At the mouth of the lower reaches of the Yongjia River, there is a five-mile Jiangxin Island, which divides the Yongjia River waterway into two rivers in the north and south into the sea; The narrowest part of the Nanxia waterway is about 600 steps, and the narrowest part of the Beixia waterway is not even 300 steps, so it is the gateway to the Yongjia River.

In the early years, the two sides of Yongjia Mansion and Jiangxin Island repaired Tianshui, Wuyi, and Zhangdu Sanzhai to prevent pirates from entering the Yongjia River and plundering the inland. In the early days of Sanzhai, in addition to recruiting villagers and building war ships, they also transported boulders to dig holes and wear iron chains to seal the river.

In normal times, the iron chain sinks into the river, so that the ship passes from the mouth of the river as before; In case of bandits, the iron chain was pulled up from the bottom of the river to intercept the pirates from entering the Yongjia River.

The iron chain of the Suojiang River cooperated with the anti-village soldiers to prevent the invasion of small groups of pirates, but when the strong Huaidong water battalion attacked, it was weak and powerless. When the Huaidong Water Battalion attacked southern Zhejiang the year before last, the warship met the water against the current, so it used a giant axe to cut off the iron chain of the lock river, entered the river road, and was able to directly attack Yongjia City.

After that, the luxury family strengthened the defense of southern Zhejiang, and Xuan Feihu became the governor of southern Zhejiang, recaptured Yongjia City from the original southern Zhejiang resistance army, and then completely blocked the downstream estuary.

In addition to sealing the iron chain of the river, the luxury Feihu also scuttled a number of fishing boats at the mouth of the Yongjia River, drove a large number of hidden piles into the bottom of the river, and vigorously strengthened the defense force of Tianshui and Wuyun villages on both sides of the strait.

These two walled cities are small cities with a circumference of less than two miles, but the brick and stone walls are thick, and they are built very strongly, and there is an arrow tower at each of the four corners that is built with high danger.

Huaidong must capture one of the two villages of Tianshui and Wuyun, so that the obstacles to the blockade of the river can be calmly removed, and the Huaidong warship can re-enter the Yongjia River and play its due role.

After the end of the battle of Wushanjian on the ninth day, the main force of the Southern Army of New Zhejiang directly crossed Wushanjian and entered the north bank of the Yongjia River in the upper reaches of Tianshui Village.

In order to prevent thousands of Zhejiang and Fujian troops from Tianshui, Wuyun and Zhangdu Sanzhai from escaping to Yongjia and Ouhai by boat by water, Zhang Jiheng led his troops to land on the south bank in advance and blocked the land passage between Wuyun and Ouhai.

Zhou Tong also ordered thousands of trees with branches and leaves to be thrown into the Yongjia River from the north bank, and even collected hundreds of small boats from another place to dig through and sink into the waterway of the Yongjia River.

At the same time, a team of recruited people worked day and night to dig ditches and build walls outside Tianshui Village, build camp fences, and block Tianshui Village to the end of the mountain and water, first cutting off the possibility of the defenders going out of the village to fight a counterattack or break through by land.

By the 12th, the new southern Zhejiang camp was ready to forcibly take Tianshui Village.

Nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses unfurled, and the banner unfolded like a neon cloud; Blowing the horn and camping, the war horses neighed non-stop. The sentry tower outside the north gate of Tianshui Village was also built by the New Zhejiang Southern Army more than ten zhang high, which could monitor the situation in Tianshui Village at any time.

There is no encirclement of three and one, and the Tianshui Village is directly encircled.

The distance from Tianshuizhai to Wushanjian to Yongjia is very close, and after the new southern Zhejiang army controlled Wushanjian, the road to escape to Yongjia by land from Tianshuizhai was broken. At this point, the defenders of Tianshui Village can see it clearly when they stand at the head of the walled wall, so there is no need to set up suspicious formations here to lure the defenders out of the village to encircle and annihilate.

After completing the siege of Tianshui Village here, Lin Jian rushed to the front line.

In the camp opposite the north gate of Tianshui Village, Lin Jian climbed the wooden fence camp wall, next to the battlement, and looked at the Tianshui Village in the distance, Zhou Tong, Tang Fuguan, Chen Dingbang, Zuo Guangying and others will be by his side.

On the enemy wall, there are all soldiers in good armor and a strong military appearance, presumably loyal to the elite of Fujian, who are rarely seen in the head of the enemy walled city.

Tang Fuguan rubbed his hands and said: "Although the Fujian thieves said that they took the families of the township soldiers and generals into Yongjia as hostages, they still didn't dare to use the township soldiers to defend the village, and the battle of Wushanjian was very damaging to their morale...... "This is a good thing."

Lin Jian turned around and said: "Eight Fujian soldiers, the children of the clan are from many backgrounds, and they have received a lot of favors when they went out of Fujian to attack Zhejiang. If the city is surrounded to death here, they will never descend lightly, and Tianshui Village is small and strong, easy to hold, so they want to defend the city even more, so we will suffer hardship. This battle must be fought hard, and the time cannot be delayed for a long time, and it must be used more to attack the heart......"

When it comes to attacking the city and seizing the wall, it is nothing more than those means, more than a dozen counterweight stone-throwing crossbows gathered together, and the corner of the wall in the northeast corner of Tianshui Village was spotted, and the first thing to fire at Tianshui Village was not a stone bullet, but a mud pellet with a large number of leaflets wrapped in the middle.

The mud pellet is lighter than the stone bullet, and it is projectile and far, directly hitting the Tianshui Village. No matter what it hits when it falls to the ground, the mud pellet will be smashed in an instant, revealing the letter of surrender and the leaflet wrapped in oiled paper.

There are a variety of propaganda leaflets, some of which publicize the new policies implemented by Huaidong in southern Zhejiang, some offer silver rewards to tempt the defenders to surrender, some complain of the bad deeds of the extravagant family in occupying Zhejiang County for three years, and some publicize that the Huaidong army is invincible and invincible.

Most of the families of ordinary township soldiers withdrew to the stockade before the war, and the Huaidong army taught them how to avoid the eyes of the Zhejiang-Fujian army, how to resist passively, and taught them how to protect themselves and their families in the fierce attack on the village.

The Huaidong Army also mobilized people who were related to the defenders, wrote hundreds of letters in a targeted manner, and shot them into the stockade.

The children of the poor families in southern Zhejiang are also literate and read, as long as a large number of leaflets can be scattered into the village, they will not worry about muddying the water.

In addition to the propaganda leaflets, Zhou Tong also organized the generals with pure pronunciation and loud voices in southern Zhejiang to use a big shield to cover the wall every day to shout, the content of the shouting was similar to the propaganda leaflets, but it had a miraculous effect on breaking the will of the defenders to resist.

The grinding work of the foreign workers was done enough, and the stone-throwing crossbow was pushed closer to a closer place, and the stone bullet weighing more than thirty or forty catties attacked the corner wall in the northeast corner of Tianshui Village like a falling star falling to the ground.

There are also stone-throwing crossbows in Tianshui Village, but the stone-throwing crossbow of the Huaidong Army, do not hit the face, only play the corner, the stone-throwing crossbow of the Zhejiang-Fujian army fights a counterattack on the inside of the wall, because the angle in the wall is narrow, there are more stone-throwing crossbows, and they can't be put in.

And because the stone-throwing crossbow of the Zhejiang-Fujian army is pulled and launched by people, a heavy stone-throwing crossbow requires dozens of people or even hundreds of people to work together to launch stone bullets, and hundreds of people are crowded together under the walled city, and there is chaos, which further limits the counterattack of the defenders.

Often, the Huaidong Army fired seven or eight bullets, and only one bullet in the stockade counterattacked.

The range of the stone-throwing crossbow is related to the crossbow tip, and in the crossbow tip material, the Huaidong crossbow and the Zhejiang-Fujian crossbow are not distinguished. However, the Huaidong crossbow uses a falling weight as the launching force, and the Zhejiang-Fujian crossbow is dragged by people or animals to launch.

If there are many people, it is difficult to work together, and it needs to be rehabilitated. However, in the war of stone bullets flying against each other, it is difficult for the crossbow man to overcome the panic even if he is skillful in training. Three or five people were stoned to death, their hands were weak, their feet were paralyzed, and they could not operate the stone-throwing crossbow in concert, so they were more and more at a disadvantage.

In addition to the heavy counterweight stone-throwing crossbows, the new southern Zhejiang army also has more than a dozen light and easy-to-move scorpion crossbows that can be carried to the vicinity of the walled wall at any time to launch small stone bullets. Although it was a small stone bullet, it weighed 20 pounds, and people smashed it, and their bones were shattered and they died.

The stone bullets fired by the heavy stone-throwing crossbow, even mixed with 100 pounds of boulder bullets, arrow towers, and war sheds, also collapsed after a blow, and they were bound to smash the northeast corner wall of Tianshui Village and smash out a gap, so that the soldiers of the new southern Zhejiang army could directly pour in and meet with the defenders.

The northeast corner of the walled city is a concentrated stone-throwing crossbow attack; The new southern Zhejiang army was not far behind in the northwest, and drove a team of people to brave arrows, stones, and trees, transport earth to the wall and fall, and build siege roads.

The walls of Tianshui Village are thick and high, and the defenders are not lacking in elites, while the walled city is small, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

The new southern Zhejiang army directly used a ladder to attach the wall forcibly, and was attacked by arrows and stones on the wall, not to mention the heavy casualties, and there was no certainty of victory.

Both sides are elite soldiers, and the will to fight is not weak, and the simpler the method adopted, the more difficult it is for the enemy to defuse it.

The pile of siege roads is actually to build a ramp that extends directly to the head of the wall of Tianshui Village. Although it is time-consuming and labor-intensive, it is much easier to use than a ladder. First, after the city is built, there is no need to worry about smashing the defenders like a ladder; The second is to take the ramp to attack the city, which is more convenient and faster than climbing the ladder, and the soldiers can also protect themselves more effectively; The third is the ladder attached to the wall, a ladder and one person, it is difficult to cooperate with each other, the siege road is wider, you can count people, more than a dozen people advance and retreat together, and you can also gather stone-throwing crossbows nearby, nest car crossbowmen to suppress the city head, and cooperate with the battle.

Tianshui Village is small, so the new southern Zhejiang army only builds a wall road in the northwest corner, and changes it to other big Zhai Xiongcheng, for the convenience of attacking the city, it is possible to build a few or even a dozen.

In addition to the northeast side gathering stone-throwing crossbows to launch stone bullets day and night, in the north of Tianshui Village, the new southern Zhejiang army also sent a soldier to take turns to gather the giant rushing car to approach, hitting the weak point of the wall gate and the wall; There were also dozens of nest carts even higher than the wall, carrying crossbowmen, approaching the wall and firing at the defenders......

No matter how firm and strong the will of the Fujian soldiers of the Tianshui Village defenders who are loyal to the luxury family is, there are only more than 1,000 people.

The Southern Army of New Zhejiang was fighting for the idea of consumption, and took turns attacking the village for several days without stopping for a moment.

In the early days, the guards of Tianshui Village were on guard and beware of the local township soldiers, and were not used to defend the village, but the offensive and defensive battles lasted for several days, and the casualties accumulated by the Fujian soldiers were particularly heavy, and the generals were exhausted, and finally had to drive the local township soldiers to the wall to guard the village.

After a big gap collapsed in the wall in the northeast corner, the township soldiers had no intention of participating in the counteroffensive and were the first to form a rout.

In the face of the defeated township soldiers and the continuous influx of new southern Zhejiang army soldiers, the Fujian soldiers loyal to the luxury family could not save the defeat no matter how elite they were. Tang Fuguan led his troops to completely capture Tianshui Village on the 17th, destroying 500 enemies, capturing more than 1,400 enemies, and capturing more than 1,600 people in Tianshui Village......

The new southern Zhejiang army lost more than 800 troops in this battle, and the total number of casualties even exceeded that of the defenders, but the new southern Zhejiang army was able to continuously replenish its troops, and its will to fight became more and more vigorous.

That night, Zuo Guangying was ordered to lead his troops to ferry to the south bank by boat, and joined Zhang Jiheng's department, who had landed on the south bank in advance, and after entering the Wuyun village wall, he formed a siege on the south bank from the land on the 18th.