Filled with the misery caused by long years of exploitation, poverty and high cost of living, the anxiety and anger caused by hunger, and the fantasy of being free from feudal oppression, the peasants, with only farm tools and shotguns, let go of the church and drove to the rumored aristocratic castle full of grain and coins!

However, the reality is often cruel, although some weak lords were forced by the peasant forces to hand over the legalization deeds of collecting taxes, and watched the peasant forces burn these documents in the village square, but the vast majority of feudal lords and nobles were not willing to let the peasants in their fiefs obtain the freedom of land ownership!

The lords had their own estates and castles, as well as military-trained private soldiers, who were at least marginally superior in weapons and organization, if far inferior in numbers to the peasants. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The peasant armed suffered heavy losses in the first collision with the private soldiers of the feudal lords everywhere!

However, the defeat of the peasant armed forces was not crushed, and the difference in the results of the battle between the two sides was not large, and the educated careerists and intellectuals who returned to their hometowns to organize the revolution for the benefit of their hometown people began to organize peasant committees and village militias, and just as the bourgeoisie in Paris armed themselves to seize the town hall, the peasants also wanted to take the armed forces and local power into their own hands!

It is worth noting that almost all the peasant committees had no connection with the revolutionary members of the town halls after the municipal revolution, that is, the peasant committees and the village militias were really spontaneously organized armed organizations, and the bourgeois forces in the countryside were about zero and could not hold the supreme power of the peasant committees!

With an organized village militia and an armed army of peasants, they scavenged and looted the weapons used in battle to arm themselves, and frequently began to attack the estates and castles of feudal nobles everywhere!

Any noble lord who is unwilling to take the initiative to hand over the tax deed and the legal certificate of the tax right of the feudal domain will be attacked indiscriminately by the peasant committee!

Together with the revolutionary slogans of freedom, equality, bread, also under the propaganda of the peasant councils, it was widely disseminated, and the hungry and crazy peasant armies, with the tactics of crowds, smashed down the fortresses of the feudal lords, who had few private soldiers and scattered, one by one, and then burned the castles of the nobles and all the assets that the peasants could not plunder, and hanged the owners of the castles!

The victory of the peasant armed forces in the battle against the noble lords attracted more and more yeoman peasants, poor peasants, and landless tenant serfs, especially tenants and serfs, who joined the peasant armed army with twelve points of enthusiasm, because they had nothing, but as long as they killed the nobles who cultivated their own land, or even ordinary landlords without noble titles, that share of the land was their own!

They could also snatch the land contract into their own hands in the name of the revolution, and in the eyes of these tenant serfs, it was natural for them to take the land contract they cultivated, and the peasant committee, in order to expand the number of soldiers armed by the peasants, also acquiesced in the behavior of these tenant serfs who were the most active in the army and the most desperate in the war.

The phenomenon of the peasant revolution was particularly serious in the countryside around the capital of Paris, where the news of the Paris Revolution was first obtained, because the peasant revolution in the suburbs of Paris had the earliest origin, the longest development time, and the most aristocratic lords killed!

The peasants, who gradually felt the sweetness of the revolution, were no longer limited to the old feudal lords and aristocrats, because in addition to the fiefs owned by the nobles, there were also many lands owned by large landlords and big capitalists without noble titles.

Like the aristocracy, the urban bourgeoisie was also the landlord, and their own land was not much smaller than that of the traditional feudal aristocracy, and many wealthy capitalists even bought their own land, and in the name of the nobles they levied the usual feudal taxes on the peasants!

The capitalist class, which had achieved the greatest results of the municipal revolution, was horrified to discover that the peasant revolt posed a serious threat to its vested interests, that the revolution had paralyzed the power of the village authorities and abolished their authority, and that the peasants had unscrupulously armed themselves to organize peasant committees to defend their rights, and to form large numbers of spontaneous peasant armies!

The peasants were armed with weapons and organization not even as good as the militia of the National Guard, but they were numerous and full of dispossessed tenant serfs, a population even poorer than the poorest burghers in the cities, because even their personal freedom was subordinated to the nobility and landlords!

Naturally, the resistance was the most fierce, and the peasant councils made good use of the large number of tenants and serfs to crush the private soldiers of the noble fiefs!

On July 25, 1789, the unfavorable news reached the ears of the revolutionary government leaders in the Tuileries Palace in downtown Paris, causing an uproar, because many of the people present had already been baptized by the locust-like peasant army, whose housekeepers, slaves, and even a small number of guards were brutally killed or hung from trees to dry into corpses, and the brutal war acts of the peasant armed forces completely angered the revolutionary government!

In the revolutionary government, there were even voices of transferring the strength of the National Guard to suppress the peasant committees and indulging the rebels under Lin Haoda!

The majority of the members of the Revolutionary Government whose interests were damaged were on the verge of insurrection.

Mirabeau, second only to the Marquis de Lafayette in prestige among the constitutional monarchists, advised the people to remain calm and cautious in Parliament:

"In this time of crisis, when it has become a common habit to believe and exaggerate sinister news, nothing more shocks observers, as if logic itself no longer consists in calculating the degree of probability, but in taking the most marginal rumors as truth, and so these rumors fabricate the time of the murder, and stimulate the imagination with dark horrors, and we are like a group of children, and the more terrible the story, the more serious we listen to it......"

Mirabeau's remarks were mainly a reminder that the news of the peasant revolution had been exaggerated by terror and that things were not as bad as they had imagined......

However, Mirabeau's rhetoric did not convince the crowd, and the bourgeois militia and the National Guard began to march into the countryside, and the bigwigs of the revolutionary government began to use all their forces to try to defend their property.

The revolutionary situation that was gradually getting out of control came to Lin Haoda's ears, and the weakened National Guard in the city of Paris had already made it clear that it could not resist the army under his command, and everything was changing in Lin Haoda's favor.