Honolulu, Chinatown.

At the entrance of a trading house called Fang Zhi Kee, the two owners of the trading house, Chen Renjie and Chen Fang's uncle and nephew from Guangdong, were arguing with a legation official, although it was night, but the sound of cannons from the wharf still alarmed everyone, and the bustling Chinatown was more lively than the daytime, and there were many onlookers around the Fang Zhi Kee trading house.

"Why do you ask our people to help fight? We're businessmen, we're not soldiers, and this isn't China, it's Hawaii! ”

The official spread his hands: "This is the order of the minister, all Ming male nationals of Honolulu, over 16 years old and under 40 years old, draw one out of two, bring their own guns and ammunition to gather outside the gate of the Chinese Federation!" ”

Chen Renjie, who is obese but certainly less than 40 years old, wiped the sweat on his forehead, stomped his feet and said: "Hawaii is not the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and if you want to defend it, it should be defended by the Hawaiians, how can you pull our Ding?" ”

Just as he was complaining, an English-speaking voice sounded: "Uncle, my father asked you and Ah Fang to go to the palace for a while. ”

An indigenous woman dressed in Western-style clothes did not know when Lu Dao appeared in Fang Zhixing's shop. The official of the legation looked at the woman and frowned, "Mrs. Chen, Your Excellency also thinks that Chinatown is not safe?" ”

This woman turned out to be the wife of Chen Renjie's nephew Chen Fang, a noble woman from Hawaii, and her father was a minister of the Hawaiian Kingdom. Many of the Chinese who do business in Hawaii have married local women, but those who can marry the ministers of the Kingdom of Hawaii are the richest Chinese in Hawaii, Fang Zhixing, the Chen family. Therefore, the officials of the Legation in Hawaii also know this Mrs. Chen.

The Mrs. Chen shook her head: "My father said it. Chinatown is not safe. The Americans were only responsible for the security around the royal palace. They don't care about other places, and it's estimated that there will be chaos. ”

Native Hawaiians are more down-to-earth and less likely to lie. So as soon as these words came out, not only did Chen Renjie, Chen Fang's father and son change their colors, but even the surrounding onlookers also started to talk about it.

"What can I do? Even the Americans have left it alone! ”

"I heard that those Russian soldiers are the most fierce and like to burn and kill the most......"

"Even the Yankees don't dare to deal with them, what else can we do?"

"What to do? Fight with them, we have guns in our hands! ”

"What if you have a gun? It's an army. Not only guns but also cannons, but also murderous people! ”

At this moment, a carriage pulling the Ming envoy to Hawaii, Zhang Zegen, slowly drove up, and Minister Zhang stood on the top of the carriage, holding an iron horn in his hand, shouting around.

"The Russians are coming to kill our people and take our wealth, so they will take up arms and fight with them!"

"Fellow citizens, all of you have guns! Are you just waiting for the Russians to come and kill and rob? Now it's not about defending the Ming Dynasty, it's about protecting your own lives and ......"

"All compatriots who have signed up for the war should not forget to register their property and goods. When the time comes, if there is a loss, the court will be responsible for the settlement! ”

"Those who refuse to join the war shall go back and look after their belongings. If you lose the court, you won't care! ”

Hearing this, a Chinese immediately asked in a loud voice: "Minister Zhang, aren't you lying to us, and the imperial court will compensate us for our losses?" ”

"Of course! This minister recruits you on behalf of the imperial court, and of course your losses will be compensated by the imperial court! And if you cut a Russian head, the court also offered a reward of 100 yuan! Anyone who participates in the war will be given 10 yuan a day! There is also a pension of 1,000 yuan for the dead......"

Compensation for losses and rewards and pensions, of course, Zhang Zegen himself is blindly writing checks, and now the Ming Dynasty has not established a military and civilian system. The serious army and navy are all mercenaries, and except for collective farm workers and military households, ordinary people have no obligation to defend the country at all - the modern compulsory military service system and the military-civilian system are usually closely linked to compulsory education, and it is difficult for citizens who have not undergone patriotic education to have the consciousness of defending the country.

Hearing these promises, many people were moved and went to the Chinese Federation to register one after another. Chen Renjie's nephew Chen Fang also seems to be ready to move, it is not easy for their uncle and nephew to create this family fortune in Hawaii, if they destroy it and start from scratch.

"Ah Fang, don't go." Chen Renjie stopped his nephew, went to find a few guys, gave them 1,000 yuan for each of them, and took them to sign up. ”

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At the same time, the battle in Honolulu Harbor was also in a white-hot state. By the time it was almost dawn, the Russian troops finally came ashore in large numbers, not only all 1,000 marines went ashore, but even half of the sailors on ten ships had about 1,500 people ashore. During this period, Ushakov also organized two attacks, both of which were repulsed by the coalition forces. In the night of melee, the Russian army lost more than 400 dead and 150 wounded. However, there is no medical treatment for these injured people, and once the wound is infected, it cannot be saved! In addition, there was also a cruiser that was seriously injured by the artillery deployed by the coalition forces at the pier, and the losses were really heavy!

And the losses of the coalition forces were not small, almost half of the 1,000 samurai brought by Fujita Donghu were lost, and the people of Yang Fuqing and Hongmen Santang also lost less than 500, and the soldiers and armed expatriates of Britain and France were originally reserves, but now they are also on the front line, and they will be stationed at the barricades together with the men and horses of the two countries tomorrow. The Russians also brought several naval guns ashore, and now they are firing with the captured 24-pounder gun, and the shells are constantly coming in, and the coalition forces stationed in the warehouses and barricades are being shelled, and the situation is very critical.

When the battle came to this point, both the Russian army and the coalition army felt a little prickly. The Russians thought that there were not many British and French troops in Hawaii, and they could take the whole of Honolulu with a night attack, at most they would not move the palace and the white quarter, as long as they could rob the Chinese quarter, they would also make a fortune. But I didn't expect that there were so many heavily armed samurai here in Hawaii, and the British and French troops and the Chinese in Hawaii were so tenacious in their will to resist, and they didn't waver after fighting all night!

The situation of the coalition forces is not good, except for a small number of them are regular soldiers, the rest are armed civilians, and their combat effectiveness and organizational strength are extremely low, and they cannot fight hand-to-hand combat, so they can only fire their guns from a distance. What is even more troublesome is that the largest number of foreigners in Honolulu, the overseas Chinese, has not been fully mobilized, so the coalition forces are not numerically advantageous.

In between battles, Yang Fuqing, still dressed as a pastor, went to the field hospital next to a warehouse, holding a Bible in his hand, half-kneeling in front of a wounded Chinese brother who was dying, holding his hand and performing Mormon dying rites.

The man barely opened his eyes and smiled with difficulty in a Hakka accent: "Fuwang, I can go to heaven...... When you go to heaven, you can enjoy the blessings that you have never thought of in this life, right? ”

Yang Fuqing nodded hurriedly: "Yes, yes...... There are mountains of gold and silver in heaven, as well as endless chickens, ducks, and fish, and fairy-like beauties as wives......"

Hearing this, the man closed his eyes, and Yang Fuqing drew a cross on his chest: "Rest in peace, Ah door." Then he went to another fellow Guangxi villager who was about to run his last breath and continued his work as a pastor. But his heart is gloomy, he is an old man in China, how can he not know the contrast between the strength and weakness of today's battle? Most of the rabble on their side can defend if they have a numerical advantage of two or three times. But now there are more people on the other side than on my side......

At this time, I heard someone cheering loudly, and if you listened carefully, it seemed that there were Chinese, English, Japanese, and French, and it was from my own side.

"Auxiliary King, reinforcements are coming! Our reinforcements are crowded!! "One of the wounded people glanced in the direction of the city and cheered in Hakka.

When Yang Fuqing looked back, he saw that the road coming from the city was crowded with Chinese wearing ordinary people's clothes, all armed with foreign guns, too many to count, really a sea of people!

"Chinese...... That's a lot!! On the other side of the battlefield, the face of the commander of the Russian fleet, Ushakov, also turned pale. The binoculars are full of Chinese with foreign guns ready to come up and fight the Russian army! I don't know how many roads there are, I'm afraid there will be no less than 10,000 people! Even 3 for 1, no, 4 for 1, it would cost Ushakov 2500 dead and wounded! When the time comes, even if he can win, what will happen to his fleet? Is there still enough sailors to sail that many sailboats? (To be continued......)