"Second brother, let's finally meet!" The airship base on the outskirts of Wuhan, Li Jingxi has been waiting here, after the airship landed, I saw Li Jingfang, Li Jingmai and others trembling and being helped down, the first experience of soaring into the sky is uncomfortable for newcomers, there are few who do not vomit, the Li family from fear to surprise, and then to the complex emotions of being in the air, and finally all turned into the belly of the river and the sea.

Li Jingxi held his family's hand tightly, tears couldn't stop flowing again, a large group of people just watched, and the sorrow disappeared in an instant, everything was silent.

There was still more than an hour to go from the comfortable bus to Li Jingxi's residence in Wuhan, and the family was unwell, and their excited words could only wait until they returned. However, for Li Jingxi, this is the beginning of the Li family's new life, and he is firm that the Li family's choice this time is correct, and Lu Liang, who brought all this, is the object that the entire family needs to pay absolute loyalty.

Retaking Taiwan is the natural mission of the Chinese people, and with Taiwan, they have the key to the Pacific Ocean, and the role of China's largest island cannot be exaggerated.

The relationship between the Ryukyu Islands and the Taiwan archipelago can be described as a bitter relationship, and the strategic roles of the two are interdependent. In the western Pacific, having both Taiwan and the Ryukyus would mean a strategic advantage in the region. By recapturing Ryukyu and Taiwan by any means necessary, forcibly occupying Jeju Island, stationing troops in Kagoshima Port, and setting up naval bases in these places, it would be possible to blockade most of Japan's sea routes, leaving only the northeast Pacific direction, and the strategic position on this side was much smaller.

After the rise of China, Japan lost most of its foreign trade, especially in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and there were three directions to open up the situation. East and west, east is the distant United States, foreign trade demand is very small, the south needs to bypass China, to South Asia and Europe routes, the cost is higher. Therefore, Japan could only choose the west to grab benefits from Korea and the Northeast region to make up for the losses caused by the war.

Therefore, the significance of the Ryukyus to China lies in this, it is a chain to blockade Japan, and it is only a stone's throw away from Japan, and if China sets up an airship base and an air base in the northern part of the archipelago, it can directly attack the Japanese mainland. And in times of war. Huaguo can travel to the Pacific Ocean through the Osumi Strait and the Miyako Strait, and is not afraid of being locked by the enemy.

As early as the 18th century, the Japanese charted a path for overseas expansion, among which Ezo, Korea, and the Ryukyus must be secured, and the Japanese were not blind to the importance of the Ryukyus, as evidenced by the fact that they could forcibly occupy and annex the Ryukyus at any cost. It's just that the Sino-Japanese War brought too much pressure to Japan, and it had to hand over the Ryukyu Islands to others.

In the war against Japan, Lu Liang was most proud not of how much reparations he received, nor how much he raised his national self-esteem. Instead, they recaptured half of Taiwan and acquired the Ryukyu Islands.

The Ryukyu Islands are northeast-southwest and scattered between Taiwan and Kyushu. Like a string of chains blocking Huaxia's road to the eastern Pacific. It includes the Osumi Islands, Amami Islands, Okinawa Islands, etc., the largest of which is Okinawa. The northern tip is only more than 90 kilometers away from Japan, and the southern part is more than 80 kilometers away from Taiwan, with 473 large and small islands and a total area of about 4,800 square kilometers.

On January 1, 1906, the Chinese fleet and transport fleet arrived at the port of Naha in Okinawa. It was renamed the Port of the Ryukyus as soon as possible. Since the Japanese rule of the Ryukyus, Japan has implemented a policy of coercion, and the local people have been massacred by the Japanese many times, and there are only about 210,000 indigenous people of the Ryukyus today. With the Japanese left 150,000 immigrants for about ten years. More than 100,000 Japanese immigrants to the Ryukyus show the importance they attach to the Ryukyus.

According to the plan, China will resettle one million people to the Ryukyu Islands, which will be completed in ten years. These people will make a living mainly in agriculture, fishing and tourism, as well as businesses in the service of local garrisons. The main use of the Ryukyu Islands is military.

In the next two years, Hwakuni will build Naha Port into a super military port that can accommodate 30,000 tons of warships, and use it as one of the main bases of the Hwakoku Pacific Fleet. Including Okinawa, the Ryukyu Islands will house more than 10,000 naval officers and logisticians, and more than 20,000 army officers and marines. Such a large garrison, of course, can attract a large number of service industries.

In the foreign language, China claimed that the purpose of the large-scale construction of the Ryukyu military port was to prevent the Japanese from launching another war of aggression, but the international consensus was that this was the beginning of China's expansion into the Pacific region. In particular, the most sensitive United States, China has replaced Russia and Japan as the most powerful regional country in the Eastern Pacific, and it also has a strong desire for expansion, which is an obvious threat to US interests.

The forces of the great powers, including the US Fleet in the Philippines, the British Far East Fleet in Singapore, the French Far East Fleet in Cam Ranh Bay, and the Dutch Far East Fleet, suddenly became nervous. Therefore, Britain, France, and the United States began to strengthen the strength of the Far East Fleet, and successively dispatched new warships to this side, but before finding a way to deal with China's super warships, the great powers could only put away their claws and wait for the opportunity to change.

Fortunately, Chinese President Lu Liang, the "evil devil and messenger of hell," did not extend his claws to Southeast Asia, and he wanted to deal with the post-war trivial matters as soon as possible, and then concentrate his energies on accomplishing the great cause of reunification.

Naha merchant Chadu is a native of the Ryukyus, and his family once belonged to the Ryukyu royal family, after the country was annexed by Japan, many family members were killed, and the rest lived incognito. Tsakdo received Chinese education from an early age, and later learned Japanese under Japanese rule, and is considered one of the few literate people among the indigenous people of the Ryukyus. His merchant fleet mainly transported industrial raw materials from Southeast Asia to Japan, and his profound cultural skills and good upbringing made Chadu very popular with the Japanese colonists, so as to expand his business, and he was considered a wealthy man in the Ryukyu region.

The human heart is unpredictable, and there is often a huge difference between the inside and the outside. On the surface, Chadu is respectful to the Japanese, but at heart he is a nationalist through and through. He hated the Japanese occupying his country and oppressing his own people, from the Satsuma clan to the Wako, and the Ryukyu Kingdom was encroached upon little by little.

However, Chadu did not have a good impression of the Chinese people, the Ryukyu Kingdom was deeply influenced by Chinese culture, from the Ming Dynasty hundreds of years ago to the Central Plains to be a vassal, from the Sui Dynasty began to accept the influence of Han culture, and even the name of the Ryukyu country was taken by China, this relationship between the monarch and the minister is enough to prove the sincerity of the Ryukyuan people. However, when the vassal kingdom was invaded by the Japanese invaders, the monarchy watched the Ryukyus being annexed by the Japanese, so the Ryukyuan people felt a deep sense of betrayal.

To make matters worse, after defeating Japan, China did not allow the Ryukyus to establish a state, but directly announced the annexation of the Ryukyus to China in an even more brutal way. Tsakdo did not feel emotionally unbearable like ordinary Ryukyuan people, and he had experienced a lot more to understand the relationship between countries.

A small country like the Ryukyus has no control over its own destiny at all, and can only swing from side to side between the big powers, and is in danger of being annexed at any time. Feelings between countries are not worth a penny, and only interests determine the relations between the two countries. In fact, he understood this a few years ago, and with the help of business, he began to secretly cultivate the Ryukyu Restoration Organization, in order to fight against the Japanese colonists at that time, Chadu believed that he must have an armed force in his hands, rather than simply crying to China.

When the Burmese independence movement arose, Chadu was so interested that he immediately sent his younger brother Tai Chi to lead 500 Ryukyuan people to Burma and secretly join the Burmese Free Army. Tsakdu then stepped up his efforts to send people to Burma and opened up relations with the leader of the Burmese Free Army, Yong Jimi, and over the next year of fighting, more than 1,000 Ryukyu soldiers fought secretly in Burma.

At this time, Tsazdu believed that the time had come for Ryukyu independence, and ordered more than 1,000 experienced jungle warriors in Burma to return to Ryukyu, and vigorously organized local forces in Ryukyu while Japan was leaving and China had not yet arrived.

When the Chinese fleet arrived at the port of the Ryukyus, Chadu led people to secretly observe the movements of the Chinese country. Seeing one warship after another and countless transports entering the port one after another, Chadu even raised the idea of giving up confrontation, the gap between large and small countries was too great, so big that it made people desperate.

The first to disembark were the troops of the 3rd Division of the Fourth Army of the Chinese Army, who would be the main force stationed in the Ryukyus and responsible for the security of the archipelago area. The neatly groomed Chinese soldiers lined up and walked off the ship with guns and backpacks on their backs, and their steel helmets were dazzling. The soldiers were the first to disperse as soon as they disembarked, guarding the perimeter of the harbor, their slightly raised muzzles seemingly ready to fire deadly bullets at any moment.

Then there were more soldiers, vehicles, supplies, artillery, etc., and from morning to noon, the landing was not over, and there were convoys outside constantly arriving on the shore. Chadu ordered people to leave first after observation, this is the invader, the same invader as the Japanese! An invader who stoods on the land of his own country like the master here! (To be continued.) )