Cuba, Havana Fortress.

It is now March 27, 3985, and April 30, 1885. The Spanish-American War has been fighting for four and a half years. Except for Havana, most of Cuba has been occupied by the US military.

Outside the Havana Fortress, he was surrounded by more than 300,000 American legions.

The entire Havana Fortress looked like doomsday wasteland, all the surrounding cities were destroyed, trees were burned to ash, and rivers evaporated in the artillery fire.

It is hard to imagine that the Spanish army, which has become a third-rate in the world, has resisted for so long.

Thanks to the strong support of the Chinese Empire, otherwise Spain's strength would definitely not be able to support it now.

However, the Chinese Empire's support for Spain is getting weaker and weaker. It is not that the Chinese Empire refuses to help. It is really cunning. In order to cut off the Chinese Empire's assistance to the Spanish Cuban defenders, the American army adopted the tactic of surrounding cities in rural areas, first occupying most rural areas of Cuba, and then encircling Havana.

As a result, the American navy blocked the sea, and the US military encircled Havana on land. It was difficult for the Chinese Empire to transport supplies to the Spanish defenders in Havana.

Of course, the devil is one foot taller.

As a world-class power, the Chinese Empire has no shortage of technology, capital, talents, and military strength, and there is still a way to secretly assist the Spanish defenders in Havana. Otherwise, with the third-rate strength of the Spanish army, the Spanish army, it would not be able to defeat the second-rate strength of the US military.

The Chinese Emperor's side smuggled supplies to Havana through two methods. One was to pass through sea and land. It was impossible for surface warships to approach Havana, but submarines could.

The submarines of the Chinese Empire have a large tonnage, with a displacement of nearly 2,000 tons. They can carry a large amount of cargo and sneak into the port of Havana from the sea. The Chinese Empire has the information on the water and radium deployment of the Spanish defenders, so there is no need to worry about radium hitting it.

However, at the beginning, the Chinese Emperor's side used the Great White Shark-class submarine to transport supplies, but the effect was very poor, and it was inconvenient to load supplies. At most, some food was transported, and a small amount of guns, ammunition, artillery and other weapons could not be transported at all.

Later, at the request of the Navy, the General Administration of the Imperial China quickly designed and produced a transport submarine specially used to transport weapons and ammunition in response to the Cuban war and the future needs of the Imperial China Navy.

The biggest difference between this type of transport submarine is that the back of the submarine can be opened, similar to the strategic nuclear submarine of the 21st century, with a launch hatch on the back. The difference is that the hatch of the transport submarine of the Chinese Empire is large, in order to facilitate loading and unloading cargo.

The transport submarine was designated as the Seahorse class by the Chinese Emperor's **. The displacement (surface/underwater): 00 tons/4160 tons. It uses four Starley NC83 6-cylinder 2-stroke diesel engines with the strongest power in the Empire of China (for surface navigation), two Plant x11 motors (for underwater navigation), and dual propulsion shafts. Speed ​​(surface/underwater): 12 knots/8 knots. Two 533 mm fish radium launch tubes are retained, all at the bow, and 2 fish radium can be loaded. If necessary, the originally planned 128 mm 50-caliber naval gun was cancelled.

Ever since the Chinese Empire developed the Seahorse-class transport submarine, it has been secretly transporting supplies to Havana from underwater, ensuring the supply of food, medicines, weapons and ammunition from the Spanish defenders.

For a long time, the US military did not understand why the Spanish defenders in the Havana Fortress could still hold on. According to the US military's intelligence investigation, the food reserves in the Havana Fortress were only enough for one year, ammunition reserves were only enough for ten months, and medical reserves could be used for three months at most. However, the Spanish defenders had persisted for more than four years and did not voluntarily surrender due to lack of materials.

The American army planned to siege the Spanish defenders in Havana, but the strategy failed and the Spanish defenders were not worried about supply issues at all.

The US military understood that this must be the deception of the Chinese Empire, but the US military just didn't know how the Chinese Empire used to smuggle materials into it.

For this reason, the US military removed twenty US generals who were on patrol and alert tasks, but unfortunately they were useless.

Later, when the US military saw that the Spanish defenders were siege and had to launch a large-scale attack again. Both sides fought fiercely every day. Although as the defenders, the Spanish defenders had advanced weapons and equipment in the hands of the Chinese Empire, and the casualty rate was very low, they could not withstand the US military's crazy attack. The US military hoped to consume all the Spanish defenders in Havana at the cost of five for one or eight for one. This self-harm method once scared Fernando, the governor of Cuba of Spain.

However, soon the Chinese Empire secretly helped the Spanish government and secretly transported the Spanish troops coming from Spain into Havana and secretly transported the Spanish wounded and sick people in the Havana Fortress.

As a result, Spain's military power in Havana has always existed and is even constantly strengthening. Because the Chinese Empire also fought and repaired fortresses while fighting, and even added various permanent fortifications, which caused the US military to suffer a lot, and suffered heavy casualties.

But the Chinese Empire also made a mistake. They should not transport the Spanish wounded and sick people from the Havana Fortress. Even after the transport is shipped out, they should not hand it over to the Spanish government. They should be detained in Key West, so that the intelligence will not be leaked.

Unfortunately, the Chinese Empire did not expect this aspect at that time. The Spanish government vowed to say that it would not leak intelligence. As a result, after the wounded returned to Spain, they actually met their families, and were obtained by American intelligence personnel. Only then did they learn that the Chinese Empire had actually developed a submarine that could transport materials.

The American government was very annoyed and solemnly protested to the Chinese Empire, demanding that the Chinese Empire stop such behavior that could trigger the Sino-US war.

In response, the Chinese Empire government firmly denied it and insisted that it was slander. It even claimed that the Spanish wounded and sick were victims of war trauma, and had hallucinations in their minds that they could not believe it.

Knowing that the Chinese Empire would deny it, the American government was not prepared to go to war immediately with the Chinese Empire, so the American army began to deploy large-scale radium in the waters of Havana. Although it prevented the Chinese Empire from continuing to transport supplies to Havana through submarines, it also prevented the American Navy from attacking from Havana, which was a strategy of losing both sides.

However, this was a huge blow to the Spanish Havana defenders. Soon the Spanish defenders experienced shortage of supplies, shortage of medicines, shortage of ammunition and shortage of troops. Governor Fernando was once desperate.

The Spanish government once again asked the Chinese Empire for help, but was scolded by the Chinese Empire.

However, the Chinese Empire was unwilling to let Cuba fall into the hands of the United States, so it had to find a way.

Soon, the Chinese Emperor's side thought of a solution again, that is, the Chinese Imperial Air Force.

Of course, at this time, the Imperial Chinese Air Force was just an internal number, strictly kept it confidential to the outside world, and only claimed to be the Imperial Chinese Air Tourism Company.

Due to Li Weiguo's high attention, the Chinese Empire's Air Force developed very fast. By 3985, the size of the air force reached one thousand airships, and the feat of airships carrying manned across the Pacific Ocean.

The Chinese Emperor's side then used airships to transport supplies, and took advantage of the night to airdrop food, medicines, weapons and ammunition into the Havana Fortress, and finally saved the lives of the Spanish defenders again, restoring the originally precarious Fortress Havana.

This time, the Chinese Empire and the Spanish Empire have learned their cleverness and no longer transported the injured and sick out of the Havana Fortress. Even when they have no choice, they will strictly put the injured and sick in house arrest and cut off their contact with the outside world.

However, the transportation capacity of airships is still limited, and weapons such as heavy artillery are too heavy to transport or airdrop.

In this way, once the artillery in the Havana Fortress is damaged, it can only be repaired. The Chinese Empire will airdrop some repair parts and ask the Spanish army to repair the artillery itself.

The Havana Fortress could not be captured for a long time, America went completely crazy, and Grant was so angry that he vomited blood, but he was helpless. Unless he started a war with the Chinese Empire immediately, there would be no way.

However, when the war with the Chinese Empire was started, Grant faced three major obstacles. One was that the British Empire disagreed because the Viking Pirates and the war resources originally reserved by the British Empire were also severely hit by the sea wolf tactics of the Chinese Empire. The British Empire suffered heavy economic losses and damaged its vitality. It took three to five years to regulate the economy and restore its vitality. The British Empire disagreed, and Grant would never dare to go to war against the Chinese Empire alone. Moreover, the American economy was also severely hit by the sea wolf tactics of the Chinese Empire, causing considerable losses.

The second resistance comes from the United States. At this time, America has restored democracy and Grant is no longer the only one. If you want to go to war with the Chinese Empire, you must have enough excuses and reasons, otherwise the American Congress will never be able to approve the war.

The third resistance is the most critical, that is, the gap in military strength. Grant learned that the Chinese Empire was supporting the Havana defenders, so he lasted for four and a half years, which shows that the Chinese Empire's military strength is strong. It would be even more difficult for the US military to directly attack the fortifications that the Chinese Empire defended.

Therefore, Grant was unsure and did not dare to go to war with the Chinese Empire for a while. Instead, he had to find a way to stop the Chinese Empire from attacking sea wolf against the United States.

When American Foreign Minister Rumsfeld arrived in the Chinese Empire, he began to negotiate with Chinese Empire Foreign Minister Zhang Peilun.

At this time, Zhang Peilun had defeated the British Foreign Secretary and had rich experience in negotiating on this issue, which made Rumsfield unable to fight back.

"If your country is willing to give up the war against Spain and transfer your country to the Chinese Empire in the occupied Cuba area, then our Chinese Empire will take action to combat the remnants of the Viking Pirates targeting American merchant ships."

Ah no!

Rumsfeld suppressed his anger and did not vomit blood. He saw Zhang Peilun's attitude and knew that it would be difficult for him to bargain, so he nodded in agreement.

Although he only got 20 million yuan, being able to make Grant give up Cuba can be regarded as saving America. Otherwise, the Cuban war will delay for a few more years and the United States will collapse and be dragged down!

Humph! Sell Cuba Island to the Chinese Empire and let the Chinese Empire fight to the death!

Rumsfeld thought this way and was a little more balanced.

Zhang Peilun was filled with joy. He bought Cuba Island for 20 million yuan, which was a huge profit for the Chinese Empire.

Of course, Zhang Peilun would not tell Rumsfeld that the Chinese Empire had reached a secret agreement with the Spanish government and was about to legally take over Cuba from Spain.
Chapter completed!