Guo Yi had expected this casualty ratio, which was facing the indigenous army of the Kingdom of Hawaii, and according to intelligence, most of these indigenous troops were temporarily recruited.

As a backward indigenous island nation, the Kingdom of Hawaii does not have a large-scale standing army at all, and the indigenous population on this island is not large, and most of these temporary armies are temporarily recruited by the Hawaiian side because of the threat of war from the Chinese Empire.

Now in this battle between the two sides, the gap between the two sides has been fully proven, even if the Chinese army only sent two warships, and the landing soldiers were only more than 200 people, but this kind of force is still not something that the Hawaiian Kingdom can contend with.

After the failure of the Hawaiian kingdom's resistance along the harbor coast, a small number of remnants fled inland to the island, and the current king of the Hawaiian kingdom, Kamihameha V, did not flee, but very simply fled to a British merchant ship.

It only took one afternoon to capture Honolulu, an important port city in the Pacific, not because the Chinese army was so strong, but because the Hawaiian Kingdom itself was too poor.

However, Colonel Guo Yi knew very well that the obstacle to his attack on Hawaii was not Hawaii itself, but the three countries of Britain, France and the United States.

The Kingdom of Hawaii in the 19th century was a country surrounded by powerful enemies, and it was able to avoid being annexed until the nineties, when it was finally annexed by the United States.

It is not that Britain, France and the United States did not annex this archipelago in the Pacific, but because of the competition between many parties, no one dared to make a rash move.

Britain and France both landed and occupied the port of Honolulu, but in the end they did not annex this country, and withdrew their troops after claiming many benefits and signing treaties, because Britain, France and the United States had scruples about each other.

Meantime. The reason why Britain, France, and the United States dragged on and did not annex the Kingdom of Hawaii is related to the fact that Hawaii has not yet reflected its unexpectedly important strategic position in contemporary times.

Hawaii's main value lies not in the abundance of its various resources, but in its unique military strategic value, especially for the United States.

However, this strategic value has not yet been realized, because it is a prerequisite for its realization. It was the United States that became a naval power and tried to get its hands on the Pacific.

When the time comes, Hawaii will be a chain to contain the United States from encroaching on the Pacific!

And this is also an important reason why Lin Zhe wants to take Hawaii!

More importantly, the Chinese Empire has enough confidence and courage to annex Hawaii, and it does not hesitate to turn against Britain, France and the United States.

Well, anyway, if the empire wants to expand and safeguard its own interests, it will inevitably have contradictions and conflicts with the world's major powers such as Britain, France, and the United States.

It's a big deal to fight a war around Hawaii, an island deep in the Pacific Ocean anyway. Everyone's strength that can be dispatched is half a catty, and if you really want to fight, you don't know who will die and who will live.

At the same time, more importantly, Lin Zhe was determined to fight a war for Hawaii and Britain, France, and the United States, but were Britain, France, and the United States determined enough to fight a war for Hawaii and the Empire?

That's a debatable question.

In the colonial era, it was a typical starvation and cowardice who supported the bold, posing as a hooligan who had no money and no life, and it was far more useful to be a gentleman and a gentleman.

As for the credibility of the country. National image or something!

Come on, this is the 19th century. It was a naked colonial era of the jungle, and few countries really cared about that face!

As long as there is good, even if you throw your face to Mars, it is nothing!

Now that the army led by Colonel Guo Yi has captured Honolulu, it is not so easy to want them to withdraw like Britain and France!

After the occupation of Honolulu, Guo Yi also asked the troops to repair the port's defenses. Removed from the warship a number of guns and repaired the batteries.

At the same time, it is also dealing with all kinds of diplomatic tussles between Britain, France and the United States.

In the face of the representatives of Britain, France and the United States, they said that they wanted Colonel Guo Yi to exercise restraint, and said that they could not sit idly by and watch an independent Hawaiian kingdom become history.

Colonel Guo Yi did not give a positive reply, but said that he would wait for the arrival of Shi Yezhi, the plenipotentiary in charge of Hawaiian affairs, before he could make the relevant diplomatic assessments.

As for now, the Imperial military is only imposing the necessary military control over Hawaii. Avoid unnecessary hassles and the like.

However, Britain, France, and the United States naturally will not sit idly by and watch China capture or even annex Hawaii, and the reason why they did not make a strong actual attack before, but only verbally protested, was because they did not expect that the Chinese army's actions would be so fast, and it was only two days after arriving in Hawaii, and they directly launched an offensive landing operation, which made them not have enough time to react.

However, now that they have reacted, Britain, France and the United States have also acted quickly.

In the first time, Britain, France and the United States quickly delivered the news to the outside world!

Among them, the Americans were the most responsive, and a wooden cruiser that had been cruising the west coast of the United States soon rushed to Hawaii.

However, the movement of troops from all sides could not be too fast, and it took a full month for the Chinese Empire to send a fleet to Hawaii, and now it would take ten days and half a month or more for people from Britain, France, and the United States to send troops over.

When Shi Yezhi arrived in Hawaii, the Americans' cruiser also happened to arrive!

As soon as Shi Yezhi came ashore, the representatives of Britain, France, and the United States were forced to come to the door, and this time it was not a civilian representative who came to the door, but a serious diplomat.

And they soon made formal and serious representations to Shi Yezhi on the Hawaii issue, and in this regard, Shi Yezhi's reason for the right way is one word: drag!

Because it was impossible for him to agree to the demands of Britain, France, and the United States for the Empire to withdraw its troops, and at the same time, it was impossible for Britain, France, and the United States to agree to the Empire's annexation of Hawaii.

Under such circumstances, diplomatic negotiations are unlikely to yield tangible results.

If you really want one side to give in, you can only do it through war.

But can war be fought?

This is not very likely, first of all, whether it is the Chinese Empire or Britain, France and the United States, it is difficult for them to draw a large number of troops to Hawaii in a short period of time. At most, it's just one or two warships, carrying hundreds of people.

At the same time, if there is a real fight, it will also seriously affect the diplomatic relations between the two sides, so in the face of war, they still maintain great restraint with each other.

What Shi Yezhi has to do now is to avoid large-scale wars as much as possible. But at the same time, they will not withdraw their troops, even if the countries do not recognize the Empire's annexation of Hawaii, but it will still cause de facto annexation.

Since the current king of Hawaii, Kamihameha V, had fled to the ship of the British and asked for help from Britain, France, the United States and other countries, Shi Yezhi naturally would not sit idly by and watch this happen.

In this regard, he played a very old-fashioned method, which was to directly support another member of the Kamihameha family as the new king.

Kalakaua, a cousin of the late Mikahameha IV!

When the Chinese army captured the port of Honolulu, he was not able to escape. Instead, he was captured by the Chinese army.

Shi Yezhi immediately gave him two choices, one was to stay in the prisoner of war camp and possibly be shot directly in the future, and the other was to ascend the throne with the support of China and become the new king of Hawaii.

Of course, this king did not do so for nothing, and he had to accept a series of conditions put forward by the empire, the most important of which was that the kingdom of Hawaii pay tribute to the Chinese empire. Become a vassal state of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, there was a very important condition, which was to lease Pearl Harbor near the port of Honolulu to the Chinese Empire as a military base.

Kamihawa was only symbolic between the captives and the king due to the three minutes. Then he readily agreed to Shi Yezhi's request.

On December 18, Kamihawa succeeded to the throne as King of Hawaii with the support of China, and announced that the throne of Kamehameha V was no longer recognized by the Kingdom of Hawaii.

The next day, amid strong opposition from Britain, France, and the United States, Kamihawa and Shi Yezhi signed the Sino-Xia Friendship Treaty, which stipulated that the Kingdom of Hawaii would pay regular tribute to the Chinese Empire every year. Become a vassal state of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, in order to allow the Chinese Imperial Army to effectively protect the military security of the Hawaiian Kingdom, Kamihawat invited the Chinese troops to garrison the Hawaiian Kingdom, and set aside Pearl Harbor near Honolulu Harbor and the nearby land as a garrison camp.

Although this treaty was generally not recognized by Britain, France, the United States, and even other countries, Britain, France, and the United States even considered the Kamihawa regime to be illegal and not representative of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

But anyway. The empire already controlled the kingdom of Hawaii de jure and de facto, and there was only one way for the empire to give up Hawaii, and that was to force the empire to give up through war.

Time passed day by day, and in late December, Britain, France, and the United States also sent a varying number of warships to Hawaii one after another!

The Americans had already sent two warships to Hawaii, and the British and French had one ship each to Hawaii.

The warships they sent are also the mainstream warships in the world, all of them are wooden steam-powered warships, as for the ironclad ships, the ironclad ships of Britain and France are generally very large in tonnage, and they are generally deployed on the mainland, and they will not run to the depths of the Pacific Ocean if they have nothing to do.

The Americans were closer, but their warships were generally on the east coast of the Atlantic coast, and the navy on the west coast was not strong.

At the same time, it is very important to note that the American ironclads are generally offshore inland ironclads built during the Civil War, and it is okay to fight along the coast, but it is too reluctant to cross thousands of kilometers to Hawaii, and you may have to sink first if you encounter a slightly larger wind and waves on the way here.

Therefore, in Hawaii, which has recently become a hot spot of conflict between China, Britain, the United States, and France, the warships sent by the four countries are mainly wooden warships, and they are not capital ships, they are all small guys of one or two thousand tons.

And this is also a clear feature of the colonial conflict, the armed forces are small, but they will last a long time!

In the face of many warships of Britain, France and the United States, Colonel Guo Yi, the commander of the Hawaiian task force who was in charge of the specific war in Hawaii, was also a little unable to sit still, and asked for reinforcements from China early! (To be continued.) )