This battle between the fleet of the Datang Western Company and the pirates, among the many battles of the fleet of the Datang Western Company, was just a small-scale battle against the invasion of pirates, and this kind of small-scale battle has happened countless times in the past few years.

According to conventionally, this kind of small-scale battle is not to mention in the entire Tang Dynasty, even if it is in the fleet of the Tang Western Company, it is nothing, it will not be fanfare at all, at most it is a document, so that future generations can see that there was such a battle against pirates when digging 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's fleet is not an ordinary merchant fleet, but an armed fleet.

Although the Datang Western Company does not have a history of many years, there are many medium and large-scale battles, such as the Luzon Qing Campaign, the Luzon Anti-Pirate Campaign, and the Banten Campaign.

In the last two years, he has also fought a naval battle in the Bay of Bengal with the indigenous Indians on the east coast of India, and a naval battle in the Sea of Ceylon with pirates led by the Portuguese, both of which were large-scale naval battles involving dozens of ships.

However, the Battle of the Andaman was such a small-scale battle, and there was not even a single casualty on its own side, but the details of the battle were recorded in detail and then reported to the company's top management.

Why?

It was because of this battle that not a single person in the company's fleet was killed or injured, and just by relying on the ship's guns, it repelled the three incoming pirate ships, and also severely damaged one of them.

At that time, if they didn't hesitate to be afraid of long nights and dreams, Tong Shangchao and they would even be able to capture the pirate ship whose mast was broken!

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

You must know that at that time, his fleet was full of goods, not to mention that there were only three merchant ships and one frigate, but aside from the price of the ships themselves, the total value of silk, porcelain, spices and other goods carried on them exceeded 500,000 taels of silver.

This is a veritable treasure ship, but it can't tolerate the slightest mistake, so it is an instant decision, taking advantage of the pirates' slight retreat is to retreat at the same time, and after nightfall, Tong Shangchao is still worried that those pirates will catch up, so he also changed the course twice in a row and took a more remote route, which is to get rid of the pirates' tracking.

The reason why such a battle was later uploaded to the highest level, and even to the navy, was only because of two points, one was that when Tong Shangchao commanded the battle, in the face of the pursuing enemy army, he boldly made a large-angle turn and won the T-shape, thus giving full play to his most powerful advantage: side firepower!

The other is the first actual combat use of grenades at sea!

Although it is not the Datang Western Company that is the first to equip grenades, they have been equipped for more than half a year on the navy's side, but the navy will not have nothing to do with the Portuguese, and the pirates in the waters of Southeast Asia are now running away when they see the ships of the Datang Navy, which will give the Datang Navy a chance to get close to the artillery bombardment.

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

Therefore, this battle is also a sentence that he has great reference value!

But this is all a follow-up thing, the current Tong Shang supernatural did not expect that this small-scale battle he fought would have such a big impact, he led the fleet to get rid of the pirate tracking, and continued to go towards the coast of India!

After leaving the Amanda Sea, he was also a lot more relieved, and then his fleet would sail in the depths of the vast Indian Ocean, and if nothing miracle happened, he would basically not encounter any pirates, let alone pirates, even other ships would basically not be able to meet them.

In the depths of the ocean far from the coastline, it is unlikely that you want to meet other ships, because most of the ships in these years sail close to the coastline, and it is easy not to go to the depths of the ocean, and even if you come to the depths of the ocean, the chance of encountering them is very, very small.

Of course, sailing in the depths of the ocean is also more dangerous, in the event of a storm or any other accident, there is no other rescue force except for self-rescue, and there is no supply point.

Otherwise, people would not have chosen to sail along the coastline in these days.

But it can't be helped, now the western waters of Malacca, to Myanmar, the eastern coast of India, this part of the coastline is safe on the surface, but in fact it is more dangerous, because there are Portuguese and pirates in a mess.

What's more, Datang Western Company did not have a foothold in this sea area, although it opened a small supply port in Myanmar in the early years, but it was invaded by the Portuguese, and even the local natives were coerced by the Portuguese to attack, after struggling to support for a period of time, considering that it costs a lot to maintain this supply port, and the route is dangerous, later Datang Western Company simply gave up this small supply port.

Start the transfer route, directly from the Andaman Sea across the Indian Ocean to the east coast of India.

However, Tong Shangchao also knew that his fleet, at most, would enjoy the tranquility of such a short route, and when it reached the eastern coastline of India, danger would follow.

Because in the past two years, Datang Western Company has been fighting with the Portuguese for maritime control of India's eastern coastline, 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, and a large number of capital ships patrolled this area for a long time, disguised as pirate ships, and attacked the Portuguese ships passing by.

Of course, this kind of battle can't be put on the table, both sides are disguised as pirates to carry out raids, today you rob me, tomorrow I rob you, this robbery comes and goes, to be honest, it's all half a catty, no one is better than the other!

If it is put on the table, then it is equivalent to completely tearing the skin and cutting off the trade, which will cause greater losses for both sides.

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

Otherwise, Datang Western Company would not have organized a fleet and arranged warships to escort India every time a merchant ship came to India.

This kind of situation even affects the ships of other countries, and there is no way, the pirates who kill the red eyes sometimes don't care whether you are a ship of the Tang Western Company or a Portuguese ship, and they will pounce on the ship when they see it.

Anyway, it's all robbery, who is robbing is not robbing!

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

However, other ships can dodge, but the fleet of Datang Western Company cannot dodge, because on the east coast of India, there is the main trade market of Datang Western Company and the most important stronghold of Tang Indo-Go

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

Therefore, at present, the main market of Datang Western Company is concentrated in India, and more precisely, the east coast of India, because before this, Datang Western Company relied on warships and guns to successfully persuade the local indigenous princes to open the port, and directly sold one of the coastal areas to Datang Western Company for 5,000 taels of silver.

The area is located in an island area known locally as the mouth of the Godavari River, bordered by the sea to the south, the Godavari River to the north, and the two tributaries of the Godavari River to the east and west.

In other words, this place is faced by three rivers and one by the sea, when Datang Western Company first came here to trade with the Indians, it chose to settle in this still wild place, and then trade with the Indians, and called the Ge River Delta, that is, the Ge River State.

Although this place was just a wilderness at the beginning, Datang Western Company still paid a lot of price in order to obtain this place!

Because at the beginning, the Datang Western Company only came here to anchor warships for trade, and the local natives didn't feel anything, but when the Datang Western Company gradually built a port and a large number of buildings here, and gradually sent the remaining troops, and refused the jurisdiction of the local aborigines, the natives were not happy.

At this time, India was still in a state of chaos, although there was a Mughal Empire in the north, but it was also just rising, and its territorial power was limited to the northwest and part of the northern region, and the vast central and southern parts of India were still under the rule of various Indian indigenous princes, but these Indian indigenous princes were basically independent.

This was naturally due to the collapse of the Delhi Sultanate's empire, and many of the indigenous Indian princes who had been subject to the empire became independent and went their own way.

However, even during the Delhi Sultanate's time, they were unable to actually control southern India, which had always been the preserve of the indigenous princes.

The local and indigenous princes were naturally unwilling to let the Tang Western Company occupy their land and refuse to leave, and then the war naturally came.

Naturally, the Tang Western Company would not give up the Ge River Delta, a colony that was hard to occupy, so in the ninth year of Xuanping, it gathered the main force of the company's fleet and fought a big battle with the local indigenous fleet at the mouth of the Godavari River, and successfully took them down.

It also mobilized more than 1,000 marines to penetrate hundreds of kilometers into the interior of India, breaking through several indigenous cities, annihilating thousands of enemies, and finally forcing the local princes to sign the 'Treaty of the Goh'.

Well, for this treaty, the Portuguese categorically did not recognize!