Chapter 32: The Assassin Brotherhood
After seeing the decision of King Louis XVI, Duke La Rochefoul and others did not persecute again, after all, the battle situation in the Bastille also made them not have much confidence in their hearts......
After Louis XVI at Versailles made a statement, the news quickly reached the ears of the Standing Committee of the Paris City Hall through unknown channels!
The Standing Committee naturally knew the political significance of the storming of the Bastille, and after learning that this was a breakthrough point for Louis XVI to bow his head and avoid a civil war, a fierce quarrel broke out in the Standing Committee!
The quarrel between the two sides mainly revolves around whether to press all the chips and fight for a river of blood under the Bastille?
The Bastille was amazed by the abundance of the Bastille defenses, and at the same time dissipated a lot of the mentality that it had to be taken down, after all, the National Guard was the basis for the existence of the bourgeois regime of the Standing Committee, and the Standing Committee was a government formed by itself through violence, which was not recognized by the French upper class!
If you don't have enough troops, the Standing Committee will be hanged in minutes!
The Bastille, a military fortress embedded in the city of Paris, has no way for the National Guard, which lacks artillery, in a short period of time except to fill it with human lives, and the 'glorious record' of the Bastille defenders breaking through and destroying the artillery positions has made the bigwigs of the Standing Committee realize that their own paramilitary organizations are powerless in capturing the fortresses!
The Bastille could have been taken with human life, but the king and the nobles were not blind, and what would they have thought when they saw the loss of the National Guard and the disproportionate cost of casualties in the capture of a Bastille?
Many bigwigs of the Standing Committee did not dare to take this risk, after all, even if the Bastille had not been taken, the overall strength of the National Guard would still exceed that of the royal army!
The Standing Committee was not without a way out, it was a big deal that they reserved more power for King Louis XVI!
As for the option of using the armed citizens of Paris as cannon fodder to open the way, it is a dangerous omen, if the number of Parisian citizens killed and injured in this revolution breaks through the critical value, God knows what the lawless Parisian mob will do in the presence of the deaths and injuries of their relatives and friends!
Among the armed citizens of Paris, there are many preacherents from wild backgrounds who have been agitating for the sans-culottes!
It's just that these people don't have a unified organization, they gang up and can't form a rope force, so they will be suppressed and controlled by the Standing Committee with the armed forces of the National Guard!
But there is a limit to this manipulation, when the casualties of the armed citizens of Paris exceed a certain level, they are afraid that their hatred of the royal family will be crowded out by the grief and indignation of the large number of deaths and injuries of their relatives and friends, and then, with the slightest agitation of a few people, this large group of armed citizens of Paris will turn the spearhead to the town hall of the Standing Committee that commanded them to die!
Revolution is not a trick, fanaticism is a double-edged sword, and although the revolutionary forces instigated are powerful, the people who are incited are not army soldiers who are loyal to a certain organization, but blind masses who are fighting for their own interests!
As long as it is what most of them think is right, any person or force can become an enemy of the people!
"If we had a way to take the Bastille without too many deaths, would you agree to go ahead and attack the Bastille?"
Rafait, who was appointed commander-in-chief of the National Guard, stood up and shouted to the bigwigs of the Standing Committee who were in a quarrel after receiving a message from the guards. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
"Lafait, do you have a way to pry open the drawbridge gates of the Bastille with a few men?" A Standing Committee boss who didn't quite deal with Lafayit spoke out in an unkind tone.
Obviously, if there was a way to storm the Bastille without filling in too many lives, it would be in the interest of the Standing Committee, and no one would oppose it!
The corners of Lafait's mouth curled slightly, and he confidently said to everyone: "I wonder if you still remember the legend of the Assassin Brotherhood?" ”
When the term Assassin Brotherhood appeared, the older leaders in the Standing Committee gasped, while some of the younger people looked at the insiders next to them with confused expressions, and whispered to their close friends about the so-called 'legends' of the Assassin Brotherhood.
Lafait, who seemed pleased with everyone's astonishment, explained in a calm tone: "The Assassin Brotherhood, a religious extremist organization rumored to fight for the belief in freedom, has secretly trained a large number of fighters who are proficient in assassination, and often carries out assassinations against high-ranking clergy of the Church, but the Assassin Brotherhood will also take on some who do not disobey them in order to maintain its own operation." Creed's assassination mission, whether it is destroying enemy facilities or assassinating military and political dignitaries, as long as they agree that this character deserves to die, they will go all out to carry out the assassination, and the success rate is quite high!
His most recent fame is that during the American Revolutionary War, he helped Washington rush into the British Redwoods Army in the chaos of the battlefield during the Battle of Bunker Hill, killing their commander, causing chaos in the British army, and making Washington's Continental Army win the battle!
Presumably, everyone should know what this means, rumored to be, several of the Assassin Brotherhood's leader-level assassins have exceeded the limits of human beings, although they cannot compete against the army, but numbers are no longer an obstacle to their mission!
It is precisely because of the extremely high success rate of assassination that the Assassin Brotherhood can often obtain a large amount of blood supply from unknown financial sources, and it has not been exterminated by the Church to this day, of course, with the current strength and secular influence of the Church, I am afraid that it will never have the ability to exterminate the Assassin Brotherhood. “
After hearing this, the Standing Committee couldn't help but look at each other, and one of the bigwigs asked uncertainly: "The whereabouts of the Assassin Brotherhood are elusive, as far as I know, no one knows where their headquarters are, how did you contact them?" Also, the Assassin Brotherhood is indeed capable of being known to all, but they believe in anarcho-liberal violence, and they will help us? ”
Lafaite smiled and replied, "This time they came to me on their own initiative, and when one of the leaders of the Assassin Brotherhood, Arno Victor Dorian, appeared in front of me and said only one thing: they are willing to fight for freedom!" ”
After ten minutes of exchange between the Standing Committee leaders, they affirmed Lafait: "Any organization or individual who opposes tyranny is our friend, even if the other party is a demon from hell. ”