Chapter 40: The Power of the Army V
Rumble~~~
On the turret of one of the towers near the city gate, due to the age of the old cannon and the frequent firing, it finally ushered in the moment of death, and the three soldiers at close range next to this cannon were sent to heaven......
The gap between professional artillerymen and amateur soldiers was vividly reflected at this moment, and the soldiers of the Bastille prison guards who patronized the guns and killed people did not realize that this old cannon was on the verge of limit, and they also ignited the black powder in the barrel with an excited face......
The frequent use of the battle on the 14th, as well as the insane attack of the armed citizens of Paris at this time, led to the first vicious explosion of the fort of the Bastille Tower, which calmed the minds of the line infantry who were excited to open fire......
They finally remembered that the probability of such a backward artillery being blown up is very high!
At the same time, they also saw that their grapeshots were running out......
As a last resort, the turrets of the two towers reduced the frequency of firing, on the one hand, using the rotation of fire to cool down the old guns as much as possible, and on the other hand, saving the few grapeshot left!
The armed citizens of Paris, who had been bombarded by grapeshoe to dogs, saw the weakened shelling of the wall and shouted excitedly: "They have no more shells, the defenders of the Bastille are almost finished!! ”
Although this sentence is too idealistic, for these illiterate mud legs, which slogan is not an idealized modifier?
Isn't it brainless idealists that the modern society of the 21st century has failed to achieve equality and freedom for all, and they really believe that they can rely on bloody revolution to create a society where everyone is equal?
To describe it in two positive words, it is called - naïve!
However, although the intensity of the bombardment of the Bastille was greatly reduced, the battle around the city gate put the armed citizens of Paris in a bitter battle!
The armed citizens of Paris, who were repelled by a volley of guns in all directions, and the armed citizens of Paris who had just stepped on the drawbridge formed two torrents, chaotic and unreasonable, collided together!
The repulsed armed citizens of Paris were already filled with fear, and they frantically stayed away from the musket fire range of the Bastille defenders like wild dogs in a desperate situation, while the armed citizens of Paris who rushed up from behind regarded these people as cowards and traitors to the revolution, and did not hesitate to push and shout and curse!
The two torrents twisted together in the gates and on the drawbridge, and became the best targets for the Bastille defenders......
As for the momentum of the charge, it has become negligible at this point......
The defenders of the Bastille did not need to launch a bayonet charge against the armed citizens of Paris, who were absolutely superior in numbers, but only had to constantly 'hit the target' with three-stage shooting!
Under the fire of the line infantry facing the city gate, the corpses of the city gate hole had accumulated to the knee height of the armed citizens of Paris!
The armed citizens of Paris who were squeezed together on the drawbridge kept screaming and being squeezed down the trench and falling into a puddle of flesh!
In just half an hour, the casualties of the armed citizens of Paris were even more tragic than in previous attacks!
Mayar watched the armed citizens of Paris crowded in the gate hole of the drawbridge continue to be slaughtered by unilateral shooting, so he had to give the order to withdraw the troops, whether it was in the trench or in the cave of the city gate, the corpses of the armed citizens of Paris were already covered, and the defenders of the Bastille, except for a few unlucky ones who were killed with muskets by the armed citizens of Paris below, there were no extra casualties!
Death by exploding is counted separately......
By the time the armed citizens of Paris retreated in the cave of the city gate and on the drawbridge, the battle on the tower of the city gate had already come to an end!
In fact, during the first salvo of the defenders below, the 10 two-star killers began to fight for their lives, and when they got close, they didn't care about their own casualties, and several of them pounced on one to grab the torsos of the Assassin Brotherhood members, using this simple and effective way to limit their counterattack movements!
This kind of attack naturally suffered heavy casualties under the Assassin Brotherhood trained assassins, but the sacrifice of ten two-star kills was not in vain, and the two ordinary assassins did not have the skills of the Assassin Master Arnold, and after killing a total of 5 deadly two-star killers, they were finally killed by a two-star and hugged their legs and arms!
And the bayonet soldiers and the remaining two-star killers beside him lost no time in stabbing the blades into the bodies of ordinary assassins!
Seeing that all the disciples he brought fell in front of him, Arno raised his head to the sky and roared, completely 'bursting beans'!
Of course, due to the shelter above the gate tower, outsiders could not see the battle inside, and when the line infantry below came up to support them, they only saw the corpses of 10 two-star killers and the last four bayonet soldiers who were beheaded by the blood-red Arno!
The entire city gate tower was littered with corpses in different postures, and blood gradually dripped down the cracks in the wooden floor, shaping this place into a scene like a bloody hell of Shura!
The line infantry who came up to support them trembled in their hearts, and they did not dare to directly surround and kill them with bayonets, but lined up and fired at them!
Arno simply glanced at the line infantry who had come up with blood-red eyes, threw away the corpse in his hand, and jumped to the edge of the battlement in a vertical leap, jumping down with his hands flat and sideways as the fire rang out......
That posture is like a frustrated young man who has no love for life and jumps off a building!
However, when the infantrymen rushed to the battlements with flintlock pistols in hand, they saw that the Assassin who had just fallen into free fall had put on his hood again and stepped on the land outside the Bastille, heading for the revolutionary base camp. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Except for the blood-red marks on his body, everything was as it had been, except that only one of the four assassins returned in the end......
The line infantry mentally estimated the distance between the two sides, and instead of wasting bullets by shooting at them, they shifted their target to the armed citizens of Paris at the drawbridge below!
After Arno arrived at a safe place, he turned his head to look at Lin Haoda in front of the window of the commanding heights of the Bastille, holding a telescope to peep at him, his eyes flashed, and he firmly remembered the appearance of this obviously Bastille commander!
Normally, at such a distance, ordinary people's eyesight can't see the other person's face, but when Lin Haoda turned to look at him, he had an intuition that told him that the other party had remembered his appearance!
"The Assassin Brotherhood really can't be handled by common sense." Lin Haoda looked at the leader-level assassin who left safely, and his expression was very gloomy.