The navy of a weak country does not have the concept of coastal defense.

The exception to this is the Spanish Navy.

As an old maritime power, even though the Spanish Navy has been in decline for hundreds of years, the deterrent is still there. So even when the British Empire Navy was at its strongest, it did not go to the territorial waters of Spain for free navigation.

In layman's terms, this is called giving face to Big Brother!

Therefore, in the eyes of many European and American powers, the Spanish Navy is still a powerful navy, even if there are only two coastal defense ironclad ships to support the façade, no one thinks that the Spanish Navy is weak.

It wasn't until the United States declared war on Spain that the powerful Atlantic Fleet of the American Navy went south and lined up in the waters of Havana, and with only five salvos, it crushed the Spanish Navy's detachment in Cuba, four old scumbag sail battleships.

The Spanish fleet suffered a crushing defeat, and the American navy was wiped out in less than ten minutes, so the people of the world finally understood that Spain had already declined, and their navy was not even as good as the navy of the third-rate country Austria-Hungary.

However, it was not long before Spain made the people of the world understand once again that even if a weak country has no coastal defense, there is a way to make the navy of a strong country deflated.

When the American Navy violently destroyed the Cuban detachment of the Spanish Navy, it tried to rush into the port of Havana in one go, and then occupy Havana.

As a result, one of the US frigates that hit the vanguard collided with Water Radium, and was instantly blown into two, killing hundreds of people, none of whom were spared.

"Damn, who said that the Spaniards didn't cloth radium! I'm going to shoot him! Harriston, commander of the Atlantic Fleet of the United States, was furious.

The blame can only be blamed on the American scouts who despised the Spaniards too much, they already looked down on the Spaniards, and the Mexican-American War caused the Spanish descendants to find their teeth all over the place. Now attacking Cuba, the US military does not take the Cuban defenders seriously at all. Indeed, they did not notice that the Spanish troops in Cuba were only secretly planting water radium in the waters around Cuba at night.

This is the latest type of water radium developed by the Chinese Empire, in addition to the traditional collision explosion fuse, but also with a magnetic induction device, once a large warship passes nearby, the magnetic force generated by the hull will make the magnet in the water radium be attracted by the magnetic force, and actively approach the battleship, or when it approaches a certain distance, it will automatically activate the internal magnet fuse of the water radium, so as to explode.

The U.S. frigate at the front just now, although the U.S. captain above was also arrogant, was not arrogant enough to be completely careless. In fact, the captain was very careful and had already reminded the sailors to keep an eye on the water to prevent them from coming into contact with radium. But the problem is that the newly developed water radium of the Chinese Empire will sense the magnetic force of the US warship at a certain distance, and thus automatically detonate, making it impossible for the US military to guard against it at all.

Unbeknownst to Harris, Harris had sold the most advanced water radium of the Chinese Empire to the Spanish army, and even thrown it directly into the defense of the island of Cuba, which he blamed on the carelessness of the American captain and the mistakes of the intelligence officers.

"Immediately dispatch the radium platoon! Tomorrow morning, I'm going to open champagne in the port of Havana to celebrate! ”

Harris swore an order, and the U.S. military Platoon Radium team quickly dispatched to conduct a major search of the waters around the port of Havana.

Half an hour later, a U.S. radium sweeper touched radium and exploded, and Harris only thought that the radium platoon had made a mistake that triggered the water radium.

An hour later, five U.S. radium sweepers exploded, killing and injuring dozens of people, which made Harris very unhappy and called the leader of the radium platoon to scold.

Three hours later, the U.S. military lost seven more Radium sweepers and hundreds of casualties. Although the cost of the Sweeper is much lower than that of the battleship, it can't be reimbursed one after another!

Harris came this time because the intelligence said that the Spanish army in Cuba did not deploy radium, so he only symbolically brought a platoon of radium squadrons, a total of only twenty radium sweepers, and now he has lost seventeen ships, and it is still far from the port of Havana!

"Bastards, how do you guys do things! Let you drain radium, not let you hit radium yourself! ”

The captain of the radium platoon team suddenly said bitterly: "Commander, this time it is really evil, we have been very careful, after discovering the radium, we are still several meters away, and we didn't touch the radium at all, and the radium exploded by itself!" ”

"You don't make up nonsense and don't make drafts! Will the water radium explode on its own if it is not touched? You're lying to a three-year-old! Harris almost pulled out a gun and killed, trembling with anger.

"Your Excellency, I have a suggestion to prove what I say!"

The captain of the radium platoon is quite helpless, and if he can't convince Harris, he will be finished, so he can only prove himself in the most stupid way.

An American sailor jumped overboard, swam above the location of a water radium, and then erected a pontoon, with a red flag on it, telling Harris, who was watching from a distance, that there was a water radium here.

Then, a radium platoon ship slowly approached, and when it was still a few meters away, the water radium pontoon suddenly moved on its own and crashed into the minesweeper.

With a loud bang, the water radium suddenly exploded, and a huge wave of hundreds of meters high gushed out, and the radium ship was blown up instantly, and the fiery red mushroom cloud rose into the sky again, and the black smoke of the fire billowed into the sky.

"Commander, do you see that? This radium will move on its own! Hit our battleship directly! ”

"Fack! Hell yes! ”

Harris yelled, but didn't know what to do!

"The whole fleet retreats! Report the situation to the base camp immediately and ask to send a water radium expert over! ”

Harris had no choice but to order the withdrawal of troops, and the whole fleet returned to the Miami base.

On the other side, in the port of Havana, the Spanish defenders were so frightened that they were about to pee, they saw that the American Navy was so strong, and they sank four battleships of the Spanish Navy in minutes, and their fragile hearts were suddenly injured, they thought that Havana could not hold it, but it turned out that the water radium they laid out actually blew up and sank eighteen American minesweepers, which is a miracle!

In the Governor's Palace in Havana, Fernando entertained Major General Zhu Bin, chief of staff of the Key West Base of the Chinese Imperial Shence Army.

"Your country's water radium is so powerful that the mighty American Navy did not dare to advance, but instead lost eighteen warships, come, toast to our friendly cooperation!"

Zhu Bin also saw the power of the new type of water radium for the first time, which had not been deployed in Key West before, but the Chinese Imperial Military improvised the idea to bring the most advanced water radium to Cuba for experiments and test the effect of the new water radium in actual combat.

Cuba is the testing ground for the Chinese Empire's new weapons, and Zhu Bin knows this very well.

"This radium is so good, I hope your country can give us another batch as soon as possible! So that we are not afraid of the attack of the American Navy! ”

Zhu Bin smiled: "No problem, as long as you have gold, we will provide as much as you want!" ”

"Talking about money hurts so much feelings! Your two countries will have long-term cooperation! ”

"It's more hurtful not to talk about money!"

Poof......

Fernando almost squirted.

"Haha, Staff Officer Zhu is so humorous!"

"I suggest that Your Excellency the Governor buy another 100,000 radiums, after all, there are too many places around Cuba to lay radiums, in case the American Navy lands from somewhere else!"

"Ahh What Staff Officer Zhu said is so right, I'll report it to Madrid! ”

Originally, the United States planned to capture Havana in one go, but the navy was directly blocked by water radium, and the fierce offensive was suddenly extinguished. Dozens of experts and technicians in radium were transferred from the United States, and they arrived in Miami from Washington half a month later.

In the past half a month, the Spanish defenders in Cuba have laid a large amount of radium in the surrounding waters, which made Harris jump up in anger, but he was helpless at all. During the day, the American Navy could carry out artillery bombardment from a long distance, but at night there was no way to do it, so it could only watch the Spanish defenders lay radium in three circles and three circles, and it became more and more difficult to attack the port of Havana.

"Hey, I said you old guys, have you researched it?"

Harris got impatient, and another week passed, and a group of American experts still couldn't crack the mysterious water radium in Havana.

"I'm afraid Your Excellency the Commander must bring the fleet back to Norfolk Naval Base and let all the warships return to the dry dock to demagnetize collectively, otherwise there is no way!"

"The whole fleet returns to base? Degauss? What do you mean? "Harris is in a hurry, the whole fleet returns to base, isn't that to tell the world that our American Navy is not good, and was scared away by the Spanish army's water radium?

This Nima can't afford to lose this person!

Also, the whole fleet has to return to the sea, and this back and forth has to be tossed for two months, this is a war! I'm burning money every minute, but I can't stand this kind of toss!

"Commander, we think that the water radium arranged by the Spaniards is a magnetic water radium, which contains a magnet fuse, and as long as a huge magnetic field appears around, it will automatically detonate the water radium."

Harris was puzzled: "But our battleship doesn't have a large magnet on it, how can it generate a huge magnetic field, are you kidding me?" ”

"Commander, do you know that the wrought iron itself does not produce a magnetic field, and it will only produce a magnetic field when it comes into contact with the magnet, and the magnetic field will disappear when it is removed. Steel itself does not have a magnetic field, but when it encounters a magnetic field, it generates a permanent magnetic field. Our warships are now all steel warships, using riveting technology, when beating, it will trigger the magnetic material in the steel, thereby generating a magnetic field, long-term navigation at sea, and the magnetic material in the sea water after friction and adsorption, will also produce a magnetic field, the greater the tonnage of the battleship, the stronger the magnetic field. The opponent's water radium, in response to this situation, a magnet fuse device is installed in the water radium, and when our battleship approaches, the magnetic field will detonate the water radium. ”

Harriston raised his eyebrows, an expression that he had heard so much advanced science but did not understand.

"That's how it works, Your Excellency, at the moment we don't have a way to degauss the battleship, so we can only let you return with the fleet! Back at the base dry dock, we might find a way to degauss the ship! ”

Harris understood, and asked rhetorically, "It means that my warship must be demagnetized, and it must return to the base, and you are not sure about demagnetization." Even if my fleet comes over again after demagnetization, it is estimated that the battleship will generate a magnetic field along the way. Then I don't have to fight, I'll just degauss back and forth! ”

"That's theoretical!" The experts were dumbfounded, they didn't expect Harris to be so smart that he would draw inferences.

"Fack!" Harris cursed, turned around and left, he was afraid that if he didn't leave, he would pull out a gun and kill someone.

"Who's that, find a magnet and try it!"

Back on the bridge, Harris suddenly had an idea and came up with a solution. Since there is a magnetic induction fuse in the water radium, can it also be detonated with a magnet?

Soon, Harris found that this trick worked, and the American sailors used a pontoon to bring a large magnet close to the water radium, and sure enough, the water radium was detonated.

On the shore, Fernando and Zhu Bin suddenly changed color after seeing that the U.S. troops began to successfully drain radium, and the latter immediately turned to one person next to him and asked.

"Master Chang, what do you think?"

Chang Xin was a radium engineer of the Chinese Empire, and he also came with him this time to observe the combat effectiveness of the new radium. If the results are good, the military of the Chinese Empire will produce them on a large scale in the future, and if the results are poor, they will immediately make targeted improvements and improvements to make them meet the conditions for actual combat deployment.

"Don't worry, this method of the U.S. military, we thought about it when we first designed it. I just didn't expect the U.S. military to use this method so quickly. However, this method has drawbacks, and it is only up to the sailors to control the pontoons close to the water radium with their bare hands, thus detonating the water radium. It is impossible for the US military to find a large number of magnets, and the water radium area is hundreds of square kilometers, and the US military can't drain a few radium in a day, and we can completely make up for it at night, and they will be tired to death. ”

Zhu Bin's face suddenly became much better, and he looked at Fernando, obviously the other party also heard Chang Xin's judgment from the translator next to him, and his face also became warmer.

"Haha, that's right! The U.S. military lined up one during the day, and we made up two at night, exhausting these ****! Fernando laughed.

At this time, Chang Xin said with a smile: "What the U.S. military is now encountering is the floating radium we studied ten years ago, this kind of water radium is fixed in the sea and cannot be moved, so the US sailors can first find the location of the water radium, and then use the pontoon to hang a magnet to detonate the water radium." We've got even more radium! The same is a magnetic detonation of water radium, we also have a kind of water radium that is half buried on the bottom of the sea, even if the US sailors are blind, they will not be able to find the water radium buried in the silt on the bottom of the sea, as long as the US warship passes through it, the water radium on the bottom of the sea will automatically float up and directly hit the US warship. ”

Zhu Bin's eyes lit up when he heard this, Fernando was also a soldier, and he quickly understood the huge maneuverable space in it.

"We can kill the U.S. Navy with this water radium!"

"That's right, I've got you in mind!"

"If Harris knew about our plan, wouldn't he vomit blood!"

"That's a must-drop! If he is not so angry, he can't vomit three liters of blood! ”

Ha ha......

Zhu Bin and Fernando looked at each other and laughed.

On the USS Maine, a few dozen nautical miles away, Harriston sneezed several times.

"Haha, it is estimated that the Spaniards must be angry and vomit blood when they see us succeed in radium discharge so easily!" (To be continued.) )