The Capitol building stood silently, and from the outside, not even a single person could be seen.

"Hahaha...... one of the royal party members laughed, "I knew that these rebels had already run away!" These cowards! Hahaha......"

He held a huge white flag in his hand (no way, the flag of the Bourbons was of this color. He turned around and shouted to the people behind him: "Brothers, follow Lao Tzu!" Plant the white flag on top of the Capitol building! ”

The crowd rushed to the Capitol building, and many people shot aimlessly at the walls of the Capitol building, bullets splashed small sparks on the walls, and the window glass was shattered.

The crowd was getting closer and closer to the building, less than forty meters away. But at this moment, suddenly explosions sounded in all directions.

Countless fireballs erupted from the ground of the plaza in front of the Capitol building, from the ground of the road leading to the Capitol building, and then countless fireballs exploded in midair.

"Is this ......," Baras, who had been hiding behind a window on the second floor of the building, looking out with a periscope, asked in a trembling voice. Even though it was winter, he was already sweating on his forehead.

Barras knew that if he had been hiding somewhere else at this time, he would have been much safer. But when the time comes to share the credit, it will naturally be much less. So, after thinking about it all night, he decided to close his eyes and gamble, after all, Fouché and Lucien were here. If they are not sure, they probably won't be ......

But just now, when the thugs swarmed in, Barras was really a little frightened, he remembered the various strange and imaginative deaths of those nobles during the September massacre, and his legs were really weak, and he almost forgot that he had prepared a small bottle of poison by his side.

But this series of explosions changed all that. After the explosion, the entire square outside the Capitol building, as well as several nearby streets, were swept by shock waves and shrapnel, and most of the surging crowd had been turned into corpses, and the remaining guys were all lying on the ground and groaning, and there was no one in the empty square and street who could continue to stand there.

"It's an electrically detonated mine." Lucien replied, "This is the latest product of our enterprise. ”

In the original history, in 1799, Voltamine made the first practical battery, the Volt Stack, and it was also in this year that E.C. Howard produced the important initiating agent Mercury Lyrate. But in this plane, when Lavoisier made nitrified starch in the "Military Technical Research Institute" a few years ago, he incidentally made mercury thunderate. And more recently, in order to develop various explosives, especially timed explosives, Joseph has copied batteries. Moreover, his starting point is much higher than that of Vodco, and he immediately got started with the easy-to-use carbon-zinc battery and the rechargeable zinc-copper battery that uses dilute sulfuric acid as the electrolyte.

Coupled with the electric detonator that Lavoisier made, if a timer is added, a time bomb that the people of later generations will like to see, and it will come out that is necessary for murder and arson on home travel. In the future, if you give this thing to those European revolutionaries, especially those who love assassination in Dabobo and Russia, most of them will be able to blow up half of the European aristocracy.

Of course, the use of these techniques is by no means limited to assassination, and they have a very important role in many fields. Here, for example, the technology intended for safe blasting in mines (unreliable and relatively dangerous) was only slightly modified to create such a mass killer.

The so-called "electric detonation mine", if you have a conscience, is a packet of nitrocellulose wrapped in oiled paper and oilcloth, and then wrapped around some broken glass and iron nails and other things, and then plugged in an electric detonator and connected to a wire; If you have no conscience, first nail a long nail in the ground, then put the explosives wrapped in the glass slag iron nail on it, plug in the electric detonator, connect the wire, and then put an authentic "Bonaparte melon" on it, pull the cable out and fix it on the iron nail below. In this way, once detonated, the small melon on it will blow up into the sky, and its firing tube will also be pulled. As long as the amount of explosives is placed, the melon can explode in the air, so that the target has nowhere to escape.

Over the course of one night, the Red Army planted more than 300 of these mines in the square and on the main road leading to the Reichstag, turning the entire area into a huge death trap.

"Fight back! Take advantage of the opportunity to defeat them! Colonel Bertier, the current commander-in-chief of the Red Army and the successor that Carnot had worked so hard to develop, shouted.

So, hundreds of soldiers in red uniforms suddenly came out from behind the window, behind the door, armed with rifles with bayonets, rushed out of the door, jumped out of the window, and rushed towards the rioters in the distance, who had been stunned by the explosion just now, and now did not understand it.

The rioters were already frightened by the explosion just now, and the reason why they did not immediately disperse and go back to their own homes and find their mothers was not because they still had any courage, but because they were frightened stupid. Now seeing a group of soldiers rushing towards them with bright bayonets, they suddenly came to their senses, turned around and ran, shouting as they ran: "We are defeated, run, run...... Damn it, don't get in my way! ”

The crowd was in a mess, and of course they couldn't run fast, so the Reds quickly caught up, first with a volley, then with a round of small melons, and then ...... Well, and then there was no then.

The rioters didn't even think about fighting back or anything, they just scrambled to flee. The smarter ones threw away their weapons, left the streets, and fled into the alleys, and the Reds did not chase this side anyway, they only pursued them where there were the most people.

"Mr. Baras, now you can give orders to the National Guard in the districts in the name of the commander of the city defense to counter-insurgency. I'm sure they'll all be honest and obedient now. Lucien looked out for a moment, then turned his head and said to Ballas.

In fact, there was no need for Ballas to issue instructions at all. After receiving the news of the defeat of the royal party in the siege of the National Assembly, the National Guard, which had maintained a "goodwill neutrality" in the district, naturally joined the queue of beating the water dogs. Even those who were originally inclined to the royal party, and even came out in whole formations to besiege the National Assembly, but came out a little late, immediately said: We are coming out to suppress the rebellion and defend the republic!

As the saying goes, "the drum is broken and 10,000 people are beaten, and the wall is knocked down by everyone", on the one hand, the rioters have thrown away their armor and fled in all directions, and on the other hand, the National Guard of all stripes have come forward to quell the rebellion, and as a result, a rebellion that should have changed the sky in Paris was suppressed in only half a day.

But to be honest, the losses of the Wang Party are actually very limited. After all, among those who rushed to the front, there were not many people with true noble blood. Moreover, before launching the rebellion, although these people said one by one that they would definitely succeed this time, these nobles who had survived Robespierre's time had already habitually prepared themselves for a retreat after defeat.

In addition, Barras and his new friends couldn't care about arresting those nobles for the time being, so most of the nobles who participated in the riot, as long as he didn't have the courage to rush to the front, basically managed to escape. Of course, there are also those who believe that this is just that some people still need the presence of the royal party in order to put pressure on others.

Now that the rebellion has been put down, the most important thing is naturally to reward meritorious deeds. The Thermidorians gathered in the National Assembly to consider the question of a new government and Congress.

First of all, in this incident, those who have made great contributions must be commended, otherwise it will be impossible to talk about it, and ...... And the Red Army will not agree to it.

In the past, no matter how noisy Paris was, the army never really intervened in these political struggles in Paris. But this time, the army suddenly appeared, and with such a thunderous blow, it proved one point to everyone: "Don't get us wrong, we are not targeting any one of you here, we are saying, if you want to lift the table, you are all rubbish!" ”

However, the Red Army, of 500 men, easily defeated 40,000 thugs, and they paid pitiful casualties, and the only soldier who was honorably wounded in the battle was a broken foot while chasing the thugs. As for how many thugs died, then God really knows. It is said that the wagons that hauled the bodies were busy all day.

Now that the military has begun to intervene in politics, it is impossible to go back to the past without doing anything. Even if the army itself wants to do this, it will not be possible. Now, anything in France can no longer be done without taking into account the attitude and interests of the army.

"In the past period, our military-industrial management has been in chaos, and too much tatters have been sent to the army! I tell you, the fighters are dissatisfied! They wonder if there is a conspiracy of the royal party here, and they wonder if any of us is betraying them for money, betraying France! They all felt that this situation could not be allowed to continue! "At the government meeting, Ballas was transformed into a spokesman for the interests of the army.

"Therefore, we must pass a resolution to restore the system of military representation, and to restore the system of quality inspection and quality responsibility for military procurement. How much to try to stuff those rags into our army is a betrayal of the great France and deserves the most severe punishment!

Military procurement, with the exception of a few secret-related items, should be carried out openly. The army openly puts forward technical standards, and only those qualified products of enterprises that have met the technical standards can enter our army......"

"Ballas fell to the army so quickly." Just as Barras was giving an enthusiastic speech, one councillor whispered to another member of the podium.

"Isn't it, Monsieur Genet." The congressman also replied in a low voice, "But I am more concerned about the standards set by the military, and I think it is likely that some scientist develops something first, and then asks the military to tailor a standard according to his product." ”

"Well, this fellow Ballas, what a discerning fellow." The gentleman Genet whispered, "He was the one who managed to sell the Naval and Technical Research Institute to that family at the reserve price. And I have heard that Mr. Barras has just sold two gunpowder factories to them, and that he is said to have become a shareholder in some 'military-industrial complex'. ”

"It's so enviable...... He made a fortune like this, and he didn't even tell us beforehand......"