Chapter 173: Invasion of Hawaii

Among the countless military ports in the world, Pearl Harbor in the United States can definitely be called a real famous port. Its poetic name appeared frequently in textbooks, strategies and modern history texts in various countries around the world in the second half of the 20th century.

At this time, Pearl Harbor was just a bay that had just been developed, and the U.S. Congress had not even declared it a bay as a U.S. Navy port.

Pearl Harbor's external shipping channels were dug up, the bay area was widened, and the breakwaters were built, and a large amount of engineering equipment and materials were still placed in Pearl Harbor.

The huge port and wharf are basically completed, and the facilities of the port have not yet been built, this is just a port under construction, and there are only workers in the port, not even a wharf, because there are no ships docked here, and the port is not open to the public.

The U.S. Congress is also about to pass a bill declaring Pearl Harbor to officially become a U.S. Navy military base in the Pacific, but it will take at least another four or five years to build it before it can accommodate warships.

At the very least, it is necessary to build repair yards, dry docks, fuel supply depots, docks and necessary naval facilities for ships, and although the port is already able to meet the requirements for docking large warships, and even the cranes for equipment shipment and cargo have been installed, they are not fully functional after all.

In fact, since Fan Yize's arrival in this world, this port has already begun to be built, and many projects have been completed one after another, leaving only those military facilities that have not yet been built.

Pearl Harbor is located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu and is named for its abundance of high-quality pearls. Historically, Hawaii was an independent kingdom. Hundreds of years ago, the Spanish Empire relied on sea power to forcibly claim it as its own, and the kingdom collapsed. In 1898, the increasingly powerful United States of America seized the land from Spain and began building a naval base there.

Pearl Harbor is located at the lowest point in the plain between the Kolau Mountains and the Waianay Mountains on the southern shore of Oahu, adjacent to the only deep-water port, Port Honolulu.

Pearl Harbor at night was very quiet, the lights on the shore had long been extinguished, and the workers in the port had already fallen asleep.

Outside the port, several warships quietly entered the port, and inside the port, there were faint lights to guide the warships into the port.

Not far away, in the busy port of Honolulu, two cargo ships of several thousand tons are loading and unloading cargo, and many trucks are parked in the port waiting to pull goods.

Twelve years ago, the United States officially merged Hawaii and turned Hawaii into the United States.

The indigenous population is the largest, followed by immigrants from various countries, and the Japanese originally had the most in Hawaii, but now, the number of Chinese in Hawaii has surpassed the Japanese and the Americans, and it has been about the same as the number of indigenous people.

At this moment, on the port, a group of Chinese wearing Hanfu are wandering and waiting, and the manager of the port company is actually a Chinese, accompanying this group of Chinese.

Because of Fan Yize's relationship, the United States abolished the relevant discrimination laws very early, and the status of Chinese in American society has also changed significantly.

After all, Fan Yize is really making too much trouble, and the army under his command is also all Chinese, and the US government also has to consider Fan Yize's emotions.

As an early immigrant in Hawaii, the status of the Chinese has improved, which has also made the Chinese in Hawaii begin to have great development, especially after Fan Yize destroyed Japan, the Japanese on Hawaii Island have become rootless duckweed, but have become the target of most people's bullying.

Outside the port, several large merchant ships flying the American flag slowly sailed into the port, and the prepared tugboats dragged the ships into the port and docked steadily in the port.

Just as the hatch of the merchant ship was about to open, a group of heavily armed American soldiers entered the harbor, and a captain of the United States Army personally led the team to the dock.

At the same time, a notice also sounded on the radio at the wharf, the content was that Fan Yize had declared war on the United States, and from now on, the port of Honolulu would be under full martial law, all goods must be strictly inspected, and the import and export personnel would also be strictly searched.

And starting tomorrow, all residents of the island of Hawaii will have to undergo identity checks and re-registration.

The notice was accompanied by a conscription announcement that the U.S. government would recruit young soldiers on Hawaii to protect the archipelago.

The content of the broadcast made most of the workers in the port stop working, and they all seemed to be looking at each other with a look of surprise.

The captain of the U.S. Army, who led the team, also walked to the dock position, and saw the workers on the dock who stopped their work one by one, as well as the Chinese gathered together, the captain instinctively frowned.

He had usually been to this port at all, and he didn't know when the port of Honolulu was all Asian, which made him feel a faint uneasiness in his heart.

However, the captain did not pay much attention to it, and in recent years, the Chinese have made a lot of investment in the Hawaii area, which has greatly contributed to the overall economy of Hawaii.

In recent years, the number of Chinese in Hawaii has increased, and now it has accounted for about one-third of the total population, and Chinese can be seen in all walks of life.

"Gentlemen, what are you doing here?" The captain stepped forward and asked a little politely.

A group of Chinese gathered at the port, all of them in suits and leather shoes, seemed to be very rich, and the captain only stepped forward to inquire out of curiosity.

In the crowd, a young Chinese man walked up to the captain, pointed to the huge merchant ships docked in the harbor, and said, "Let's check the goods." ”

The captain swept over the 10,000-ton merchant ships in front of him, frowned slightly, and said, "We need to go on board to check." ”

"Mr. Captain, there shouldn't be any need for inspection." The young man standing in front of the captain showed a mouthful of neat white teeth.

The captain didn't react for a moment, and was about to say something when he found a hard object on his abdomen, and when he lowered his head to look, his pupils instantly constricted, and a pistol was pressed against his stomach.

The captain swallowed and slowly raised his hands, this was surrender, and it was also a signal to the soldiers behind him, but the expected help did not come.

The captain looked back with some confusion, and a few drops of sweat suddenly flowed from his head, and the group of soldiers he brought with him had been disarmed, and the workers in the harbor were now holding a pistol against the heads of his soldiers.