Hu Zhen was so annoyed by the battleship's lack of reaction that he almost ordered the destroyer to rush up and use torpedoes to sink it.

But this was stopped by the nuclear submarine: "I have sent a small drone into the bridge of the USS Maine to eavesdrop, the commander of the USS Maine, Rear Admiral Plande, has been killed, the USS Maine has been seriously wounded, a group of officers are arguing about whether to surrender, as long as you command the fleet to continue to maintain pressure, this USS Maine will soon be in the bag!" ”

"Okay, then wait!"

It was hard to stay up until the wee hours of the morning, when the Maine was slowing down to only five knots, and finally there was a reaction, and the lights on the Maine flashed outward, which was a light signal made up of Morse telegraph code: Surrender now!

In the early hours of the morning, more and more sea water poured into the Maine, and the speed of the Maine was already low to five knots, and when it was in danger of sinking at any time, the officers who insisted on refusing to surrender finally gave up, so the Maine gave the signal of surrender.

"Nima's, they are all about to sink before they surrender!" Hu Zhen scolded angrily, but he immediately ordered a ship to get close to the Maine, and quickly dispatched a damage management team to help the Maine repair it, so that it would not really sink to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean to feed the fish.

At this point, the Hawaiian naval battle between the Huaxia Army and the Mi Army has finally come to an end!

In this battle, the Huaxia Army did not sink a single ship, sinking eight ships, including the Rimi Army cruisers Enterprise, Arkansas, Manassas, Cushing, Seattle, Chicago, Pittsburgh, and the communication ship Dolphin, and captured six warships, including the cruisers Baltimore, Charleston, Dahlgren, Boston, Atlanta, and the battleship Maine.

After the news came out, for a while, world public opinion was in an uproar, and I don't know where this Huaxia Guild came out of it was so powerful:

It was enough to defeat the Dutch fleet by sneak attack twice in the South Seas, but in Hawaii in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, two more Mi fleets were defeated, and even one battleship was captured, which was unprecedented in history!

There are endless quarrels within the country over how to deal with the sudden rise of the Huaxia Guild, and many politicians are fighting for their own interests. have pointed the finger at the current President Groff? Cleveland.

Grove? Cleveland became a scapegoat for all parties, but had to find a way to negotiate with the Huaxia Guild.

If the people of the United States can meet their own requirements, Hu Zhen will not mind negotiating to solve the problem.

But before the negotiation, Hu Zhen decided to add some ingredients to the people of the United States to taste.

He ordered the immediate recall of the two battleships, the Dahua and the Daxia, which had been purchased through South American countries. Coming to Hawaii.

The Dahua and Daxia were battleships ordered by Hu Zhen from Germany through Argentina and Chile, and were designed by the nuclear submarine supercomputer system based on the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan of the Beiyang Fleet, but they avoided many shortcomings of the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan. It was launched in January 1887 and completed in August 1887 with a displacement of 8,270 tons. In order to increase the rate of fire, instead of using the heavy guns with a caliber of 305 mm and a barrel of 25 times the diameter on the Dingyuan and Zhenyuan, two triple six guns with a caliber of 210 mm and 45 times the diameter of the main guns were adopted, and the theoretical rate of fire could reach three rounds a minute, which was more than 9 times the rate of fire of the main guns of Dingyuan and Zhenyuan.

The main situation of Dahua and Daxia: the maximum speed is 17.5 knots, two triple 210 mm main guns in the front and rear, twelve 120 mm secondary guns, and twelve 75 mm secondary guns.

In addition to the Dahua and Daxia, Hu Zhen also transferred four cruisers from Nanyang to Hawaii to join the cruisers Qilong, Qiming, and Qixing. Bringing the cruisers Boston and Atlanta, which were lightly wounded among the prisoners, and six transports, a total of seventeen ships, marched majestically towards the west coast of the United States.

After the Vitesse fleet was annihilated, the west coast of the United States at this time was extremely empty, leaving only some old warships or small ships left, where was the opponent of the Huaxia fleet?

When the Chinese fleet arrived outside the port of San Diego, it sank four torpedo boats that rushed out, and fired a burst of shells at the empty port, which frightened the people in the port of San Diego to flee inland.

Seeing that San Diego had nothing to fight, Hu Zhen commanded the Huaxia Army fleet to go north along the west coast of the United States to Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and other places. In three small battles in a row, he sank more than a dozen old ships of the United States, and almost swept the entire west coast of the United States.

The west coast was attacked, and it was too late for the warships on the east coast to be transferred to the west coast to fight. The entire United States government and opposition are in a panic, Democratic President Groff? Cleveland's proposal for negotiations was finally echoed by the majority of the people, especially those who were industrialists and businessmen, who, at the instigation of Hu Zhen's instructions to the two major capital conglomerates, Ou Lang and Frodo, had launched a merchant petition movement to negotiate with the Huaxia Guild in order not to interrupt normal trade.

Under pressure from all sides. The United States had no choice but to quickly contact the Huaxia Army, saying that it would immediately negotiate, and the representative sent by it was Secretary of State Thomas Francis Bayard.

Hu Zhen asked Foreign Minister Niu Quyun to attend the negotiations on behalf of the Huaxia Association.

However, the negotiations did not go well at the beginning.

First of all, the negotiation on the place of negotiation took a day from both sides, the Huaxia army proposed to be on the Huaxia army's warship, but the rice people were on the territory of the United States, and finally the two sides agreed to negotiate on a scrapped cargo ship outside the port of San Francisco.

Hu Zhen's conditions to the United States through Niu Quyun are very simple, there are only five:

1. In the Hawaiian rebellion, the United States suffered eight deaths and eleven Hawaiian nationals due to the participation of the Mi army, and wanted to apologize to the Hawaiian Kingdom and pay compensation of 1 million pounds;

2. The United States shall compensate the Huaxia Army for the losses incurred by the Chinese Army in counterattacking the Mi Army for the military expenses of 6 million pounds;

3. The Mi Army withdrew from Hawaii and no longer interfered in Hawaii's affairs, and the Mi country recognized Hawaii and the Pacific islands under its control as voluntarily incorporated into the Huaxia Guild;

Fourth, the United States shall not discriminate against the Chinese people, and compensate the Chinese people who have been damaged in the anti-Chinese movement of the United States;

5. The two sides will conduct fair trade, and the rice country agrees that the planting and industrial products in the areas controlled by the Chinese Association will enjoy the most-favored-nation treatment and enter the rice market with the lowest tariffs, and the Chinese Association will also recognize the most-favored-nation status of the rice country and allow the products of the rice to enter the market in the territory of the Huaxia Association normally.

Sixty-year-old Thomas Francis Bayard is a lawyer and a very experienced old politician, but in the face of the young Niu Quyun and the Chinese fleet waiting not far away, he has nothing to do, but it is his duty to fight for the interests of the United States, and he can only do his best. (To be continued.) )