At the same time that Chen Jianqiu and Roosevelt captured the high ground, the village of Elkanie to the north was also breached.

Without the protection of Fort El Visa, the Spanish soldiers in the stronghold below the mountain were soon surrounded by the superior strength of the American army.

The commander of the Western Army, Vala de Ray, faced ten times the size of his own American troops.

He could have given up.

But when he heard the sound of gunfire coming from the direction of San Juan, he decided to continue to delay Tired's army so that they could not support the battle of San Juan.

The Spanish army held out for almost an afternoon on the stone church.

Until their commander was killed.

The defeat of San Juan and Elcane meant that the Spaniards had no stronghold outside of Santiago.

The city was surrounded by a barrel.

The only place where there is no U.S. Army is the sea to the south, San Diego Bay.

There, the powerful North Pacific Fleet of the United States, consisting of three battleships, a second-class battleship, two armored cruisers, and several gunboats.

Of course, there are also Chen Jianqiu's two "armed merchant ships".

Rear Admiral Sampson is directing this fleet, which is carrying out a blockade of the port of San Diego.

The Spanish fleet, on the other hand, was weak.

In total, they had only four armored cruisers from Spain, the Princess Teresa, the Viscanya, the Admiral Okando, and the Columbus.

With the exception of the Columbus, the remaining three cruisers lacked maintenance and upkeep, resulting in barnacles on the bottoms.

And the only one that looked slightly more combat-ready was the Columbus, which did not even have a main gun.

The reason also sounds very funny.

The Spanish Admiralty wanted to equip the ship with a larger caliber gun than the 254mm or the 203mm double.

But this main gun remained alive in the minds of the Admiralty officers, and until the beginning of the war, it was not installed on the ship.

So the main armament of the Columbus was only two 203mm guns.

The day after the fall of San Juan Heights, Santiago was besieged.

The commander of the fleet, Cervila, knew that his fleet was still in trouble.

In the Far East, Manila Bay was defeated, and Spanish troops throughout the Philippines were routed.

In the Caribbean, most of Cuba except for the cities had been occupied by the rebels and Chen Jianqiu's forces, and the remaining troops were besieged to death in Santiago.

The war was largely over, and Spain's defeat was assured.

Sevela decided to break out with his own fleet.

He didn't want his ship to be sunk in the harbor by the American army!

But facts have proved that in the face of a huge gap in strength, breaking through is an extremely luxurious thing.

The Spanish fleet sailed out of the bay early in the morning and at the same time turned westward, sailing into the Caribbean Sea.

But the North Pacific Fleet soon discovered their intentions and posted them with all their staff.

Among these ships, the fastest are Chen Jianqiu's "Kun" and "Peng".

Nominally armed merchant ships, they were more like destroyers, and they quickly bit the Spanish fleet ahead.

However, it was the battleship Iowa that fired first.

Its shells accurately hit the flagship of the Spanish fleet, the Theresa.

The latter had intended to crash directly into the cruiser Brooklyn in order to save the rest of the fleet a chance to survive.

Due to being hit by the waterline, Teresa's speed dropped sharply, and she soon fell behind, and at the same time was rushed up by the second ship "Kunpeng" and bitten to the death.

The tide of battle quickly turned into a one-sided play.

Eventually, the flagship was torpedoed by the Kun, washed up on the beach to the north and ran aground.

The Okendo Admiral was the most tragic.

It became the target of the three battleships to take care of in turn.

A fire broke out on the ship.

The fire spread to the ammunition depot.

In the footsteps of the Teresa in the violent explosion, it ran aground.

The Viscanya and Brooklyn are in a wrestling battle.

Both were armored cruisers and were similar in tonnage.

They are not so much like two ancient warriors fighting hand-to-hand as they are more like two ruthless street hooligans, in a duel where you stab me and I cut you with an axe to see who falls first.

In the end, the Brooklyn won by a narrow margin.

The Viscanya was unlucky.

A Spanish crew member was loading a torpedo when the USS Brooklyn's 203mm gun hit him at a distance of 870 meters, causing the torpedo tube to detonate, and then the deck ammunition to explode.

Another boat stranded on the beach has been added.

And the USS Brooklyn was hit by more than two dozen shells.

But I don't know if it was because of the good work of damage management or luck, only one person was injured.

The four cruisers in the Spanish fleet were soon reduced to the most elite of the USS Columbus.

The latter, seeing that the situation was not good, fled at a speed of 15 knots.

But "Kun" and "Peng" did not give him this opportunity.

They chased after them again.

The two ships, one on the left and one on the right, pursued the Columbus fiercely.

The cruiser was quickly torn to the point of dying, and by the time it reached the mouth of the Tukino River, it could no longer hold on.

The crew got into lifeboats and prepared to surrender.

They opened the sea valve and sank the Spanish cruiser, the most capable cruiser, at the mouth of the river.

At this point, all four cruisers were sunk, and the other gunboats should also be sunk, and they should have surrendered.

The Battle of San Diego Bay ended in a resounding victory for the North Pacific Fleet.

They completely destroyed the Spaniards.

At least more than 200 Spanish soldiers were killed in the battle, while the Americans themselves were killed and wounded.

The victory in this naval battle basically became the last straw that overwhelmed the Spanish government.

Although there were still tens of thousands of soldiers in besieged Santiago, Havana also had them;

Miles Sr. landed in Camilla's hometown, Puerto Rico, and was driving out the Spanish rulers there.

Spain's influence in the Caribbean still seems to be a little bit more than exhausted.

But the people of Spain don't want to fight.

Fighting any further will be of no value other than causing harm to more families.

Demonstrations broke out again in Madrid.

"Child, my child is dead! He's only eighteen! "An old woman was crying to death at the front of the procession, holding a portrait.

In a building not far from the procession, the American representative was negotiating with the Spanish representative.

The representative of the United States was the U.S. ambassador to Spain and was fluent in Spanish.

He heard a cry coming from outside the window, and a smile crossed his lips.

Immediately, he turned around and said to the Spanish delegates present:

"Let me remind you again, you are the one who has made an agreement with us, and if you are not willing to sign the surrender agreement, you can not sign it, but in that case, I really dare not guarantee how long those Spanish soldiers in San Diego can last, and your government can hold out for how long."

The representative of Spain did not have a word to refute.

The two sides signed an armistice on 12 August and began negotiations on a treaty for the war.

Theoretically, if a ceasefire agreement is signed, the people below should not continue to fight.

But in Cuba, there is a place that is special.

Guantanamo.

The Spanish soldiers there refused to surrender to the Marines and continued to fight in the nearby jungle.

The reason was that they were unwilling to surrender to their own defeated men.

Sheft was furious.

He pulled Chen Jianqiu's troops out again to clean up the Spanish troops at Guantanamo.

Strangely, as soon as Chen Jianqiu's troops arrived at Guantanamo, the Spanish troops opened the gate to greet them and let them in.

Outside the city, the captain of the Marine Corps was looking this way with a telescope.

He couldn't read it, but he was shocked.