Chapter 27: The Battle of the Bastille III
If you look at it from Lin Haoda's point of view, the artillery positions arranged by the revolutionary army holding the red, white and blue tricolor flags are only a thin cordon composed of soldiers in white uniforms in front of them, and the remaining obstacles are all armed citizens of Paris who are crowded in front. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
At first glance, the large number of armed citizens of Paris is very solid, and the artillery positions are not dangerous at all, as long as these armed citizens of Paris can hold off the enemy for ten minutes, the armed citizens of other places and the National Guard can quickly outflank and come to the rescue!
It's just that after these large number of armed citizens of Paris fought with the soldiers who suddenly broke out of the Bastille, they were defeated so quickly that the surrounding friendly forces and the National Guard did not have time to support!
Bang~
After watching the French uncle who was fleeing with his back to him ten meters away, being knocked down by his own shot, Casio took out the lead bullet gunpowder packed in oil paper and reloaded, and shouted: "We don't want to take prisoners, and we will attack in the direction of the revolutionary artillery at full speed!! ”
The rout of the armed citizens of Paris in front of it naturally infected the morale of the rout to the compatriots who did not meet the enemy in the rear, and under the onslaught of Casio and his men at any cost, the seemingly thick artillery position barrier composed of armed citizens of Paris was as weak as a layer of paper!
Thousands of Lin Haoda's soldiers were like sharp knives cutting into butter, scattering or killing the hordes of armed citizens of Paris!
The tendency of the defeated armed citizens of Paris to flee in all directions caused great distress to the armed citizens of Paris who came to their aid from other directions, and this group of ordinary civilians who fought for revolutionary fervor and freedom and democracy saw the frightened appearance of their neighbors, although they had not yet been coerced into fleeing, but their advance unconsciously stopped, and this was the defect of not having a strict military organization!
No matter how many reasons they have and how high their courage is to fight for it, their response to such emergencies will be outrageously slow!
In the bayonet charge, the elite veterans of the black uniformed line infantry warrior regiment and the ordinary line infantry in blue military uniforms have long been mixed, and under such a fast-paced raid, even the formation of the regular army has shown signs of chaos, but for Casio these are not a problem at all, all he needs is an assault! Assault! Assault again!!
It is enough for the soldiers to know the direction of their attack and move forward without hesitation!
After the crowd of armed citizens of Paris separated in front of the artillery positions of the National Guard, revealing the target of Casio's attack, the white uniformed National Guard standing in two rows was already on standby, these National Guards can be regarded as a paramilitary organization after all, and there are a large number of former French Paris Security Army soldiers in them, which are much stronger than the frightened armed citizens of Paris!
At the same time, it is also the last line of defense in front of the artillery positions of the National Guard, and the shallow line of guns formed by the soldiers of the National Guard who were originally on guard around it!
They were not many in number, less than 200 people, and they were originally used to block the vigilant soldiers of the armed citizens of Paris from creating obstacles to the artillery positions, but they did not expect that the armed citizens of Paris, who numbered more than 1,000, would not want to be defeated, but now they have become the last line of defense in front of the artillery positions......
As for the main force of the National Guard, it has always stayed by the side of Commander Mayar as a reserve, in Mayal's eyes, there are tens of thousands of armed citizens of Paris in front, that is, the passion and blood of the revolutionary partners, and the National Guard does not need to play the front at all, it is a big deal to strike a fatal blow to the defenders when the Bastille is blasted out of the gap.
Casio watched the main force of the National Guard, thousands of kilometers away, running to reinforce here, and knew that he must not stop the whole team, and he must take this artillery position in one go!
"Attack! Attack with all your might! Victory is ours!! ”
Under Casio's urging order, the own army that had been maintaining the momentum of the charge accelerated again, and in the blink of an eye, it rushed into the thin defense line of the National Guard within a distance of 50 meters, and then, a burst of white smoke rose from the front of the white uniformed soldiers, and the soldiers in blue and black uniforms mixed together suddenly fell on their backs, and on the opposite side were the salvos from which all the muskets were concentrated, and the salvo of more than a hundred flintlock muskets within a distance of less than 50 meters was still quite lethal!
However, under the leadership of the second lieutenant and lieutenant officer wielding the command knife, the black uniformed soldiers and the blue uniformed soldiers continued to close the distance between the two sides without stopping!
Instead of the expected National Guard continuing to shoot or bayonet to resist, the white-uniformed National Guard soldiers on the thin defensive line quickly retreated from both sides after firing a volley, revealing the five black holes behind them that were already aimed in this direction!
The National Guard is not stupid, as soon as they put down the Bastille drawbridge, they stopped shelling the Bastille wall and began to adjust their gun positions and aim at the defenders who rushed out in the direction of the Bastille drawbridge!
Originally, these artillery soldiers were intended to cover the battle of the armed citizens of Paris, but before they could adjust their gun positions, the armed citizens of Paris were dispersed all the way......
The artillery of the National Guard also had a ruthless spirit, and when they saw this situation, they simply did not stop doing anything, took off the solid shells from the artillery, replaced them with grapeshot shells, and faced the charging Bastille defenders!
Facing the muzzle of the black hole, Lin Haoda, who was holding up the telescope at the commanding heights of the Bastille, saw that the morale of his own soldiers in the charge did not fluctuate greatly, or [local numerical superiority, high fighting spirit, vigorous dragons and tigers, officers taking the lead in the charge, being inspired by the morale of the surrounding friendly troops, and the morale of the commander-in-chief coming to the front line to command the morale].
The morale bar has also been kept green!
The previous volley of guns didn't demoralize much!
The artillery officer of the National Guard propped his left leg on the makeshift fort, looked at the Bastille guards who were getting closer and closer with a hideous face, and swung forward with a slender double-edged sword!
"Cannon !!"
The artillery igniter, who had already been ready, held the lighter and gently touched it into the small opening left in the breech of the gun, and then all the artillerymen turned sideways away from the gun next to them, half-crouching to cover their ears!
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
Five roars rang out in succession, and after the wrapped grapeshells rushed out of the barrel under the impetus of gunpowder, they suddenly lost their restraints and dispersed into a large 'independent individual', fanning into the oncoming blue and black uniformed soldiers!