Chapter 62 Uncertain

Lv Zhixian deliberately lowered his posture, which made Li San quite satisfied. He felt that this Lv Zhixian was at least not a difficult person to meet. As long as this guy cooperated so much, there was still no problem for him to defend the north gate with more than 200 troops.

So overnight, Li San stared at the north gate and commanded thousands of people in Muping County. He quickly demolished most of the houses outside the Beiguan Pass, leaving only a batch of houses near the city gate, but the passage here was also completely blocked by the people with messy stones and tiles, leaving only one The passage to the gate is not very wide.

In addition to these, Li San also asked Lv Zhixian to help him get hundreds of pounds of gunpowder, put them in some houses that had not been stripped off, and let his people build a simple line of defense in this circle of compartments for them to shoot outside condescendingly.

In addition, there is a gun position next to the main channel, which can control a large area outside. If the rebels don't come, they will not come. However, if they want to attack the city gate after they come, they must first break through this line of defense. The unremoval compartment outside the city gate will become their first to protect the city gate. Road defense line.

It was not until this time that Zhao Zhizhou and Lv Zhixian realized that Li San and his group did not intend to enter the city immediately and guard the north gate on the city wall, but to set up the first line of defense outside the city gate to protect the north gate.

They undoubtedly have to take considerable risks in doing so. In this way, these officials quite admire the courage of Li San and the villagers in Xishan Village.

Relatively speaking, these officials are also much less wary of the villagers in Xishan Village.

The rebels obviously did not plan to attack Mouping County at night. Except for a few horses that the rebels did not accept at night, they stroll outside Mouping County to explore the preparations here, but they did not send light horses to Mouping County at night to prevent the people in the city from dismantling the customs.

So overnight, there was no big deal outside the county. It was just that the two sides didn't accept the night. When they accidentally bumped into each other and fought, the two sides retreated at a touch and did not fight to the death, so neither side suffered much.

It was almost dawn in the morning that the demolition of the customs box was basically completed. These people who were driven out of the city and forcibly demolished houses were exhausted overnight. At dawn, they retreated to the city one after another and found a place. They didn't want to get up again when they fell down.

And Li San didn't care about the other gates. He only cared about the north gate he was responsible for. At dawn, he officially began to arrange personnel and entered the preset position outside the gate.

Although his troops are not many, the area left behind is not large, just enough for their manpower to control. The main force stayed on the road to the city gate, where three horse-back and deer forts have been built, and a chest wall has been built with wooden boards and other things.

Fifty * hands using southern Japanese rifles were placed behind this chest wall, and the rest of the * hands with wolf-tooth rifles were assigned to shooting points in other places to control the empty space outside the whole north gate.

Although such a firepower arrangement is slightly scattered, it can effectively control the 300-meter diameter range outside the gate. If the rebels want to enter the city gate from the north gate, they must first cross the 300-meter fire blockade area before they can reach the main passage leading to the gate. .

On the way, these wolf-tooth rifles can cause considerable killing and injury to the enemy. As long as the enemy does not send thousands of troops and rush into it, it is estimated that a small group of rebels can almost be dispersed by the * hand holding the wolf tooth rifle if they can't walk outside the main channel.

After the arrangement, Li San carefully toured the position and was basically satisfied with his arrangement. After only making a slight adjustment, he ordered everyone to rest on the spot, start eating, and wait for the arrival of the rebels.

Lv Zhixian is very interesting. According to the conditions proposed by Liu, he sent people to Li San and others to send a lot of food outside the city gate and let them eat by themselves. He also sent several chefs in the city restaurant to cook for them, and even tried to find a way to get them half a piece of pig and a pile of cabbage.

There are noodles and meat, stewed pork with cabbage, and even some salted fish. This meal is quite good, at least better than in Xishan Village. This is fresh pork. Even if Xishan Village gives them meat, it is also some pickled bacon, and the amount is not as much as here. This makes this group of soldiers, for this The next time I came here to work, I felt good.

As for the war that may be facing next, few people pay attention to it. The brainwashing education of the sea wolf is still quite effective. Those who are soldiers are going to kill or be killed. Without this awareness, they can't be a good soldier, can't be promoted, and they can't get rich. If they work in the sea wolf, they will be more ruthless than anyone else.

As for those rebels, these sea wolves really don't pay much attention to them, but dozens of newly integrated villagers are now a little overwhelmed and full of uneasiness. I don't know if they can still return to Xishan Village alive this time.

The speed of the rebels was really speechless. Obviously, they only had a journey of more than ten miles, and they actually walked for most of the day. It was not until the afternoon that the rebels appeared outside the city of Muping County and stopped a few miles away.

Among the rebels, there was a high standing flag with the word "Dou Da" written on it. It turned out that it was the rebel general Chen Guangfu who led the army to attack Muping County in Ninghai Prefecture this time.

It was not until this time that Haining Prefecture received another shocking news, which almost completely dispelled the morale of the defenders of Mouping County and even the officials and civilians.

A dozen cavalrymen were hunted down by the rebels. That morning, only two people fled to Mouping County and shouted for help, saying that they were the defenders of Qishan. Qishan was broken by the thieves, so they fled all the way here.

So the city put down a big basket and pulled it up to the wall. In addition to reporting that Zhao Zhizhou and their strange mountain had been broken, the two also told them a shocking news.

A few days ago, the new governor of Shandong gathered more than 20,000 troops from Shandong and Tianjin to intercept the dispatch of troops from Dengzhou in eastern Laizhou and tried to attack the rebel headquarters in Laizhou.

Kong Youde led the rebels. In a few days, these officers and soldiers who attacked them launched a war in the area of Huang County. The Shandong army, Baoding and Tianjin had no morale and underestimated the enemy. As a result, they were defeated. More than 20,000 officers and soldiers were beaten by the rebels. The army was defeated, and a large number of officers and soldiers were captured by the rebels and turned to the rebels. Only hundreds of officers and soldiers ran back to Laizhou City.

This news shocked everyone. They originally expected the court to send a large army to destroy the rebels as soon as possible. They expected to calm down the Kong-Li mutiny as soon as possible, but they didn't expect that the Shandong soldiers would be so scum that they were speechless.

Under the premise of superior forces, the serious officers and army were not the opponents of the rebels and were defeated by others. It can almost be said that they were completely annihilated collectively, which can be called another replica of the Battle of the Sal Margin.

No one expected that the rebels led by Kong Li had such combat effectiveness. In the field, they were so fierce that they defeated the Shandong soldiers who came to suppress more, and captured many officers and soldiers. This time, the rebels trembled even more. They originally collected a large number of soldiers in Dengzhou. Now as Now so many officers and soldiers have been captured, making their strength expand again. Counting the number of rebels in Kong Li now, there are at least tens of thousands.

It's really unimaginable that so many rebels can do anything next. Moreover, the two people who escaped from Qishan also said that the rebels had led more than 20,000 rebels under the leadership of Kong Youde and killed Laizhou Prefecture, ready to take down Laizhou Prefecture in one fell swoop.

The rebels claimed that next they will sweep the whole Shandong, make themselves king, and fight against the current court. If the rebels are really allowed to capture Laizhou Prefecture, the whole situation in Shandong may be completely rotten. At present, the rebels can fight so well, who can control them?

There are rebel generals, all of whom are the old headquarters of the Dongjiang Army. On the other side of Dongjiang, Mao Chenglu is now in chaos, controlling most of the ground of Dongjiang Town. The two compartments look at each other across the sea and echo each other. If they want to be independent, they really can't do it.

What's more strange is that so far, the rebels have taken down Dengzhou, but up to now, no one knows the opinion of the court whether to suppress or comfort.

I'm afraid that at this time, the capital and among the ministers in the court are also arguing about this matter. There must be some important ministers who want to be the master, and some important ministers who want to suppress the master. So far, I'm afraid that the voice of the master is still louder, which is why the court has not responded more until now. , the reason for mobilization of more elite soldiers to suppress the rebels.

But whether they can figure it out or can't figure it out, these things don't seem to have much to do with them at present. The most important thing for them is to keep Mouping County first, otherwise even if they understand it, it will be useless.

Under the leadership of Chen Guangfu, the rebels finally arrived in Muping County that afternoon, but they did not immediately start to attack the city. Instead, they sent a group of rebels and began to go to the four villages to start a sweep.

Before dark that afternoon, several village castles in the southwest of Mouping County were captured by the rebels. Smoke billowed out from there, and a fire soared into the sky. It can be seen that after the rebels took down these village forts, they immediately set fire to these villages. After nightfall, they stood in the county On the southwest corner, you can see a long dragon composed of torches winding towards the rebel camp from where they are still rolling and spraying flames.