In the waters near Havana, the U.S. military transferred a large number of radium ships from the mainland and quickly engaged in the operation to clean up the water radium.

The U.S. Navy has found the latest way to combat magnetic radium, which is a bit stupid, but effective.

It's just that during the day, the U.S. Navy swept radium, and at night, the Spanish Navy dispatched a cloth radium team to reopen the cloth radium, and the speed of cloth radium far exceeded the speed of radium.

This made the US Navy very angry, but it was helpless.

It has been two months since the United States and Spain declared war, but the US Navy has not yet completed the ground landing on Cuba except for sinking four Spanish sail warships, which has made all countries in the world begin to wonder, is the United States really strong? Why can't I even get to a tiny Cuban island for so long?

Previously, the United States expanded its navy on a large scale, and the commissioning of eight Maine-class all-steel battleships made the American Navy the fourth largest naval power in the world. Second only to the British Imperial Navy and the German Imperial Navy, it was even once favored by the Western world as a Western country with unlimited military potential and able to surpass the Chinese Imperial Navy in the future.

However, the American Navy was helpless in front of Spain, and two months after declaring war, it was not able to set foot on Cuban soil, which surprised the countries of the world and doubted the strength of the United States.

"At this level, do you want to surpass the Chinese Empire one day? That must be a dream! ”

The newspapers of the German Empire published an article by commentators, saying that the strength of the American army was only a bubble, and the navy, which was known as the fourth strongest navy in the world, could not even cross the 20-nautical-mile radium zone laid by the Spanish navy.

Seeing that the German Empire had buried the Confederate States of America, the British Empire immediately stood up to speak out on behalf of its ally the United States, and The Times, the official newspaper of the British Empire, quickly published a commentator's article.

"The American Navy is undoubtedly powerful, destroying the Spanish-Cuban fleet in a matter of minutes, this is strength. As for why the U.S. Navy has not been able to land on the island of Cuba so far, it is because the Spanish army in Cuba colluded with the Chinese Empire and obtained a very advanced water radium weapon from the Chinese Imperial military. The Spanish army has been frightened, they can only use the weapons of the weak to contend with the powerful American army, I believe that the American military experts will soon be able to crack this new type of water radium, and then wait for the best outcome of the Spanish army is to raise their hands and surrender. ”

The Spaniards were suddenly not happy, the damned English, the infidels should be hanged.

The Madrid newspaper immediately scolded the Times: "The British are as shameless as the Americans, the latter covet the wealth of our colonies, and the former can't eat grapes and complain about the sour grapes!" Three hundred years ago, the British shamelessly used pirates to rob Spanish merchant ships, and the despicable sneak attack on the Spanish navy was a fluke victory. Now evil has evil retribution, and in front of the Chinese Imperial Navy, the British Navy is a piece of. ”

The Americans do not speak, hiding in the corner and stealing fun. It was obviously a Spanish-American war, but it made people all over the world think that the British Empire was at war with Spain, and European and American countries were suddenly powerless to complain.

At the same time, at the regular press conference of the Information Office of the Imperial Chinese Imperial Academy, reporters from Europe and the United States surrounded the spokesman one after another, asking about the new type of water radium on the battlefield in Cuba.

AFP reporter: "May I ask if the Chinese Empire knew in advance that the United States was going to war against Spain and seize the Spanish island of Cuba, so it deliberately disgusted the United States and exported a large amount of new radium to the Spanish army to help them defend Cuba!" ”

Spokesman for the Chinese Empire: "The United States of America is salivating over Cuba's abundant cane sugar, coffee and cigars, and this is not a matter of a day or two, the people of the whole world know it!" We, the Chinese Empire, allowed the export of arms only in order to improve relations with Spain, and this was only a normal military trade, not against a third country. ”

AP: "Can you tell us about the new type of magnetic radium exported to Spain?" Where is this weapon advanced? How powerful is the previous trigger radium? ”

Spokesman of the Chinese Empire: "You can ask the relevant departments about this question!" However, I suggest that you go directly to the US military, I heard that they have sunk more than 20 warships in Cuban waters, and you must know it deeply! ”

Poof!

The reporters at the meeting immediately burst into laughter, and the Associated Press reporters were immediately extremely embarrassed, and even more ashamed.

Berlin reporter: "I heard that your country is very generous to the Spanish Empire, not only exporting advanced water radium to the Spanish army, but also the bloody heavy machine gun known as the meat grinder on the island, does your country plan to let the Spanish army massacre the American army on the island of Cuba and repeat the battle of the meat grinder on Guam?" ”

Spokesman of the Chinese Empire: "Our Chinese Empire is peace-loving, all weapons are only used to destroy the devil, as long as it is a peace-loving country, we are willing to provide them with advanced weapons and equipment." ”

One question and one answer, the question was tricky, and the answer was decent, and the reporters did not find any loopholes in making a fuss.

The weapons and equipment manufactured by the Chinese Empire have long since become synonymous with the most advanced weapons in the world, and all countries in Europe and the United States want to obtain the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire.

However, the British Empire, the United States and Japan are out of play, and it is impossible for the Chinese Empire to sell them weapons and equipment anymore. As for France and Tsarist Russia, because they have not thoroughly expressed their attitude of forming an alliance with the British Empire against the Chinese Empire, they have not yet been included in the arms embargo list by the Chinese Empire, but it is not so easy to buy the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire, and they need to pay high political and economic costs.

But even if it is a high price, France and Tsarist Russia are willing, at least they still have a hope, but Britain and the United States do not even have hope, and the door of the Chinese Empire is directly blocked for them.

It was difficult for British and American spies to obtain information on advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, so they had to attack Spain, and they used various means to steal information from within the Spanish military, and soon discovered some information about the weapons exported by the Chinese Empire to the Spanish army, among which was confidence in the new magnetic radium.

After receiving the information, the US military was very excited and planned to study the method of dealing with the new magnetic radium as quickly as possible, and for this reason, the US Navy in Cuba had to delay the attack for another month until the US military experts found a better way.

It has to be said that war is an important factor in the birth of scientific and technological progress, the Grant government due to the urgency of the war, the US military experts continue to put pressure on the US military experts, forcing the US military experts to crack the magnetic radium as fast as possible, they invented the world's earliest water radium detector, and soon the first batch of water radium detectors were produced and handed over to the American Navy.

During this period of time, Harris was holding back his eggs, and he had a strong naval force, but he could not get close to the port of Havana, and his powerful naval guns could not destroy the coastal fortifications of the Spanish army, resulting in more than 100,000 American troops could only graze sheep in Miami, which had a bad impact on local law and order.

It wasn't until the first batch of water radium detectors were delivered to the US Navy that the US Navy accelerated the speed at which the US Navy discovered water radium and radium discharge, and Harris finally smiled proudly.

During the day, the U.S. Navy distributes radium, and its speed is faster than that of the Spanish army at night.

Of course, this is also the result of Fernando's discussion with Zhu Bin and Chang Xin, deliberately slowing down the speed of the radium, so that the US Navy thinks that their new radium probe has worked.

Ten days later, the U.S. Navy finally cleared the radium zone of more than a dozen nautical miles and opened the shipping channel into the port of Havana.

More than a dozen U.S. warships roared with gunfire, and countless shells fell into the port batteries of Havana's east and west ports, and in less than two days, the port batteries that the Spanish defenders had worked so hard to build were destroyed, and then the U.S. Navy swaggered into the port of Havana.

Seeing the Havana fortress in the distance, Harris finally smiled.

"Humph! You're out of the new radium, see how you resist! ”

"Attack! Offensive! Fire! Fire! ”

Harris roared, depressed for months, finally finding an outlet.

More than a dozen US demining ships and frigates are opening the way in front, and with radium detectors, they naturally do not have to worry about encountering magnetic water radium again.

"Commander, the surrounding waters are safe!"

"Good!"

Harris nodded, and with a wave of his hand, more than a dozen American battleships and armored cruisers began to move forward.

Knock knock!

The artillery fire from the fortress of Havana was very loud, but the accuracy was so poor that it could not hit the American warship at all.

"At this level, you dare to compete with us! It's overwhelming! Harris snorted coldly, thinking that the Spanish artillery was too weak, and once again despised the Spanish army in his heart.

Even the commanders, not to mention the American commanders of the other warships, without exception, began to despise the Spanish defenders, thinking that the other side was vulnerable, as long as the American fleet got closer, it was estimated that the Spanish defenders should surrender!

In fact, the Spanish defenders were not so weak, after all, they were trained by the Chinese Imperial military, although they were only trained for half a year, but at least they would not be so vulnerable.

At this moment, the Spanish defenders are simply acting, deliberately showing weakness to the US military and luring the US military to be fooled.

When it was about five kilometers away from the Havana fortress, the US ships began shelling one after another, and in an instant, the entire Havana fortress was in a sea of fire and black smoke billowed out.

The artillery fire of the Spanish defenders became weaker and weaker, which made the American Navy even more happy.

"Inform the Army, prepare to land on the beach! Let's take Havana in one fell swoop today! ”

Soon, hundreds of US troop carriers appeared in the port of Havana, and tens of thousands of US soldiers began to land on the beach under the cover of US warships.

The port of Havana is in the shape of a gourd mouth, with east and west batteries on both sides, although it was suppressed by US naval fire at the moment, the Spanish defenders did not retreat, and the US troops had to shoot the infantry to occupy it.

Just as the U.S. troop carrier approached the east and west batteries, preparing to put down the boat and let the U.S. infantry rush to land, the unthinkable happened.

With a loud bang, a troop transport ship exploded, and the hull of more than 2,000 tons was instantly blown into two, the sea of fire swallowed everything, and the fiery red mushroom cloud rose into the sky, and the black smoke column as high as 1,000 meters in an instant stunned the surrounding US military friends.

"What's going on?"

"I didn't see it clearly, I guess it was hit by the huge artillery of the Spanish defenders!"

"That's too much to memorize! Could it be that the Spaniards' shells hit the ammunition depot directly? Otherwise, it would never have been possible to cause such a great explosion! ”

On the surrounding US troop carriers, the US soldiers were pale with fright, they were not sitting on battleships, there were no artillery and ammunition depots, but there were infantry guns and artillery, boxes of bullets, shells, and grenades, which were unprotected, and they were killed by a cannon cliff, and the whole ship had to die.

A thousand American soldiers are finished!

Harris, who was in the distance, didn't think much about it, but just felt sorry and mourned for the thousand American soldiers.

However, within a minute, another US troop carrier exploded, still a big explosion, with flames and thick smoke obscuring the sky.

"This Nima's Spanish artillery shells are getting more and more accurate!"

"But I didn't see a shell hit the Yorktown!"

"What the hell!"

This time, many U.S. troops said they didn't see the Spanish artillery shells coming, but the U.S. troop carrier exploded and sank.

Harris finally took it seriously and picked up the binoculars to take a closer look.

With a loud bang, another U.S. troop carrier exploded.

"It's radium! Damn it! ”

Harris finally found out about the problem this time, and he was so angry that he called the captain of the radium platoon team and scolded him.

"How did you find out? How can there still be radium? ”

"Commander, we have obviously probed, there is no water radium at all, and our minesweepers and frigates are also passing on it, if there is water radium, it will definitely blow us up first!" The captain of the radium platoon team was also stunned, and couldn't understand why water radium suddenly appeared.

In fact, this is the real magnetically induced water radium of the Chinese Empire. Unlike the previous magnetic radium, this time the Spanish army buried the new type of radium in the silt on the seabed, and the US military's detectors could not find it at all, and minesweepers and frigates of less than 2,000 tons will not trigger the underwater radium, and only when a ship like the US military carrier passes above, the water radium below will automatically float up, hit the bottom of the ship and explode, and it is impossible to prevent it.

"What are you doing in a daze, go and sweep radium immediately!"

Harris said angrily, losing three troop carriers in succession, and all the three thousand American soldiers were reimbursed before they could go ashore, which made Harris feel very embarrassed.

All the US troop carriers listened to it and suspended the beach-rushing landing.

It's just that the U.S. demining ship swayed around a few times, and still no water radium was found.

"It should be the radium that slipped through the net before! Damn, I slipped through the net with three water radiums, and as a result, I blew up and sank three troop carriers, this Nima is too much to carry it! ”

The captain of the radium platoon said speechlessly, and asked his subordinates to search carefully, but once again they recognized that there was no water radium, which was like a Harris report.

Harris then re-informed the troop carriers and reorganized the beach-rushing landing.

However, just after half an hour, two US troop carriers again touched the radium explosion, killing all 2,000 US troops on it.

"Pull him out and kill him!"

The captain of the radium platoon team was immediately pulled out and killed, until he was shot, and the captain of the radium platoon team didn't figure out what was going on.

Harris was also shocked, hesitating to pause the offense and send another radium platoon to check it out. Maybe it's really the water radium that slipped through the net, just this one, and it was hit by the US troop carrier that dotted its back. If you retreat like this, then the day's work will be in vain, and it will be too embarrassing to spread it.

Just as Harris hesitated, four troop carriers exploded again.

The rumbling explosions came and went, and seeing the American soldiers on the troop carrier crying and shouting for their mothers to escape, but were engulfed in the flames of the explosion, Harris no longer dared to hesitate and immediately ordered a retreat.

"Retreat! The whole fleet retreats! ”

Knock knock! Knock knock!

At this moment, there was a sudden roar from the east and west batteries of the port of Havana, and hundreds of shells whistled and fell above the American warships and troop carriers.

This is a large-caliber fortress gun, with a curved trajectory, falling from a height, easily avoiding the side armor protection of the American ship, falling directly on the horizontal deck, and exploding.

The Spanish defenders fought back!

Obviously, this is a complete set, and the Spanish defenders deliberately let the U.S. Navy fleet in at the beginning, and when the U.S. Navy found out that it was not good and planned to retreat, it was when the Spanish defenders counterattacked.

Boom! Boom!

Huge columns of water rose on the surface of the sea, and the waves splashed. The retreating U.S. warships and troop carriers were constantly shot, sparks exploded, and clusters of flames rose into the air, turning into patches of black smoke.

A few shells from the fortress artillery shells on the fragile US troop carrier would cause a large explosion, and the dense US soldiers were blown up to the ground of flesh and blood, which was unbearable to see.

Harris's flagship was the most hateful, and the Spanish defenders' fortress guns stared at the flagship Maine and slammed it.

Although the Maine was an all-steel battleship, its powerful armor was only vertical armor, which was used to defend against enemy shells that fired directly at sea level, and was less than 50 mm in horizontal armor and was instantly hit by two 280 mm fortress shells.

There were two loud bangs, and Harris didn't stand still, and suddenly fell to the ground, hitting his head and bleeding.

"Avoid! Evade quickly! ”

Faced with the attack of dozens of artillery pieces, Harris had to choose to dodge.

However, what he never expected was that the Maine would deviate from its safe course and collide with a water radium because of evading the shell.

With a loud bang, the bottom of the battleship Maine was blasted open a large hole more than four meters wide, and the sea water poured violently, and in just a dozen seconds, the giant ship of more than 15,000 tons was headfirst down and sank at a speed that could be seen.

Harriston was so angry that he vomited blood and had to force his men to jump overboard.

The sea was full of shells falling and exploding, stirring up waves and waves, and Harris and several people were slapped back and forth by the huge waves, and they were dizzy, and they drank the seawater, and they wanted to die. (To be continued.) )