Mei Yousong is still on the way to Jiangxi, and it is very tiring to travel thousands of miles to Jiangxi, but Mei Yousong does not have much time to rest.

The information about the People's Army at the front was sent by Song Yingchang to Mei Yousong, and looking at the information of the People's Army, Mei Yousong's heart could not calm down.

When he first heard the name "People's Army", Mei Yousong was a little curious about the People's Army, a group of anti-thieves was able to occupy most of Guangdong, and even the city of Guangzhou fell, is the People's Army too powerful? Or is the Guangdong Ming army too incompetent?

Mei Yousong is more inclined to the latter, Mei Yousong believes that as long as the imperial court is serious and sends a large army to encircle and suppress, the People's Army will definitely be wiped out soon, and in Mei Yousong's eyes, Song Yingchang is an excellent commander.

But now, Song Yingchang led the army to fight the People's Army twice, but both were defeated, with 70,000 or 80,000 dead and wounded, and had to change the commander of the imperial court.

Even Song Yingchang led the army to be defeated by the People's Army twice, Mei Yousong felt the strength of the People's Army, and he was not very confident in the fact that he was appointed by the imperial court to encircle and suppress the People's Army.

The more information he saw about the People's Army, the more confidence Mei Yousong grew, because there were so many new recruits in the People's Army, but they had strong combat effectiveness, and Mei Yousong could not imagine how powerful the People's Army's firearms were.

Although the confidence in defeating the People's Army was small, Mei Yousong would not give up lightly, and if he really couldn't do it, he would mobilize more troops and overwhelm the People's Army with numbers.

On the way to Jiangxi, Mei Yousong had already issued a number of orders, the first order was to transfer about 30,000 men from ten battalions from the northern border army, the second order was to draw at least 60,000 Ming troops from all over the north, and the third order was to recruit young and strong people from all over the south, expand the army by at least 100,000, and then mobilize them to the front line.

The northern border army has more cavalry and more infantry, and the border army is constantly sharpening itself in the battle with the enemy, and the strength of the border army is much more than that of the Weisuo army, and it is the most elite Ming army.

Although the border is elite, it is also necessary to guard the frontier and cannot be mobilized too much, so Mei Yousong only transferred more than 30,000 people from ten battalions, and the ministers in the court will not agree, compared with the People's Army in Guangdong, the ministers are more worried about the trouble in the north.

Can't draw too many border troops, can only be supplemented by other Ming troops, the Ming army in the south has been almost transferred by Song Yingchang, can no longer be transferred, once all transferred, bandits and bandits will be in trouble, maybe there will be anti-thieves.

Therefore, we can only draw a group of Ming troops from all over the north, and then recruit 100,000 young and strong troops from all over the south as a supplement.

30,000 border troops, 60,000 northern Ming troops, 100,000 recruits, this is nearly 200,000 people, and there are still at least 150,000 Ming troops in the surrounding areas of Guangdong, adding up to 350,000 Ming troops, so that Mei Yousong has some confidence in dealing with the people's army.

In order to encircle and suppress the People's Army, the Ming court mobilized 500,000 troops (including the Guangdong Ming Army) before and after, which was also thanks to Zhang Juzheng's efforts in the first year of Wanli to the tenth year of Wanli, so that the Ming treasury was full and could support the mobilization of 500,000 troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army.

At other times, the treasury did not have the money to support such a large-scale military operation, there was no food and grass, the soldiers did not have enough to eat, and there was no salary, so how could the soldiers fight for life and death for the Ming court.

However, it would take time for the border army to march too far from Jiangxi, it would take time to transfer the Ming troops from all over the north to Guangdong, and it would take time to recruit young and strong troops from all over the south to expand the army.

Now Mei Yousong is even more worried that after Song Yingchang's army has been defeated twice in a row, the People's Army will take the opportunity to expand its territory, and with the situation of Song Yingchang's army, it seems that it is a little difficult to block the People's Army, and Mei Yousong can only hope that the People's Army will stay in Guangdong honestly.

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In Xinfeng County, Song Yingchang was also worried that the People's Army would launch a new offensive, the Ming army he led was defeated twice in a row, even if there were now more than 60,000 soldiers in battle, but the morale was very poor, if the People's Army launched an attack, Song Yingchang could not be sure whether he could block it.

From the beginning of the last defeat, Song Yingchang sent orders to Huguang, Fujian, and Guangxi to tell the Ming troops in the cities of the border areas of Guangdong not to act rashly, not to take the initiative to test the people's army, and to defend the city.

Song Yingchang hoped that in this way, the People's Army would not be disturbed by the Ming Army, and the People's Army would not take the initiative to leave Guangdong.

In fact, Song Yingchang also felt that his idea was a bit ridiculous, according to Song Yingchang's own conjecture, he felt that the People's Army stayed in Guangdong and did not continue to expand its territory in order to train troops, and when the recruits of the People's Army had sufficient combat effectiveness, the strength of the People's Army would be even stronger, and at that time, the People's Army would be able to quickly gain a large territory when it left Guangdong.

It was also because Song Yingchang didn't want the recruits of the People's Army to grow up, so he hurriedly mobilized the army to attack the People's Army, but he didn't expect that the People's Army, which had so many recruits, would still defeat the Ming Army, and the strength of the People's Army was too different from the anti-thieves who appeared in the Ming Dynasty in the past.

Before the holy decree came, Song Yingchang had already decided that he would be dismissed from his post and investigated, and now the holy decree has not come, but the emperor's punishment of Song Yingchang has been transmitted, which made Song Yingchang very surprised, and the new commander Mei Yousong actually pleaded for himself, so that he could continue to stay in the army and make meritorious contributions.

Soon Song Yingchang thought of the reason for this, Mei Yousong had never been in contact with the People's Army, and he didn't know enough about the People's Army, so he needed the assistance of his former commander.

Song Yingchang was very happy to be able not to die, and more importantly, Song Yingchang was very unwilling in his heart, he was defeated by thieves twice in a row, and so many people died, this is Song Yingchang's shame, Song Yingchang was full of thoughts about how to exterminate the People's Army.

Song Yingchang had already made up his mind that when Mei Yousong arrived, he would wholeheartedly assist Mei Yousong and let the Ming army defeat the People's Army.

Now, Song Yingchang is working hard for the Ming army to defeat the people's army, and the most powerful firearms of the people's army, as long as the Ming army's firearms, relying on the numerical superiority of the Ming army, it will not be a problem to defeat the people's army.

The power of the artillery of the People's Army is average, similar to that of the Ming Army, and even the number of artillery pieces of the Ming Army is larger, which can be ignored.

The People's Army's guns are very sharp, the range is long and powerful, and the Ming Army's guns are far from being comparable.

The Ming army did not get a single tiger head gun, and there was not even a chance to imitate it.

However, the grenades of the People's Army, a very small number of grenades used on the battlefield, were obtained by the Ming army, and the Ming army found craftsmen to disassemble them, and found that the grenade manufacturing process was relatively simple, and the workshops in Jiangxi were able to create grenades.

Song Yingchang has already ordered to try to manufacture grenades in batches here in Jiangxi first, as long as the Ming army is also equipped with a large number of grenades, the combat effectiveness of the Ming army can be greatly increased!