The third day of the Lunar New Year just passed, and the People's Army immediately entered a busy state. Forty reorganized divisions stationed in the border areas were gathering at the designated locations. Most officials of the People's Military Governments in various places were packing their luggage and preparing to wait for orders to go to the border areas.

Seeing the situation of the People's Army, people in the People's Army-ruled areas understood that war was coming.

Since the end of the last war, the People's Army has been actively preparing for this war. Even if the Ming army wants to drag it down, the People's Army will not continue to drag it down. Guangdong alone can no longer meet the development of the People's Army. At the latest, the People's Army will take the initiative to attack the Ming army.

Fang Nan did not publicize the assassination before the New Year.

Under normal circumstances, the two countries are in a truce. If the head of one country is assassinated by another assassin, the country can use the assassination to promote it and use this assassination as an excuse to launch a war against another country. The people will support this just war of revenge.

But the People's Army does not need to launch a war under the pretext of assassination. The People's Army's goal has always been to enable poor people all over the world to live a good life. The People's Army's war against the Ming court is just in the eyes of the people of the People's Army-ruled areas, and there is no need to add a large commander-in-chief's assassination.

The People's Army moved, and the Ming Army also moved. The two sides chose to start the war at the beginning of the year.

On the Ming side, the commander of the Ming army, Li Chengliang, was in charge of Jiangxi, with an army of 500,000 under his command; the deputy commander Tang Qi, was in charge of Guangxi, with an army of more than 100,000 under his command; the deputy commander Li Zhengmao, was in charge of Huguang, with an army of more than 100,000 under his command; the deputy commander Zheng Yuewen, was in charge of Fujian, with an army of more than 100,000 under his command.

The four Ming troops together have exceeded 900,000, and are worth millions of troops.

Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen were all sent by the Ming court to hold Li Chengliang. Li Chengliang commanded a million troops. The Ming court could not feel at ease, because he was afraid that Li Chengliang would become another People's Army, even stronger than the People's Army. The Ming court had less troops than Li Chengliang's troops. He could not say that the Ming court would be destroyed in the hands of Li Chengliang.

The Ming court was worried that Li Chengliang would be rebellious, and Li Chengliang, who supported the army and had no promotion, did have a different idea. Li Chengliang sent Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen to Guangxi, Huguang and Fujian according to the "rules" to command the Ming army. This was something that Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao, and Zheng Yuewen could not refuse.

Although the army of 900,000 was directly controlled by Li Chengliang, only 500,000 troops were directly controlled by Li Chengliang, there was no one else in the army to control it, which was the most important thing.

Moreover, in the past two years, Li Chengliang has continuously mobilized Ming troops from various departments to transfer the Ming army where the conquered generals were located to Jiangxi, and to transfer generals who were unwilling to surrender to him to Guangxi, Huguang and Fujian.

For the Ming army under his control, Li Chengliang directly took out a large sum of silver to train. Most of the silver allocated by the court was intercepted by Li Chengliang, and only a small half was distributed to the Ming army in Guangxi, Huguang and Fujian.

Not only the silver allocated by the court, the silver Li Chengliang earned in Liaodong in the past, and the large amount of silver he had obtained from the glass business in the past year were all invested by Li Chengliang into his army of 500,000.

It can be said that among the 900,000 Ming army, four-fifths of the elite troops were under Li Chengliang's command, and one-fifth of them were divided by Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen.

For example, the Zhentian Camp equipped with the Shitian Thunder in the army has nearly 50,000 troops, of which 40,000 are under Li Chengliang's command, and less than 10,000 are left to be divided by Tang Qi, Li Zhengmao and Zheng Yuewen.

What is very magical is that the number of grenadiers in the Ming army was similar to that of the People's Army. There are forty reorganized divisions of the People's Army. Each reorganized division has a grenadier regiment, with about one thousand and two hundred people in a grenadier regiment, and forty grenadier regiments are 48,000 people.

However, the actual situation cannot be seen very well. If the number of grenades is calculated based on the number of grenades, the number of grenades reserved by the People's Army is far greater than that of the Ming army. If the number of grenades reserved by the Ming army can only support one war, the number of grenades reserved by the People's Army can support at least two and a half wars.

According to the proportion of grenades and grenades of the Ming army, the number of grenades in the People's Army can reach more than 100,000, but the total strength of the People's Army is only so large that it is impossible for grenades to directly occupy one-third of the number.

The Ming army pursued the extermination of the People's Army in the First World War, while the People's Army pursued the defeat of the Ming army in the First World War, and the People's Army was able to continue fighting against the new Ming army.

Because of the huge role of grenadiers in the war between the People's Army and the Ming Army two years ago, Zhentian Camp has become one of the three main forces of the Ming Army, the other two main forces, one is the cold weapon unit holding a large sword and a spear, and the other is the archer.

The number of firearm troops (not grenadiers) in the Ming army was quite large, almost twice the number of people in the Zhentian Battalion, accounting for about one-tenth of the total force. In fact, this proportion was relatively low two years ago.

In the past two years, the Ming court recruited soldiers in large numbers, and new soldiers needed weapons. Compared with big swords and spears, the speed of building muskets and cannons was relatively slow, and it was also lost to Foshan, a major smelting city. It was already very good to make the proportion of the 900,000 Ming troops' firearms troops reach one-tenth.

The artillery equipped by the Ming army was almost the same as the artillery equipped by the People's Army, but on muskets, the People's Army and the Ming army were far apart.

The Ming army also wanted to build muskets with a long range and powerful range like tiger head guns, which could not be bought from Westerners. Finally, they got a few almost scrapped tiger head guns from the People's Army ruling area and brought them back to the Ming Dynasty ruling area to imitate them.

Many skilled craftsmen worked together for several months and successfully made muskets that were similar to tiger head guns, but the barrel of the musket was scrapped after only a few fires. More importantly, the musket was very low in production efficiency and had a lower pass rate. It was impossible to create hundreds of qualified muskets in a year.

Li Chengliang directly gave up building this kind of musket and instead built a front-mounted flintlock smoothbore gun. He has been equipped with thousands of units, and the range and power are almost the same as those of the widely equipped bird guns in the Ming army. The shooting success rate is less than 50%. Although the shooting success rate is not good, it is still much more convenient than the shooting spear.

The Ming army was equipped with thousands of flintlock smoothbore guns in front, but it was still far from comparing with the tiger-head guns equipped by the People's Army. The Ming army had only one tactic to choose between the opposite muskets, which was to build a large number of combat vehicles to use the chariots to resist the lead bullets fired by the muskets. A large number of Ming army followed the chariots and kept approaching the People's Army.

When it was dozens of meters away from the People's Army, archers in the Ming army could shoot behind the chariots, which could have a greater killing effect on the people.
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