Emperor Yang suddenly discovered that it was indeed very feasible to do this. California was far away on the west coast, and there were also the Rocky Mountains blocking it, which could completely form a closed area. Moreover, there was not much population there, with only a few million people standing in the sky.
At the time of the 1906 earthquake, the population of San Francisco was only 400,000. Considering the rapidly expanding population in the United States, it was probably less than 300,000 at this time. California was nothing more than the two major cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles. At this time, Los Angeles was still
It is not as good as San Francisco. If you calculate it, the entire California has a population of two million, which is very good. As for Washington State in the north, even in later generations, it will be sparsely populated. The total number of the west coast will probably not exceed three million. One division is enough to control San Francisco and separate the overseas Chinese and Japanese.
The immigrants were armed enough to take control of California.
Now Yang's consortium has opened a pesticide factory in Japan. The highly toxic organochlorine and organophosphorus pesticides have caused worship of gods in Japan. The Japanese government is almost licking his feet. In addition, in Hawaii
With experience in cooperation, I believe the Japanese will be happy to cooperate.
And not only those in San Francisco, but also the Asian immigrants in Hawaii, including the natives, can be armed for reinforcements. This way, we can have at least more than 40,000 troops in California, which is enough to control there. As for the future, the US government can take it if it wants.
With the money redeemed, it is estimated that extorting them 50 million will be no problem. Those immigrant troops will also be easy to deal with. Just let the US government designate an autonomous region for them. Waiting for a few years to fight again will be nothing more than fighting out again.
That's all.
If the U.S. government doesn't want to spend money, it can just increase its troops and fight with tens of thousands of casualties and millions of immigrants to completely capture the entire California. It just so happens that China hasn't received much benefit from this war.
California was also a good choice. At that time, no one had the nerve to criticize, after all, he had already given the Americans a chance.
After thinking about it, Emperor Yang felt that this matter was worth doing, so when the German army set off north to Boston, Liu Buchan, commander of the Eastern Fleet of the Royal Navy of China and Lin Chaodong, commander of the Royal Army's Fourth Division, who were stationed in Hawaii, also received the attack from His Majesty the Emperor.
San Francisco Order.
"Damn, I've finally waited for this day!" Count Lin Chaodong, the former governor of Panay Island and leader of the Lin family in Wufeng, said excitedly. In recent years, his hands have been covered in blood. He killed all the Filipino monkeys on Panay Island.
There are less than 40,000 people left, and less than 3,000 adult men are left. The name of the butcher is second only to Kuropatkin, the Russian governor of Luzon.
His division has the most combat experience in the Chinese Army. It has fought in the Philippines for a full year and a half. It can be said that it has been thoroughly trained. It also cooperates best with the landing ships. It is impossible to experience the landing raid on Panay Island.
I know how many times, if we break it down, their situation is more like that of the Marine Corps. In fact, Emperor Yang is planning to treat them as Marine Corps in the future.
When he was first transferred to Hawaii, he thought he was going to attack the United States immediately! Because Emperor Yang was assassinated, the military's morale to punish the United States was extremely high. As a result, there was no movement for two months after arriving here. The soldiers were so suffocated that they were in Hawaii.
He had committed the evil deed of raping a white woman, and now he could finally take action. The army immediately cheered.
"San Francisco is not difficult to defeat, but the emperor means that after defeating San Francisco, the entire California must be captured. This alone is definitely not enough with one division, so some Chinese and Japanese in Hawaii must be organized into at least one division.
An army of ten thousand people, and the local Chinese in San Francisco must also be organized so that it can be used. This requires your help, Mr. Chen." Liu Buchan said to Chen Fang.
"We are all our own people. This is all covered by the old man. Let alone ten thousand people, even twenty thousand is no problem." Chen Fang said casually. He said this with enough confidence. In the past two years, the Chinese people
The number of immigrants in Hawaii has increased sharply, reaching more than 50,000, most of whom are adult men. The number of Japanese immigrants has also increased rapidly. It currently exceeds 150,000, and 20,000 soldiers are selected out of 200,000.
It's not very simple yet.
As for weapons, it's even simpler. In the warehouse prepared to assist the Mexican People's Party, there are still enough arms to arm 50,000 people. Not to mention the Chinese in Hawaii, there are enough weapons even for the Chinese in San Francisco.
After determining these, the two ships Zhiyuan and Takachiho were left, plus a regiment to help Chen Fang organize the overseas Chinese army in Hawaii, and six armored cruisers including Haiqi, Hairong, Haichio, Haichen, Haitian, and Predator were left.
, Kaiyuan and Naniwa, two protected cruisers and six destroyers escorted fourteen landing ships and three supply ships, sailing to San Francisco in a mighty manner.
Naturally, the news about the Chinese could not be hidden from the American Minister in Hawaii. He knew where the target of this fleet was without even thinking about it. But unfortunately, the Minister could only sit there and watch the enemy set off to attack his country, unable to
Such important information was sent. The reason is very simple. The embassy's wireless telegraph machine is broken. Of course, it cannot be said to be broken. According to the local General Electric maintenance personnel, it is due to magnetic field interference caused by the recent climate change. It is estimated that it will be broken in a few days.
You'll be fine on your own. Anyway, it's a common problem with high technology. If the technology content is too high, it's easy to lose your temper. And it's not just the US Embassy's wireless telegrams that can't be sent out. Except for the Chinese Consulate, all other wireless telegrams can't be sent out.
As for the Chinese Consulate, that's because they use the latest anti-jamming technology. Unfortunately, what the Minister doesn't know is that the real culprit is the large antenna sticking out of the Chinese Embassy.
Not only could wireless telegrams from Hawaii not be sent, but even many merchant ships at sea could not send telegrams. The high-power jammer on the armored cruiser Hai Rong was turned on all the time. All wireless telegrams failed within a hundred kilometers of the fleet. This was
Everything is produced by General Electric, and trying to interfere with it is just like playing games. Just like this, without the people of San Francisco knowing anything about it, a huge fleet is getting closer and closer to them.
At this time, another huge fleet had already blocked the outside of Boston Harbor. Because the main goal of this trip was to intimidate, Cervera did not divide his troops this time. The entire coalition navy came over, even if Mahan was not blocked.
He didn't dare to come out. If he really dared to drive out from Norfolk, then don't expect to be able to go back. Without those old battleships, the diesel battleship alone would be enough to send him to the bottom of the sea. Severa was still very fond of this.
confident.
Eight battleships, a dozen large armored cruisers, and hundreds of small and medium-sized battleships were densely parked off the coast of Boston, frightening the people in this city. Who has seen such a scene? It was when the U.S. Navy was in its heyday.
This scale is still a long way off. Looking at the countless cannon muzzles, many people feel a little dizzy.
Before they could wake up from their fear, the muzzles of dozens of large warships spurted flames at the same time, and then they saw the fortress on Georges Island, along with this small island which was only more than 400 years long, being submerged.
In the sea of fire, the water jets stirred up by the explosion even obscured people's sight.
This poor island has only six coastal defense guns in total, but now it is being ravaged by more than a hundred large-caliber artillery pieces at the same time. In less than ten minutes, not to mention the fortress, even the entire island has been destroyed.
It was almost destroyed by the bombing, and the people of Boston who watched it disappear felt as if they had fallen into an ice cave.
But the next scene left them baffled, because after destroying Georges Island, the huge fleet at sea immediately stopped attacking, and then one of the small destroyers sailed over with a white flag, and the US military command from Independence Fort on the shore
The officer watched it approach with confusion, and signaled his soldiers not to fire.
The destroyer quickly entered Boston Harbor under the gaze of tens of thousands of people. After docking at the dock, a German officer stepped off the ship and was immediately brought to the mayor of Boston.
"Hello, Mr. Mayor, on behalf of Admiral Cervera, Commander of the Navy of the German, Russian, Central and Western Allied Forces, and Admiral Moltke, Commander of the Army, I formally read out an ultimatum to you and the people of Boston." The officer took out a manuscript.
He said to the mayor, and then a soldier next to him picked up the microphone connected to the destroyer. Amid countless stunned eyes, a high-pitched voice immediately came from the large speaker on the destroyer.
"People of Boston, based on humanitarian principles, we may not destroy your city, but you must pay fifty million dollars, or other currencies and property of equal value, for your city. This is to redeem your property and
The ransom of life.
In addition, hand over the warships and merchant ships that have been launched at all shipyards in Boston, including the Charleston Naval Shipyard, and then blow them up yourself or have our troops land on your behalf to blow up all the above-mentioned shipyards and steel plants. As for other factories and coastal defense fortresses
You can keep it.
The above conditions do not allow any negotiation, and the deadline is half an hour to respond. If you reject our goodwill, then our army will completely destroy Boston." As soon as he finished reading the ultimatum, the tens of thousands of Americans in front of him were completely shocked.
Cries, curses, and pleas for mercy were heard in a chaotic manner, and some even got emotional and wanted to rush over to beat him, but the black muzzles of the destroyer quickly calmed them down.
"Everyone, you only have half an hour." The German officer said arrogantly. Behind him on the sea, hundreds of warships sounded the battle alarm at the same time. The turrets rotated slowly, and the cannons pointed at Boston.