Suai and Joan put away their sketchpads and boarded a public carriage back to their rented apartment. The carriage staggered along the gravel road, and after a while, it came to a sudden stop. At first, Sui and Qiong Shan didn't think there was anything abnormal, the roads in the old streets of Havana were very narrow, and occasionally something happened, such as two women quarreling on the street, or even a group of dogs fighting on the street, which might lead the carriage to stop.

This time, however, the pause was obviously different, for the coachman said to them, "Misses, the road ahead is blocked by the police, and I can only go in other directions." If you want to walk on your own, you can walk through that alley in a few minutes, and if you follow my car, it will take more than half an hour. ”

"What the hell, something happened!" Suai said, "Joan, let's go down and go by ourselves." ”

"Hmm." Joan nodded meekly, and jumped out of the carriage with Suai carrying her sketchpad.

The street ahead was really blocked, and some police pulled up ropes to block the street.

"What's wrong?" Suai asked a passer-by.

"I heard that someone attacked the tax office over there. Killed a lot of people and set a fire. ”

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There were many similar attacks during the day, and the "freedom fighters" who had been trained in Blackwater were now weaker than the Blackwater instructors who served as imaginary Spanish enemies in Blackwater. The following is how one of the revolutionary fathers who participated in this series of operations after Cuba's final independence described in his memoirs about the attack on the Spanish police station that day.

"The two of us swaggered in through the main entrance of the police station, and the doorman was dozing off and didn't even look at us. Didn't even ask what we had in our bag. I walked into the hall with Theseus, and a Spanish policeman asked us what we were doing. I replied, 'He who repairs the blinds.' He didn't ask any more questions, nor did he ask to inspect our canvas bags. In fact, in my bag were two McDonald Model 1862 shotguns with their barrels sawn short, and in Hughes's bag were two 'broadsword' directional mines.

We walked up the stairs to the offices of the top Spanish police officers. At the corner of the stairs, Hughes placed a 'broadsword' in his bag while covering it with his overalls. After a while we started working on it, we heard gunshots, and if the guys below wanted to come up from here, we would use this 'broadsword' to scare them.

'Hold the staircase. I whispered to Theseus, 'I'm going to get rid of those Spanish scraps.' 'Upstairs there is only one director and one deputy director's office, there are only a few fat Spanish fools there, and against them, another sneak attack, I alone will be enough.

I loaded my shotgun, walked to the door of the room with a sign from the director's office, and knocked softly. A disgruntled voice came from inside, 'What are you doing?' Didn't I tell you that it's okay not to bother me? ''That guy is in there. Thinking so, I flew up and kicked the door open. I saw a big fat pig doing something nonsense with a prostitute in his arms. Seeing me rush in, the guy jerked the prostitute aside and turned around to run towards the house inside. But how could he run away? I fired a shot at the fat pig, and the OO deer bullet that came out of the shotgun immediately smashed the fat pig to pieces.

The prostitute screamed in fright. I didn't have time to pay attention to her, though. I immediately exited the room and rushed to the deputy commissioner's office next door. I kicked the door open first, and with a bang, two bullets were fired from inside. But I hid on the other side of the wall, and the bullets were gone. I pulled out a grenade and threw it in. There was a boom, and then I rushed in. In the smoke of gunfire, I saw a Spanish policeman with a revolver in his hand lying on the ground, he had not yet lost his breath. I pulled out M1866 and shot him in the head, helping him with his pain.

At this time, shotgun and pistol fire could also be heard outside, and it was clear that Hughes was already exchanging fire with those guys. I immediately pushed open the back window of the director's office and hung a prepared rope on the heavy desk. Then signal the retreat towards Hughes.

Hughes immediately stopped shooting, and several Spanish policemen continued to shoot with revolvers into the corner of the wall where he was hiding as they rushed up the steps. When several policemen rushed to the steps, and some policemen also stepped forward from behind the concealment and kept shooting for cover, he slammed his 'broadsword'. Eight hundred steel balls swept through the hall like a torrential rain.

The twenty or so policemen in the entire hall were almost all knocked to the ground by this 'broadsword', so that the rope that had been prepared to climb down the stairs became superfluous. We just went straight down the stairs. We collected all the weapons from the dead or wounded policemen, put them in the backpacks we had brought, and swaggered out through the main entrance. At this time, the remaining person in the entire police station who was not injured or killed was probably the doorman. But when we walked out of the gate, he didn't know where he had gone. ”

On this day, Havana was attacked not only by two boats, nor by just one out of the police station, almost all the powerful institutions of the Spaniards were attacked by surprise. Several grenades were thrown from the rooftops across the street from the city hall, and the bombardiers, apparently well-trained, and the grenades were accurately opened through the windows, were thrown into the offices of the officials. And the ferocious lethality of defensive grenades has caused heavy casualties among government officials. If the mayor hadn't gone to the governor's estate, he might have died in this round of attacks.

However, when it came to the governor's manor, Mayor Leon Hugh could not completely avoid the attack. The Doge's manor was heavily guarded, so the attackers did not get in directly. But they have resorted to more cunning and frenzied methods.

Several of the attackers, posing as foresters planting trees, dug a pit and planted trees about 200 meters from the governor's palace. But if the Spaniards had been more cautious, they would have seen that the pit they had dug was not a vertical pit for planting trees, but a sloping pit that pointed diagonally to the Doge's Palace. More than an hour later, when the two boats were sunk, two wagons carrying goods brought saplings to the area. However, remove the sapling that covers it, and you will see four large oil drums with one end open underneath. Several people put the oil drum into the pit, and the opening section pointed to the governor's palace, and adjusted it slightly. Then the person leading the group nodded and said, "Almost." ”

So a few people put a large medicine bag into the bucket and pulled a fuse from it. Then a wooden board was placed on top of it, and a bundle of explosives was placed on it. Then several people turned their heads together to look at the man who was weeping, and the man nodded and said, "Let's start!" ”

So a few people took out the flint and lit the fuse. The fuse didn't burn quickly, and they still had time to leave.

"Let's get in the car and go!" "Go up to that hill over there, and I guess when we get there, we can just see the effect of this big firework we set off." Then the men got into the carriage and drove it toward the hills on the other side.

After a few minutes or so, just as the leader had expected, a few puffs of green smoke rose from the place where the tree had been planted, and four small black dots were thrown high, and then a parabola fell towards the Doge's Palace. Then came the glittering fire and smoke. Then the whole ground shook, as if there had been an earthquake, and then a violent explosion reached their ears.

Although the instructors in Blackwater gave them an insight into the effects of TNT explosives, they were amazed by the power of the explosion of the 25-kilogram explosive packs - almost a third of the house in the Governor's Palace was destroyed by the bombardment of the four large explosive packs, and perhaps the Governor himself died in the attack.

"Alright, let's withdraw." Leader said.

The source of this powerful and improvised shelling method comes from the creation of a group of turtles in later generations. During the War of Liberation, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) had very little artillery, and when its weapons and equipment were inferior, the officers and men created a formidable weapon -- an explosive envelope that used gasoline barrels as barrels. The main body of this weapon, also known as the explosive projectile, is an empty gasoline barrel, which is filled with projectile, and the explosive package bundled into a disc shape is put in, and then the projectile is ignited, and dozens of kilograms of explosive package can be projectile onto a target at a distance of 15o-2oo meters. In the battles that followed, the improvised weapon demonstrated its astonishing ability to damage all sorts of bunker fortifications, so much so that the KMT army gave it a very convincing name, the Conscienceless Cannon, to illustrate its maddening power.

On this day, in addition to the Doge's Palace, but also the barracks of the Spanish army stationed on the outskirts of the city, the "freedom fighters" who were not afraid of violence fired three "unconscionable" brand explosives into the barracks, killing dozens of Spanish soldiers, and then fired provocatively with MacDonald 1864 rifles. When the army was like an enraged bull, rushing out of the barracks with red eyes, intending to fight with those few guys who didn't know whether to live or die, they plunged headlong into a trap intertwined with more than a dozen arranged "broadswords", and more than 100 people died in one guy. And by this time, those despicable attackers had long since lost sight of where they had gone.

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