Chapter 317: Changes in Hawaii (Final)
On 18 March, a steamer arrived in the United States with the news that the Kingdom of Hawaii had been overthrown by the Chinese. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
The news quickly spread throughout the United States and spread to Europe.
The current US President Benjamin Harrison was shocked when he learned the clear news, but he has been pushing for the annexation of the United States to Hawaii, why is there a Chinese-dominated country in Hawaii now, this is not good, the Chinese-dominated Republic of Hawaii is not in the interests of the United States, Benjamin Harrison now wants to do only one, immediately send troops to attack the Republic of Hawaii and occupy the Hawaiian Islands.
At this time, Benjamin Harrison's aides made some suggestions to Benjamin Harrison: It is very likely that the Chinese Empire will lead the Hawaii incident, the Chinese Empire has rapidly increased in strength, and has become an opponent of the United States in the Pacific.
However, the Chinese Empire did not directly annex Hawaii in its own name, but instead used the "delaying tactic", apparently not wanting to cause too much international impact, and slowly tried to establish a Republic of Hawaii first, and then annex the Republic of Hawaii into the Chinese Empire in the future.
If the Chinese Empire occupies Hawaii, the Chinese Empire's airships can threaten the security of the entire United States, and the Chinese Empire must not be allowed to occupy Hawaii.
Harrison's team agrees that they all want the United States to send troops to attack the Republic of Hawaii, but sending troops to the Republic of Hawaii still needs to be passed by Congress, and the President of the United States does not have that much power to send troops directly to the army.
At the same time, the Hawaii incident also spread to Europe, causing the whole Western world to shake, but the matter is related to the Chinese, most countries believe that this incident was planned by the Chinese Empire, but the Chinese Empire itself did not send any troops, and none of the government officials of the Republic of Hawaii have the nationality of the Chinese Empire, and the Chinese Empire can get rid of everything.
Moreover, Hawaii is in the middle of the Pacific Ocean and has little to do with European countries, and I am afraid that only the United States wants to go crazy because of the Hawaii incident.
If you want to get involved in this matter, you will basically have to face the Chinese Empire, but among the Western countries, only Britain, France, and Germany have the courage to confront the Chinese Empire, and even Russia in the north is being beaten by the Chinese Empire, but there is no power to fight back.
Britain and France were interested in this matter, but the power of Britain and France could not reach Hawaii, and now the United States could only confront the Chinese Empire by itself.
The United States, with the efforts of Harrison's team, a navy and an army are already preparing to set off on the campaign against the Republic of Hawaii in the near future, but things are stuck in Congress.
Harrison gave an "exciting" speech to the U.S. Congress, wanting to let members of Congress know the importance of the Hawaiian Islands, and the United States must send troops to occupy the Hawaiian Islands, otherwise the U.S. mainland will be threatened.
However, we must not forget that the United States has a two-party system, the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, and the two parties do not deal with each other, and there are relatively few opportunities for them to join forces.
Harrison is a Republican, and the Democrats are dragging Harrison back in Congress and disagreeing with the United States sending troops to Hawaii.
In this way, time passed day by day, and Harrison was in a hurry, but to no avail.
On March 26, an envoy from the Republic of Hawaii arrived in the Ryukyus and asked the Chinese Empire to send troops to protect the Republic of Hawaii.
The telegram was sent from the Ryukyus and soon came to Yan Xueyi, who agreed to send troops to protect the Republic of Hawaii.
On the same day, a Kunpeng-8 heavy bomber airship, a Kunpeng-8 heavy transport airship, two Kunpeng-7 medium bomber airships, one Kunpeng-7 medium transport airship, and three Kunpeng-6 light airships from the Ryukyu Air Force Base flew in formation toward the Republic of Hawaii.
The Pacific Fleet of the Imperial Chinese Navy, stationed in the Ryukyus, will also send a naval formation consisting of the ironclad ship Zhenyuan, the cruiser Laiyuan, and three new ships, a total of five warships, to the Republic of Hawaii.
In addition, the air force formation went first with two hundred army units, and the naval formation with a battalion of marines.
On the U.S. side, after Harrison's team paid part of the benefits, the Democratic Party finally relented, and Congress passed Harrison's application, and the United States will send troops to the Hawaiian Islands to eliminate the illegal regime on the Hawaiian Islands.
In fact, there are many people in the Democratic Party who think that they want to send troops to conscript the Republic of Hawaii, but because of the interests of the party, they have been delaying, and finally they will pass Harrison's application, and Harrison's team believes that the time has dragged on for a long time, everything is late, and it is useless to send troops again, so they pay some price and send troops to the Hawaiian Islands as soon as possible.
After the U.S. Congress approved Harrison's application, the U.S. fleet quickly set off and headed for the Hawaiian Islands, but what the U.S. military didn't know was that when the U.S. fleet was halfway there, the air force formation of the Chinese Empire had already arrived in the Republic of Hawaii, and when the U.S. fleet was three-quarters of the way through, a steamer bound for the United States brought the U.S. fleet the news that the Chinese Empire's airship had arrived in the Hawaiian Islands.
U.S. commanders don't know whether they should retreat back to the United States or move on, and if the U.S. fleet arrives in the Hawaiian Islands and triggers a major war between China and the United States, then there will be a big problem, and the United States does not believe that its strength can defeat the Chinese Empire.
Although the warships of the US Navy are already equipped with anti-aircraft artillery, this does not mean that the airship does not pose a threat to the warship, even if the airship flies into the air in order to avoid the anti-aircraft artillery, and drops bombs at high altitude to blow up the warship, if there are too many bombs dropped, the probability of hitting the battleship is still very high, and if the battleship is hit by a large bomb, the battleship will basically be scrapped.
In desperation, the U.S. commander could only send clippers to the United States to report that the U.S. fleet continued to advance toward Hawaii, albeit at a much slower pace.
The U.S. troops stationed in the Hawaiian Islands were also in trouble, and the government of the Republic of Hawaii sent emissaries demanding that the U.S. troops leave the Republic of Hawaii, which is now under the protection of the Chinese Empire.
However, the US troops stationed in Hawaii could not retreat easily when they did not receive an order from the mainland, but the behemoths floating in the sky made the US soldiers frightened, even if a bomb fell from the sky one day and killed them.