In Datang, where there is no navigation, if you want to find a large wave of pirates on the sea, it is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack. But pirates are different, they have a fixed place to live, and they also have a mature way of contact, so they can show the freedom to attack in the waters they are familiar with.

Li Fayuan commanded three warships, first searched in the direction where the small group of pirates had been eliminated for a while, but did not find the shadow of the group of pirates, and then changed directions several times but still did not find it.

The reason for this situation is that we have to talk about the strange way of doing things in pirates. As the saying goes: often walk by the river where there is no wet shoes, so in order to avoid accidentally robbing a ship that should not be robbed, such as a warship or a large merchant ship equipped with samurai, but the robbery object has taken their hometown, so they generally change course many times after going to sea, if they don't know their plans or are not familiar with this sea area, it is really difficult to find.

Of course, if the pirates of this sea area want to find you, it is not too easy, why do you say that? Because pirates are not stupid, they can choose a sea area as their hunting ground, then they will be very familiar with this sea area, and they will often wait at several key points on the road that must be passed.

Just when Li Fayuan, who had been looking for pirates for days and had disappeared, was deflated and commanded the fleet to mark the course and continue to go north, in the early morning of the third day, the lookout of the fleet suddenly sounded the horn of alarm, and more than 100 pirate ships of different sizes appeared densely in the place where the morning sun was rising.

Most of the pirates were Japanese people, because at this time the Japanese country was still a period of shogunate chaos, and the ronins who could not endure the suffering of war or could not survive gathered together and became pirates, of course, there was no lack of shadows of the shogunate behind this, and a few were Goguryeo people, and there were also exiles from the former Sui, anyway, there were all kinds of things.

Li Fayuan immediately ordered three warships to be spaced ten zhang apart, zigzag-shaped, and arrows to cut through the enemy's formation at full speed, and then repeat the roundabout, using artillery at a long distance, and shooting crossbow arrows at a close distance. Artillery and crossbow arrows are used to shoot in areas where pirates are concentrated.

However, the pirate's brigade was different from the previous handful, and there were also five or six large fishing boats in their fleet, and when they saw Li Fayuan's three ships rushing quickly, they took the initiative to abandon the big ships and cross the channel they were rushing to, intending to delay Li Fayuan's speed so that they could help board the ship.

The result was a surprise to the pirates, and what Taka Fuji brought was the most rational sailing structure that had been tested over the centuries, and the flexibility was unprecedented.

When the pirates watched the fast-approaching ship flexibly avoid the obstacles they had set up, and the imaginary scene of sawdust flying did not happen, they couldn't help but grow their mouths, but Li Fayuan didn't leave much time for the pirates to think, and the pirates immediately became chaotic at the sound of the earth-shattering explosion and the painful cries of their companions.

First of all, the only big ship was shot by Li Fayuan, and the fire was raging, and the other fishing boats were overturned a lot under the high-speed impact of the three big ships because of their small size, and the pirates who fell into the sea struggled to climb onto the accomplice's ship, and as a result, the pirate ship was overturned by their own people.

Of course, there are also good hands among the pirates, although Li Fayuan led the three ships with the height and speed of the ships, like cutting tofu to quickly cut through the pirates' fleet, but their hull and deck were also shot in many places by pirate rockets, although they were extinguished in time, but the traces of fire were also clearly visible, but the damage to the hull was almost negligible.

The quick-sighted pirate threw his claws onto the deck and hung them on the side of the ship, but he didn't have time to climb, and the rope slipped out of his hand as quickly as a loach under the high speed of the ship, and the pirate, whose palms were covered with blood from the rope, jumped and screamed.

Seeing that the pirate ship formation was in chaos, Li Fayuan gave flags to the other two ships, the three ships no longer attacked the pirate array, the two ships continued to attack the pirates with artillery and crossbow arrows in a circle, and the other ship pressed the formation on the periphery, specifically clearing the fleeing pirates, but when they escaped, the pirate's small ship played an advantage, as long as it could get rid of the pursuit, the pirate ship would soon be able to hide in the waves.

When there was no longer a complete pirate ship to be seen on the sea, Li Fayuan ordered to start cleaning the battlefield, not to mention, there were really a lot of pirates lying on the driftwood, praying at the big ships cruising back and forth around him, hoping to be rescued.

Li Fayuan asked people to shout to the sea: "Are you willing to surrender?" ”

Among the pirates, the pirates who knew Tang dialect immediately roared and raised a hand high to indicate their original intention to surrender, and Li Fayuan asked the pirates who could speak Tang dialect to tell their intentions to other pirates, and the other pirates also expressed their original intention to surrender.

But there were one or two hundred people floating on the sea, and according to the rules set by Gao Buer, it was impossible for Li Fayuan to let so many pirates on board, so he had a plan and said: "I need to know where your lair is, and if you don't want to take me there, raise your hand." ”

The sea was calm, less than twenty people raised their hands, Li Fayuan asked the raised hands to pull the first to the boat, and the pirates in the water were still gloating and waiting to see the heads of the pirates who boarded the ship being thrown into the sea, but it backfired, they soaked in the water and watched the three big ships disappear quickly from sight.

I vaguely saw a dozen or so people thrown down from the ship, all of whom had been pirates for more than a year, these people were used to buying and selling empty-handed, and they tasted the sweetness, and they were afraid that it would be a disaster if they were released. Li Fayuan, who stayed behind, didn't ask much, and when he passed by a desert island, he left them on the island, which was considered to give them a chance to live, as for the result, they should have imagined it from the day they became pirates.

The reason why he did this was not to say that Li Fayuan was a woman, but out of the pride of the soldiers, he gave them a chance.