Sansha Bay, located between Xiapu, Jiaocheng and Luoyuan counties, is a small belly of the bay, to the Jianjiang Peninsula and the Dongchong Peninsula around the circle, the waters in the bay are tens of miles, and the only Dongchong exit is only 2,000 steps wide.

In the coastal area of eastern Fujian, where the typhoon is raging, Sanshawan can be said to be the most excellent lake and sea topography port, which belongs to Jiaocheng, Luoyuan, Xiapu and other counties, and is known as "the throat of Wuyi and the gateway to entry and exit".

Zhang Gou stood on the deck of the aft cabin, looking at the Dongchong Haikou, which is known as the throat of Wuyi, with many cliffs and rocks, and the situation was precipitous.

Even at the beginning of the ten-year war in Eastern Fujian, the luxury family had not consciously controlled the Donghai Kou forces, but they also knew that the Donghai Kou's raids on the coast had caused containment and destruction to the Liangzhejiang and Jianghuai, so they had always connived at Sanshawan to become a safe haven and supply place for the Donghai Kou's forces.

After the extravagant family abandoned the land and went to the sea, and directly infiltrated the East China Sea Kou forces, Sansha Bay developed even more deformally, reaching its peak two years ago, making the coastal towns and ports lined up, and there were countless rich and wealthy gentry.

After that, most of the Donghai forces were incorporated into the Eastern Zhejiang Naval Division, and Sanshawan was a little deserted.

Even so, Sansha Bay is still the most important seaport along the coast of eastern Fujian, and there are three private ship yards alone, and most of the ships sailing from eastern Fujian to Kagoshima in Haidong also depart from here.

Sanshawan is so important that it is naturally the focus of this southern attack fleet.

Zhang Gou originally thought that the defense of Sanshawan would be stronger, but in fact, the limited combat strength of the naval divisions in eastern Fujian was concentrated on Nantai Island at the mouth of the Minjiang River, and the defense of Sanshawan was mainly based on private military guards.

The naval division of Nantai Island did not dare to come out of the mouth of the Minjiang River to fight, and the maritime defense on the side of Sanshawan was a little insufficient.

The advance fleet broke through the defense line of the East Chongkou at dawn and rushed into the bay, clearing the remnants of the enemy in the bay before the day and the middle of the day. A cloud of black smoke rose into the sky, and I don't know how many ships in the bay were set on fire.

The main force of the southern attack fleet was stationed outside the Dongchong Pass, and the bow of the ship was all open to the outside to guard against the Eastern Fujian Naval Division that might come to the aid from Nantai Island.

"The southern front needs to capture Jianshan in the shortest possible time, establish a beacon outpost, blockade the Jianjiang Peninsula, and intercept reinforcements from the direction of Luoyuan and Jiaocheng; The northern line chokes the whole mountain, blocks the road between Xiapu and the Dongchong Peninsula, and then attacks the two towns of Xiahu and Dongchong, and the order must not be mistaken...... "Zhao Qingshan is the main general of the southern attack on the soldiers and horses, and the infantry battalion is headed by Han Caizhi, but it is still controlled by Zhao Qingshan.

After the warships cleared the remnants of the enemy in the bay, the infantry battalion could land and fight at any point along the coastline of the inner bay of nearly 200 miles in Sansha Bay, but several strategic points still needed to be occupied by heavy troops. After controlling these points, even if there are reinforcements coming from Jin'an City, the foot soldiers after landing on the shore can still calmly withdraw.

"What does Zhang have to add to join the army?" Zhao Qingshan instructed the tactical arrangements after the landing of the infantry battalion, and asked Zhang Gou if he had anything to add.

Zhang Gou went south with the fleet as the commander of the Military Intelligence Department, and joined the army as the deputy general of the southern attack fleet.

"Staying here won't help much, let me take someone to Jianshan!" Zhang Gou said.

A beacon sentry mountain will be established in Jianshan, scouts will be released, and the situation between Jin'an City, Luoyuan, and Jiaocheng will be monitored. The advance and retreat of the scattered footmen who landed in Sanshawan will depend on effective reconnaissance in the direction of Jianshan, and the responsibility will be heavy.

In case the reinforcements in the direction of Jin'an City were caught off guard, it would be difficult for the landed foot soldiers to control the casualties.

Zhao Qingshan wanted to stay in Dongchongkou to command the water camp, and Han Caizhi wanted to command the infantry battalion to land, so Zhang Gou took the initiative to ask to go to Jianshan......

Zhao Qingshan nodded in agreement with Zhang Gou's invitation. Although it was necessary to attack the eight towns along the coast of Sanshawan at the same time, Zhao Qingshan still sent Chen Yan to lead a battalion of soldiers to follow Zhang Gou's action, and after capturing Jianshan, Chen Yan could lead the soldiers to move along the two lines of Jianshan.

The Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian has a sentry post in Jianshan, and it is also one of the only two beacon sentry posts set up by the Governor of Zhejiang and Fujian along the coast of Sansha Bay, with 30 beacon soldiers stationed.

The landing encountered little resistance, and the defense of the coastal towns and ports was dominated by private soldiers, and a small number of Zhejiang-Fujian rebels were concentrated in the three cities of Xiapu, Jiaocheng, and Luoyuan.

The landing encountered almost no resistance, and the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels, who had limited troops in the surrounding areas, were simply unable to establish any effective anti-beach defense on the nearly 200-mile-long coastline.

The main force of the landed armor guards at the foot of the mountain, guarding against the Zhejiang-Fujian reinforcements on both sides, Zhang Gou and Chen Yan personally led a sentry armor to brave the enemy's arrows from the front, and forcibly climbed the Jianshan Mountain, which was only more than 20 zhang high, and blocked the enemy in the sentry platform.

The sentry tower is built by the topography of Jianshan, it is not very high, less than two zhang, twenty zhang in circumference, and there is not even the most rudimentary war shed, and there is only one thatched canopy on the top to shelter the beacon soldiers guarding the platform from the wind and rain.

From the sentinels who sneaked ashore first, we knew that in addition to more than 30 people, there were no more reinforcements entering the Jianshan sentry fort before, and seven or eight people were killed when climbing the mountain, and there were less than 60 guards in the sentry post, and they were all miscellaneous soldiers.

Chen Yan likes to be straightforward, and besides, they have to lay down this sentry post first, so that it is convenient for Han Caizhi to command more foot soldiers to land and attack the towns and ports along the coast of Sansha Bay, and the time is pressing.

"Set the thatched tent on the sentry tower on fire, suppress the guards with bows and crossbows, and then send three teams of armor soldiers to attack from three sides!" Chen Yan squatted behind the big shield and discussed with Zhang Gou how to hit the sentry stand.

"......" Zhang Gou did not oppose Chen Yan's tactics, and asked him to arrange it, but he was a little lamented by the simplicity of the Jianshan outpost.

The embarrassment of luxury families can also be seen from here. After ten years of war in Eastern Fujian, although Ba Fujian can maintain an undefeated situation, it is already weak inside. After the luxury family occupied eastern Zhejiang, the resources plundered from eastern and southern Zhejiang were mainly used to support the eastern and western Zhejiang fronts, and the hinterland of Jin'an did not get much opportunity to recuperate.

Chen Yan led the guards to quickly knock down the sentry post.

Although most of the guards at the sentry post were miscellaneous soldiers, they braved arrows and stones to attack, and casualties could not be avoided.

Organize people to send the wounded soldiers to the ship, Chen Yan led the main force of the soldiers to the north to attack Zhangwan Town in the north, Zhang Gou led a sentry to guard Jianshan, he climbed the commanding heights of the Jianjiang Peninsula sentry platform, the air was filled with the smell of burning grass and trees.

Zhang Gou looked at the surrounding terrain and took Sanshawan into his eyes more intuitively than from the map, and he could better understand why the adults personally set the focus of this southern attack on Sanshawan. They even did not hesitate to invest troops in the north and south to attack Pingtan Island and Dong'an Island last night to distract the attention of the luxury family.

The goods plundered by the East China Sea Kou from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jianghuai were once dumped in Sansha Bay, and the Haikou spent a lot of money in Sansha Bay; In the later period, many pirate leaders also handed over their troops and bought land and built houses in Sansha Bay, which caused the abnormal prosperity of the towns and ports along the coast of Sansha Bay.

It is also because the pirates dumped the plundered goods in Sansha Bay, which are extremely cheap, and the indulgent and hedonistic life of the pirates also brings great business opportunities. However, almost all of these trade and business opportunities are monopolized by the eight families, and Sanshawan also gathers many industries of the eight families.

The Haikou who washed their hands and settled in the towns and ports of Sanshawan are almost the strongest group of people in eastern Fujian who have the strongest awareness of maritime trade.

After the Jingping of the East China Sea Kou forces, the entire eastern Fujian coast, except for the maritime trade monopolized by the Governor's Office of Zhejiang and Fujian, almost all other sea ships connected with Haidong and Nanyang regions were sent from Sansha Bay.

A considerable part of the potential for the development of maritime power in Eastern Fujian, such as shipyards, was directly controlled by the luxury family, and was concentrated around Jin'an City in the mouth of the Min River; However, the potential of the non-governmental sector to develop maritime power is mainly concentrated in Sansha Bay.

Like Huaidong, the Guanyintan Shipyard, which seems to be in the hands of the Huaidong Military Division, directly represents the potential of Huaidong to develop maritime power. However, Huaidong actually attached more importance to the role of the southward migration of maritime power groups in promoting the development of maritime power, and actively allowed the Zhou and Sun clans to enter the inner circle of Huaidong forces.

Obviously, the luxury family has not been deeply aware of this, let alone take the initiative to guide the development of Sansha Bay. The surrounding defenses were also more concentrated in the inner lines of Luoyuan, Jiaocheng and other cities, and there was almost no decent defense on the periphery of Sanshawan except for scattered private soldiers.

Since the attack at the mouth of the Minjiang River yesterday afternoon, the luxury family has not realized that Sanshawan is the focus of Huaidong's southern attack.

Huaidong's southern attack had a clear goal and a detailed plan, and there was no extravagant hope of breaking through from the mouth of the Min River to attack Jin'an City, and there was no plan to break the city, but it was necessary to cripple Sanshawan at all costs.

When he was in Chongzhou, he formulated a detailed battle plan for Sanshawan, and perhaps the topographic map of the coastal area of eastern Fujian in Huaidong's hand was more detailed than that in the hands of the Zhejiang-Fujian rebels. In addition to the industries of the Fujian family in the towns and ports of Sanshawan, those former Donghai Kou leaders who settled in Sanshawan and their properties will also be the key targets of this southern attack.

After occupying the Jianshan outpost, the landed soldiers pinched the whole mountain from Xiapu into the Dongchong Peninsula on the northern line, and Han Caizhi first concentrated his forces to attack Zhangwan, Shajiang, Sandu and other towns and ports between Jianshan and Dongchong. After nightfall, after the southern line retreated to Jianshan, they attacked the two towns of Feiluan and Kengyuan on the Jiandong Peninsula, and the northern line retreated from the whole mountain into the Dongchong Peninsula and attacked the two towns of Xiahu and Dongchong......

On the shores of Sansha Bay, the flames of the sky continue to burn all night.

Wars have always been bloody and cruel, in fact, for the residents along the coast of Sanshawan, the Huaidong Army is undoubtedly the invading enemy army, and a large number of people are fiercely resisting under the organization of the clan leader.

If there is resistance, it will be killed, and the brutal scorched earth policy must be resolutely implemented. In the end, there is no time to distinguish which are the planned targets and which are likely to be innocent civilians. As long as it is a slightly decent house, as long as any general has plenty of troops in his hands, he will send someone to fight.

The role of the military commander is more to maintain basic military discipline, prevent adultery and indiscriminate killings, and ensure that the generals do not attack unarmed civilians with impunity, and at the same time avoid overly scattered attacks.

It wasn't until early in the morning that there was a large group of foot soldiers coming to Jin'an City back to Jin'an, and Zhang Gou sent someone to order the generals who landed along the coast to gather along the coast and prepare to retreat; All the seized materials that could not be transported in time were left to the poor in Sanshawan for their own use.

When the reinforcements of Jin'an City were still four or five miles away from Jianshan, Zhang Goucai led the last guards to guard the Jianshan outpost and retreated to the sea.