The arrival of three Zhenhai destroyers also scared the Japanese pirates.

The leader of the Japanese pirates, Ye Ma, looked at three strange ships without masts, rushed over in black smoke. His face was confused and he couldn't figure out what it was.

Is this a ship too?

Why can it still be activated without a mast or sail?

"Rise the anchor and raise the sail."

Ye Ma reached out and pulled out a long sword, pointing in the direction of the three Zhenhai destroyers, "Rise the battle flag and prepare for the battle!"

These three strange ships all had sun and moon flags, which were obviously the ships of the Ming army.

Although there is no mast or sail, it is indeed a bit strange, but if only three ships want to fight me? There are hundreds of ships of all sizes here!

Ye Ma, a Japanese pirate who had been on the sea for many years, was full of confidence in winning the naval battle.

Even if Huating Hou Luli comes in person, I can throw him into the sea to feed the turtle.

...

Lu Li is really here!

Standing on the bridge of the destroyer, Lu Li raised his telescope and looked at the messy Japanese pirate fleet ahead.

This Japanese pirate fleet had a very complex ship composition. There were lucky ships commonly used by the Ming Dynasty Maritime Merchants, the Small No. 1 treasure ship, the Japanese turtle ship, and the Western Franchiser armed merchant ship.

Judging from the equipment on these ships, only three Franco-armed merchant ships were equipped with artillery, and the other ships were ships of parachute combat nature. According to Lu Li's classification, they all belonged to transport ships.

Although there are many ships in the Japanese pirate fleet, hundreds of large and small,... they are all targets in front of the three destroyers.

Lu Li turned his head and looked at the Songjiang Navy General next to him, and nodded slightly, "Zhang Wei, you will be the one who will command the specific battle. I will wipe out this Japanese pirates for me."

"yes!"

The navy general Zhang Wei, dressed in blue military uniform, quickly saluted Lu Li.

"Left full rudder! Go forward at full speed!"

With a command, black smoke erupted from the chimneys of the three warships. The steam engine drove the propeller, bursting out powerful driving force, breaking through the waves, and moving forward rapidly.

On the sea, three Zhenhai destroyers lined up in a battle line, passing by the Japanese pirate fleet, forming a "T" formation with the Japanese pirate fleet.

"Open fire!"

After seizing the T-shaped position, three destroyers arranged in battle lines aimed at the first battleship led by the Japanese pirate fleet to concentrate on fire.

"Boom!"

A series of flames exploded on the side of the destroyer's ship.

For a moment, the sound of cannons shook the sky!

The three warships fired their guns almost at the same time, and dense shells blasted down at the Japanese pirate fleet.

The accuracy of naval battle artillery is naturally far from hitting fixed targets on land.

During this round of volley, many shells were missed, and only huge water columns were blown out near the Japanese pirate ships.

However...just hit one shell!

"Boom!"

With a violent explosion, a shell hit the first ship of the Japanese pirate fleet. The shells pierced the boards and exploded in the cabin.

The flames tumbling up, and the broken boat boards splashed around.

With just one shot, the Franco-armed merchant ship that the Japanese pirates robbed by the Japanese pirates exploded a huge hole in the middle.

Then... the second round of volley shots came again.

This time, the hit rate was much higher. Four shells hit the armed merchant ship, shattering the Franco-armed merchant ship on the spot.

Such fierce firepower scared everyone in the Japanese pirate fleet.

Qi Jiguang and others, who were standing on the shore watching the naval battle, were also full of horror.

There are such a powerful warships under Huating Hou’s command?

Who can stop such firepower?

At this moment, Qi Jiguang had already had a very profound understanding of Lu Li's "do not understand military tactics".

With such powerful firepower, what kind of military strategy is needed? It's just a hammer smashing an egg, pushing and crushing it all the way, and it's irresistible.

The battle situation was exactly the same as what Qi Jiguang expected, and it was completely a horizontal push and crushing.

After two rounds of volleys exploded the first ship of the Japanese pirate fleet, the three destroyers directly penetrated into the flanks of the Japanese pirate fleet, heading towards each other in parallel, and blasted all the way toward the flanks of the Japanese pirate fleet.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The dense artillery fire continued to erupt, sweeping all the way from the front of the Japanese pirate fleet. In less than ten minutes, more than a dozen ships in the front of the Japanese pirate fleet were all blown into pieces.

The Japanese pirates had no power to fight back.

In the entire Japanese pirate fleet, only three Franco-armed merchant ships were equipped with Franco-cannons.

However... the Franco-child cannons of this era, in terms of range, rate of fire and power, are completely incomparable to the rear-mounted rifled cannons equipped by Zhenhai destroyers.

The artillery technology, which is three hundred years ahead of the world, is completely a dimensional reduction strike for the Japanese pirate fleet.

The Fran cannon that fires solid bullets, even if it is a large caliber heavy cannon, will not have a range of more than 500 meters.

However, the effective range of the rear-mounted rifled gun installed on Zhenhai-class destroyers is at least more than two thousand meters.

In this way, it becomes "I can beat you, but you can't beat me." The Japanese pirate fleet could only be beaten passively.

What's more, in the Japanese pirate fleet, most ships fight on the battlefield and do not have long-range attack capabilities at all.

So... after the destroyer exploded more than ten ships, the Japanese pirate fleet collapsed.

The ships turned one after another, disbanded their formations, and fled in a panic.

"Want to run?"

Seeing that the Japanese pirate fleet had dispersed and fled in various ways, the navy general Zhang Wei quickly ordered, "Disassemble the formation and pursue it freely!"

The three destroyers lined up in battle quickly disbanded their formations and chased them towards the direction where the Japanese pirate ships fled.

The chimney was filled with black smoke, and the steam engine exploded with powerful power, driving the warships to speed up on the sea.

Before the Japanese pirates' sailing ship even increased their speed, they were caught up by the destroyer and beaten up.

With the roar of cannons, Japanese pirate ships were sunk and exploded.

What made the Japanese pirates even more desperate was that a larger fleet came on the distant sea.

More than twenty small treasure ships were hung with sails, blocking the sea outside.

This is helpless!

I can't beat you, and I can't run away. The only thing I can do is... surrender!

Afterwards, about forty ships of all sizes and sizes remaining in the Japanese pirate fleet hung white flags and surrendered to Lu Li.

Lu Li was actually not interested in Japanese pirate captives, and he didn't want to capture any prisoners. But... these Japanese pirate ships are pretty good!

Several of the large ships can also enrich Lu Li's transport fleet. As for those small ships, whether they are given to Qi Jiguang or taken back to fish for fishers, they can be useful.

"Submit!"

Lu Li immediately ordered the messenger to raise the banner and start accepting the surrender of Japanese pirates.

He gathered up the captive ships and salvaged the Japanese pirates who had not yet died after falling into the water. After finishing his work, Lu Li ordered the fleet to dock, disarm all the prisoners and escort them ashore.

"Greetings to the Marquis!"

When Lu Li landed ashore, Qi Jiguang brought his generals to greet Lu Li.

"Why should Yuan Jing be too polite? Please get up quickly." (Qi Jiguang, whose name is Yuan Jing)

Lu Li reached out and helped Qi Jiguang up and said with a smile: "This great victory is also Yuan Jing's contribution."

Afterwards, Lu Li set up a camp in Linhai County, counted and seized Japanese pirates, and reported victory.

In this battle, the Japanese pirate Ye Ma tribe that plundered Zhejiang Province, and even the Japanese pirate leader Ye Ma turned into a corpse.

From then on, the Japanese pirates who plundered the coast of the Ming Dynasty and wiped out another group.

So far, only the Wang Zhi tribe, the Xu Hai tribe and the Xin Wuro tribe, and three large-scale Japanese pirate groups remain.

"Send orders to interrogate prisoners! Examine the overseas stations of Japanese pirates."

It is not enough to eliminate the Japanese pirates' vital strength. It is also necessary to completely destroy the Japanese pirates' base and completely eradicate future troubles.

In Luli's plan, Wanwan, Ryukyu, Qiongzhou, Luzon, Malacca, Jeju Island in the north, and even the Hokkaido Hokkien Kingdom should all become the naval bases of the Ming Dynasty.

At present, first clean up the Japanese pirates' stationed on coastal islands and reefs, completely eliminate the Japanese pirates, and then use Japanese pirate prisoners to build a naval base!

When Luli camped in Linhai County, counted and seized prisoners, the good news was also delivered to the court in the capital at an accelerated speed of 800 miles.
To be continued...