The Ming Dynasty has also joined the Joseons' efforts to defeat the Japanese conquest army, and Konishi Yukinaga and his forces are besieged by Yi Sun-sin at Suncheon.

With Konishi eager to return home, fearing that Toyotomi's rival Tokugawa Ieyasu will be plotting to seize power, he tries to bribe one of the Ming admirals allied with Yi to grant them safe passage.

After many failures, Chen Lin shows himself suspectible, and with the additional promise of no harm coming to his men, he agrees to Konishi's request.

While beating his flagship's war drum to rally his allies, Yi is fatally injured by an arquebus shot, but maintains his position until he collapses.

[16] Following the box office success of The Admiral which became the most-watched and highest-grossing film of all time in South Korea, production of the sequels was confirmed.

He praises the grand scale of the naval battle, "difficult to see even in Hollywood", which achieves the immersion of the spectator in it; and also the technical skill that involves passing on a single basis from the Ming army to Joseon, to the Japanese, and to Admiral Yi.

He concludes by highlighting that the action scenes, which made director Kim famous, led him with this last installment of the trilogy at the top of his career.

The narration of the battle continues to be powerful despite being repeated for the third time, even though it does not present elements of innovation and is resistant to the surroundings of the launch of Hansan, in the summer of 2022.