"Blue uniform, black tall hat, have you ever seen a soldier wearing this costume?" One of the four Swiss mercenaries who had been disarmed and surrendered sat on the ground empty-handed and asked his colleague who was also being captured. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"It's the first time I've seen this style of military uniform, but one thing is for sure - they're not militias organized by the mobs and rentiers out there! They look like regular soldiers, so we should be able to save our lives. ”

The oldest and oldest of the four Swiss mercenaries was relieved that they were relieved that in their impressions, there were still relatively few examples of the regular army killing surrendered prisoners, unlike those mob armies who shouted for revolution all day long, and they didn't pay attention to the rules at all!

Lin Haoda's soldiers left only a few to guard the prisoners, and the others went to their respective targets to occupy the entire Bastille!

Anyway, Lin Haoda's forces have an absolute advantage, and he doesn't care about assigning a few more people to guard these mercenary prisoners, and it is the same to deal with them after the occupation is over.

The running of so many soldiers quickly disturbed the sentries patrolling the tower, and it didn't take long for Lin Haoda, who was under heavy protection, to hear the warning gunshot!

Later generations had an exaggerated description of the modern European wars of the Gentlemen's War.

The main reason for linking war with gentlemanly behavior is that in modern European theaters, there is an unwritten rule - to avoid direct attacks on enemy noble officers as much as possible, and to capture those with titles will be allowed to redeem their own freedom!

In addition, the monarchs of Europe, either to break the will of the enemy soldiers to resist, or to show their benevolence and prestige, after a battle, as long as the remnants of the soldiers do not resist, often save their lives and provide them with the necessary food to continue their lives!

Even though these captives were often used as miscellaneous coolies, forced to dig trenches and fortifications and other manual labor, and did not regain their freedom until the end of the war, this act of sparing the lives of soldiers undoubtedly formed a consensus among the soldiers on both sides of the European continent that the regular army could save their lives by voluntarily surrendering when they realized that victory and escape were impossible!

Therefore, in battle, when the difference in strength between the two sides is obvious, and the weaker side does not have the terrain and fortifications to rely on to resist, a decent surrender is a very common behavior, and the attacking side will also allow the lives of the surrendered soldiers to be spared!

This rule was not broken until the rise of Napoleon, who brutally suppressed and killed the rebels in order to completely conquer the occupied territories, and many people could not escape the fate of death even if they laid down their arms!

Because Napoleon was confident that he would never fail, he would not have followed the unspoken rule of favoring prisoners and preserving the lives of soldiers in the tradition of favoring the weak and nobles!

Did the soldiers in blue uniforms appear so suddenly, or did they bloom from the inside and crush them with superior forces!

Each tower battery had less than two digits of sentinels on duty, and there were a large number of old, weak, sick and disabled people who were not fit for war!

After firing warning shots, these people chose to surrender very rationally in the face of the attack of dozens or hundreds of bayonets......

The battle for control of the tower batteries everywhere went so smoothly that there were no battles......

Lin Haoda's soldiers found that among the sentries patrolling the tower forts, ninety percent of the soldiers were old men, not so much that they were soldiers stationed there, but that they were retired old people who were retired here......

These old men could not have the conviction to resist at all after seeing the troops like regular armies emerging from within!

However, there are real young Swiss mercenaries in this Bastille!

For the first time, a line of infantry was met with resistance when attacking the city gates!

The city gate guards, composed of less than 20 people, quickly and professionally picked up their weapons after hearing the warning shots, and formed a thin defensive line relying on the windows of the houses......

Immediately, these Swiss mercenaries with their own professional ethics saw hundreds of soldiers in blue military uniforms, jogging in two neat columns......

I don't know what supported the belief of these Swiss mercenaries, and they actually opened fire on the heavily armed army that far outnumbered them!

Bang bang bang ~~~

Scattered gunshots rang out at the Bastille gate, and the two line infantrymen who walked in the front fell to the ground, and the large lead bullet easily ended their lives, which is also the reason for the high death rate in the era of queuing to shoot, the caliber of the lead bullet fired by the black powder far exceeds that of the rifle of later generations, and the lead bullet is softer than the copper shell bullet and iron shell bullet of the later generation, and after it is shot into the human body, it touches the hard bones and tough muscle tissue, which is often distorted and deformed, and stays in the human body, causing a second blow and infection!

It is conceivable what kind of damage the high-speed kinetic energy left by the deformed lead bullet will cause in the human body, coupled with the terrible lead poisoning, basically the person who is hit as long as he is not lucky enough to be hit in the limbs, he will be killed with one hit!

Even if he was lucky enough to die at that time, he would have died in poor medical conditions, suffering from pain and lead poisoning, screaming for a few days......

And the soldier who was hit in the limb can be 'lucky' to amputate himself alive, but the rest of his life......

In the era of queuing to shoot, every time a battle is made, a large number of corpses and disabled people are made!

Compared with the terrible lead bullet, as long as the bayonet does not stab the vital point and ensure that he does not lose too much blood, the chance of survival is still quite large.

"Offensive formation! Get on the bayonet! ”

After the opponent's shot, the second lieutenant officer who was in the forefront immediately brandished his command knife and began to adjust the formation, and it didn't take long for them to rely on their numerical superiority to suppress the opponent's fire with a salvo, some of them continued to provide fire support, and others rushed forward with bayonets!

This kind of unsuspenseful battle requires just a little courage......

The line infantry who rushed forward immediately stabbed the desperate Swiss mercenaries with bayonets, but unfortunately, their numbers were too small, and more than 100 line infantry rushed up, and soon stabbed the Swiss mercenaries of less than 20 people into a sieve, and did not even take in the prisoners who were stupid and knelt down to surrender!

The line infantry who controlled the city gate quickly raised the only drawbridge connecting to the Bastille, which was also the order given to them by Lin Haoda, the city of Paris has begun to riot, and the Bastille is the fortress where Lin Haoda saved his life!