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This battle between the Datang Western Company fleet and the pirates, among the numerous battles of the Datang Western Company fleet, was just a small-scale battle against the invasion of pirates. Happened countless times over the years.

As a rule, this kind of small-scale battle is not to mention in the entire Datang Dynasty, even in the fleet of Datang Western Company, it is nothing, it will not be a big fanfare at all, at most it is a document , so that later generations can see that there was such a battle against pirates when they excavate the history of the Tang Dynasty and the history of the fleet of the Western Company.

You must know that Datang Western Company is not an ordinary company, and the company fleet is not an ordinary merchant fleet, but an armed fleet.

Although Datang Western Company does not have many years of history, there have been many medium and large-scale battles. In the early years, there were the Battle of Luzon Qing, the Battle of Luzon against Pirates, and the Battle of Banten.

In the past two years, there was also a battle in the Bay of Bengal with indigenous Indians on the eastern coast of India, and a battle in Ceylon with pirates led by the Portuguese. Both of these battles were large-scale naval battles involving dozens of ships.

However, in such a small-scale battle of the Andaman Naval Battle, in which no one was injured or killed, the details of the battle were recorded in detail, and then reported to the company's top management one after another.

Why?

It was because no one in the company's fleet was killed or injured in this battle, and just by relying on naval guns, the three incoming pirate ships were repelled, and one of them was severely damaged.

At that time, if they were afraid of long nights and dreams, Tong Shangchao and the others could even capture the pirate ship whose mast was broken!

It's just that although the other two pirate ships retreated temporarily, they didn't retreat too far. If they stopped and captured the enemy ship, they would probably be caught off guard, so Tong Shangchao gave up the idea of ​​capturing the enemy ship. .

You must know that his fleet was full of goods at that time, not to mention that there were only three merchant ships and one frigate, but regardless of the price of the ship itself, the total value of the silk, porcelain, spices and other goods carried on it exceeded Five hundred thousand taels of silver.

This is a veritable treasure ship, but it can't tolerate the slightest mistake, so he made a decisive decision. When the pirates retreated a little, they retreated at the same time. After night, Tong Shangchao was worried that the pirates would catch up, so he changed the course twice in a row and left. Some remote routes, this is to get rid of the tracking of the pirates.

The reason why such a battle was later uploaded to the highest level, or even to the navy, was only because of two points. One was that when Tong Shangchao was commanding the battle, facing the enemy chasing after him, he boldly Steering at a large angle, winning the T prefix, and thus exerting its most powerful advantage: broadside firepower!

The other is the first marine combat use of grenades!

Although it was not the Datang Western Company that first equipped the grenade, the Navy had equipped them for more than half a year, but the Navy would not have nothing to do with the Portuguese, and the pirates in the Southeast Asian waters are now seeing the Datang Navy. The ship will run away, and there will be a chance for the Datang Navy to approach the shelling.

Therefore, the first actual combat of the grenade at sea was carried out by the Oceanic Company first!

Therefore, this battle is also of great reference value for him!

But this is all a follow-up matter. Now Tong Shang supernaturally could not have imagined that this small-scale battle he fought would have such a big impact. After he led the fleet to get rid of the pirates' tracking, he continued to move towards the coast of India!

After leaving the Amanda Sea area, he was relieved a lot. Next, his fleet will sail in the vast depths of the Indian Ocean. If there are no miracles, basically there will be no pirates, let alone pirates. Pirates, even other ships are basically impossible to encounter.

In the depths of the ocean far from the coastline, it is unlikely that you want to encounter other ships, because most of the ships these days are sailing along the coastline, and they will not easily go to the depths of the ocean, even if they come to the ocean depths. The chance of encountering is also very, very small.

Of course, sailing in the depths of the ocean is even more dangerous. In the event of a storm or other accident, apart from self-rescue, there is no other rescue force, and there is no supply point.

Otherwise, people will not choose to sail by the coastline when sailing these days.

But there is no way. Now the western waters of Malacca, and then to Myanmar and the eastern coast of India, this section of the coastline is safe on the surface, but it is actually more dangerous, because there are Portuguese people and messy pirates.

More importantly, Datang Western Ocean has no foothold in this sea area. Although it opened a small supply port in Myanmar in the early years, it was invaded by the Portuguese, and even the local indigenous people were taken hostage by the Portuguese. After wrapping up the attack and struggling for a period of time, considering the high cost of maintaining this supply port and the dangerous shipping routes, Datang Western Company simply gave up this small supply port.

Begin a diversion route, crossing the Indian Ocean directly from the Andaman Sea to the eastern coast of India.

However, Tong Shangchao also knew that his fleet, at most, was to enjoy the tranquility of such a short route, and after reaching the eastern coast of India, danger would follow.

Because in the past two years, Datang Western has been competing with the Portuguese for maritime control of the eastern coastline of India, fighting each other in this sea area.

Not only did the Portuguese deploy a large number of warships and pirate ships here, but the Datang Western Company was not far behind. A large number of capital ships patrolled this sea area for a long time, disguised as pirate ships and attacked the passing Portuguese. ship.

Of course, this kind of battle cannot be put on the table. Both sides are disguised as pirates to carry out attacks. Today you rob me, tomorrow I will rob you. No better than anyone else!

If it is put on the table, then it is equivalent to completely tearing the skin and cutting off the trade, so for both sides, the loss will be even greater.

But this seemingly petty attack is very dangerous for each other's merchant ships!

Otherwise, Datang Western Company would not organize a fleet and arrange warships to **** every time a merchant ship came to India.

This kind of situation even affects the ships of other countries. There is no way to kill the red-eyed pirates. Sometimes they don't care whether you are a ship of the Datang Western Company or a Portuguese ship. jump up.

Anyway, it's all robbery, it's not a robbery who robs anyone!

Therefore, in order to avoid risks, many merchant ships began to bypass this dangerous sea area. From Ceylon Island, they began to directly cross the Indian Ocean to the Andaman Sea.

However, other ships can avoid it, but the fleet of Datang Western Company cannot be avoided, because on the eastern coast of India, there is the most important trading market of Datang Western Company and the most important stronghold of Tang Dynasty, which belongs to the Indian Gohe state.

Although the original intention of Datang Western Company was to carry out European trade, the current European trade route is too dangerous, and almost the entire route is controlled by the Portuguese, even if the Datang Western Company and the Spaniards reached an agreement With the cooperation agreement, they can use each other's supply ports to barely maintain the operation of the route, but in fact they are only sneaking in small-scale trade, and it is impossible to carry out large-scale trade at all.

Therefore, at present, the main market of Datang Western is concentrated in India, and more precisely, the eastern coast of India, because before that, Datang Western successfully persuaded the local market by relying on warships and guns. The aboriginal prince opened the port, and directly sold a piece of the coastal area to the Datang Western Company for five thousand taels of silver.

This area is located in an island area that the locals call the mouth of the Godavari River. It faces the sea to the south, the Godavari River to the north, and the two estuary tributaries of the Godavari River to the east and west.

That is to say, this place is facing the river on three sides and the sea on the other side. When Datang Western Company first came here to trade with the Indians, it chose to settle down in this still wild place, and then Trade with the Indians and call it the Go River Delta, which is the Go River state.

Although this place was just a wilderness at the beginning~www.wuxiaspot.com~, Datang Western Company paid a great price to acquire this place!

Because at the beginning, the Datang Western Company only came here to park warships for trade, and the local indigenous people did not feel anything, but when the Datang Western Company gradually built a port and a large number of buildings here, and it was gradually dispatched. Left-behind troops When the time comes, and when they refuse the jurisdiction of the local indigenous people, the indigenous people are not happy.

At this time, India was still in a scuffle. Although there was a Mughal Empire in the north, it had just risen. Its territorial power was limited to the northwest and some northern areas, while the vast central and southern parts of India were still in various In the rule of Indian native princes, but these Indian native princes are basically independent.

This situation was naturally caused by the collapse of the Delhi Sultanate Empire, and many Indian native princes who had originally surrendered to the empire became independent and governed independently.

However, even during the Sultanate of Delhi, they failed to actually control the southern part of India, which has always been reserved for the local aboriginal princes.

The local and aboriginal princes naturally did not want Datang Western Company to occupy their land and refused to leave, and then the war naturally came.

Naturally, the Datang Western Company would not give up the Gehe Delta, a colony that it had managed to occupy, so in the ninth year of Xuanping, the main force of the company's fleet was assembled, and it was carried out at the estuary of the Godavari River and the fleet of the local indigenous people. After a battle, they were successfully put down.

He also used more than 1,000 marines, and has been infiltrating hundreds of kilometers inland of India, breaking through several native cities, annihilating thousands of enemies, and finally forcing the local princes to sign the 'Treaty of Gehe'.

Well, for this treaty, the Portuguese firmly refused to recognize it!