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Chapter 174 Hawaii

There is no problem with the Americans attacking the Panama Canal. The British government will not care about it, but it is wrong to attack Windsor Port, because the Suez Canal is a joint venture between Britain, France and the Windsor consortium. Queen Victoria took the initiative to inform Parmesun that the government should take charge of this matter. Parmesun thought it was reasonable, so she put diplomatic pressure on France.

As a result, the Windsor Consortium has the ability to be at ease in five fronts on China, Japan, Panama, Windsor Port, and the Italian-French border, which is a miracle. However, breaking up with the United States is not good for BP, because Pennsylvania, the northern state, is currently the largest crude oil producer in BP and may be blocked by the United States in the near future.

The most powerful strategy of the North to the South is the "Bys Plan", which was suggested by US commander Winfield Scott. The content is to weaken the Confederate economy by blocking the main ports on which the South relies for trade; and then seizing the Mississippi River to divide the south, making it impossible for its war resources to be effectively allocated.

The reason why the US military seized the Panama Canal was that it was afraid that the soon-to-be-finished canal would effectively lead the East India Company's navy from the Pacific Ocean to enter the Atlantic Ocean through the canal and destroy their python plan. Compared with the army, the federal navy had an absolute advantage, while the federal army on land retreated at the beginning of the battle.

The main reasons for the defeat of the Federal Army in the initial war are as follows: First, Lincoln's former president Buchanan was the South's agent and had long anticipated a possible civil war, so he transferred a large number of war resources to the South. Second, although the population of the South is less than half of the 22 million north, 9 million, and there are 4 million black slaves, everyone is brave and warlike. It is not an exaggeration to say that the whole nation is a soldier, including many cowgirls, are also good gunmen. Third, the South

The commander of the Fang army was General Robert Li, who was recognized as the best war at the time. This general showed his skills in the US-Mexico War and later became the principal of West Point Military Academy. Originally, the Federal Army wanted him to serve as the commander of the North, but General Li thought that he was a southerner and should return to the south to serve, even if he did not support slavery. It can be seen that the Americans at this time had a greater power in their state than in federal rights, and their sense of belonging to states was greater than that of the United States.

It is difficult for the southerners to mess with. After the failure to control the Panama Canal, the top federal government headed by Lincoln began to step up the preparation of further strategies. It was originally thought that it would be more legal under the banner of maintaining the federation rather than liberating black slaves, but now it has to consider using the slogan of liberating black slaves to lure black slaves to defect and attack the southern economy. It even distributed weapons to the black slaves who fled to the north, so that these black slaves acted as minions in the north and attacked the south in turn.

The president of the Union of America said: "This is a brutal act of plundering private property." On the other hand, the South also gave black slaves a choice to help the masters fight and gain free status after the war ended.

Although the American Civil War is a matter for the American people, the whole world is asking the boss of the Windsor Consortium: "Boss, Lincoln said that he wanted to liberate black slaves. Now the dispute between the north and the south has become a dispute between slavery. What do you think?"

A certain boss "never responded", and Lincoln proudly said, "a certain boss is speechless."

Not long after he was proud, the unfortunate news came from the federal warship expedition to Hawaii, or rather, the loss of the news. The "lost contact" had exceeded the normal radio telegraph delay time, but the Federal Navy Command could not determine whether the expeditionary force was eliminated, or the crazy British Telegraph Company cut off the communications of the expeditionary force.

After this incident, the U.S. Navy generals suggested abandoning BT to transmit military information and destroying all long-range telegraph towers in the United States. They claimed that using the enemy's telegraph network was tantamount to giving their weaknesses completely to the other party, even if it was encrypted by intelligence experts that claimed to be secure.

After thinking about it, Lincoln thought that having telegrams was better than not, so he reminded the generals to pay attention to the reliability of the source of intelligence. It was not yet time to break with the Windsor consortium in full. After all, the US military first invaded the Panama Canal. The other side did not even declare war. At this moment, both sides hoped to engage in a limited war. The strange thing about this war is that the opponent is a consortium, not a country. If you declare war on Luxembourg, it feels wrong, declare war on India, or declare war on Italy, and it is even more wrong. It is really confusing.

The United States is paying attention to the land war in the south and not much about the Hawaii Expeditionary Force. It only sent several non-mainstream warships to visit here. So when they saw the East India Company Expeditionary Fleet, they were all shocked - a total of 9 warships, this number is not terrible. What is amazing is that 6 of these 9 can be identified as 10,000 tons at a glance, but three are definitely not the Great Eastern class, but real warships. This is the heavy cruiser that the Singapore Shipyard has devoted itself to developing for many years. The first ship was named "Wang Zai Xia", the second ship is "Wang Zai Parliament", and the third ship is "Feerpalai".

There are three other ships behind, including the Great Oriental class troop transport ships, carrying 5,000 immigrants protected by the East India Company, 1,000 British, 1,000 Indians, 1,000 Malays, 1,000 Chinese, and 1,000 Japanese. Of course, there will be some immigrants from various countries.

The last three are landing ships that can release landing craft for landing, which use hovercraft technology. The bottom of the ship is an inflatable cushion, which greatly reduces the friction between the hull and the ground, so that the propeller can use to push the air as power, and can run for a short distance on land, which is of great use for landing.

In Tangning's plan, he will not leave this time. The super colonial period was 5,000 people, including various talents necessary for the colonization, including buildings, electricity, medical care, roads and bridges, ports, agriculture.... The scale of these 5,000 people is close to 7% of all native Hawaiians. At this time, the population of the Hawaiian Islands was less than 70,000.

The arrogant East India Company Navy Expeditionary Fleet did not take the US military seriously at all, and directly brought the immigrants, which shows that they were full of confidence in the "king-class" heavy cruisers.

They can't help but be proud because the parameters of the King-class are too much higher than those of the opponent. According to intelligence, the popular naval guns of US warships are 20-pound rifled guns with a range of 1.8 kilometers, and they are traditional old-fashioned arrangements that require adjustment of angles to fire uniformly. Even if the guns of the King-class cruiser are exactly the same as them, they have a great advantage because they have adopted a rotating turret structure and can adjust the angle at any time. Even without this new and excellent structure, the King-class is still stronger than the opponent, because the CNC-cut turret and propellers make it double the speed of the enemy ship, allowing it to seize the advantageous position to fire first.

The so-called "even if it is the same" is just an assumption. In fact, the guns of the king-class cruiser are completely different. They are no longer "bulk" shells and ammunition, but fixed-load shells, not bore but breech. They no longer use the weight of the shells to measure their power, but use the caliber. Its caliber is completely 500 streets away from the opponent, it is a huge 12-inch, and the maximum firing distance is 22 kilometers. You are not mistaken, there is no decimal point, which is more than ten times more than the opponent.

What's even more serious is the mechanical computer fire control system, which enables the gunner to reach the top level in a very short time. The shooting rate of fire while moving 10 kilometers can reach 5%, and 5 kilometers can reach 15%. If the opponent is not hit by 1 kilometers, the superior can order the gunner to have a septum.

In order to prevent being ordered to septate, the most important technical task is the aiming system. The aiming of cannons is the same as the three points and one line of the rifle. However, the cannons of king-class cruisers are all howitzers, which means they have ballistic curve calculations. Even mechanical computers require at least two parameters to determine the position of the target, one is the horizontal direction and the other is the distance.

The aiming system introduced a rangefinder. The core is a pentaprism similar to that in a SLR camera. Its function is to generate two images from the same source of light. Under intentional arrangement, the angle of light entering the prism is slightly different from the reference light, which forms an unclear image. Like the camera, rotating a certain angle can make the image clear. In short, two images are formed in the end. The operator makes the two images overlap and produces a parameter that can calculate the distance. This is called the "coincidence distance measurement method". Passing the distance parameters and horizontal angle parameters to the fire control system, the enemy's target is doomed.

After a single shot of the US military's naval gun, it will retreat a long distance with the wheel hub, which means it needs to be re-aimed. "Even if" it aims quickly, it will have to wait for the barrel to cool down and clean, and the gunner is tired like a dog. The gunner's gun has been used with a hydraulic rebound system. The recoil generated by the gun barrel suddenly compresses the liquid and then returns to its original state within a few seconds, which is equivalent to not moving at all. At this time, throw the shell, load a new shell, and fire, or fine-tune the aiming parameters and then fire.

Compared with the naval guns of all opponents today, these all make the pride and complacent feelings of the officers and soldiers of the East India Company Navy breed like the asexual reproduction of phoenix-eyed blue eyes. (http:///.).

This time, the great colonial of Hawaii, Downing arranged for the British, Indian, Chinese, Malay, and Japanese to form a colony committee to represent the highest authority. When the members of the flagship "Wang Zai" saw the US fleet coming out to fight, the Japanese committee shouted the most. He was a samurai and was originally a militant. Moreover, Japan was able to participate in the war against the United States in just eight years since the US General Perry opened the country. How could the Japanese not be excited? He shouted: "Suga! American ships, sank them! They were dead and dead~"

The young man was so excited that he rubbed his hands straight, and quickly took his place and aimed at the target.

The commander of British nationality first drew a Protestant cross to the American cousin to pray for their upcoming souls, and then said: "Don't be excited, try to make the Americans surrender. The boss said it's best not to hurt people. Send telegrams to the ships carrying immigrants, telling them to stop and stay away from the battlefield, so as not to be hit by shelling. Send telegrams to the Americans, telling them not to panic, we will only sink one ship and stop, waiting for their decision to surrender."
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