Chapter 56 Arming
The middle and lower rank officers of the line infantry were promoted to acting officers, and naturally, the vacated positions they had were able to promote those below, and as the layers went down, several acting positions appeared in each infantry regiment. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
As for the light infantry company, Lin Haoda assigned it to one company in each of the four line infantry regiments as auxiliary fire support, and the remaining light infantry company was assigned to the line infantry battalion under Casio.
If necessary, these 5 light infantry companies can also be combined to form a light infantry battalion to fight collectively.
After the expansion, the line infantry battalion controlled by Casio became a gendarmerie similar existence, although the number of line infantry battalions led by Casio is small, but the soldiers inside have experienced tragic bastille hand-to-hand combat, compared to the newly recruited line infantry, there is still a certain bonus in courage, but because most of the light infantry companies are veterans, the advantages of the line infantry battalions are not outstanding in front of the light infantry companies.
The rout of the National Guard of Paris and the armed citizens of Paris discarded a large number of weapons of all kinds, not to mention those rotten axes and sticks, and the large number of flintlock guns and ammunition captured by Lin Haoda's soldiers was a lot of income.
After the victory of the Bastille attack and defense, the soldiers under Lin Haoda's command were completely fully charged in terms of infantry ammunition reserves!
It's just that the consumption of grapeshotfire is too large, and it has bottomed out, and the team of 4 6-pounder infantry field guns can only use the grapeshotfire that they carried when they were recruited, and there are a lot of solid shells in the Bastille arsenal, and black powder is neatly stacked in barrels in the basement.
Lin Haoda's line infantry recruited from the Total War system was in blue uniforms and black high caps, and the light infantry was in dark blue uniforms and black high caps......
If you look closely, you may be able to see the difference in military uniforms, but from a distance, there is not much difference between light infantry and line infantry, all of them are a sea of blue uniforms......
The defeated armed citizens of Paris and the officers and soldiers of the National Guard used to call Lin Haoda's soldiers 'blue demons', which set off their strength and made their rout look better......
After all, the gap between the record of losing to an elite and the record of losing to a third-rate army is still quite large......
The Duke of Wellington is famous not because of his military prowess, but simply because he defeated Napoleon at Waterloo.
The reason why Nelson became the soul of the British navy was also inseparable from the fact that he destroyed the main naval force of Napoleon's empire and cut off the hope of the European steamroller peeping into the British mainland!
Therefore, sometimes a strong opponent is not necessarily a bad thing.
10 line infantry companies plus a light infantry company, a total of 1,720 people, formed a temporary infantry regiment with Lin Haoda, and they were firmly stationed in four directions outside the Bastille!
Casio. Thunder's rights have been improved again, and Lin Haoda is very satisfied with this subordinate officer who is brave, resourceful, and calm and calm, and does not hesitate to let him serve as the commander of thousands of troops on the front line.
And the line infantry battalion directly under Casio became a reserve.
The residential buildings outside the Bastille were already empty, and ordinary Parisian civilians who had not participated in the revolution, after seeing the rout of the armed citizens of Paris who were closer to them, were afraid that they would become the guns of the 'blue demons', and left their houses with their families.
Therefore, in addition to the barricades, Lin Haoda's soldiers also had a large number of residential houses that could be used as support for shooting, and the soldiers of the light infantry company all entered those houses with better concealment, opened the windows, or lay on the roof, aiming at the revolutionary barricades hundreds of meters away!
Between the Bastille garrisons and the line of the Revolutionary Army of Paris, there was a vacuum area hundreds of meters wide, which allowed the Revolutionary Army to disengage from direct contact with the Bastille garrison.
Gradually, the National Guard, who had come to his senses in other directions, quickly established a defensive front with the armed citizens of Paris who had not participated in the Bastille attack and defense in the neighboring neighborhoods.
Today, there are more than 40,000 National Guards in the Paris metropolitan area who have received weapons, and the Standing Committee is still very confident.
With a bang, Arno Victor Dorian pulled back the linen curtains a little rudely, and at this time, Arno, who was hidden in a small three-story building opposite the barricades of the Bastille guards, no longer had the pride of breaking into the prison alone, his pale face, and one arm hung by bandages, looked like a frustrated veteran who had just retired from the battlefield......
"It's ridiculous that tens of thousands of people besieged a Bastille and were beaten to this point, Lafait, do you think there is any hope for the victory of the revolution?"
Arno looked at the bearded middle-aged white man in front of him in a bad mood, he didn't mean to mock the revolutionary army, but he was simply unhappy and aggrieved.
He did everything he should have done, and he was wounded and 3 disciples were buried in the Bastille, but as a result, the other party became more and more brave the more he fought!
Arno's injuries would require at least a few months of recuperation, which for the Assassin Brotherhood was the equivalent of months without a Master Assassin town, a loss that is difficult to assess......
At this time, Arnold had already retreated, the Assassin Brotherhood was friends with Washington, the United States was the basic plate of the Assassin Brotherhood, these French revolutionaries were just the objects of the Assassin Brotherhood's export of their violent, liberal and democratic ideas, and the Assassin Brotherhood had no obligation and no need to spend its main force here!
Arnold met with the current commander-in-chief of the National Guard, Lafait, close to the front line, precisely to tell him that the Assassin brothers had to leave.
Whether it's the bandages on Arno's arms or the sheer number of Bastille guards not far away, the Assassin Brotherhood's actions have been justified.
Hearing Arnold's words, Lafait withdrew his gaze from the blue-uniformed soldier who was stationed in the distance, and replied indifferently, "Master Arno, don't you need to think about it again?" ”
The help of an additional Assassin Brotherhood would be a good thing for the Revolutionary Government, but it was not an essential factor, so Lafayit did not insist on keeping the other party, at least, the reward that should be given to the Assassin Brotherhood would still be given, and it would be good to buy and sell without benevolence.
"The Brotherhood has done its duty, and of course, if there is an opportunity in the future, the door of Brotherhood friendship will always be open to freedom-loving friends."
After saying that, Arno raised his foot without hesitation and missed Lafait's walking outside the house, and Lafaite smiled and replied, "We'll meet again." ”
Arno paused, glanced back at Lafayit deeply, and left this sad place completely.