The commander of the Third Army, Major General Merritt, is in charge of the U.S. military's operations in Havana. Schefter's Fifth Army is now in charge of fighting on the Eastern Front. The goal is to fight on land all the way to Santiago. Of course, this is just a propaganda statement. In fact, his mission
It's just to contain the Spanish army on the eastern front. No one cares about where it can hit. The American people no longer have much hope for this incompetent guy.
But General Merritt, who they had high hopes for, suffered the same defeat. He is still hanging on the outer defense line of Havana to this day. Although he has the advantage of troops, although his men have all been equipped with new Bofors rifles, and although the heavy machine guns in his hands are
The number exceeds a hundred, but the problem is that its artillery is too weak. The Spaniards have a large number of Bofors 75 rapid-fire field guns. Raytheon does not produce these. Even if the United States pirates them, it will not be available in a short time.
As for the other European countries that authorized the production of these things, they all wanted to laugh at the Americans at this time, so naturally it was impossible to sell them to them.
Due to the Spanish artillery superiority, the US military lost almost all their army field artillery in the shortest possible time. Now the only thing that can provide them with fire support is the large number of mortars that Raytheon Company urgently produced for them, with eight
It’s a joke that 2 and 120 mortars attack the Havana Fortress Group!
The poor Americans tried their best, but in the end they could only attack those strong fortresses with human lives. In particular, using Cuban revolutionaries as death squads and blasting at close range with medicine packs in their arms became their magic weapon for victory.
, Fortunately, those Cubans were very heroic in this regard for the independence and freedom of their country, and even infected many American soldiers to volunteer to participate in this great cause. Besides, the US military did not care much about casualties at this time. Under the generals
In our eyes, war should be like the mountains of corpses and seas of blood that it was a few decades ago.
"Quick, quick!" Brigadier General MacArthur stared with blood-red eyes, staring expectantly at the dozen warriors holding explosive bags in front of him. A dozen heavy machine guns beside him were shooting like crazy, suppressing the fortress with dense bullets.
The Spaniards inside. At the same time, ten 120 mortars kept spraying flames, and the shells kept falling in the sky with ear-piercing whistling, exploding one fireball after another on the stone fortress that was at least a century old.
It's a pity that although this stone fort is old, it is unusually strong, at least for mortar shells that have no penetrating ability. The huge rock mined with the blood and sweat of the Indians is stronger than steel. It stands tall in the flames of the explosion.
, dense bullets sprayed out from the shooting port, the charging death squads were falling one after another, and soon the first batch was wiped out. This was already the second batch, and dozens of dead bodies were spread out in front of the fortress.
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The blood of the warriors could not make MacArthur flinch. He waved with a determined expression, and the second group of death squads rushed out. These people included both Cubans and American volunteers. They were like dexterous monkeys on the devastated ground.
They charged quickly, bullets kept hitting them all the time, and the warriors holding explosive packs kept falling, but the remaining people still rushed towards the flame-breathing granite monster without hesitation. Maybe God will do it this time.
While helping them, seven suicide bombers actually rushed within 30 meters. One of them hurriedly took out a grenade. The moment he threw it out, a series of machine gun bullets hit his body. Brigadier General MacArthur, who was watching behind him, couldn't help but choke.
sigh.
However, the next scene he saw through the telescope made him couldn't help but rub his eyes. The heavy-duty grenade flew in from a shooting hole by accident. The officers on the US military position in the rear immediately cheered. Unfortunately,
Before the cheers ended, the smoking grenade appeared again at the firing port.
With a look of astonishment, MacArthur even made an action of running forward. Of course, this was meaningless. He watched the grenade fly out, but it exploded the moment it flew out.
The oversized wooden-handled grenade loaded with 200 grams of antimony exploded less than ten centimeters away from the firing port. The steel balls and broken stones inside suddenly shot in like bullets, beating the Spaniards inside the stone castle to death.
a mess.
The few remaining suicide squads who were charging took this opportunity to swarm forward. They quickly piled two ten-kilogram oversized explosive packets underneath, pulled the fuse and quickly turned around and ran away. At this time, the Spaniards inside were also awake.
When they came over, flames were sprayed out from the muzzle of the machine gun again. Half of the retreating kamikaze fell down instantly. Almost at the same time, a sky-shattering explosion sounded. The fortress in front of the American army collapsed in half in the explosion of fire.
The American soldiers who had been impatient for a long time cheered and rushed forward like a tide, and Brigadier General MacArthur finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"Spaniards!" At this moment, a scream suddenly sounded from the flank. He quickly turned his head. A Spanish army of nearly a thousand people was coming from the right, trying to intercept the charging US troops. This was a bit abnormal, because
The Spaniards generally do not take the initiative to come out, but MacArthur did not have time to think about this at this time. As he ordered a regiment originally protecting the flank to immediately attack, both sides were already familiar with the fight. Everyone from the US military officers to the soldiers knew that fighting hard would
Thorns were their greatest advantage, and no Spaniard could win a hand-to-hand fight.
Thousands of American troops rushed towards the Spaniards like a tide with their rifles fixed with bayonets. Amidst the deafening shouts of killing, the bright bayonets flashed with a blinding white light. Both sides were running and shooting with their rifles.
As the distance got closer, the American soldiers quickly discovered that one-third of the Spaniards on the opposite side were not holding rifles.
Because Johnson's troops had been fighting independently in the west, the group of U.S. troops who arrived later did not know much about submachine guns. A regiment of U.S. troops foolishly charged forward against hundreds of submachine guns, six to seventy meters apart.
By the time, someone was already preparing to throw grenades, and even the revolver in the officer's hand was beginning to be aimed. But at this moment, the weapons that were strange to them in the hands of the Spaniards spurted out flames, and dense bullets swept over like a hailstorm.
, the U.S. military's charge came to an abrupt end.
MacArthur's eyes almost popped out. He looked into the distance with an unbelievable look. The torrent of thousands of American troops was instantly shattered into pieces as if it hit a hard embankment. The dead bodies were being swept away like crops swept by a hurricane.
They fell with the wavy lines of death, and in the dazzling sunlight, you could even see their splashing blood forming a faintly visible red mist.
The charging U.S. Army collapsed without any suspense under this brutal blow. The mountains and plains in front of the entire position were full of soldiers in blue who fled in a hurry. The Spanish army, which only had a thousand people, was chasing after them like hungry wolves, holding in their hands
That weird repeating gun sprayed bullets seemingly endlessly, striking death on the backs of the American troops.
Even the American troops that were rushing toward the stone fort were cut off by this sudden blow.
"Hurry up and fire!" MacArthur didn't care about accidental damage at this time. If this continued, the Spaniards would have to take the opportunity to overwhelm his position. He shouted to the machine gunners with a ferocious face.
This is a difficult job. Those U.S. troops are lying in the middle. With the current technology of the U.S. military, if they open fire, their own people will definitely fall first. The machine gunners all looked at each other. MacArthur also woke up, but if he didn't fire, he would be dead.
I could only watch the defeated soldiers rushing towards their positions.
Fortunately, the mortar crews woke up at this time and quickly adjusted their muzzles. Then the shells passed over the heads of the American troops and fell among the Spaniards. As balls of fire exploded, the chasing Spaniards immediately retreated, just as they intercepted
At the same time as the American troops, another Spanish army with reinforcements quickly established a line of defense. The destruction of the fortress immediately lost its meaning.
But in this short period of time, when MacArthur counted his men again, he found that there were more than two thousand dead bodies under submachine guns. This number made him close his eyes in pain.
The addition of submachine guns to the battlefield caused the casualties of the U.S. military attacking Havana to skyrocket. In just a few days, more than 6,000 U.S. troops fell to this new weapon. This number frightened General Merritt, who was in charge of the Havana battlefield, and quickly ordered a stop.
Offensive, all transferred to defense, and reported the matter to the country at the same time.
You don’t need to investigate McKinley to know who to look for in this matter. Only the Bofors factory in Sweden is producing this kind of weapon in the world. If you don’t look to Yang Feng, who should you look to? Of course you should look to him, but you can’t speak forcefully.
Find him.
When Tian Bei conveyed the unexpected news to Yang Feng, Prince Yang was completely at a loss.
"Your Excellency, Minister, I can swear to God that I have never sold even a single submachine gun to the Spanish. Neither my feelings for the American people nor my respect for the neutrality law allow me to do such a thing, so you
Please rest assured that I will definitely give you and the people of your country a satisfactory answer to this matter." He said righteously.
The results of the investigation naturally came out very quickly. It was very simple. The Ottoman Turkish Empire resold the 5,000 submachine guns and 5 million rounds of supporting ammunition that had just been imported from the Bofors Company to the Spanish. This really had nothing to do with Yang Feng.
Something happened.
"This is indeed a regrettable tragedy. I really don't know why His Majesty the Emperor would do such a thing. Don't worry, I will definitely condemn him. Even if he is the emperor, I will definitely condemn them. This is a violation of the law of neutrality."
Serious damage! This is an insult to my business reputation! This is an extremely unethical behavior! What Yang Feng said was extremely righteous.