It was already August, and more and more Ming troops and people's troops were gathering in this small area of Ganzhou Mansion in southern Jiangxi.

Mei Yousong served as the commander of the Ming army, and mobilized ten battalions of about 30,000 border troops from the northern border passes, at least 60,000 Ming troops from all over the north, and recruited young and strong people from all over the south, expanding the army by at least 100,000, adding up to 200,000 troops.

Now these 200,000 soldiers and horses, in Fujian, Guangxi, Huguang three places to recruit about 40,000 young people, all directly distributed to the three places of the Ming army, the remaining 160,000 people, nearly 130,000 have arrived in Jiangxi, more than 30,000 people on the way to Jiangxi.

When more than 30,000 follow-up people arrived, the Ming army directly under the command of Mei Yousong would be as high as 220,000 people, including more than 30,000 elite border troops and more than 60,000 recruits.

220,000 Ming troops, even if there are 60,000 recruits among them, but this number is too many, in the first round of battles between the People's Army and the Ming army, the Ming army commanded by Song Yingchang was only 80,000, and the second round of battles only reached 100,000 people, and this third round will be more than the first two rounds of Ming troops.

In fact, Mei Yousong's first thought was to send the young men recruited from Fujian, Guangxi, and Huguang to Jiangxi, the main force of the People's Army is in Jiangxi, Mei Yousong and Song Yingchang's thoughts are similar, they both plan to directly eat the main force of the People's Army, and after the First World War, the People's Army will no longer be able to stop the strength of the Ming Army.

However, the People's Army increased its strength in other places, and Mei Yousong was worried that the People's Army would break through from Fujian, Guangxi, and Huguang, so he could only assign the young men recruited from the three places to the Ming Army in the three places, but fortunately, they were only new recruits, and their combat effectiveness was not strong, and the victory or defeat of the battle still depended on the 30,000 elite border troops.

In order to prepare for this battle, Mei Yousong's army has prepared a large number of combat vehicles, and the grenades obtained from the battlefield have been mass-produced, but the output is relatively low, and the grenades produced by the forces of Hehuguang and Jiangxi in a few months are not as large as more than one-third of the number of grenades in Wang Shengrong's army.

These grenades were concentrated in Mei Yousong's army, and were not dispersed to the Ming army in the other three places, and Mei Yousong planned to use these grenades as a killer weapon to catch the People's Army by surprise.

When the Ming army demonstrated the use of a grenade, Mei Yousong was startled by the grenade.

The power of a grenade is relatively small, and it is good to be able to kill a person, but when hundreds or thousands of grenades explode together, it is definitely a large number of casualties.

The grenade is heavy and can't be thrown too far is its biggest flaw, but there are artillery, firearms, bows and arrows at long range, there is no room for grenades to play, and it is better to use it in close combat, which can be called a melee artifact, no wonder there are so many recruits in the People's Army, but they can defeat the Ming army in close combat.

Mei Yousong gave this grenade a name - Shocking Thunder.

However, the time is too short, and there are too few earth-shaking thunders produced, Mei Yousong really wishes that the Ming army could equip more sky-shaking thunders, and it will be easier to defeat the people's army.

Yes, in Mei Yousong's view, there is the experience of the defeat of the Ming army before, there are a large number of battlefields, and there are earth-shaking thunders, and the number of the Ming army is much larger than that of the people's army, and the Ming army will win this battle!

As the war approached, Mei Yousong had already conveyed the reward regulations for defeating the People's Army, which were mainly promotions, wealth (including fields), and women.

The Ming soldiers learned about the reward regulations from the officers, and the morale of the soldiers, which had been low, suddenly rose.

Promotion represents the promotion of status, wealth represents the future of eating and drinking spicy, women represent the inheritance of the lineage, which Ming soldier does not want these three? Even the Ming soldiers who were unwilling to fight and kill, under the stimulation of the reward, had already made up their minds to kill a few more enemies on the battlefield.

And Wang Shengrong's army opposite Mei Yousong's army had a strength of 150,000 at this time.

Originally, the rear of the People's Army created a new tiger head gun, which would be sent to the First Army, the Second Army, and the Third Army in a ratio of two to one.

However, after discovering that the main force of the Ming army was still concentrated in Jiangxi, and Jiangxi was still the main battlefield, Fang Nan handed over more tiger head guns to Wang Shengrong's army.

At this moment, there are as many as four infantry regiments of firearms units in Wang Shengrong's army, and the number of tiger head guns is as high as more than 4,000, and two-thirds of the tiger head guns that the People's Army is now equipped with are in Wang Shengrong's army.

Relying only on these 4,000 musketeers, they can resist and even defeat the 40,000 Ming army, and if there are other troops to cooperate with these 4,000 musketeers, only 30,000 people can reach the 100,000 Ming army.

There were 4,000 musketeers, which was Wang Shengrong's confidence in relying on the 150,000 people's army to resist and even defeat Mei Yousong's army.

In addition to the musketeers, the number of artillery of the firearms unit has also increased several batches, although the number of artillery of Wang Shengrong's army cannot be compared with the number of artillery of the Ming army, but it will not be too far behind, especially the artillery with a range of more than one thousand meters, Wang Shengrong's army is more.

The firearms unit was followed by the first unit and the grenadier unit.

In the past four months or so, the Pioneer unit has been expanded to more than 12,000 men in one division, and the grenadier unit has been expanded to more than 25,000 men in two divisions.

The first troops are the most powerful units in the People's Army in close combat, and they charge ahead in close combat, even if the most casualties in each battle are the first troops, but the first troops have a higher reward for killing the enemy, and there are not a few KPA soldiers who are willing to join the first troops, and at present, only selected KPA soldiers can join the first troops.

As for the grenadier troops, the size of two divisions is already very large, and under normal circumstances there should only be two brigades, so the grenades in Wang Shengrong's army can be used by the grenadier troops in three major battles.

Now there are two division-sized grenadier units, each of which carries a sufficient number of grenades, and can carry all the grenades in Wang Shengrong's army at once.

For this reason, Wang Shengrong changed the tactics of the grenadier unit, in close combat, the grenadier at the front retreated immediately after throwing the grenade, let the grenadier behind fill the position, continue to throw the grenade, the battle is not over, the grenade will be thrown until all the grenades are thrown, and the grenadier unit will take a knife to join the melee fight.

The change in tactics is still because of the last battle between Wang Shengrong's army and Song Yingchang's army, if the grenadier unit was larger at that time, the number of grenades used in the battle would be more, but it could reduce the number of casualties of Wang Shengrong's army.

Wang Shengrong very much wants to see whether all the grenades will be used up in a single battle in the upcoming war.

After one big battle after another, after several months of training, the recruits have rapidly matured, and their overall combat effectiveness has greatly increased, and they can better assist the three main forces.