Chapter 656: The Battle of Annihilation
Zou Degui's threats hit almost all the key points of the Americans, and what the Americans are most worried about now is the Confederate government in the south and the Dongshang Republic that they are unwilling to recognize. Although Charlemagne was extremely afraid of these threats, he did not let go easily, and he had no right to reply to anything, so he could only wait for Washington to be consulted.
Charlemagne still has Washington to ask for, and King Nualino of Hawaii has no one to ask for, and he has to bear all the pressure alone. Like Li Zhenhe and others, Feng Zhenyu, who was born in the Taiping Army, chose a different path. After studying for two years, he took off his military uniform early and became a member of the civilian system, and implemented the attitude of the Taiping Department in favor of Zou Degui, and became a subordinate under Secretary of State Zou Xiang. After he entered the Iolani Palace alone, he used an attitude a hundred times stricter than Zou Degui to say what Zou Degui said to Charlemagne, and said it again to Nunalino. He didn't make any requests, just informed him that North Manchuria had officially started a war with Hawaii.
"Your Majesty, farewell!" After Feng Zhenyu finished what he had to say, he turned around and prepared to leave, he was also a little weak-hearted, since he saw Nunarino in strange costumes, he had been thinking about whether this guy could eat people or not. Although he is an envoy of a great power, he is not sure whether these brown-skinned guys will abide by the rules of the two countries not killing each other, in case they are stewed, it will be a big loss.
"Messenger, you can't ...... like this" Feng Zhenyu walked out of the door, and Nualino finally reacted, this poor king couldn't even figure out where Japan was, and of course he couldn't figure out how he suddenly became an ally of Japan!
Feng Zhenyu didn't turn around to explain anything, although Hawaii had a small mistake, but their main crime was that the geographical location was too good. The so-called innocent puff is guilty, and the weak Hawaii has long been targeted by the world powers, Britain, France, the United States, North Manchuria, and even the newly civilized Japan, all have the intention to annex them. This time, Hawaii is in the hands of Guo Xing'a, whether they are guilty or not, they have to be dealt with, Feng Zhenyu has nothing to say, the weak eat the strong, this is the most basic international law.
Guo Xing'a has long coveted Hawaii, Ma Sandu once tried to overthrow the Hawaiian Kingdom, where will they talk to Nunarino about any reason, they are here to grab territory. From the beginning of the raid on Tokyo Bay, a conspiracy against Hawaii unfolded. The East Ships were deliberately released by the Manchurian Navy, and as Masuda Toranosuke suspected, it was the Manchurian Navy that deliberately lured them to Hawaii under the pretext of starting a war against Hawaii. Now Hawaii is very cooperative in accommodating the East Ship, and even more cooperatively attacking the Manchurian Fleet, everything falls into the calculations of the North Manchurian General Staff, and the only thing left is war.
Five minutes after Feng Zhenyu returned to the fleet, Ma Erwei ordered the detachment to launch an artillery bombardment on Honolulu Harbor. The coastal artillery of the Kingdom of Hawaii was all purchased from the British Empire, and the quality was absolutely passable, and the artillery training was also very good, but unfortunately they purchased it too early. These old cannons in the Qianlong period, in addition to the big iron ball, can also launch some debris, and they can't be put on the table at all in modern warfare. In the face of the Manchurian fleet, which launched an artillery attack from 5,000 meters away, Hawaii's coastal defense artillery could not even touch people's hair, and could only stare at and be beaten.
The Hawaiian Kingdom's shore defense positions were all scrapped within ten minutes of the battle, but the port of Honolulu still resisted for more than two hours, because the east ship that was blocked in the harbor had only one option to fight side by side with the Hawaiians. The iron-clad East Ship was indeed much stronger than the Hawaiian coastal defense position, but their resistance was doomed to be meaningless, and soon the East Ship, which carried the hope of the Japanese Navy, was sunk in the port of Honolulu.
The East Ship was able to fight against eight cutting-edge warships for two hours, and it was also Ma Erwei's sincerity to release the water, because Feng Zhenyu wanted the effect of a joint operation between the Japanese army and the Hawaiian army. There was little point in creating this scene, but it would make North Manchurian less diplomatically strain after the destruction of Hawaii. Although Hawaii's shortcomings have been grasped before, after all, the time is too short, and there is not much evidence that can be taken to make a move, so the British have a lot of excuses to find trouble. This time, with the evidence that the Japanese army and the Hawaiian army were working together against the Manchurian army, the British wanted to make trouble again, and they would have some trouble.
After an artillery bombardment disintegrated Honolulu's shore fire, the newly formed 4th Marine Brigade launched a landing operation against Honolulu under the leadership of Brigade Commander Chung Tae. Zhongtai was born in the local Eight Banners and Red Flag, surnamed Guo Luo Luo, and is considered to be one of the fastest local cutting-edge generals. However, because of the local Eight Banners system, he has little power in the army, and he is often attacked by other factions, which leads to his overly cautious character. Although even if he fought a group of natives in Hawaii, although the shore fire force has been completely annihilated, Zhongtai is still very serious, and he has done every detail of the landing battle. Ma Erwei and Feng Zhenyu, who were very familiar with the affairs of the army, all pouted slightly.
"Loyal brigade seat, it's too cautious to use soldiers!" Feng Zhenyu himself was born in the infantry, and Zhongtai's arrangement of troops made him a little disgusted.
"It's not easy! This is not to seek merit, but to seek no fault! Although Ma Erwei has been on the ship for many years, he also feels that he is better than Zhongtai's command.
"Destroy such a small place, don't be in a hurry, it's good to be stable!" Feng Zhenyu didn't know how to comment on Zhongtai's performance, but no one could say that he was wrong to do so.
"Hmmm! Hold it down! Ma Erwei didn't want to say anything more, but he felt a little uncomfortable.
Ma Erwei had seen Zhongtai before, and at that time Zhongtai was only a battalion commander, but he was much stronger than he is now, and he was also a young man who dared to fight and was very energetic. After a few years of experience, the edges and corners of Zhongtai have been smoothed, although people can't be said to be depressed, but they are too conservative, as if they are always worried. Chungtai is not a single person, but a group of people, and most of the new generals who have no foundation in the army are like this. In the long run, I am afraid that the future Manchurian army will no longer have famous generals, because the faction will suppress the willingness of those potential famous generals to forge ahead. Ma Erwei didn't want to offend some people, but he saw some deficiencies in the Manchurian army, and out of loyalty to Guoxinga, he decided to write them down and report them directly to Guoxinga after he returned.
Feng Zhenyu was using various rhetoric to cheer up the soldiers, Ma Erwei was thinking about how to report the bad habits of the army to Guoxinga, but the Fourth Brigade had already started a battle with the Hawaiian army. After the loss of the coastal defense position, the Hawaiians quickly organized a defensive position in depth inland, which was a very good idea, but unfortunately their combat power was too weak. Hawaiians have just emerged from tribal life, and they still have a lot of remnants of tribal times in their lives. Although they had bought a large number of muskets from the Europeans and were already able to use them skillfully, they were still a long way from becoming an army.
In the face of the Manchurian Army's three-three straggler assault tactics, and in the face of more advanced machine guns and rapid artillery, the Hawaiians had no power to fight back, and the formation they had painstakingly assembled collapsed in only one round. The people who really blocked the advance of the Manchurian Army were Masuda Toranosuke and others, who had just abandoned ship and landed. The Japanese were more advanced in weapons than the Hawaiians, and although their tactics were relatively backward, relying on the buildings in the city still played a role in temporarily slowing down the pace of the Manchurian army.
The Japanese soldiers did not know what the point of them stopping the Manchurian Army was, nor did they know that they should cooperate in the battle, they just did their duty as Japanese soldiers. They fled all the way from Japan to Hawaii, they lost their warships, and now all they could do was fight to the death with the Manchurian army and shed their own blood for their emperor. The Japanese army only fought to the death, they didn't know Hawaii, and they didn't think Hawaii had anything to do with them, they only knew that the Manchurian army was their enemy, and all they could do was fight the enemy until they died.
If the Manchurian army advanced strongly, the Japanese army would not be able to resist it, but the cautious Zhongtai was very concerned about the casualties of his own troops, so he would not fight the Japanese army at all. Street fighting represents high casualties, how Zhongtai is willing to give up, so he resorted to a common method in street fighting in the Manchurian army - heavy artillery to open the way.
When the Japanese began to defend with buildings, the Manchurians stopped attacking and waited for the arrival of artillery in the rear. The 70-mm infantry run and the 105-mm light * cannon are both sharp weapons for street fighting and demolition, and all of them can be used for one cannon and one house, or even one cannon and one yard. Zhongtai cared about the casualties of his own soldiers, but he did not care about the casualties of the Hawaiian people, and all the buildings that seemed to be a possible threat became the targets of demolition and relocation by the Manchurian artillery.
The Japanese soldiers who were hiding in the shadows and preparing to attack the Manchurian Army waited for a long time and did not wait for the shadow of a person, they only waited for artillery shells. When the Manchurian army came to them, even if they were still alive, they were buried in the rubble, and there was no longer a cold gun to sneak up on anyone. Military dogs can quickly find seriously injured Japanese soldiers who are waiting to be killed, sometimes someone will come up to mend the knife, sometimes there is no one to mend the knife, and the tusks of the military dog will bite them to death.
The compound where Masuda Toranosuke and Shimada Kameishiro were located had not yet been greeted by Manchurian artillery fire, but they were already desperate, and they did not want their dogs to die at the hands of the enemy. Two samurai who overthrew the samurai society and died by piercing each other's abdomen, they still chose the samurai's way of death, and in their hearts, they were still samurai.
Four hours after the battle began, the 4th Marine Brigade captured Iolani Palace, the royal palace of Hawaii, and captured King Nuarino of Hawaii. Eleven days later, the Northern Manchurian Army occupied all of Hawaii, and the Kingdom of Hawaii was completely destroyed. On the same day, Pi Runmin, the first assistant of the cabinet of North Manchuria, announced to the world that North Manchukuo had annexed Hawaii, and Hawaii had become a province of North Manchuria, and officially changed its name to Honolulu.