Hearing that the sergeant came to report, Li Fayuan immediately stood up from his chair, pirates, these days I have heard a lot about Lu Jiutong's bloody battles with pirates, and I have been dreaming of when I can meet them, so that I can show my skills, now that he is really here, how can he not be excited.

Picking up the big knife beside him, he said as he walked out: "How many pirates are there?" ”

"Hundreds?" The sergeant was a little confused.

Li Fayuan glanced at the sergeant, tightened his grip on the hilt of the knife and said, "Is there a thousand people who can't do it?" ”

At this time, the sergeant reacted and replied: "My lord, there are not so many pirates, just about twenty small fishing boats, and there are only about ten people on one boat, and there will be no more than two hundred people in total. ”

"So little?" He didn't wait for the sergeant to reply, because Li Fayuan was already lying on the boat and looking down.

I saw that there were about 20 fishing boats on the rough sea, and there were many strong men with sticks, bows and arrows, knives and guns, and many half-grown children.

"What's going on, pirates are like this, so blind? Isn't this a mayfly shaking a tree? Listening to Li Fayuan's words, the other soldiers also laughed, how could this pirate be more stupid than the thieves in the Tiger Roaring Mountain Forest.

At this time, an experienced sailor reminded: "My lord, we must not despise them, do not look at their small ships, but they are more flexible, they generally rob merchant ships, that is, by help, and then use flying claws and a ladder with a hook to board the ship, after boarding the ship they cut the sails of the robbed ships, and then slowly wait for the large group of men and horses to come." ”

"So there's more fleets behind them?"

"Yes, and we'd better not let them come near us, because they're always going to set fire to them, and if they think it's hopeless to get on board, they'll set fire to the ship, and then they'll be in trouble."

Hearing him say this, Li Fayuan's face changed slightly, and he immediately gave a loud order: "The non-combatants immediately enter the cabin, wave the flag, and fire as soon as the pirates enter the range of the artillery, quickly eliminate this small group of pirates, and prepare to meet the group of pirates." ”

Everyone on board immediately moved, and the gunners quickly adjusted their muzzles, waiting for the pirates to approach.

The pirates in the distance didn't know that they were three standard warships, fully equipped with weapons, just three luxurious merchant ships, and they approached quickly, excited about the wealth they were about to arrive. When they saw the people on the three large ships running back and forth, they thought that the people on board were already frightened, and the pirates howled again and again.

In order to quickly encircle and annihilate this group of pirates, Li Fayuan asked two warships equipped with artillery to surround the pirates, and the two warships arrived at the predetermined position, and the two warships adjusted their direction and fired clockwise back and forth at the 20 or so pirate ships.

The pirates had never seen such a battle, when their companion's boat was hit by a black ball with a long tail of smoke, and then a large explosion shattered, they were completely dumbfounded, and the rumbling explosion made them think it was a thunderbolt in the clear sky.

The pirates immediately became chaotic, attacking the enemy ships with strangely shaped bows and arrows in their hands, but the range was limited, and the rockets that braved the long flames fell into the sea when they were still far away from the Tang Dynasty warships.

Li Fayuan, who was standing on the ship of the Qingbei Academy, commented on the attack actions of the two warships from time to time, although the officers and men on the ship had received artillery shooting training before uploading, and had special training on the sea before leaving, but when it came to naval battles, there was still a lack of accuracy, and many shells were missed.

In addition, there are too many artillery positions on the two ships, which hinders the loading speed, Li Fayuan has already decided that when this group of pirates is eliminated, the artillery on those two ships will be allocated to the ship of Qingbei Academy, and there is no need to worry about the lack of ammunition, because the ship of Qingbei Academy also carries enough gunpowder and shells, which was originally intended to be used for supplies to the other two ships.

Divide the guns of the two ships equally among the three ships, so that in the event of a large-scale pirate attack, you can not only increase the mobile firing point, but also increase the speed of gun wheel fire.

Li Fayuan was born in a family of military generals, and his character of doing what he said forged his vigorous and resolute style, as soon as the pirates were eliminated, he commanded two warships, one to unload the artillery and one to guard, so that the rotation was carried out, and the arrangement was quickly completed.

Some of the students of Qingbei College are directly the designers of artillery, and this time they came out to summarize the shortcomings of artillery naval warfare, so as to make targeted improvements and create artillery suitable for naval warfare. So they were the best instructors, instructing the crew to familiarize themselves with the artillery as they sailed.

The three warships patrolled the sea, but found no survivors of the overboard, because the pirate ships had been reduced to sawdust under the heavy shelling.

A lieutenant who had just participated in the battle came to Li Fayuan's side and sighed: "This naval battle is different from that on land, the advantages of big ships are very obvious, especially for warships like ours, flexible and maneuverable, not much smaller than those pirate fishing boats, subordinates dare to assert that when encountering a large number of pirates, we will attack the pirate fleet while firing cannons, and there is absolutely no problem." ”

Li Fayuan also discovered this situation just now, because the sea is big enough, his warship is several times faster than the pirate ship, so although the ship has a large turning radius, but in the vast sea, these are not problems, high-speed impact, it is absolutely difficult for pirates to get close to the warship, thinking like this, he is full of expectations for the upcoming group of pirates.

Because of the battle just now, he has a certain estimate of the pirate's weapon configuration, and he is ready to test the tactics he thinks of in the next war, which is also a course of the voyage, accumulating experience in naval warfare, and the voyage is training. The soldiers who traveled with them this time are the seeds of the Datang Navy, and in the future, if the Datang Dynasty wants to build a strong army across the sea, it depends on them, which is the words of His Majesty the Emperor before leaving.