The curse won't solve anything, and the most important thing now is to get the army under control as soon as possible. At this time, the bell of the gathered soldiers was heard outside. Dumourier straightened his hat, held his sword, and then said to the Duke of Chartres: "Your Royal Highness the Regent, would you like to go with me to address the soldiers?" ”

The Duke of Chartres hesitated slightly, the change just now made him a little frightened. Dumourier looked at the Duke of Chartres's pale face, sighed, and stopped asking the Duke of Chartres to face the soldiers with him—the way he was now, if seen by the soldiers, would only be counterproductive.

The Duke of Chartres had a lot of exploits in his war reports before this, but many of these exploits were actually assigned to him by Dimurière.

"Your Royal Highness the Regent, you just have to take someone to watch these officers who refuse to do their job...... Don't make any more trouble. With that, Dumourier walked out with the officers who had signed.

"At least, there are so many officers under my control. I still have a big advantage. Di Mourier thought.

The soldiers had already gathered in front of the playground. Di Mourier took to the reviewing stand and addressed them. In his speech, he first accused the National Assembly and the government of not providing adequate military salaries, then spoke of the extreme corruption of the National Assembly and the brutality of the Paris Commune, and then proposed that a republic was not suitable for France at all, and that the only system that could give everyone peace and tranquility was a constitutional monarchy based on the 1791 Constitution. Therefore, he planned to take everyone back to Paris to rebuild a stable, peaceful and prosperous Kingdom of France, where everyone could live a good life.

This speech Di Mourier has been preparing for a long time, he thinks that this speech should be able to impress those soldiers, with his own prestige, and such a wonderful speech, those soldiers have to follow themselves to fight the world?

However, the speech did not have the desired effect, and instead of cheering at him, most of the soldiers behaved at a loss.

Dumourier sighed, and was about to say something more, when suddenly a voice shouted: "Soldiers, brothers, have you forgotten what we have left our lovely homeland for, and come here to fight the Austrians, the Prussians, and all sorts of traitors to the homeland?" ”

In the midst of the shouting, a man jumped onto a cannon placed next to the playground, waved his hand at everyone, and then shouted, "We remember how Braunschweig threatened us in the first place. They said that if we dared not be honest slaves of Louis XVI, they would go to Paris, destroy Paris completely, and kill all the people of Paris - that were our parents, brothers, wives and children! We are not fighting for anything else, not for pay, not for any great achievement, not for General Dumourieux. The reason why we are standing here, the reason why we are wearing military uniforms - brothers, you tell me, what is this for? ”

"To defend Paris!"

"For our family!"

"For my little Pierre and little Francis!"

The soldiers shouted.

Di Mourière's face was grim, and he knew that things were completely out of control, especially when the damn guy said the name "Braunschweig".

"Damn Braunschweig! Damn Joseph Bonaparte! Di Mourier cursed in his heart, then he turned around and asked the captain of the guard next to him, "Hanksen, are you sure you can hit him?" ”

"General, it's too far for it to hit at such a distance." Ensign Hankerson replied, "Unless with a rifled shotgun." And, I don't think it's a good time to shoot. ”

Di Mourier knew what Hankson meant, and if he shot at this time, the whole army might immediately counterattack, which was too dangerous. But just admit defeat like that? Never!

"Soldiers, the Duke of Braunschweig has retracted his words, as long as we can restore the Kingdom of France......" Di Mourière still wants to work hard, maybe he can impress the soldiers? It's like licking a dog that is destined to have nothing, but it's always prone to things like "she smiled at me", "she might like me", "as long as I lick harder, I can ...... After all, life is always and must be full of all kinds of illusions, otherwise, how can those poor people live?

However, like all licking dogs, those words that can move themselves can't move the goddess at all. Joseph, who was on the other side, smiled and said loudly to everyone: "Do you remember what our general said to us in Ramp? Either in Remap, he's lying; Either now, he's lying! Would you trust a liar?

Do you remember that in Thermap, our general said, let's follow him and charge the enemy in France? ”

"Remember!"

"Remember!"

There was a burst of laughter from below.

"Do you remember that when we braved the bullets of the Austrians and rushed to their positions, the general who declared that he was going to charge us was ahead of us?"

"No!"

"Nope!"

"In front of us, it was Napoleon who carried the military flag!"

"It is the Bonaparte brothers who lead us in the charge!"

The soldiers shouted.

"Tell me, then, my brothers, that you are willing to believe that you are brothers who carry the banner and wield the sabre, and charge with you in the fire of the enemy, and are born and die together; Or do you believe in a general who has made a fortune himself, but everyone can't get enough to eat? ”

"We believe in you, Brother Joseph!"

"Believe in you, of course!"

"Trust you!"

The shouts of the soldiers rang out.

Although the situation was quite desperate, Di Mourier did not give up, and wanted to say something, like a spare tire, rushing into the holy church, trying to redeem the goddess he thought had once liked him. But Hankson, the captain of his guard, said to him, "General, we must leave at once, look over there!" ”

Dumourier looked over and saw a group of cavalrymen dressed in red, surrounded by a few civilians on horseback, approaching this direction......

Dumourier knew that it was a special agent who had been rescued by the Red Army had come. If Joseph could only impress everyone with the fear of the threat posed by Braunschweig, the correspondent from Paris was clearly more orthodox.

"The tide is turning!" Di Mourier sighed, even if he was reluctant, but the goddess had already put on her white wedding dress, the rich and handsome had already taken her by the hand and brought her to the altar, and the two of them had begun to exchange rings and some kind of digestive enzyme, what else could he hope for. So he could only take a last, nostalgic look at the army that once belonged to him, and then said to the people around him: "Let's go!" ”

The group got off the review stand, got on the horse, and rushed towards the headquarters.

When Joseph saw that Di Mourière was gone, he also let out a long sigh, and then became angry again: "Damn Napoleon, why hasn't he come yet!" ”

Dumourier rushed all the way back to the headquarters, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw the Duke of Chartres greeted him with a worried face: "General, the situation is ......"

"The situation is out of control, we have to leave right away and go to Austria." Di Mourier didn't stop, but said as he went.

"Oh...... Yes...... How could it be ......" The Duke of Chartres was stunned for a moment.

"Your Royal Highness, let your people hurry up and prepare, don't bring anything, we will leave immediately. Otherwise, it will be too late! ”

"Good ......," the Duke of Chartres jumped as if he had suddenly woken up.

"Bring all those officers with you!" Di Mourier said that if he wanted to surrender to Austria, he also needed to have a letter of surrender. An army, if it loses so many officers, it is almost impossible to fight, and for Austria, this gift of his should not be light.

Soon, Di Mourieux's German mercenary cavalry, as well as the Duke of Chartres's Volunteers, were in action. They escorted the officers, whether they had signed in support of the monarchy or not, and ran in the direction of the Austrian army. Until they met a group of cavalry dressed in red with a dwarf on the road.

"It's Napoleon Bonaparte and his Red Army cavalry!" The mercenaries slowed down their horses, and even stopped at a distance from Napoleon, who was best at stealthily hiding a few cannons in a place that no one had noticed, and he played this trick so well in Valmy's retreat after two recent defeats that everyone couldn't help but look around to see where the cannons might be hidden.

Seeing that the cavalry had stopped, Napoleon said to Beolonville, who was riding his horse and following him: "You see, sir, we stopped the traitor. ”

Dumourier also didn't know where Napoleon hid the cannon, and he didn't dare to charge directly - it was very happy to see Napoleon ambush others with cannons, but now it is his turn to be ambushed by Napoleon with cannons, which is simply fatal!

"General, what should I do? I don't think there are many of them, why don't we rush over? The Duke of Chartres asked.

"No, that's Napoleon, that guy has a bad stomach, and if he rushes straight up, he will definitely suffer a big loss." Di Mourier shook his head.

"What then?" It's not that the Duke of Chartres doesn't know that this dwarf has a lot of bad water, but he can't do anything for a while.

"Talk to him, we have hostages in our hands, and those officers are our hostages." Di Mourier said.

"Who's going to say?"

"Let Hankson go."

So Hankson came on his horse alone, dismounted from his horse, raised his hands in the air, and signaled that he was unarmed and that he was not a threat. Then slowly walked over.

"What did this traitor Dimourier tell you to come here for?" Bloomville asked, gritting his teeth.

"The general asked me to tell you that he has a hostage in his hands. Most of the middle and lower rank officers in the army are under our control. He wants you to make a way, and if you will, we'll give you half of the officers. ”

"You're dreaming! You and that damn traitor general of yours have only one way to go, and that's rotting on the lamp poles! Bolonville gritted his teeth and scolded.

"I can't let you go unless I leave all the officers behind." Napoleon spoke.

"No, if we ......," Hankerson said.

"I have a proposal, you give us the Duke of Chartres, return half of the officers to us, and we let you go. Then we release the remaining hostages on both sides at the same time. If you can't do it, go back and talk to Di Mourière. Napoleon said.

Hankerson listened, and turned back.

"Major Bonaparte, how can you ......" said Botlonville.

"Mr. Botlonville, if the army loses so many officers at once, it will not be able to have combat effectiveness in a short time. And between the Austrians and Paris, there was no other army except us. We have to think about the safety of Paris. ”