The Americans salute wittily, a small number of police in Panama City, who were already in the shadow of the bow, and when the Americans began to attack the city early in the morning, the police chief ran to report to Governor Guerrero in a hurry, this is obviously panicked, after all, the Yankees sent the Marines to land in Panama, and they did it once twenty years ago, and they were immediately ready to hide from you first.

Cai Sheng, the head of the Mutual Masonic Association, who had just gone out, had already received the news from the Intelligence Department, and had not expected that there would be shelling in the port, but he had just received a telegram from Wei Heng of the Intelligence Department before he hurried over, and sure enough, he intercepted Guerrero and his party who were about to run away.

At this moment, on the Chilean battleship Esmeralda, which was temporarily requisitioned, Vice Admiral Chen Ming watched the improvisation of the Americans in the distance with some amusement...... Of course, if you order the main gun to be pointed at the Yankees, it will be a threat at most!

Unless the other side takes the initiative to bombard, he will not provoke such a dispute, after all, it is not his task to provoke a war between two countries, and now that the Americans have obviously relented, this makes him immediately realize that solving the problem of Panama may be much more important and simple than he thinks.

"General, the main gun has been prepared, do you want to reload ammunition!" At this time, Xu Nanyang, a gun officer on the side, came to report.

Chen Ming smiled slightly, since the other party is so knowledgeable and interesting, we can't be too rude, he waved his hand, "The Yankees are really cheating, using such a small pipe to set off a salute...... Let them see the magnanimity of our Great China, order. The main guns of the Esmeralda and the Chiyou fired a round of salutes in order! ”

"Colonel...... The colonel ...... "A few kilometers away, the battleship Amphitlit went up. The lookout officer rushed into the command room with a look of surprise on his face. "The main gun of the Chinese is being turned to the right side of the battleship and is no longer pointing at the ......"

Rumble......

Suddenly, the first main gun of the Chinese battleship in the distance raised high in the bow let out an earth-shattering roar, huge firelight and black smoke gushed out from the muzzle, and the black fog and huge shock wave generated by the propellant seemed to stir up a black shock wave on the entire sea surface, this earth-shattering scene immediately shocked the entire Panama port, and then. Like dozens of trains roaring at the same time, the sound of huge cannons rumbled towards the shoreline.

After a few seconds, boom ...... With a loud bang, another twin main gun in the bow of the battleship Esmeralda rang out violently, and another earth-shattering salute rang out again!

At this time, on the two American battleships inside the port, from Colonel Michelle to the crew of the boiler room at the bottom, they had completely stopped what they were doing, and looked at the Chinese fleet that was moving from the mouth of the bay in the distance.

And obviously. Colonel Michelle's sentiments may have been much more complicated, as a veteran naval officer. The coastal defense ship Amphitrite under his jurisdiction was the main warship of the US Navy in the mid-to-late 80s, and it had a 10-inch and 30-diameter twin main gun that was by no means backward in the performance of the contemporary, so he was naturally most familiar with the sound of the 10-inch main gun shelling, and the scene in front of him and the huge cannon sound that continued to roar in his ears were obviously not caused by the main guns of this caliber on his own warship.

What surprised him even more was that with the sound of the main guns of the Chinese battleship in order, less than 1 minute later, the main gun of the first gun position of the battleship led by the opponent actually fired again...... He was still playing the main gun on the Amplit for 3 minutes, and he almost dropped his jaw at that time!

The huge movement in the port soon made the Panamanian patrol boats that had been driven by the Americans into the port and were not allowed to sail find a sense of belonging.

Less than one hour after the Chinese fleet entered the port one after another, a welcoming procession of nearly 1,000 Chinese and hundreds of Panamanian citizens appeared at the port, holding high the Chinese flag and the Colombian flag, and almost frantically staged a grand welcome ceremony that lasted for two hours in front of the American warship.

The vast majority of the Chinese who came to the scene were new immigrants in the past few years, but according to the nationality regulations of the Beijing government, they now de facto have dual Chinese and Colombian citizenship, but this obviously did not reduce their faith in the motherland on the other side of the ocean, especially when several huge warships, including the Esmeralda, Chiyu, and Ryukyu, sounded their horns again and fired a salute with 21 main guns, the whole Panama City was completely plunged into a carnival.

Soon, the Amphitlit coastal defense ship and other American warships were closely followed by three Kunlun-class destroyers, and the other party formed an intentional or unintentional encirclement around the American warship very casually, and what is even worse is that at close range, Colonel Michel saw at a glance the torpedo tubes on the side of the other battleship that were completely different from the American torpedo boats, and obviously all of them were aimed at him.

In this case, Colonel Michel's courage to fight, which had already disappeared, was directly transformed into a complete drop of arms, among the four battleships of the opponent, Colonel Michel was naturally the six 12-inch, 40 times the diameter of the main guns on the battleship of the Esmeralda, the opponent deliberately moored the battleship on the other side of the dock less than 1000 meters away from him, and the main guns on the battleship unabashedly maintained the orientation pointing to the American battleship.

Among the other two battleships, the Chiyou, which is full of cannon barrels, has always been a battleship with a high rate of return, especially the triple 210mm rapid-fire guns in the bow, and as for the two Ryukyu-class heavy cruisers, there is no doubt that they can easily annihilate their own American fleet......

Thinking of this, Colonel Michel gave a very wise order, "Order, immediately turn off the fire and anchor, send someone to inform the Chinese, I will meet with the commander of the Chinese fleet on behalf of the American side!" ”

Naturally, Colonel Michel's order was carried out immediately, but at this moment, the dock was crowded with Chinese and Panamanian people who had come to welcome the Chinese fleet, and the excited natives did not intend to let the Americans have a chance to disembark after seeing the American battleship anchored.

If it had been placed a few hours ago, this situation would have been completely impossible to happen, and a few 3-pounder guns on the side of the American battleship were nothing to show, but now in this situation, after Colonel Michel got the report, he had to order to immediately strengthen the patrol on the deck of the battleship to prevent more rotten fruit from flying on the battleship, and other than that, he had no more constructive ideas...... People are under the barrel of the gun, and they have to keep a low profile!

Contrary to Colonel Michelle, who had to keep a low profile, at the moment Panamanian Governor Guerrero is very high-spirited, as the chief executive of Panama, this time he withstood the threat of force from American gunboats, and fully earned face, and the subsequent development, due to the secret agreement with Cai Sheng, he naturally has some confidence in his heart.

At noon on January 22, 1898, Vice Admiral Chen Ming, commander of the Chinese Pacific Fleet, stepped off the battleship Esmeralda, and Governor Guerrero greeted the arrival of the Chinese fleet with unusual humility.

Under Cai Sheng's recommendation, Chen Ming shook hands with the most powerful magnate in Panama very calmly, and then said with a smile: "Governor Guerrero, China's investment in Panama has grown by leaps and bounds, and I would like to express my most sincere friendship to you on behalf of the Chinese government, so I also bring Premier Qin's greatest support to you, if there is a need in Bogotá, the Chinese Navy is willing to send a detachment here to ensure that our two countries have a peaceful atmosphere of cooperation!" ”

Guerrero was obviously a little shocked by the word garrison, in Cai Sheng's request to him, there was no such key clause, as a political figure, what this meant, he was very clear, although Panama now desperately needs the Chinese Navy and their giant ships and cannons, but if he proposed to let the Chinese garrison Panama, maybe he would immediately become the best target for political enemies and domestic public opinion attacks, and how he would die at that time, I am afraid he would not know.

However, now is not the time to open your mouth to reject the Chinese, the Yankees on the side are far more difficult to speak than China, not to mention, after all, China is a big country on the other side of the vast Pacific Ocean, the so-called political tactics of distant relations and close attacks, he naturally knows very well, the means of the United States of America to deal with Colombia, the lessons from the past are there!

Guerrero immediately pretended to be surprised, then smiled and came up to shake hands with Chen Ming, and then pointed to the thousands of people behind him, "General Chen, on behalf of the Panamanian State Government, I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to you for coming, the cooperation between Panama and China represents the common interests of the people and governments of the two countries, please be sure to thank Premier Qin...... Of course, I will also convey your advice to Bogotá immediately! ”

Chen Ming looked at the performance of this Colombian politician with a smile, and suddenly reached out and patted Guerrero's shoulder, which directly startled him, he didn't expect that the other party would raise his hand obediently as soon as he spoke, he just gave the other party a small hint, so that the other party had a psychological preparation, the Great Chinese Navy came from thousands of miles away, and fired a salute to you Colombian politicians like fireworks here!

You must know that the 305mm main gun has to be loaded with 240 kilograms of maroon explosives at one shot, and the entire Colombian industry is estimated to not be able to produce the explosion of the super-caliber salute with nearly 40 shots before and after just now...... But the Colombians will have to pay for the cost of the propellant, the coal burning of the warship, the cost of the temporary requisition of the Chilean warship, and the daily expenses of the Grand Navy...... In addition, the deterrent power of our giant ship cannons, it has to be sold at a good price, isn't it! (To be continued......)