"Kill! For glory! “

A lieutenant brandished a command knife and led hundreds of Young Guards to rush up to one of the walls of Rennes, and on their left and right flanks were other companies, at this time, the walls of Rennes had already been blown out by the large equivalent of black powder several gaps, and the large pieces of rubble were piled up into a hill, just forming a slope that became a natural 'ladder' for the attacking Young Guards.

When the Young Guards rushed under the walls of Rennes, one of the companies of the Young Guards decisively stopped and fired at the revolutionary troops who came out of the wall to shoot guns, covering their own troops.

The siege has lasted for more than a day, and there are not many revolutionary troops on the city wall at this time, whether it is the revolutionary army of the republic that has been temporarily expanded or the citizen volunteers, they have suffered a lot in the shooting with the young guards, and it is not difficult to learn to shoot the flintlock pistol, but if you want to master the accuracy of the flintlock pistol, it is to feed it with bullets.

This kind of training is not to be fooled!

Under the guidance of the Iron Cross Banner, the Young Guards climbed to the top of the gravel hill again, and the Young Guards, whose vision suddenly brightened, were met by musketeers who were posing in a dense formation.

Under the roar of fire, many of the young guards who had boarded the rubble pile fell backwards tremblingly, and the Iron Cross Eagle Banner was successfully blocked in a short time.

The reason why the resistance of Rennes City lasted so long was inseparable from this dense close-range salvo, and every time the young guards who charged, they had to pay huge casualties when they climbed the gap in the city wall, resulting in a lack of stamina.

Unfortunately, after more than a day of attrition, there were not many musketeers in Rennes, and at the same time, their reserve ammunition consumption began to bottom out.

After surviving the first few volleys, the Young Guards stepped over the bodies of their comrades in front of them, picked up the Iron Cross Eagle Banner from the ground, and roared forward in hoarse voices.

The beautiful blue military uniform has long been covered with gunpowder smoke and blood, Rennes, as a glorious city of revolutionary uprising in the center of Brittany, is not ordinarily strong, and the Young Guards have shed too much blood in front of the city, and finally survived to the moment when the other party is 'exhausted'.

Although this continuous salvo caused a large number of casualties to the Young Guards, compared to the slaughter of one company after another in the first salvo yesterday, the firepower was not a little weaker!

The Young Guards who crossed the line of death rushed forward with bayonets after shooting the lead bullets in the chamber of their guns, and the Young Guards attacking in a column quickly collided with the dense revolutionary army and the citizen volunteers who were blocking behind the gap, and the real bloody battle had just begun.

After more than a month of large-scale urban offensive and defensive battles, the government of Robespierre of the First French Republic had discovered that the Young Guard's ability to fight in the streets was far superior to that of the Revolutionary Army of the Republic, let alone fighting the Citizen Volunteers.

Sometimes even a rare casualty ratio of 1 to 10 surprised the National Convention of the First French Republic, if it were not for the support of the revolutionary morale of freedom and equality, under such a disparity in casualty ratio, the Revolutionary Army of the Republic and the Citizen Volunteer Army would have surrendered on a large scale......

The difference in ideology, Lin Haoda's identity as a foreigner, and the bloody suppression and enslavement of French civilians by the restored Kingdom of France are all the driving forces for the First French Republic to continue to resist without completely disintegrating.

As for the military posture, under the fanatical attack of the 'Tsuiko' of the unfathomable Young Guard, the only thing the revolutionary army of the First French Republic could do was to slow down the pace of the other side's attack and create more corpses!

In the city hall of Rennes, clerks hurried back and forth constantly threw important documents of the republic into the furnace, and military political commissioners in gorgeous gentleman's uniforms kept wandering on the combat map with anxious faces, loosening their slightly tightened collars from time to time, and taking out handkerchiefs to wipe the beads of sweat that flowed down for some reason.

With a bang, the temporary commander-in-chief of Rennes City, who was covered in the smell of gunpowder, and the general of the First French Republic, stepped in with a dejected face and said with a sad face: "We have no reserves, the Young Guards have just broken through the tight defensive line arranged by the city wall, and in just one morning, we have 22 political commissioners who have lost contact, and I can only contact the revolutionary army of the Republic with less than one regiment now, don't we retreat?" ”

The military-level political commissioner glanced coldly at the general of the republic, where can the anxiety on his face be seen at this time?

"We still have tens of thousands of citizen volunteers in support of the revolution in Rennes, hundreds of thousands of people who support the First French Republic, why should we retreat?

Rennes is not another city, it is the 'glorious city' of the French Revolution (that is, the city that spontaneously broke out from the low-level sans-culottes and overthrew the city government at that time to expel the procurator of King Louis XVI, and more than half of the cities did not break out during the French Revolution, so there are not too many glorious cities where the low-level citizens rebelled to seize the power of the city government). “

"Glorious City?" The general of the Republic of Rennes laughed miserably: "Which of Caen, Cherbourg, or Angers is not a glorious city, but now? In addition to the countless French who died, did they stop Lin Haoda's footsteps? ”

"Can't you see the price Lin Haoda paid? There are more than 100,000 young guards from Caen City, and now the Young Guards attacking Rennes City are probably less than 30,000, this is the meaning of our fight to the end, under the fighting will of the French people, Lin Haoda will only be consumed by our life and death! ”

The military-level political commissioner shouted impassionedly, his face full of slow positive energy, just like the mighty revolutionary heroes in later generations, decent!

The commander-in-chief of Rennes City sat on his seat with a blank expression, and muttered, "Is it really right for us to use a young man from the French nation to fight Lin Haoda like this?" Even if we block Lin Haoda's attack, what can we gain? Isn't the harsh reality of war enough? Lin Haoda only lost tens of thousands of elites, but a whole generation of young French people in Brittany is about to die! ”

The military-level political commissioner refuted with great righteousness and awe: "How can there be immortals in the revolution? For the sake of the future of the French nation and for the interests of the country, those soldiers who devoted themselves to the revolutionary cause died well, and their death is worthy of praise and the external manifestation of the pride and self-esteem of the French nation! ”