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Chapter 41 Arriving in Hawaii

Other Qing officers and soldiers were also mixed with Chilean mercenaries and assigned to each ship, allowing Chilean sailors to take them, namely Chilean sailors as the main ones and Qing sailors as the deputy, in order to learn combat experience and skills from the Chilean navy. Due to language differences, communication was difficult, but fortunately, they were all in the same journey. After half a month of cooperation and training, both sides can basically understand the daily and combat terms. This is really too precious for the Qing officers and soldiers. After half a month of getting along, everyone has established a good relationship with each other. For a long time, everyone will fight together. Especially after Zhang Yunfei's later comrades theory, everyone has become a group.

As it took a long time to sail, in order to better integrate the fleet, Zhang Yunfei specially arranged evening exercises outside the morning exercises. At noon, all officers and soldiers wiped the warships together, which not only strengthened the maintenance of the warships, but also prevented the soldiers from having to do nothing to cause conflicts. This suggestion was praised by officers of various ships such as Pablo, which made Zhang Yunfei look a little more beautiful.

When reorganizing the Marine Corps, Zhang Yunfei also followed the organization of later generations.

Full name: First Regiment of the Third Marine Division of the Nanyang Fleet of the Qing Empire

Leader of the regiment: Lieutenant Colonel Zhao Gang

Deputy Commander: Lieutenant Colonel Li Jun

Battalion Commander: Chief Li Desheng

Battalion Commander of the Second Battalion: Major Wang Baoqiang

Battalion Commander of the Third Battalion: Major Wang Wei

Battalion Commander: Corporal Liu Dazhuang

Transportation Battalion Commander: Major Zhang Yun

Captain of the Supervisor Team: Lieutenant Colonel Wang Meng

Originally, Zhang Yunfei wanted to call the first division and expressed his first team, but he remembered the way the People's Liberation Army in later generations to scare the enemy, so he changed it to the third division, making the enemy think that he still has two divisions. Zhang Yunfei had great hope for this first regiment, and all of them were Mauser rifles and six machine guns (machine guns) were all assigned to the first battalion to strengthen firepower and give full play to the greatest advantage. The artillery battalion was equipped with 10 80mm Krupp camp cannons and 6 75mm Krupp guns.

In the words of later generations, this is a total of all the masters of the squad. As for Wang Meng's supervising team, Zhang Yunfei thought about it for a long time and thought it was necessary. After all, the bad habits of the Qing army for many years were there, and it could not be corrected for a while. If there was a real battle, Zhang Yunfei had no place to go back. For this reason, he personally guarded Wang Meng, a group of 25 martial arts masters, were all assigned to the supervising team to protect Zhang Yunfei in daily life and supervise Zhang Yunfei in wartime.

In the past half a month, Zhang Yunfei trained the Marine Corps every day, mainly standing in military postures, push-ups, etc., which can be provided on the warship. Of course, it is not possible to carry out at the same time. The warships are not that big, and they are carried out in small units. At the same time, the supervision team is supervised. Whoever makes mistakes will be punished. This is also an indirect way to establish military power. When arriving in Hawaii, although this unit does not know how powerful the combat effectiveness is, the minimum military momentum is coming out. When the navy personnel look at these Marine soldiers, from the initial ridicule to the appreciation and respect of the present, these Marine soldiers who have suffered for half a month feel happy. At the same time, they also feel Zhang Yunfei's painstaking efforts and respect Zhang Yunfei more.

The Chilean officers were no longer surprised by Zhang Yunfei's actions because they were used to it, and their views on this boss changed day by day.

During this period, due to the emergency fuel of the original Nanyang Navy's ship, Pablo's suggestion was to let other ships be dragged with ropes. However, Zhang Yunfei wanted to integrate the officers and soldiers of each ship as soon as possible to improve combat effectiveness as a whole. In order to step up training, he rejected Pablo's suggestion. So Zhang Yunfei had to steal coal from several foreign transport ships, but he did not hurt anyone. Pablo's explanation was also very familiar with Zhang Yunfei's explanation, but he still blamed him a few words. For the two who had become good friends, it was obvious that Pablo's reproach was to indulge him.

"Boss! Look ahead is Oahu, the most beautiful island in Hawaii!" Pablo put down his telescope and pointed to the island in the distance and said. Everyone changed his name to Commander Zhang Yunfei. Only this diehard still calls Zhang Yunfei the boss, and said in a preface: 'It's so kind!' But Zhang Yunfei didn't care, let him go.

After hearing Pablo's words, Zhang Yunfei picked up his telescope and looked at the island in front of him, thinking to himself: 'This is the place that people all over the world yearn for in the future. The scenery is still pleasant now, but there are fewer beach facilities and crowded lively.'

Thinking that this place will be incorporated into the United States in a few years, Zhang Yunfei couldn't help but sigh: "What a great place! Unfortunately, it will be occupied by the Americans!"

Pablo did not hear the meaning of Zhang Yunfei's words, but he said angrily, who had never had a good impression of the United States: "It is not enough for these damn Americans to bully these Hawaiians. Last year, he actually launched a rebellion to imprison the Queen of Hawaii. I heard that a republic is being planned recently, and the US government just ignores it and allows these barbarians to do whatever they want!"

"Oh, you said the United States did not deliberately launch a coup? I'm quite interested in telling me about these savages!" Zhang Yunfei asked.

"Okay!" Pablo then explained the story about Hawaii to Zhang Yunfei.

It turns out that the United States did not adopt a policy of expansion and annexation to Hawaii for many reasons.

Pablo told Zhang Yunfei: "Because there are many powerful countries to protect this Hawaii. When the British, French and Spanish discovered this, they claimed sovereignty over it. Later, after Britain supported the Kingdom of Hawaii established by King Kamehameha I of Hawaii, he announced his protection over the Kingdom of Hawaii. Because Britain and the United States were still fighting every few days, the United Kingdom was worried that the United States would have a springboard to interfere in Asian affairs after intervening in Hawaii."

In the middle of this century, the United States and Japan were worried that the other party would annex Hawaii would become a hidden danger that threatened the territorial security of both sides, so they successively announced their recognition of the sovereignty over the Kingdom of Hawaii and opposed the annexation plans of other countries. Therefore, neither side dared to intervene too much in Hawaii's politics. Therefore, both sides adopted a hidden approach, which was to immigrate to Hawaii, trying to influence the foreign policy of the Kingdom of Hawaii through immigration. Therefore, Hawaii was able to achieve decades of peace.

Zhang Yunfei asked again: "What about this Hawaii coup?"

Pablo Haha laughed and said, "This coup! It's a game! On January 17 last year, Queen Liliu Okarani, an immigrant American white farmer, had a dispute over tax evasion. The Queen wanted to confiscate his farm, so he went to find the US ambassador to Hawaii, missionary John B. Stevens, to help. As a result, Mr. John B. Stevens did not hear him clearly and mistakenly thought the Queen wanted to expel the missionary. So he boldly ordered the Navy soldiers on the US Boston who were preparing to go to Asia in Hawaii at that time surrounded the Hawaiian royal family.

.As a result, the matter was a big deal, both sides were unreasonable. In the end, Mr. John Stevens arrested the queen and forced the queen to abdicate. At the Iolani Palace, under the coercion of machine guns from American merchants and American soldiers, everyone was surprised that Queen Liliuokarani had no choice but to announce her abdication in fear. In the end, this incident turned into a coup. Even the preacher's bold move, Grover Cleveland, felt that it was illegal, but the US Congress did not take it seriously."

"There is no need to ask about European powers such as Britain and France?" Zhang Yunfei continued.

Pablo replied: "That's certain to ask! But the US Congress said: 'The American naval soldiers did not participate in this coup, but were only responsible for maintaining public order. Moreover, the US Navy left the second day of the coup. The people in the coup were Hawaiian citizens, and the United States had no right to interfere!' There was no way for Britain and France to do this attitude towards the United States. Because Britain and France were in conflict, they did not want to offend the United States. Japan was busy preparing to go to war with your country, and they didn't care about Hawaii. In the end, they both put pressure on Hawaii. These people had no choice, so they sought help from the United States. US President Grover Cleveland was a Democratic conservative who tended to British isolationism and opposed the development of the US ocean navy. They did not want to offend the great powers. Therefore, they avoided the participants of these coups. This is not! What should we do if these coup politicians have not yet figured out what to do?"

"So that's it!" Zhang Yunfei heard Pablo's commentary and thought: 'It's not in mind now, but William McKinley, a Republican militant who was elected president the following year, was different. At that time, he advocated a tough foreign expansion policy, and was keen on naval work with Navy Secretary Herbert, and fanatically worshiped Mahan, and even more strongly advocated the importance of sea control. He forced the British West Indies squadron in the Caribbean to give in the British concession in the Jamaica incident, and launched the Spanish-American War against Spain. At the same time, in order to annex Hawaii, he fought a year and a half military confrontation with the Japanese fleet in Hawaii, and developed a large naval plan, entered the Pacific Ocean, and proposed an unreasonable opening-door policy to the great powers. The reason for all this was the more greedy American caused by the British concession after the Hawaii coup.'

Zhang Yunfei thought that these things were about to come soon, and he had a headache. What should he do? Knowing the US Asian policy, he knew that the future of the United States would be the biggest obstacle to China's rise. It is no exaggeration to call it an enemy, because the US Asian policy was also one of the reasons for China's humiliation in the first half of the 20th century. How can we try our best to prevent the US, a huge, dangerous and cunning enemy? Perhaps it is possible to encounter unexpected gains in Hawaii!

Just as he was thinking, Pablo shouted: "Here! Arrival! There is Pearl Harbor on Oahu Island in front!" Perhaps Pablo thought that Zhang Yunfei had never been here and tried his best to introduce him to Zhang Yunfei.

But Zhang Yunfei was very familiar with this place. In order to cover it up, Zhang Yunfei had to smile bitterly and pretend to be curious and didn't know anything.

So, amid the joy of celebrating the officers and soldiers of the ship, the fleet headed towards Pearl Harbor on Oahu.
Chapter completed!
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