After going to the front line once, Li Mu knew how close the war was to him. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

El Cristor was no more than fifteen kilometers from San Diego in a straight line, and George Dewey's headquarters was only seven kilometers from the San Diego barracks.

If the caliber of the Spaniard's artillery was larger, then Li Mu could even hear the roar of El Cristo's artillery in the San Diego barracks.

While El Cristo was in the middle of a fierce battle, the construction of Santiago did not stop, and the only thing Li Mu did related to the war was to send 3,000 workers to form a transport team, which would be responsible for transporting supplies to the front line, transferring the wounded, and also helping the army repair the fortifications during the war.

As for George Dewey's telegram, Li Mu didn't even read it, and threw it directly into the wastebasket.

Just kidding, now the 90,000 people under Willis Nikolau have only lost a few thousand, and the main force has not even shown up, and now it is said that the counterattack can only be filled with human lives, and it is also the lives of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment, Li Mu will not agree to it anyway.

Even if Will returned to San Diego from the front line and asked to go to Guantanamo to lead the troops into the war zone, Li Mu resolutely disagreed.

"If you want to counterattack, you can at least wait until a third of Willis Nikolau's troops are consumed, otherwise I absolutely disagree." Li Mu sternly refused, and set a red line for sending troops.

"It's absolutely impossible to consume a third, if it really comes to that level, if we don't need to attack, the Spaniards will automatically collapse." Will felt that he was about to collapse, and Li Mu was stubborn.

The answer to the question of how much attrition of troops will collapse is very flexible.

In the Battle of Suishui, Xiang Yu's 30,000 people beat Liu Bang's 300,000, and only one of the nine large phalanxes was crushed, and Liu Bang's 300,000 people completely collapsed, and the back was basically trampled on each other.

During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the War of Liberation, whether it was PLA or KMT, there were examples of heroic sacrifices of the whole army until the last moment.

From this point of view, whether the army will fight until the last moment has little to do with the combat effectiveness of the army, but with faith.

So where is the faith of the Spaniards?

Maintain the integrity of the colony?

Get rid of it, and they have already been beaten into a pot of porridge.

So is it to preserve its own glory?

Hehe, is there any glory for the Spanish army after the Armada?

So when faith is excluded, combined with the performance of the Spaniards in the first Battle of El Cristo, the Spaniards will probably fall into collapse with one or two percent casualties, which Will is not wrong.

"It would be better if the Spaniards would collapse automatically—" Li Mu was happy to see it happen.

"Reem, have you ever thought about one thing, if you protect the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment in a greenhouse like a hen protecting a chicken, then is this good for the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment?" Will proceeded from reality to prove Li Mu wrong.

"Will, I'm not going to protect the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment forever, and when I think it's time for them to go to war, I'll send them to battle with my own hands." Li Mu knew the truth that Li Mu would not build a noble army, which was irresponsible to the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment, but Li Mu would not let the soldiers of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment who had not received complete training fight against the Spaniards, which was also irresponsible.

"Plans can never catch up with change." Will suddenly uttered something very philosophical.

"You're right." Li Mu did not object to Will's words, but Li Mu still would not agree.

One thing is for sure, no matter what Li Mu does, Li Mu is proactive, Li Mu never waits passively, in fact, compared with other troops of the United Republic of Cuba, the training level of the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment is already very good, but the current Guantanamo Infantry Regiment is still far from the perfect army in Li Mu's heart, so Li Mu is not at ease.

What is the perfect army in Li Mu's heart?

There are many answers to this question, there are a thousand Hamlets in the eyes of a thousand people, but in Li Mu's view, if weapons and equipment are not considered, the closest to this standard is the PLA during the period of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea.

If the equipment of the United States at that time was taken to the PLA, it is really difficult to say whether there is still the 38th parallel.

Li Mu has a chance now, after all, the United States in the nineteenth century is also the United States, if a Chinese army is armed with American weapons in the nineteenth century, then what kind of combat effectiveness will this Chinese army burst out in the nineteenth century?

This is something that Li Mu has always been interested in.

Soon, Li Mu had the opportunity to verify this.

On the fifth day of the Battle of El Cristo, the Guantanamo side reported that a Spanish army of servants had left El Cristo and was coming to Guantanamo.

"Whahaha-Ream, what are you going to say this time?" When Will learned the news, he almost laughed maniacally and returned from El Cristo to San Diego.

"Two words-" Li Mu, who had already changed into a military uniform, coolly stretched out two fingers and waved his hand vigorously in the direction of Guantanamo: "Slap him!" ”

Then slap him!

It's really a death, Li Mu didn't want to take the initiative to attack, but he didn't expect the Spaniards to take the initiative to find death, so Li Mu was not welcome.

The reason why he changed into a military uniform was because Li Mu also wanted to see what kind of combat effectiveness the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment had.

It is estimated that Li Mu could not have imagined that he would release such a powerful monster in the nineteenth century if he messed around like this.

On July 17, Li Mu and Will returned to Guantanamo together, accompanied by the 1,000 soldiers that Will had brought with El Christo.

Li Mu has always been without a fight, since the war starts, then there is no way to live, so Li Mu not only took away all the soldiers, but also recalled all the officers, including Yan Hu, Li Mu wants to let the Guantanamo Infantry Regiment burst out with all its combat effectiveness.

"The Spaniards are very slow, they have only advanced 25 kilometers in two days, and it is estimated that they will not reach Guantanamo until the day after tomorrow, our scouts have been monitoring this Spanish servant army, they seem to have little combat effectiveness, we just set up a few mines in the path of the Spaniards, so that the Spaniards are suspicious, normally, they can't advance a kilometer in an hour-" The scout unit was led by American officer Isaiah Grant, whose assistant was a Chinese, There is a name for hanging bombing the sky - Bai Qi.

"How many people are in this force? What is their level of equipment? "Will was a military officer, and he had a lot of experience because he had lived through the Civil War.

"Less than a thousand, poorly equipped, some of them use what seems to be breech-loading flintlock pistols-" Isaiah's answer was ironic, and it also proved the fact that not all armies had the money to be equipped with advanced weapons, even in the old empire of Spain.

Of course, it is estimated that this has something to do with the fact that this unit is a servant army, and according to the experience of the last battle of El Cristo, the two units composed entirely of Spaniards are quite well equipped, at least they are equipped with breech guns, and they also use fixed loading bullets.

"Breech flintlock pistol? You read that right? Will felt incredulous.

The United States eliminated breech flintlock pistols as early as the Civil War, but it is unimaginable that the Spaniards still use them.

"It seems-should-it seems--" I don't want to admit it, but it seems to be.

"I don't want to hear it like-" Will sternly.

"Yes sir, some of them are using breech-loading flintlock pistols." Isaiah was very sure this time.

"Breech flintlock pistols, they actually arranged for an army to attack Guantanamo with breech flintlock pistols, is Willis Nikolau crazy-" Will was furious, it was said that the enemy's equipment was very backward, which was a very good thing, but Will did not feel happy, but felt as if he had been insulted.

In fact, this is not uncommon, 30 years ago when the British launched the Opium War, there were still troops using breech flintlock pistols, the weapons and equipment in the past 30 years have been updated too quickly, the Cubans are purely because they have found Li Mu, the owner of the money, so they have the money to buy advanced weapons such as "Winchester 13 Rounds" and "Spencer 7 Rounds", otherwise it is estimated that there are still people in the Cuban army who want to use broadswords and spears.

"Well, we are an army armed with a heavy machine gun capable of firing 600 rounds per minute, and we are facing a unit equipped with breech-loading flintlock pistols, if a skilled gunner uses this antique weapon, then it is possible to fire a projectile in twenty seconds, but there is no certainty of hitting the enemy at a distance of fifty meters, then what should we do?" Will felt disappointed and had been waiting for such a thing for a long time, which made Will feel like he had enough money to do big health care, but when he lifted the curtain, he found that it was Pan's sadness.

"What are you waiting for, generals, we should rush up and beat them up-" Tom was the most aggressive, and seemed to love the game "Crazy Kids".

"We should defeat them with dignity, give the order, General, I only need five hundred men to send them all to hell." Libora is confident that he can win more with less, and he is not much better than Tom.

"Five hundred is too many, I only need to lead my company to defeat them, just give me two 'rainstorms'-" Jerry also wants to pick up a bargain, this is a military feat, mosquito legs are also meat-

"I only need a hundred, and I don't need a rainstorm—" Tom wanted to make "Sparta."

"Enough!" Will finally got up, his dignified face full of loyalty and unyielding: "All the troops will go to the ambush twenty kilometers west of Guantanamo Town tonight, I will personally lead the cavalry company to lure the enemy over, all armies are ready, take your 'rainstorm', this is the first time that our Guantanamo Infantry Regiment has gone into battle, we have to get off to a good start-"

Hiss -

To deal with such a small number of people, it is necessary to dispatch 5,000 troops armed to the teeth, and they are still ambushed and lured, which is a bit bigger.