Chapter 175: The Battle of Pearl Harbor

The commander of the U.S. fleet, who was aiming around with a telescope, was anxious and hurried, watching the 10,000-ton battleship with the vampire flag flying high approaching violently, and the unpredictable fate was like a dark cloud before a storm looming over his four three-masted sail battleships, and the more than 30 side guns on the battleship did not give him the slightest sense of security. The god-class industrialist has demonstrated his ability to design weapons on the rifle, and all the American sailors think that this 10,000-ton battleship that they have never met is probably not a fuel-efficient lamp.

About five kilometers away from the US ship, the three heavy cruisers Shi Shiran stopped, and at this time, the US commander received a telegram persuading him to surrender, as well as the ridicule of "don't panic."

The commander of the US army was stimulated and ordered the fleet to move forward at full speed, and he also thought that the enemy stopped at a distance of 5 kilometers to wait for his own surrender from a safe distance. The King-class cruiser has a total of 5 turrets, the first two, the side two, and the rear one, which are twinked, so there are a total of ten main guns, and each shot has a 15% hit rate, basically a salvo to solve the battle.

The twin assembly method is not just any one can be adopted, it requires superb manufacturing technology, otherwise the two barrels will affect each other's accuracy, and the CNC machine tool ensures that they can be fired at the same time in an instant, as for the firing sequence of all the main guns, it is basically a second interval, and the hull shakes one second immediately after the next twin turret fires, in a short time of 5 seconds, the King-class heavy cruiser completed its battlefield debut, kicking off the prelude to dominating the ocean.

The commander of the US military was still thinking of rushing to a place more than a kilometer to show up the battle formation, and then fighting fiercely with the other side.

At the first sound of artillery, a shell landed on the water very close to the US ship, and the huge terrorist explosion of the 12-inch cannon shell tore through the quiet sky of Pearl Harbor. At the third sound, a cannonball smashed into the foredeck of the chosen unfortunate battleship, and a huge hole was blown open, and the old-fashioned wooden-hulled ship was ablaze with flames, and the flaming sails were bewitching and beautiful, a dance of the goddess of death.

Only one of the 10 shells hit the hull, but the other three were fatal, because they stirred up waves enough to overturn the 2,200-ton ship.

The explosion struck the commander of the U.S. Army in the heart, making it difficult for him to breathe, as if he had been choked by the throat by the goddess of death. The sudden change suddenly shattered the fighting spirit of the US military to the point where nothing remained. The American officers and men on the three battleships that were not selected all watched with their mouths open enough to fit into a big duck egg, watching the friendly ships roll over and catch fire, and the soldiers jumped into the sea for their lives, screaming, shouting, and crying.

The U.S. general, who was observing carefully, said: "It seems that their flagship is just firing, oh my God, they hit so accurately, so far, and so hard!" ”

The American commander was already stunned, forgetting to give the next order, and their battleship was still rushing towards the goddess of death.

The observer of the East India Company shouted: "3 km from the enemy ship!" The timid Indian commissioner shouted, "Hurry up and open fire, we're going to be in their range!" ”

The British commander drew another cross, ready to pray for the American watch again, but the observer shouted again: "Sir, they are slowing down." ”

The commander, who was about to order the artillery to open fire with all his might, immediately restrained his murderous aura and personally observed the enemy situation with a happy face.

The top generals of the U.S. Army engaged in fierce verbal warfare, and in the end the main surrender faction prevailed, as they enumerated the exploits of the greatest philanthropist in history, believing that his men would treat their captives well. So, they sent a telegram of surrender to the enemy ship. The passengers of the migrant ship who hid behind and watched the battle got the news, and they all celebrated with their crowns, our navy is really invincible, and the handsome man is reliable!

At this time, no fortress was built at Pearl Harbor, and if the fleet surrendered, it was a complete surrender, and the soldiers on the shore had no ability to resist. These surrendered generals received orders to disembark and wait for disposal after the ships were docked. The landing ships of the East India Company did not have the opportunity to use the stunt of speeding ashore, and in the end it was also the same, because it would be of great use in the future, and the sharp weapon of the country should not be shown lightly.

The United States already has considerable influence in the Kingdom of Hawaii, and Thomas Dyer, an American appointed by the U.S. government, is even a ministerial executive in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He was the last to receive a telegram from a friendly soldier and reported the plight of the American troops to the king, King Kamehameha IV, the fourth king of the Kingdom of Hawaii. Although Kamehameha IV was a dark-skinned native Hawaiian, his situation was very similar to that of Siam, the monarch was educated in Europe since he was a child, was fluent in English and French, and traveled to Europe, the United States, Panama and other places.

The Kingdom of Hawaii was not a completely outdated country either, having adopted a constitution in 1852 that had already met the "king under the law" standard, such as the king writing to the Legislative Yuan in 1855 asking for a bill to establish universal health care facilities, including public hospitals and homes for the elderly. However, his plan was rejected.

Although the Kingdom of Hawaii was heavily influenced by the United States for geopolitical reasons, the young King Kamehameha IV himself did not like the United States, because he deeply felt racial discrimination when he visited the United States, and he was refused a carriage by the train authorities on racial grounds because of his darker complexion. Therefore, he deeply planted anti-American tendencies in his heart, and adopted a neutral attitude towards the division of the North and the South in the United States, just like Britain, which was actually acquiescing to the right of belligerent power of the Southern regime.

It was precisely because of the feeling that the Kingdom of Hawaii was likely to break away from control that the Federation sent a fleet to Hawaii to garrison it, and the East India Company Navy forced the American fleet to surrender, and Kamehameha IV was a mixed bag. Of course, he had heard of the Duke of London's name, but the Duke of London's sudden and high-profile support for slavery in the South had caused a great deal of controversy.

The king spread the news, and the untold Native Hawaiian families closed their doors, and of course, they generally lived in low, thatched huts that felt like they could be kicked open. Don't underestimate this thatched hut, it's a great summer resort in the tropics. The king's palace did not have bedrooms, because stone houses were not as cool as thatched huts.

The aborigines who basically have no ability to fight and resist have hidden, so that the immigrants who want to release goodwill must use loudspeakers to promote themselves, and the people responsible for shouting are the Japanese drifters who can speak Hawaiian native language, and they have been spies for the East India Company for a long time, so it can be said that they are Hawaii's summer traitors, and he went door-to-door to publicize: "Folks, come out, the imperial army does not rob food, we brought our own food, I don't believe you sent people out to see, we not only brought our own dry food, but even brought houses, and promised not to take a stitch from the masses~"

Xia traitor did not lie, the immigration group did bring all the houses, if you remember, the International Natural Disaster Relief Organization began to study prefabricated mortise and tenon wooden buildings when they rescued the Edo earthquake, and at this moment it has been a remarkable achievement, although it is not possible to bring all the houses of 5,000 people, but the components brought are enough to build a factory, and this factory is specially built this kind of wooden buildings, with the logging industry, it will solve the problem of resettlement in a very short time.

As for the problem of food, it can be solved through the guò troika: first, the transportation of rice and other staple grains from Japan, Malaya, Indonesia and other places; 2. Planting greenhouse vegetables, the Suez Canal Company has accumulated rich experience in tropical vegetable greenhouses in the Arabian Peninsula; 3. To develop fisheries, large longline fishing vessels then arrived in Hawaii.

With more than 4,000 miles to sail from Hawaii to Japan, Asia's thriving industrial and commercial products were not originally related to Hawaii, but with these immigrants, Temasek Capital has created the Hawaii Mail Order Company, which allows immigrants living in Hawaii to purchase goods from Tokyo across 4,000 miles by mail order. A considerable part of the origin of the goods comes from Singapore, but Singapore is far from Hawaii, a distance of more than 6,000 miles in a straight line, so Tokyo is planned to be a transit logistics center. In the future, after the end of the war, the Hawaii to California mail order route will also be opened, which is only 2,500 miles, and is the most ideal route for Hawaii to connect with the world.

At the current speed of 30 miles, the Great Eastern class cruise ship can travel from Tokyo to Hawaii in just six days, perhaps faster than the time it takes to get from some of the poorly trafficked mountainous areas of the Qing Dynasty to the provincial capital. The Hawaii mail-order company is connected to the business system of wholesale and retail enterprises, and the orders of mass consumer goods can be sorted in only half a day, and the orders are transmitted by wireless telegraphy, and the mail-order convenience process for Hawaii residents is quite advanced.

By the time Native Hawaiians get used to the convenience of mail-order services, no one will ever miss the days when they had close ties with the United States.

Hawaii during the East India Company era also enjoyed another great convenience, the world's premier Windsor Hospital, which came to Honolulu. The reason why King Kamehameha IV paid so much attention to civilian medical care was, of course, related to the infectious diseases brought by the foreign population. Ecologically, this is called invasive species. In 1778, about 400,000 Native Hawaiians lived here with little contact with the outside world.

After the invasion of species, leprosy, cholera, malaria, syphilis, influenza, parasites and other diseases were introduced, and the Hawaiians experienced a painful era of population decline. So the population of the Hawaiian Islands is now less than 70,000.

In terms of health, Hawaii during the East India Company era was definitely good news, and the Windsor Hospital promoted immunology and vaccinated all Native Hawaiians against the disease at a reasonable price. Of course, don't think that only the outsiders harm their children, the local mosquitoes also have unique infectious diseases, which is the most important work for the immunization research team after the arrival of Windsor Hospital.

The Windsor Consortium is well aware of its core competencies, and in announcing its takeover of Hawaii, it has made a point of emphasizing the benefits of the health care system they have brought to the indigenous people in order to gain humanitarian legitimacy.

Didn't President Lincoln want to know how Hawaii was doing? Just listen to the radio with a straight voice.

The voice of the Camellia Woman: "An important military news is broadcast below: the East India Company Navy Staff sent a message, between the United States Navy launched a military invasion of the Panama Canal Company, in order to protect the interests of the shareholders of the Panama Canal Company, the East India Company Navy will respond to the provocation of the US military with military action, planning to establish a permanent naval base in the Hawaiian Islands, about 2,500 miles from the west coast of the United States, and to bring thousands of troops from the United Kingdom, India, Malaya, Japan, Chinese immigrants moved into Hawaii to provide a complete set of services to the base.

The United States Navy's Hawaiian Expeditionary Fleet and hundreds of its shore crews had surrendered to the East India Company Navy in a military conflict, and the East India Company Navy had promised to treat prisoners well or even better, as required by the Geneva Conventions. Currently, the entire POW camp works on coffee plantations in Kona, Hawaii, where immigrants work in the same conditions and treatment as immigrants, but with a curfew in the camp. These prisoners of war would voluntarily return home after the East India Company's military conflict with the United States ended, or remain to work on the plantations.

With immediate effect, the defense of the Kingdom of Hawaii was taken over by the British East India Company, expressing great appreciation for the efforts of the Hawaiian royal family in promoting the establishment of a modern system in the kingdom, which would uphold the authority of the royal family and the Constitution, and promised not to plunder the native Hawaiians economically. of economists have carefully studied coffee farming and believe that the development of coffee cultivation may be a direction for Hawaii's integration into the world economy, so they have guided immigrants to prioritize the development of this industry. The Kona region they chose was a sloping area that was not suitable for the sugarcane that was currently being widely cultivated in Hawaii, and the development of coffee plantations was a good choice.

The Hawaiian Islands are probably the most secluded hermits, located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, the world's largest ocean, and more than 2,000 miles away from the nearest continent, North America, so they are geographically, biologically, and culturally distinctive, and proudly inaccessible. Its scenery is incredibly beautiful, and Hawaii will be open to welcoming visitors from all over the world in the future.

As you know, the shareholder, Mr. Downing Windsor, is a free-trader, and the U.S. government has been pressuring the Hawaiian government to have a monopoly trading status in Hawaii. (http://.)。 This kind of stifling of international competition will not be possible again, and Hawaii will be like Singapore in trade, a free port, a duty-free kingdom, and a friendly embrace for merchants, including the United States.

At present, the officials of the subordinate immigration group are trying to develop friendly relations with the Hawaiian royal family and parliament, and the head of the immigration group presented King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma with photos of the Hawaiian islands from an airship several kilometers in the air. Although the king and queen accepted the photographs, they still expressed their unhappiness at the uninvited arrival, and demanded that the Windsor Hospital vaccinate all subjects of the kingdom with free vaccinations against cholera, leprosy, etc., and the immigration group had applied to the Windsor General Hospital in London.

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Alas, President Lincoln sighed that the destruction of the Hawaiian Expeditionary Force was not only a tactical failure, but also a strategic setback, and more than seven days had passed since the Expeditionary Force had lost contact, which meant that the East India Company's inscrutable navy could reach the west coast of the United States at any time. The non-slave ports of California would be threatened by this fleet, and with the strength of the Windsor Consortium's shipbuilding skills, it is conceivable that it is a formidable enemy. Lincoln was quite worried about the fate of the Union.