As the People's Army's musketeers opened fire one after another, the soldiers at the forefront of the Ming army array were constantly shot down. In such a dense formation of the Ming army array, more than 80 lead bullets were attacked in a round, at least sixty Ming soldiers would be hit by lead bullets, and there were almost no minor injuries.

With three rounds of shooting in just ten seconds, more than a hundred people had fallen from the front of the Ming army array, screaming.

Seeing that his colleagues were shot at the People's Army's firearms from such a long distance, the others could only run around to avoid the lead bullets flying in front of them, and suddenly, a group of Ming army arrays were mixed in front.

"Don't be confused! Don't be confused! Those who are in chaos will be killed without mercy!"

puff!

The Ming army reacted very quickly. As soon as the array was in chaos, the Ming army commander tried to calm the chaos. The Ming army commander directly drew his sword and killed a soldier running around nearby who caused the array to be in chaos. Other Ming army commanders also took action one after another. With the death of several soldiers, the chaos was soon to be pacified.

However, the People's Army would not let the chaos in the Ming army's array be quickly calmed down. After the first three rounds of tiger head guns, the fourth round of shooting followed, and more than 80 lead bullets were brought by the Ming army to more than 60 casualties. The chaos ahead of the Ming army's array intensified!

No Ming soldiers were willing to wait or continue to die. In their opinion, the enemy's firearms were more terrifying than the big swords in the hands of the officer commander.

Liu Yuanji, who was riding on the war horse in the middle of the Ming army array, naturally saw the situation at the forefront of the array. He learned from Guo Cheng that the People's Arms' firearms were sharp, but the number of firearms was relatively small, and Liu Yuanji despised the People's Army's firearms more despised.

Unexpectedly, the People's Army's artillery first bombarded the artillery position that the Ming army was building, and then shot the Ming army with muskets at a distance of hundreds of meters, causing chaos in the front of the Ming army's array.

When Liu Yuanji saw these scenes, he was shocked. For example, the People's Army used artillery to bombard the Ming army's artillery positions. This did not happen many times in all the Ming wars. Of course, it was mainly because the Ming army's opponents basically had no artillery.

Although the Ming army has suffered relatively few casualties, only more than 200 people, only one-fifty-tenth of the 10,000 army, it would be a bit bad if this continues.

Riding the artillery fire of the People's Army, the Ming army's artillery position was being built quickly, and it would take a while to complete it. The array had been mixed in a group, and the Ming army's muskets had to enter at least fifty feet before they could fire. Now the Ming army can only be passively beaten.

Just as Liu Yuanji was thinking about whether the army would continue to attack or retreat first, another round of lead ejection shot towards the chaotic Ming army array, adding more than sixty casualties to the Ming army.

"Quickly moan the gold and withdraw troops!" Liu Yuanji shouted.

Soon, the sound of a gong representing retreat sounded, and the officers and commanders in front of the Ming army no longer aimed at the soldiers who caused chaos, and chose to retreat almost immediately. They did not want the soldiers to run away, exposed themselves to the enemy's vision, and were shot to death by muskets.

The Ming army began to retreat, but the People's Army did not pursue it. Wang Shengrong just asked the firearms troops to continue to fire at the retreating Ming army, killing as much as they can.

When the two armies encountered the retreat of the Ming army, the number of casualties in the Ming army was more than 300, and the strength was still stronger than that of the People's Army. If the People's Army rashly chased after him, it would be easy to be attacked by the Ming army.

The battle came quickly and went quickly. The two armies had not yet met with each other. A distance of hundreds of meters apart. Under the attack of the People's Armed Forces, the Ming army left hundreds of bodies and hundreds of seriously injured people and chose to retreat. No one on the People's Army died in battle.

More than 600 casualties were painful for Liu Yuanji, which was equivalent to one-sixteenth of the loss of 10,000 soldiers. If you do it a few more times, not only will the force be less than the enemy, but more importantly, morale will decline.

Before issuing the retreat order, Liu Yuanji had considered to continue to attack with the People's Army's firearms. But if you think about it carefully, when the Ming army rushed to a range of fifty feet and the musket soldiers could open fire, the number of deaths and injuries of the Ming army might be nearly a thousand, and the deaths of the musket soldiers were all.

If there are not many musket soldiers, they can only fight in close combat. When the Ming army is closer to the People's Army, the People's Army's artillery can fire shots to deal with the Ming army. The Ming army has more casualties, and it may be that the Ming army will be defeated before the two armies are close combat.

The attack may be a crushing defeat, or it may defeat the enemy, but the one side suffers heavy losses, or it may be that both sides have suffered heavy casualties and no winners, and retreat, with more than 600 casualties, but the main force is saved and you can find ways to defeat the enemy. These ideas are the real reason why Liu Yuanji chose to withdraw his troops.

Liu Yuanji is the commander of the 10,000 Ming army. Liu Yuanji doesn't care if he dies more of the lower-level soldiers. The key is that Liu Yuanji will not take risks when he is uncertain about his victory.

The Ming army retreated all the way, retreated to Dingnan County, Jiangxi Province, and chose a place to station. The People's Army also retreated slightly to the back and chose a place to station.

In the People's Army barracks, Wang Shengrong summoned officers to discuss how he would deal with the Ming army next.

"In this battle, the Ming army saw the strength of our army and might not act rashly in a short period of time. The Ming army did not move, but our army must not move. Apart from the firearms unit, our army's strength is still much worse than that of the Ming army.

I decided that the next battle would be launched against the Ming army. The battle would be mainly firearm troops and cavalry. The firearm troops would harass the Ming army through cover of mountains and forests. The cavalry would maneuver quickly on the road and retreat after a fight.

Our army is still stationed here.”

In the People's Army, except for the Third Mixed Brigade, which formed a cavalry company, the other four Mixed Brigades did not have a cavalry organization, mainly equipped with senior officers, commanders, and scouts.

Wang Shengrong had no cavalry troops in the People's Army along the way, so he could only gather all the cavalry equipped with war horses to use.

Scouts are all soldiers with strong combat effectiveness among all the troops of the People's Army, especially cavalry equipped with war horses, who basically draw bows and shoot arrows. Simply put, they are archers and cavalrymen.

The archers rushed to the front of the Ming army, and retreated after firing a wave of arrows. The Ming army could not catch up, so they continued to harass the Ming army in this way.

The firearms troops do not bring artillery, and the marching speed of the firearms troops is far inferior to that of the cavalry. There are cavalry in the Ming army. If there are only more than 200 firearms troops in the open area, and they cannot even reach twice the number of cavalry, it is the best way to attack the Ming army through cover of mountains and forests.

The firearms troops attacked the Ming army and retreated into the mountains and forests. The Ming cavalry rushed over and could not rush into the mountains and forests on horseback. The firearms troops could easily retreat from the mountains and forests, and then change to another place to continue harassing the Ming army.
Chapter completed!