Chapter 465, Darkness Chen Cang (6)

The Americans' operation was a complete failure, first killing a group while breaking through the barbed wire, and then falling into the crossfire of several bunkers, being overwhelmed by the fact that they could not lift their heads, and were also killed by anti-infantry directional mines and bombarded by heavy mortars placed on the anti-slope.

But the angry Americans (who, after the success of the media, also decided that some of the soldiers captured the previous day had been killed by the Spaniards, and some remembered that a few days earlier they had heard the sound of a platoon of guns from the Spanish side. Moreover, the reporters accompanying the army also claimed that he had captured the Spaniards massacring prisoners of war with a high-powered telephoto lens over there), and they still launched wave after wave of attacks, but until the end of the day, they failed to break through the Spanish defenses (the Spaniards also knew about the "massacre of prisoners of war" advertised by the Americans, so they were worried that if the Americans came in, they were afraid that the Americans would also come such a guy). So the battle was extremely hard. Instead, more than 1,000 people were killed or wounded.

The next day, news of another setback for the U.S. military reached home. Some media began to analyze the reasons for the setback of the US military, and the lack of heavy firepower has become the reason that everyone agrees. As a result, the president announced that he had submitted a proposal to Congress for an emergency appropriation, and the money received would be used to equip the US military with the most advanced and powerful weapons. Congress, on the other hand, said that this year's budget has been exhausted, and the state must borrow from commercial banks or issue treasury bonds to raise the relevant funds. In order to facilitate the loan, Congress needs to first pass a preparatory bill......

Yes, the loan of the preparatory bill, regarding the establishment of such an institution as the Federal Reserve that will rule the country for more than a hundred years, or even longer, one on a very large scale. The economic monster-level institutions that have been put in place by the U.S. government, which are not under the control of the government, and which the Congress cannot actually control, have begun to vote in the Congress as "preparatory bills." In normal times, any bill passed by both houses would be widely followed by the media, but now, everyone's attention is all on the battlefield in Cuba, and who cares about the little things in Congress. As a result, almost all of the media have been almost oblivious to the fact that Congress has begun to consider the bill. In newspapers like the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, you can only see relevant and obscure news on the third page, and in tabloids like The Sun, you can't find it in the middle. Because almost all of the pages were devoted to reporting on the war, especially on the bravery of the Americans and the meanness of the Spaniards.

When the bad news keeps coming, the people need heroes. So another focus of the report is on the heroes of the U.S. military. Moreover, as the saying goes, the more difficult the time, the more heroes will emerge. For example, there was a medician named Forrest Gump, who braved the fire of the Spaniards to carry seven seriously wounded comrades, and when he went to save the eighth soldier, he was unfortunately shot by the sniper of the evil Spaniards and died a glorious martyr. (Damn the Spaniards, actually shooting people wearing the Red Cross emblem and not carrying weapons!) Another example is a Hispanic American named Guti, who was shot several times in the body, knocked out three Spanish bunkers with grenades and blasters, and finally died a heroic martyr. (Of course, some of the brazen fellows who took the peseta spread rumors that he was being pointed at gunpoint by the Overseers in the back to blow up the bunker.) This is, of course, unfounded and vicious rumors, although one thing they say is that when it comes to charge, Hispanic-American soldiers are always at the forefront. But not because of the Overseers, but because of their love for the United States of America. In fact, in the history of almost invincible, baa, When fighting with the Spaniards, the Hispanics were the most energetic, and when they fought with the Japanese, the Japanese-American soldiers were very brave; While fighting with the volunteers, the Chinese-American soldiers shouted in Chinese: "Don't shoot, I'm Chinese!" "While shooting at the Chinese soldiers. This is already an American tradition. The President has decided that they will be awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest medal of the U.S. military, in recognition of their bravery.

In addition to the heroes who died, there is certainly no shortage of living heroes. For example, Mr. Theodore Roosevelt, who was originally from a wealthy family and had become the deputy secretary of the Navy, resigned to join the army after the outbreak of the war, commanded the army to fight a fierce battle with the Spaniards, and was injured during his own reconnaissance mission, so he was sent back to China for treatment, but when he heard the news that the American army had been defeated and in difficulty, regardless of his injuries, he resolutely gave up treatment, secretly ran out of the hospital in Florida, and then rented a private boat, ran back to Cuba, and returned to the army. Re-lead this frustrated force, boost their morale, and then let them continue to be cannon fodder for the good of Wall Street, oh no, for the good of the great sister and for the good of all mankind.

This moment is recorded in later history books as follows:

Roosevelt, with a bloody bandage on his hand, suddenly appeared in front of the frustrated soldiers, who were stunned, and after a while, earth-shattering cheers rang out from the entire barracks. These days, these soldiers have endured repeated attacks and setbacks, the death or wounding of their comrades, and various tropical diseases, and they are demoralized, and they are reluctant to speak in normal times, and the whole barracks seems to have become a large grave. But at this moment, the things that had almost crushed the warriors these days seemed to suddenly disappear, and all the soldiers became agitated, believing that the bad luck had passed, as if the clouds had lifted. Their commander-in-chief will lead them out of the difficult situation and win the victory.

Forth asked Mr. Roosevelt the following question: 'The Spaniards are very strong, what are you going to do against them?' Mr. Roosevelt smiled slightly, and gave this answer: "I can't tell you about the specific tactics yet, first, because I have just come back, and secondly, because I have just returned and need to know more about it." But the basic principle I can tell you is: kill the Spaniards, kill the Spaniards, kill the Spaniards, kill the Spaniards without stopping! ’”R1058