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In the middle of the night, on the command ship of the Pacific Fleet, Xu Xuebin received the action report of the Marine Corps on time.

With the help of spies and soldiers lurking on the island of Hawaii, the Marines had successfully landed on Oahu without firing a shot or alarming the inhabitants of Honolulu.

The Marines, who were quietly landing on Oahu on eight 10,000-ton freighters, were covertly controlling the American defenders on the island, and the process of operation was very smooth.

Although the Americans have already received the declaration of war, the defense of the United States has not yet had time to begin, and all Americans are still peace-minded and have no war mentality at all, including American soldiers.

In fact, the elder Roosevelt, who had only two weeks to finish his presidency, immediately sent a telegram to the defenders in the Philippines to prepare for battle after receiving the news of Fan Yize's declaration of war.

Hawaii was also asked to prepare for defense immediately, but by the time the order was issued, it was already night, and the U.S. troops everywhere were ready to start executing it the next day.

As a result, the Red Guard's operations went surprisingly smoothly, and they landed on Oahu, the main target, without a sound.

However, the battle in Hawaii has only just begun, and Oahu is only the first step, with seven more major islands in Hawaii.

It's just that there are no decent military facilities on the other seven islands, only a few troops stationed to maintain stability and not many police.

Therefore, the mission of the Pacific Fleet is to cut off the connection between the United States and Hawaii, and to ensure that the United States cannot send a single soldier to Hawaii.

The fleet led by Xu Xuebin did not go to Hawaii, and only a few cruisers and destroyers accompanied the Marines in their actions, because there was no US naval force in Hawaii at this time.

Six months before the defeat broke out, the Great White Fleet of the United States had set out, visiting many ports in Asia and making a long stop in East British India.

By the time the Great White Fleet had just visited Sri Lanka, war had already broken out.

Roosevelt Sr. immediately asked the Great White Fleet to stop the trip to continue the visit, and all the battleships returned to the Pacific.

After a twelve-day voyage, the Great White Fleet finally returned to the port of San Francisco on the west coast of the continental United States for maintenance and refurbishment.

And on the basis of the Great White Fleet, eight brand-new dreadnought-class battleships were added, making the main battleships of the Great White Fleet increase from sixteen former dreadnought battleships to twenty-four battleships.

This is also the bottom line for the United States to protect the Pacific, and in addition, the United States has only two new battleships in the Atlantic that have just been launched for less than a year.

At the moment, these warships are being maintained in San Francisco, and most of the crew members are also resting ashore.

It is rare for the United States to concentrate so many warships together, and Xu Xuebin naturally cannot let go of such a good opportunity.

It's like the Indian Ocean Fleet sneaking up on the British Far East Fleet, in one go, while the enemy is all gathered together, in one pot.

Xu Xuebin also fought with this idea, otherwise if these American warships were scattered in the Pacific Ocean, the Pacific Fleet would also be in trouble.

Therefore, the Pacific Fleet, which departed from the Sea of Okhotsk, went all the way east, directly to the west coast of the United States, near the waters near San Francisco.

The Great White Fleet, docked in San Francisco, is mostly doing under-bottom removal and repainting.

As a matter of fact, the existence of the Great White Fleet, unlike the historical targeting of Japan, is a military exercise and mobilization aimed entirely at Fan Yize, and of course there is no lack of intention to show its strength.

In the United States in history, the Great White Fleet was to make Japan, which defeated the Russian Navy, quieter, and there was still a Great White Fleet, so that Fan Yize would fight less of the United States' idea.

Unfortunately, Fan Yize is not the Japanese of history, and the deterrent power of the Great White Fleet is almost zero.

The United States sent out all the battleships, that is, sixteen, and all of them were former dreadnoughts, and as a result, as soon as the Indian Ocean Fleet appeared, the Red Alert Navy already had sixteen super dreadnoughts.

The United States also became numb at once, and hurriedly let the Great White Fleet return to San Francisco, and welcomed the other eight dreadnought warships that had not been launched long ago.

According to the U.S. Navy's estimates, in the future Pacific, the United States will need at least 20 Dreadnought-class warships to be able to deal with the powerful fleet under Fan Yize.

Now the strength of the US Navy is far from enough.

However, Fan Yize's declaration of war forced the U.S. Navy to face a powerful opponent in advance.

Fortunately, what reassured the US Navy was that Fan Yize's family had a great cause and it was impossible to send all the warships to the Pacific Ocean, and the main combat area was in the British Indian Ocean.

Otherwise, the current US Navy would have been unable to sit still.

Receiving the order to declare war, the US Navy headquarters also began to make preparations, and is already planning to form a fleet with new warships as the core.

The US Navy already had a plan to deal with this, because in the eyes of the US Navy, Fan Yize, an opponent, was much more terrible than Japan.

In particular, the elder Roosevelt, a great naval expert, spoke in the US Navy more than once: "I fully realize that if Fan Yize wins the war against Japan, it will mean that they and we will have a struggle in the future." ”

"Fan and his navy are a formidable new force, a strong, allergy-provoking and belligerent force, a force that, if provoked, can immediately take the Philippines and Hawaii from us."

After Fan Yize declared war on Britain, Roosevelt Sr. did not shy away from pointing out: "Fan Yize will soon extend his tentacles to the Philippines and Hawaii, and the US fleet is always ready to fight to meet this great challenge." ”

In terms of the shipbuilding plan, the old Roosevelt also spared no effort to increase the strength of the US Navy as much as possible, and the first-class battleships were built four in one go, and so far eight dreadnought-class warships have been built, and began to build super-dreadnought warships, putting forward a huge naval shipbuilding plan.

In order to be able to occupy an advantage in the Pacific dispute with Fan Yize in the future.

It is a pity that Fan Yize did not give the United States a chance to be ready, and the text of the declaration of war was placed on the desk of the elder Roosevelt, which made the president, who was still two weeks away from his term, tense his nerves all of a sudden.

As soon as the war was declared, the elder Roosevelt gave the order for war to the colonies and the navy for the first time.

Especially for the Navy, the elder Roosevelt asked the naval fleet in San Francisco to depart by tomorrow at the latest, whether it is to the Philippines or Hawaii, in short, not to stop in San Francisco.

Roosevelt Sr. needed the Navy to get the U.S. war machine up and running and buy enough time.