Chapter 108: Fight or not fight one
A steady stream of line infantry drove out of the small gates of the Bastille, and the golden fleur-de-lis banner was held high, as if to return the revolutionary city of Paris to the era of the king's autocracy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info
The 80 full companies of line infantry exchanged by Lin Haoda were marching in orderly steps towards the border with the National Guard, and the commander of the grenadiers, Siri Rafaeli, would receive his line infantry company, Casio. Thunder can also be replenished with new new forces, providing sufficient 'cannon fodder' for the first regiment under his command.
600 hussars, in companies and units, scattered throughout the occupied areas of Paris, closely monitored these locations to prevent the citizens of Paris from causing trouble in the interior when the battle came.
Although the weapons of the citizens of Paris in the occupied territories were confiscated, God knows whether they contained revolutionaries who returned home to become citizens after the collapse, after all, the two sides could not be distinguished from their appearances and identities......
Even if the citizens of Paris do not have muskets, they can cause chaos with rudimentary murder weapons, and the mad revolutionaries can kill even if they take a stone......
Lin Haoda, whose troops have become abundant again, naturally has to tightly control his occupied areas, and these places are very useful to Lin Haoda, whether they are used as a follow-up retreat for street fighting, a position to resist the enemy's attack layer by layer, or as a bargaining chip in negotiations after reconciliation.
Of the 600 hussar troops, Lin Haoda used the same method as the grenadier selection officer, so that the captain and chief officer of each hussar company jointly selected a person with the highest prestige to serve as the military chief officer of the entire hussar unit.
It was a man of the prime of life with a hooked nose and a grim face, his name was Paul Walker, and his ugly face was like a wild wolf, and he could frighten children and women by standing there!
His temperament is also just like his appearance, fierce and murderous, unruly, except for facing Lin Haoda, he puts on a fierce appearance towards anyone, as if he is about to draw a knife if he disagrees......
Paul Walker's ferocious personality is the guarantee of Paul Walker's fierce personality and I believe that the hussars under his leadership will be as bloodthirsty and cruel as wolves!
Of course, in addition to this, the hussar troops have no other advantages, and the undisciplined hussars naturally dare to rush and dare to fight, but it is a bit difficult to let them line up or something......
Many hussars couldn't even tell the difference between left and right, they were all warriors from the steppe, who only lived with sabers and war horses all their lives, and their hobbies were women and killing, and they couldn't learn anything else......
To be honest, if it weren't for the fact that this group of hussars completely obeyed his orders and had good combat courage, Lin Haoda would have regarded them as a gang of horse bandits......
Of course, it is impossible for the horse bandits to have their ferocious will to fight, because the hussars have the idea to fight for their loyal masters and achieve victory!
As for the booty and women, it's just a personal pleasure in passing......
Lin Haoda has already discovered that the hussars are the most demoralized troops in the system, as long as they are told before the battle that they can choose half of all the spoils of war first, they can spontaneously reorganize and charge after being scattered, until the moment when the losses are too great for them to bear the spirit!
Without this attribute, the hussars would be a bit of a chicken, because with their charging battle formation, it would be too easy to break up the queue......
In the era of queuing to shoot, there was no dense queue, whether it was infantry or cavalry, it was a precursor to the completion of the calf, and the reason why the light infantry with high morale could never become the main force was because their skirmish line was too easy to be broken through and dispersed by dense formations!
Although the lethality of firearms in the era of platoon guns was greatly improved, the final victory must be determined by bayonet hand-to-hand combat, and more than half of the line infantry under Lin Haoda died in close combat, rather than being killed by lead bullets!
Fortunately, the citizens of the urban area of Paris are quite wealthy in the whole of France, and Lin Haoda also copied a few bakeries and other grain production stores in the areas he occupied, although the battle was fierce, but it did not take long, and there was no problem with the food for the army for the time being, and the water source was even more endless, and the urban area of Paris, which was crossed by the Seine, was not short of fresh water at all.
While Lin Haoda was rejoicing in the deployment of his forces, the revolutionary government, which had moved its headquarters to the Tuileries Palace, was taking advantage of the truce to hold a discussion on the aftermath.
After King Louis XVI bowed his head, France ushered in a democratic system of government for the first time - Parliament!
Although the National Constituent Assembly has not officially announced its reorganization to the outside world, the future members of the Parliament have long been established, and the difference is only one name.
Before the Patriotic Party launched the revolution, these 'revolutionary fathers' determined the general direction of the future form of government, the legislative and executive power must be controlled by the National Constituent Assembly, especially the legislative power, which will be completely deprived of King Louis XVI, and the law-making situation of the 'Chrysostom' in the era of the king's autocracy will become history!
It's just that no matter how beautiful and perfect the setting is before the revolution, after a bloody revolution, the original intention cannot be unchanged, as the saying goes, the constitution is dead, but people are alive, the constitution is nominally above everything, but this above everything constitution is precisely formulated by human beings who like to break the rules!
It is for this reason that the power structure of the revolutionary government is constantly changing along with the ups and downs of the revolutionary process, and since the victory of the revolution is based on the military strength of the bourgeois parliament and the National Guard, the power of the revolutionary government will naturally deviate accordingly.
At the beginning of the Marquis de Lafayette's great victory over the main forces of the King's army, both the National Guard and the bigwigs of the bourgeois parliament showed due obedience to the Marquis de Lafayette, a figure of great prestige.
However, Lin Haoda's stubborn resistance knocked the Marquis de Lafayette from the peak of supreme prestige......
The power of the Marquis de Lafayette came from the victory which made the king bow his head, and was established by a less secure prestige, and not by a legal form of a unified vote of Parliament!
Is it possible to be denied even the rights granted by the sacred constitution, let alone the ethereal prestige?
The prestige of this victory, which makes the king bow his head, falls very quickly, and all it takes is a 'brilliant defeat'!
The Marquis de Lafayette attacked with confidence, and in the battle on the night of the 21st, he buried a humiliating mark on his resume!