You Ming was in a hurry because of his nervousness, his first reaction was to quickly pack up his things and leave, but when he got up from the seat with his hat in his hand, he suddenly reacted to something.

"Two British wrecked ships are just three or four hundred people on top of the sky, and there are more than 1,500 turtle soldiers in the Kingdom Guard on Oahu alone, and two or three hundred militia can be mobilized if they are urgently mobilized, and the militia are S

1 rifle and submachine gun, wipe it, Lao Tzu's port defense team still has three shore defense guns, afraid of him a ball? ”

Although You Ming was satisfied with stability and was a little timid, his head was not stupid, and he quickly analyzed the comparison between friend and foe. The two British ships on the sea are slowly clear, with a displacement of five or six hundred tons at the top, and the level of a five- or six-class frigate, although I don't know how many guns are installed on them, but You Ming feels that relying on that thing will not do much damage to Pearl Harbor.

The reason why Pearl Harbor is blessed with conditions is related to its geographical location in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but the port conditions itself are also excellent. The harbor is like a pocket with the most space and deep water in the pocket, which can moor a large number of ships, and the small entrance guards the entire harbor, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. On the land on either side of the entrance to Pearl Harbor, the Tang built two forts, and after entering the entrance, there was another promontory spit out, and another fort was arranged there.

Although the number of three batteries is not much, the guns installed on them are the strongest guns that Datang is currently mounting, and they are used for the 155mm cannons on the Yangwei-class cruisers. Coupled with the geolocation bonus, the threat is devastating for any enemy ship that wants to invade Pearl Harbor.

You Ming was the leader of the port defense team, but he mainly called on the hundred native soldiers under him, and the battery was operated by an artillery squadron of the Tang garrison. These garrisons are basically the components of the Tang militia, but they are already considered regular, they are regular troops, but they are not field troops, but garrison troops. Compared with field troops, garrison units have a shorter service period. It's only two years, and the treatment is slightly inferior, but it's easy to get a dispatch subsidy.

Some of the militias in the three southeastern states that took over the defense of Pensacola and other places were also reassigned to garrisons. Unlike the militia, the garrison is a full-time full-time full-time serviceman, and they are not very numerous, but they are dedicated to defense. No other work is carried out, and the militia often has other things to do on their own.

Places like the Battery. It is inevitable that people need to be on guard at all times, and it is obviously not possible to rely on the militia that does not work out of production, so it can only be garrisoned full-time.

These garrisons have no affiliation with You Ming, and when You Ming sees these garrisons, he has to hold up a smile to greet people. In the past, You Ming felt that they were so big about themselves, anyway, they were all a wave of people who were sent to Hawaii. At this time, You Ming remembered others, and immediately took out his walkie-talkie to contact them.

"Captain Zhang. Captain Zhang, are you a warship of your countrymen? ”

Zlazla's electromagnetic waves, a voice came from there: "Don't make a fuss, it's not a British warship, it's an expedition ship, all right." Whatever it is, let's shoot two guns first, in short, the British are at war with us. ”

This Captain Zhang is obviously a little backward in information, and he doesn't know that Datang has ceased fire with Britain at this time.

However, any treaty of this era took into account the problem of delayed information, so the general treaty had a waiting period for entry into force, during which one side beat the other side. It can be blamed on the fact that I did not know that a ceasefire had been signed, especially in another area tens of thousands of kilometers away.

Naturally, the news of Captain Zhang and You Ming is backward, so the news of the two British expedition ships is obviously even more backward, they don't even know about Datang's war with Britain, or rather, they don't even know that there is a country like Datang in the world!

"Is this a country founded by some indigenous people?" Gore asked his captain with some curiosity.

His captain glared at him and said, "How could I know such a thing. That's a stupid question. ”

Gore shrunk his neck, not daring to argue with his captain, who was the discoverer of the great navigator geography respected by all of Europe. Cook.

Cook squinted at everything on the shore and said, "It's not like an indigenous country, although according to common sense, the islands in the Pacific Ocean should be inhabited by some natives with a very low level of civilization, but do you have a fort at the sea?" It was clearly something built by a civilized country, where at least the people of the civilized country lived, and even ruled. ”

Gore exclaimed, "Captain, do you mean that this place may have been colonized by the French or the Spaniards?" ”

Cook shook his head and said, "From the architectural style of these forts, it looks like the handiwork of Europeans, I don't know about the Eastern forts, but I don't think it's likely to be like this." ”

The two of them were discussing that, when there was a sudden bang, and a huge cannonball exploded. The muzzle velocity of the 155mm naval gun was much faster than that of the smoothbore gun, and Cook could almost clearly feel that one of the shells had swooped past between the ship's two masts at lightning speed, and then made a huge splash on the surface of the sea.

Gore exclaimed, "They actually opened fire? ”

Neither of these two guns hit, naturally it should not be surprising, although the two ships led by Cook are now at the position of three thousand yards of two batteries, but the artillery of the garrison is not as trained as the field army, they have hardly fired artillery, and their marksmanship is naturally not very good.

However, even so, it had already frightened the British to the point of pooping, because two shells had just hit, and only a dozen seconds later, another heavy artillery bombardment. This time it still didn't hit a single British ship, but this time it was close compared to the last time it was oversized and it was likely that they would be able to hit within three rounds.

Cook hurriedly shouted: "Raise the white flag, hurry up and show them that we have no malicious intentions, no matter who it is, as long as they know that we are ordinary expedition ships, not warships or colonial ships, they should not embarrass us." ”

Although Cook was from the Royal Navy, he knew very well what his position was, and he did not get angry because there were a few guns on board, and he knew that his expedition ship was not at all a threat compared to the regular navy.

Sure enough, when the white flag was raised, the other side immediately stopped shelling, Cook breathed a sigh of relief, and said secretly: "Sure enough, it is a civilized country, and it can understand the meaning of the white flag." ”

Then, out of the harbor came a "big ship", at least in Cook's eyes. In fact, the ship was nothing more than a small steamer of less than 200 tons, used to transport goods and people between several Hawaiian islands.

Just now, Chen Xi, the commander of the garrison on the island, arrived, he was more similar to You Ming's background, and he was also a member of the Ming Dynasty, but he was obviously better than You Ming, and he entered the Marine Corps in the first round of selection after the establishment of the army, and then he was promoted to Marine Corps captain and sent to Hawaii as the commander of the garrison. In fact, this commander is very bare-hearted, because in addition to the two platoons of the out-of-production garrison and an artillery squadron guarding the battery, the total number of people is less than a hundred, which is not as large as the number of Commander You Ming. However, Chen Xi, as the commander of the garrison, has the right to recruit the militia on the island, and his status is official, and You Ming, who is not considered a regular army of the Tang Dynasty, cannot compare.

"Commander Chen, it seems that your Bianying people have surrendered, what should I do next?" You Ming rubbed his hands and said.

Chen Xi was a little thin, and he said as a matter of course: "Naturally, I went up and took this group of British people and asked them where they came from and why they came to Hawaii." ”

When You Ming heard this, he was a little stunned, he was afraid that Chen Xi would let him go to the British ship, in case the British were not in his favor, then his life would not be guaranteed.

So, You Ming hurriedly said: "Commander Chen, the junior brother is guarding the port with the native soldiers and horses, you can rest assured to go and find out the details of the British." ”

Chen Xi snorted, what is You Ming's idea, he can think of it with his knees, and he is not idle You Ming, he took thirty garrison soldiers and went in a small boat.

It's just that his small boat is standard, and when it comes to the British, it is considered a big ship. Chen Xi didn't dare to slack off, his garrison was not badly equipped, and in order to deal with the British on the ship, half of the thirty soldiers were carrying submachine guns, and the civilian ships had no guns, so Chen Xi even let people move out of the bazookas. However, the British seemed to be quite honest and did not cheat, Chen Xi asked all of them to drop their weapons and seal the muzzles of the guns before boarding the ship, and the British did so.

Then Chen Xi and his people rushed to the deck of the British expedition ship.

James Cook hurriedly said in English: "Sir, I want to show you that we are an expedition ship from Britain, without any malicious intent, and we have a white flag to represent that we are here in friendship and not prisoners of war, so you don't have to guard against us." ”

Chen Xi frowned and shouted, "What kind of stinky poop are you talking about?" ”

He specially brought a soldier who knew some English, and the soldier obviously didn't speak English very well, so he translated it for Chen Xi in a mess, and Cook was obviously happy as if someone knew English.

But he was even more curious, these guys who looked like Orientals were the people who lived on this island in the first place? He did know that some of the Pacific islands were inhabited by Japanese, but they didn't look like Japanese. They all wore uniform uniforms and were apparently a group of military men. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )