Li Jinglong and Xie Jin are busy working on it, and the pirates below are not stupid.

Although the other party kept chasing them, the flight speed of this airship was quite slow.

These small boats are quite nimble, and after a while they scatter along the sea, and it is too late to bomb them up again.

"General, what are we going to do next?"

Li Jinglong immediately made a decision, and immediately asked the soldiers on the hanging basket to wave the flag of the airship on the opposite side.

Tell them that their airship will escort them directly above Zheng He.

And called his junior brother Xie Jin, and continued to track down the pirates who tried to get close to the Zhenghe ship.

Xie Jin's speed is not covered, he is not greedy for merit, but goes around all Zheng He's team in a big circle.

He didn't care if the enemy's ship fled back or in any other direction.

As soon as someone tried to get around in this direction, he gave them a grenade.

The water thieves on those small boats, seeing that they couldn't take advantage of themselves by beating them like this, relied on their good water nature, and they all jumped out of the boat one after another.

The little soldiers next to Li Jinglong asked.

"General, these guys, do you think you can't escape death and jump into the sea by yourself?"

Li Jinglong glanced at the idiot soldier and said.

"Stupid, these are actually the water ghosts they feed, seeing that it is so obvious to engage in sabotage, they can't compete with us, so they came up with this method, they want to go underwater to scuttle the boat, and once they lose the boat, they will all die in the belly of the fish."

At this time, Li Jinglong followed Lu Ning, studied hard and mastered a lot of military knowledge, and had already grown into a real god of war.

"What a vicious plan."

Not only did the people around Li Jinglong think so, but even Zheng He frowned.

"Zheng Qianfeng, the enemy has changed his playing style, what should we do?"

Zheng He thought for a moment and replied.

"These people are still some way away from us, and when they have time, they will lay trawls in the water, and if these guys dare to lead us under the boat, they will be our big fish for free."

This kind of trawl was once used by Wang Jun, a famous general in the Western Jin Dynasty.

In order to stop the unification of the Western Jin Dynasty, Sun Hao drove a lot of wooden stakes in the Yangtze River and installed iron cables.

Wang Jin arranged this kind of trawl under the bottom of the boat, hooked those wooden stakes, pulled them out, and then the iron locks were not attached, and they naturally sank to the bottom of the river.

This method is very useful even now, and all the ships he led have lowered their trawls, ready to deal with the water spirits who have come to destroy the ships.

Besides, Li Jinglong, who was in the sky, saw Zheng He put down the fishing net on the boat in a hurry, and nodded secretly in his heart.

No wonder the master said that this person is a general's talent, and when I saw it today, he really lived up to his reputation, and in time he would definitely become the leader of my Ming Navy.

At this moment, the soldiers in the hanging basket suddenly noticed that a human head appeared on the sea level from time to time.

"General, what are those people doing?"

Li Jinglong smiled.

"These people are afraid of our aerial bombs, and try to approach the sea ships by swimming, although they are called water ghosts, they only hold their breath a little longer than others, and it is impossible not to come out to breathe fresh air."

Some of the soldiers suddenly said with great regret.

"If we knew this, we would have brought more stones in our hanging baskets, and when we saw these bastards coming up, we would smash them."

Li Jinglong laughed and said.

"I can't see it, you kid has a lot of ideas."

They didn't have rocks here, but they did have a lot of grenades and even a lot of crossbow arrows.

"The brethren are in good spirits and are in good spirits, and they are playing games together."

The soldiers in the hanging basket were very puzzled.

"The big war is imminent, and the general still has the leisure to play the game, I don't know what game it is?"

Li Jinglong said meaninglessly: "Smash the gopher!" ”

This term was learned from his master Lu Ning, and he didn't know what it meant.

"Where did the gophers come from in the water?"

Li Jinglong smiled and replied immediately.

"You look at General Ben, and you all learn a little."

At this moment, directly below them, sure enough, a water ghost came out to breathe.

Li Jinglong picked up the strong crossbow he was wearing, and shot down with an arrow.

The water ghost who was latent in the water turned into a floating corpse on the water at the same time.

"Learn from General Ben, smash whichever one comes up, this is smashing the gopher."

The flag here hit Xie Jin's side, but it hurt those water ghosts who tried to dive in vain, no matter who wanted to take the lead, they were nailed to the head.

These guys don't have ships, and they don't want to be dead for nothing.

I don't know who lifted the white turban that covered his head and waved it to the sky.

"Grandfathers of the gods, stop fighting, we surrender!"

At this time, there were still about sixty water ghosts left, and seeing that they couldn't do anything, they obediently surrendered.

Zheng He knew the truth of the Zhenhai Heavenly King, and he did not kill them all, so he ordered people to aim their bows and arrows at them, and then connected these people to the big ship one by one.

These water ghosts are all old guides here, and under their guidance, they quickly find the hidden clothes and reefs lurking in the water.

As for those dark piles, they sent these water ghosts down and pulled them up in turn on the net.

As for those reefs, Zheng He thought of a simpler method, directly threw the mines, and blasted those reefs in a short time, although they were not completely destroyed, but they did not prevent large sea ships from passing through.

Lu Ning was overjoyed and appointed him as the chief of staff of the Ming fleet, demoting the original strategists to the clerk who copied the documents.

Prepare to take out the two small islands of Ghost Gate and Xianhu where the pirates are entrenched in one go, and then take the Zhenhai Islands, the old nest of the king of Zhenhai.

Finally replenish fresh water there and move on.