As the battleship entered the port, the first Marines began to land in transport boats.

Because the number of traffic boats is limited, there are not many people who land in the first batch, only more than 100 people, but even this more than 100 people is very important for Ying Zihua's small fleet, in order to avoid accidents, the guns on the three ships have always been aimed at the shore to prevent the enemy from attacking the landing force.

However, the defensive strength of this port is really not good, and the naval artillery bombardment just now also destroyed most of the defensive settings of the port, although some of the defensive forces began to gather, but they did not have the courage to rush to the shore.

The Ottomans are not stupid, they are not uninformed natives, they have been dealing with the Spaniards and other Western European countries for many years, and they know a lot about artillery, and they themselves are equipped with some artillery, knowing that the guns on those battleships are not easy to mess with.

But they did not have the courage to rush forward, but they nevertheless began to gather hundreds of men far from the shore, ready for defensive operations.

The marines of the Datang Western Company who landed on the shore were not in a hurry, but waited in line on the shore, and they waited for the second wave of landing team members!

It didn't take long for the second and even third batches of landers to arrive, and the troops of the Datang Western Company, which had gathered almost 400 people, took the initiative to attack!

The five-pound field guns and shotguns that were brought down from the ship were the first to open fire and directly bombard the phalanx of the Ottomans on the opposite side!

Then the infantry phalanx began to advance in a standard three-column horizontal formation!

At this time, the Ottomans on the opposite side were also fighting with arquebuses and spears!

They didn't back down!

Instead, they bravely fought with the troops of Datang Western Company!

They are worthy of the Ottoman army built by the contemporary Suleiman I, and the will to fight is quite good!

And then......

And then they bravely broke down!

Yes, the whole process was only about four or five minutes, when the company of the Tang Dynasty bombarded with artillery, and the infantry wore cuirasses and went up with flintlock pistols to shoot a few rounds, the Ottomans on the opposite side collapsed directly.

They were brave, but under the power of gunfire, bravery was at best a little more capable of taking casualties.

But when these two or three hundred Ottomans were killed and wounded by dozens of people, it was still inevitable to collapse.

Of course, their bravery was also rewarded, and they paid the price of dozens of dead and wounded and the collapse of the whole army, and successfully inflicted losses on the landing force of the Western Company, killing one person and wounding three.

Then there was nothing to say, and the Oss in the harbor began to flee, whether it was officials, soldiers, or civilians, all of them frantically running for their lives.

And Ying Zihua and the others had no intention of continuing to pursue deeply, and they didn't even plan to enter the port city hundreds of meters away, their target was just the wharf!

As soon as the landing force entered the docks, it began to collect all kinds of supplies, and at the same time forced the locals who did not have time to escape to be used as coolies to carry the supplies.

As for the language barrier, this is indeed a problem, anyway, the people who landed can't understand what the locals say, and the locals can't understand what the people of Western companies say, but does it matter?

It doesn't matter, in front of the bayonet, the language barrier will not be an obstacle to communication between the two sides, just a few gestures, the locals will know what to do, and then they will work very hard to carry the supplies.

The many supplies on the dock, especially food and fresh water, were passed through the many small boats one after another, and went to the three big ships that were still floating on the sea!

After the marines on the road initially took control of the dock, Ying Zihua also took a few senior employees of Datang Western Company to the shore to take a look, but he could only take a few casual looks.

The language barrier led to no possibility of in-depth communication between the two sides, and basically everyone who should have run ran to the city not far away, and there were no other living people on the dock by the sea except for the marines and the captured coolies.

Yes, after taking a few glances and confirming that the supplies were sufficient, Ying Zihua was too lazy to stay on the shore, so he hurried back to the boat.

In the next whole day, they were busy replenishing supplies, and it would take a little time to replenish the three big ships, and they also found some materials to repair the ships on the dock, but Ying Zihua changed his idea of repairing them on the spot, but brought craftsmen and materials to the ship, and then found a remote place to repair them later.

Because he had already seen that not far from the city, a large number of Ottomans were gathering, the number of which may be nearly a thousand, and a lot of artillery had been launched, including dozens of cavalry!

In order to avoid any accidents, Ying Zihua changed his original plan, and after spending a day hurriedly supplying supplies, he directly led the fleet to evacuate in the evening.

What is left behind is a devastated dock!

This angered the local Ottoman officials, who at first scolded the Portuguese, but when they asked, they found out that it was not blonde or red-haired whites who had landed, but a group of yellow-skinned and black-eyed people.

Who is that? Could it be pirates from the Persian Gulf or India?

Naturally, they didn't know that it was the Tang people from the distant Eastern Empire who hit the port of Jeddah, well, it was not an official armed force, but just a private armed force of a commercial company in the Tang Empire.

The language barrier, coupled with the lack of smooth information exchange in this era, and the general lack of knowledge among people, have led to an inexplicable battle between the two sides, and it is still confused.

But do these matter?

It doesn't matter!

Ying Zihua succeeded in snatching the supplies needed for the fleet, and the Ottomans succeeded in repelling the 'pirates', regardless of whether they were Portuguese pirates or Indian pirates......

Everyone takes what they need, hello, hello, everyone!

Legend has it that several of the main officials of the port of Jeddah were promoted to prominence for their meritorious service in repelling pirates, and were also rewarded by Suleiman I.

After leaving the puzzling port of Jeddah, Ying Zihua recorded in the report that the Oscarmen were extremely aggressive and rejected outsiders, and suggested that the company should be more cautious in its policy towards Ottomans in the future.

Although there was no trade agreement with the Ottomans, they also succeeded in replenishing supplies, and on the whole, the fleet of the Tang Western Company still achieved their original goal!

Ying Zihua led the fleet to continue south, and occasionally encountered other ships along the way, but in this part of the Red Sea, all of them were small boats, most of which were ships of local merchants, and the three led by Ying Zihua were all large ships, and people avoided them when they saw it.

Ying Zihua was also reluctant to make any more extraneous branches, after sailing for a few days, after re-entering the northeast coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean, he directly found a remote and uninhabited haven, and then dropped anchor to start repairing the ship.

After repairing the ships, Ying Zihua's fleet will continue south, and then they will enter the Portuguese sphere of influence!

Just when Ying Zihua was active on the east coast of Africa, the large-scale fleet organized by Datang Western Company also set sail again, starting from Guangzhou and heading all the way to Luzon!

This time, the fleet organized by the Datang Western Company consisted of 12 ships, of which the smallest tonnage was 500 tons, most of which were standard 680 merchant ships of nearly 700 tons, and there was also one with a displacement of more than 900 tons.

The twelve ships were not expedition ships anymore, but standard trading fleets, loaded with all kinds of goods and construction supplies, and a thousand immigrants organized by the Immigration Reclamation Division set off with them, and these immigrants were to set off on three other migrant merchant ships.

In addition, the navy also sent a fleet of cruisers, two frigates, and three patrol ships to escort the ship!

According to the relevant agreement reached between the official and the Datang Western Company, this winter, the Datang Western Company will officially transfer the Luzon colony to the government, and the empire has officially established Luzon Prefecture to manage the colony on Mian Lao Island.

When these fleets arrive in Luzon, one frigate and three patrol ships from the navy will form an independent Luzon fleet and be stationed in Luzon for a long time.

It was precisely because of the agreement that the authorities officially organized more than 1,000 immigrants to Luzon.

When these immigrants arrived in Luzon, each of them was given 20 acres of land for free, and a family of three or four people could directly receive 100 acres of land.

Of course, due to the danger of the sea colonization, especially the frequent attacks of the natives, the young and middle-aged people, including the able-bodied women, received simple military training before these immigrants set out, learning how to use firearms to fight.

And the young men among these immigrants, before they set off, were already incorporated into the Luzon militia camp on the spot and became a part of the militia battalion.

These militias will also become an important part of the Tang Dynasty's military force in Luzon at that time!

When Datang Western Company set sail at the exclusive wharf, many people were particularly curious when they saw this huge fleet, and now Datang Western Company is still a relatively mysterious company in the public, because the trade license has not been announced to the public, so they do not know the specific situation of Datang Western Company.

But many people know that this company is full of weirdness, a large number of recruited retired soldiers are not counted, and it also has private armies, even warships, and it is rumored that it is still fighting with those natives in the South Seas, these things are extremely abnormal in the eyes of many people.

It's just that this company is wholly owned by the royal assets company, although they think it is abnormal, but they don't say anything, after all, the whole world belongs to the emperor, and it is nothing for the emperor to have a company with private arms!

Now, once again, the mysterious company has assembled a huge fleet, and they are curious to see what this Western company wants to do!

What else can you do, do business!

You know, operating a colony is the most important core business of Datang Western Company!

So while trade is important, it's even more important to establish, expand, and run a colony!

You must know that among the estimated revenue of Datang Western Company, a very important source of income is the tax share of the colony!