284 Mei Xi started to fight

The night in the Ryukyus is beautiful and devastating, and the cool sea breeze blows from the Pacific Ocean, dissipating the heat of the day. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

"Miss, the soup is cold." In the room, the little maid touched the teacup with her hand, and her little mouth pouted.

Fang Xianqi chuckled, Feng Mu moved away from the book, closed it and said with a smile: "It's good to take it and heat it up again when it's cold, it's okay to know that you are going around here, and you have no mind to read a book." ”

"Miss, when will my uncle come back? If this lotus soup is too hot, it will not taste good. The little girl looked at the dark night sky outside the window, her little nose twisted slightly, and her mouth was high: "Miss, my uncle is always busy with this and that, and as soon as I arrived in Ryukyu, I disappeared again." ”

Listening to the complaints of the intimate little maid, Fang Xianqi also sighed slightly in her heart, but said in her mouth: "Brother Li is a person who does big things, how can he stay at home all day long, don't chew your tongue." ”

The little maid muttered: "People are talking nonsense, when I was in Lushun, my aunt either stayed in the study, or in Miss Duan's room, or in Miss Qiao'er's place, and I didn't see him come to you for one night, didn't my aunt say that men are all stealing cats?" Why didn't my uncle come and steal you?"

"Dead girl, what nonsense." Fang Xianqi's face was red, but fortunately, the little maid had accompanied her since she was a child, so she hurriedly snorted: "Could it be that you are in a hurry to get married." ”

"Miss, people are doing this for your good, so they know how to bully me." The little maid stomped her feet, blushed and walked halfway with the lotus soup, and did not forget to continue to instruct: "Miss, my aunt asked me to tell you, which time should be." ”

"What that?"

"It's ......, it's it." The little maid was in the period of Ai Ai, pursing her red lips for a long time, and stomped her feet: "Just let my uncle stay in your room." With that, he ran out of the house.

Xianqi was stunned for a moment, and in a blink of an eye, she was full of red temples, and sat down quietly after a while, her eyes passed through the open door connected to the bedroom, and she looked at the big bed inside and muttered to herself, but she was stunned.

"What is the book?"

"Why don't you go to rest when you're still reading so late? What book do you want? I'll help find it. Li Mo walked into the study and saw Fang Xianqi holding the book in a daze, muttering a book or something, thinking that she was looking for a book to read again.

Fang Xianqi was taken aback, her little face flushed, and she hurriedly used the book as a cover-up: "I've found it, Brother Li, I'll help you take your clothes and take a bath."

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Li Mo was also a little tired, he didn't notice the other party's expression at all, and when the cold water rushed to his body, he was a little sober, and when he took a shower and walked into the room, he found Fang Xianqi sitting on the sofa flipping through a book.

"Why are you still reading, it's so late, go to bed."

"Sleep ......." Fang Xianqi's heart trembled, her fingers secretly twisted the corners of her skirt, thinking of what her aunt asked the little maid to tell her, her heart was like a deer.

Seeing the girl sitting on the sofa in a daze, Li Mo thought something was wrong, and hurriedly asked, "What's wrong?" Is there something wrong? ”

"Oh, it's okay, it's okay, I'm really a little sleepy when you say it." Fang Xianqi hurriedly got up and closed the book, and after untying his braids and stretching his waist, he glanced at Li Mo.

The action of straightening his chest and stretching his waist, and the lazy and pretty appearance, made Master Li's eyes straighten.

I was seduced by my wife

Seeing that Young Master Li was staring directly at him, Fang Xianqi blushed, but as soon as he wanted to leave, he felt a tightness in his waist, and then found that his whole person was hugged by him, and before he could make a sound, his small mouth was blocked, and his big tongue squeezed open his teeth and drilled in, only to feel a bang in his head, and he didn't even hear a sound of small footsteps outside the door.

When the little maid walked to the door with the lotus soup, she heard a crying voice suddenly coming from the door, and her cheeks were crimson with shame, and she turned around and left with a sip.

When Master Li woke up with his fragrant delicate body in his arms, the long-watched Spanish-American War finally began.

When the four heavy cruisers had finally returned home after a long journey, the Spanish government only let the fleet rest for three days, and after replenishing its personnel and supplies, it could not wait to order them to join the Shelvela fleet, which was playing hide-and-seek with the U.S. Navy off the coast of the Caribbean.

At this time, the U.S. Navy was already in a hurry, and although the strength of the Shelveira fleet was not strong, it still brought great panic to the United States, and all the cities on the east coast were in a hurry, and news of the discovery of the Spanish fleet was heard everywhere.

But in fact, Shelvera has not chosen to go to war immediately, but deliberately took the US Navy in circles, waiting for the return of the four heavy cruisers, because he knew very well that without these four cruisers, his fleet would be torn apart by the United States.

On July 25, the U.S. Navy finally discovered the Shelveira fleet hiding in the port of Santiago next to Guantanamo, and Uncle Sam was excited to immediately send more than a dozen ironclad ships with two battleships as the main force to surround Santiago, and at the same time ordered two other Iowa class battleships that had just been in service for one year to support the Seaveils defense off the coast, preparing to destroy the Shelveyra's fleet first, and then turn around and eat four heavy cruises that made the United States gnash its teeth.

But the inexperienced U.S. Navy had already delayed too much time, and did not expect the four heavy cruisers to arrive so quickly, and when the two Iowa-class battleships had just arrived off the coast of San Diego, the three Determination-class heavy cruisers and the former Japanese Navy's Azuma also arrived in San Diego to rendezvous.

The naval battle finally broke out

Seeing this, the Shelveira rushed out of the harbor under the cover of shore guns, and what was surprising was that the U.S. Navy blocked the waterway for seven or eight days, only thinking about blocking the waterway by sinking ships, and then was caught and lost a ship in vain, and did not lay mines, so that the Shelveira fleet successfully drilled out of the bay and joined the fierce battle.

The fierce artillery battle finally began, although the naval guns were dismantled and replaced with the old 203 mm retreat guns with a slow rate of fire, but the US Navy did not have the same type of naval guns as the Pacific Fleet, and the firing angles of the naval guns had not had time to be modified, so the combat distance of the two fleets was still dragged into a 5,000-meter death distance between each other's armor.

Although it was impossible for Li Mo to sell the cap-piercing shells to Spain, in order to cause trouble for the United States, he still stuffed the three determination-class heavy cruisers with high-explosive shells, plus the 250-mm shells urgently purchased by the Spanish government from France, the power of the four heavy cruisers was not much worse than that of the American battleships.

So from the very beginning, the naval battle entered the **, the rumbling cannon and the pervasive smoke almost made several staff officers of the Pacific Fleet who sent a Tingfeng-class reconnaissance ship to accompany the Spanish fleet back home with the Spanish fleet according to the sale agreement, and observed the naval battle on the spot.

Thirty minutes later, the aging Spanish fleet suffered heavy losses first, and the former Japanese heavy cruiser Azuma, which had been damaged in the last war, and had only urgently replenished a few steel plates, was blown up by two American battleships in succession, and then had to hang up the white flag and withdraw from the battle first.

However, it seems that the Spanish bullfighters were aroused by the loss of one capital ship first, and the three brilliant Determination-class cruisers took advantage of the opportunity of the opponent's fierce attack on the Azuma to successfully block the Iowa II, and the inexperienced American sailors were overwhelmed by heavy artillery fire, especially the high-explosive shells loaded with TNT, each of which could cause fatal damage to the opponent.

Originally, the American battleship was technically inferior to that of Europe, not only with a shallow draft, but also with poor seaworthiness, and was once regarded as a shallow-water heavy artillery mosquito ship by the BB Party in later generations.

After losing one of the capital battleships, the Americans were red-eyed, and the remaining three capital battleships surrounded the three determined to re-patrol and bombard, while the Shelveira fleet, although it rushed out of the harbor, was entangled by more than a dozen armored ships and could not get close to share the pressure.

Three hours later, the US-West naval battle, which was much higher in scale and quality than history after Li Mo's appearance, and even completely changed its flavor, came to an end, and finally the US Navy lost two battleships and two cruisers, and completely destroyed three Determination-class heavy cruisers and as many as three cruisers in the Shelveira fleet, and the Azuma was sunk because it lost its ability to move.

Although the cost was heavy, the naval battle meant that the United States officially took control of the sea power off Cuba and the birth of a rejuvenating naval power.

The only people who shook their heads were the several Pacific Fleet staff officers who were crowded into the international observation group, and in their opinion, if the United States had adopted the tactics of line formation earlier, separated the four threatening heavy cruisers with four battleships, and then used the superiority of large-caliber naval guns, it would have been possible to defeat the Spaniards without losing one.

When several staff officers in charge of watching the battle wrote down their experiences in their notebooks, the news also reached Washington, and William McKinley, who had been impatient for a long time, immediately ordered the landing of the army, clamoring to take Cuba within ten days and help the Cuban people overthrow the Spanish colonial tyranny*.

Spain, on the other hand, was mourned by the whole country, and the huge cost and losses made Spain completely lose its dream of defeating the United States at sea, and the support fleet based on two battleships finally had to go to Puerto Rico to meet the remnants of Shelvera first.

On 27 July, the first batch of 16,000 American volunteers under the banner of supporting Cuba, under the protection of the Navy and under the leadership of General Shaft, crossed the Strait of Florida and landed 50 kilometers east of the port of San Diego.

Because Maceo's Cuban ** army has liberated most of Cuban territory, and Spain deliberately retreated to avoid shelling from the sea, the US army did not encounter resistance, but due to the change of the butterfly of Master Li, the Cuban army was not able to welcome as historical, and only sent a few guides, which made the American volunteers extremely dissatisfied.

At this time, Roosevelt, who had long been eager to participate in the war in person, immediately resigned from the post of first secretary of the Navy with great fanfare, and arrived on the coast of Florida with the troops he organized, known as the First Volunteer Cavalry Regiment of the United States, and boarded the troop transport waiting there.

He didn't know that this unit, which was composed of Western cowboys, Native Americans, Hispanic Mexicans, and high-achieving students from prestigious universities such as Harvard and Yale, and was hailed as a brave knight, had already fallen into the eyes of others.

Li Mo put down the news from the United States and wrote down the name of the place.

San Juan

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