On November 20, 1867, an army of 25,000 men led by General Campos arrived in the port of Havana. The arrival of the 25,000-strong army immediately gave the Spaniards full confidence. In the negotiation arena with "Free Cuba," they even went against the mild attitude of the previous days and began to forcefully demand that "Free Cuba" surrender unconditionally.

"Only by honestly laying down your arms and accepting the punishment of the law is the only way out for you!" Fernando, the Spanish negotiator, arrogantly issued an ultimatum to the rebels, and when he saw that the negotiator opposite him called Gomez seemed to want to say something, he added: "I am not here to debate with you today." If you still insist on debating, let the rifles and artillery do the debating. But I warn you, there is only one result of stubborn resistance, and that is that you will be ruthlessly annihilated! ”

"Hehehehe," Gomez laughed, slowly standing up and looking Fernando in the eye, "we know that on November 3rd, 25,000 of your soldiers set out from Barcelona. Disembarkation in Havana has already begun this morning. Seeing that Fernando seemed to want to say something, Gomez held out his hand to him and motioned for him not to speak again, "We have known for a long time that your so-called peace talks are just stalling for time. We've been watching you like a clown show. What do you tell us about 'the only way out'? Then I will tell you that the only way out for you evil colonial bandits is to put your tail between your legs, obediently get out of Cuba, and return your freedom to the Cuban people! You're still talking to me about 'annihilation'? It's good, it's good. Gomez stared at the frightened Fernando with a terrible smile, like a lion staring at a trembling lamb, "If you want a war of annihilation, then you will get a war of annihilation!" ”

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General Campos's troops went ashore one by one on the quay, and according to the location of the pier, the troops did not have to pass through the city of Havana to enter the barracks. But in order to deter potential rebels and the Cubans who might support them, the Spaniards decided to let these troops, drag their cannons to the Piazza in Havana, and let the Cuban buns see the grandeur of the Spaniards. Only then the army would have to pass through a narrow street.

Amid the noise of military music, Spanish troops in splendid uniforms marched through the narrow streets of the city. Unlike the big cities of Europe, the streets of Havana are very narrow. It's so narrow that you can jump to the roof across the street by running from the roof on this side of the street. Therefore, when the large army passes through the Guò neighborhood, it seems to be extremely slow.

Of course, the colonial authorities also took into account that if someone was not afraid of death and took this opportunity to launch an attack on the army, not to mention that a few defensive grenades were dropped from the windows on both sides, the casualties would definitely be terrifying to death. So the colonial authorities brought back the policemen who had been hiding in their homes, arranged them on both sides of the street, and had all the residents of the street evicted out of the square.

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"These guys want to demonstrate, and they're afraid of death." The policeman, Fernand, stood in front of a small building, trying to maintain order, while looking with disdain at the Spaniards who were lining up in the square in the distance.

Because of the large police gap, the colonial authorities had to recruit more police officers among the native whites, which naturally gave people like Vernan the opportunity to blend in with the colonial police force.

Fornan, along with another equally problematic police officer, is tasked with watching the area and avoid any problems. For example, someone from a small building shoots at the army with a rifle or something. However, because this building is far enough from the square, it is a thousand meters, although the whole square can be clearly seen from this building, but after all, it is too far away, and the Spaniards do not care too much about it, and the police sent are not very reliable. The Spaniards were not trained to attack and did not know how to defend against them. Shoot with a rifle, what can you do? How many people can you knock down? It's also too inefficient to do so.

In the courtyard behind the house behind Vernan, a few people had just been busy installing something.

"Distance, one thousand and twenty-one meters. Bearing ......"

"Aguirre, don't report these numbers, we've measured them many times." One of them said as he gently turned a handle that was part of a strange cannon that had just been installed.

This is a 1866 Type 70 mm infantry gun produced by MacDonald Infantry Weapons Company, this gun is a copy of the 9 infantry guns of later Japan, with a maximum range of about 2,400 meters, which is very suitable to cover the Spaniards who are now in the square. In addition, the trajectory of this gun is very curved, almost the same as that of later mortars. In this way, even if the cannon was placed in the courtyard and separated by a high wall, it could still be used to hang the Spaniards in the square. It's just that in this day and age, shelling targets beyond visual range still seems to be a less popular practice.

In fact, this cannon was broken down into small parts as early as half a month ago, that is, when the Spanish reinforcements had just set off, and it was quietly transported here while the security of Havana was unattended. At that time, the "Free Cuba" fighters only intended to use it to greet the Spaniards when they disembarked. However, after learning from the comrades who had infiltrated the police department that the Spaniards intended to come to the square to show off their might, Juan, who was in charge of the operation, immediately decided to change the location of greeting the Spaniards to the square.

Juan knew that the Spaniards would not give him too much time to shoot, and that he had to surprise the Spaniards as much as possible in the shortest time possible. So, this time, he decided to be a little extravagant, using the most expensive cannonballs, to give those Spaniards a memory that will last a lifetime.

Camacho carefully opened the ammunition box and took out a yellow and white cannonball painted on it from the layers of packages, which cost ten times the price of ordinary shells, and the whole "Free Cuba" did not buy many of these shells. But the power of this shell is definitely worth its price, this is a white phosphorus incendiary bomb.

White phosphorus spontaneously combusts in the air, so even if you extinguish it for a while, it will re-burn as soon as you see the air. When burned, it can produce temperatures of more than 1,000 degrees Celsius, which is enough to ignite most combustible materials, including the human body.

Juan knew to carefully time the shell to make sure it would explode accurately above the Spaniard's head, and then the shell would throw more than 800 tinder downwards that would burn immediately and could not be shaken off once it hit the person. It burns through the flesh and all the way to the bone. The flames of this kind of thing are almost impossible to extinguish, you pour water on it, the water goes first, and the thing will burn again in no time. The only way to deal with it is to quickly use a knife to dig up the flesh and skin near the tinder. But this can only be done by people who are experienced in this and who are very calm and courageous.

Camacho carefully placed the six white phosphorus incendiary shells next to the infantry guns, and once they fired, they needed to fire the six shells as quickly as possible, and then, before the Spaniards arrived, quickly dismantled the cannon and retreated with it.

"Are you alright?" Juan asked.

"Alright." Camacho replied.

"Let's get started!"

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When the first white phosphorus incendiary bomb exploded above the heads of the Spaniards, some Spaniards took the cannonball, which pulled out a long white smoke ribbon like a flowing ribbon, as some kind of salute, and some even secretly complained that the salute was lowered a little. However, when the smoke of the fire fell on them, they soon realized that something was wrong.

Almost instantly, the tinder burned through their hats and hats, burning their skin and even their heads. Six shells threw out nearly 5,000 kindling, and in the entire square, at least six or seven hundred Spanish soldiers were hit by these fires, and their first reaction was to slap the burning positions on their bodies, wanting to shoot off or extinguish these fires, but after the waxy fires were beaten, they were neither extinguished nor fell to the ground, but were suddenly wiped out, covered with a large area of skin, and then burned more rapidly.

Soon the soldiers fell to the ground in pain, rolling all over the ground, trying to extinguish the flames by rolling on the ground. But just like those national fans on the forum in later generations could not hide the truth that his IQ was hard no matter how much they rolled, although the Spanish soldiers rolled very hard, but except for making the fire burn more vigorously, it almost had no effect.

There is a fountain in the center of the square. Several soldiers who reacted quickly jumped inside and threw themselves into the pool. When their bodies were submerged in the pool, the flames were extinguished. But when they rose from the pool full of joy, they found with fear that the flames that had been extinguished in them were burning again!

By this time, more people had already rushed into the small pool with flames, and some of those who had re-immersed themselves in the water were immediately trampled under dozens of feet. They succeeded in changing their own way of dying, from being burned to drowning in less than 40 centimeters of water.

At this time, more soldiers rolling on the ground could no longer roll, the flames were still burning on them, the smell of black smoke and burnt flesh and the desperate horror permeated the whole square, and those soldiers who were not recruited had already scattered in fright, for fear that such a fate would also befall them, and the whole army was completely in chaos.