Shi Jianfei and Shen Yinghao glanced at each other, and when they saw that Li De said so easily, they became apprehensive. After all, fighting a war is different from doing business, losing money in business is losing money, and losing a war is fatal.

"Not really!" Shen Yanghao said: "There is no problem for us to participate in the war, the problem is that we have rules when we fight, we need to collect intelligence on the various kingdoms of the Hawaiian Islands, and generally know how many people, how many soldiers, how many weapons, who commands, and whether our weapons are opponents?" These are all important and indispensable! ”

"I don't need to!" Li De rolled his eyes and said, "That group of natives didn't have iron weapons, only wooden spears and bone bows and arrows!" That -- sometimes you can use stones, and if you need to bite someone! ”

“……”

"There is a head on each island, and the largest island has about 10,000 people, and the other islands have a few hundred people, no more than three thousand. They live separately for men and women, and it is easy to wipe them out in one litter. ”

“……”

"I wore straw skirts with occasional feathers. When fighting, it is easy to distinguish, whoever has more hair will fight whom, and the one with the most hair is their head. ”

“……”

Listening to Li De's description, Shi Jianfei and Shen Yanghao smiled bitterly. They had seen the natives of Taiwan and heard of the aborigines of the Philippines, but when they heard about the Hawaiian natives in Li De's mouth, they were directly defeated.

A kingdom without iron tools and without weaving, is this the legendary Stone Age country?

The answer is yes!

"Earlier?"

Shi Jianfei laughed and said, "Okay, how big do you think the Hawaiian Kingdom is?" It's been an uncivilized tribe for a long time? I've been worried for a while! ”

Shen Yanghao also smiled bitterly: "This kind of kingdom, let's bombard it with cannons, plow it with firearms, and the remaining bayonets will be red, and it will be easy to destroy more than a dozen kingdoms in one day!" ”

Shi Jianfei suddenly asked: "You have so many merchant ships, and there are no more than 10,000 people, according to what you say, you can easily destroy them!" ”

Li De pursed his lips and said, "Didn't I come back this time to only carry muskets, not gunpowder?" Otherwise, I have to wait for you? I gathered 2,000 men and destroyed them. ”

"Why do you only carry muskets and not gunpowder!"

Li De sighed: "It's not that the boss's family business is big, and now there are factories for the large-scale production of projectiles and gunpowder in Taiwan and Liaodong Mansion, so naturally you can't always buy other people's, or is it cheap to produce your own?" ”

"Isn't that gunpowder for artillery?"

"Do you dare to use it?" Li De said: "If we run out of shells, it will be difficult to occupy them without infantry, and what if we run out of shells and we encounter pirates when we return?" Drag your pants and fart to kill them! ”

“……”

After a few men agreed, the fleet and caravan turned northeast and sailed for the Hawaiian Islands.

As God's favorite, the Hawaiian Islands are blessed with a pleasant climate and few bad weather seasons throughout the year. In particular, Oahu, the richest island, is a sacred place on earth.

Of course, at this moment, Oahu, the richest island, has not many people, but the island of Hawaii, made up of five ancient volcanoes, is the most populous.

King Hariha III of the Big Island of Hawaii was the most capable of unifying Hawaii, but he did not have such ambitions that the process of unification was delayed for more than a hundred years.

When the Pacific Fleet arrived on the island of Hawaii, the natives who were fishing immediately rejoiced at the sight of the huge warship, of course, they did not know that such a large warship was used to wage war.

After seeing the huge armed merchant ships of the Pacific Trading Company's fleet, these natives also dreamed of having one of these large ships.

The Pacific Trading Company had exchanged goods with them before, and the natives who didn't know the value were really deceived by a group of Jian merchants, and the employees of the Pacific Trading Company could exchange a whole boatload of pineapples and sugar cane for a piece of cloth, and the natives even felt that they had taken advantage of others, so they hurriedly sent other things, until the employees of the Pacific Trading Company were embarrassed to accept it.

Now that the Pacific Fleet has arrived on the island of Hawaii, King Harihar III hastily mobilized all his troops to transport all the stored supplies to the beach, intending to exchange the guests for cloth and other necessities.

The more than 10,000 people mentioned by Li De refer to the army, of course, for the natives, all men, young and old, are warriors, and the civilians are only more than 8,000 women.

There were less than 20,000 natives on the island of Hawaii, all of whom had gone to the beach to wait for a change, and even many of the more intelligent natives had already rowed their canoes to the Pacific Fleet.

On the deck, Shi Jianfei, Shen Yanghao and Li De quietly watched the spectacular scene on the beach with clairvoyance. The other party's clothing confirmed that they were still in the Stone Age.

Li De said excitedly: "Great! They all gathered on the beach, and a few rounds of shelling solved the problem! ”

"Yes! What kind of war is this, completely asymmetrical! It's a one-sided slaughter! ”

Shi Jianfei put down his clairvoyant eyes, turned to Li De, and asked, "Is there no other way than to kill them?" ”

"Killing them all is the best way!"

Li De looked at Shi Jianfei and said with a smile: "Do you need me to tell you about the colonial history of the Spanish Empire?" I think their experience and lessons are enough to convince you! ”

Shi Jianfei waved his hand and said with a smile: "Forget it!" I know that very well! ”

"So what are you waiting for?"

Shi Jianfei smiled bitterly and looked at Shen Yanghao, who turned around and ordered.

"Prepare for battle!"

Alarm bells rang, flags waved, and Pacific Fleet ships surrounded the beach in a crescent shape, facing the natives on the beach with the port side.

Anchored and lowered, the port side guns quickly loaded the grenade shotgun, and as soon as they were ready, the gun door opened, and the muzzle of the black hole hole was aimed at the natives who were cheering.

On the other side, the boats were lowered, and then the marines of each ship carried their muskets down the rope ladder to the boats, ready to land for the operation.

As far as the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet were concerned, it was the first time that they had lowered anchor and then opened fire on a warship, and the officers and men of the Navy, who had been fighting in motion, had no choice but to adjust their firing to stationary firing.

"One shot—good!"

"Second artillery - good!"

……

The various gun emplacements quickly sent back an echo of readiness, and when everything was ready, they all waited for the final order from the fleet command.

"Report!" The bridge staff officer ran to Shi Jianfei and said uprightly: "Report to the commander, the fleet is ready for firepower, all the marines are in place, and all units ask for instructions, whether to launch an attack?" ”

Shi Jianfei looked at the natives cheering and waving on the shore, smiled bitterly, and turned his head to order.

"Execute as planned!"

"Yes!"

The bridge staff officer turned around and shouted, "The general attack begins!" ”

Orders were given step by step, with the flagship firing first, and the other ships responding.

Knock knock!

The cannon roared, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, and immediately frightened the natives on the beach. The rain of bullets from the sky mercilessly harvested those ignorant people.

On the beach that stretches for several kilometers, the natives fall in pieces, and they die with stiff smiles, not knowing why the other party wants to kill the killer.

After two rounds of shelling, less than a minute had passed.

There was not much wind, and the smoke outside the port side of the battleship obscured the sky and the sea, and the view was obscured by the smoke of gunpowder, and the gunners soon could not see the situation outside clearly.

Shi Jianfei immediately ordered the shelling to stop and ordered the marines to land.

Ten minutes later, the Marines landed on the beach, and as far as the eye could see, there were no humans walking upright on the entire beach.

"Bury them!"

After Shi Jianfei put aside this sentence, he ordered the fleet to set sail. Some of the Marines were left to deal with the aftermath, while others followed the fleet to continue attacking the other islands.

In the same way, the Pacific Fleet easily purged the entire Hawaiian archipelago of so-called kingdoms and occupied the entire Hawaiian archipelago without a single casualty.

Fighting against these natives was like slaughtering unarmed civilians, which made Shi Jianfei very uncomfortable at first. However, when Shi Jianfei discovered Pearl Harbor, the situation changed dramatically.

"It's such a great place!"

Shi Jianfei has no interest in commercial transfer stations, and it is all for the Pacific Trading Company. It's different now, and this Pearl Harbor is just amazing as a natural good harbor and a military base.

"What do you think of this as a springboard for our assault on the Americas?"

Forgetting the unhappiness caused by the massacre of the natives, Shi Jianfei and Shen Yanghao, as well as other major naval officers, left Li De aside and studied the strategic value of Pearl Harbor and even Hawaii on their own.

Shen Yanghao praised: "After occupying this place, it is not only economically a transit point, but also militarily important. The area of the island here is very large, and there is no problem in stationing hundreds of thousands of troops. What is rare and commendable is that this Pearl Harbor is a deep and wide water, a natural haven, even if the Pacific Fleet is all stationed in, it is more than enough! ”

Shi Jianfei smiled: "What a place! This time, let's go back and explain why it has been delayed for so long! ”

Shen Yanghao smiled, knowing that he was talking about the troubles of being caught in the windless zone of the equator this time. This matter is indeed a very shameless thing for the Navy, so try to find some other excuses, otherwise you will be laughed to death by those guys at the War Department.

"From here to the American continent, it will take fifteen days to reach Fort Seattle and thirty days to reach the Shuri Military Port of the Ryukyus, and if we can find another transit base, it will be of great benefit to our navy in controlling the entire Pacific Ocean in the future."

Shi Jianfei nodded and said, "I once saw a battle plan for the Americas in the Ninth Confidential Office of the General Staff Department, and it seemed that the Hawaiian Islands were mentioned in that plan at that time. ”

Shen Yanghao said: "The dozen or so confidential office officials of the General Staff Department have always been mysterious, and I have only seen those small staff officers of the 13th Confidential Division!" But I haven't heard of any plans for the Americas! ”

"This plan has been shelved!" Shi Jianfei said: "I heard that it is because the frog jump is missing one jump point, and at the same time, our economic lifeline needs the Spaniards to maintain, so we can't handle the affairs of the Americas!" ”

Shen Yanghao nodded and said, "Our financial funds come from overseas trade, and I know that this economic lifeline is in the hands of the Spaniards, but what kind of frog jumping ...... you are talking about?"

Shi Jianfei smiled and said: "The little staff officers over there of the General Staff like to drag a word!" Leapfrogging means that we are too far away from the Americas to be able to send an army over at once. Therefore, it is necessary to establish more jumping points in the Pacific Ocean like a toad jumping lotus leaf, and then the army can be sent to the Americas step by step! ”

Shen Yanghao said excitedly: "Isn't this right? Isn't this Hawaiian Islands we occupying exactly the right fit for the frog jumping tactic? ”

"That's what I said!" Shi Jianfei smiled and replied, "It's just that the frog jump is missing the most important level!" ”

"Where?"

"Guam!"

"That Guam fortress that the Spaniards controlled?"

"That's right!" Shi Jianfei nodded and said, "If you project troops on a large scale, the Pacific Ocean of thousands of nautical miles will become an obstacle that is not easy to cross. We need to make a transit from Guam as a hop point. On the other hand, if we provoke the Spaniards and send troops from Guam to attack us, it will be bad! ”

Guam!

Shen Yanghao muttered a few words in his mouth, and suddenly said, "Don't you think that place in Guam is very closed?" ”

"What do you mean?"

"When we passed through Guam, the Spanish garrison there had to ask us about the outside world, and the news they knew was basically a year ago!"

Shi Jianfei nodded and said, "The fortress of Guam is indeed isolated from the world, and the news they know is all obtained from the merchant ships that passed through Guò. And there are only a handful of merchant fleets that cross the Pacific, and apart from our Pacific Trading Company, there is only the treasure fleet between Mexico and the Philippines! ”

Suddenly, Shi Jianfei stared at Shen Yanghao tightly and asked, "You don't want to fight Guam, do you!" ”

"Just think about it!" Shen Yanghao smiled, turned his head to look at the sea, and said, "Fighting Hawaii doesn't affect the overall situation, but moving Guam is equivalent to starting a war with the Spaniards!" It's not something you and I can carry! ”

"I thought you forgot!" Shi Jianfei said with a smile: "Although we don't have the right to attack Guam, we are grinding our tongues with the Admiralty and the General Staff every day, and one day they can't stand it, maybe they will issue an order to attack Guam!" ”

"Hey, hey! Wake up! It's still daylight! ”

“……”

……

The Pacific Fleet brought "civilization" to Hawaii with artillery, and after Spain and other Western powers, it was announced that the Ming Empire had also embarked on the road of foreign colonial expansion.

The climate in Hawaii is similar to that of Cuba in the Caribbean, with beautiful winds and sunshine all year round. The yield of sugarcane grown in this climate is enormous, resulting in the highest quality sugar.

As a luxury comparable to gold in ancient times, sugar was mainly extracted from sugar cane. Until the end of the 19th century, before the advent of sugar beets, sugar dominated the world. As a result, for a long time, Hawaii was the world's main sugar cane production base, accounting for more than half of the world's sugar production.

Of course, Li De didn't know these things. With his merchant's mind, he discovered this huge "treasury" a hundred years in advance.

As the blood of the natives of the Hawaiian Islands dried up, the flag of the Ming Empire spread everywhere, and the yellow people became the de facto rulers here.

Li De couldn't wait to drive his company employees to the island, where he built estates on the open impact plains, growing sugar cane and coffee. In order to protect these estates and safeguard the interests of the Liaodong Governorate, Shi Jianfei ordered the officers and men of the Pacific Fleet to build pillboxes on various islands, and at the same time built a lighthouse and an improvised musket fortress on the small island in the middle of Pearl Harbor to ensure the right to rule the Hawaiian Islands.

Shi Jianfei and Li De each had enough manpower to build and control the Hawaiian Islands, and then the fleet and caravan set off for home.

Before setting sail, Shi Jianfei and Li De had a disagreement over whether to cross the Pacific Ocean in a straight line. Shi Jianfei thought that he should save time and return home directly from Pearl Harbor across the Pacific Ocean, after all, the Pacific Fleet had been away from home for too long. Li De, on the other hand, thinks that it is better to turn south, take the Marshall Islands, and take the well-known safe route.

The core waters of the Pacific Ocean were the most dangerous seas in the world, and ships did not dare to leave them until the end of the nineteenth century. After all, there are a few crazy people like Magellan and Columbus in the world, and it has always been difficult to accept and imagine going to the uncharted seas.

"Did you rob the Spanish treasure fleet?"

Li De was not a fool, and quickly guessed the real reason why Shi Jianfei didn't want to take the Marshallese route.

Shi Jianfei and Shen Yinghao looked at Li De in surprise, and the latter smiled and said, "You don't have to answer me!" ”

Shi Jianfei smiled faintly and said, "The Spanish fleet and the Dutch fleet are probably still wandering there!" It feels a little embarrassing to run into it! ”

Li De smiled: "You can sue them like this." You were ordered to carry out the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands, and by the way, to receive and protect our trading fleet. I think that's enough to gag them, unless you're doing something too unclean! ”

Shen Yinghao nodded and said, "That's a good reason!" It's too dangerous to go through that uncharted sea after all! Now the Spaniards should assume that the Dutch did it! ”

Shi Jianfei thought about it, the Pacific Fleet didn't give anything to the other party, it should be fine.

"Alright! Then do as you want! ”

When sailing back to the Marshall Islands again, the Pacific Fleet ran into the Spanish fleet from Guam. The other party sent a small boat to board the ship and talk to Shi Jianfei.

Under questioning, Shi Jianfei breathed a sigh of relief. It turned out that after Francisco, the commander of the Spanish treasure fleet, fled back to Guam, he told the Spaniards that the Dutch had done it. Thus, the Governor General of the Philippines, Fernando, had declared war on the Dutch East India Company.

Although the commander of the Dutch East India Fleet, Rejouz, had been informed, there was no news of the five warships that had been towed away from the fleet, and he had to search the Pacific Ocean. So the Spanish fleet remained in the Pacific, waiting for an opportunity to fight the Dutch fleet and recapture the treasure by the way. Thus, the fleets of both sides are chasing each other in the Pacific Ocean.

The Spaniards were a little surprised to learn that the Pacific Fleet had conquered Hawaii, they had known that place for a long time, and had wanted to conquer them, but it was put on hold because of the defeat in the two Spanish-Western Wars and the Anglo-Spanish Naval Battle.

However, at the moment, Spain had a good relationship with the Ming Empire, and had just declared war on the Dutch East India Company, so they congratulated Shi Jianfei and them, and then left in a hurry-

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