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Volume 3 War in the Far East Chapter 10 Thousands of Miles of Sea Territory

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    ps: I wrote it earlier because I made a mistake in remembering Cuba instead of Mexico. I made a mistake. I will correct it in this chapter first. All previous chapters will be corrected tomorrow.

    Originally, I planned to do at least three updates today, but the plan couldn¡¯t keep up with the change, so I¡¯ll owe you today¡¯s update. I¡¯ll make up for it. Sorry, it¡¯s just two updates today.

    Chapter 10 Thousands of miles of sea frontier, Cuba, Santiago City.

    On the city wall of Santiago, a young man stood on the city wall and looked to the west. He had a face as sharp as a knife, his skin was a healthy wheat color, and he had an unkempt beard on his chin, which made him look more rugged.

    It¡¯s just that his bright eyes have been staring at the west. In the far west, beyond the Pacific Ocean is the Republic of China.

    At this time, another young man with yellow skin and dark eyes walked up to the city wall: "Youzheng, why are you homesick again?"

    Xu Shuzheng looked back and found that it was Feng Yuxiang. He retracted his thoughts and said with a smile: "Huanzhang, don't you want to?"

    "Haha, of course I thought about it, but since the president asked us to come to Cuba, we haven't completed the task and can't go back yet, so we can only put the homesickness back in our stomachs." Feng Yuxiang patted Xu Shuzheng  shoulders and said with a hearty smile.

    Xu Shuzheng sighed and said: "Well, it's been three years. Since we were ordered to come to Cuba from China three years ago to help the Cuban people revolt, the rebel army has grown from three thousand at the beginning to one hundred thousand now.  Although the rebels suffered several disastrous defeats after the brutal siege by the United States, with the covert support of China, the equipment of the Cuban rebels became better and better, and they also had small victories in several subsequent confrontations with the US military.  At that time, it was already impossible for the United States to completely wipe out the Cuban rebels in a short period of time, but why hasn¡¯t the president called us back to the country?¡±

    "Maybe the president thinks our task has not been completed yet!" Feng Yuxiang consoled him.

    "However, I think the president should receive news soon." Feng Yuxiang added his guess.

    "Really?" Xu Shuzheng looked happy.

    "Well, I guessed it." Feng Yuxiang spread his hands helplessly.

    In fact, Xu Shuzheng and Feng Guozhang did not have an easy life during the past three years. They not only had to assist the Cuban rebels, but sometimes also directly participated in combat.

    Since they secretly support the Cuban rebels, China will not send a single soldier to support them. The two can only rely on their own strength to assist the Cuban rebels and the US military in fighting.

    In the early stages of the battle, Xu Shuzheng and Feng Yuxiang were almost caught and killed by the US military. There is no need to elaborate on the dangers.

    In short, Xu Shuzheng now wants to return to China as soon as possible, hoping to be able to command the Chinese troops again.  It was not that Xu Shuzheng was afraid of the U.S. military's encirclement and suppression, but that Xu Shuzheng and Feng Yuxiang gradually figured out the U.S. military's operational patterns in the later stages of the struggle, and then led the Cuban rebel army to gradually grow.

    Through these three years of armed struggle, Xu Shuzheng even has a good understanding of the combat effectiveness of the US military. He is confident that he is fully capable of leading the Chinese Army to fight against the US Army without suffering a loss.

    However, in fact, the combat effectiveness of the Cuban Rebel Army was still several levels behind that of the Chinese Army. Therefore, at this time, Xu Shuzheng and Feng Yuxiang had been fighting guerrilla warfare in the US military and never dared to face its main force.

    This method of fighting made Xu Shuzheng feel very aggrieved. In his heart, he was very eager to lead the Chinese Army and the US Army to fight. However, the actual situation was that he and Feng Yuxiang had to hide in Japan to avoid being rounded up by the US Army.

    Therefore, Team Xu Shuzheng is very tired of this kind of life and wants to go home early.

    Feng Yuxiang seemed to see Xu Shuzheng's inner thoughts, and said: "Zheng Zheng, I can understand your mood, why don't I feel aggrieved, but the president's order is to let us wait, so we have to wait.  !" Feng Yuxiang said firmly.

    Having said that, Xu Shuzheng had no choice but to nod his head and continue to stay in Santiago City, the rear headquarters of the rebel army, to assist the Cuban rebel army.

    Feng Yuxiang smiled happily when he saw Xu Shuzheng's brows gradually relaxing.

    Three years ago, riots broke out in Santiago, a city in southeastern Cuba. The indigenous Cubans resisted U.S. colonial rule with the slogan of "Freedom".  At that time, it was Feng and Xu who pushed the Cuban people to adopt armed struggle.

    In fact, from the beginning of the 19th century, the Cuban people had launched a struggle for revolution and liberation, proposing the slogan of abolishing slavery and striving for freedom of revolution. Due to the fact that the native white planters did not support the revolution, and the United States secretly blocked it,  Interfering with the assistance of the revolutionary forces in Latin America to Cuba, Cuba's early revolutionary movement failed under the brutal suppression of the Spanish rulers.

    Spain loses its colonies in Latin AmericaAfter that, the enslavement and control of Cuba was strengthened, and the Cuban people's hatred of Spain's brutal rule grew day by day. Subsequently, the Cuban people held a series of armed uprisings, called Cuba's First Revolutionary War. However, due to the disparity in power, the armed uprising  The uprising was brutally suppressed by Spanish colonial rule, the armed struggle reached a low ebb, and Cuba's first anti-Japanese war failed.

    In February 1895, Baez launched another uprising in Oriente Province. In September of the same year, Baez announced the establishment of the government of the Republic of Cuba in the east.

    Seeing the opportunity, the United States wanted to annex Cuba, so it intervened in the Cuban separatist movement, and wanted to take over Luzon, Guam, Puerto Rico and other areas in the hands of Spain, so at the last moment it carried out the campaign in the name of "assisting" the Cuban separatist movement.  Armed intervention and war with Spain.

    After three years of heroic fighting, and finally receiving "aid" from the United States, the rebels defeated the Spanish colonists until they were completely impoverished, forcing Spain to agree to Cuba's autonomy, and Cuba won the Second War of Independence.

    However, the United States has long had an intention to annex Cuba, and has always regarded Cuba as a natural appendage of the North American continent and a "ripe fruit" that will fall into the arms of the United States sooner or later.

    On December 10, 1898, the United States and Spain signed the Treaty of Paris. Spain ceded the Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico to the United States, and at the same time gave up all rights in Cuba.  On January 1, 1899, the United States implemented military occupation of Cuba.

    In 1901, the United States and the Cuban authorities signed an agreement, agreeing to withdraw troops from Cuba, but stipulating that the United States had the right to send troops to interfere in Cuba's internal affairs.  The Cuban authorities leased Guantš¢namo and Onda Bay to the United States in February 1903 as naval bases.

    However, U.S. capital occupies a dominant position in the Cuban economy. The sugar industry, which is the basis of Cuba's economy, is almost completely controlled by U.S. capitalists. They also started factories in Cuba, occupied large estates, and had their own railways.  The Cuban president has actually become an agent of U.S. monopoly capitalism, which has caused extreme dissatisfaction among the Cuban people.

    In 1906, an uprising broke out in Cuba against the Estrada Palma government. The United States took the opportunity to implement its second military occupation of Cuba, establish a military government, and implement colonial rule.

    The Cuban people are extremely disgusted with the colonial rule of the United States, but due to the huge gap between their own strength and that of the United States, all protests have had no effect.

    So the Cuban people began to plan the third war of independence, but the early struggle did not go well. The armed struggle of the rebel army was severely suppressed by the US military. The rebel army suffered heavy losses and retreated steadily. In the end, they could only retreat to Santiago City until 1907.  At the end of the year, the armed struggle of the rebels took an unexpected turn. They unexpectedly received military reinforcements from China. Of course, this assistance was private. China also sent two generals who had experienced hundreds of battles as the rebels.  Military advisor.

    With China's guns and ammunition and the strategic and tactical support of senior generals, the rebel army gradually stopped its decline and gradually grew stronger. Now it occupies most of the southwestern part of Cuba, and it has a vague ability to compete with the US military.  trend.

    Just when Feng Yuxiang and Xu Shuzheng were blowing the sea breeze on the city wall of Santiago, suddenly, a soldier of the Cuban Rebel Army ran to Xu Shuzheng and Feng Yuxiang and handed a telegram to them. Xu Shuzheng was immediately surprised.  Because it was a telegram from China.

    Feng Yuxiang smiled and said: "Look, Zheng, I was right. No, the president has received news."

    Xu Shuzheng couldn¡¯t wait to open the telegram and read it. In an instant, the melancholy that had been accumulated on his face for many days disappeared, and was replaced by a smile looking up to the sky.

    "What did the telegram say?" Feng Yuxiang was a little impatient after seeing Xu Shuzheng's reaction.

    "Look!" Xu Shuzheng happily handed the telegram to Feng Yuxiang.

    Feng Yuxiang immediately laughed out loud. It turned out that the header of the telegram read: China will send troops to Hawaii today!

    Xu Shuzheng beamed with joy and said: "This time the president is serious about it. There are ten battleships and nearly a hundred other battleships. With such a strong fleet, it seems that the president is determined to win Hawaii!"

    "Not only that, the president also brought the Marine Corps and 30,000 troops. The president not only plans to capture Hawaii, but also plans to live in Hawaii permanently!" Feng Yuxiang laughed.

    Feng Yuxiang added: "But the president didn't let us go back directly. Instead, he asked us to stay in Cuba and help Cuba fight. Don't you want to stay in Cuba?"

    "The nature is different. We used to help the Cuban government for free. I don't understand it. We always bring this group of Cubans with extremely low combat effectiveness against the elite US military, but we can't achieve greater results. We can't help.  Cuba ** can't completely expel the US military. It feels like it's just a waste of time. But it's different now. ChinaTo invade Hawaii, if we can hold back more U.S. troops in Cuba, it means that there will be less resistance to seizing Hawaii. This is undoubtedly another kind of battle, but in a different form. As long as I can fight for China, I will be happy.  !  It doesn¡¯t matter if you stay in Cuba for a few more days!  "Xu Shuzheng explained.

    "Let's go find the leaders of the rebel army and ask them to launch a major counterattack immediately! We want to attract more attention from the United States in Cuba!" Xu Shuzheng took Feng Yuxiang and went straight to the headquarters of the rebel army.

    At this time, a huge fleet had sailed out of the East China Sea, riding the wind and waves in the vast Pacific Ocean. This fleet was the ocean-going fleet of the Pacific Fleet. In addition to the other eight old ships staying in the mainland, the elite of the Pacific Fleet  Warships are basically included.

    Only by capturing Hawaii will China¡¯s Pacific Fleet be worthy of its name, because at that time, the entire Pacific Ocean will be China¡¯s extended maritime territory!
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