In the blink of an eye, it was already late March. As the Ming army in various parts of the south continued to gather, Song Yingchang's troops quickly increased from 70,000 to 100,000.

After half a month, Song Yingchang's army basically emerged from the shadow of the failure of the previous battle, and their morale recovered. As the troops increased, the strength of Song Yingchang's army was greatly improved.

During this half month, in addition to continuing to build chariots, Song Yingchang's army was also discussing with the generals how to defeat the People's Army.

After discussing, Song Yingchang finally made a battle plan.

Song Yingchang did not have the idea of ​​leading the Ming army to take a detour to attack the territory of the People's Army. The army is the most important part of the People's Army. As long as the army is destroyed, it is very simple to destroy the entire People's Army.

On the other hand, if the People's Army was attacked but the People's Army was not destroyed, and without the Ming army's restraint, the People's Army could also attack the Ming court. Therefore, the main goal of Song Yingchang's plan was to eliminate Wang Shengrong's army in front of him.

The combat plan is very simple, that is, the Song Yingchang army will continue to fight head-on with Wang Shengrong's army and eliminate Wang Shengrong's army. However, this time, the Song Yingchang army will divide the troops into three groups on the left and right. The middle and middle troops will be on the front battlefield. The left and right sides will go around the two wings of Wang Shengrong's army, attack together on three sides, and launch a full-scale war directly.

According to the ideas of Song Yingchang and the generals of the Ming army, Wang Shengrong's main force was the firearms unit, which first landed the troops and three grenadier units, with a limited number of people. Wang Shengrong's army was more of the new recruits with low combat power.

Under this circumstance, Song Yingchang's army launched an attack from three directions of Wang Shengrong's army, and the number of main troops of Wang Shengrong's army was limited. With the main troops, they could block one side, but could not block it on all sides.

If the main force with limited numbers is scattered to three sides, it is more likely that the three sides will be breached by Song Yingchang's army.

Regardless of whether the main force of Wang Shengrong's army was scattered or not, as long as Song Yingchang's army could break through on one side, the victory would belong to Song Yingchang's army.

The combat plan set by Song Yingchang fully utilized the advantages of the Ming army's large military strength and the shortcomings of the People's Army's many new recruits. It was also this combat plan that allowed Song Yingchang and his generals to restore confidence to defeat the People's Army.

In the past half month, Wang Shengrong's army, opposite the Song Yingchang Army, has increased its strength from nearly 60,000 to 65,000, only five or six thousand new soldiers, and its total strength is only two-thirds of that of Song Yingchang Army.

The number of troops increased not much, but Wang Shengrong's army's strength also changed a lot.

First of all, there were firearms troops, and more than 360 tiger-headed guns were sent from the rear. The firearms troops added another infantry battalion to the third battalion and the ninth company was organized, with a total of more than 1,000 musketeers.

As long as the tactics are correct, it will be no problem to defeat tens of thousands of enemies with these three battalions of musketeers head-on combat.

The firearms troops were the first-row troops. In the last battle, the first-row troops organized by a brigade had more than 1,200 casualties. In most of the month, the first-row troops expanded a regiment to make it into four regiments with more than 5,000 troops.

The best partner of the first-match army, the grenadier unit, has not expanded in size, just to fill in the gap, but because a batch of grenades were sent from the rear, the grenades consumed in the previous battle were effectively supplemented.

In fact, if the grenadiers do not have grenades and their melee strength is not strong. Without grenades, the grenadiers do not need to use this title. If the grenadiers do not have to maintain their combat effectiveness, they must prepare a sufficient number of grenades.

Although the troops were small, they relied on the firearms troops to first land and grenade troops. Wang Shengrong had the confidence to block Song Yingchang's army.

Wang Shengrong was always paying attention to the Song Yingchang army opposite. Seeing that the Song Yingchang army staying in Xinfeng County had a movement, Wang Shengrong felt that a new battle was coming, and immediately ordered the people's armies of Longnan and Anyuan counties to assemble.

On March 23, on the battlefield of the previous battle, Song Yingchang's army and Wang Shengrong's army were about to face each other again.

The Ming army was divided into three parts. Song Yingchang ordered General Zhang Pu to lead 30,000 Ming troops to be the left-road army, and launched an attack from the east side of the battlefield to Wang Shengrong's army; Song Yingchang also ordered General Su Anyan to lead 30,000 Ming troops to be the right-road army, and launched an attack from the west side of the battlefield to be the Wang Shengrong's army. Song Yingchang personally led 40,000 Ming troops to be the middle-road army, and launched an attack from the front towards Wang Shengrong's army.

This time, Song Yingchang must defeat the People's Army in front of him regardless of the death and injury of the Ming army.

After receiving the news that the Ming army was attacking from three groups, Wang Shengrong looked cautious. If the two armies fought head-on, the People's Army would not be afraid of the Ming army with more troops. But now the Ming army divided into three groups to attack the People's Army from three sides, which would be a problem. One is not good, but the People's Army would be defeated in this battle.

However, there is also good news. Only the Ming army on the front had chariots, while the Ming army on the east and west sides did not carry heavy chariots.

After a brief thought, Wang Shengrong immediately deployed the troops, with three infantry battalions of the firearms unit and one regiment to the right wing of the People's Army (west), one regiment to the right wing of the People's Army and one regiment to the left wing of the People's Army (east), two regiments to the left wing of the People's Army and two regiments to the front.

In this battle, Wang Shengrong decided to put the breakthrough point on the right wing, hoping that the three infantry battalions of the Firearms Army could defeat the enemy as soon as possible. As long as the Ming army was defeated, the victory of this battle would belong to the People's Army.

On the battlefield, Wang Shengrong's army had already stopped. The firearms troops, which were originally located in the front, first arrived at the army and the grenadier troops. After receiving the orders of Wang Shengrong, they quickly rushed to the two wings of the army.

In front, on the left and right of Wang Shengrong's army, 100,000 Ming troops were advancing steadily. When the distance between the People's Army and the Ming army was less than two miles on the front battlefield, the two armies opened fire one after another, and dozens or hundreds of solid artillery shells were smashed into the array of both sides, causing considerable casualties and injuries to both sides.

On the battlefield on the west side, the 30,000 Right Route Army led by Su Anyan did not carry heavy artillery and combat chariots, and quickly advanced towards the People's Army array, and the distance between the two sides was getting closer and closer.

Three hundred feet!

Two hundred feet!

One hundred feet!

More than 1,000 musketeers from the three infantry battalions of the firearms unit on the west side of the People's Army. Under the orders of many platoon leaders, more than 360 soldiers in the first platoon held tiger-headed spears and fired at the enemy rushing forward.

In the blink of an eye, more than 360 lead bombs collided head-on with the Ming army that was rushing towards him. Even if more than 300 Ming troops were hit by lead bombs, most of the Ming army who were shot were directly hit hard and fell on the battlefield.
Chapter completed!