"General, Hawaii Island defenders telegram, Chinese troops landed on Hawaii Island, and the defenders surrendered after holding out for an hour." A few minutes after the message arrived on Hawaii Island, as if agreed, the defenders of Maui also sent a message of surrender to the Chinese army. These two messages became the key to Raymond's decision.

"Send a telegram to Washington, we surrender to the Chinese army, God bless America!" This moment has come, Raymond knows what the loss of Hawaii means to the United States, everyone in the command knows it, even the soldiers below know it, but the reality is very helpless, and surrender has become the only option.

At the end of the ten-day offensive and defensive battle on the Hawaiian Islands, the commander of the defending forces, Raymond, ordered the surrender to the Chinese army, Beasley handed over the flag of the 25th Division to the Chinese army, and more than 5,000 American soldiers obediently laid down their arms and waited for the Chinese army to receive them. The captives were to be used as construction workers in the Hawaiian Islands, and they needed to assist them in fortifications, roads, ports, airports, etc., and the strong constitution of the Western race was well suited to this kind of hard work, but when they returned home three years later, they were skinned and not at all strong.

In addition to more than 5,000 prisoners, the trophies of the Chinese army included huge quantities of military supplies and an almost complete Pearl Harbor, which were invaluable to the Chinese army. The U.S. military had been transporting war materiel to the Hawaiian Islands since before Yokosuka, and the volume of shipments peaked after the war began, and most of these supplies were stored in underground warehouses unaffected by the bombing. When the Chinese army attacked, the American troops retreated in a panic, and they did not have time to destroy these things, leaving all of them to the Chinese army.

The results of the material statistics were reported the next day, 25,000 rifles, 400 machine guns, 330 artillery pieces of various calibers, and 3,000 tons of ammunition. The rest of the weapons parts, reinforced concrete, canvas, military boots, raincoats, etc., more than 20,000 tons, these materials will provide great support for the Chinese army to defend the Hawaiian Islands.

The most important thing is the complete Pearl Harbor port facilities and wharf facilities, and the Chinese army engineers can only put them into use by installing some tower cranes, arranging warehouses and transporting them. Immediately after the Battle of the Hawaiian Islands, the Chinese army brought in a large amount of supplies for the construction of defenses and military airfields. Two months later, it became a fortified fortress again, with troops including the 1st and 2nd Marine Divisions and the 7th Army stationed here. More than 200 large-caliber coastal defense guns and more than 400 aircraft on board seven military airfields will make the operation here impregnable.

The acquisition of Hawaii also meant that the Chinese military completely gained naval supremacy in the North Pacific, from the East China Sea to the west coast of the United States, the Chinese navy warships galloped across the country. The Americans could only huddle on land protected by coastal defense artillery and aircraft, silently accumulating warships, planes, tanks, artillery, guns, and soldiers, hoping that the Chinese army would not attack their homeland.

Of course, Lu Liang will not touch the big hedgehog of the United States, at least not now. There are more cost-effective strategies for the United States, but after the Battle of Hawaii, the strategic focus of the Chinese army will shift to Japan.

The smoke of Pearl Harbor completely dissipated, and Hua Guotian shamelessly announced that the Hawaiian Islands would henceforth become Hua Guo's territory and set up a special city of Pearl Harbor. Local Americans and other Westerners were sent home, and no whites wanted to stay in this land ruled by the demons of the East. A large number of garrisons showed that they were civilized, and that they came from countries with thousands of years of civilizational traditions, and the locals were quickly impressed by the shyness and humility of the Chinese soldiers, mainly because of the prosperity they brought to the local economy.

The soldiers' salaries and allowances were not spent much except at home and abroad. Most of the supplies were provided by the military, including cigarettes, and money was nothing more than a number for soldiers who were often in danger. Therefore, the local fruits, lobsters, fish, coconut water, etc. became the goods purchased by the soldiers, and the local people quickly came out of the trauma of the war, and small traders and vendors gathered near the barracks to set up stalls to do business, and those Chinese soldiers were more generous than the Americans, and they treated themselves more equally, so they were more popular with the locals.

A fleet of three light carriers, four cruisers, and eleven destroyers, slowly sailed into Pearl Harbor under the guidance of barges. The construction of Taiwan-class light aircraft carriers was very fast, and after the end of the Hawaiian War, three light aircraft carriers also just finished sea trials and were handed over to the navy.

The Taiwan-class light aircraft carrier can carry 15 fighters and 33 bombers and torpedo planes, which is about half the combat capability of the general-class fleet aircraft carrier. However, the construction of fleet aircraft carriers is slow, and the number of four is not enough to maintain control in the North Pacific and South China Seas, so the construction of fast light aircraft carriers is a good supplement. The Taiwan-class light aircraft carrier, which is built with a modular design, has many parts and components that can even be used with "self-strengthening wheels", and can be built in seven months at the earliest, and the advantages are obvious. Of course, the shortcomings are also obvious, the Taiwan-class light aircraft carrier's ability to resist strikes, wind and waves, and range are very average, but in the calm and warm Pacific Ocean, these shortcomings are covered up to a certain extent, and short- and medium-distance operations with islands as the core do not require much range.

The fleet of three light aircraft carriers will replace the aircraft carriers Huo Qubing and Bai Qi and assume sea supremacy near the Hawaiian Islands. The two fleet carriers returned to the Zhoushan military port to rest for a period of time and prepare for the next stage of the battle.

In addition, the long route from the East China Sea to Hawaii was filled with Chinese transport ships and merchant ships, and these fleets also required a large number of warships to escort them. Shipyards are building destroyers and cruisers to make up for the lack of escort ships, but the most efficient ones are aircraft.

Two Ryukyu-class escort carriers have already joined the escort formation, plying between the Hawaiian Islands and Okinawa. This kind of escort aircraft carrier is more rudimentary, using 10,000-ton transport ships for modification, adding flight decks and hangars, each aircraft carrier can carry 33 aircraft, which is useless for naval warfare, but it is scary for escort efficiency. Aircraft taking off from escort carriers can control the surrounding sea area of several hundred nautical miles, and at high speed, and save a large number of escort destroyers and cruisers.

The US Navy is not without threats, and intelligence shows that it is stepping up the development of ocean-like submarines that can threaten the Hawaiian Islands, and once they are successfully developed, the Americans will have an important weapon that can threaten the logistics and transportation lines of the Chinese military. The construction, sea trials, and tactical application of ocean-going submarines all take time, but we must not underestimate the speed at which the United States can learn in the course of war, and prevent problems before they occur. In addition to the U.S. Navy, there are also British Navy, French Navy, etc., which can threaten the interests of China, although China and the Entente are currently in a tacit deal, but their existence is a threat.

In Taipei, in addition to this military camp, there are five other similar military camps, where more than 20,000 soldiers are training, and there is a steady stream of soldiers from all over Taiwan who have gathered into these six military camps. In addition to the soldiers, all kinds of supplies are also converging towards the port of Taipei, and everything shows that this is a preparation for war.

Large-scale battles simply cannot be concealed, especially such wars between countries, and every successful strategic deception will become a classic in the history of war. This time, Hua Guo was not prepared to conceal his war intentions, and Hua President Lu Liang even declared to the Japanese government on the radio: Hua Guo's million-strong army is about to land on the Japanese archipelago, and if it does not surrender, 30 million Japanese will face the end of destruction! The Chinese army will never be stingy with ammunition, even if it wants to sink the Japanese archipelago in the Pacific Ocean!

To fight the Japanese, of course, we must not forget about the Taiwanese regiments. After the liberation of Taiwan, the Chinese army recruited troops on the island of Taiwan, planning to set up two Taiwan divisions, and later due to the enthusiasm of the Taiwanese people, the army expanded it to two armies and five divisions, as of 1910, the 32nd Army and the 33rd Army of the Taiwan Army were all fully established, each army had an armored regiment, and the rest of the equipment was the same as that of other army equipment. The War Department conducted an assessment in early 1909, and the results were surprising that the combat effectiveness of the Taiwan Corps exceeded the imagination of the War Department, surpassing the combat effectiveness of the Korean Corps, the Ryukyu Division and the Philippine Corps, and was second only to the Continental Army.

In particular, the combat effectiveness of the mountain divisions in the Taiwan Army Corps is even more astonishing, and during the exercise, these mountain divisions won the title of "strongest infantry," and senior army generals believe that this title is well deserved. The 32nd Army and the 33rd Army each had a mountain division, all composed of Gaoshan people, and at this time they all arrived at the barracks on the outskirts of Taipei.

"Chief of Staff Hu, have you been notified from above?" Lu Dao, commander of the 32nd Army's Saidek Mountain Division, asked Chief of Staff Hu Ming in proficient Chinese. After the liberation of Taiwan, Lu Dao asked to join the Chinese army, and there were more than 30 clansmen with him. After the establishment of the Taiwan Division, Lu Dao and his people entered the Gaoshan Regiment, and Lu Dao served as the company commander. Two years later, Lu Dao returned to Taiwan and served as the commander of the Saidek Mountain Division, and then became the commander of the Saidek Mountain Division at the end of 1909 under the deliberate promotion of the Chinese generals.

Lu Dao, the head of the army who had never received cultural education five years ago, gradually transformed into a brave general after military study, and the division commander Lu Dao combined the tactics learned in the military academy with the hunting instinct, and was famous for his patience and forbearance, and the rapid attack after finding an opportunity, and was called "a natural general" by senior army generals! (To be continued.) )