Sansha Bay is located between the three counties of Xiapu, Jiaocheng and Luoyuan. It is a bay with a small mouth and a large belly. It surrounds the Jianjiang Peninsula and the Dongchong Peninsula. The water area in the bay is dozens of miles in radius, and the only Dongchong outlet is only two meters away.
A thousand steps wide.
On the coast of East Fujian where typhoons are raging, Sansha Bay can be said to be the most excellent port with lake and sea topography. It belongs to Jiaocheng, Luoyuan, Xiapu and other counties. It is known as the "throat of five cities and the gateway of entry and exit".
Zhang Gou stood on the deck of the stern cabin, looking at Dongchong Haikou, known as the throat of Wuyi, with numerous cliffs and rocks and a dangerous situation.
Even at the beginning of the ten-year war in East Fujian, the She family had not yet consciously controlled the forces of the East China Sea bandits, but they were still aware of the diversion and destructive effects of the East China Sea bandits' raids on the coast, which had caused damage to the two Zhejiang and Jianghuai areas, so they continued to allow Sansha Bay to become a
A safe haven and supply place for the East China Sea pirate forces.
After the She family abandoned the land and took to the sea, and directly penetrated into the East China Sea bandit forces, Sansha Bay developed abnormally. It reached its peak two years ago, with numerous towns and ports along the coast and countless wealthy and wealthy gentry.
After that, most of the East China Sea pirate forces were incorporated into the East Zhejiang Navy, and Sansha Bay became slightly deserted.
Even so, Sansha Bay is still the most important seaport along the coast of eastern Fujian. There are many towns and ports along the inner bay. There are three private boat yards alone. Most ships from eastern Fujian to Kagoshima, Haidong, depart from here.
Sansha Bay is so important that it is naturally the key target to be attacked by the southern attack fleet.
Zhang Gou originally thought that the defense of Sansha Bay would be stronger. In fact, the limited naval combat power in eastern Fujian was concentrated on Nantai Island at the mouth of the Minjiang River. The defense of Sansha Bay was mainly based on private armed guards.
The navy of Nantai Island did not dare to come out from the mouth of the Minjiang River to fight, and the maritime defense at Sansha Bay was somewhat inadequate.
The advance fleet broke through the defense line at Dongchongkou at dawn and rushed into the bay. The remaining enemies in the bay were cleared before noon. A stick of black smoke rose into the sky, and it was unknown how many ships in the bay were set on fire.
The main force of the southern attack fleet was stationed outside Dongchongkou, with the bows facing the outside, to guard against the East Fujian navy that might come to aid from southern Taiwan.
"The southern line needs to capture Jianshan in the shortest time, establish a beacon tower, blockade the Jianjiang Peninsula, and intercept reinforcements from the direction of Luoyuan and Jiaocheng; the northern line needs to seize the entire mountain, block the road between Xiapu and Dongchong Peninsula, and then
Then attack Xiahu and charge eastward to the two towns. Don't mess up the order..." Zhao Qingshan is the commander of the troops and horses in the southern attack, and the infantry camp is led by Han Caizhi, but he is still controlled by Zhao Qingshan.
After the warships clear out the remaining enemies in the bay, the infantry battalion can land and fight anywhere on the nearly 200-mile inner bay coastline of Sansha Bay. However, several strategic points still need to be occupied by heavy troops. After controlling these points, even if Jin'an City
Reinforcements are coming from inside, and the infantry can still retreat calmly after landing.
"Does Zhang Canjun have anything to add?" Zhao Qingshan gave instructions on the tactical arrangements for the infantry camp after landing, 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 raiding fleet.
"Staying here won't help much, let me take people to Jianshan!" Zhang Gou said.
A beacon tower will be established in Jianshan, and scouts will be sent out to monitor the situation between Jin'an City, Luoyuan and Jiaocheng. The infantry scattered ashore in Sansha Bay will advance or retreat based on effective reconnaissance in the direction of Jianshan, which is a heavy responsibility.
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If reinforcements from the direction of Jin'an City are caught off guard, it will be difficult for the landing infantry to control casualties.
Zhao Qingshan wanted to stay in Dongchongkou to command the water camp, and Han Caizhi wanted to unified command the infantry camp to land. Zhang Gou then volunteered to attack Jianshan...
Zhao Qingshan nodded and agreed to Zhang Gou's request to fight. The infantrymen who accompanied the fleet south this time were only three battalions. Although they wanted to attack eight towns along the Sansha Bay at the same time, Zhao Qingshan still sent Chen Zhi to lead a battalion of armored soldiers to follow Zhang Gou.
Go ahead and wait until Jianshan is captured, Chen Zhi can lead his troops to move along the two lines of Jianshan.
The Governor-General of Zhejiang and Fujian set up a sentry post in Jianshan, which was one of only two beacon posts set up by the Governor-General of Zhejiang and Fujian along the coast of Sansha Bay. Thirty beacon soldiers were stationed there.
The landing encountered almost no resistance. The defense of the coastal towns and ports was mainly composed of private soldiers. A small number of Zhejiang and Fujian rebels were concentrated in the three cities of Xiapu, Jiaocheng and Luoyuan.
The landing encountered almost no resistance, and the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels with limited forces around them were unable to establish any effective defense against beach grabbing on the nearly two hundred miles of coastline.
The main force of the armored soldiers who landed were stationed at the foot of the mountain to guard against reinforcements from Zhejiang and Fujian on both sides. Zhang Gou and Chen Zhi personally led a group of armored soldiers from the front, braved the enemy's arrows, and forcibly climbed up Jianshan Mountain, which was only more than 20 feet high.
Seal the enemy soldiers in the sentry post.
The sentry post was built based on the topography of Jianshan Mountain. It is not very high, less than two feet, and about ten feet high. It does not even have the simplest war shed. There is only a thatched awning on the top to protect the beacon soldiers guarding the tower from wind and rain.
From the sentinel who dived ashore first, we learned that, except for more than 30 civilian warriors, no more reinforcements had entered the Jianshan outpost before. Seven or eight people were killed during the climb, and there were less than 60 guards in the outpost.
They are all miscellaneous soldiers.
Chen Zhi liked to be straightforward. Besides, they had to capture this outpost first so that Han Caizhi could command more infantry to land ashore and attack the towns along Sansha Bay. Time was tight.
"Set the awning on the outpost on fire, use crossbows to suppress the guards, and then send three teams of armored soldiers to attack from three sides!" Chen Zhi squatted behind the big shield and discussed with Zhang Gou how to attack the outpost.
"..." Zhang Gou did not object to Chen Zhi's tactics and let him make arrangements. Instead, he felt a little sad about the simplicity of the Jianshan sentry post.
From here we can also see the embarrassment of the She family. After ten years of war in East Fujian, although Ba Min was able to maintain an undefeated situation, it was already weak inside. After the She family occupied eastern Zhejiang, they plundered resources from eastern Zhejiang and southern Zhejiang.
, mainly used to support the eastern Zhejiang and western Zhejiang fronts, and the hinterland of Jin'an did not get much opportunity to recuperate.
Chen Zhi led his soldiers to knock down the sentry post quickly.
Although most of the people guarding the sentry post were miscellaneous soldiers, they braved arrows and stones to attack, and casualties were unavoidable.
Organizing men to put the wounded soldiers on board, Chen Zhi led the main force of armored soldiers to attack Zhangwan Town in the north. Zhang Gou led a sentry of armored soldiers to guard Jianshan. He climbed to the commanding heights of Jianjiang Peninsula and the air was filled with
It smells like burning vegetation.
Zhang Gou looked at the surrounding terrain and saw Sansha Bay more intuitively than from the map, and he could better understand why the Lord personally focused the southern attack on Sansha Bay. They even did not hesitate to invest troops in the north and south last night.
Attack Pingtan Island and Dong'an Island to distract the She family's attention.
The goods plundered by the East China Sea pirates from Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Jianghuai were once dumped in large quantities in Sansha Bay. The pirates sold a thousand pieces of gold in Sansha Bay. Later, many pirate leaders surrendered their troops and bought land and built houses in Sansha Bay.
Settlement, all these have caused the abnormal prosperity of the towns and ports along Sansha Bay.
Also because the pirates dumped the plundered goods in Sansha Bay, which were extremely cheap, and the pirates' indulgent and hedonistic life also brought great business opportunities. However, these trade and business opportunities were almost monopolized by the eight surname families, and Sansha
Bay also gathers many properties belonging to the eight surnamed families.
The pirates who settled in the towns and ports of Sanshawan were almost the most aware of maritime trade in the eastern Fujian region.
After the pirate forces in the East China Sea were pacified, along the entire eastern Fujian coast, except for the maritime trade monopolized by the Zhejiang and Fujian governorates, almost all other sea-going ships that connected with the Haidong and Nanyang regions departed from Sansha Bay.
A considerable part of East Fujian's potential to develop maritime power, such as shipbuilding yards, etc., is directly controlled by the She family, and is concentrated around Jin'an City inside the Minjiang River Estuary; while the potential for the private sector to develop maritime power is mainly concentrated in Sansha.
Bay.
Like Huaidong, it seems that the Guanyin Beach Shipyard controlled by the Huaidong Military Division more directly represents Huaidong's potential to develop maritime power. However, Huaidong actually attaches more importance to the promotion of the development of maritime power by moving maritime business power groups southward.
, actively let the Zhou and Sun clans enter the core circle of Huaidong forces.
Obviously, the She family has not yet fully realized this, let alone actively guided the development of Sansha Bay. The surrounding defenses are also more concentrated in Luoyuan, Jiaocheng and other cities further inside, and outside Sansha Bay.
Apart from scattered private soldiers, there is almost no decent defense.
Ever since the attack on the mouth of the Minjiang River yesterday afternoon, the She family has not realized that Sansha Bay is the focus of the southward attack on Huaidong.
Huaidong's southern attack this time had a clear goal and detailed plan. There was no extravagant hope of breaking through from the mouth of the Minjiang River to harass Jin'an City, and there was no plan to destroy the city, but it wanted to cripple Sansha Bay at all costs.
A detailed Sansha Bay battle plan was formulated when he was in Chongzhou. Perhaps the topographic map of eastern Fujian in Huaidong's hands is more detailed than that in the hands of the Zhejiang and Fujian rebels. In addition to the properties of the Fujian family in the towns and ports of Sansha Bay
In addition to being marked, the former East China Sea bandit leaders and their properties who settled in Sansha Bay will also be the key targets of this southward attack.
After occupying the Jianshan sentry post, the disembarked soldiers then seized the entire mountain from Xiapu into the Dongchong Peninsula on the northern line. Han Caizhi first concentrated his forces to attack Zhangwan, Shajiang, Sandu and other towns between Jianshan and Dongchong.
Bu. After nightfall, the armored soldiers on the southern line retreated to Jianshan Mountain and attacked the two towns of Feiluan and Kengyuan on the Jiandong Peninsula. The armored soldiers on the northern line retreated from Quanshan into the Dongchong Peninsula and attacked the two towns of Xiahu and Dongchong.
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Along the coast of Sansha Bay, fires raged all night long.
War has always been bloody and cruel. In fact, for the residents along the Sansha Bay, the Huaidong Army was undoubtedly an invading enemy force. A large number of brave people fought fiercely under the organization of clan leaders.
Anyone who resists will be killed, and the cruel scorched earth policy must be resolutely implemented. In the end, there is no time to distinguish which are the planned attack targets and which may be innocent civilians with innocent wealth. As long as they are slightly decent
As long as any general has sufficient troops in his house, he will send people to fight.
The role of the military commander is more to maintain basic military discipline, prevent rape/fornication and indiscriminate killing, ensure that generals will not attack unarmed civilians unscrupulously, and prevent attacks from being too scattered.
It was not until morning that a sentinel came back to report that a large group of infantry was coming from Jin'an City. Zhang Gou, as a deputy general who joined the army, sent someone to order the generals who had landed to collect along the coast and prepare to retreat; all those who could not be transported away in time
The materials seized were left to the poor in Sanshawan to take for themselves.
When Jin'an City's reinforcements were still four or five miles away from Jianshan, Zhang Goucai led the last armored soldiers guarding Jianshan's sentry post to retreat to the sea.