Chapter 18: The Harvest of the Bastille

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Marquis Lonay's office was violently kicked open, and Marquis Lonay, who had already heard the gunshots, trembled with his arms and held a flintlock handcuff carved with gold edges, stared at the blue soldiers in military uniform who entered his room, divided into two rows of flintlock pistols with bayonets in their hands, and stopped on both sides of the office!

Marquis LonΓ© trembled as he watched the two blue-uniformed soldiers come forward, but after all, he didn't have the courage to pull the trigger of the flintlock handcuff, threw the flintlock handcuff back to the table, pretending to be majestic and said loudly: "I am a marquis nobleman, I want to see your commander!" ”

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He was met with a butt from a blue-uniformed soldier......

Marquis of Lonay, whose dentures were almost knocked off, was directly tied up by two soldiers in blue military uniforms with ropes, and Marquis Lonay, who was slightly dizzy from being smashed on his head, didn't seem to have reacted yet, and his big mouth was still howling when he was pressed on the table: "I am a marquis, you can't do this to me, I am protected by the laws of the kingdom, I can buy my freedom!" ”

The blue-uniformed soldiers around him seemed to be unable to hear the shouts of the Marquis of Lorne, the kidnapping of the people, the vigilance of the guard, the look at the sky......

After the Marquis of Lornet shouted a few times and found that it was ineffective, he seemed to recognize his situation, and at the same time wondered in his heart, where did this unit like a regular army come from?

Why didn't he receive any news and the other party stormed the Bastille, which was only connected by a drawbridge?

Moreover, the speed of the opponent's attack was unimaginable, after the Marquis of Lonet heard the gunshots, he just called a guard to go out to check what was happening, but in less than ten minutes, the guards did not come back to report, but rushed in a group of intruders!

After the Marquis of Lonay had his arms tied, the two soldiers threw him back into his chair and waited for Lin Haoda to arrive, if he could capture the Bastille administrator alive and get some useful news from him, Lin Haoda would still be more than willing to get some useful information from him. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Anyway, the captive in his hands, life and death are only in his thoughts.

After the Marquis of Lonay was tied, when he saw the officer who had followed the soldier into the house and made his rounds with a command knife hanging from his waist, he eagerly asked him: "May I ask this officer, which part do you belong to?" Why the Bastille? Are you in the same league as those patriots? ”

The patriots in the mouth of the Marquis of Lonay refer to a political organization composed of the Third Estate and some liberal aristocracy, similar to the political parties of later generations, but far less tightly unified than the later parties.

The patriots were in fact the institutions established by the French bourgeoisie and the aristocracy with whom they had very good relations to wrest political power from the king and the robed nobles who controlled the government, and who declared their allegiance and love to the Kingdom of France, not to the king of Louis XVI!

The patriots were filled with a large number of philosophical thinkers, who constantly instilled in the French people the concept of loyalty to the state, rather than the allegiance to the king and the nobility advocated in the feudal absolutism!

In fact, France has become what it is today, although there are reasons for the infighting between the great nobles, archbishops and other powerful figures, but the most fundamental promoter is this group of people who claim to be patriots!

It was the patriots who took advantage of France's economic disadvantage to provoke the people, so that the great nobles and archbishops saw the hope of threatening the king with turmoil to release power, and this revolution was also the last resort for the patriots to achieve victory!

At least, when the revolution did not bear fruit and Louis XVI did not delegate the right to recognize the bourgeois town hall, the patriots were unanimous in their outwards!

In France, apart from the king's army and the private soldiers of the great nobles, only the patriots were able to arm such uniformed and well-trained professional soldiers, so that the Marquis de Lonay suspected that this group of people was the hidden power of the patriots......

After all, it was impossible for either the king or the great nobles to attack the Bastille, which symbolized the feudal absolutist royal power, because the Marquis of Lonay was his own man......

However, Lin Haoda doesn't know much about the Patriot organization, and it is impossible for him to enter this organization as a king mercenary, and his identity and skin color are equivalent to a natural cut from extremist organizations such as Patriots!

After hearing a series of questions from the Marquis of Lonay, the officer replied impatiently: "We are not patriots, I was just ordered to occupy the Bastille, our commander will be here in a moment, you just need to communicate with him." ”

Just when the Marquis of Lornet was asking questions, Lin Haoda was listening to his subordinates' report on the inventory after the occupation of the Bastille.

A total of 5 of his men were killed, all of them died during the assault on the city gates, two were killed by lead bullets, and 3 were impaled during the bayonet hand-to-hand combat......

The Bastille guards in other places saniently did not resist and laid down their weapons, including the Swiss mercenaries who died in battle, and the entire Bastille guards were even emptier than Lin Haoda imagined!

Only 30 Swiss mercenaries and their 80 old and weak soldiers were truly combative, while the so-called Bastille held only two political prisoners......

They were all inconsequential little people, and they were killed directly under Lin Haoda's orders......

After all, the number of heads killed will improve the evaluation of the task of defending the Bastille, and if it hadn't been for the will to resist the Bastille defenders, perhaps not a single prisoner of the line infantry would have been left!

To Lin Haoda's surprise, there was an arsenal in the Bastille, which contained hundreds of barrels full of black powder, several lead plates, and countless shells!

The ammunition was apparently used to supply the eight tower batteries of the Bastille and the defenders, more than enough for a large-scale battle!

The black powder in the arsenal and some lead plates used to make lead bullets were completely enough for the ammunition of his more than 1,000 soldiers, and the line infantry he recruited only had basic individual equipment when they came out, not to mention those dry food, backpacks, blankets and other sundries, the ammunition was all equipped with bullets wrapped in paper, each of which was composed of the best black powder counterweight and a round lead bullet, and when loading, you only need to bite open the wrapped paper to place one end of the gunpowder, and pour a small amount of gunpowder into the flintlock powder room, Then stuff the whole bullet gunpowder part downwards and the lead bullet part up together with the wrapped paper into the chamber, poke it to the bottom of the flintlock rifle chamber with a poke strip and then compact it to fire!

Each soldier is equipped with 100 bullets, which is enough for two or three ordinary battles, even on a battlefield with fierce firefights, enough to sustain a long period of fire!

However, if the soldier's ammunition is exhausted, he can only rely on local supplies, otherwise, he can only be used as a bayonet soldier......

Therefore, the supplies in the arsenal of the Bastille are simply a relief to Lin Haoda, who has no source of supplies!