The news about the fortress of Gibraltar came from the men of Rabbit Mouth who sneaked into Europe.

　　 Now that the transmission distance of radio cannot cross the Atlantic Ocean, the news about Europe can only be transmitted by the most primitive method, that is, by boat.

　　In other words, the news that Shixiong is getting now about the European side are all things that happened two months ago.

　　 For this, Shi Xiong is also very helpless.

　　 On land, he can use relay stations to transmit information from one end of the continent to the other end in a short time, but on the ocean there is no way to do so.

　　 Even if the radio transmission distance has reached 1,000 kilometers, Shixiong can't get a few ships to stop in the Atlantic Ocean, which is thousands of kilometers wide, as a relay station...

　　 Fortunately, the same is true for transatlantic communications in other countries.

　　 But after Shixiong received the news about the fortress of Gibraltar, he still felt a little upset.

　　He worked so hard to help the British and the Continental Army, just to make this war more intense and longer.

　　 Although my own efforts have partially achieved this goal, they have not extended the expected war time to twelve or three years.

　　 The Spanish obsession with the fortress of Gibraltar is so powerful! Since the Spaniards were defeated by the Anglo-Dutch forces in the War of the Spanish Succession in 1704, they have lost the fortress of Gibraltar, which guarded the throat of the Mediterranean.

　　 Since then, the Spaniards have been trying to take Gibraltar back.

　　 It’s a pity that the Spaniards have been unable to take Gibraltar back for a full eighty years from 1704 to the present 1783. Until the outbreak of the War of Independence, especially when the French declared war on Britain, the Spanish saw the hope of regaining Gibraltar.

　　 In the sixteen months since France declared war on Britain, the Spaniards have been watching this solo war that has turned into an international war. When the Spaniards discovered that the French navy had really contained the British navy, they decisively declared war on Britain.

　　 Of course, the Spanish declaration of war on Britain did not intend to seize the 13 British colonies in North America. Compared with the 13 colonies of the British in the New World of North America, the Spanish colonies in Central and South America or the vast colonies west of the Mississippi River are not comparable to the 13 colonies of the British.

　　 As for the colony, the Spaniards have no idea whatsoever. The only thing they want to take back is Gibraltar.

In fact, since the British forcibly occupying Gibraltar in 1704 and the signing of the Utrecht Agreement in 1713, the Spanish ceded Gibraltar to the British. The Spaniards signed the Utrecht Agreement at a distance. In the fourteenth year that followed, in 1727, there was a large-scale attack on Gibraltar.

In 1727, Spain besieged Gibraltar with 25,000 troops and a large fleet. At that time, there were only 5,000 British defenders on the peninsula, but the British held on for five months with strong fortifications and advanced tactics. , And finally repelled the Spanish army.

　　 The defeat of that battle caused the Spaniards to swallow the bitter fruit, and also reminded the British.

　　 So in the following half a century, the British have been building various fortifications in Gibraltar. Even the inside of the 426-meter-high Rock of Gibraltar was almost hollowed out by the British...

The efforts of the British were not in vain. When the Spaniards took advantage of most of the British energy to be contained in the New World in North America, and their main naval forces were restrained by the main French naval forces, the Spaniards took this good opportunity to declare war on Britain again and immediately The war to seize Gibraltar was launched.

But what the Spaniards didn’t expect was that even if they had driven almost half of the country’s naval capital ships near Gibraltar, they had sent a force of as many as 35,000 to attack this with only 7,300 British soldiers. When guarding the fortress, the Spaniard’s front teeth were still dwarfed by this unimaginable fortress.

　　 Because of the failure of the 1727 war to occupy Gibraltar, the Spaniards had a clear understanding of the solidity of Gibraltar, but they still underestimated the solidity of this fortress.

　　Gibraltar is located on a narrow peninsula on the Mediterranean coast at the southern end of the Iberian Peninsula. This narrow peninsula is like a dagger extending to the Mediterranean to the south. The top of the peninsula is the later famous Cape Europa.

　　 This peninsula is very small, about 4.6 kilometers long from north to south, and only 1.2 kilometers wide from east to west. The entire area is only a little over 6 square kilometers.

　　 And most of Gibraltar is steep and continuous limestone, among them is the Giant Rock of Gibraltar known as the "Pillar of Hercules"!

　　 The core of the Gibraltar Fortress was built on the Rock of Gibraltar. On the mountainside near the Giant Rock of Gibraltar, there is not only the Moor Castle left by the Moors in those days, but the British also dug many tunnels in the Giant Rock. These tunnels are the famous Great Siege tunnels of later generations.

　　 Relying on the Great Siege Tunnel, the British also erected a large number of forts inside the giant rock.

　　 The 426-meter-high Rock of Gibraltar can provide a 360-degree view of the defending British soldiers, whether it is the military activities in Spain or the ships passing through the strait.

　　 Inside the giant rock, British soldiers have been digging continuously for more than half a century~lightnovelpub.net~, forming a huge labyrinth consisting of continuous tunnels, warehouses, and military caves.

　　 This fortress built on the Giant Rock of Gibraltar is the greatest confidence of the British.

　　 And the facts have also proved that the British are indeed confident.

　　 Since Spain declared war on Britain on June 16, 1779, the Spanish fleet and heavy troops have surrounded the fortress of Gibraltar.

But the Spaniards were stunned that there was nothing to do with this lonely fortress. They fought for a full four years, much longer than any war to besiege the fortress of Gibraltar in history, but they still did not win it. Block fortress.

　　 But in the same way, the combined offensive of the Spaniards and the French made the British troops in the Gibraltar Fortress also very difficult. After all, there is almost no output in the fortress of Gibraltar. Whether it is food and most importantly, fresh water, it needs to rely on outside transportation.

　　 Had it not been for the British foresight to build rainwater collection facilities throughout the fortress, and the abundant rainfall in Gibraltar, the British could collect enough fresh water. Otherwise, the Spaniards only need to besieged here, and the British can directly surrender because there is no fresh water.

　　Although fresh water can be obtained by collecting rainwater, this food is not enough. The Spaniards besieged the fortress tightly, which made the British have to transfer the main fleet back to deal with the combined French fleet. Because the British main fleet needed to break the siege and feed the British defenders in the Gibraltar Fortress...

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