Lu Zhixian's deliberate lowering of his posture made Li San quite satisfied, feeling that this Lu Zhixian was at least not a difficult person to meet, as long as this guy was so cooperative, then with his more than 200 troops, there would be no problem in guarding the north gate.

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

In addition to these, Li San also asked Lu Zhixian to help him get a few hundred catties of gunpowder, which he placed in some houses that had not been picked up, and let his people build a rudimentary defense line in this circle of closed compartments, which could be used for them to condescendingly shoot outside.

In addition, next to the main passage, there is also a gun emplacement, which can control a large area outside, and if the rebels do not come, it will be fine, but if they come and want to attack the city gate close to the city gate, then they must first break through this line of defense, and the undemolished gate outside the city gate has become their first line of defense to protect the city gate.

It was not until this time that Zhao Zhizhou and Lu Zhixian understood that Li San's gang did not plan to enter the city immediately and guard the north gate on the city wall, but planned to set up the first line of defense at the gate outside the city gate to protect the north gate.

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

Relatively speaking, these officials have also reduced their vigilance against the villagers of these Xishan villages a lot.

The rebels obviously did not plan to attack Muping County at night, except for the occasional few rebels who did not collect horses at night, to wander outside Muping County to investigate the preparations here, but they did not send light cavalry to Muping County at night to prevent the people in the city from demolishing the Guanxiang.

So overnight, there was no major incident outside the county, it was just that the two sides did not collect the night, bumped into each other by chance, exchanged hands, and both sides retreated at the touch of a button, and did not fight to the death, so neither side suffered much loss.

By the dawn of the morning, the demolition of the closed compartment was basically completed, and these people who had been driven out of the city to forcibly demolish their houses were tired and tired overnight, and when it was dawn, they retreated to the city, found a random place, and did not want to get up again when they fell.

And Li San didn't care about the other city gates, he only took care of the north gate he was responsible for, and when it was dawn, he officially began to arrange manpower and entered the preset position outside the city gate.

Although he did not have many troops, the area left behind was not large, just enough for their men to control it, and the main force he left on the road leading to the city gate, where three horse rejection and deer barricades had been constructed, and a breastwork had been constructed with wooden planks and the like.

Fifty musketeers with Southern Japanese rifles were placed behind this breastwork, while the rest of the musketeers with wolf's tooth rifles were assigned to firing points elsewhere, condescending to control the entire open space outside the north gate.

This arrangement of firepower, although slightly dispersed, can effectively control the 300-meter diameter range outside the Guanxiang, and if the rebels want to attack 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 city gate.

On the way, these wolf tooth rifles can give the enemy a considerable amount of damage, as long as the enemy army does not send thousands of troops, swarming inside, it is estimated that a small group of rebels, can not go outside the main passage, can almost be scattered by the musketeers with wolf tooth rifles.

After Li San made the arrangement, he carefully inspected the position, and was basically satisfied with his arrangement, and after only making slight adjustments, he ordered everyone to start resting on the spot, starting to eat, and waiting for the arrival of the rebels.

Lu Zhixian was very knowledgeable, and according to the conditions proposed by Liu Wei at the beginning, he sent people to Li San and them to send a lot of grain outside the city gate, so that they could cook and eat by themselves, and also sent a few cooks from restaurants in the city to come over to cook for them, and even managed to get them half a piece of pig and a bunch of cabbage.

There is noodles and meat, cabbage stewed pork is full, and there is even a little salted fish, this food is also quite good, at least better than in Xishan Village, this is fresh pork, even if they are given meat in Xishan Village, it is also some pickled salted meat, and the quantity is not as much as here, which makes this group of soldiers feel quite good about coming here to do things this time.

As for the big war that may be faced next, few people take it to heart, the brainwashing education of the sea wolf is still quite effective, being a soldier is to kill or be killed, without this awareness, you can't be a good soldier, you can't be promoted, you can't make a fortune, you have to be ruthless to work in the sea wolf.

As for those rebels, these sea wolf tribes really didn't pay much attention to them, but the dozens of villagers who had just been incorporated among them were a little unable to eat now, and their hearts were full of uneasiness, and they didn't know if they could return to Xishan Village alive this time.

The speed of the rebels is really speechless, obviously only more than ten miles away, but they actually walked for most of the day, until the afternoon, the rebels appeared in the field of vision outside Muping County, and stopped a few miles away.

Among the rebels, there was a high pole to recognize the flag, on which was written a big Chen character, it turned out that it was the rebel general Chen Guangfu who led the army to Ninghai Prefecture to attack Muping County.

It was only at this time that Haining Prefecture received another news that shocked everyone, almost completely dissipating the morale of the entire Muping County defenders and even the officials and people.

More than a dozen cavalrymen were chased and killed by the rebels, and on this morning, only two people fled to the city of Muping County, shouting for help, saying that they were the defenders of Qishan, and that Qishan was broken by the thieves, so they fled all the way here.

So the city put down the big basket and pulled it up the city wall, and the two of them not only reported to Zhao Zhizhou that their strange mountain was broken, but also informed them of a shocking news.

A few days earlier, the new governor of Shandong had summoned more than 20,000 troops from Shandong and Tianjin to intercept troops from Dengzhou in the eastern part of Laizhou in an attempt to attack the rebel headquarters in Laizhou.

Kong Youde led the rebels, in a few days, in these officers and troops who attacked it in the area of Huangxian to start a big battle, the Shandong army, Baoding and Tianjin's officers and troops, the army had no morale and light the enemy, the result was a big defeat, the entire more than 20,000 officers and soldiers, was beaten by the rebels, the whole army was defeated, a large number of officers and soldiers were captured by the rebels, turned to the rebels, only a few hundred officers and soldiers ran back to Laizhou City.

This news shocked everyone, they originally expected the imperial court to send a large army to exterminate the rebels, and they originally expected to quell the Kong-Li mutiny, but they never thought that the Shandong soldiers were so scum, and the scum made people speechless.

The official army of the Eight Classics, under the premise of superior troops, was actually not the opponent of the rebels, and was defeated by others, and it can almost be said that it was completely annihilated collectively, which can be called a copy of another battle of Sarhu.

No one thought that the rebels led by Kong Li actually had such combat effectiveness, in the field battle, they were so fierce, they actually won more with less, and beat the Shandong soldiers who came to attack them to lose their armor and abandon their armor, and also captured many officers and soldiers, this time the rebels trembled even more, they originally gathered a large number of soldiers and horses in Dengzhou, and now they have captured so many officers and soldiers, so that their strength has expanded again, counting the number of Kong Li's rebels now, at least tens of thousands of people.

With so many rebels, it is really unimaginable what can happen next, and the two people who fled from Qishan also said that they heard that the rebels had led more than 20,000 rebels under the leadership of Kong Youde, and killed Laizhou Mansion, preparing to take Laizhou Mansion in one fell swoop.

The rebels claim that they will sweep through the whole of Shandong next, establish themselves as kings, and fight against the current imperial court, if the rebels really let the rebels capture Laizhou Mansion, then the entire Shandong situation is probably going to be completely erosive, and now the rebels are so capable of fighting, who can control them?

Then there are rebel generals, all of whom are the old departments of the Dongjiang Army, and now there is Mao Chenglu making a rebellion, controlling most of the ground in Dongjiang Town, facing each other across the sea, echoing each other, if they want to be independent, it is really impossible to do it.

What's even more strange is that so far, the rebels have taken down Dengzhou, but on the side of the imperial court, until now, there is no uncertainty about whether to attack or appease, and no one has been able to come up with a charter until now.

I'm afraid that at this time, on the side of the Jingshi, among the ministers in the court, there are also disputes over this matter, there must be some important ministers who want to be the main minister, and there are some important ministers who want to be the main minister, so far, I am afraid that the voice of the main fu is louder, which is why the imperial court has not made more reactions until now, mobilizing more elite soldiers to come and suppress the rebels.

But whether they understand it or not, these things don't seem to have much to do with them at the moment, and the most important thing for them is to hold Muping County first, otherwise even if they think about it clearly, it will be in vain.

The rebels, led by Chen Guangfu, finally arrived at the county seat of Muping that afternoon, but they did not immediately begin to attack the city, but sent a group of rebels to the four villages and began to sweep them.

In the afternoon of the same day, before it got dark, several village forts in the southwest of Muping County were conquered by the rebels, and from that there came out of the billowing smoke, and the fire rose to the sky, it can be seen that after the rebels laid down these village forts, they immediately set fire to these villages, and after nightfall, standing on the corner tower in the southwest corner of the county, you can see from a distance that the long dragon composed of torches is still rolling and spitting flames, winding towards the rebel camp.