Chapter 230: Annexation of the Big Island

Although it has been planned for a long time, the Anglo-Egyptian war, which has not yet begun, is extremely important to the future strategic layout of Huo Jiajun, but now Huo Shan is most concerned about the Sino-US war that has gradually risen!

So after a brief understanding of the British's troop deployment and some additions to Huo Jiajun's Egyptian policy, Huo Shan returned to the previous topic!

"Huo Long, are our follow-up troops ready?" Since it was decided to teach the Americans a profound lesson, Huo Shan revised his previous strategy of not landing on the North American continent! Of course, because the road is long and the supplies remain unchanged, the troops sent here to fight are not destined to be too many! Therefore, after some war chess exercises by the Huo Family Army's General Staff, it was decided to join the Eighth Division of the Marine Corps stationed in Fangzhang Province to the expeditionary force!

"Young master, don't worry! We have already sent enough transport ships, and there are no problems in terms of logistics and materials! This time we must teach the Yankees a profound lesson!" Huo Long said with rare excitement!

Seeing his appearance, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile, at this time, the United States did not have any regular army at all, and the desolate Great West of the United States, especially the west coast of the United States, near the Pacific Ocean, did not have any strong coastal defense facilities, so with the support of the powerful Huo Jiajun Navy, the landing operation of the expeditionary force would not encounter too great obstacles! Moreover, Huo Shan's mobilization of three divisions and more than 60,000 troops to attack the United States this time was not to destroy many troops in the United States, but his most fundamental purpose was to rob! No one is rich without windfall, no horse without night grass, no fat, no fat'!

You must know that states such as California in the western United States are famous for their gold. Coupled with the development and construction of the United States here over the past several decades, it can be said that the western part of the United States is now a big windfall! Isn't robbery and exploitation exactly the old way developed by Western countries?

Over the past two years or so. By exploiting the inland landlords of the Qing Dynasty and killing and plundering the wealth of many Nanyang natives, he accumulated the current strong family foundation of the Huo Jiajun! Of course, this also laid the foundation for the rapid development of the entire Huo Jiajun! Therefore, after tasting such sweetness again, Huo Shan did not want to give up such means! The accumulation of capital has always been dirty, and Huo Shan did not want to achieve the great development of his own industry through Soviet-style internal exploitation! Therefore, he had no choice but to put the butcher's knife on the weak people around him! Anyway, this era is ** Only when you are strong, what can others say!

"When you go back. Send a telegram to Wu Guangzong, and say that I will give him a week's time, and in a week, I will see an island of Hawaii that belongs to us completely!" Huo Shan then said!

"Yes, young master!" After a pause, Huo Long continued: "Besides, young master, we just received a telegram from the US branch of the Military Intelligence Agency! Two days ago. The U.S. Congress has passed a bill to expand the 300,000 Army!"

"It seems that the Americans have been stimulated by us a lot! Come up, expand so many troops!" Hearing this news, Huo Shan did not have too many worries in his heart, and it would take at least three months for an army to be formed and equipped into an army! The newly formed army had no combat effectiveness at all! It was only through suppressing bandits, strangling the natives of Nanyang, and destroying the Qing Dynasty's Green Battalion, Eight Banners, and Hunan Army that invaded the base areas that they gradually grew from weak to strong, and finally grew up step by step!" There is not much left until the outbreak of the thirteenth economic crisis! Hehe, I'm afraid it's time to do it. The Yankees simply don't have the money to build such a huge army!" Huo Shan thought secretly in his heart!

"Well, the Americans' courage is not small, but if they want to defeat our Jīng Rui's Huo Jiajun with some recruits, it's really too wishful thinking!" Huo Long knew the difference in military strength between the two sides, so he was somewhat disdainful of each other!

After listening to his words, Huo Shan smiled faintly! "Okay! Don't talk about this, you go back and let Wu Guangzong and the others hurry up and prepare! Our conflict with the Americans is just a small fight! After they give in, we still have more important things to complete!"

"Understood, young master!"

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On 18 May, there was still calm in the mainstream newspapers of various countries in the world, except for some time ago, after the resolution passed by the US Congress to expand the army by 300,000 troops set off an international storm, there was still no news about whether a conflict had broken out between China and the United States, or even a war!

Now two days have passed since the deadline of 16 May set by the Chinese People's Army! The situation between China and the United States, which has not moved at all, has made all those who pay attention to the Sino-US conflict wonder whether this Chinese force, which once thwarted the Netherlands and Portugal and robbed the Dutch East Indies, has become afraid of the strength of the United States and has relented and admitted defeat! After all, they are of the same language and species as the old empire in the East!

With the passage of time, there are more and more people who have this kind of idea, and even the Nanyang provinces under the jurisdiction of Huo Jiajun have various rumors!

But all this suspicion, disdain, and irony disappeared with the latest edition of "**" on May 20!

"On May 16, 1882, a large-scale armed riot broke out in the Kingdom of Hawaii, and the Chinese People's Army armed to protect overseas Chinese, and after the riot subsided, Prince Kara became the new emperor of the Kingdom of Hawaii after being elected by the people! In order to thank the People's Army for quelling the rebellion and helping the Kingdom of Hawaii, His Majesty Emperor Kara is willing to lead the 60,000 surviving people of the entire Kingdom of Hawaii to join our Chinese People's Army. Later, after deliberation by the People's Army Administrative Council, it agreed to the request of the Kingdom of Hawaii and changed the Hawaiian Islands to the ninth province of our People's Army (the occupation of Laos and the change of Shannan Province to Laos is a secret state)!"

"Although the rebellion has been quelled, it has caused heavy losses in Hawaii Province, with more than 60,000 dead and missing people alone! 26 Chinese and 238 Americans!"

Although the whole report is not too long, the impact he has had is not small at all!

As a person who has studied international relations and military strategy, he understands the strategic position of the Hawaiian Islands militarily! and the naked ambitions of the Americans here! Although the Americans announced as early as 1873 that they would not allow other countries to annex Hawaii because they were afraid that Rì himself would snatch it! But it is obvious that the Chinese did not care about the attitude of the Americans and directly annexed the entire Hawaiian Islands and made it the ninth province under the jurisdiction of the Huo Jiajun!

At this time, there were no powerful countries around the Pacific Ocean, and the economy was not very developed, and the corresponding interests in the Pacific Ocean were much smaller! Except for Britain, the other powers basically had no colonies in the Pacific Ocean, and their forces were also very weak, and in addition, they did not look down on these small floating islands in the Pacific Ocean because of their vast colonies! Therefore, when the Huo Jiajun wantonly occupied many islands in the South Pacific before, they were not too hindered! Therefore, after receiving the occupation of the Hawaiian Islands by Huo's army, Britain, France, Germany and other powers did not say anything, they were more with a lively mentality to look at the current Sino-US conflict!