The Ming war machine began to be activated, and the naval fleet, as well as many regular army units, were all ordered to converge at the mouth of the Yangtze River.

The Daming East China Sea Fleet dispatched fifteen ironclad ships and sixty Shenwei-class wooden warships, and the South China Sea Fleet dispatched five ironclad ships and twenty Shenwei-class wooden warships, for a total of twenty ironclad ships and eighty Shenwei-class warships.

On the army side, with Yan Yingyuan, commander of the Fourth Army, as the commander, he was preparing to dispatch five regular armies in advance, with a total of 100,000 troops, to land on the American continent.

The movement of troops and fleets, as well as the movement of ammunition, food, grass and other materials.

It is impossible for the Ming Dynasty to go to the American continent through the cold Bering Strait, and can only cross the Pacific Ocean directly.

The whole journey across the Pacific Ocean is undoubtedly too time-consuming and labor-intensive, and the logistical pressure is extremely high, so it is best to have a material transfer station in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

"The Hawaiian Islands are the best place to be a transit point!" Zhu Ci pointed to an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean on the map and said, it was the Hawaiian Islands.

The Hawaiian Islands happen to be located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, about the same distance from the Ming Province and the American mainland, and the Hawaiian Islands are large enough to store enough military supplies to be the most suitable place to serve as a transit point.

"The Emperor Shengming!" Li Yan nodded, and also thought that the Hawaiian Islands were the most suitable place to be used as a transit station.

Before the army landed, the transit station had to be established one step ahead.

Therefore, before the transport ship carrying the supplies set sail, some warships of the East China Sea Fleet and 3,000 regular army troops went to capture the Hawaiian Islands under the personal escort of Shen Jingchao.

To put it nicely, it was to conquer, but in fact, there was no resistance to the Hawaiian Islands at this time, only a few thousand Polynesian indigenous people who were still at the end of the Stone Age matriarchy.

The commander of the 3,000 regular army was a Ming army commander named Huang Xuan.

And this Huang Xuan is actually the grandson of Huang Degong, the commander of the Third Army.

Huang Degong is now over 60 years old, and as one of the six commanders of the Yinglong Army of the Ming Dynasty, Huang Degong is famous.

It is said that the tiger father has no dogs, but Huang Degong's son did not like the military from the beginning, but liked business, which made Huang Degong angry, heartbroken, and lamented that there was no successor to his prestige.

Fortunately, Huang Degong's grandson Huang Xuan seems to have inherited Huang Degong's courage and good fighting from generation to generation, although he is only twenty-four years old, he has made many meritorious deeds, performed well, and has been promoted from captain all the way, and now he is a regular army commander with a bright future.

After nearly a month of sailing, the East China Sea Fleet and the 3,000 regular army troops finally arrived near the Hawaiian Islands, and on the deck of the battleship, they were already able to see the island.

"Captain Huang, that's Hawaii Island!" Shen Jingchao pointed to the Hawaii Island in front of him and said to Huang Xuan.

Hawaii Island is the largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, and indigenous people are almost exclusively concentrated on Hawaiian Island.

The indigenous people of the Hawaiian Islands made their living by fishing and the first forms of agriculture.

When the Ming warship appeared, there were dozens of natives holding wooden thorns, fishing in the shallows, and one of the natives looked up and saw the Ming warship getting closer and closer.

The huge body of the battleship made the native's eyes widen instantly, thinking it was a mirage, and the native's eyes rubbed vigorously again, and looked!

"------------" Finally, the native shouted out in fear.

His voice woke up all the natives who bowed their heads and fished, and made them all look up at the sea, and immediately followed one by one, their eyes widened instantly, full of shock.

After a while, all of these natives rushed back from the shallow water to the shore, and some of them even returned to the tribe to bring rescuers.

After a while, as many as hundreds of young and strong natives rushed out with javelin spikes, and the number of them increased, and finally reached about 1,000 people, so many young and strong natives should be all the young and strong forces of the indigenous tribes on Hawaii Island, and these young and strong natives looked at the Daming warships that were getting closer and closer in horror, especially the two 5,000-ton battleships, which were too huge and too scary.

"These uncivilized natives!" On the battleship, Shen Jingchao looked disdainful.

A group of uncivilized natives, Shen Jingchao didn't plan to bully them, otherwise just a salvo of cannons on the two battleships would immediately kill and injure nearly half of these natives.

"Admiral Shen, send me to the transport ship, my army is ready to land!" Huang Xuan said to Shen Jingchao.

After a while, a transport ship approached Shen Jingchao's flagship, and Huang Xuan transitioned from Shen Jingchao's flagship to this transport ship.

With a wave of his hand, more than a dozen East China Sea Fleet warships spread out on both sides, while more than a dozen transport ships carrying three thousand soldiers of the regular army of the Ming Army slowly moved forward to the shore.

"The army has landed!" Huang Xuan ordered towards the three thousand Ming soldiers on more than a dozen ships.

Subsequently, 3,000 soldiers of the Ming Army began to land slowly.

In the face of the landing of the Ming soldiers, the natives were even more frightened, but they did not dare to act rashly, because the way the Ming soldiers appeared was beyond their cognition, and the military uniforms on the Ming soldiers were reflected by the sun, and in their eyes, there was always a different kind of mystery.

For the natives who still wear tree bark and at most a little animal skin around their waists, they don't know what clothes are at all, and they only feel that everything about the Ming soldiers is so mysterious.

"Ashore!" The first group of Ming soldiers to get off the boat, under the personal leadership of Huang Xuan, stepped on the water on the shallows and slowly advanced towards the shore.

Faced with the approach of the Ming soldiers, the natives could not control it, and kept retreating in fear, their eyes inevitably full of hostility.

Huang Xuan also ignored the hostility shown by the natives, and personally brought the first batch of soldiers ashore.

The policy of the Ming court was not to slaughter the natives as much as possible, so as long as these natives did not die by themselves, Huang Xuan would not take the initiative to order the army to launch a bloody attack on them.

Although the natives all clenched the spikes in their hands and looked unkind, they had not yet been able to muster the courage to attack the Ming army that had landed without figuring out the situation.

However, when Huang Xuan and other Ming soldiers who landed stepped across the shallows and actually landed on land, these natives finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to take action.

"-----------" saw that one of the middle-aged natives who seemed to be leading these young and strong natives shouted, and all the young and strong natives shouted, waving spikes in their hands and rushing towards Huang Xuan and other Ming soldiers, it seemed that they were planning to attack Huang Xuan and other Ming soldiers.

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