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The weakness of the six-pounder infantry field guns in the siege of the city was undoubtedly evident by the solid iron shells bombarded the tall walls of Versailles, but although the actual lethality of the artillery was not good, the morale of the enemy was still very strong. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Many of the new recruits of the Volunteer Battalion and the Militia Volunteers, who went to the battlefield for the first time and saw the artillery bombardment for the first time, were so frightened that they were eager to burrow into the cracks of the ground with their weapons, even though most of them knew that the direct fire of infantry field artillery would not go around the tall walls and smash in......

Naturally, the attack on the city of Versailles could not rely on the small caliber of six-pounder infantry field artillery to open the gap, and the artillery bombardment in front was only used to deter Xiaoxiao, and after more than ten minutes of artillery fire, the line infantry of the brigade and the temporary demolition team with homemade black powder explosives bags rushed forward.

In the era of queuing and shooting when black powder was prevalent, the defensive role of the ancient city wall was extra weak under the attack of large-caliber siege guns and black powder blasting teams, even if it was the most proud star fortress fortress of Europeans, it was just thicker and stronger than the ordinary city wall, and it was a big deal that more people used more explosives to blow it up......

Or simply continue to bombard with safe large-caliber siege artillery, and sooner or later there will be a day when the gap will be blasted out!

However, both siege methods have their drawbacks, with large-caliber siege guns taking a lot of time to bombard, while using close-range black powder blasting requires a large number of corpses to be filled.

Black powder is far less powerful than TNT explosives in later generations, and if you want to blow up the city wall, you need at least a full barrel of black powder, and more than one barrel at a time......

Therefore, the demolition team almost always pushes the cart with wooden barrels and rushes to the bottom of the city wall, similar to the nature of the death squad, as long as it is hit by the firearm on the city wall, it is basically the treatment of the entire demolition team being blown up to the sky......

It can even affect friendly units!

Therefore, the way of blasting and blowing up the city wall on the open surface is often not adopted by the besieging party, knowing that after the appearance of yellow explosives, the power of explosives is greatly increased, and the demolition team only needs to hold a small explosive bag to blast, which has become the norm of war.

In the era of black powder, the blatant use of black powder blasting often had to meet two conditions: first, the attacker's firepower far exceeded that of the defenders, and they could shoot with dense ladder-type guns, and the defenders' musketeers on the city walls could not lift their heads!

Second, it requires a large amount of black fire drugs and enough soldiers with a strong will to fight, and the era of queuing to shoot is not the era of comprehensive brainwashing during World War II, and a team of warriors who dare to die for the country can be temporarily pulled out on the battlefield at will, such as the generosity of the old guards in the Napoleonic era, the reason why it is so conspicuous in the era of queuing to shoot is because the soldiers' will to fight in this era is far less than that of later generations.

The Japanese soldiers during the First Sino-Japanese War actually did not have any advantage in the will to fight with the ordinary armies of the West, and the reason why they could beat the Manchus was not because the Japanese soldiers were strong, but because the Manchu army was too weak......

Lin Haoda, who has nearly 100,000 mercenaries, can completely use countless heads of line infantry, against the defender's very general firepower output, pressed under the city wall and used a row of guns to suppress the musketeers of the defender, no matter how high the opponent's national consciousness is, but the shortcomings of the opponent's lack of weapons cannot be changed, not to mention that most of the muskets were also moved by the commander of Dandong to attack the Palace of Versailles......

Even in this form, several demolition squads were blown up in the charge with blasting vats filled with black powder, causing quite a few explosions and accidentally injuring dozens of line infantry!

As for the recent demolition team, even after the martyrdom, there is not even a scum left......

Under the strong attack of the demolition team regardless of casualties, under the walls of Versailles, which were suppressed by the superiority of the crushing muskets, there were explosions one after another.

However, the city of Versailles, as a military fortress-level city, is much more difficult to bomb than ordinary city walls, obviously not one or two times can be blown up, the blasting behavior of the line infantry obviously stimulated the defenders behind the city walls, many people shouted the slogan "Long live freedom", stood up from behind the breastwork, just to shoot a shot, and then were beaten into a sieve......

This desperate approach, although it caused a lot of battle damage to the defenders, greatly delayed the continuous charging and blasting of the demolition team!

The war has only just begun.

By the time the Parisian legions attacked the city of Versailles, the battle on the outskirts of the Palace of Versailles had already begun.

The ground in front of the makeshift defensive bunker was filled with volunteer battalions, National Guard soldiers, militia volunteers, and so on, dressed in tattered civilian clothes.

Due to the improvised military armament of the Convention under the control of the Jacobins, most civilians would only shoot rather than walk in line, and would only move forward in a swarm when attacking, then fire freely and charge.

This kind of charge in front of the line warrior infantry regiment with more accurate marksmanship, often suffer heavy losses, before the start of the charge, it leaves a corpse, and when the charge comes, it is boldly and abnormally close by the line warrior infantry regiment, with a series of volleys, the opposite side of the people's armed forces are useless except morale The momentum is broken, and then the bayonet counter-charge is used to repel the attack on the opposite side!

It's just that there are too many miscellaneous soldiers besieging the Palace of Versailles, and the line warrior infantry regiment only dares to charge back and chase a short distance......

How many ants bite and kill elephants!

Georges Jacques Danton, seeing how difficult the line warrior infantry regiment guarding the Palace of Versailles was, listened to the rumbling sound of explosions outside the city walls, gritted his teeth and snatched the red, white and blue flag from the hands of a flag bearer, came to the people's armed forces and the Union troops with tricolor cockades, shouted a few battle slogans, and then began to sing the Marseillaise song, which symbolized victory in the attack on Versailles.

Under the leadership of Georges Jacques Danton, the Union Army and other people's armed forces who slowly walked towards the line warrior infantry regiment gradually chanted softly, and the sound became louder and louder, until a tide was formed!

Forward, sons and daughters of the motherland, rise up quickly,

A glorious day awaits you!

You see the tyrant raising his blood-stained banner against us,

Raise the blood-stained flag!

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Bang bang bang ~~~

The line warrior infantry regiment apparently did not care about the nonsense of the attacking troops, and decisively pulled the trigger in accordance with the officer's order.

This time, the Union and other popular armed forces did not charge in advance, they just followed under the red, white and blue banners, staring ahead, clutching their weapons, and singing an easy-to-understand Marseillaise, of course, Governor Danton was not at the forefront, he was only responsible for arousing the emotions of the people.

You can see the fierce soldiers,

Everywhere they are killing people,

They are from your bosom,

Take the lives of your wife and children!

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Under the high singing of the Marseillaise, the officer of the Warrior Infantry Regiment of the Line suddenly lowered his command knife held high: "Fire!! ”

As if they had lost their souls, the Union Army and other people's armed forces, who were not in a hurry or slow to move forward, ignored their fallen compatriots, and firmly held their weapons and moved forward unswervingly!

The impassioned melodies, the lyrics that appeal to the suffering of the people, fully arouse the hatred and bloodiness in the hearts of the people of Versailles, who at this time have only one goal left in their eyes, the despotic lackeys in front, the butcher who stops them from capturing the king!

The Holy Fatherland calls us,

Revenge on the enemy!

We yearn for precious freedom,

Determined to fight for it!

Determined to fight for it!

Let us hold high the banner of freedom,

Victoriously striding forward!

Let the enemy be under our feet,

Listen to our triumphant singing!

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"Fire !!"

Bang bang bang ~~~

The dense gunfire seemed to be unable to suppress the loud singing voice, and on the faces blackened by gunpowder, only perseverance and fanatical belief in the revolution remained.

When fathers and brothers died heroically,

We will fight even stronger!

Bury the bones of the martyrs with your own hands,

Follow in their footsteps!

Follow in their footsteps!

We no longer envy life,

but willing to die in the struggle,

can die for their revenge,

We will feel extremely honored!

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Bang bang bang ~~~

The front-line commander of the Line Warrior Infantry Regiment spat on the ground and cursed in a low voice: "These French madmen, they didn't even need to fight back, so they just sang and walked to the front of the position!! ”

As soon as the front-line commander's voice fell, a cry broke through the sky suddenly erupted from the position: "Citizens! Advance! Long live France! Freedom wins!! ”

"Freedom Wins !!"

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A series of cheers erupted one after another, as if the corpses on the ground they had walked all the way were not their compatriots, but ordinary stones......

The singing of the Marseillaise was not extinguished, and the Versailles crowd in the battle, while brandishing their weapons, read the lyrics aloud in their mouths, the tune had long been out of shape, but the words clearly entered the ears of the soldiers of the line warrior infantry regiment, and reached the ears of the Versailles people in all directions!

Under the leadership of the Union Army, the Versailles went completely crazy, they completely abandoned the defensive style of play, and simply brandished their weapons to attack, attack, and attack!

It's not that the officers and soldiers of the line warrior infantry regiment are not desperate, but the gap between them and the other party's numbers is too great, and the periphery of Versailles was soaked in blood for a while.