A military order was issued from Nanchang City and sent to various parts of the south, Song Yingchang was urging the Ming army to act quickly, watching the strength of the People's Army increasing day by day, he was very anxious.

Song Yingchang wanted to send the Ming army into Guangdong and disrupt the development of the People's Army.

But knowing the situation of these Ming troops, Song Yingchang knew that these Ming troops were temporarily useless, think about it, under the continuous attack of the People's Army, the Ming army hid in various cities in the border area and did not dare to come out, you can imagine how much morale of these Ming troops remains.

If you want to improve morale, the easiest way is to gather more Ming troops, there are more people, morale will be improved, but it will take some time for the Ming army to come over, and the southern Ming armies mobilized by Song Yingchang are gathered in the border area of Guangdong, which is expected to be done in April.

But Song Yingchang didn't want to wait so long, the longer the time, the more likely it was to have problems, Song Yingchang decided to set the time at the end of February, and when February was over, he would attack from Jiangxi to Guangdong, and the Ming armies in Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi would all move to contain a part of the people's army.

On the other hand, starting from 25 January, groups of recruits of the three major group armies of the People's Army stationed in the border areas of Guangdong have completed their training and entered the combat sequence of the People's Army.

Most of the recruits will be in the cold weapons unit, and only a small number of good recruits will be transferred to the recruit training for a longer period of time, and after the recruit training, they will join the firearms unit, the first unit, and the grenadier unit.

The firearms troops, the advance troops, and the grenadier units are the main forces of the KPA, and the first troops are fighting in close combat, and the grenadier units are throwing grenades behind the first troops, and after the grenades are thrown, they will also fight in close combat, and these two units will charge ahead, and if too many new recruits enter, it will have a great impact on the combat effectiveness of the first troops and the grenadier units.

Not to mention the firearms units, the firearms units with the smallest number of people are more valued by the People's Army, and every soldier is carefully selected, and loyalty is the first criterion.

With the addition of the newly formed cold weapon units to the combat sequence of the three major group armies, the three army commanders Wang Shengrong, Yan Han, and He Yan felt a little more at ease, but after the newly formed cold weapon troops, with the delivery of a batch of grenades, the three army commanders were even more at ease.

After receiving Fang Nan's order, the three major armies of the army and the navy all formed grenadier units, and the grenadier units had just been formed, but there were no grenades, but the training still had to be trained, and the grenadier units found stones of similar weight for throwing, weight-bearing marching, and other training, and now the grenadiers arrived, and the grenadier units finally had combat effectiveness.

He Yan, who was the first to form a grenadier unit, knew the combat effectiveness of the grenadier unit best, and He Yan's Third Army defended the western border of Guangdong, and the main enemy was the Ming army from Guangxi.

Seeing that the Ming army was constantly converging in the border area, He Yan was also more anxious in his heart, the strength of the Ming army in Guangxi that had been gathered had surpassed He Yan's Third Group Army, and the combat effectiveness of the firearms troops as the main force in the Third Army had not changed much.

The number of infantry companies has not changed, only the artillery batteries have increased, but the artillery companies are not as effective as the infantry companies.

The firearms unit is too small, and on a battlefield with tens of thousands of people, the firearms unit can kill thousands of people, but it cannot crush the enemy, and when the two armies are in close combat, the KPA will be in a weak position and can be easily defeated.

Moreover, the People's Army and the Ming Army have fought many times, and I am afraid that now that the Ming Army has figured out the tactics of the People's Army, the Ming Army will definitely try to target the People's Army's firearms units and conduct close combat as much as possible.

He Yan himself can think of many methods, such as using a large iron shield to block the front, or keeping the chariot at the front to resist the lead bullets fired by the tiger head gun.

Seeing the grenades sent from the rear, although the number was not large, He Yan was greatly relieved in his heart, with these grenades, even if the Third Army could not defeat the Guangxi Ming Army on the opposite side, it was still possible to block the Guangxi Ming Army at the border.

At present, the People's Army's Hutouzhai Arsenal, Yongan County Arsenal, and Foshan Arsenal are all working overtime to manufacture tiger head guns and grenades, but artillery casting is placed in third place, and they are trying to make tiger head guns and grenades as much as possible.

The difficulty of manufacturing grenades is low, it has been manufactured in large quantities, the first batch has been sent to the front line, and soon the second batch will be sent, and the grenades will not only be sent to the front line, but also to the coastal areas in a batch, in case the Ming army is attacking from the direction of the sea, especially on the side of Guangzhou City.

From the beginning of the war between the People's Army and the Ming Army in mid-December last year, the three arsenals have produced a total of nearly 300 tiger guns, and two infantry companies of the firearms unit have been newly formed.

The firearms reserve has always existed and is expanding along with the firearms unit, training with a small number of tiger head guns and a large number of wooden models on weekdays, and the firearms unit can be rapidly expanded as soon as new tiger head guns are delivered.

The two new infantry companies, one for the First Army and one for the Second Army, He Yan's Third Army will have to wait a little longer.

The Second Army is the smallest of the three group armies, and the First Army, especially in the Jiangxi direction, may be the main battlefield between the People's Army and the Ming Army.

In the past January, the three arsenals of the People's Army produced a total of more than 200 tiger head guns, and the craftsmen of the Foshan Arsenal have become familiar with the manufacturing process of the tiger head village, and the speed of manufacturing tiger head guns has greatly increased, and the Ministry of Industry expects that the three arsenals will be able to produce at least 450 tiger head guns in February.

The strength of the People's Army is increasing rapidly, while the nascent People's Navy is slowly transforming.

The Ming court had a naval division in Guangdong, but the naval division mainly fought on the water, and its combat effectiveness on land was greatly reduced, and the People's Army had no naval division, so there was no chance of fighting the People's Army at all.

However, before the People's Army was about to attack the city of Guangzhou, Wu Wenhua sent a group of personnel from the naval division to Guangzhou City to participate in the defense of the city, and after the People's Army occupied most of Guangdong, this Ming army naval division ran to Fujian.

At present, the nascent People's Navy has only a few ships, all of which are civilian ships that no longer have owners, and the navy has put a few artillery pieces on it and transformed them into warships, relying on these ships, the navy has carried out preliminary training, but at present the main task of the navy is still to defend the coastal areas.