Chapter 388 The wrath of the weak navy(1/2)
In the waters near Havana, the US military transferred a large number of radium ships from the local area and quickly entered the radium cleaning operation.
The US Navy has found the latest way to fight magnetic water radium. Although it is a bit stupid, it is effective.
However, during the day, the US Navy swept radium, and at night, the Spanish Navy dispatched a radium team to reopen the radium, and the radium speed was far higher than the radium speed.
This made the US Navy very angry, but it was helpless.
Two months have passed since the United States and Spain declared war, but the US Navy has not completed its ground landing on Cuba in addition to sinking four Spanish sail warships. This has made countries around the world begin to wonder whether America is really powerful? Why can't even land on a small Cuba island for so long?
Previously, the United States expanded its navy on a large scale, and the service of eight Maine-class all-steel battleships made the American Navy the fourth largest naval power in the world. Second only to the British Empire and the German Empire Navy, it was even once favored by the Western world as a Western country with unlimited military potential and able to surpass the Chinese Empire Navy in the future.
However, the American Navy had no choice but to declare war for two months, but failed to set foot on Cuba's land, which surprised countries around the world and doubted the power of the United States.
"Where at this level, I want to surpass the Chinese Empire one day? That must be a dream!"
The German Empire newspaper published an article by commentators, saying that the strength of the American army is just a bubble. The navy, known as the fourth-most-in-the-world, could not cross the 20-nautical-mile water-radium area set up by the Spanish Navy. Seeing the beauty in Havana spread her legs and couldn't get up, it was even worse than a third-rate country.
Seeing that the German Empire had buryed the United States, the British Empire immediately stood up and spoke out for its ally America. As the official newspaper of the British Empire, the Times, quickly published a commentator article.
"The American Navy is undoubtedly powerful. It destroyed the Spanish Cuban fleet in a few minutes. This is strength. As for why the American Navy has not been able to board Cuba Island yet, it is because the Cuban Spanish army hooked up with the Chinese Empire and obtained a very advanced water radium weapon from the Chinese Empire. The Spanish army was already afraid of being beaten, and they could only use the weak weapons to fight against the powerful American army. I believe that American military experts will be able to crack this new water radium soon, and then wait for the best outcome of the Spanish army to surrender."
The Spanish were immediately dissatisfied. The damn British and pagans should be hanged.
The Madrid newspaper immediately cursed to the Times: "The British are as shameless as the Americans. The latter is greedy for our colonial wealth, and the former cannot eat grapes and complain that the grapes are sour! Three hundred years ago, the British shamelessly used pirates to rob Spanish merchant ships and despicable attacks on the Spanish Navy to win. Now evil will be punished, and in front of the Chinese Empire's navy, the British Navy is a piece of shit."
The Americans did not speak, hiding in the corner and enjoying secretly. It was clearly the Spanish-American War, but people all over the world thought that the British Empire was going to war with Spain, and European and American countries were immediately unable to complain.
At the same time, at the regular press conference of the General Office of the General Office of the Chinese Empire's Lifan Academy, journalists from Europe and the United States surrounded the spokesperson and asked about the new water radium on the Cuban battlefield.
AFP reporter: "Did the Chinese Empire know in advance that the United States was going to start a war against Spain and seize the Cuba Island of Spain, so it deliberately disgusted the United States and exported a large amount of new water and radium to the Spanish army to help them defend Cuba!"
The Chinese Empire spokesperson: "The United States salivates Cuba's rich sugar, coffee and cigars. This is not a matter of one or two days. People all over the world know it! Our Chinese Empire only allows export of arms to improve relations with Spain. This is just normal military trade and does not target third countries."
Associated Press reporter: "Can you introduce the new magnetic water radium exported to Spain? Where is this weapon advanced? How powerful is the trigger water radium compared to previous ones?"
The spokesperson of the Chinese Empire: "You can ask the relevant departments for this question! But I suggest you ask the American military directly. I heard that they have sunk more than 20 warships in the Cuban waters. I believe they have a deep understanding!"
Ah puff!
The reporters at the meeting all burst into laughter, and the Associated Press reporter was extremely embarrassed, more embarrassed and more angry.
Berlin News reporter: "I heard that your country is very generous to the Spanish Empire. It not only exports advanced water radium to the Spanish army, but also includes the bleeding heavy machine gun known as the island meat grinder. Is your country planning to let the Spanish army massacre the American army on Cuba Island and repeat the battle of Guam meat grinders that year?"
Spokesperson of the Chinese Empire: "Our Chinese Empire is peace-loving, and all weapons are only used to eliminate the devil. As long as it is a peace-loving country, we are willing to provide them with advanced weapons and equipment."
The questions and answers were all tricky and appropriate, and the reporters did not find any loopholes in making articles.
The weapons and equipment made by the Chinese Empire have now become synonymous with the world's most advanced weapons. All European and American countries want to obtain the advanced weapons and equipment of the Chinese Empire.
However, the British Empire, America and Japan were gone, and the Chinese Empire could not sell them weapons and equipment any longer. As for France and Tsarist Russia, because they did not completely express their attitude of forming an alliance with the British Empire to confront the Chinese Empire, they have not yet been included in the arms embargo list by the Chinese Empire. However, it is not so easy to buy advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, and they require high political and economic costs.
But even if there is a high price, France and Tsarist Russia are willing. At least they still have hope, but Britain and the United States have no hope. The door of the Chinese Empire blocked them directly.
It was difficult for British and American spies to obtain advanced weapons and equipment from the Chinese Empire, so they had to start from Spain. They used various means to steal information from the Spanish military and soon discovered some weapons information about the Chinese Empire exported to the Spanish military, including confidence in the new magnetic water radium.
After obtaining the intelligence, the US military was very excited and planned to study the methods to deal with new magnetic water radium as quickly as possible. For this reason, the US Navy in Cuba had to delay the attack for another month until US military experts found a better solution.
It has to be said that war is an important factor that has spawned technological progress. Due to the urgent war, the Grant administration has continuously put pressure on US military experts, forcing US military experts to crack magnetic water radium as fast as possible. They invented the world's earliest water radium detectors, and soon the first batch of water radium detectors were produced and handed over to the American Navy.
Over the past few days, Harris has been so distressed that he has strong naval power, but he cannot get close to the port of Havana. The powerful naval guns cannot destroy the Spanish military's coastal fortifications, resulting in more than 100,000 US troops being able to herd sheep in Miami, which has had a bad impact on local security.
It was not until the first batch of water radium detectors were delivered to the US Navy, which accelerated the speed of the US Navy's discovery of water radium and discharge of radium, that Harris finally smiled proudly.
During the day, the US Navy displaced radium, and its speed was faster than that of the Spanish military deployed radium at night.
Of course, this is also the result of Fernando discussing with Zhu Bin and Chang Xin, who deliberately slowed down the radium production speed, making the US Navy think that it was their new radium detector working.
Ten days later, the American Navy finally cleared the water radium area of more than ten nautical miles and opened up the waterway entering the port of Havana.
More than a dozen US warships roared fire, and countless shells fell into the Havana East-West Harbor Fort. In less than two days, the port fort built by the Spanish defenders was destroyed, and then the US Navy entered the Havana Port with a swagger.
Seeing the Havana Fortress in the distance, Harris finally smiled.
"Hmph! You have lost the new water radium, let's see how you can resist!"
"Occurrence! Attack! Fire! Fire!"
Harris roared, depressed for several months, and finally found a vent.
More than a dozen US mine-removal ships and frigates opened the way in front. With radium detectors, they naturally don’t worry about encountering magnetic water radium again.
"Commander, the surrounding waters are safe!"
"very good!"
Harris nodded, waved his hand, and more than a dozen US battleships and armored cruisers began to advance.
Dongdongdongdongdongdong!
The artillery fire from the Havana Fortress was very loud, but the accuracy was very poor, and it could not attack US warships at all.
"With this level, you dare to compete with us! You're overestimating yourself!" Harris snorted coldly, thinking that the Spanish artillery was too weak, and he despised the Spanish army again.
Even the commander is like this, not to mention the US commanders of other warships. Without exception, they all began to despise the Spanish defenders, believing that the other side is vulnerable. As long as the US fleet approaches a little closer, the Spanish defenders will probably surrender!
In fact, the Spanish defenders were not so weak. After all, they received training from the Chinese Emperor's side. Although they only trained for half a year, they would not be so vulnerable at least.
At this moment, the Spanish defenders were simply acting, deliberately showing weakness to the US military and seducing the US military to be deceived.
When they were about five kilometers away from the Havana Fortress, American ships began to shell the shells one after another. In an instant, the entire Havana Fortress was filled with a sea of fire and black smoke rolled.
The Spanish defenders' artillery fire became weaker, which made the US Navy even happier.
"Notify the Army and prepare to land on the beach! Today we will take Havana in one go!"
Soon, hundreds of US military transport ships appeared at the port of Havana. Tens of thousands of US soldiers were armed with guns and ammunition. Under the cover of US warships, they began to land on the beach.
Havana Port is in the shape of a gourd mouth with east and west turrets on both sides. Although it was suppressed by US Navy artillery fire, the Spanish defenders did not retreat, and the US military had to take the infantry to occupy it.
Just as the US military transport ship was approaching the east and west turrets and was about to drop the boat and let the US infantry land on the beach, something incredible happened.
With a loud bang, a warship exploded, and the hull of more than 2,000 tons was instantly broken into two pieces. The sea of fire swallowed everything, and the fiery red mushroom clouds soared into the air, and the black smoke column as high as a thousand meters in an instant shocked the American friends around.
"What's going on?"
"I didn't see clearly, I guess I was hit by the giant cannon of the Spanish defenders!"
"This is too memorable! Could it be that the Spaniard's shells hit the ammunition depot directly? Otherwise, it would be impossible to cause such a great death explosion!"
The US soldiers on the surrounding US military transport ships were so scared that they looked pale. They were not on warships, no artillery and ammunition depots, but there were infantry guns and artillery, boxes of bullets, shells, and grenades, which were unprotected. If they were killed by a cliff, the entire ship would die.
A thousand American soldiers are over!
Harris in the distance didn't think much, but just felt regret and mourning for the thousand American soldiers.
However, within a minute, another US military transport ship exploded, and it was still a death-breaking death. The fires soared into the sky and the thick smoke covered the sky.
"This is the Spanish Army's shells are getting more and more accurate!"
"But I obviously didn't see any shells hitting York City!"
"What a hell!"
This time, many US troops said that they did not see the Spanish army's shells coming, but the US military transport ship exploded and sank.
Harris finally took it seriously and picked up the telescope to observe carefully.
With a loud bang, another US military transport ship exploded.
"It's Shui Lei! Damn it!"
Harris finally found the problem this time, and he was furious and called the captain of the radium team to curse.
"How did you investigate? Why is there water radium?"
"Commander, we have clearly detected it, and there is no water radium at all. Moreover, our mine-removal ship and frigate are passing by. If there is water radium, we will definitely blow us up first!" The captain of the radium cruising team was also confused, unable to understand why water radium suddenly appeared.
In fact, this is the real magnetically induced water radium in the Chinese Empire. Unlike the previous magnetic water radium, this time the Spanish army buried the new water radium in the silt under the sea. The US detector could not detect it at all. Mine-clearing ships and frigates below 2,000 tons will not trigger the water radium under the sea. Only when ships like the US military transport ship pass through the above will the water radium below automatically float, hit the bottom of the ship and explode, which is unpredictable.
"Why are you still standing there? Go and sweep the radium immediately!"
Harris said in a frustration that he had lost three warships in succession, and all three thousand US soldiers were reimbursed before they even landed, which made Harris feel very embarrassed.
All US military transport ships heard about it and suspended landings.
However, the US military mine clearance ship was wandering for a few times, but there was still no water radium.
"It should be the water radium that escaped the net before! Damn it, I just escaped three water radium, and it ended up sank three warships. This is a bit too much!"
The captain of the radium team said speechlessly, and asked his subordinates to search carefully again, but once again realized that there was no water radium, which was like the Harris report.
Harris then re-notified all the troops and reorganized the landing.
However, just after half an hour, two US military transport ships exploded again, and all the two thousand US troops on it were killed.
"Take him out and die!"
The captain of the radium team was immediately pulled out and killed. Until he was shot, the captain of the radium team did not understand what was going on.
Harris was also shocked, hesitating whether to suspend the attack and send a radium line to check again. Perhaps it was really a radium that escaped the net. This one was hit by the US military transport ship on the back. If he retreated, the effort of this day would be wasted again, and it would be too embarrassing to spread it.
Just as Harris was hesitating, four warships exploded again in succession.
The rumbling explosions came one after another. Seeing the American soldiers on the ship crying for their parents and wanting to escape, but were swallowed by the explosion fire, Harris no longer dared to hesitate and immediately ordered a retreat.
To be continued...