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He will command the battle in his capacity as the chief of the general staff of the former enemy, and no one but the emperor can refuse his orders, and unless the emperor directly intervenes, all must carry them out at once, and those who violate them will be punished for disobedience.

The army fighting at the front must obey his orders, the navy fighting at sea must obey his orders, and even all the military institutions in the rear, even the civilian government, must obey his orders.

Deng Shicai did not waste a minute or a second of his time, he was busy reading everything related to the United States, the history of American wars, the biographies of American presidents, the travelogues about the United States written by Europeans, and so on, and he wanted to do everything possible to understand this enemy as much as possible.

He didn't look at the information he had gathered, because he knew that it would be outdated by the time he arrived in the United States, for example, he didn't know now that a naval battle had begun.

The Ming Navy fought the U.S. Navy for a naval battle in Hawaii.

The Ming Dynasty sent fifteen ironclad ships, supported by fifty logistics supply ships, to set off from Taiwan and reach Hawaii to fight this naval battle.

They set out after the declaration of war, and the weather in Hawaii is not very good during this season, and the rainy season from May to October is also a stormy season.

So they made ample preparations, but they didn't have any choice, the capture of Hawaii is extremely important, it is related to the victory or defeat of this war, and it may also be the only naval battle that the Navy will fight, the Americans leased the port of Hawaii as early as 1873, although they have not officially built a military port, but they can allow them to dock warships all year round, and the news before the war indicates that the United States has three ironclad ships where.

As for the ground forces, the troops stationed there by the US army did not exceed 3,000 people, which was less than half of the Marines accompanying the Ming Dynasty, and the armed forces of the Kingdom of Hawaii were not worth mentioning, and there was no regular army for a long time. Moreover, because the United States has penetrated Hawaii very strongly in recent years, most of the people who run plantations in Hawaii are American businessmen, who have seized a lot of privileges in Hawaii, government advisers are Americans, and even government officials are Americans, the United States is a local upper-class figure, and American businessmen have even been married to the Hawaiian royal family for a long time.

But this does not mean that Hawaii has a good relationship with the United States, on the contrary, because the Hawaiian government has always been cautious in maintaining its rule out of fear of being annexed by the United States, and the country that is most feared is the United States.

Therefore, it is possible that the military operations of the Ming Dynasty in Hawaii will be supported by the Kingdom of Hawaii.

At the folk level, although the United States occupies the upper echelon of the economy, more than half of the population of Hawaii is Chinese, Hawaii is an isolated Pacific Islands country, in 1791 King Kamehameha unified the islands, established a unified Hawaiian Kingdom, and soon Western missionaries came to the island, in the following hundreds of years, Christianity and Catholicism replaced the original Hawaiian religion, Westerners not only brought religious culture, but also brought viruses, Hawaiian population after the arrival of Westerners, Not only did it not grow, but it was reduced to one-third of the original size, and when the sugar industry developed, it required a large number of people, and had to bring in laborers from China and Japan, and now the population of the island is about 300,000, of which there are 150,000 Chinese, and only 1340,000 locals.

Just like in California, the Chinese here naturally revolted, but whether they could occupy the port forts and batteries was completely unknown, and after the declaration of war, the news here was cut off, and even if there was news later, the navy could not receive it, and in this era, the navy became deaf once it entered the sea.

Apparently, the uprising failed, and when Chen arrived at the port of Honolulu, he saw that the American flag was still flying on the port.

The three ironclad ships of the United States have already left the port to meet the battle, Chen Ada doesn't know what kind of fighting style this is, fighting for honor?

The flagship of the United States is the USS Maine, which is a 7,294-ton displacement, 17.45 knots, four 254mm and six 152mm guns.

The other two are the USS Columbia and its sister ship USS Minneapolis, with a displacement of 8,402 tons, equipped with 1 203mm and 2 152mm naval guns.

These are the three largest battleships in the United States, and the remaining cruiser Boston with a displacement of 3024 tons, the cruiser Charleston with a displacement of 3730 tons, it is worth mentioning that the Boston has a heavier cannon installed on a smaller displacement, with 2 203mm and 6 152mm naval guns, and the Charleston is modeled after the cruisers built by Armstrong for Japan and Chile, even the materials are all imported from Britain, the design concept is relatively new, and it was launched in 1884, It was the first American cruiser without sails.

Just a few warships worth mentioning, they dare to go out of the port to fight, can only say that their courage is commendable, but now the United States does not have a military port in Hawaii, Pearl Harbor will not be built until after the Spanish-American War, and Honolulu is a commercial port, lacking basic armaments, and the Americans do not have many choices, either go out of the port to fight, or leave and return home, obviously they do not plan to return home, they plan to fight for honor.

Chen Ada no longer has the anger of his youth, and he was quite touched when he saw what the Americans were doing, so he asked the warship to display the flag, asking the US military to lay down its arms in honor and promise to treat them with dignity in accordance with international conventions.

The Americans replied that the American military did not have the habit of engaging in reluctance with the aggressor, and asked the Ming Navy not to insult the US military or to insult itself.

After the arrogant answer of the Americans, they were greeted by intensive artillery fire, which lasted for more than an hour, and the American Hawaiian fleet bid farewell to the stage of history.

A naval battle that did not happen without any miracles, but a naval battle of absolute importance, ended, and soon Chen Ada landed in the port of Honolulu, and the Kingdom of Hawaii declared that it accepted the occupation of the Ming Dynasty, but it did not mean that Hawaii declared war on the United States, and they said that they were strictly neutral.

Chen Ada did not force the Hawaiian Kingdom to express its position, but only said that during the war, the Hawaiian port would be occupied by the Ming Navy, and hoped that the Hawaiian Kingdom would understand.

At this time, Chen Ada had already learned about the situation in Hawaii, and the local Chinese did launch an uprising, but the hasty uprising, not only did not take the port of Hawaii, but suffered heavy losses, and then they moved to the countryside and fought with some mercenaries of American plantation owners in the countryside.