The sky above the Coral Sea is covered with dark clouds. On the sea 35 kilometers off the west coast of Fiji's main island, dozens of warships from the battle group of the First Aircraft Carrier of the Royal Navy of the Tang Empire were densely anchored there.

Four king-class aircraft carriers are arranged in diamond shapes in the center of the entire fleet, with light cruisers symmetrically deployed around them, and the outermost are destroyers serving as guard patrols.

The first aircraft carrier battle group of the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy appeared in the Coral Sea. People who didn't know thought they were going to hide here and then raid the Japanese Combined Fleet from behind. In fact, the maiden battle group of the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy aircraft carrier battle group was not fighting with the Japanese Combined Fleet, but dealing with the indigenous people of Fiji.

Since Zhang Meng was dissatisfied with the British's support for the Tang Dynasty, he has cooperated with Latu, the largest chief of Fiji, in his own way. Zhang Meng supported Latu with a large amount of advanced weapons and equipment, and in just three months, he helped Latu with a thousand modern equipment army.

In the early morning of December 17, 1931, Latu's army invaded the British barracks in Shika. The five hundred British troops equipped only Lifield rifles were quickly defeated without any defense to the Fi people equipped with M1 submachine guns. Most of the British troops surrendered, and only seventeen people died in battle.

Later, Latu's army easily occupied Suva, the capital under the control of the British, and seized the British High Commissioner in the Central Pacific Bain, announcing the end of the British colonial rule over Fiji. Latu believed that the Fiji king ordered other chiefs to support him.

As the largest chief of Fiji, many tribal chiefs did not dare to fight him. However, they believed that Latu was no match for the British at all. Now that he offended the British, he would soon be retaliated by the British.

No one thought that Latu could resist the British's revenge, so no large chief stood up to support Latu, which made Latu very annoyed. He decided to eliminate other tribal chiefs together to truly achieve the unification of Fiji.

The British had been very dissatisfied with the fact that Latu had privately sublet the only airport in Fiji to the Tang Empire. If it weren't for the fact that Latu was the largest chief of Fiji, he would have taken action against him if he didn't want to turn against him directly. The British repeatedly persuaded Latu to give up, and at the same time put pressure on Zhang Meng to give up the idea of ​​establishing an air base in Fiji and attacking the Japanese Navy.

Bain even once told the Japanese about Zhang Meng's establishment of an air force base in Fiji to put pressure on Zhang Meng and avoid the Japanese causing trouble for the UK.

However, Zhang Meng has been delaying his response to Bain. As soon as Bain called Zhang Meng, Zhang Meng said that the problem would be solved immediately. As a result, the word "immediately" continued to be delayed until the August 15th Incident broke out. The British's attention shifted to Northeast China, so Zhang Meng was able to continue building an air force base in Fiji.

But Latu did not understand international politics. He just saw that the British did not make things difficult for him on the airport issue. He thought the British were really afraid of him, so he immediately planned ahead and directly overthrew the British colonial rule in Fiji.

The British were very annoyed by Latu's behavior. On one hand, they gathered troops in Australia and New Zealand to prepare to counterattack Fiji, while on the other hand, they quickly contacted other great chiefs in Fiji and asked them to immediately launch an attack on the army of Latu's great chiefs.

The British were very cunning. They knew that Latu's army had advanced weapons and equipment, and it would take time for the British army to assemble and counterattack. Therefore, they ordered other great chiefs in Fiji to organize troops to attack Latu's army, so as to test the combat effectiveness of Latu's army, which could not only consume Latu's army, but also consume the army of other tribe leaders. It can be said that it is a wishful thinking of multiple kills with one stone.

Latu did not expect that other tribe chiefs would send troops to attack him, especially the Indians, the second largest group in Fiji, accounted for more than 40% of the total population of Fiji. The largest Indian chief, Meddy, was second only to Latu. He also had nearly 1,000 troops under him. After the British supplemented him with a large amount of weapons and equipment, he immediately expanded more than 5,000 people to attack Latu.

Latu's army had only one thousand people. Although its weapons and equipment were advanced and its combat effectiveness was stronger than that of other tribal armies after the training of the Tang army, Latu lacked strategic minds and only thought about occupying the territory and dispersed his troops, and was soon defeated by McGrady's Indian army.

Since Zhang Meng transported millions of Northeast refugees to the refugee area where Latu had reached an agreement with Latu, although Zhang Meng had a good excuse and promised Latu that he would soon be transferred to the Tang Dynasty for resettlement, Latu was still very worried that these refugees would not leave completely and occupy Fiji.

Latu had a little unhappy with Zhang Meng for this. At this time, his army was defeated by McGrady's Indians, with hundreds of casualties. Latu had no choice but to give in to Zhang Meng on the issue of refugee areas in exchange for Zhang Meng's greater support for him.

In order to ensure the safety of the refugee area, Zhang Meng once again provided Latu with a large number of weapons and equipment, helping Latu temporarily form an army of 3,000 to resist the attack of McGrady's army.

However, both sides were half a pound and eight taels, and the front line was stalemate.

The longer the time is, the more unfavorable it is for Latu, because the British would soon mobilize troops from Australia and New Zealand. Latu also realized this and asked Zhang Meng to send troops to help.

Zhang Meng was very hesitant about sending troops to Fiji, because doing so would break up with the British and would not be beneficial to Zhang Meng and the Tang Dynasty.

However, Latu did not give Zhang Meng any time to consider it. He deliberately ordered the troops in the northern part of the refugee area to withdraw. As Maddy's Indian army rushed into the border of the refugee area. Because Maddy stood on the side of the British and did not recognize the agreement between Latu and Zhang Meng, his Indian army entered the refugee area, causing eleven Chinese refugees to be killed and injured.

Zhang Meng was immediately furious and also had an excuse for military intervention.

Therefore, Zhang Meng urgently ordered the Tang Dynasty Royal Navy's First Aircraft Carrier Battle Group to drive to the vicinity of Fiji and sent 3,000 Marines to the refugee area to protect the safety of the Chinese.

Opportunities are rare.

On the one hand, Zhang Meng wanted to expand the scope of refugee areas because the original refugee areas were not enough. On the other hand, he also wanted to train troops with the indigenous people from Fiji, because although the Datang aircraft carrier battle group was established, its real combat effectiveness lies in carrier-based aircraft and pilots. They have no practical experience in taking off and landing on the aircraft carrier deck.

The forces of the two battalions of the Third Regiment of the First Division of the Tang Dynasty Marine Corps quickly entered Fiji in the name of protecting the expatriates, and were resisted by McGrady's army when landing. However, compared with the Tang army, these Indian tribes were far inferior in terms of weapons and equipment and combat effectiveness.
Chapter completed!