As soon as it was dawn the next day, when the early morning fog had just lifted, General Campos' troops began preparations for the attack. The soldiers had a full meal (they had not had enough for two days due to supply problems), then sorted out their weapons and began to attack.

In the first two days of attack, relying on the means of tunneling, they have broken through one line of defense, and now there are two lines of defense in front of them.

Trench defense is now no particular secret in Europe, and when it came time to break through the first line of defense, in order to reduce casualties, General Campos resorted to the offensive method of seeing the tunnels. Now, in order to pursue speed, he naturally won't use such a method.

After these few days of observation, Campos was convinced that he already had a basic understanding of the enemy's firepower. The rebels had no more than three cannons in their hands, though they fired as fast as they had thirty cannons. But this artillery was not enough to block the front line. And they also rarely fired at the fastest rate of fire, which convinced Campos that the Cubans were running out of shells. The enemy has few barbed wires and few mines. Usually only a few are buried in the trenches (the Cubans have used mines in Campos on their way forward, and now they are blocked, and it is difficult to bring in by sea.) So there is indeed a problem of insufficient number of zài. ）

Campos' plan for today's battle was "to spread out in a straggler formation on the scale of a regiment, with the Demoman responsible for blowing up the barbed wire." Then quickly and quickly swoop into the depth of the enemy". He ordered the artillery to suppress the enemy's artillery as much as possible and not care about the consumption of shells. The soldiers followed his orders and began the assault.

The Cubans continued to shoot in the trenches, and one after another the Spaniards were shot and fell to the ground, but this firepower was not enough to repel the Spaniards, and soon the Spanish demomen approached the barbed wire. Normally at this time, the Cuban artillery would have opened fire, and they would have used a storm of shrapnel to stop any attempt to break through the barbed wire. Sometimes, at such times, they will also be attacked by "broadsword", which means that there are heavy casualties. But now, in addition to the constant firing of guns, the Cubans did not carry out artillery shelling, nor did they detonate the "broadsword" anti-infantry directional mines.

"The rebels have run out of supplies. They probably don't have a lot of shells and that damn disgusting thing anymore. God forbid! General Campos drew a cross on his chest and continued to raise his binoculars to observe the battlefield.

"Let the follow-up troops get on the bayonets and keep up!" Campos ordered.

The so-called "follow-up troops" refer to those units that are still using old Minnie guns. Of Campos's current 20,000 people, less than half of them are actually in their hands with rear-loading rifles, and the remaining half are still using front-loading mini guns. Fortunately, the guys on the opposite side did not have many MacDonald 1864s in their hands, no more than six or seven hundred, and the rest, even a lot of money-bore guns. Of course, they still seem to have a lot of MacDonald 1862 shotguns in their hands, and if it was a battle in the trenches, that thing would be very terrifying. In addition, when breaking through the first line of defense, they also had a hand-to-hand battle with the Cubans. So, now, Campos simply used the Minnie spearmen as short spearmen.

There was a hand-to-hand battle when breaking through the Cuban trenches, but the Cubans, who had not experienced much training, were quickly repulsed as they had been the last time.

"Not bad." Campos watched the progress of his troops and was very happy. If we can maintain this momentum, we will be able to score Bayamo in the afternoon. Then, one qiē is all solved. And he will become a famous general, and there may be a statue of him riding a horse on the streets of Madrid.

The attack did not go as smoothly as he had imagined, and the Cubans put up a stubborn resistance. So it wasn't until the sun was in the west that they entered the city of Bayamo.

At this time, the city of Bayamo was exceptionally quiet, as if the city had died. On the streets reddened by the sunset, there is nothing moving in sight. The Spanish soldiers cautiously entered the city and cautiously pushed the door open (for fear of a bomb behind it), but they met no resistance. They marched all the way to the "presidential palace" of the rebels and did not meet a single person, as if all the Cubans had suddenly disappeared.

"General, this is not right. Why don't we withdraw the soldiers first? The adjutant said to Campos.

"What's this?" "It's nothing. I guess they know they can't hold the city anymore. Judging by the previous battles, they have run out of supplies. If I were their commander, I would definitely have arranged a retreat...... Most of them retreated to the other side of the river. Let people scrutinize the city to see what is left in the city. ”

However, not long after Campos' order was issued, flames suddenly burst out from several different directions of the city, and at first, the Spaniards tried to extinguish the fire, but the fire quickly became uncontrollable. In the end, all the Spaniards had to withdraw from the city and watch it crumble to ashes in front of them.

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What followed was a nightmarish retreat. The Spaniards, exhausted of all their supplies, slowly retreated along the long road with almost no end in sight, all the artillery was blown up and abandoned, and the soldiers could only eat one meal a day. On the way, constantly attacked by the Cubans, as Campos feared, the retreat eventually turned into an uncontrolled rout no more than sixty kilometers from the Spanish-controlled zone. The Cubans, who had been following them, took advantage of the onslaught and the Spanish army was crushed, and this victory spurred many cities that were still under Spanish control to revolt. Under the siege of various rebel armies, the losses were heavy, and the soldiers who finally followed Campos back to Havana were not even 3,000 soldiers.

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Under the joint impetus of Scrooge and Morgan, Congress passed a bill asking the government to consider formally recognizing the Cuban government and establishing diplomatic relations with it. This resolution is not directly binding, it is only a proposal. Under normal circumstances, when there is such a non-binding bill as guò, there will be a tacit understanding between the president and the Congress, and the congress will put forward some relatively outrageous demands, which can be regarded as a show of attitude, and sometimes even a method of using guò to disgust a foreign country. And the president will build this yìsu zhì high pavilion to avoid really making any trouble. This trick is also a traditional trick in the United States, and it has to be played every few years. For example, in later generations, in order to disgust the rabbit country, the U.S. Congress would often pass some non-binding bills such as requiring the government to establish diplomatic relations with bald people.

However, the situation in the US government is very special now, because not long ago President Johnson dismissed the Secretary of the Army, and even earlier, the two Republican-controlled houses had just passed a law prohibiting the president from removing members of the cabinet who had been approved by Congress without congressional approval. As a result, the Republican Party naturally believes that the president's actions are illegal. But the president argues that the law itself is unconstitutional. Because according to the Constitution, the executive power belongs to the president, and the power to appoint and dismiss personnel is the most typical executive power, according to the Constitution, the National Assembly only has legislative power, but now, through a law like guò, it authorizes itself, so that it has the power to intervene in the appointment and dismissal of personnel of the executive branch. This is absolutely unconstitutional. Moreover, Scrooge promised that he would save him from impeachment by virtue of his influence. Therefore, of course, President Johnson is even more emboldened and continues to insist on his decision. And the Republican Party, of course, can't stand a guy who has gone from a vase to a president for inexplicable reasons, and really calls the shots like a president. So Capitol Hill reacted immediately by calling for the impeachment of the president. Eventually, with Scrooge's help, President Johnson got through the storm, but he and the Republicans on Capitol Hill are now almost completely torn apart. At the mercy of Capitol Hill and even cabinet members, he is now lame, and of course the president is particularly angry about it.

Maybe it's because President Johnson knows he can't have any chance of being re-elected, or maybe it's because he deliberately wants to make trouble with the Republican Party that controls Congress. Well, President Johnson actually broke the tacit understanding that the president and Congress had always had, and in accordance with the congressional proposal, announced that the United States Government had decided to recognize the Government of the Republic of Cuba as the sole legitimate government representing the Cuban people, and had decided to establish diplomatic relations with free Cuba and exchange ambassadors at an appropriate time.

Compared with the congressional resolution, President Johnson's announcement really caused an immediate uproar. Republican lawmakers are gritting their teeth behind their backs and scolding Johnson for breaking tacit understanding, but considering the sympathetic public opinion for Cuba that is now sweeping the United States (almost all the media are speaking for Cubans one-sidedly, the people will naturally sympathize with Cuba), and this bill is still put forward by themselves, of course they have no way to jump out and oppose it. Well, even to stand up and show support. It's simply ......

The U.S. government's decision was met with cheers at home, and it was the most popular decision for President Johnson in a long time, but the situation is different abroad. Some Britons were already muttering about American ambitions, and Spain was furious and horrified.

"We must do our best to send a second expeditionary force to quickly stabilize the situation, otherwise, there will be big trouble." Juan 61 said General Prim.