"At this time, you really should drink a good bottle of wine quietly!"

Erikson, an old drunkard standing on the deck with a telescope and looking far away, exclaimed.

Why is this old drunkard like this? It seems to be in a good mood!

That's right, it's really in a good mood, this guy is now tantamount to revisiting the old place, this is the place where he once fought, very emotional, Florida Strait!

This old drunkard Erickson really reminisced a little bit about his eventful years, in this area, he was very arrogant back then, and now, he is back, so......

In fact, it is also very majestic, this time it is not the poor and sour like of one or two ships, and now he also came with a large fleet, there are more than 20 ships, and they are all the most high-tech ironclad ships today, but they are only ......

It's small!

For example, the old drunkard's current flagship, the name is Brooklyn, hey, look at the name, Brooklyn, although Brooklyn is the most important island in New York and the most populous one, but it is not New York after all.

Therefore, this ship is only about 100 meters long, which is almost half the size of the previous San Francisco!

The San Francisco, that's San Francisco, and New York is the same as San Francisco, so you can see it now at the level, that is, the old drunkard is now the head of a gang of 'district chiefs'.

Okay, that's all he complained about himself, but it can also be seen from here......

Isn't it just against Spain!

Let's put it this way, in the American Empire at this time, the whole public opinion. That's all about how powerful Spain is. How cruel it was to the Cuban people, to the colonial people. How awesome is the naval power, how awesome the history is, and how awesome it was back then......

That's all for the common people!

Erikson, the old drunkard, knows this very well, this is obviously the ghost of Liszt's bastards, that is, he hopes that the common people of the American Empire will have enough hatred for Spain, so that the military action will be easy to handle, and the real situation, the intelligence has been made very clear.

The sea power on the Spanish side is already very poor. Now there are a few iron-clad giant ships, which are completely the weapons of the previous generation, I heard that they were eliminated by the British, and ah, in terms of displacement, from all aspects, they are completely impossible.

To put it simply, the old drunkard came out this time, and he was very confident, so. Why don't you just drink a little wine and ...... slowly

"Report! Enemy ships are spotted ahead! ”

"Are you sure?"

"Sure!"

The lookouts spotted the Spanish battleship. So, the whole fleet waved the flag and went into battle!

"General Erickson, what to do?"

George. Lee is now the second-in-command of the expeditionary fleet of the American Empire, of course he is also on the flagship, he is very clear about his functional positioning, that is, to be a staff officer, this old drunkard in front of him, his way of fighting ...... It's a bit reckless, and he's an alcoholic!

But though, it's up to the highest commander to issue orders.

"Hit!" That's what Erikson said.

"......" George. Li thought in his heart that this old drunkard was still drunk.

Actually, George. Lee, he doesn't have much combat experience, he used to be an adjutant next to the president of the South, his father is very strong in land warfare, but for naval warfare, his father has no experience, let alone George. Lee, the brother-in-law of the American emperor.

But though, even so, George. Lee also somewhat understood that this war was not easy to do, because he had no experience, so when he learned that he had been sent to be the second man in the imperial navy to Cuba, George . Li put a lot of effort into studying the relevant literature and various rules of naval warfare......

Specifically...... Anyway, you should refrain first, right?

"Your Excellency General, let's go on the horn first, shall we?"

George. What Li means is, let's shout first, and everyone has an exchange.

"Haha...... All right. Although I agreed, the old drunkard's laughter was really a little ......

Forget it, get on the big horn!

"Spanish Navy, you listen ......"

Fortunately, our American Empire is a country with many immigrants, so there are a lot of people who can speak Spanish, and now it comes in handy, this loudspeaker is very happy, and the sound is far away, so the other party's reaction is......

It's close! It's closer!

The Spanish warships were not many, not as many as those of the American Empire, they had less than ten ships, and most of them were wooden old steam sailboats, but they were really very brave, they were about to rush forward to the American fleet!

“…… Don't come here! Don't come here......" The guy who shouted was scared.

However, the old warships, they rushed straight to this thing......

"Not good!" The old drunkard on the flagship suddenly had a light in his eyes, and then he shouted: "Hurry up and tell the frigate in front to turn the rudder!" Left full rudder, accelerate and stagger with that bastard! Not in one line! ”

"Huh?" That George. Lee was stunned at the time, because it was too sudden.

"We're about to change the rudder, too! Come on! "The old drunkard's performance at this time doesn't look like a drunkard at all, it's very serious!

So, hurry up!

"Turn! Veer! Veer! ……”

There was no faster way to do it, so he could only shout there with the ship's loudspeaker, but fortunately, the captain of the frigate at the front was not a fool, and he also thought that the Spanish warship was very strange.

"Command! Fire! ”

"This is going to fight?"

George. Li was a little surprised, was this too abrupt?

At this moment, I saw the Spanish battleship rushing straight over, they did not turn the rudder, that is, they did not show their side when the range was reached, as is the traditional tactics of this old warship, but just like this, they were frontal. But there were a couple of big tubes on the ship. Something spewed out of that tube!

Squirting this thing. The long, stick-like one falls into the sea and sinks first, then floats, and then ......

Torpedo?!

It was really a torpedo, and I saw a waterline appear on the sea, and then other Spanish warships did the same, and there were more waterlines on the sea!

The Spanish guys actually came up with a torpedo?

This was indeed very unexpected by the American Expeditionary Fleet, but it was not. Right now......

Hmmm, boom......

OK! The old drunkard saw the opportunity quickly, and these torpedoes did not hit the Imperial battleship.

But just when everyone was about to take a breath, boom! Thundered!

Those torpedoes exploded!

"Fire! What the fuck are you stunned! ”

These series of accidents did make the American expeditionary fleet panic, but fortunately, the old drunkard had seen the market, and his experience was still very useful.

Before, he had seen it and rushed straight at him. And there are strange things on that ship, and this kind of play can only be torpedoes. But though, the old drunkard really didn't know that the Spanish fleet was armed with such weapons.

You know, this means that the intelligence work has not been done well, and the empire really felt that the war between the American Empire and the Spanish Empire, that is, the Spanish-American War, was simply a military training, and there was no challenge, so it was normal to be negligent......

Sure enough, come on, there is a treasure for the elderly!

Well, now is not the time to lament this, and George. Li, the second generation of officials, finally realized the reality and cruelty of war.

Bang! Bang!

The Imperial Expeditionary Fleet has finally begun to fight back, and their artillery is not vegetarian!

Maybe not as large as the San Francisco, but a warship like the Brooklyn is the newest product, and the guns on it have a much faster rate of fire, although the caliber is relatively small, but in naval battles, the design speed, and the armor-piercing of shells...... Well, the armor of the opponent is hardly worth mentioning.

As a result, this naval battle finally returned to the normal track......

Two hours later, the flagship of the Spanish fleet flew a white flag, and only five of the nine ships remained, four of which were sunk, and the American Empire lost one ship.

Right! Even the ironclad ship was sunk!

That's the kind of tactic, after rushing closer, use a torpedo.

With this tactic, the reason why the old drunkard can see that he was able to react in advance before is all because he did the same thing before!

The torpedoes of this era are relatively close in range, and the American Empire is better, because after all, we used it first, so after improvement, it can already hit quite far, but it is obvious that the torpedoes used by Spain are relatively low in technology.

Don't you have to ask?

"Where did you get your torpedoes from?"

The other side has surrendered, and the fleet commander is called Carlos, so our side will naturally have to figure out the situation of this extremely threatening weapon.

"I am Admiral Carlos of the Spanish Imperial Expeditionary Force! …… I am Admiral Carlos of the Imperial Spanish Expeditionary Force! ……”

This Carlos's mouth is quite strict, don't look at him as surrendering, but this guy just said his name and official position, and didn't say anything else.

"Hey! Play this with Lao Tzu?! "Old drunkard, who is that? What hasn't he seen before?

Hard mouth? The steel teeth will pry you open!

But just when the old drunkard found someone to come and torture him, George. Lee came out to stop it.

"General! We should not be violent with the captives! ”

Well, George. Li is not wrong, isn't the American Empire very good at captives at the beginning, much better than the previous war winners, but ......

"You scholar! …… Someone! Let Mr. Li go down and rest first...... "That's what the old drunkard means......

"You! You ...... "George. Li is angry, but he can't do anything, the number two person is actually a staff officer.

But fortunately, this situation has been broken, because there is no need to move the punishment!

"Report! It is a product of the German Reich! ”

"What?!" (To be continued......)

PS: Thank you all for your support! Black car thank you!

Well, I slept too late, a little late, sorry.