Chapter 26: The Battle of the Bastille II
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The vast majority of the armed citizens of Paris stayed beyond the range of the soldiers' muskets on the Bastille walls, firing at various obstacles or houses, and these Parisian citizens fired not so much to kill the enemy as to express the 'revolutionary fervor'!
They fought not the blue soldiers of the Bastille, but the golden fleur-de-lis flag, a symbol of the French royal family, that fluttered at the head of the Bastille!
On the other hand, the red, white and blue tricolor flag has become the spiritual yearning of the citizens of Paris, representing freedom, equality, fraternity and other beautiful words!
At this time in the Paris Revolution, the artisans and poor burghers at the bottom were not aware of the difference in political status between them and those who had rich rentiers, and the armed burghers were mixed with a large number of middle-class and even wealthy merchants, and these well-dressed bourgeois rich people like aristocrats, and dirty sans-culottes and lowly laundry women, were always in harmony on the topic of revolution......
Perhaps, there will be a few evil factory owners and capitalists who oppress the workers and citizens and be hated and ostracized, but that is only due to the quality of their personal conduct, not to the exploitative nature of the capitalist class itself!
While the kings and nobles on top of the throne held the autocratic feudal power, they also carried the big black cauldron of the people's miserable life on their heads!
The citizens of Paris, who do not have enough to eat, will only think that it is the extravagant life of the king and the nobility and the high taxes that have destroyed their homes and living security!
Two armed citizens with short sleeves, muskets and hand axes, who were close to the drawbridge, were pointing and laughing at the Bastille under the bombardment of the artillery in the rear, when they suddenly saw that the Bastille drawbridge was quickly lowered!
A group of soldiers dressed in ornate four-rows of golden double-buttoned black uniforms and black hats with red tassels on their heads marched in a long column, jogging out from the open gates of the Bastille!
The two armed citizens looked at the Bastille guards who took the initiative to open the city gates with horrified expressions, but they were stunned for a moment......
It wasn't until a few seconds later that the two men raised their weapons and shouted, "The drawbridge is down!" The defenders of the Bastille are out! ”
The handful of armed Parisian citizens outside the Bastille gates suddenly launched a charge with fanatical faces towards the Bastille defenders, who were crossing the drawbridge and advancing in columns!
There was no tactical strategy, no officer command, it only took a shout from a few active personnel, and the armed citizens of Paris, a mixture of men and women, dared to rush forward with their weapons!
Lin Haoda's army is naturally the line warrior infantry regiment commanded by Casio, these soldiers are tough enough in combat quality, and when facing superior enemies, there will be no hurry, which can play a good role in the follow-up ordinary line infantry!
"All of them, aim ~ fire !!"
In the face of the surging armed citizens of Paris, the second lieutenant officer who was at the forefront raised his command knife and quickly adjusted the first and second rows of soldiers, one row half knelt and the second row stood, and fired a huge volley at the armed citizens of Paris who rushed to 50 meters away!
The Line Warrior Infantry Regiment is worthy of being an elite veteran, and in such a mixed battlefield, it only took a few minutes to cross the drawbridge and complete the horizontal phalanx of guns!
A whole company of 160 men of the line infantry warrior regiment formed 4 rows of horizontal formation, after the first two platoons opened fire, the soldiers of these two platoons moved a step to the right in an orderly manner, and at the same time, the soldiers of the third row and the fourth row took three steps forward, and under the command of the officer, the soldiers of the third row half knelt, and the soldiers of the fourth row stood, and once again fired a volley at the armed citizens of Paris who rushed to within 30 meters!
Two volleys knocked down hundreds of charging armed citizens of Paris, turning their untidy charging queue into a scattered crowd of leaky air!
The armed citizens of Paris who rushed to the front were often the strongest men with the best physical strength, and their courage was relatively high, so this group of people was directly cut off hundreds of people, and the fighting enthusiasm of the armed citizens of Paris behind them was vividly knocked out!
After all, they are just citizens of Paris!
At the same time, the tower battery, which had already been prepared with grapeshot, also let out the only roar, firing hundreds of small iron pellets at the middle and subsequent parts of the charging armed citizens of Paris!
Don't look at the tens of thousands of armed citizens of Paris around the Bastille, but tens of thousands of people can't all gather in the area of the Bastille drawbridge, which can't even stand thousands!
Tens of thousands of armed citizens of Paris were practically unevenly scattered throughout the perimeter of the Bastille walls, and even the unorganized armed citizens could not form a good continuity in the attack, let alone encounter a sudden blow!
While the armed citizens of Paris on the perimeter of the Bastille drawbridge were being massacred by grapeshot bullets and volleys of buckshots, the vast majority of the armed citizens of Paris did not even know that the Bastille guards had come out!
Immediately after the momentum of the charge of the armed citizens of Paris was interrupted by a salvo and grapeshot from the tower batteries, all the soldiers of the Infantry Warriors Regiment launched a bayonet charge!
The ordinary line infantry who drove out of the Bastille behind them also joined the feast of the battle, providing lasting motivation for the line warrior infantry regiment that took the lead in front!
Puff puff~~~
The infantry of the Black Armored Warrior Regiment who rushed forward with a row of bayonets, as soon as they made contact, pierced the chests of more than a plurality of armed citizens of Paris, for this group of armed citizens of Paris who only knew how to rush and fight, the veterans of the Line Infantry Warrior Regiment were far more capable of hand-to-hand combat than them!
What's more, the line infantry warriors and the ordinary line infantry have a collective stab cooperation when fighting bayonets, unlike the armed citizens of Paris, except for the solitary and solitary......
The blue torrent led by the black arrow easily broke through the crowd of armed citizens of Paris on the periphery of the Bastille drawbridge, and the armed citizens of Paris, who could not bear the huge casualties, were completely stunned, they no longer shouted for freedom or equality to attack, but fled in all directions in horror with their heads in their hands, just to avoid the enemy bayonets stained with red blood!
When Mayal's eyes noticed the battle on the perimeter of the drawbridge, the armed citizens of Paris, who had been the first to engage them, had already been routed!