion build a heavy artillery position when it was more than 300 zhang away from the People's Army.

The Ming army had as many as 100 heavy artillery, and it took a relatively long time to complete the construction of the entire artillery position and set up the artillery.

The shelling began.

Twelve solid shells smashed into the Ming artillery positions, killing or seriously injuring seven unlucky people, only three of the twelve solid shells hit the Ming army, and the other solid shells either fell to the ground or smashed on the Ming artillery.

Although there were few shells that came over, the dead and wounded Ming soldiers made the others feel palpitating, and they were the ones who were almost stoned to death and injured.

As a rapid-fire artillery, the People's Army's Franc machine gun constantly sent shells to the Ming army's heavy artillery position, and each round of shelling brought few casualties to the Ming army, but it made the Ming army on the heavy artillery position frightened, no matter how small the probability was, death had already appeared in front of him, and perhaps the next one would be his turn.

In fear, the construction of the Ming army's heavy artillery positions was greatly delayed, and after knowing this incident, Guo Mian, who was in the middle of the Ming army, was also helpless, and the Ming army was unable to counter the people's army's artillery.

Guo Mian had already thought in his mind that when building artillery positions in the future, he must build several more, and after building artillery positions, he could launch an attack on the enemy's artillery positions.

The next moment, Guo Mian threw off those thoughts in his mind, the enemy he had encountered had not been like the People's Army, and those previous ideas might be difficult to use in the future.

No longer care about the artillery positions that have been bombarded, the role of artillery that only fires solid shells in the battle situation is relatively general, and the victory or defeat of the battle still has to be solved close to the battle, at this moment, the shortest distance between the Ming army and the people's army is less than 500 meters.

Four hundred and fifty meters

Four hundred meters

"Fire!"

As soon as He Yan gave the order, accompanied by the rhythmic sound of war drums, the four infantry companies of the firearms unit at the forefront of the People's Army, and more than 160 soldiers in the first platoon held guns and opened fire on the Ming army array a few hundred meters ahead.

In the blink of an eye, more than 160 lead bullets crashed into the Ming army's array, and when more than 120 Ming soldiers were hit by lead bullets, either killed or seriously injured, the shield in the hands of the sword and shield soldiers seemed to be just a thin layer of cardboard in front of the lead bullets, which could be easily penetrated.

The Ming army wants to use a shield to block the lead bullet fired by the tiger head gun, it is simply a dream, only a shield made of a heavy iron plate can block the lead bullet, but such a shield is too heavy, ordinary Ming soldiers and soldiers even struggle to walk, and the Ming army's standard shield is just to block the knife and gun.

In just 10 seconds, the People's Army's firearms unit completed three rounds of firing, more than 480 lead bullets were fired, and more than 350 Ming troops were shot or seriously wounded, equivalent to one-seventieth of Guo Rong's army.

Hundreds of dead and wounded people could not stop the advance of the Ming army, but because the People's Army firearms unit opened fire, Guo Mian directly ordered the Ming army to speed up and advance at the speed of the charge! At the same time, the cavalry battalion was ordered to detour behind the KPA and launch an attack.

"Rush!"

A Ming sergeant just shouted, and the next moment he was shot by an oncoming lead bullet, and there were Ming sergeants around him who were scared and wanted to escape, but there were people charging forward everywhere behind him, and there was no place to escape, so they could only rush forward together.

Rows and rows of lead bullets fell, and soon, the number of Ming casualties had exceeded 1,000.

The Ming army had to pay the price of nearly 1,000 casualties for every 100 meters of advance, and after paying 3,000 dead and wounded, the distance between the two armies had been shortened to 100 meters.

"Rush! Rush! Even Guo Mian was shouting, 3,000 dead and wounded made Guo Mian feel distressed, but as long as he rushed over and fought with the People's Army in close quarters, victory would belong to the Ming army.

Bang!

Guo Mian's head exploded! Exploded!!