The Marquis de Lafayette glanced at the members of the Standing Committee with a calm expression, and said slowly: "All of you here, do you want King Louis XVI to be brought to Paris peacefully, or do you want to reduce the city of Paris to ruins?" ”

"Lafayette, it is not our insistence on going to war at all, but the order to attack from King Louis XVI and his queen! Should we give up the hard-won gains of the revolution and continue to repeat the life of the past oppressed by the king and the aristocracy?

Oh, by the way, Lafayette you're a marquis yourself, so you're not worried about the victory of the king's army, right, hehe~~~"

Lafayette's face was furious when he was accused of coming from the Patriotic Party, but he quickly suppressed his anger and said: "I do not want to surrender to the royal army, but I do not want the city of Paris to be annihilated in the flames of civil war!" I agree with the proposal to attack the King's army, but not with the resistance to the King's army within the city limits of Paris!

With more than 40,000 members of the National Guard willing to die for the revolution, and countless enthusiastic citizens who support the revolution behind us, why should we huddle in the heart of Paris, waiting for the king's minions to rush in and feed us a little bit?

And don't forget, there are thousands of troops in the Bastille with golden fleur-de-lis banners!

Although I do not understand why a small Bastille suddenly appeared with thousands of heavily armed regular troops, we must take this terrible turn of events into account, and all of you here have a great understanding of politics and economics and people's livelihood, which I admire Lafayette......

Excuse me, have you ever fought in a real war? “

The Marquis Lafayette said a few words, highlighting his greatest advantage, the reason why he can become the commander-in-chief of the National Guard, not only because of his prominent marquis status, pro-revolutionary attitude and the advantages of the original initiators, the seniority of the four leaders of the Patriotic Party is not much lower than Lafayette, Lafayette's biggest advantage is that he participated in the American Revolutionary War throughout the whole process and won the victory of annihilating the British Army!

The Marquis Lafayette made his experience in the American Revolutionary War a lifelong pride, and the deep friendship he established with Washington personally also made Lafayette highly regarded in the United States. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Among a group of capitalists, bankers, ideologues and political advocates, the initiator of the revolution of military talents such as the Marquis de Lafayette is undoubtedly a minority of precious talents!

"Marquis de Lafayette, we recognize your military talent, but the 20,000 mercenaries of the King's army are veterans of combat experience, and the National Guard and the armed citizens of Paris do not have many people with actual combat experience and lack training......

Do we really have any hope of winning in the wild? “

Lafayette looked at the other members of the Standing Committee with a look of agreement, and knew that the vast majority of the people here were not optimistic about the mercenary legion formed by the two veterans of the enemy in the field......

After all, the Bastille battle has made it clear to these bigwigs that armed citizens and recruits who lack training and no experience in war are really ineffective in the face of the regular army......

In the city of Paris, they can also rely on houses and barricades to minimize the gap between them and the regular army soldiers, but in the field......

"It is true that our National Guard and the revolutionary masses lack combat experience, but they have an advantage that the king's mercenaries cannot possess - fanaticism for revolutionary convictions!

The king's mercenaries fought for money and the reputation of the mercenaries, while the National Guard, against the revolutionary masses of Paris, fought for their own freedom and bread!

At that time, Washington's Continental Army, compared with the combat effectiveness of the British Redwood Army, is obvious to everyone, why they were able to achieve the final victory, everyone must know very well, we now have an absolute superiority in troops, and it is the best time to annihilate the king's mercenaries in one go.

The king's mercenaries who left the fortress of Versailles were more likely to be annihilated, weren't they? “

Barnaf said in a skeptical tone, "But, in the city of Paris, wouldn't we be able to defeat the king's mercenaries more securely, relying on the defense line composed of barricades and houses?" ”

The Marquis de Lafayette sighed: "If thousands of mercenaries in support of the king had not suddenly appeared in the Bastille, I would not object to confronting the main force of the king's army in the city of Paris, the main force of the king's army, which is small in number, will indeed not be able to defeat our revolutionary army in the city of Paris."

However, the defenders of the Bastille were too strong for me to guarantee that our revolutionary army would be able to maintain a strong fighting spirit in the face of two sides.

Once we collapse in the battle in the city of Paris, we will not even have to go through the trial, we will be killed on the spot by those mercenaries! “

Lafayette's last sentence made the opposition of the Standing Committee suddenly dissipate, and everyone seemed to realize that if the battle on the outskirts of Paris was lost, they would still have time to flee or compromise with the King's army, but if they were defeated in the city of Paris, the mercenaries of the Bastille would be only three blocks away from the town hall!

King Louis XVI may have spared the lives of the rebels at the Hôtel de Ville, but what about the mercenaries of the Bastille......

After discussing each other for several minutes, Barnaf and the others collectively asked Lafayette, "How many men do you need to be sure of defeating the mercenaries of the two thousand kings?" ”

A smile crossed the corner of the Marquis de Lafayette's mouth, before Louis XVI bowed his head, he and these patriots were grasshoppers standing in the same boat, since the other party asked so, it was the prefix that supported him!

"Most people think that the National Guard does not dare to go out of the city to fight the king's mercenaries who are experienced in battle, and it is natural that the commanders of the king's army will also be careless in this regard, and we can take advantage of this to ambush the king's mercenaries in the field.

I will give an order to urgently expand the National Guard, and recruit a large number of aspiring armed citizens of Paris to join the army, now there are many armed citizens of Paris who have muskets, and it will not take long for them to join the army sequence, I will lead the expanded 60,000 National Guards to ambush the mercenaries of the 20,000 kings, believe me, with three times the strength of the force, plus a sudden attack, we will definitely crush the mercenaries of the 20,000 kings!

As long as these two mercenaries of ten thousand kings are destroyed, Louis XVI will be like a toothless tiger, and even if the defenders of the Bastille still exist, Louis XVI will compromise with us.

Because of him, he can't afford to lose! “