In nature, both humans and animals have a natural fear of fire. Based on this point, from a very early stage, whether in the East, West, ancient or modern, various scholars regarded fire as the most shocking and lethal attack. In the 19th century, the artillery units of the Khruna Ordnance and the Desay Division gave the past fire attack a new concept: a modern war weapon with multiple lethal effects.

On the second day after the ultimatum issued by Desay failed, because the stubborn General Bellsford and the tenacious Evora soldiers and civilians refused to surrender, in the early morning of July 28, 1810, the French commander finally couldn't help but feel resentment in his heart. He asked the artillery regiment to implement the third solution, fire attack. It was on this day that it became Evora. This thousand-year-old capital was an extremely terrifying and tragic day in the history of the thousand-year-old capital. A tragic and serious fire made all the Portuguese talk.

General Bellsford's command post is located in a three-story gray stone fort building near the south of Evora. This private house originally belonged to the "Earl of Portugal" and was later transformed into a State Guest House. The two floors downstairs were requisitioned by a large number of guards, staff, command rooms, and other middle and senior officers. The top floor is exclusive to the supreme commander. In addition to acting as an adjutant, a war room, and a large and small conference room, one of the luxurious suites also serves as the main and deputy bedroom and private study of the British general.

Since tens of thousands of French troops besieged the Evora Fortress, various wars have been unfavorable one after another, and water supply has reached a serious lack of water supply, which has led to a downturn in the morale of the army and a fluctuating people, which has caused Bellsford to have heart failure and severe insomnia. Even lying in a comfortable and luxurious silk quilt cover, the British general still tossed and turned and could not sleep at night.

The kind-hearted military officer once privately suggested that General Bellsford could relieve insomnia by taking a small amount of pine-flake wine (shery, saffron, and a little cinnamon and cloves in the sherry wine. This thing was regarded as a universal special medicine in the 19th century) to relieve insomnia, but was firmly opposed by the patients because he accepted the view of the London Medical College, believing that the various derivatives of pine-flakes and various derivatives of pine-flakes are all temptations of the devil and will not be able to extricate themselves once they become addicted.

Usually after a few hours of bed, Belsford could not sleep barely until about 2 a.m. During this period, the conscientious generals would strictly prohibit all noises on the floor, unless the French attacked the city in large numbers or a large-scale rebellion broke out in the city, Lieutenant Colonel Smith would block anyone from disturbing General Belsford's rest.

At 5 a.m. today, a rapid knock on the door came from the corridor outside the bedroom, which woke Bellsford, who had been asleep for less than 3 hours. The owner of the room was blurred and was about to curse outside the door, but Lieutenant Colonel Smith rushed in and had no time to explain anything. The adjutant pulled open the velvet curtain facing the east of the city.

Under the steep clouds in the east, shells dragging red tail flames rushed toward the sky above Evora City in almost straight lines. After the dull explosion, a red light shone, and the bullet body then released countless "glorious fireworks".

Seeing the commander showing a cold and dissatisfied look, the lieutenant colonel hurriedly explained: "General, the French artillery fired a burning bullet at us in the eastern suburbs of the city. They used large-caliber mortars, and the ammunition fired similar to the Congreve rocket."

"Enough, Lieutenant Colonel, I know that thing." Bellsford, who was sitting at the head of the bed, interrupted the adjutant's narration impatiently.

Congrif rockets? Bellsford knew this useless weapon. Although in 1806, under Congrif's personal command, the British Royal Navy fired about 25,000 rockets into Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and the result of the random shooting almost flattened the city. But like General Wellington, Bellsford insisted that this accuracy was extremely poor and could only serve as an expensive thing for flares and arson bombs, and had no other use than to intimidate recruits and war horses.

However, Evora is not Copenhagen after all. Because of the severe lack of water in summer and the dry and hot weather, it is very easy to cause fires, since the ancient Roman era, for thousands of years, the main building materials of Evora's outer layer, whether they belong to municipal projects or ordinary villas, have been basically taken from hard granite in the nearby mountainous areas. Only the interior furnishings of the rooms will be considered for oak or pine boards.

So in Bellsford's view, the French used heavy mortars to fire seemingly Congrive rockets and tried to burn the city of Evora, which was simply a delusion. When the flames in the sky splashed onto the ground, it might be possible to create several small-scale fires, causing some inconspicuous riots, but they could not cause substantial damage to the rock walls and brick and earth roofs.

Bellsford issued an order to the adjutant without thinking: "Let the fire brigade go to the east of the city to see, and must be loaded with urban sewage or wastewater to put out the fire, and no drop of drinking water is allowed! Then transfer armed militia to the streets to maintain public order and suppress all destruction elements in the city; other troops continue to stick to the fortresses and barracks, and do not panic or leave the post without authorization; finally, let the heavy artillery of the eastern fortress counterattack, destroy the enemy's mortar positions, and strictly prevent the French from waiting for chaos in the city and waiting for an opportunity to attack the city."

After saying that, the general waved Lieutenant Colonel Smith out of his bedroom. When the room was quiet again, Bellsford was no longer sleepy. He dragged his tired body, climbed down, put on velvet slippers, and wanted to pull up the thick curtains. It was the sunlight after dawn, and the stars shone in through the glass window, making his blindness feel extremely uncomfortable.

"Damn!" Bellsford became alert. He found that these dazzling stars were not the sunshine of the morning, but the flames that kept falling from the sky. They were scattered and attached to the roofs, on the streets, on the walls and between rubble, and continued to burn, and the fire showed no signs of weakening or extinguishing. What was even more terrifying was that the internal sound of the flames (white phosphorus effect) sounded from time to time, throwing more flames out. Countless fire elves who were jumping happily broke the window glass, broke into the house, and then fell on tables, chairs, furniture, floors, beds, clothes, and even naked skin...

In fact, not all buildings in Evora City are brick and rock structures, such as oak barrel processing sites used to hold wine. Most of these processing sites are gathered in the east of the city. In order to save production and manufacturing costs, the factory owners concealed the use of cheap and flammable wooden boards as the dome roof of the workshop despite repeated orders from the municipal authorities. In addition, in the surrounding open-air warehouses, countless oak raw materials and wood chips made during oak barrel processing are not piled up according to regulations. Therefore, when a large number of arson-shells fell to the ground, the oak barrel processing site became the first ignited city building.

The wooden roof and wood chip shavings were first lit. When the raging fire began to swallow up the oak raw materials, the fire quickly expanded, forming a huge fire wall, gradually spreading towards several other oak barrel processing plants. Under the rolling smoke, countless wood-cutting sparks flew in the air constantly splashed and fell, and wherever they went, a new batch of fire was sown.

Huge flames continued to spread and rage, and they devoured everything. Soon, a strong wind formed when the huge heat waves rising above the east. With the help of the strong wind, the fire successfully expanded to stone residential houses in nearby blocks. At this time, as the roof fell, the secondary burst of rubber fire on the windowsills and walls triggered various flammable materials inside the building.

As a result, the internal and external fires intertwined, and the smoke and the flames in the smoke covered three and four blocks on the north and south sides of the oak barrel processing plant. The sharp rise in temperature caused the granite buildings to be swallowed up, and various stones on the walls and roofs fell off. Within ten minutes, the entire building was completely burned and finally collapsed into a pile of black gravel rubble.

When the fire broke out, the untidy residents took their old and helped their children, and left their homes and fled before they could clean up. The streets on the east side of the city were crowded with people running around, and the firefighters heading to the fire scene and the armed militia that maintained their continued armed militia.

The fire brigade pulled the huge water dragon truck and wooden barrel and rushed to the disaster area in the eastern region. Due to the random congestion of fugitives, the rescue behavior was extremely slow, and the fire was very fierce, the wind was fast, and the water volume was sparse, making the fire fighting water dragon useless at all. Fortunately, there was a wide fire isolation zone in the eastern block of Evora and other directions. Firefighters gave up going deep into the fire scene to extinguish the fire and were scattered near the isolation zone to prevent the fire from spreading to other directions of the city.

A large number of armed militia were also organized. They evacuated the crowd, appeased the people, and tried their best to save lives and help the wounded. However, what shocked the rescue team members was that some citizens who emerged from the sea of ​​fire were naked, naked, and their exposed skins were burning flames. They shouted and begged all the way, hoping that someone would put out the fire on them.

The militia invited fire brigades to extinguish the fire with the precipitated urban sewage, but they found that this method was useless at all. The initial fall and the second burst of the sticky burning fire ball was extremely sinister and vicious. Once it was stained on the human skin, it would burn until the bones were visible, and a large amount of water could not be extinguished.

Many militia or citizens who were eager to save people had no time to find a source of water or mud to sprinkle fire on the victims without any time to find a source of water or cover them with mud, and instead drove the fire and became the next victim. In desperation, both militia, firefighters, and other citizens could only give up the above rescue. They watched many people fall on the streets, rolling around, making painful howls or praying before death, and eventually burned to ashes.

Several military medical officers from the coalition forces were also ordered to rush to the fire scene to guide the rescue. After inspecting the bodies of the victims in detail, they told all rescuers that once they found someone was stained with burning shrapnel similar to thick objects, they must immediately take off the clothes or equipment that had already started burning. If the ** part is stained, they must use a knife to dig out or cut off the body that had already started burning...

However, they underestimated this unprecedented and amazingly powerful arson bullet. Just as the military officers squatted beside the victims, preparing to use scalpels to dig out the still-burning skin or limbs, the injured remained white phosphorus isolated from hot flesh. When they encountered air, they began to burn and explode violently. Mars splashed everywhere, forming burning small fireballs that fell on the unavoidable military officer and his assistants.

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Chapter completed!