1890 King of Southeast Asia

On January 22, 1898, the New Year of the lunar calendar, Liu Yiming sat on the roof of Liu's house, watching the immigrants from all over the distance celebrating the New Year with various customs, regional differences, and the time for celebrations in different places.

Firecrackers and fireworks rang through the 21st Java and Borneo. There are fewer other islands. For example, Sumatra gradually stopped until the third junior year, but the sporadic fireworks continued until the end of the year.

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The year in the first month, but it is impossible to not go to work a month. Starting from the sixth day of work.

Time is urgent, it has reached the end of January. Liu Yiming found Xie Hui to understand how the offensive preparation was: "How is the Luzon Islands now?"

Xie Hui was exhausted: "It became a pot of porridge. We sold 5,000 most advanced countries to keep the various forces that kept neutrality, and then they opened a big fighting mode.

First of all, the neutralist part was divided, and after the victory, the idea of ​​compromise was played. At this time, the martial arts faction joined again, and it became a three -party melee. "

Liu Yiming was shocked, and the split can be understood. Why did you fight a three -party melee after fighting? At this time, we shouldn't unite one of them, take over the other, and then fight with the Spaniards?

"The probability of leading them to the Spanish is not great?" Liu Yiming was a little depressed. The strategy of one stone and three birds seemed to have failed?

"It's difficult." Xie Hui shook his head and took a map from the wall.

"At the beginning of the battle, it was the dispute between the direction. They just wanted to take the opponent. Later, I hit the real fire. I heard that the artillery was used. At this time, it could be pressed, but no one did it.

Now it has become an economic war. Meso -planting, farms, and small workshops have been affected by war. According to the information of the information department, their offensive compromises are for factories and plantations. "

Another point Xie Hui did not say, that was military expenditure, 5,000 guns, and an increase of 8,000 troops. There was no problem at all. Coupled with the "slightly expensive" purchase of guns and ammunition, maybe the army is going to change without returning blood.

Liu Yiming rubbed his head. Sure enough, he couldn't overestimate these people. "Pinch their logistics, don't stay too much for them. In addition, the General Staff is prepared before April. If Americans do not launch, we will act first first. "" "

Liu Yiming cannot say that the Americans are about to launch because the Americans don't know themselves. Therefore, Liu Yiming can only vaguely give a deadline.

"Material reserves and the construction of the rear base have been completed, and the mobilization of the production and construction military regiment has also been completed. Only the transportation ship is deployed and the last running over with the army." Xie Hui nodded.

Liu Yiming flashed again: "Since the lack of running -in, let's have a military -level counter -exercise. By the way, most of the artillery fire is concentrated to give the British a firework show."

It can run out of the troops and shock the British.

Xie Hui also thought of this, the benefits and disadvantages, but politically, it is important to show force to avoid unnecessary conflicts.

"Then I'll prepare first."

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Nanhua is going to conduct large -scale military exercises. The place of exercise is set in Borneo. The news quickly passed out, causing the attention of Britain, France, West America and other countries.

The reason why there was a lot of lotus, in order to return to Java, it went down a iron armored ship, two medium -sized cruisers, and two protective cruisers. It also produced two shore iron armored ships in its own country.

However, when these warships launch, Nanhua already has two, four, and six cruisers, and the combat power is powerful. The Netherlands is considering whether to continue to act.

At the critical moment, Nanhua sold four medium -sized cruisers on his hand, and the Dutch felt that the opportunity was here! Then the people who bought the warship came to the door.

Differential differences appear inside, because Japan and DIE have a high price, and they are willing to pack and take away. The difference has not calmed down. Japan bought a fleet and was deducted by South China. The business was yellow ...

In the end of Donglai, South China sold two British -made cruisers. The Netherlands came to explore the truth. If the combat effectiveness of South China ’s self -produced is weak, the Netherlands will prepare an allies and do a game with Nanhua.

Because the army is on standby, only one month later, only one month later, on March 1st, South China launched a large -scale military exercise, scaring the Spaniards.

Why is it trembling? Because before that, the Maine exploded ...

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On the evening of February 15th, the Maine was parked in the port of Havana as usual, and most of the sailors began to rest, or they gathered together to chat together. Havana was also peaceful.

Under the side of the left side of the Burine, a series of physical and chemical changes are undergoing a series of physical and chemical changes.

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These coal has been stacked for two months. Theoretically, it is not easy to spontaneously combustion, but long -term navigation and peace have caused Americans to lose their sense of crisis and do not seriously check the coal barker.

Maybe a certain rivet is damaged? Or or a vibration caused by a wave head. On the lower side of the side, there is a little gap in the coal position, and the humidity is improved.

If you check it carefully, you can find the changes in humidity, but the soldiers are playing. The sun exposure in the tropical area gradually increases the temperature of the ship's shell, and the water vapor begins to evaporate.

When there is enough gap in the middle of the coal, the temperature of the coal pile will naturally rise unless there is a high speed of air.

The humidity is more terrible. On average, the humidity of the coal pile rises by 1, and the core temperature increases by 17 degrees. This is a physical change.

Combustion is the process of violent reaction between combustibles and oxygen. The higher the temperature, the more active the oxygen.

When the temperature in the coal bunker gathers to the core, spontaneous combustion begins.

At first, it was just a small spark. The spark burned, and the increased temperature was perfectly preserved by the surrounding coal seams, at the cost of the surrounding coal seams also starting to burn.

This is like a chain reaction, but not so fast and so violent, just burning slowly.

At night, the coal bunker was already red, and any one person patrolled, and there would be no tragedy later. Unfortunately, the soldiers on duty were dozing off and had no time.

Maybe the high temperature ignited the propellant in the ammunition depot next door, maybe the middle partition was burned through, or maybe the Americans used more active explosives. In short, the ammunition depot separated from the coal bunker by a wall was ignited.

boom!

The violent explosion sounded thousands of meters away, and the left side of the Maine was chained with explosions and a high water column rose.

A terrifying hole appeared on the port side, and seawater was directly tanked in. The hull tilted and soon sank to the bottom of the sea.

A large number of soldiers who were sleeping were either killed or sank before they could escape, killing 261 of the 355 people on board and injuring 16.

Afterwards, some American newspapers continued to publish conspiracy theories to attract attention, claiming that this was an organized and premeditated attack by the Spanish before the results of the investigation came out, and that the Spanish attacked the Maine with mines, etc.

The two sides began urgent consultations and actually began to mobilize warships and look for allies.

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