1855 United States Tycoon

As soon as it broke the next day, and the fog in the early morning had just cleared, General Campos’s troops began their pre-attack preparations. The soldiers ate a full meal, then arranged their weapons and began to attack.

In the previous two days of offense, relying on the means of digging, they had already broken through a line of defense, and now there are two lines of defense in front of them.

Trench defense is no longer a special secret in Europe. When breaking through the first line of defense, in order to reduce casualties, General Campos adopted an offensive approach that saw digging. Now, in order to pursue speed, he naturally would not use this method.

After several days of observation, Campos is convinced that he has a basic understanding of the enemy's firepower. The rebels will not have more than three cannons, although their rate of fire is as fast as there are thirty cannons. But the firing gun is still not enough to block the front. And they rarely shoot at the fastest rate of fire, which convinces Campos that the Cubans don’t have many shells. The enemy has very few barbed wire and very few landmines. Generally only some are buried in the traffic trench.

Campos’ today’s combat plan is to "take regiments as the scale, deploy in a skirmish formation, and the blaster is responsible for blasting the barbed wire. Then swiftly strikes the enemy in depth." He ordered the artillery to suppress the enemy’s artillery as much as possible, and not to care about the consumption of shells. The soldiers also started the assault in accordance with his orders.

The Cubans kept firing in the trenches, one after another Spain was shot and fell to the ground, but such firepower was not enough to repel the Spaniards, and soon the Spanish blaster approached the barbed wire. Generally at this time, Cuban artillery will definitely fire, and they will use storm-like grenade shells to block any attempts to break through the barbed wire. Sometimes at such times, they will be attacked by "broad swords", which all means the appearance of heavy casualties. But now, apart from the constant firing, the Cubans have not carried out shelling, nor have they detonated the "Broad Sword" anti-infantry directional mine.

"The rebels really run out of supplies. They may not have many shells and that damn disgusting thing. God bless!" General Campos drew a cross on Own's chest, and then continued to raise the telescope to observe the battlefield.

"Let the follow-up troops mount the bayonet and follow!" Campos ordered.

The so-called "follow-up units" refer to those units that are still using the old Mini guns. Among the 20,000 people in Campos's hands, less than half of them actually have rear-mounted rifles, and more than half are still using front-mounted Mini guns. Fortunately, the guys on the opposite side didn't have much MacDonald 1864 in their hands, at most six or seven hundred, and the rest even had a lot of money house muskets. Of course, there seems to be a lot of McDonald's 1862 shotguns in their hands. If it is a battle in a trench, that thing would be very scary. In addition, when they broke through the first line of defense, they also had a hand-to-hand battle with the Cubans. Therefore, Campos simply used the Mini Spearman as a short spearman.

There was indeed a hand-to-hand fight when breaking through the trenches of the Cubans, but the Cubans who had not received much training were beaten back as quickly as the last time.

"Not bad." Campos was very happy watching the progress of the troops. If you can maintain this momentum, you can score Bayamo in the afternoon. Then, everything is resolved. And he will also become a famous general, and there may be a statue of him riding a horse on the streets of Madrid.

The subsequent attack was not as smooth as he had imagined, and the Cubans resisted tenaciously. So they didn't enter Bayamo City until the sun was westward.

Bayamo City was exceptionally quiet at this time, and the city seemed to be dead. On the street shining red by the sunset, there is nothing moving. The Spanish soldiers entered the city cautiously and opened the door cautiously, but they did not encounter any resistance. They went all the way to the "Presidential Palace" of the rebels without encountering any one, as if all the Cubans had suddenly disappeared.

"General, this is not right. How about we withdraw the soldiers first?" the adjutant said to Campos.

"What's in this?" Campos said, "It's nothing. I guess they also know that they can't defend the city. Judging from the previous battles, their supplies have been exhausted. Instead, I am their commander. , I will definitely arrange a retreat... Most of them have retreated to the other side of the river. Let me search the city carefully to see what's left in the city."

However, not long after Campos' order was issued, flames suddenly ignited from several different directions in the city. At first, the Spaniards tried to put out the fire, but the fire quickly became uncontrollable. In the end, all the Spaniards had to withdraw from the city, watching the city turn to ashes in front of them.

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Then there was a nightmare retreat. The Spaniards, who had exhausted all their supplies, slowly retreated hungry along the long road with almost no end in sight. The cannons and everything were destroyed and abandoned. The soldiers could only eat one meal a day. On the road, he was constantly attacked by Cubans, as Campos feared, and the retreat eventually turned into an uncontrolled retreat only sixty kilometers away from the Spanish-controlled zone. The Cubans who had been following them took advantage of the situation and took advantage of the onslaught, and the Spanish army was defeated. Inspired by such a victory, there were uprisings in many cities that were still under Spanish control. Under the siege of various insurgents all the way, the losses were heavy, and the number of soldiers who finally followed Campos back to Havana was even less than 3,000.

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Under the joint promotion of Scrooge and Morgan, Congress passed a bill requiring the government to consider officially recognizing the Cuban government and establishing diplomatic relations with it. This resolution is not directly binding, it is just a recommendation. Under normal circumstances, when such a non-binding bill is passed, the president and Congress will have a tacit understanding. Congress will put forward some relatively outrageous demands, which can be regarded as an expression of attitude, and sometimes even disgusting a certain foreign country through this method. . And the president will put this advice on the high quality to avoid any real troubles. This trick is also a traditional trick of the United States, which is played every few years. For example, in later generations, in order to disgust the rabbit country, the United States Congress will often pass some non-binding bills such as requiring the government to establish diplomatic relations with the bald.

It’s just that the situation in the United States government is very special now, because President Johnson dismissed the Secretary of the Army not long ago. Earlier, the two houses controlled by the Republican Party had just passed a law prohibiting the president from not being approved by Congress. Next, the cabinet members who have passed the deliberation of the Congress are removed from their posts. Therefore, the Republicans naturally think that the president's actions are illegal. But the President believes that the law itself is unconstitutional. Because according to the Constitution, the executive power belongs to the president, and the power of appointment and removal of personnel is the most typical executive power. According to the Constitution, the Congress only has the legislative power, but now, it has passed such a law to authorize itself and make it own. The power to intervene in the appointment and removal of personnel in administrative branches. This is absolutely unconstitutional. Besides, Scrooge promised that he could avoid impeachment by virtue of his own influence. Therefore, President Johnson is of course more confident and will continue to insist on his own decision. Of course, the Republican Party can't stand a guy who turned from a vase to a president for inexplicable reasons, actually giving orders like a president. So Capitol Hill reacted immediately and wanted to impeach the president. Finally, with the help of Scrooge, President Johnson passed the risk. However, he and the Republicans on Capitol Hill can be said to have almost completely broken their faces. Under the constraints of Capitol Hill and even cabinet members, he is now lame and messed up, and of course the president is particularly angry about this.

Perhaps it was because President Johnson knew that he could not be re-elected, perhaps because he deliberately wanted to mess with the Republican Party that controls Congress. Well, President Johnson actually broke the tacit understanding between the President and Congress. He really announced the United States government’s decision to recognize the government of the Republic of Cuba as the only legal government representing the Cuban people, and decided to be free at the right time. Cuba established diplomatic relations and exchanged ambassadors.

Compared with the resolution of Congress, President Johnson's statement really immediately caused an uproar. Republican lawmakers are all biting their teeth behind their backs and scolding Johnson, a fellow who breaks tacit understanding, but considering the sympathy of Cuban public opinion that is sweeping the United States now, and that this bill was proposed by themselves, of course they can't jump out to oppose it. Well, even stand up and show support. This is simply...

This decision of the United States government won domestic cheers. It is also a long time since President Johnson made the most popular decision, but abroad, the situation is different. Some British people are already whispering to the ambitions of United States people, while Spain is even more furious and frightened.

"We must dispatch the second batch of expeditionary forces as soon as possible to quickly stabilize the situation, otherwise, there will be big trouble." General Juan Primm said.

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