After the Portuguese merchant ships left, Xiao Hailong led the first squadron to return, and after a round with Qi Jin, he handed over the pirates to Qi Jin's flagship. Qi Jin divided the pirates into custody and interrogated, but suddenly a person spoke Chinese, saying that he was not a pirate, but an ordinary ordinary person of the Ming Dynasty who was forced to join the pirates. Qi Jin felt very puzzled, how could there be coerced Ming Dynasty people among this group of people who seemed to be Japanese pirates, so he sent this person to his study for interrogation.

In Qi Jin's study, the Ming Dynasty man who claimed to be coerced recounted his experience. It turned out that this person was a landed talent, named Wang Tianbao, living in the suburbs of Hangzhou, the original family had some property, able to support him to study, and also practiced some boxing and foot kung fu when he was free, from the age of fifteen began to take the imperial examination, twice in a row, the family suffered a natural disaster, so he decided to abandon the literature and business, after selling some useless things at home, he scraped together three hundred taels of silver and began to smuggle goods to Japan with others, but his luck was really carried to the extreme, the first time he sold back the goods, He encountered pirates at sea, and as a result, he lost all his money and was taken captive to the pirate's base camp. Fortunately, he was favored by the pirate leader with some culture and some knowledge, so he did not kill him, but left him in the pirate gang, and he began his pirate career for nearly three years. He also said that these Japanese pirates were actually employed by some merchants of the Ming Dynasty, and they were all led by the great leader Wang Zhi before, and later Wang Zhi was booby-trapped by the imperial court, and the pirates lost their unified leadership, and after decades of life and death struggle, several small-scale pirate gangs were formed, the largest of which was Li Dan, who was both a pirate and a famous businessman, and even the Portuguese respected him very much. The pirates who occupied this area were expelled by Li Dan from Fujian to Han Bahai, who lost the battle for pirate territory with Li Dan, so he withdrew from Fujian to loot merchants brought from Southeast Asia, specifically targeting merchants who came and went from Japan, and basically left no life after the robbery, Wang Tianbao was able to survive was an accident. He recruited hundreds of wandering Japanese samurai as pirate soldiers, and the looted goods were first gathered in an old nest on the Zhoushan Islands, and then transported to Hangzhou to be stolen.

After Qi Jin inquired about the basic situation of Han Bahai, he decided to take Han Bahai to the East China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty to train his hands, so Qi Jin summoned the captains of the three sub-fleets to his ship to discuss. At present, the captains of the three detachments of the Daming East China Sea Fleet are Xiao Hailong, Chen Nanjiao, and Yu Hualong, all three of whom are Qi Jin's right-hand men, and they have also been trained in the military academy department of the Daming Official School, and they know some Portuguese and dialects in Southeast Asia, and have participated in the war to quell the rebellion in the southwest.

After discussion, the four of them unanimously agreed to deal with the pirates of Han Bahai first, so that the soldiers could experience the cruelty of naval battles, so as not to panic when they encountered the Dutch naval fleet in the future, after all, the soldiers who have not experienced sea battles will inevitably be a little excited and nervous in the first battle, which will cause them to not be able to give full play to their combat effectiveness, and after having a certain amount of combat experience and experience, they will have a greater certainty of fighting with the Dutch fleet after all.

After a five-day voyage, Qi Jin's East China Sea Fleet finally found Han Bahai's pirate base camp, which was a relatively large island in the Zhoushan archipelago. Since Han Bahai occupied this place, he has been operating for more than ten years, and has nearly fifty pirate ships of all kinds, including extremely mobile sampans, armed merchant ships bought from the Dutch and Portuguese, and ten standard English warships, which he quietly purchased from the British in Singapore. He was still dissatisfied with Li Dan's anger in his heart, and the English were also dissatisfied with the Dutch fleet and the Dutch East India Company's monopoly on business here, and by the way, they trained the next thug, so they sold ten warships to Han Bahai at a relatively low price, so that he and Li Dan could have a long time and prepare for the business of entering the Ming Dynasty in the future.

Han Bahai has been waiting for news on the island since he sent Wang Tianbao's pirate team to track and rob the Portuguese merchant ship, this guy is very cunning, he doesn't have absolute trust in anyone, every time he sends a robbery fleet, he will send henchmen to follow behind, this time is no exception, three small clippers purchased from the English army are watching five miles away, they did not participate in the battle mission, the purpose is to observe the process of looting, When they saw that the first detachment of the Ming army's East China Sea had defeated the robbed pirates in a very short time, they immediately returned to their base camp to report back to Han Bahai, so that they returned here a day earlier than Qi Jin's East China Sea Fleet.

After receiving the report of the henchman, Han Bahai was also taken aback, because the distance was too far, and the henchmen could not judge where this fleet belonged, Han Bahai just felt the danger, which was also the intuition of people who had been in war for a long time. Han Bahai didn't dare to be careless, his intuition told him that this fleet would definitely attack him, and he must be ready for battle immediately.

Since the news he received was that there were only nine to ten warships, Han Bahai decided to take advantage of his familiarity with the nearby sea conditions, use ordinary pirate ships to attract that fleet into his warship ambush circle, and then use the superior number of ships to quickly eliminate this threatening sea force, so as not to suffer from it in the future.

Han Bahai thought well, but he didn't expect that the strength of the East China Sea Fleet of the Ming Dynasty was difficult for him to deal with. According to the plan formulated, more than 20 pirate ships went to sea to lure the East China Sea Fleet, and the rest of the pirate ships were ambushed five miles away from the port, and more than 30 cannons purchased from the English were also arranged on the shore of the port.

Qi Jin's East China Sea Fleet, with the first squadron as the vanguard, is carefully looking for the pirate's lair at sea, although Wang Tianbao has described the location of Han Bahai in detail, but it is still difficult for the East China Sea Fleet, which is not familiar with the terrain and sea conditions. At this time, the pirate ship appeared, and after receiving the report from the lookout, Xiao Hailong immediately sent a clipper to inform Qi Jin, and then he led the first fleet to quickly rush to the pirate ship.

Seeing the first detachment of the East China Sea Fleet five miles away rushing towards them, the pirate ship quickly wanted to retreat from their own ambush circle, they had already received information from their own people, this fleet was unable to deal with it by themselves, and the powerful firepower destroyed the robbed pirate detachment in a very short time, and it was better to be careful, lest they not have time to lead the other party into the ambush circle and be eaten by the other party, in this vast sea, once the ship is sunk, there is only the fate of waiting for death, no matter how good you are, It is almost impossible to swim back to the shore for tens of miles.