Chapter 25: The Battle of the Bastille I

Commander Mayal, wearing a wide-brimmed hat, rode a tall horse surrounded by the National Guard, holding up a monocular and looking at the enemy's troop deployment and firing points at the walls and towers of the Bastille.

After observing the firepower and deployment of troops in the Bastille, Mayar took a deep look at the golden fleur-de-lis banner that had been flying at the head of the Bastille, symbolizing the French feudal autocracy. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

"Go and ask if anyone knows who is guarding the Bastille?"

Mayal ordered the entourage and guards around him who were inquiring about the news.

In a short time, Mayal received a helpless answer, the armed citizens who had been attacking for so long knew nothing but that the Bastille guards were adequate, and they did not even know where the commanders and soldiers in the Bastille came from......

It's really the blue military uniform style on the other side, which these armed citizens have never seen before!

Not to mention the unsightly armed civilians, even Mayal, a high-ranking officer selected by the National Guard, did not know which side the military uniform style on the other side belonged to......

At this time, the army in blue uniforms was famous for nothing more than the Swedes, and it was obvious that it was impossible for the regular army of Sweden to appear in Paris, the capital of France!

Of course, the identity of the other party does not matter, Mayal only needs to know that the other party is on the side of the French royal family!

The National Guard brought by Mayar was only a part of the main force, mixed with a large number of former French security army soldiers and a considerable number of bourgeois militia!

These two are the core members of the National Guard, and almost all of them have undergone basic shooting training.

Under the system of veterans leading new recruits, the National Guard is actually a cut above the so-called militia organization, and it only needs to go through a period of systematic training in the regular army to reach the level of a standing army in Europe!

After frowning and thinking for a while, Mayal said to the heralds: "Tell the defenders of the Bastille that if they are willing to drop the drawbridge and surrender, we can spare their lives and give them freedom after disarming, otherwise they will all die!" ”

As he said the last sentence, Mayal's tone suddenly became gloomy!

Soon, several soldiers of the National Guard, waving white flags, came to the bottom of the Bastille walls and shouted Commander Mayal's request to the blue-uniformed soldiers inside.

In the war of this era, a small number of people with white flags are allowed to send messages to the enemy on the battlefield, except for madmen, few people will fire at these white flag personnel who have no weapons and rarely get close to their own people, which will appear to be very low!

Naturally, in the face of this surrender request, it is strange that Lin Haoda can agree!

A hint of anger appeared on Mayal's face, who was categorically refused, but he quickly restrained himself, and ordered the artillery to be arranged with a calm face!

Three of the cannons were used to bombard the city gates, and the remaining two were used to suppress the tower batteries on both sides!

The National Guard brought the latest large-caliber siege field artillery, even if it is attacked, it has the advantage of power and range in the face of the old artillery on the tower battery!

Under the slogan of the National Guard soldiers, the 5 cannons were pushed to the best firing position, quickly set up, and smoothly fired their own flames!

The professional artillery of the National Guard is obviously many times stronger than the armed mobs, and the power of the specialized siege field guns is also quite amazing, and the five shells that missed the target smashed the walls of the Bastille into the bricks!

Lin Haoda looked at the red, white and blue tricolor flag of the National Guard, the uniform and the artillery bombardment that was like the standard of the regular army, and realized that the time had come to test his army!

The performance of the National Guard is much stronger than the armed citizens who only relied on brute bravery and bloody attacks before, although the number of the National Guard is not large, but they have tens of thousands of armed citizens as forward cannon fodder!

The bombardment of 5 cannons undoubtedly restored the slightly reduced morale of the armed citizens of Paris, the craftsmen, the women who did the laundry for a living, the coolies who 'moved bricks', the handymen on the assembly lines in the factories, etc., every shelling shouted the slogan of freedom and equality!

"My lord, the opponent's artillery is very powerful, our tower batteries can't hit them at all, if the revolutionary army continues to bombard like this, sooner or later the wall or city gate will be blasted out of the gap, are we going to launch a counteroffensive to destroy the opponent's artillery position?" Casio. Thunder eagerly suggested.

Apparently, the word sit and wait never appears in Casio's lexicon!

Lin Haoda looked at the morale state of the line infantry at the city gate, and there was an extra depreciation attribute that was bombarded by the enemy's superior artillery, and asked Casio in a solemn tone: "How sure are you that you will destroy the 5 cannons of the revolutionary army?" ”

After hearing this, Casio's eyes lit up, and he raised his head and replied in a deep voice: "My lord, although the mob of the revolutionary army on the opposite side is weak in combat, but there are many people, under our sudden counterattack, it is best to invest as many troops as possible and plunge into the depths of the revolutionary army with the strongest fist, only in this way can we destroy the deadly siege cannon as quickly as possible before they mobilize other troops to encircle them, and safely retreat to the Bastille, but ......"

"But to put it bluntly, as long as you can guarantee success, I will give you the greatest support!"

"My lord, I need the elite line infantry warrior regiment to take the lead, this counterattack will have to be close to the enemy, and there will be a lot of battle damage, so ......"

"As long as victory is guaranteed, battle damage is not a problem." Lin Haoda replied without distress......

He really didn't feel distressed, in his eyes, the army was just an NPC consumable for him to realize his ambitions, after all, he had very little contact with these soldiers, and all of them were Caucasians, and there was no psychological barrier between skin colors, that was impossible!

It's like Lin Haoda has no grievances with those white people, but after meeting them on the street, the other party will still be very unhappy and glaring at him, racial discrimination and differences in skin color concepts cannot be eliminated in the 21st century, let alone the barbaric 18th century?

"Yes, my lord! Every soldier will be honored for your death! "Casio. After Thunder gave a standard hand salute, he took the warrant issued by Lin Haoda to move the troops, Casio is only the direct commander of the line warrior infantry regiment, and if he wants to transfer other line infantry companies, he naturally needs Lin Haoda's approval!

After Lin Haoda heard Casio's words, his eyes narrowed slightly, and he sighed again in his heart that the magic of the system could make a group of people have a personality cult to such an extent, and the dictatorial model has made a lot of money!