On the shore of Poyang Lake, which is overgrown with reeds, Lu Ning made many large Kong Ming lanterns out of bamboo strips.

It was topped up with a bracket next to it, and there was a hanging basket under the bracket with a lot of fuel on it.

Zhu Yu looked puzzled and asked.

"Brother Zi'an, what are you doing here?"

"Your Highness, do you want to take a condescending look above Poyang Lake?"

Zhu Rong's eyes widened and he asked.

"Is this really okay?"

Lu Ning asked him to sit in the same hanging basket as himself, which contained his personal guard Zhao Dawu, as well as his two new ninjas, Keiko and Reiko.

As the fuel inside burned more and more, the temperature in the Kong Ming lantern became higher and higher, and after a while, he actually took the people inside to get up from the ground and fly into the air.

In the gondola, there is a rudder made of Lu Ning's gasoline engine, which way he wants to turn, he will jet in the opposite direction, and he is very flexible in the air.

The hot air balloon flew higher and higher, and now there is no wind on the lake, so it is very easy to grasp the direction.

After a while, several people came to the sky above Poyang Lake.

I saw that among the reeds, there were some small boats drilling around from time to time, and seeing this situation, Zhu Yu suddenly realized.

"No wonder we can't find the place where the water bandits in Poyang Lake are, it turns out that they are all hiding in the reeds, what should we do, do we send a big ship to surround and suppress them?"

Lu Ning smiled, and then patiently explained to the Seventh Prince.

"They don't know how many hidden piles have been buried in the lake, how many iron chains have been installed, if they really want to send a big ship in, they will be unable to move an inch when they encounter these hidden clothes and iron chains, and what is more dangerous is that there are many water ghosts who are familiar with the water in the lake, once they quietly scuttle through our boat, we will not be completely wiped out."

Zhu Yu thought about it carefully and said.

"That's right, what can we do with these bandits? With such a large Poyang Lake as a support, they have food and clothing. Can we still mobilize troops, fence off all the Poyang Lake, and wait for winter to freeze them to death? ”

Among these princes of Zhu Yuanzhang, except for Zhu Biao and Zhu Di, that is, this old seven is more likely.

He has some military experience and is not entirely able to write articles and compose music.

Lu Ning smiled and replied.

"I know that Your Highness is only familiar with military books and war strategies, and he is also very interested in military affairs. What you lack is just some actual combat, today I will ask Your Highness to watch the latest combat method of our Ming Dynasty, called Aerial Flowering. ”

Zhu Yu was stunned for a moment and said.

"What do you mean by a flower in the air?"

At this moment, Zhao Dawu took a standard grenade newly produced by the Daming Arsenal, opened the ring of fire, stopped in the air for three seconds, and then threw it towards the thief ship underground.

At this time, under the command of Lu Ning, the hot air balloon continued to rise.

I heard a loud bang, the grenade exploded in the air, and those small shreds of shrapnel exploded towards the bandits in the reeds like scattered flowers, and in an instant, the screams were overwhelming, and the blood stained Poyang Lake red.

At this moment, the bandits found that they could not hide in the reeds, so they began to row their boats to the lake.

Still looking for the enemy, I found that there was no one on the lake.

At this time, a person who looked like a master said: "Xiaobian, was it just a divine punishment from heaven?" ”

Zhang Xiaobian, the escort general beside him, pointed into the air and said.

"Third Highness, if you look up, it's those strange flying creatures in the air!"

Only then did they see a hot air balloon suspended above the water, circling around the lake.

From that hanging basket, some explosive things were thrown down, and the water spirits that had been scattered all over the lake were driven and gathered by these grenades, and they all gathered on the smooth surface of the lake in the middle of the lake.

The Third Highness still couldn't swallow this breath and asked.

"Now that they have arrived, do you think the second brother in the village will be okay with them?"

Zhang Xiaobian sighed and replied.

"Third Highness, now is not the time to think about this, we must shoot down those things in the air."

As a result, these fishing boats have shot arrows into the air, but now the altitude of those hot air balloons has naturally completely departed from the range of bows and arrows.

The arrows flew into the air and fell, some of them falling into the water, and some of them fell on the bodies of the bandits who were gathering in the middle of the lake.

These guys suffered unjustified disasters at that time, and they were shot by those arrows one by one and cried for their fathers and mothers.

Besides, Zhu Rong on the hanging basket was almost dumbfounded.

"When I heard my father talk about the Battle of Poyang Lake, it was quite thrilling, whether it was the traitor Chen Youliang's people, or our troops were all killed and wounded, I didn't expect that this battle could still be fought like this, the enemy died in large areas, and we had almost zero casualties."

Lu Ning said to Zhu Rong with a smile.

"Your Highness, this is just the beginning, with the deepening of our research and development of weapons, our Ming war will only become smoother and smoother in the future, and sometimes we can even sit at home and send the killing sword thousands of miles away."

Zhu Rong's eyes widened and he asked.

"Are you talking about those sword immortals who take people's heads for thousands of miles? My father said that they were all books that deceived people, and he didn't want me to read them. ”

Lu Ning Zhengse said to him.

"The real Sword Immortal naturally doesn't exist, but at least he provides us with the ability to imagine, and one day, we will be able to create weapons that kill people thousands of miles away."

"And what do you think this weapon should be called?"

"Long-range missiles!"

"Remote trick-or-treating? Is it possible to say that a war is such a serious matter? ”

Lu Ning was completely speechless, but he knew that it was difficult to talk to Da Ming about the advanced weapons that he had developed in the future, so he smiled and said that His Highness might as well wait and see. ”