Chapter 73: Hard Street Fighting VIII

The Marquis de Lafayette's lack of exhaustion of the elite of the National Guard was completely exploded at this moment, and the soldiers of the National Guard who had just been defeated did not have the support of the core backbone veterans, and the rapid decline in morale made those bigwigs of the Paris City Hall who came to monitor very puzzled. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The soldiers of the National Guard, who were rock-solid in the face of enemy artillery bombardment on the first crossroads line, retreated to the second crossroads line, and turned out to desert under the first salvo of enemy artillery!

Even in the reserve units of the National Self-Guard in the rear, where many ruffians and hooligans are used as a number, there has been a phenomenon of desertion by the whole team!

Those ruffians and hooligans were originally organized by large-scale street gangsters, and after hearing about the terrible situation in front of them, they naturally did not have the confidence to fight with the blue demons, because they saw that the revolution was about to win and it was profitable, so they wanted to come and eat a meal, instead of really fighting with the king's army......

If these ruffians really had that blood, they wouldn't be as well-behaved as dogs when they were taught by the small number of Parisian policemen......

Even the Parisian police did not dare to confront the ruffians and hooligans who were on the opposite side, and it was tantamount to a fantasy to let them go to war with the regular army!

Of course, if there are generals who are proficient in military training and use long-term harsh training to educate these ruffians how to be good soldiers, they can also turn them into capable soldiers, but unfortunately, the ruffians and hooligans in the National Guard in the urban area of Paris have not experienced any training at all, so naturally there is no combat discipline to follow......

The Paris City Hall also did not have enough overseers to supervise the large number of 'scumbags' of the National Guard.

Although the phenomenon of desertion was not much at the beginning of the offensive and defensive battles at the second crossroads, it was a very serious bad omen, and the unbalanced expansion of the National Guard was only a mob armed force pinched together with patriotic revolutionary fanaticism.

Casio didn't know about the hidden dangers inside the National Guard, but he could feel that the resistance of the National Guard at the second barricade line was weakening!

After the four-digit dense line infantry survived a nearly replica of the National Guard volley, when entering hand-to-hand combat, the National Guard soldiers no longer preferred to pull the line infantry to the end rather than take a step back, as the first barricade line of defense did!

The line infantry climbed over the barricades more quickly, and knocked the more numerous National Guard soldiers back!

The hand-to-hand combat of the second crossroads defense line only opened for more than ten minutes, and the defense line of the National Guard became shaky!

Assessed with data, it can be said that the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the National Guard at the second line of defense at the crossroads has decreased by almost half!

Overjoyed, Casio saw the fighter jets throw the fresh force of the last Temporary Infantry Regiment into it, and easily broke through the barricade defense at the second crossroads!

The tactic of exchanging space for time taken for granted by the Paris City Hall has proved to be completely ineffective at this point!

The reason is simple, because the composition of the National Guard is too complex, and the quality of the soldiers is extremely poor!

After the first group of officers and soldiers of the National Self-Guard who dared to fight were killed and wounded, the blue demon panic brought about by the subsequent rout and the spread of depression after the defeat caused the citizens of the National Guard of the second crossroads to pay even more casualties, but only killed less than 1,000 line infantry!

One can imagine how fragile the will to resist the National Guard will become when more routs from the second crossroads rush to the more fragile third line of defense!

After the second line of defense was broken at a faster pace, even the revolutionary bigwigs of the Paris City Hall, who did not know much about military affairs, knew that the crisis of the fall of the City Hall was looming over them!

The bigwigs of the Standing Committee are not worried that the Bastille guards loyal to King Louis XVI will seize the entire city of Paris, because they simply do not have so many troops, even if the National Guard collapses, there are still a large number of armed citizens and the National Guard in the city of Paris who are dissatisfied with the King's army, and attack the King's army in various ways, a few thousand troops are simply not enough to ensure the real control of the Paris city, and the Bastille defenders will undoubtedly be more passive after the dispersion of the forces!

It can be said that the capture of the Paris City Hall is the greatest effort that Lin Haoda's troops can do now, and it is true that such a move will greatly damage the morale of the revolutionary masses, but it will not be enough to bring the revolutionary masses to their knees!

After all, the real main force of the National Guard was taken by the Marquis de Lafayette to confront the King's Army, as long as the main force of the National Guard, which has a scale of more than 100,000, wins, the revolution will still win, which is under the propaganda of the Paris City Hall sparing no effort, even a big soldier at the bottom of the National Guard knows it!

However, although the fall of the Paris City Hall was not fatal to the revolutionary situation, it was a great blow to the prestige of the leading leaders who presided over the Paris City Hall!

If you think about it with your ass, you know that once the Paris City Hall falls, the bigwigs of the Standing Committee residing in the Paris City Hall, whether they live or not, will be labeled by the Parisian people as incompetent in command!

In this way, if the Marquis de Lafayette returned with a great victory, who in the revolutionary regime could stand up to him?

In that case, the bourgeois revolutionary power, which was still fairly balanced, would be overwhelmingly controlled by the Marquis de Lafayette, or at least, no one would be able to surpass the prestige of the other side on the surface!

Therefore, for the bigwigs of the Paris City Hall, they must not give up this place of residence of the Standing Committee!

The last line of defense, which is close at hand, has become the only hope for the bigwigs stationed in these standing committees!

They could no longer continue this defensive battle with no hope of victory, they wanted to counterattack, to break up the offensive of the Bastille defenders with a vigorous counter-offensive, and force the other side to abandon the idea of attacking!

Although the National Self-Defense Forces are losing and retreating, they still have an advantage that Lin Haoda cannot match, that is, the number of the National Guard!

Even if the whole team of ruffians who disappeared is removed, the Paris City Hall can still control the armed forces of the National Guard with nearly 30,000 men, even if these are only a group of armed citizens and routs!

Taking advantage of the rearmament of Lin Haoda's troops in front of the third line of defense, the desperate Standing Committee issued an order for a counteroffensive on all fronts!

This time, the counterattack on all fronts was not only from the third line of defense, but from all directions poured into the occupied area of the Bastille defenders, including the Bastille, the old nest of Lin Haoda's department!