Chapter 30: The Battle of Bastille VI
In fact, Mayar still has worries about his future in his heart, and if he really can't storm the Bastille, he, the commander, will definitely be the first to bear the blame......
In the fanatical and tyrannical revolutionary army, if he was to be detained, it would not be such a simple consequence as dismissal, and if the attack on the Bastille was defeated, Mayal would probably be pushed out by the Standing Committee as the scapegoat to eliminate the anger of the people!
By the time of the storming of the Bastille, the number of casualties had already exceeded four figures, and it is easy to imagine how these people's relatives and friends would concoct him as a scapegoat......
In France, at least a little bit of the capitalists and aristocrats think the same thing, those French people from the bottom, all of them are a bunch of murderous and violent beasts!
As long as they are recognized as enemies of the people, and happen to be unlucky enough to be caught, it is very normal for men to be tortured and killed with their limbs cut off, as for women......
Needless to say, the abuse of women by the people of Paris was even more severe than that of men, such as cutting off the two tender pieces of meat on the chest, cutting off the plump parts with a knife, and then cutting off the delicate facial features of women, etc., all of which were often done by the so-called revolutionary masses!
The great, epoch-making revolutionary process that was preached in later generations and won the rights of the people was actually not beautiful at all, and the revolution was not the kind of harmonious scene played in film and television dramas, but a prologue composed of blood and violence!
The revolutionary masses are fanatical and fearless of sacrifice, but their fearless sacrifice is based on the extra brutality of the class enemy!
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The drawbridges of the Bastille were re-raised under the aggrieved gaze of the armed citizens of Paris and the National Guard, and the Casio soldiers had time to collect the muskets and ammunition left behind by their own soldiers along the way before entering the Bastille, and bring them back to the Bastille!
It is a pity that among Lin Haoda's soldiers, the seriously wounded and corpses could not be brought into the Bastille, and the seriously wounded were mercifully ended by their colleagues, and if these seriously wounded were allowed to fall into the hands of the angry armed citizens of Paris, it would be better to live than to die!
Different from the organized and hierarchical when he went out, when the soldiers led by Casio came back, the soldiers of different companies were mixed together, and they looked tired, and they ran back and forth to fight for so long, and the physical exertion of the soldiers was still very large. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
Many of the soldiers simply sat on the ground to regain their strength after returning to the safety of the Bastille, while the officers of the various companies began to count casualties and ammunition stocks.
When the Parisian civic forces and the National Guard outside the Bastille re-blocked the road outside the drawbridge gate, Lin Haoda also suffered the battle damage of his own side in this operation.
Since all the seriously wounded were abandoned, and the lightly wounded who returned to the Bastille were all soldiers whose combat effectiveness would not be affected too much, Lin Haoda simply skipped the data of the wounded and casually glanced at the lost soldiers.
This time, Casio brought out a total of 9 companies of troops, leaving only two companies of defenders in the Bastille, of course, not all of these nine companies rushed out to fight, and the band drummers who were not much use in this kind of rapid rush were left behind in the Bastille.
Don't underestimate these 'cute' band drummers on the battlefield, the soldiers can't even walk in line without their beating in a frontal battle, not to mention, the band drummer in addition to adjusting the marching beat of the army soldiers, different sounds also have the role of conveying military orders such as advancing and turning left and right, the battlefield environment is often very noisy, relying on the officer's shouting alone, shouting through the throat will also have many distant soldiers unable to receive orders on time!
This is the greatest use of the band drummer, after all, the sound of the percussion instruments is much louder than the human voice, and the role of the band and drummer is indispensable to the rapid change of formation in the queue on the battlefield!
However, although the drummer of the band does not master too many drums, not everyone can do it, and if the drummer dies in battle, ordinary soldiers cannot replace him, so he can only be re-recruited from the people, or select the big head soldiers with 'musical talent' from the soldiers, and then train them in a targeted manner......
No matter which way to supplement, it is very difficult for Lin Haoda!
Therefore, in Lin Haoda's army, the band drummer is the second only to the officer who needs to be protected, and even when the situation is unfavorable in battle, the band drummer is allowed to retreat and escape alone without being dealt with by military law!
In a way, these band drummers are also special military talents......
To believe that most people in this world still don't know anything about musical instruments, it is very troublesome to find a replacement when a drummer dies......
As for the soldiers, as long as he is a young man, give him a musket and go to battle......
Didn't you look at the tens of thousands of armed citizens of Paris?
These people have not undergone any military training, and now they are not surrounding the Bastille prison where Lin Haoda is located?
Don't look at Lin Haoda's soldiers taking a big advantage, if they are put forward to fight a field battle head-on, these tens of thousands of armed citizens of Paris can swallow Lin Haoda and his army in an instant!
All that's needed is relatively open terrain!
After the death records were counted, the losses were not small, Lin Haoda lost a total of 362 soldiers and 5 officers, and lost more than two companies!
The majority of these casualties were due to the fact that when attacking the artillery position, the personnel killed and wounded by the vigilant National Guard platoon guns and grapefire shells, especially the grapefire shots at close range, were a nightmare for the soldiers who were charging intensively at that time.
Even if this grapeshell often has only one salvo chance, it is an absolutely fatal blow to the infantry charge!
Of these casualties, the leading line infantry warriors were undoubtedly the heaviest, with only a few soldiers in their early 100s returning alive......
After Lin Haoda got the battle damage report, he carried out a series of merger adjustments to the ordinary line infantry under his command, and the line infantry companies with heavy losses were dismantled and filled into those line infantry companies with slight losses.
It doesn't hurt to have one or two more officers in a company, but it can make the soldiers more cohesive in battle!
In this era, officers are the soul of a unit, and as long as there are enough front-line officers to adhere to combat command, the combat endurance of soldiers will often be stronger!
The reason why the militia is inferior to the regular army is not only because of training and discipline problems, but also because of the gap in the quality of officers between the two sides!