The Maine sinks, and like the ending in history, it becomes a victim of the Spanish-American War.

But the influence is different. The Maine in history was actively bombed by the United States, with the purpose of slandering the Spanish army and making excuses for invading Cuba.

But this time it was different. As the most advanced all-steel battleship of the American Navy and the flagship of the Atlantic Fleet of the American Navy, the USS Maine was sunk by the Spanish army's water radium when the military invaded Cuba. The impact was so bad that countries around the world were extremely surprised when they learned about it.

Not only that, the American Navy Atlantic Fleet commanded by Harris was severely damaged when attacking the Port of Havana. In addition to the sinking of the Maine, it also lost two armored cruise ships, twenty-three warships, four frigates, and more than a dozen other US main ships were also injured. More than 40,000 US troops were killed, including more than 30,800 troops in the army, more than 1,240 navy, and more than 8,000 others were missing. It can be said that they suffered heavy losses.

This was a crushing defeat, which made the powerful America lose its face. All countries around the world were surprised. They had previously believed that America would soon defeat Spain and seize the Spanish colony Cuba. All countries were also preparing to take advantage of the situation to rob and seize other Spanish colonies. As a result, the United States was defeated at the beginning of the Havana landing war, which forced all countries to make new plans.

After learning the report of the defeat, Grant was so angry that he overturned the table, removed Harris's naval commander, ordered the military police to arrest Harris, and escort the Washington Military Court to be tried.

Harris, who was on the bed of the Miami Military District Hospital, had a pale face, covered in white gauze, and was covered in blood, which was very terrifying.

At this moment, Harris had a high fever and drank a stomach of dirty sea water. His lungs were seriously inflamed. Every time he coughed violently, he would cough up half a piece of lung lobe and a bowl of blood. It was already extremely miserable. When the military police came to arrest him, he vomited blood and fainted.

Grant wanted an excellent naval general to re-direct the American Atlantic Fleet, but could not find a candidate. Finally, someone recommended him to resign from the former naval commander General Facrates.

Facrates was an admiral of the United States of America. He was defeated in the civil war and then followed Lincoln to the south. However, Lincoln had no money and could not build a navy, so he could only let Facrates serve as the chief of staff of the army. Five years ago, the United States of America was destroyed, and Facrates was sentenced to war crimes and was imprisoned in prison.

So Grant met with Facrates, and after using both soft and hard, he finally asked him to come out and serve as the commander of the Atlantic Fleet of the Union of the Americans, and reorganized his army to attack Cuba.

When Fagrates arrived in Miami to take over the Atlantic Fleet, Grant had sent six brigades to Miami again to make up for the shortage of US troops that had been killed before.

Fagrates personally visited the front line and studied the new type of water radium laid by the Spanish Navy. He soon concluded that it was stupid and wrong to attack Havana from the front, and he should find another way and find a new landing point.

This landing point cannot be too far from Havana, otherwise the supply of the US military to attack Havana will be too long and it will be easily attacked. But it cannot be too close, because the main force of the Spanish army in Havana will provide reinforcements at any time, causing the US military to fail in landing operations.

Facrates was not as stubborn as Harris, so he avoided the important things and finally chose to carry out landing operations in Prachi, 200 kilometers west of Havana.

Prachi is a small fishing village. Facrates came when he was an American naval officer in his early years. He knew that the water depth here was suitable for landing ships, and there was no danger around him. There was only one Spanish military local garrison company stationed and had the weakest defense.

In fact, the Chinese Emperor's side repeatedly reminded Fernando, the governor of Cuba in Spain, to increase his troops to defend against the possible place for the US military to land. However, Fernando was still too feudal and wanted to place more troops in Havana, so he was worried that Havana could not defend, so he only symbolically sent a small number of troops. At the same time, Fernando did not think that anyone in the US military knew about small places like Prachi.

As a result, three days later, Facrates sent troops to raid Prachi and successfully established a stronghold.

When Fernando learned about it, he was shocked and regretted it very much. He hurriedly mobilized a large army to counterattack, intending to drive the US troops out of the sea while the US military was not yet firmly established.

"I don't recommend that you send a large army to counterattack, because that may be a trap for the US military!" Zhu Bin made a suggestion to Fernando.

Fernando suddenly laughed and said, "You must be too cautious!"

Fernando did not listen and dispatched five divisions to counterattack Prachi, attempting to defeat the US landing troops in one fell swoop.

As Zhu Bin expected, Facrates was a famous general, and the raid on Prachi was to gain enough time to deploy heavy troops to defend. When the Spanish army arrived in Prachi, they were immediately blocked by the US military.

However, the US military's blockade was very miserable because the Spanish army opposite them all had Chinese equipment, from rifles to artillery, from pistols to heavy machine guns, the Spanish army could be said to have replaced cannons with bird guns, and became awesome.

The first batch of US troops landed only 5,000, which is the limit of the number of landings in the Prachi area as soon as possible. If it were other shallow water areas, it would be good to have at most two or three thousand people landed in a day, because these people had to build a beach defense position first and transport heavy equipment to the ashore, which was not fast at all.

But Fagrates did it, and his shrewd judgment made him fight a beautiful battle when he took office. Five thousand American troops blocked the crazy attack of 50,000 Spanish troops.

Of course, this is related to the combat qualities of the Spanish army. If it were the Shen Ce Army of the Chinese Empire, the 5,000 US troops would be wiped out in just half a day. But if it were the Spanish army, the commander who dragged and stomped in a day could not destroy the US military's beachfront defensive position.

As time goes by, the US military has continuously accelerated its landing speed. After the temporary trest bridge is built, the US military's transport ships can directly dock. A large number of US troops landed on the land on both sides quickly reinforced other US troops on the high ground on both sides. Heavy equipment has also been landed on one after another, and US artillery came in handy.

For three days, the US military consolidated the Prachi landing area. All the surrounding highlands were under the control of the US military and their defenses were strengthened. The Spanish army lost the best attack time. It was much more difficult to drive the US military into the sea.

However, the US military also suffered heavy losses. Although they were facing the Spanish army and their combat effectiveness was very weak, the Spanish army was well equipped! All of them were Chinese equipment, large caliber artillery fired, and shells fell on the US military positions without any money, and one blow was a large area. Even if they were not accurate, it would be enough to cause huge casualties to the US military.

There is also the heavy machine gun that was so exciting that the Spanish army was fighting. The muzzle was spitting out and the bullets were densely fired at the US military positions, causing huge casualties to the US soldiers, not only causing an insurmountable psychological shadow.

That is a heavy machine gun with blood!

The culprit of Guam meat grinders, the executioner who massacred more than 100,000 British troops, is famous all over the world. Any ** team is scared from the bottom of their hearts when they hear the heavy machine guns of blood.

But no matter how happy it was, the Spanish army commander soon discovered a problem. The Spanish soldiers were very satisfied with fighting. They fired the shells at a very little aim. Seeing the US positions on the opposite mountain being engulfed by artillery fire, the Spanish army's artillery was so happy that they jumped up and did not pay attention to the number of shell boxes.

Similarly, the Spanish machine gunners who used the heavy machine guns of blood also pulled the trigger with a scream and swept the US military positions. They had to be excited, but they didn't pay attention to the fewer and fewer bullet boxes behind them.

It was not until the shells were all exhausted and the heavy machine guns were exhausted that the Spanish army found that the ammunition was gone.

"Where is ammunition? Move the ammunition quickly!"

"The ammunition hasn't come up yet!"

The Spanish soldiers were stunned. They were so angry that they suddenly lost their ammunition. This is a battlefield, and the ammunition is gone if they lose their lives.

Until this time, the commanders of the Spanish army were sweating coldly, and they had never seen this before. The Spanish army's logistics pressure was never high, and transporting some food and ammunition with mules and horses was enough to support a large-scale battle. But now it is different. Modern warfare is a battle of arms consumption and logistics supplies.

The Chinese Empire was equipped with advanced equipment and its ammunition consumption was also amazing. The Spanish army was in the military camp when they were training before, but they did not realize the difficulty of logistics supply. The Cuban jungle was dense and the roads were not smooth, which resulted in trucks not being able to transport ammunition at all. Mules and horses alone could not supply them. In fact, all the Spanish troops were in full swing. The ammunition that was originally allocated for three days was exhausted in a few hours.

In the trench opposite, the US soldiers were trembling and did not dare to emerge at all. The firepower of the other party was too fierce. The US soldiers who were dissatisfied before had just emerged, either being blown away by shells or being blown off by machine guns. The bloody scenes were really terrifying.

"Look, why is the Spaniard's firepower weak?"

"Haha, they probably have no ammunition!"

"Yes, we only have five bullets per person. Damn the Spaniards fired for several hours, and even hundreds of thousands of bullets were probably all shot!"

"Fake! It's finally our turn!"

"All counterattack!"

At the order of the US commander, the US military began to fight back.

Without artillery fire support and without bloody heavy machine gun support, the Spanish army is no match for the US military at all. You should know that the US military has fought a civil war for more than ten years and its combat effectiveness is not a vegetarian.

The US military was condescending, and under the cover of artillery fire, the infantry launched a counterattack, and the Spanish army was immediately defeated.

When we arrived, the 50,000 Spanish troops were fierce and arrogant. When we returned, there were less than 30,000 people left. More than 30 heavy howitzers were almost discarded. Many Spanish soldiers who were also scared to death were thrown on the battlefield.

However, the US military was not having a good time, with more than 10,000 casualties, which also made Facrates feel a little painful.

Fortunately, a large number of Chinese weapons and equipment were seized, which made the US military units dazzled.

"I finally saw the heavy howitzer again!"

"Yes, I miss it so much!"

Several US artillery soldiers touched the captured Chinese Empire to build 155mm heavy howitzers, showing a look of obsession, as if they were touching their wives. When the US military had a good relationship with the Chinese Emperor, they often used this heavy howitzer, which was unparalleled. Unfortunately, with the Sino-US conflict, the US military could no longer import 155mm grenades from the Chinese Empire, and the US military itself was unable to produce such high-explosive grenades, so they had to give up and instead introduce British 155mm howitzers.

I am afraid of comparison. After the US artillery used British 155mm heavy howitzers, I immediately felt it. Compared with the 155mm heavy howitzers of the Chinese Empire, the British 155mm heavy howitzers are large and bulky, and it is troublesome to operate. What makes the US military the most painful is that the British 155mm shells are made of Hey Pots, and their range and power are far less than those of the 155mm grenades made by the Chinese Empire, which greatly disappointed the US artillery.

On the other side, a group of US infantry surrounded a heavy machine gun with a bloody heavy machine gun, and they were appreciating it over and over again, unable to let go of it.

"This is the legendary heavy machine gun made by the Chinese Empire!"

"Looking at the structure of this bolt, it can shoot automatically! It's much better than Gatlin!"

"And with this shield and this water-cooled structure, it looks really domineering!"

"The weapons of the Chinese Empire are good! Look at the materials used, the barrel is black and shiny, and it looks high-end, and the quality is absolutely very good!"

"What a pity, there are no bullets! Otherwise, we'll have fun!"

"These damn Spaniards won't leave us any bullets!"

At this moment, the US military officer arrived. When he saw the heavy machine gun with blood, his eyes suddenly turned green.

"What are you doing? Get out! Don't surround me here, and I'll break my bloody heavy machine gun!"

"Guardian, hurry up and take this bloody heavy machine gun back to my tent, and I will also study the high-end weapons of the Chinese Empire!"

A group of American soldiers immediately stared at the US military officer fiercely. Unfortunately, they were more senior than the first level of official position to crush people to death. They could only stare blankly, staring at each other and holding the heavy machine gun away with the bloody heavy machine gun. They suddenly sighed one by one, obviously not enough!

In the US Interim Command, Facrates was also curiously experiencing a large number of heavy machine guns.

He had watched the battle secretly before, but he clearly saw the Spaniards using this bloody heavy machine gun to rush the US soldiers, sweeping a large area, killing the US soldiers into a river of blood, and eventually they could only huddle in the trench and dare not emerge.

"Can we use this thing?"

"It's okay to know how to use it, but we don't have bullets!"

"This is a 50-inch caliber heavy machine gun. At present, only the Chinese Empire in the world is capable of producing heavy machine guns of this caliber. The only heavy machine guns in our country are imitating the Gatling machine guns of the Chinese Empire, with a caliber of only 11 mm."

"But we can take it back to our country and imitate it!"

Fagrates's eyes suddenly lit up, but it soon became darker again. When the imitation was successful, the cucumber cabbage had already been cold.

However, this is also a great achievement. You should know that only the Spanish army in the world is equipped with bloody heavy machine guns made by the Chinese Empire, and other countries do not have such weapons. Especially the British Empire, the blood was killed by this bloody heavy machine gun in Guam. They wanted to figure out this weapon the most, but unfortunately the Chinese Empire was too strict and the British were unable to obtain the prototype.

Similarly, the American military is eager to obtain such a powerful weapon. Now that it has finally seized the heavy machine gun of blood. If you want to send it back to the country, it will definitely make the military very happy.

"Give this thing to the military and change it to another division with the military!"
Chapter completed!