Faced with the People's Army's thieves who had occupied two counties to defeat Jieshi Guards, some of the Ming troops in Guangdong took action quickly and could be dispatched to wipe out the People's Army just after the logistics was ready.

At this moment, outside the south gate of Haifeng County, Fangnan, Zhou Yi and He Yan, the three people's army gathered here, and Hu Zhuang continued to station in Haifeng Thousand Houses, but Hu Zhuang had already arrived at Haifeng County.

At present, the People's Army is deployed, and the First Mixed Brigade of the People's Army is stationed in Yong'an County, with the brigade commander Wang Shengrong.

The First Mixed Brigade includes a battalion of the Firearms (plus a company's reserve team), two regiments of the Cold Weapons, one company first, and one company of the Female Barracks, one company, to attack the county town and wipe out the injuries of the large landlords who committed evil. The total force still reaches more than 3,000 people.

In addition to the First Mixed Brigade, the People's Army in Yong'an County has also recruited a group of new recruits who have just begun training. The number has exceeded 2,000 and is still growing rapidly.

The new recruits have very weak combat power and need to undergo at least one month of training. They can also be used as cannon fodder in emergency situations.

The People's Army in Yong'an County has a lot of troops and is not weak, but the First Mixed Brigade will face enemies from the north. Huizhou Guard has only three thousand households, Longchuan Qianhu Office, Changle Qianhu Office, and Heyuan Qianhu Office are all north of Yong'an County. Only the Huizhou Guard headquarters is in the Huizhou Fucheng area, which is to the west of Yong'an County and Haifeng County.

Three thousand households, at least three thousand Ming troops, may have other Ming troops joining. With the strength of the First Mixed Brigade, they are sure to resist the enemy in the field, battle and city defense.

Under the rule of the People's Army, there are only Yong'an County and Haifeng County. Yong'an County is the first mixed brigade. The remaining troops are all in Haifeng County, Pinghai Qianhu Office, Jiesheng Qianhu Office, Jieshiwei Headquarters, Jiazimen Qianhu Office each stationed a battalion of the cold weapon troops. The People's Army led by Hu Zhuang is still stationed in Haifeng Qianhu Office, and other troops are currently gathering in Haifeng County.

Currently, there are six companies of firearms (including one artillery company), two companies of reserve forces, two regiments of cold weapons troops, and another battalion. In addition, there are nearly one battalion organized by Xiandeng battalion and several female soldiers.

The first camp was the most changed unit. Many Ming army captured by ideological education joined the People's Army. Some entered the first camp, some entered the ordinary cold weapon army, and a small number joined the firearm army and became an artillery soldier.

Previously, the People's Armed Forces were equipped with tiger-headed cannons, which were light cannons with relatively close range. After capturing the Jieshiwei headquarters and several thousand household offices, the People's Army seized many firearms used by the Ming army, including bird guns, Folang machine cannons, etc.

Compared with tiger-headed guns, the performance gap between bird guns is too big. The People's Army will definitely not equip bird guns, and even the second-line cold weapon troops will not equip them. Among the firearms seized by the Ming army, the most important ones are the imitation models of the Folang machine cannon and the Folang machine cannon.

As the most advanced artillery in this era, it was just that because Hutouzhai’s steel production was limited and the People’s Army’s gunpowder reserves were limited, so it did not build the Folang machine cannon.

The Folang machine cannon is of great use to the People's Army. Fang Nan directly asked the artillery company of the firearms unit to replace the Folang machine cannon with a diameter of about the same as the twelve gates. The effective range is about one thousand meters, which is several hundred meters more than the maximum range of the Tigerhead Cannon.

There are several heavy-model Flang cannons with a maximum range of more than 2,000 meters. The range is long, but the transportation is inconvenient. They are abandoned by Fang Nan and are suitable for use on the city wall.

It is also because a large amount of gunpowder was seized from the Ming army, and the People's Army's gunpowder reserves were sufficient, which could support the cannon firing.

In fact, in addition to creating two types of firearms, Hutouzhai, the Hutouzhai also created a grenade. Compared with the small grenades in Fang Nan's impression, the grenades created by Hutouzhai are large in size and relatively large in weight. They need to be manually ignited, and they can only throw them for more than ten meters if they are thrown hard.

This kind of grenade is not very useful when the People's Army attacks, but when the People's Army defends the city, when the enemy rushes to the city wall, it is easier to use when the grenade is thrown directly on the city wall, blowing a large piece of it.

Unfortunately, creating grenades requires a lot of gunpowder, and even tiger-headed cannons are reluctant to make a lot, let alone grenades.

Fortunately, the current situation of the People's Army has improved. With a population of 200,000, the number of people under the rule of the People's Army can obtain more saltpeter, and the production of gunpowder will also increase greatly. In addition, the gunpowder of the Ming army has been seized, and a batch of grenades can be manufactured in Hutouzhai for the People's Army to defend the city.

Because the Ming army was captured, the People's Army was not counted as new recruits, and its total strength was even greater than before the war. The number of new recruits recruited by Yong'an County and Haifeng County was more than 4,000, and the maximum number was expected to exceed 10,000, but there was not much combat power for the time being and a certain amount of training time was required.

What the People's Army lacks the most now is time. Yong'an County and Haifeng County have been built into bases by the People's Army, allowing the Ming Army to come to the house. The People's Army will be defended passively, and will eventually be torn to death little by little. This is what Fang Nan doesn't want to see.

"Next, we must take the initiative to attack, pull the enemy, buy time for training new recruits, and also buy time for building tiger-headed guns and tiger-headed cannons." Fang Nan said to Hu Zhuang, Zhou Yi, He Yan and others. When they heard the words of the leader (teacher), the few nodded and agreed.

Although the territory of the People's Army is already near the sea, it still needs to face enemies in four directions. The three thousand households of Huizhou Guards to the north of Yong'an County, Chaozhou Guards stationed in Chaozhou Prefecture to the east of Yong'an County and Haifeng County, the enemies who may have come from the sea in the south of Haifeng County, and the places where the Ming army gathered the most to the west of Yong'an County and Haifeng County.

Without need, the possibility of the Ming army attacking from the sea is not high. It can be said that the main enemy of the People's Army comes from the west, the secondary enemy comes from the east, and the north and south are relatively relaxed.

In this way, Fang Nan decided on the next action plan of the People's Army:

The main force of Wang Shengrong's first mixed brigade left Yong'an County and headed north, looking for opportunities to eliminate the three thousand households of Huizhou Guards, and conquered the city as much as possible and wiped out the large landlords. The Yong'an County left a battalion of cold weapons troops, and more than two thousand new recruits assisted in defending the entire Yong'an County;

Hu Zhuang and the People's Army left the Haifeng Qianhu District and entered Chaozhou Prefecture, mainly to contain the Ming army in Chaozhou Prefecture. If there is a chance, they can conquer the city and eliminate the large landlords;

Several thousand households on the beach each guards a battalion of cold weapons. If an enemy attacks from the sea, they will retreat quickly and gather in Haifeng County. Attach the enemy with Haifeng County, they will reach the enemy with Haifeng County. One battalion of cold weapons and one company of firearms and one company of firearms and one company of reserves. The main task is to be responsible for using the hypothetical artillery on the city wall;

All the spare tiger head guns were taken out of one company of the armed reserve team. Fang Nan personally led six companies of the firearms (including one artillery company), two regiments of the cold weapon troops, one first entered the battalion, and several female barracks and medical team personnel, totaling nearly 4,000 people, and marched into Guishan County, west of Haifeng County.

Although the strength of the People's Army of Fangnan and the People's Army was far inferior to the gathering of tens of thousands of Ming troops, there were six companies of firearms, so Fangnan had the confidence to fight the tens of thousands of Ming troops.
Chapter completed!