Chapter 1459: The Pacific War Ends
With the retreat of the United States, the Chinese side is moving forward faster, although Hawaii is still a little defensive, the Americans also have to be faceless, even if they have actually given up Hawaii, but there will be some people left, these people are all abandoned, as long as the Chinese army arrives, they will surrender.
Even if the Americans actually retreated, the distance between the islands was too far, and the southwest Pacific Ocean was dotted with tens of thousands of islands, even if they only occupied the more valuable ones, there were thousands, and it took the Chinese fleet three months to take most of the islands.
Most of the islands in the entire Pacific Ocean have fallen into the hands of China, including Hawaii, the largest of them. Before, Yang Yuanzhao had only heard about the scenery of Hawaii, which is one of the most famous tourist areas in the world in the future, with tropical scenery and island scenery, and now, when this accurate map of Hawaii appeared in front of Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao was a little excited, this is a very good place, a place that can be used as a large base.
Hawaii is made up of 132 islands, with a total area of more than 16,700 square kilometers, which cannot be compared with the larger islands, or even China's Hainan Island.
It is located in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, if you go from China to the United States, Hawaii is right in the middle, and 16,000 square kilometers of land, not too big, not too small, enough to put a large military base, and even be able to provide some output, and accommodate a little bit of industry, which has a key role in the war between China and the United States.
The first thing Yang Yuanzhao noticed was Oahu, which is the third largest island in the Hawaiian archipelago, that is, the place where Honolulu was called, where Sun Yat-sen once studied in his youth, because it is located in the middle of the United States and Southeast Asia, and relatively peaceful, some big businessmen have also sent their children here to study, and it is currently the most populous place in Hawaii.
It stands to reason that among the Hawaiian Islands, Oahu is not the largest, the largest is the big island, which is called Hawaii Island, which occupies 7% of Hawaii's area and has more than 10,000 square kilometers of land, but this is a nascent island, and there are still several active volcanoes on the island, which are still increasing the area of Hawaii Island, and such islands cannot be used for military purposes.
China takes Hawaii, it must carry out military layout, and the military aspect, the most afraid is uncertainty, active volcanoes, God knows when it will erupt again, in case of an active volcano eruption at the beginning of the battle, even if it can't be sprayed on the military target, it is said that the volcanic ash that rises from the sky is a nightmare, so in the future on the island of Hawaii, only some basic development will be done, such as agriculture, which can not only ensure the basic needs of Hawaii, when anything crosses the ocean, the price will be expensive, However, if Hawaii has basic agriculture, the value created is far higher than the agricultural products themselves, not to mention that Hawaii can produce sugar, it is the best production area of sugar cane, and cash crops are much more valuable than ordinary grains.
The second largest island has more than 1,800 square kilometers of land, but there is also a dormant volcano, although it has never erupted since 1750, but who knows, these islands, for the time being, can only be used for civilian purposes, for the cultivation of tropical crops and sugar cane, at most a few simple military targets or airfields, for the last resort.
But one Oahu is enough, on the island, port experts quickly indicated the location of Pearl Harbor in the future, which is the most suitable place to build a large-scale military port and commercial port, as for the other Waikiki beach, it is more suitable to become a military base, more than 1,500 square kilometers of Oahu, is the most suitable place, its total area is more than three times that of Guam, even excluding the military base, there are a large number of suitable places for people to live, is the best choice.
Guam and Hawaii into the hands of China, two special military bases in the southwest Pacific, into the hands of the Chinese, for the time being, is enough, next, China needs to accumulate strength for the war with the United States in the Pacific, hold these islands firmly in its hands, especially build barriers, and even attack Australia from the direction of Guam.
In the past, he was a little conservative, in order to guard against the interference of the United States and Britain, he was steady in Australia, and now, when Guam and Hawaii fall into the hands, as long as a little preparation, these places can become a solid barrier against the attack of the United States, then from another way, directly attacking the hinterland of Australia, has almost been an inevitable choice
As for the fact that Australia has laid mines in all its ports, as long as there is enough patience, it can still be cleared, and in China's naval research institute, a minesweeper is being built specifically for mines.
Professional things are always more efficient than amateur things, Yang Yuanzhao is not an expert in military affairs, and he doesn't know much about the existence of minesweepers, but this thing doesn't have much technical content, find, fish, or blast, in short, concentrate the methods of dealing with mines on a ship, and then strengthen the performance of the ship from all aspects, China is different from the past, Yang Yuanzhao crossed from 1908 to the present, 8 years, in the crosser's golden finger and the metamorphosis of the all-in-one machine, China has undergone earth-shaking changes, and when the wave of industry is completely rising, the value created by 500 million Chinese is enough to promote China's development faster and faster.
China has made waves in Asia, reaching into Australia, China's strength has shown to the world, even its own allies, not all are happy, perhaps Austria-Hungary and Turkey, such as the country will be happy if it does not play any role at all, because China is a strong aid, directly with the United States, which will contain the energy of the United States, the United States has less support for Europe, and it is natural that they will be able to gain the upper hand. As long as the United States withdraws, the victory of the Allies will no longer be far away.
On the one hand, it is the inherent contradiction between Britain and Germany, but on the other hand, it is not Germany that wants to reshape its hegemony in the world, the time for Germany to rise is too short, in the Napoleonic era, Germany still existed in the form of the Duchy of Prussia, and it was France and Austria-Hungary that really decided the fate of Europe, and their struggle was the history of Europe.
From the first industrial revolution to the second industrial revolution, Germany rose, relying on strong technical strength and scientific and technological strength, Germany reorganized its military, not only unified the whole of Germany, but also defeated France, and won the Franco-Prussian War, Germany thus became the first power on the European continent, and from a principality of Prussia to the name of the German empire.
No matter how it rises, no matter how powerful it is, the major colonies in the world have been carved up, and Germany has only gotten a small piece of land in Africa, and in the Pacific Ocean, it has obtained many islands, which are either barren or islands, not only do not have any output, but cost Germany a lot of money, and the colonies in Africa for example, not only does Germany not get any benefits, but also has to provide a considerable amount of maintenance and construction costs every year, which is not cost-effective for Germany. Therefore, Germany was desperate to occupy Qingdao at the beginning of the 20th century, which can be regarded as China's Shandong, and included it in Germany's sphere of influence.
The war between the Entente and the Allies was actually a world hegemony, and whoever won could control the world hegemony, before, Germany had always been more confident in all this, but after China really went to war, he found that China was so powerful, China only supported Germany from business and from all sides, and under the premise of not really participating in the war, Germany from top to bottom, did not realize how powerful China was, after all, there were many countries that were rich before, but their combat effectiveness was scum.
But now, China is attacking the United States, 4 Emperor class, and the United States is all over the ground, Wall Street, Panama, and even 12 battleships, Germany, which knows China's heritage, knows very well how terrible China will be once it is armed, on the other hand, China is too greedy for land, China itself has 11 million, to 12 million square kilometers of land, is the second largest country in the world after Russia, but in Siberia, And after occupying Southeast Asia, China jumped to the first place in the world, but Russia, lost more than 7 million square kilometers of land, and was overtaken by China.
It's just that in this case, Germany will not be wary of China, no matter how much it develops, it is in Asia, but in the Far East, but this time it is against Australia, which really makes Germany realize that China is a lion in a cage, Napoleon is right, let him never wake up, once he wakes up, it will be a nightmare, he longs for everything related to the land.
If China gets the land of Australia again, perhaps, China's territory will exceed 30 million, the Kaiser thought of this, he couldn't help but smile bitterly, they were only about 700,000 before, from Russia occupied a large amount of land, and even hit Kulen, it was only 1.5 million square kilometers of land, only 20 of the ********, this difference is too big, although the land can not represent everything, Germany before 700,000 square kilometers of land, is also the first in Europe, However, land represents greater population tolerance, represents higher wealth, and it seems that Germany is also going to accelerate the pace of expansion. (To be continued.) )