Although the appearance of heroes has restored the morale of the US military, it is not possible to win a war just by having morale. Of course, if the opponent is any Sharombas logistics company, then of course it is not in it. In general, although the Spaniards are not a fighting people, they are definitely not bad in combat. Especially considering the possible retaliation of the US military, these Spaniards are even more motivated to fight. Just like in World War II, even if it was beaten to Berlin, the German army still had the determination to resist to the end. On the contrary, although the German troops defending the Ruhr area were personally commanded by the defensive warfare expert Mo Bufeng, after the Americans attacked, hundreds of thousands of troops surrendered. Without him, just because he surrendered to the United States, he might be able to escape the revenge of the Russians. What if the U.S. troops don't surrender when they come, play a game of U.S. troops and repel them, and then replace them with the Russians?

Since the Spaniards are going to resist to the end, then the attack is not - excellent - excellent - small - say - more - new - the most - fastest - WWW.UUXS.CC - avoidable. And to defeat the Spaniards who were hiding behind the fortifications, Mr. Roosevelt needed something louder and more convincing. This thing is heavy artillery. Only heavy artillery could knock through the defenses of the Spaniards.

In just one morning, the House and Senate passed a series of bills to prepare for emergency loans, including the Federal Reserve bills that Scrooge and Morgan had been busy with for a long time.

In addition to the extremely high efficiency of the capital market, it can be seen that the free market is the real source of efficiency, what? You say it's not a real free market anymore? Are Scrooge and Morgan engaged in monopolies? You must be the Communist Party who took the money of the Jews!

By the morning all the agreements had been cleared, by the afternoon all the funds were in place, and by the evening a full twenty of the latest 8-inch (203 mm) guns had begun to be loaded onto flatbed trains at a MacDonald Infantry Weapons company's factory.

The railway department is also well coordinated. From the north to the south, the train took just over two days. Then the loading of the ship is also very smooth, and even sailing to Cuba and disembarking is considered smooth. The Cuban rebels had a port in their hands, and although the port conditions were not very good and the throughput capacity was limited, this batch of munitions was smoothly landed as the most priority material.

It's just that after going ashore, trouble comes.

The basic design of MacDonald's latest Type 1895 8-inch howitzer was borrowed from the Soviet B4 howitzer, known as Stalin's Hammer in World War II. It was only because of the difference in materials that the gun weighed up to nineteen tons, which was a bit heavier than the original B4 howitzer. In order to facilitate movement, the MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company also provided it with a set of tracked gun mounts. Of course, this set of gun mounts was also a little heavier than the original, weighing thirteen tons. As a result, the entire system weighs 32 tons.

At that time, the roads in Cuba were designed for horse-drawn carriages that could carry no more than one ton, so the transportation of such heavy things became a big problem. Although the wide tracks of the tracked gun carriage ensured that this huge cannon would not sink on the road, it was not easy to move it, and it was naturally impossible to pull such a thing with horses. Fortunately, the McDonald Infantry Weapons Company, which had always been in place, also brought a heavy artillery tractor to the ship--in fact, it was the Shenniu 1 tracked tractor of Macdonald's Harvest Agricultural Machinery Company, which was skinned and renamed, and then the price was increased by three times by the way.

Towed by these crawler tractors, these behemoths slowly moved at a speed of five to six kilometers per hour in the direction of the port of San Diego, and around the cannons were American soldiers who were responsible for the defense.

After twenty kilometers of travel, they encountered their first difficult problem - crossing the bridge.

Like roads, Cuban bridges in this era were never designed with the idea that one day something weighing 32 tons would be crushed over them. They were also built with the aim of allowing heavy carriages to pass through guò. So the engineers of the McDonald Infantry Weapons Company, who came with these guns to provide after-sales service, just glanced at them and determined that the bridge in front of them, not to mention the entire cannon, even the tracked gun carriage, could also collapse it. So, there was no way, everyone had to stop and strengthen the bridge.

It took eight hours to do such a busy job, and then the artillery began to rush through the night, and so on for several hours, and then, again, they came across a bridge......

Bridges are not the only trouble, in fact, in addition to bridges, the reliability of the machinery itself has also brought a lot of trouble to this march of only more than 100 kilometers. Facts have proved that the skin-lifted version of the Godox I crawler tractor is not suitable for long-distance running at all, let alone running long-distance under full load conditions. In just a hundred kilometers, on average, each heavy artillery tractor broke down more than five times, and twenty tractors, a total of one hundred and twelve times. The roads in Cuba are very narrow, after all, they are only designed for horse-drawn carriages, and something as wide as the MacDonald 1895 6-inch howitzer is never in the scope of design. As a result, the narrow road made it impossible for the rear artillery to pass the front gun, or for the tractor in the back to pass the tractor in front, and as a result, if any tractor had a problem, the others had to stop and wait for it to be repaired. On average, the entire artillery fleet had to stop for tow trucks every kilometer advanced. As a result, in just over a hundred kilometers, the artillery team walked for a whole week!

"God forbid! You've finally crawled here! Looking at these twenty mighty cannons, Theodore Roosevelt said to Edward, the leader of the Blackwater mercenaries in charge of the artillery team, "God, I saw you in the binoculars the night before yesterday, but damn it, you're crawling here until today." ”

"No way, the road conditions in Cuba are too poor." Edward shook his head and said, "Your Excellency, if Cuba had railways everywhere like the United States, we would have arrived a week ago. ”

"Okay." Roosevelt wasn't going to really pursue the question, "Well, can you shoot two shots over there and show us?" I don't think it involves exposing the target. The Spaniards have seen you for a long time. I'm afraid that since the night before, they haven't slept well. For the past two days, they have been reinforcing the fortifications day and night. ”

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Indeed, as Roosevelt said, the Spaniards had discovered the American artillery two days earlier. Relying on high-powered telescopes set up on the top of the hill, they saw this artillery corps a little earlier than Roosevelt.

The Spaniards were not ignorant of the new weapons that might appear on the side of the U.S. military. At least not the Spanish servicemen in Cuba. For so many years, they have been fighting the Cuban rebels who use American weapons. Although the Cuban rebels would never have such a terrifying-looking cannon in their hands, the Spanish commander Leonardo knew that he might one day face the American army. So, he's very concerned about any American-made Army weapon.

After the McDonald 1895 six-inch howitzer was developed, it was not equipped with the US Army, but it was exported to many countries. So for this kind of giant artillery, Lieutenant Colonel Leonardo still knows something.

"Hell yes! This thing is going to kill us! Lieutenant Colonel Leonardo gritted his teeth and said that he knew that the fortifications on the high ground, even the strongest reinforced concrete main pillboxes, would never withstand the blow of the 110-kilogram shells fired by the 8-inch cannonball.

"Immediately let the soldiers, as well as those who can help, move, and hurry up to strengthen the fortifications!" Lieutenant Colonel Leonardo gave the order. However, they don't have that much steel in their hands, they don't have enough cement, and even if they do, they don't have enough time for the concrete to solidify to its optimum strength. So the only way to reinforce the fortifications was to lay earth on top of the bunker, ram it solidly, then lay a layer of logs, and then put a layer of earth on top of it. But damn it, wood was scarce, and the trees on the mountain had been cut down long ago so as not to obscure the view. And run down the hill to cut down trees? Are you kidding? When the Yankees and Cubans down the hill are dead? But fortunately, there is a lot of wood in the buildings in the port, and the timber problem has finally been solved by demolishing a large number of houses.

Another thing that made Leonardo happy was that the Yankees' artillery team was moving so slowly that they didn't come to him for two whole days, so he had more time. By now, he had covered the roof of the main bunker with a three-meter log and earth composite structure. However, whether such a structure can block those terrible shells, Leonardo still has no bottom at all.

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Twenty MacDonald 1895 began to enter the gun emplacements one by one. The artillery had a range of 17 km, far exceeding the guns in the hands of the Spaniards. Considering that the Spaniards had only a few heavy mortars in the mountains, their range was only about four kilometers, even with the help of altitude. Therefore, the American artillery emplacements were quite close to the Spanish positions, less than 7 kilometers. At this distance, both safety and high shooting accuracy are guaranteed. Of course, if the 11-inch guns on the Spaniards' coastal defense batteries were moved to the top of the hill, they would be able to reach the gun emplacements of these guns. It's just that those fortress guns were much heavier than MacDonald 1895 and simply could not move.

"Alright, let's say hello to the Spaniards!" Seeing that all the cannons were in place, Edward said: "Two shells per cannon, first Owens and your gun crew will fire the first shot, and then we will adjust according to the situation of the landing point......

I suffered a loss in the stock market today, my mood is messed up, and I can't write more, so I only have this chapter today. R1058