Advances in technology have made the world a much smaller place all of a sudden, and the New York Tower has been built so that radio waves can easily cross the ocean, so that the difference between the time when news is published in American newspapers and the time it is published in Europe is almost exclusively affected by time differences...... Conversely, news about the Americas can also appear in newspapers in New York, Paris and other European cities in a very short period of time.

After the outbreak of the Cuban Revolution, in addition to sending troops to suppress it, the Spaniards also actively took advantage of the changes brought about by technological progress and used the media as much as possible to smear those rebels. In various newspapers, he vigorously denounced the rebels as "barbaric and cruel", and denounced their anti-social and anti-human atrocities such as undeclared war, attacks on civilian targets, and a large number of innocent casualties. It's just that there's always a problem with their reporting, and that's that their coverage is always half a beat slower than the pro-Cuban reporting.

The ostensible reason is that the communication business is too busy, well, so there is a queue for what is reported in the news, and the media that are on the side of Spain are always unlucky when it comes to queuing and are at the back. Sometimes it was their turn to wait for the news of the newspapers supporting the Cuban rebels to go out for most of the day.

Once the coverage is slow, the problem immediately comes, first the sales, the news in your newspaper has been read by people a few hours ago, why should people buy your newspaper? As a result, the sales of the newspaper were immediately affected. Secondly, most people will have a preconceived idea and a little sympathy for the weak. In contrast, the Cuban revolutionaries who fought against oppression were of course weak, so sympathy worked together, well, and the newspapers that spoke in Spain were even more unbelievable.

This is not the most troublesome, what is even more troublesome is that Atlantic Wireless Communications has suddenly introduced a so-called tiered fee regulation. According to them, there has been too much long-form news lately, crowding out the time of other customers. In order to allow everyone to enjoy the benefits brought by technological progress, they decided to control the number of words in the news report, well, within 100 letters is the basic price, and the communication fee for each letter will be doubled, and if it is 200 letters, it will be doubled.

As a result, the journalists of the pro-Spanish newspapers, now that the newspapers have not enough money for their communications, are now faced with the choice of either not writing their own news, as the newspapers that support "Free Cuba" do, and use the news provided by the Associated Press, but the damned news provided by the Associated Press is all in favor of "Free Cuba", and using their news is not tantamount to capitulation?

Of course, there is another way, which is to send the news back in as simple language as possible, and as for the details, let the newspaper find a few people to flesh it out themselves. But damn it, the details are the easiest thing to see the problem, and the editors in the newspaper know almost nothing about Cuba, so they let their imagination fill in the details, and the result is that a lot of loopholes are exposed in the details, so that the opponent's newspaper catches it, and the sarcasm of the gun and stick makes the already low reputation directly turn negative.

As for the newspapers that sit on the side of "Free Cuba", they don't have such a problem. Anyway, they use the news provided by the Associated Press, which is a non-profit organization, and it doesn't cost money to get the news from him. And their news is still very detailed, and the level of writing is very high, so you can almost use it directly. What, you ask the Associated Press if it is necessary to pay for the tiered communication fee? Of course, it has to come out, and the brothers have to settle the score, and besides, the Associated Press is an independent non-profit organization, and it has nothing to do with the MacDonald family in theory, so of course it has to pay.

So where did the non-profit AP get all this money? The most non-profit organizations are, of course, dependent on donations from businesses and society. For example, the money to help the Associated Press pay for this communication fee mainly comes from the "Free World" foundation. As for where did the funds of the "Free World" foundation come from? Well, as a non-profit organization, of course, it depends on the donations of gentlemen in society who support his ideas, such as Scrooge, who has always supported liberal democracy?? Mr. MacDonald gave it a lot of donations. Isn't it normal for Mr. MacDonald to do so, as a man of conscience who has always supported the peoples of the world in their quest for freedom and democracy? What, you ask Mr. Scrooge how he has so much money to spare? Really, have you forgotten that the Associated Press just paid Atlantic Wireless a large amount of money for communications?

The Associated Press's news has always been very well written, not only in English, but also in French, and sometimes surprisingly high lately. For example, in a newspaper in Paris today, a news report on the Cuban Revolution was published in French, and although the author used a pseudonym, the special style of language made those who are familiar with it immediately recognize the identity of its author - this is Victor?? Report on the return of Mr. Hugo from Cuba.

In this report, Hugo depicts the brutal rule of Cuba by the Spanish colonizers and the sacrifices that the Cuban people have always made for freedom, and reports on the singing and weeping battles between the Cuban people and the Spanish colonizers under the leadership of "Free Cuba". At the end of this report, Mr. Hugo called on the people of Europe and indeed the world to unite in support of the just struggle of the Cuban people.

Hugo's influence on the European Big 6 has always been great, and in the words of later generations, there are many brain-dead fans. His article made Spain more and more passive. For a time, even on the battlefield of public opinion in Europe, Spain was losing ground one after another.

Spain's predicament was not only in public opinion, but also on the battlefield.

On the outlying positions of Bayamo, the Spaniards had been here for a long time. They were no strangers to the fortifications that preceded them, and they were now common in Europe. And the Cubans are much less firepower than Europe. Although the small cannons in the hands of their artillerymen were very difficult to deal with, although the appearance of these artillerymen was also very good, and it was not inferior to the level of those who had been properly trained, well, at least not inferior to the level of the Spanish soldiers. But the number of their artillery is too small after all. It is difficult to form an insurmountable barrage. And they don't have enough barbed wire, and although their damn anti-infantry mines that can throw a lot of steel balls at a time are very annoying, but this is not a decisive problem, even if the Cubans have some very advanced rifles in their hands. In the face of an army of nearly 20,000, the Cubans only have a garrison of about 4,000 people, so this qiē is not a problem, the Lord does not care, and the army of General Campos, who is blessed by God, naturally does not care.

But there was one thing that General Campos could not care less about, and that was the safety of their supply lines. In the original plan, they would rely mainly on the Kautau River for their supplies. In the original plan, the three frigates were to ensure the smooth and safe passage of the river, and they would prevent the Cubans from using the river while ensuring the safety of their own transport and supply fleets. Obviously, using the river to replenish supplies is not only more convenient and safer than taking 6 routes, but also provides more supplies.

However, in the previous ambush battle, none of those frigates were saved. Naturally, the river could not be used. What's worse is that because the control of the river falls into the hands of the Cubans, the Cubans can not only use the river for supplies (this is of limited significance, because the Cubans have limited supplies. You can also use the river to sneak behind Campos' army and attack their supply convoys.

This is the biggest threat, and while Campos continues to send more troops to protect the supply lines, there are more and more attacks on the supply lines. So much so that although Campos could clearly feel the gradual weakening of the defense on the other side, he could feel that his own strength was even weaker than that of the Cubans. Campos realized that he would continue to attack slowly with casualties and casualties as he was now, fearing that the Spanish army would become the one who could not hold out first.

After touring the increasingly empty ammunition depots and granaries, Campos knew he now had to make a choice. Either take the opposite city in one fell swoop, or you will have to think about retreating. But Campos knew that retreat would not be easy. In a qiē combat operation, the most complicated and dangerous combat method is to retreat. Not to mention anything else, the enemy army has been following behind, following you like a pack of wolves, and once the loophole is exposed, you will be bitten hard by them, and this kind of psychological pressure for a while is enough to collapse many armies. Back then, the great Emperor Napoleon, in the battle with the Russians, won victory after victory, and captured Moscow, but he was defeated when retreating, and only tens of thousands of troops of 400,000 troops succeeded in withdrawing in the end. With the ability of Emperor Napoleon's domination, he suffered such a defeat in the retreat, if he retreated like this, how many of the more than 20,000 people in his hands could successfully retreat at that time?

"In any case, we must take the opposite city, take it, and solve it in one go, if you can't take it, the consequences will be unimaginable." General Campos thought, so he said to his adjutant: "Inform the officers above the regimental commander to hold a meeting and arrange tomorrow's attack!" ”

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