Liu Tong heard the call of the airship, and looked around to find out who was talking, but he didn't see anyone talking. Seeing that Sun Zhou continued to speak loudly to the thing in his hand, he became more and more strange.

Although the other party behaved strangely, Liu Tong dared to go up and ask, so he could only continue to lie on the bow of the boat, carefully looking around.

The sailboat continued to move forward in the narrow river, and the shouts of the officers and men on the airship sounded again from the microphone: "The target has appeared, the enemy's position is in the direction of the flotilla at one o'clock, and a total of more than 400 enemies are lying in ambush in the reeds on both sides of the river, and they are currently about 500 meters away from the flotilla. We're about to bomb up, everyone, stay safe, and slow down the fleet...... Decelerate...... Beware of accidental injury ......"

Sun Zhou put down the microphone, turned around and shouted behind him, "Slow down...... The airship detachment is going to bomb ......"

As the order was given, several sailing ships and steam-deck barges began to slow down, and the speed of the ships was reduced to less than three knots. Liu Tong found that the people on the boat were looking up at the sky.

"I see it...... Over there...... Right there......"

Suddenly, a member of the Far Eastern Army excitedly pointed his finger at the sky and shouted. Everyone looked in the direction of his finger and cheered excitedly.

Liu Tong also stood up, looked up at the sky with his hands on his hands, and saw that something of the same color as the sky appeared in the sky, getting bigger and bigger.

It only took a moment for his true face to be revealed, and Liu Tong recognized this thing. He had seen this behemoth on the river surface of Wuchang Mansion, but he didn't expect this thing to really come down from the sky. Could it be that the people of the Far East are really immortals who came down from the Heavenly Palace?

Hundreds of meters ahead, in the reeds on both sides of a river, hundreds of nearby water thieves are lurking. In fact, as soon as the fleet of the Far Eastern Army entered Heshuipu, it was discovered by the secret outpost of the thieves.

The thieves in He Shuipu suddenly became nervous, thinking that the government had sent someone to suppress it again. Heshuipu is a wetland environment with a radius of dozens of miles, the water network is dense, and there are dense reeds everywhere, if it is not for the thieves who have been here for many years, as long as they want to go in and come out again, it will be difficult.

So a few gangs of thieves occupied a small island in the depths of Heshuipu, and they have been living in it for more than a hundred years. The officers and soldiers have sent sailors to clean up several times, but each time the thieves here have taken advantage of the complicated environment to let the thieves return, and there have even been two times when the officers and navy divisions have been wiped out here.

This also makes the previous officials of Wuchang Mansion unwilling to provoke He Shuipu, anyway, it is a gang of water thieves, and it is not a rebel who pulls the flag to rebel, as long as the thieves here are not excessive, everyone will turn a blind eye.

The inspection department, salt inspection department and other yamen in Wuchang Mansion and other places also colluded with the thieves in Heshuipu, making Heshuipu the largest gathering point and place for selling stolen goods in Wuchang Mansion.

The hundreds of thieves in Heshuipu were not afraid of the Far Eastern Army that attacked rashly. No matter how strong the soldier is, as long as he enters this reed, it will be difficult to get out.

As soon as several ships of the Far Eastern Army entered Heshuipu, hundreds of thieves were ambushed in a place with extremely complicated terrain in small boats, holding bows, crossbows, three-eyed guns, and bird guns, and carrying Franky and various big guns, waiting for the arrival of the Far East Army's fleet.

The tactics of this gang of thieves are very simple, that is, relying on the complex environment here, using the cover of reeds on both sides of the river to launch a surprise attack, the sneak attack fleet in the narrow river can not escape, hundreds of fierce thieves take advantage of the chaos to kill from both sides, no matter how strong the officers and soldiers are in chaos.

Even if the sneak attack fails, it doesn't matter, the water thieves can scatter in an instant with a small boat, drill into the vast reeds, take advantage of the complex environment here to easily escape, and then regroup in the designated area, and look for opportunities to sneak attack again, even if the strong sailor enters He Shuipu, there is no way to take these thieves.

The leader who led the water thieves to participate in the sneak attack today was a middle-aged man named Hong Jiu. This guy has been in Heshuipu all his life, and he has committed serious crimes in Wuchang Mansion countless times, which can be said to be like murder, and the whole Huguang and Jiangxi have posted notices to reward him.

Hong Jiu's eyes stared at the distance, and his ears were pricked up to listen carefully. The roar of the engines of the Far Eastern Army fleet came from a distance, which also made the thieves here feel puzzled.

"Boss, those ships seem to be getting slower and slower, don't they smell something?" A water thief came out of the reeds next to him and ran to Hong Jiu's side and whispered.

Hong Jiuyi glared and scolded angrily: "Let your mother's fart, there is still more than a mile away, what can you smell." They're all going back and waiting, and listen to my orders......"

"Buzz...... Buzz ......"

At this time, there was a buzzing sound, Hong Jiu's eyes froze, and he kicked at a water thief next to him, and then scolded angrily: "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you go and see ......"

After a while, several water thieves stumbled back, gathered around Hong Jiu, and shouted loudly: "Master, I haven't seen any ships coming, those boats are still far away." ”

Hong Jiu pushed away a few water thieves, stood up with a "whew", and looked at several boats in the distance through the reeds, with a puzzled look on his face.

The other thieves were also a little panicked, they were all old water thieves who had been mixed in the reeds of Heshuipu for many years, but it was the first time they had encountered such an evil thing.

Even at this time, none of the water thieves looked at the sky. After all, there is nothing else in the sky in this era except birds, and they rarely think about it. And the dense reeds, which were more than a man tall, also obscured

Hong Jiu suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart, all these years he had been doing businessless with his head tied to his trouser belt, of course, he was extremely sensitive to danger, he suddenly shouted: "Brothers, quickly withdraw ......"

The water thieves who were ambushed in the reeds on both sides of the river were all stunned when they heard Hong Jiu's shout. But they all had no bottom in their hearts, and they picked up the guys in their hands and prepared to evacuate.

But before they could get up, several huge spherical objects suddenly fell from the sky, smashed into the reeds on both sides of the river where the water thieves were ambushed, and then cracked one after another, instantly popping out countless iron balls in all directions.

"Boom...... Boom ......"

The iron balls that flew everywhere were violent, countless hot steel balls were scattered in all directions, and the dense reeds were cut off one after another as if they wanted to cut wheat, and the water thieves were also blown to pieces.

Several steel balls collapsed on Hong Jiu's body, deeply embedded in his body, making him lose his ability to move in an instant. He fell to the ground covered in blood, struggling to get up, but his legs were already unconscious, and he tried for a long time without success. (To be continued.) )