Chapter 43: The Power of the Army VIII
"The Bastille, which oppresses the people, still stands under the banner of the king's irises, and our comrades are still immersed in the exploitation of the aristocracy, for the sake of our motherland France, for the freedom of the people, we must break through the Bastille, let us witness the great moment of the fall of feudal autocracy!
I order, the entire National Guard, to attack!! “
Under Mayal's brief pre-war preaching, the thousands of National Guards, the main force of the attack, braved the bombardment of the Bastille Tower batteries to push all the artillery they could find to the Bastille drawbridge!
Many of them were armed Parisians who were either motivated by revenge or whose revolutionary blood was still burning, and who planned to follow the National Guard into the Bastille!
The guns on the tower batteries of the Bastille did not fire very often, and at this time, the Bastille drawbridge had been lowered and the city gates were wide open, so they didn't dare to let the guns overheat in advance, resulting in a decrease in the frequency of firing during the fierce battle!
As a result, artillery bombardment from the Bastille took an average of several minutes to fire a shot, not so much to kill the enemy as to deter......
At the drawbridge outside the city gate, behind the breastwork made of the corpses of the armed citizens of Paris, there were already dense lines of infantry, armed with flintlock pistols, squinting slightly at the white uniforms of the National Guard moving towards this place in the distance, and the striking red, white and blue tricolor flags!
In the history without Lin Haoda, the last laugh in France was this red, white and blue tricolor flag, which was established after the French Revolution and has been flying until the 21st century!
The lilies and fleur-de-lis flags of the French royal family have been cruelly buried in the dust of history, and the French royal family is undoubtedly much more miserable than the English Empire, its neighbor across the sea. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
And Lin Haoda, who has traveled to this era, for his own interests, with the all-out war system against the sky, the first task is to suppress this red, white and blue banner that represents freedom, democracy, and fraternity.
Lin Haoda from the 21st century knows too well how strong the power of the people is, and he does not dare to choose to cooperate with them, because Lin Haoda knows very well that as long as the power of the people is given a booster, all the alien regimes can be devoured!
Revolution is an easily contagious idea, and at the same time an impromptu movement that is easily addicted to the people!
France, which has a deep revolutionary tradition, even in the 21st century, the French government has always been threatened by the common people.
It has to be said that the French regime was completely frightened by the revolutionary traditions of the French people......
"Stay in formation, don't panic, whoever dares to leave without an order, I have the right to shoot you!"
The line infantry stationed on the front line had less than the strength of a company, and the small line infantry protrusions hidden behind the chest wall of the corpse couldn't help but have a commotion when they saw the National Guard surging over on the opposite side and seeing no end in sight......
Had it not been for the bullet pressure of the junior officers and the promise that they could withdraw to the Bastille base camp at any time, I am afraid that these line infantry would have collapsed on their own without waiting for the attack of the National Guard on the opposite side......
From Lin Haoda's point of view, when you look at the company on the suspension bridge outside the city gate, you can see that its morale value is no longer green, but the edge of yellow moving towards red!
The above state is even more worrying -- [local numerical superiority, abundant physical strength, officer pressure, deterred by the enemy's morale, encouraged by the commander-in-chief, forced to be on the front line of the outstanding front-line soldiers, the psychological pressure has increased dramatically]
However, these people must be arranged, the small space of the city gate hole is the most suitable terrain for fire and slaughter, and the surrounding ditches and walls are simply natural assistants, the longer they hold out here, the more enemies they kill, and the faster the morale of the revolutionary army will fall!
Looking at the position of the National Guard, it is obvious that they do not intend to rush in and be shot like the last time the armed citizens of Paris were armed, and under that kind of dense firepower, except for a few troops who are sincerely willing to die for the sake of their beliefs, ordinary people will definitely not be able to bear it!
After all, the revolution that the citizens of Paris wanted was not to die, but to make life better for themselves and their families......
Boom ~ Boom Boom Boom ......
After pushing the artillery into effective range, the artillery of the National Guard finally fired the 'Freedom Shell', which struck the Bastille wall with flying masonry, and several hapless line infantry were cut by the flying tiles and cut wounds of various sizes, becoming light and serious wounded or corpses!
The biggest role of this old artillery is actually to increase the morale of the enemy and weaken the morale of the enemy......
In the modern European war, the reason why those big-headed soldiers were able to walk with artillery on top of the artillery from a distance of several hundred meters and listen to military music and drums for more than ten minutes was not because the courage of European whitemen was naturally higher than that of other races in the world, but because the artillery at that time wanted to hit the mobile infantry in clusters, which was really a difficult technical level......
It was not until the popularization of the truly mature flowering shell technology that the artillery battle platoon stepped forward to become a standard for testing the nerves and tenacity of soldiers, and any unit that could walk in front of the enemy's formation under the bombardment of a large number of flowering shells was an elite without exception!
As for grapeshot, the effective range is too close, and as long as the opposing infantry evades it slightly, it can stagger the direct fire of grapeshotfire, so the most widely used place for grapeshotfire is still to defend cities and naval battles!
Only these two types of battles will make the enemy have to face direct shots!
"Onward! Advance!!! ”
Knock knock~~~
Lin Haoda had never heard the beat of the drums, and the National Self-Defense Force set up a large column phalanx and advanced towards the suspension bridge!
Although the column phalanx has the disadvantage of having a narrow firing surface compared with the horizontal phalanx, the advantage is that it can be flexible and changeable, and the formation can be adjusted quickly, and the greater depth will undoubtedly become more powerful when the bayonet is impacted!
In the Seven Years' War in Europe, the column phalanx was carried forward in the hands of Frederick the Great, and thus was learned by the military powers of all Europe.