"Otherwise, just take Hawaii!"

Walking along the road by the sea of Ejong Island, looking at the vast sea, Akiyama Shinyuki's tone seemed calm, but there was a faint hint of fanaticism in his eyes, as an instructor at the Eijong Island Naval Academy, after receiving the news of the training fleet intervening in Hawaii, he set his sights on the small archipelago in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And when he said this, Kawahara, who was strolling along the seashore with him, nodded silently, after the surrender of Japan, the navy, which had not played a role in the war, was disbanded by the Governor's Office of the Governor of Luguo, and many naval officers came to China to make a living, either to teach on Yongzong Island or in the Tianjin Naval Academy, and to teach in the Beiyang Fleet, in short, although they were defeated, they also found a foothold in China.

"If you directly occupy Hawaii, it's really troublesome, if Your Excellency Marshal's navy is as strong as Li Zhongtang's Beiyang, maybe there is still hope, but now you know the strength of the Northeast Navy Akiyama, there is only one Jiyuan, as for the others, they are all training ships transformed from merchant ships, and they really have no combat power!"

Kawahara Yaoichi's tone was a little distressed, unlike Togo and others who left Japan after the defeat of the war, he had been serving as a military attache in Britain during the war, and he came to China by boat after the Legation was closed.

Although, like those instructors of the naval academy, he believed that the future Northeast Navy would be far more powerful than the Beiyang Fleet, but the embarrassment of reality had to be faced.

"It's a shame. If now the Navy had a large fleet of nine cruisers. Well, the occupation of Hawaii is not impossible, after all, the United States ...... The United States will never take the initiative to declare war on a foreign country unless it hits its own country! ”

"Yes, strength is the most important ......"

Knowing that strength is the foundation of everything, Akiyama Shinyuki nodded helplessly.

"But now that the decisive battle between the West and the East is inevitable, do you remember the speech made by His Excellency the Marshal in the school before the Spring Festival this year?"

I think of the speech made by His Excellency the Marshal when he came to inspect Yeongjong Island before the Spring Festival. Akiyama Shinyuki's face turned serious.

"The decisive battle between the East and the West will be a battle between races, and the ambition of the Russian Empire in East Asia is to establish a yellow Russia and swallow East Asia, and its ambition is well known, and it is really the great enemy of our country at present......"

After a pause, Akiyama continued to speak in his somewhat stiff Nanjing official dialect.

"However, China's great enemy in the future is actually from the Pacific Ocean, which has expanded from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast after more than 100 years of expansion. The United States, which completed its continental expansion and became the world's number one industrial power through the Industrial Revolution. Noting that the European powers had preemptively carved up the world, many Americans began to consider whether they were behind the times, and whether they would be able to preserve their interests and markets if they did not participate in the adventures of the imperial powers—the United States, which had set its sights on the Pacific, would inevitably become a potential enemy of China in the future, and this enemy would be far more powerful than Russia......"

Just briefly quoting the marshal's speech, Mayuki Akiyama looked at the sea and said in an emotional tone,

"If Russia is the first imaginary enemy, then the United States is the second, once Russia is defeated, the United States is bound to become China's biggest potential imaginary enemy in the future, and Japan, as an ally of China, will inevitably be involved in this war for the survival of people of color, if Hawaii is under the control of China, then the United States' hand of expansion to Asia will be cut off, after all, Hawaii will be its insurmountable obstacle, but if Hawaii is controlled by the United States, then ......"

As one of the first naval officers to come to China, Akiyama Masayuki always believed that in the future, Japan would inevitably gain independence from Russian slavery with the help of China, and that Japan would become an ally of China, following China to jointly defend the interests of the yellow race and safeguard the right of the yellow race to exist. It is precisely because of this that he regards the United States as a great enemy.

"Then Japan will be at the forefront of this battle! Not only will we not have the strategic depth of the Pacific, but we will also be completely on the defensive against the United States in future competition, which is undoubtedly not conducive to East Asia! ”

When Akiyama finished saying this, Kawahara Yuichi's brows tightened slightly, and he said helplessly.

"But what can we do? The marshal simply does not have the strength to annex Hawaii,"

This is the most critical issue, and although they are aware of the importance of Hawaii, they are unable to annex it, which is probably the most irritating thing, knowing its importance, but only watching the enemy gain it and use it as a forward base for attacking East Asia in the future.

The helpless reality made both of them fall into silence, just when the two continued to walk along the beach silently, a command faintly came from a distance, it was the cadets of the naval school who were running, most of them were first-year students, compared to last year, there are more students in the naval school today, only this period recruited 500 people, even with a 25% elimination rate, there will be nearly 400 naval officers out of the military academy in four years.

This is perhaps the biggest difference between the Northeast Navy and the Beiyang Navy - the latter pays more attention to the expansion of the fleet, while the former pays more attention to the accumulation of manpower, which will even directly determine the future of the two. While the latter ambitiously expanded the navy, human resources limited his further development, and the latter laid a solid foundation for future development step by step by training more naval officers and sailors.

"This year, the school plans to send 100 cadets to Europe and the United States to study the navy, 50 from the United Kingdom, 45 from the United States, 2 from France, and 3 from Germany. ”

Kawahara, who broke the silence, looked at Akiyama and asked casually.

"The Department of the Navy encourages instructors to go overseas, and now Mr. Mahan presides over the U.S. Naval Academy, if he can learn from him himself. That's really lucky. Let's be honest. I really envy the students who can ask him for advice in person! ”

After this exclamation, Akiyama Shinyuki seemed to think of something, and said to Kawahara.

"You say, will we cause any trouble for the international students in the school if we are now confronting the United States in Hawaii?"

"Trouble?"

Akiyama Shinyuki's rhetorical question made Kawahara realize for a while that there were still a group of Chinese students from "Korea" and Beiyang in the Annapolis Naval Academy. Yes, will the current confrontation between the Chinese and American navies in Hawaii cause problems for these people?

Although the spring in Annapolis is a bit rainy like that of Jiangnan, the rain comes and goes quickly, and after a light spring rain, the bright sun shines again on the city, in the solemn United States Naval Academy.

Carrying their leather schoolbags, Han Che and Chen Youquan walked side by side along the gravel road to the university library, and for them, the greatest pleasure was to study naval tactical theory in the university library and the naval library. Compared to China, the U.S. Navy, which created its navy as early as the Revolutionary War, may not be as large as Britain. However, its naval academy library and naval library are by no means inferior to those of the United Kingdom, and by no means comparable to China, which has just opened its navy.

The cadets shuttled in the bright sunshine, but when they saw the yellow man in the cadet uniform, their expressions became complicated, perhaps the confrontation that happened in Hawaii did not mean anything in the eyes of the ordinary people of the United States, and even in the eyes of American public opinion, the US Navy's help to American immigrants to overthrow the rule of the Queen of Hawaii was a serious mistake, and it violated the spirit of the "Declaration of Independence" of the United States and the principle that the people have the right to elect their own government according to their own will. Karl Schultz, a well-known Republican, even warned in Congress that "the temptation of the free man to the limelight by ambition after the abundance and luxury and military prestige is nothing but an old story, and in this old story, the US Navy, bewildered by military prestige, is trying to erode American freedom through their unauthorized actions......"

The outside world may be able to criticize the navy's unauthorized actions with severe accusations, but for these young cadets of the naval academy, they are aware of the importance of Hawaii to the navy, not to mention that their dean Mahan has constantly instilled in them a concept -- "the strategic position of the Pacific Ocean should be superior to the Pacific Ocean", and under this concept, whoever masters Hawaii will undoubtedly control the Pacific Ocean's theory is widely recognized within the academy.

Because of this, when the news came that the U.S. Marines assisted the American expatriates in Hawaii to overthrow the kingdom and establish a provisional government, these young Navy cadets even served as Sanford? Dole cheered, calling it "the Sam of the Pacific?" Houston", regarding the establishment of the Hawaiian Provisional Government as equivalent to the establishment of the Lone Star Republic that year.

But their cheers did not last long, more than 20 days ago, the Chinese fleet appeared in Hawaii and sailed into Lahaina news, since that day, China and the United States convenient Hawaii to carry out confrontation, but the so-called confrontation is actually a diplomatic confrontation, although both countries did not withdraw their warships, but they both remained calm, the warships of the Chinese Navy are in Lahaina most of the time, the warships of the US Navy are anchored in Honolulu, a small Hawaii even appeared two interim governments, There is a lot of momentum to divide Hawaii in one fell swoop. On Chinese soil, the huge Beiyang Fleet also held military exercises in support of Hawaii's fleet.

It was in this context that the U.S. Congress passed a resolution that illegalized the coup d'état by the American diaspora, and it was likely that President Cleveland would agree to restore the Queen of Hawaii's rule. When the news came from Washington, the American cadets and many instructors at the Naval Academy were naturally full of anger.

Even in the eyes of many people, the fundamental reason why the Chinese are so tough is because of leaks -- there are many confidential matters related to the US Navy in the Naval Academy, and perhaps it was the 57 Chinese students in the academy who stole the secrets of the US Navy and made their reaction to the Hawaii incident so violent.

Of course, the vast majority of people are dismissive of this, after all, as an advocate of "Pacific First," Mahan has mentioned the importance of Hawaii to the United States in public more than once, but this does not prevent some American cadets in the academy from being dissatisfied with these Chinese cadets -- they have always monopolized the top five grades in the academy, and in fact, these US Navy officers and cadets who believe in "white supremacy" cannot step down.

Now the confrontation in Hawaii is just an excuse for them, an excuse to vent their usual grievances.

"A bunch of pigs!"

When the scolding came into his ears, Han Che just smiled contemptuously, he was no longer surprised by this kind of scolding. Seeing that Chen Youquan beside him seemed to be unwilling to refute, he hurriedly dissuaded.

"What do you do with these people? Remember what I said to you after your boxing fight with Carter last year? ”

Han Che's rhetorical question made Chen Youquan stunned, and the anger on his face dispersed.

"From now on we will fight wars between nations! This kind of bravery between individuals is completely meaningless! ”

"Yes, even if you defeat Carter, these Americans won't look down on you because you defeated him, but if one day you ......"

When he looked towards the castle-like teaching building of the Naval Academy, a strange emotion surged in Han Che's heart.

"If we defeat the U.S. Navy on the sea, then no one in the world will despise us again!"

When Han Che said this, Chen Youquan looked at the classmates around him, looked at his serious appearance, especially the expectation in his eyes, and believed that he was by no means joking, maybe in his plan, the United States had already been listed as an imaginary enemy.

"You're really, always thinking about things that far ahead......"

When Chen Youquan speaks of you, he is referring to the officers and men of the Northeast Navy who have come to the United States to study in the name of "North Korea." Compared with the students sent by Beiyang, they invariably think farther, as if they regard Russia as an imaginary enemy.

"If you forget about war, why can't you think farther? Do we want to treat Beiyang as an imaginary enemy? ”

Han Che's rhetorical question made Chen Youquan stunned, this is something he has never been willing to think about, treating Beiyang as an imaginary enemy, thinking of the domestic situation, his mind sank, is it really inevitable that day?

The change in Chen Youquan's face made Han Che realize that his words had touched his heart again, so he hurriedly smiled and said.

"Okay, I don't know if it's the Year of the Monkey, do you think it will really end so easily if Hawaii ends?" (To be continued.) )