As for the Spanish Asian Fleet, in Gao Hongsheng's eyes, no matter whether their two warships directly participated in the war or not, the Spanish Asian Squadron was sent into the sea by others in the war with the Americans.

The ships of the Spanish Asian Detachment were also too old, and the protection of the battleships was simply not able to withstand the ravages of the artillery fire of the American Asian Detachment, and it was difficult for them to survive this naval battle, even if they relied on the harbor batteries to resist in the harbor, which only added to the trouble of the American victory.

If Gao Hongsheng and his two ships join the Spanish Asian Squadron and fight against the American Asian Squadron together, then even if Gao Hongsheng and them win, it is estimated that it will be a disastrous victory, but as long as Gao Hongsheng's strength is slightly damaged, then when they defeat the Americans and the Germans or the Japanese come, they will not have the sea power to confront them, so wouldn't it be a wedding dress for others.

This is the problem that Gao Hongsheng and they faced, they could not personally participate in the war in the early stage of the war, and they had to find a way to help the Spaniards kill the American Asian detachment, and then the Spaniards would face a lack of sea power, so that they could meddle in the affairs of the Philippine Islands, help the Spaniards resist the subsequent temptations of the Germans and Japanese, and of course, in the end, it is likely to resist the reinforcement fleet that came from the Americans, as well as the landing force of the US Army that arrived together, to block the Americans' attack on the port of Manila, Preserve the last source of strength for the Spaniards, Manila.

If the Americans landed at other ports in the Philippines, then they would also need to help the Spanish Army drive the American landing Army out of the sea.

After only studying for a long time, the three naval commanders have come up with several battle plans with a single word, and no matter how you look at it, there is no possibility that the US Asian detachment will leave alive.

As for the war on land, when Earmelee, the future marshal of the two countries, saw the land war materials brought by Gao Hongsheng with the ship, and believed that he understood their performance, he asked with an expression of seeing a demon: "Did you invent these things?" They are too vicious for a gentleman to use such vicious weapons. ”

And Gao Hongsheng said with a very aggrieved expression: "Damm, I didn't invent this bullet, it was made by the British in the country of gentlemen, and it has nothing to do with me, I just placed a few orders and provided them to the Spaniards."

Landmines, Earmele, you must know that I come from an ancient war country, and it is just an ancient invention of my homeland, and I just threw it to Ferdinand.

Who knew that Ferdinand saw that this kind of thing was cheap and simple to arrange, so he produced millions of them, and when he left, he loaded tens of thousands of them, and if you don't mention this thing, I didn't know that there was this thing in the ship's supplies, and this really has nothing to do with me. ”

The dummy bullet is a good thing, that thing goes in and out of an eye and a hole, it should be a good gift for tall and strong Americans, Gao Hongsheng has never seen a real guy, but he has seen it in the video of later generations, and he also wants to see how powerful that thing is.

When he found out that the ban on dummy ammunition would not be banned by The Hague until 1899, he was curious and placed a few orders with the British arsenal in the small town of dumdam near Calcutta, India, and no more than one million rounds of 92 mm dummy ammunition were divided into two parts, and sent to Cuba and the Philippines as one of the weapons and ammunition they provided for the Spanish colonial armies in the two places.

gave it to Spain, then he didn't forget about it on the South African side, and also asked them to get a batch, not more, just hundreds of thousands of rounds, and sent it to Austria-Hungary, and then shipped it with the weapons sent to South Africa by Austria-Hungary.

As for the mine, it was completely unintentional, when he was chatting with Feng Laosi and the others, when he talked about how the soldiers could not see the situation in front of the trench clearly due to poor vision in the dark and foggy days, and how to prevent the enemy's surprise attack, he casually said that he could arrange some mines in the front of the trench for defense to delay the enemy's attack.

Faced with Feng Laosi's curious baby-like questioning, he had to tell Feng Laosi one by one from the oldest simple and universal box mine and the most terrifying jumping mine for the soldiers, and finally to the cheapest and most disgusting bullet mine, and drew a few simple demonstration diagrams, and as a result, Feng Laosi gave it to Ferdinand like a treasure, and asked him to help make some.

After Ferdinand obtained the drawings, he was also very interested, and immediately ordered the development according to the drawings, and produced a batch of samples for realization, and the result was that the cheapest and most convenient bullet mines were the first to succeed, followed by the equally cheap wooden box mines and the terrifying jumping mines.

Looking at the cheap cost, this guy ordered the production of millions, this time he brought a batch over, the cost of these three things is too cheap, the cost of a bullet mine is only the price of three bullets, a box mine is only the price of a light mortar shell, as for the jump mine is only the cost of two grenades, but the lethality and deterrence of these things are not small at all, except for the production conditions of the jump mine are slightly difficult, the other two are simply a rural soil workshop can produce in large quantitiesIt is very suitable for the backward production conditions of this era.

However, there is a nasty feature of such disgusting things as landmines, that is, the number of civilians killed and injured is much higher than that of soldiers, and it is easy to arrange, but it is much more troublesome to remove. Generally speaking, the cost of demining is hundreds of times higher than that of laying mines, but this thing is indispensable in the application of warfare, and it really can't be done without this thing. The main thing is that this thing is cheap and simple to use, and the effect is surprisingly good, and no one really dares to break into a minefield or something, which can greatly limit the enemy's combat area and action route, and at the same time it is also a good helper to guard and block the enemy's advance.

Looking at Gao Hongsheng, who had nothing to do with me and was innocent, Earmelee said helplessly: "Dummy bomb, that's against the indigenous Indians, use it against the Americans, the impact will be great, it's better not to hand it over to the Spaniards."

Mines don't matter, if they are used well, I think the Americans will have a headache. Barbed wire plus mines, trenches and grenades, as well as light and heavy machine guns, a combination of these things to form a defensive system, I really want to see what the Americans will be like in the face of such a situation. However, I need to know first what the morale of the Spanish colonial army in the Philippines is, even if the most advanced weapons are used by a group of soldiers with no fighting spirit, it will not have much effect, and we will not be able to see it until we get to the Philippines, I hope that these soldiers will have a little courage and pride in the face of the bull when facing the Americans. ”

Hearing Earmelee say this, Gao Hongsheng smiled and said, "Oh! It doesn't matter if you know the power of the dummy bomb, everyone will be afraid of that thing, and it will be banned in the future, anyway, it is produced by the British, and it has nothing to do with us, if the Americans protest or something, just tell them to find the British, I commissioned the Spaniards to order it, and it has nothing to do with us, the Skoda Arsenal did not produce a single dummy bomb, let them go to the British.

As for the morale of the colonial army that you are worried about, hehe, the Spanish minister who was originally stationed in Vienna, set off on a clipper ship bound for Hong Kong a few days before we left for the Philippines, and he took with him an order signed by the Spanish Queen Regent and the Prime Minister, and when we arrive in Manila, you will become the chief of staff of the Spanish colonial army stationed in the Philippines.

I have paid £200,000 for this order to convince Her Royal Highness and her greedy ministers that from the moment you set foot on the soil of the Philippine colonies, you will be Your Excellency the Chief of the General Staff of more than 30,000 troops, and that the Spanish colonial forces in the Philippines will be led by you to exterminate the independents and resist the aggression of the Americans.

Of course, we still have some preparations for this, and this time we have brought 800,000 pounds in cash to be used to form a new colonial army and to raise the morale of the existing ones. ”

At that time, among the colonial army in the Philippine Islands, the Spanish army in the past included the navy, and the Spanish soldiers were less than 10,000, if the navy is deducted, the real Spaniards in the army are only less than 6,000, and the others are basically recruited mercenaries formed by Filipino natives, which is also the main reason why the Spaniards could not completely eliminate the independent army, and the army composed of natives is too small to form enough combat effectiveness.

Ignoring the shocked expressions of Earmerley and the others in the room, this matter was after the greedy Spanish minister sold Guam to the Germans, Gao Hongsheng and Ferdinand began to plot, it is impossible for Austria-Hungary to send troops to directly participate in the Spanish-American War, which is inconsistent with the national strategy of Austria-Hungary, Austria-Hungary does not need to offend a new capitalist empire because of the Philippines, but being hired by the Spaniards or going to the Philippines as a volunteer to help the Spaniards is purely private, Austria-Hungary could not object, even if the Americans finally knew.

If you want to motivate an army to fight, especially a colonial mercenary to fight, the best way is to motivate them with money, otherwise people will be fed and supported to play for your life, which is why Gao Hongsheng withheld 800,000 pounds from Spain, and he wanted to use the 800,000 pounds to motivate those warriors who have lost their fighting spirit.