HONULULU, CHINATOWN, DECEMBER 26, 01:00 HAWAII TIME.

Located in downtown Honolulu, this Chinatown is home to Oahu's oldest restaurants, bars, markets and theaters – a fifteen-city treasure trove of history and culture.

For decades, Chinatown was the first place of residence for many new Asian immigrants to Hawaii. Each group has added its own piece of spice to the ethnic hodgepodge of Hawaii. Today, new immigrants from Japan, Korea, Siam and other East Asian countries have greatly enriched the spiritual connotation of this land, but this land is still called Chinatown, which shows respect for the pioneers who first came.

According to research, the first Chinese to arrive in Hawaii were Chinese sailors on two British expedition ships, who arrived at Honululu Port in 1788. But the earliest Chinese immigrants arrived in 1852. At that time, 293 Chinese indentured laborers came to the Frankland neighborhood on the edge of the port and worked on the plantation for five years under contract for $3 a month. Although some returned to China after their contracts expired, most stayed. They married local Hawaiians and used their hard-earned money to build shops near the mouth of the Nuanu River. The enterprising Chinese, not content with working for others, soon monopolized the island's commercial operations. Soon, commercial activity expanded into real estate, banking, commerce and other important parts of the island's political life.

By 1910, Chinese residents had made up more than 40 percent of the island's population, and with immigrants from other East Asian countries, the total number of Asian residents on the island was more than twice that of the white and indigenous populations combined.

The beautiful name "Honolulu" is a beautiful hope for the land under the island's feet - just as the Chinese in San Francisco call their city "San Francisco", if not poetic, it is still an authentic Chinese flavor.

When Pearl Harbor was drowning in smoke and flames a dozen hours ago, the vast majority of Chinatown residents were still ignorant.

Merchants were still preparing to deliver fresh fruits, vegetables, and fish to the U.S. troops at Pearl Harbor, and sturdy and cheap Chinese coolies were unloading large ships requisitioned by the U.S. Navy on the docks of Honolulu, which was too small for the other wharves to be completed, and supplies for the main fleet were mainly unloaded from Honolulu.

The entry of the Grand Fleet has indeed brought a lot of benefits to the Chinese businessmen in Honolulu, and the Chinese businessmen who operate in the food processing, dock warehousing, automobile transportation and other industries have made a lot of money, but it has suffered those white military and police bureaucrats who have taken dead wages - prices have skyrocketed by one and a half times in half a month!

That group of white people was itching with hatred, and there was a thunderclap on the ground, Pearl Harbor was attacked, and China declared war on the United States!

That's okay, the Chinese army is coming, and the hundreds of thousands of Chinese on Oahu haven't come to join forces with each other? Serve us whites in a pot?

Governor Murray gave an order, and Hawaii was under martial law! Mayor Marian has issued another order, and there is a curfew in Honolulu! Commander Scowley was even more panicked, and sent the National Guard into Honolulu, blocking all entrances and exits of Chinatown, and searching for "spies" from house to house.

At this time, thousands of people were gathering in the old square of Frankland Street to confront the heavily armed National Guard.

On the military and police side, a white officer with a loudspeaker shouted in inarticulate Mandarin: "Leaver pear! Back to your stuffy home pear gas! It's a cheap time to pick it now! Repeat, the current pick is cheap today, and anyone without the permission of the Governor of Oil is not allowed to write a book! ”

An angry tsunami on the opposite side:

“*yourmother！ Why do you want to block our neighborhoods! ”

"Don't want to come into my house!"

"You are not allowed to blow up the docks! Don't want us to starve to death! ”

"Our army is coming, shoot your guns! Shoot! ”

"If you have a kind, shoot and see who will not die well!"

"I'll lose your mother'......"

"Yaga ......"

The white officer shouted alternately in English for a long time, but found that his voice was completely muffled, and the people were still rushing forward, and in a hurry, he took out his pistol and fired it into the sky.

As soon as the shot rang out, hundreds of National Guardsmen, who had already lined up, followed that and that, and shot indiscriminately without knowing what was going on and at the same time venting their grievances, and the crowd suddenly dispersed, and by the time the officers who came to their senses stopped the hysterical massacre, more than 100 people had already been killed on the spot, the wounded were innumerable, and the blood in the square was a stream of blood, which was unbearable......

After learning the news of the bloodshed in the Place Franco, General Sculley called the officers in command at the scene and angrily reprimanded: "Fool, do such a thing at this time, think about how the Chinese army will retaliate after attacking!" What are you going to do? What are you going to let us do? Do you know the 5,000-year-old Chinese's achievements in torture and execution......

Before General Scowley finished scolding, Governor Murray rushed in in a hurry, furious: "General, what a good thing your men have done!" What is the current situation of Zhilu Dao? The various docks were crowded with people, who were afraid of retaliation by the Chinese army and wanted to board the ship and leave the ......"

Sculley patted his thigh and yelled, "Can't let them get on board!" Those ships are to sink in the shipping lanes so that the enemy can't use the harbor - the whole of Hawaii is already under military control, and military needs are above all else! “

"What if they have to get on board? Are you going to give the order to shoot? Shooting at our compatriots? They're not yellow monkeys, they're the same as us, descendants of European immigrants, whites, Christians – how? And even then you have to give the order to shoot? ”

"Your Excellency, are you going to flee with them?" Scowley's gaze was like a blade—full of contempt and intimidation.

"I can't go, I have my mission, but I can understand their feelings, the fleet is withdrawn, we are abandoned, and now there is such bloodshed again, what do you think everyone will think?"

Sculley shifted gears: "I know what they think, but as you said, we all have our own missions, and wasting time with bickering won't solve anything. Your Excellency the Governor, in order to defend the land beneath our feet, we must arm as many of our own men as possible before the enemy begins to land, and I need your help. ”

Morrine paused for a moment and sat down with a big overnourished belly.

"General, how long do you think we can hold out?"

"What do you think?" Scauley asked rhetorically.

"I'm not a soldier, but I don't see any chance we have, see those planes? Those planes alone destroyed half of our battleships, and once our fleet was far away, they would come back and ravage us repeatedly. And, as you know, another huge fleet - most likely including most of the enemy's battleships - is approaching, General, the batteries on the island are no match for those battleships at all! ”

Sculley rubbed his palms together, his face gloomy, he knew the state of defense in Hawaii better than Murray.

The 25th and 27th National Guard Brigades, formed in October 1914, were the backbone of Scowley's hands, each with two regiments and a machine-gun battalion, each regiment with three battalions and a machine-gun company, and a 10th Field Artillery Brigade, together with a number of garrison and support units, for a total of 26,000 men, armed with about 200 machine guns and 72 old field guns—the vast majority of these forces and equipment were stationed in several barracks around Honolulu.

While General Scowley was working to strengthen Hawaii's land defenses, General Pershing's U.S. Intervention Force was mired in the Mexican Revolution, where the best officers of the U.S. Army were sent, and the new Hawaiian garrison was not trained by a lack of good officers—in fact, these units had only received less than three months of integrated training.

The navy has nine coastal defense batteries equipped with 56 large and small guns, of which only 20 are large-caliber heavy guns: two 12-inch guns, two 10-inch guns, five 8-inch guns, and 11 6-inch guns—all old items removed from decommissioned warships. The batteries were commanded by naval officers, the gunners were usually filled by naval reservists, and the defense of the batteries themselves was the responsibility of the army. There are also improvised batteries that have just begun construction, and they are empty.

Most of the batteries were hastily built in recent years, the guns lacked protection and camouflage, the firing range was not ideal, the firing range was also limited, and the power of the shells was insufficient.

There are also some older batteries with Civil War-era cannons – which basically only exist as tourist attractions.

Supplies and ammunition were too good - the warehouses at Pearl Harbor and Honolulu were filled with large quantities of supplies that would have been needed to supply the entire main fleet.

In October 1914, the U.S. military set a defense requirement for Oahu: Assuming that the main force of the naval fleet was still on the east coast, Oahu would suddenly be attacked by a landing force of the opposing side, so that the garrison on the island would hold out for at least five to six weeks before waiting for reinforcements from the main fleet. It will take six to eight months to reach this goal.

By mid-November, after the main U.S. fleet had completed its buildup on the west coast, the defense requirements for Oahu had been reduced to only two to three weeks, and to achieve this goal, it would only take another two to three months to carry out the various constructions that had already begun.

Now, most of the construction to meet the November requirements has been completed, and the garrison is preparing for battle overnight, but even if it does manage to hold out for two to three weeks, what will happen after that? Will the main fleet, which has already suffered heavy losses, come back for reinforcements? If you think about it, you know that the Tao is impossible, and that is tantamount to self-defeat!

Defeat is inevitable, but as the commander of more than 20,000 officers and soldiers, it is simply inconceivable to surrender on his knees without firing a shot.

In any case, it is necessary to inflict maximum damage on the opposing side before their own troops completely lose the will to fight. Safeguarding the honor of the U.S. Army and showing the indomitable spirit of the Americans, this is the meaning of our fighting!

Scauley had already made up his mind.