Black people are not yet aware of the danger they are about to face.

Most of them did not have many lofty ideals, and participating in this war was nothing more than gaining some respect and hoping to be treated as equals in the future.

Optimism is always one of the two things that runs in the blood of black people.

In their minds, the war is not much worse than their current situation.

But their commanders clearly don't think so.

His name was Joang, and he was a slave on a plantation, fought in the Civil War, and was one of the first slaves to be freed.

He was only a young man in his twenties at the time, and now he is as old as an old orange that has been dried up.

Joon knew the cruelty of war.

"When you rush out, don't rush forward, pay attention to the movement on the opposite high ground." He stood by a tree, looking ahead, and said to a black sergeant beside him.

The sergeant snorted and went to deliver his order.

However, there is another thing in the blood of the black man, which is also manifested at this time.

That's casualness.

This army was also improvised, and it was not trained for a long time.

The black soldiers poked their heads out of the jungle with their guns in hand.

"Hey, look, what's that up there?" A black soldier pointed ahead and said to another black soldier beside him.

"That's a pineapple." The other soldier glanced at it and replied angrily, "It's a fruit." ”

He hadn't eaten a pineapple, but he had seen it.

The appearance of these things is too impressive.

These pineapple plants are not very tall, only about fifty to eighty centimeters tall, and those pineapples are like lanterns that emerge from the leaves.

The throat of the black soldier moved:

"Can we get some of it, I'm thirsty, damn it, I haven't had a sip of water since morning."

Another black soldier, after some ideological struggle, decided to reach a consensus with his comrades.

As soon as the two of them combined, they quietly touched the pineapple field.

They don't know that untreated pineapples are sour and don't know what this behavior means for them.

In their view, these were just an episode in the march.

The first black soldier picked a pineapple.

Half-crouched on the ground, he grabbed the leaf above the pineapple with his hand and pulled it to the left side, revealing the connection point.

Then he took out the wood knife at his waist, saw the connection point, and slashed it with his sword.

I don't know if it's because the connection points are too tough, or because I didn't squat and didn't use the upper force.

The black man simply stood up and raised his arm again and waved the hatchet.

However, at this moment, a gunshot rang out.

The black man's arm froze in the air.

But he didn't stay for more than a second before his whole body went limp, and he collapsed into the pineapple field.

Dense gunfire rang out one after another.

The Spaniards at the top of the hill had spotted these black pioneers of the American army and began to shoot at them.

"Get down! Get down! Damn it! You fools! ”

As soon as Joon came out of the jungle, he heard the gunshots and immediately fell down, and at the same time dragged a bewildered soldier beside him.

He didn't move like an old man in his sixties at all, and he reacted faster than those young subordinates of his own!

The black soldier he pulled down was lucky, even though his leg was cut by a sharp pineapple leaf.

But compared to his comrades who were hit by bullets, he was lucky.

"Prostrate forward! Did you learn all the technical moves you were taught in Florida in your asshole? Joon scolded as he squirmed forward.

In his opinion, sending these recruits over to take the lead is to send them to death.

The arrangement of the white people, he felt like a mirror in his heart.

But he really couldn't do anything but save as many black lives as possible.

Soon the blacks were lying on their stomachs in the pineapple field, slowly moving forward from the vegetation to the vegetation.

But there is also an end to the pineapple field.

At the end, a barbed wire fence stood in the direction of the American soldiers.

A dozen or so reckless black soldiers broke the barbed wire fence and tried to rush straight forward.

Just a few hundred yards from the top of the hill, the fort seemed to be within easy reach.

But soon, the dozen or so blacks paid the price for their rashness.

The Spaniard's Maxim machine gun finally rang out.

The dozen or so blacks were beaten into a sieve and collapsed in a pool of blood without saying a word.

"Don't move! Don't even move! Joon prostrate on the ground, saw what was happening in front of him, and immediately gave orders to the black men beside him.

So, the black people who were still in the pineapple field lay on the ground and shot from a long distance in the direction of the top of the mountain, but with little success.

Those who didn't enter the pineapple field in the back didn't dare to take a step forward in the jungle.

About two hundred yards behind the black troops was the 17th Infantry Regiment.

They soon arrived at the pineapple field as well.

What appeared in front of them was a somewhat strange scene.

A group of black men pouted and lay under the pineapple leaves in front of them, not daring to move.

"What the hell are you doing?" Major Edwin, commander of the 17th Infantry Regiment, yelled disapprovingly at a black man who was hiding behind a tree and was at a loss, "What about your sir? ”

"He's at the front." The black man pointed to the forward positions in the Baltic in the distance, "We have many dead. ”

Hearing that the commander of the Black Legion was at the front, Edwin had nothing to say for a while.

Still, he was dissatisfied with the cautiousness of the black group.

"Get out of the way, if the war is like yours, it's better to go back to your hometown! When seen by the Spaniards on the opposite side, I am afraid that they dare to directly send warships to kill Washington! Edwin crossed his waist with one hand and lectured the black soldiers.

"American soldiers, you should be indomitable, how can you be so timid, get out of the way, let my soldiers come, they will make you feel ashamed!" He said.

The black soldiers were looking for information.

They watched as Edwin and his 17th Infantry Regiment stepped out of the pineapple field with the bodies of the black soldiers lying on the ground, dismantled the barbed wire, and then cut off the stubble like leeks in the open space in front of the barbed wire.

Courage can't be used as a bullet shield, and momentum can't be used as body armor.

Within ten minutes, the 17th Army was shattered by four Maxims and Spanish soldiers squatting in the trenches waiting for work, disorganized, and almost on the verge of collapse.

Edwin was one meter away from death.

He fell to the ground when he was mixing garlic from his feet to break out of the barbed wire.

If he takes a step faster, he will be beaten to the ground by a shuttle of machine-gun bullets swept over!

A few hundred yards from the hilltop fortress, it was difficult for the American offensive to move forward.

Miles, who was in charge of the main attack, had a little on his face, but he couldn't think of a better way, so he reported to Lawton and asked for support;

The Lauton artillery had not been hit, and the infantry and infantry could not rush up, and they were even more packed, so they reported to Sheft and asked for support;

Sheft was at the headquarters four miles south of Elkane.

At the moment, he was anxious.

Because of the contempt of the Spaniards' defense, the battle for the attack on San Juan Hill to the south began later.

However, in his position, just listening to the cannon sound on both sides felt wrong.

Now both sides are at risk of going to war, but neither can take it, and will not be able to support each other.

After receiving Lawton's report letter, he immediately scolded:

"Support? Didn't the 2nd Volunteer Cavalry Brigade just arrive near their positions? Why did you come to me from near and far? Am I Lawton's babysitter? ”

Lawton was pleased with the new nickname "The Unweaned Doll".

He knew that Chen Jianqiu would bring a Chinese army to support him today, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Because Lawton always thought that these people had limited combat effectiveness and should not be of much help, at most they were the same as those Cuban rebels.

Now after being scolded by Sheft, he had to ride a horse to the place where the Second Volunteer Brigade was stationed.

But when Lawton came to Chen Jianqiu's camp, his eyeballs almost didn't fall out.

There were twenty cannons, which were being dragged in from outside the camp.

He had never seen the cannons before, at least not unlike the ones he used.

When Lawton came on horseback, Chen Jianqiu and Danny happened to be returning from the front line to observe.

They had observed almost the entire process of the entire battle so far, and Chen Jianqiu naturally knew what Lawton was here for.

"Chief Lawton, I wonder what you're doing here?" Chen Jianqiu asked knowingly, looking at Lawton with a smile.

Lawton looked at the twenty or so cannons and asked tentatively:

"Lieutenant Colonel Chen, can you take the liberty of asking, where did you get these cannons?"

Chen Jianqiu turned his head, glanced at the cannons that the twenty artillerymen were maintaining, and said with some disapproval:

"Oh, you say these cannons are just the equipment of the New Mexico militia, and they are not a new thing."

Of course, he did not tell Lawton that these 75mm field guns, which were the first field guns produced by Roswell Arsenal itself, used the latest elastic gun mount technology.

The long recoil principle used in this technology was not very popular in Germany at that time, so Chen Jianqiu bought the patent from the inventor Hunnet without spending much money.

This kind of cannon was not a popular rack-back gun at that time, but a kind of barrel-back gun.

Hit more accurately, weigh less, and fire faster.

"We're in trouble on our offensive, so, I hope you and your fighters can support us." Lawton said after a moment's thought.

Because Chen Jianqiu did not belong to his jurisdiction, he was not sure whether the other party would obey his orders.

Who knew that Chen Jianqiu agreed readily without saying a word.

"Don't worry, you can fight this battle how you want to fight, and we'll take care of the rest." Chen Jianqiu said.

Lawton left the camp suspiciously.

After Lawton left, Chen Jianqiu turned around and gave Danny an order:

"Let the Spaniards, try our latest cannon first!"

(End of chapter)