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The continuous sound of artillery continued to sound outside the fortress of Verdun, and the solid iron bullets fired by the 12-pounder infantry field gun continued to fall on the solid stone walls of the fortress, smashing it into cracks and scattering deadly rubble.

The Verdun People's Volunteer Army, which was almost entirely composed of untrained recruits, let alone took the initiative to launch an attack on Lin Haoda's headquarters, which was small in number outside, and the gangs of sans-culottes who had no temper after being smashed by the shells had not had much fighting morale to speak of after learning the news that the 100,000 Alliance Army on the periphery had really seen the bloody defeat of the main elite army.

Had it not been for the prestige of the massacre of the city taken by Lin Haodahe, and the supervision of the radical gendarmerie temporarily added by the Verdun City Council, this solid iron bullet alone would have crushed the sans-culottes who had been improvised in the city of Verdun.

The bombardment of 100 12-pounder infantry field guns has lasted for a day and a night, and Lin Haoda, who likes to use the main force to decide the winner in a decisive battle, rarely started a siege battle, and only bombarded from afar with artillery all day long, and not a single infantry was sent out to attack......

It was not that Lin Haoda suddenly changed his personality and began to care about the casualties of his own soldiers, but that the losses caused by Valmy's first battle to Lin Haoda's troops were too great.

The 16,000-strong Third Infantry Division collapsed as a whole, not to mention that Lin Haoda regarded it as the biggest capital, and the Guards Corps, which was composed of veterans of the line, also lost more than half......

What made Lin Haoda helpless was that after his reputation was promoted to level 10, the scope of the campaign recognized by the Total War system was expanded again, and the Battle of Valmi alone could not be regarded as a complete battle victory, and the Verdun fortress must be taken to be considered the end.

Of course, Lin Haoda can also choose to retire from the army, but the campaign evaluation in the all-out war system will inevitably be reduced, and the historical smashing point of the reward will naturally shrink significantly.

Facing the Verdun fortress defended by a group of mud-legged recruits, how could Lin Haoda be willing to shrink his reward?

Therefore, he simply bombarded the Verdun fortress with artillery, and under the bombardment of a hundred 12-pounder infantry field guns, it was only a matter of time before the defenses of the Verdun fortress were destroyed.

However, the consumption of money and military supplies is extremely terrifying, and according to conservative estimates, if the bombardment is carried out without interruption for three days and three nights, the artillery shells that have been stored in Paris for the past two years can basically be declared to be at the bottom......

Of course, it didn't take a hundred 12-pounder infantry field guns to bombard a gap in the defensive system of the Verdun fortress for infantry to attack, and after a day and a night of bombardment, the outer and inner walls of the Verdun fortress had almost collapsed......

In order to ensure that the armed resistance of the people in the city would not be too fierce when he occupied Verdun, Lin Haoda, who was overstretched, adopted the method of encircling three and missing one, encircling on three sides, and not placing a single soldier in the area near the northwestern border of France.

Lin Haoda only needs to capture Verdun to win this battle, settle all the bonus bonuses, and use the Verdun fortress as a base point to gradually control the northern gateway of the Paris region.

As for how many revolutionary cadres will escape, Lin Haoda doesn't care, as long as there are enough historical smashing points, no matter how much the flame of the revolution is, he is confident that he will extinguish it with a butcher's knife!

The idea of freedom and equality is too deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and the demagogy is too strong, and this revolutionary idea is based on the instinct of the human mind, and completely follows the selfish ideas of the majority.

Because the majority of French civilians are not free, let alone equal, they want to abolish all privileged classes from the standpoint of their own existence, and let the leaders of the country be on an equal footing with them!

Open the skylight and speak brightly, who really wants to live under the feet of others?

The reason why the revolutionary idea was so successful was that freedom and equality gave the majority of the French people a beautiful sweet cake, and clearly pointed out to them how to overthrow the existing regime, and how to build a liberal and democratic society after the overthrow of the existing regime!

The most attractive thing about the revolutionary idea is that it tells the French people in a reasonable way the specific steps of operation, so that the French people can feel that if it is really done, they maybe, probably, maybe...... Really become the master of the country.

Leaving aside the question of whether revolutionary ideas are really free and equal, the mere demagogy of what it can convince the majority of the French plebeians is enough to prove its 'correctness'.

This correctness will be constantly improved by various thinkers and revolutionaries in the future, and will be used as a 'magic weapon' to overthrow the current government and ascend to heaven in one step.

It is obviously impossible to defeat a revolutionary idea that is loyal to the selfish instincts of mankind, as has been confirmed by the massive collapse of the monarchies of later generations, and the only way to cut off revolutionary ideas is to nip them in the bud.

The French Revolution was the period of time when this kind of idea first accumulated and exploded, and almost all the great revolutionaries who followed it recognized that the French Revolution was the first 'thinking' revolution, not a simple peasant uprising!

Lin Haoda, who was at the center of the whirlpool of the French Revolution, had a deep understanding of the speed of the spread of revolutionary ideas, and less than three years had passed, and the dangerous ideas of the French Revolution had spread to Poland.

It is precisely because of this that the monarchies of the European continent adopted absolute hostility to the French Revolution, and even wanted to restore the rights of Louis XVI at all costs......

Fortunately, Lin Haoda completely crushed the main force of the Alliance Army that had been trained by 100,000 people, especially the elite of the Alliance Army who finally charged the dozens of 12-pounder infantry field artillery positions head-on, which was higher than the morale of ordinary people, and made them experience a catastrophe.

"Casio, the man who voluntarily laid down his arms, has the news of his acquittal reached the Verdun fortress?"

Lin Haoda, who put down the monoculars, asked.

"It has been passed in, the interior of the fortress of Verdun after the defeat of the Battle of Valmy, it is in a chaotic scene, although those members of the Jacobin club want to try their best to save, but many people do not want to be martyred for the revolutionary cause, we can easily bribe a group of people who are willing to surrender to spread the news in the city, although there are tens of thousands of armed men in the fortress of Verdun, but they are demoralized and lack of weapons, coupled with a day and a night of artillery bombardment to make a gap in the city defense system on which they rely on, I think the fortress of Verdun has little resistance.

After all, we have left a retreat for the resistance elements inside the Verdun fortress, and they can escape and continue their revolutionary cause. “

"Well, if you bombard for another half a day, let the Guards Legion attack, no need to tempt, we don't have much manpower to consume, just go to the main force."

"Yes, Regent."

After the bombardment time was over, the soldiers of the Guards Legion, who had long been ready to regroup, beat the drums of the attack under the leadership of the officer, and walked forward silently holding high the Iron Cross Eagle Banner.

The counterattack behind the Verdun fortress line was very weak, and the Guards soldiers of the brigade charged with bayonets as they approached the breach in the Verdun fortress.

The Verdun volunteers, who had little resistance and morale, resisted for less than ten minutes before the whole line collapsed.

Interestingly, the gendarmerie and Jacobin club members who were patrolling everywhere a moment ago, let the volunteers hold the defensive line, and at the moment of the city's break, they collectively played the Dafa of disappearance.

The fortress of Verdun was struggling with the attack of the Guards on one side, but the gap released on the other side caused a traffic jam......

The fleeing leader completely broke the morale of the volunteers in the Verdun fortress, and even the most basic reluctance resistance no longer existed, and most of the volunteers threw away their cold weapons and fled directly to their homes, they had no military uniforms at all, so it was natural for them to wear their own clothes and return to their citizens.

The fortress of Verdun fell.

Only during the siege of Verdun town hall did a handful of revolutionary diehards who refused to surrender fight against the Guards for a long time on the building, ironically, only a thousand diehards resisted the Guards for far longer than the fall of the Verdun fortress, which was guarded by tens of thousands of volunteers.

In the midst of the martyrdom of the French nation, the revolutionary martyrs who stood guard in the town hall of Verdun made the Jacobin politicians who fled from the battle embarrassed, which greatly damaged the political prestige of the Jacobin faction and became an indelible shame for the Jacobin club!

The fall of the fortress and the collapse of the main force of the alliance army controlled by Robespierre led to the collapse of a dominant Jacobin government in Brittany.

The Montagnards and Robespierre at least allowed the existence of the bourgeoisie, simply overthrowing the aristocracy and the ecclesiastical forces, and outlawing all privileges, but the political proposition of the radicals was to establish a people's democratic dictatorship in the full sense of the word!

It is obviously impermissible for the bourgeoisie to let the sans-culottes enter the National Convention and become the members of the parliament who run the country, and they cannot hand over the fate of the already broken French nation to a group of illiterate mud legs!

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