Rajoy and Asania discussed the use of landing tactics, the Spanish army lacked experience in this area, but their opponents were even more demoralized.

Faced with the Republic of Cuba, which has no navy, the only thing they need to do is to quietly drive warships to undefended shores.

Due to the complex terrain of the Cuban jungle and the weak military strength of the Republic, which could not take good care of the long coastline of Cuba, there were many suitable places for landing.

It can be expected that their landing process will not encounter any obstacles, and it will be far less tragic than during World War II.

On June 1, 1870, in normal history, the Franco-Prussian War broke out the next month, but now, the dispute between the two giants has always remained in words, and no one knows when the war will come.

On this day, the Fifth Army rushed to Camagüey Province to support the colonial forces that had been fighting there.

It was only later that Rajoy led his troops to discover that the frequency of fighting between the two sides was very low, that the Republican army did not want to advance westward, and that the colonial army had no intention of recovering lost territory.

The two sides tacitly agreed to station in various places in the province, and then sent scouts to investigate, and when they found out, they did not start a war, but just moved their positions to indicate that they were doing something.

Obviously, this is because I think that since the country has sent troops, it is good to paddle the water by itself.

Rajoy is also helpless about this, the colonial government and the colonial **** are problems that exist in all countries, and they are not something that he can solve as a soldier.

Fortunately, this war is not a matter of military strength, and he didn't plan to let them do anything.

Having rejected the request for the merger and reorganization of the colonial armies, the Fifth Army launched a direct attack on one of the Republic's armies after initial rearmament.

This army, which had long been exposed, was stationed in a remote mountain village, which was the logistics base of the Republic's army within a radius of tens of miles.

Their presence had long since reached the ears of the colonial government through the villagers who came and went, but the small mountain villages were easy to defend and had a tendency to be fortresses, and the colonial army could do little with them.

When the 3rd Infantry Brigade of the Fifth Army appeared on the outskirts of the village, the Republic army was intensively repairing its fortifications and had clearly received orders from the top of the army.

But a brigade of 7,000 men is not something that their 2,000 men can resist.

The battle did not last long, and the sandbags and earthen walls on which they had high hopes were shattered almost instantly in the face of the ferocious fire of nearly a hundred field guns......

News of the fall of a logistics base soon reached the ears of the Republic's top brass.

The capital of the Republic is not far from the front line, and in order to show its determination to fight stubbornly, the provisional capital is actually located in the province of Camagüey, in the coastal city of Camaro in the east.

The atmosphere in the conference room was quite depressing, and since the news of the reunification of Spain came, they knew that there would be no good days ahead.

I didn't expect the government's attack to come so quickly, and I really looked up to them by sending 50,000 troops at one time.

Seeing that everyone was silent, the current president, Desai Peders, comforted him: "The 50,000 recruits have been assembled, and we will only be able to put them into the battlefield when the guns arrive, and we will have 100,000 troops by then."

Even if the Spanish army could not be defeated, it was still possible to fight for a decent peace treaty. ”

Desaith was a sugar factory owner, a typical colonial capitalist, and he was a nationalist, but he was more dissatisfied with the Spanish merchants who had usurped too much profit from Cuba, and only allowed them to drink soup, and sometimes not even soup.

And with the civil turmoil in Spain, the exploitation became more and more cruel, and it was really unbearable, so he rebelled in anger.

As the first person to raise the flag of righteousness and the first president, Desaith naturally has considerable influence in the leadership.

Hearing him say this, most of the people's faces looked better.

The bourgeoisie and the landlord class were the majority of those who led the uprising, and they feared that Desaith would fight to the end at all costs, and now it seems that the president is still sensible.

In their minds, a two-fold numerical advantage, let alone winning, should not be a big problem in maintaining a balance of power in a defensive battle, and when the time comes, they will be completely acceptable to Cuba to divide up.

However, there are always people who like to pour cold water, a man with a black face from beginning to end, Maceo, said inappropriately: "Not to mention that you are going to surrender before you are beaten, since 1 month ago, the customs inspection has been much stricter, and many of the guns we bought have been detained."

That's not all, the Spaniards brought a fleet this time, what if they were going to blockade the coast, the guns of the Demaha Arsenal could not meet the needs of the front. ”

"......" everyone turned their worried eyes to Desaith again.

Desaith did not panic at all, and said confidently: "The fleet from Spain is an escort fleet, the main purpose is to protect the transport ships, the scale is not large, and it is not capable of blockading the entire eastern part of Cuba at all. And ......"

He looked around: "The Americans were quite supportive of our uprising, and I know a big American businessman, who I can't say who he is, who agreed to load arms on his ship, and he had a very close relationship with the colonial government, and could have bypassed customs." ”

Seeing that everyone's confidence had been reinvigorated, he began to arrange the next steps: "Obviously, the other side is too proud and ready to break through our defense from the front, and the Cuban will regret it if they are united......

Mobilize the troops of General Fidel and General Batista to the front, make up for the gap above, and prepare for an ambush in the jungle, so that Spain will pay the price of blood for every step forward. ”

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The Republic of Cuba sent its reserves to the front in order to fight a hard-fought war with Spain.

However, the attack on the frontal battlefield was only a seduction, and the Second Army led by Asania was located in a port a little further back from the front line, and most of the rest waited quietly except for sending a small number of troops to the front line to confuse the opponent.

All commercial activities in the port of Ciego de Ávila were temporarily suspended, turning from a dual-use merchant port into a completely military port.

The colonial government thought they were staying here as a reserve, but in fact they were looking for an opportunity to board the ship for a surprise attack.

As De's say, the convoy is not enough to blockade eastern Cuba, and even if it could, they did not want to do so.

Defeating the enemy by siege and frontal assault would inevitably result in huge casualties and irreparable damage to the Cuban economy.

Or the convoy as a landing fleet.

According to the plan, the 13,000 men of the Second Army would depart from the port, reach outside the city of Mayak in the department of Holguín in four hours, and then march straight in, tearing the Republic of Cuba in half.

Now they are waiting, waiting for most of the army of the republic to come to Camagüey......