And with the participation of these big guys in the battle, it means that the situation in the city of Paris has been completely out of control, because these big guys are not ordinary people can have, and the ability to take out thirteen six-pounder cannons at a time is enough to show how powerful the hostile forces are.
In the past, although Napoleon ordered the suppression of the mob, the intensity of the battle was still under control, because the army did not use artillery on a large scale, only used some two-pounder cannons and three-pounder cannons to deter the rioters, but now the situation is different...
If these cannons were not collected or destroyed as quickly as possible, thirteen six-pounder cannons could have destroyed the walls of the Bastille in a single day, even though the walls of the Bastille were claimed to be the strongest in all of Paris!
And at this time, Napoleon got the bad news, that is, the 3rd Regiment of Jingbei, which was originally planned to support the Bastille, had been completely surrounded by mob forces, and the 3rd Regiment was currently struggling, and the herald of the 3rd Regiment even told Napoleon that if it did not have a day, the 3rd Regiment would not reach the Bastille at all.
But will the Bastille survive a day?
Will 800 soldiers be able to keep the Bastille alive under siege by a mob of more than 6,000 and thirteen six-pounder guns?
The answer is obvious: no The anxious Napoleon could not care much more at the moment, and he immediately ordered "I order that all the troops who are quelling the rebellion must show no mercy, and that the most complete suppression must be carried out against those stubborn mobs, and I hereby order, in the name of the commander of the counterinsurgency, that all the troops be allowed to use the most drastic means to exterminate these rebels in the shortest possible time!"
After saying that, Napoleon was going to take someone to the Bastille himself.
But it was at this time that Napoleon got news from home.
Napoleon's father, Carlo, sent Willis, the old housekeeper of the family, to report to Napoleon, and Marie's most trusted person was also the one who caused the bloody storm in Paris this time.
Napoleon earned the title of "Queen's Dog" in Paris, but it was for this reason that Napoleon's house became one of the focus of the mob's attacks after the riots.
Originally, Napoleon's house had a garrison force of 30 people, but after the turmoil in Paris, as an important figure in the headquarters of Paris, Napoleon's residence also received a force of 20 people.
In the aftermath of the riots, Napoleon arranged for half a battalion to be deployed around the house.
But these forces were somewhat weak compared to the rioting populace, and Napoleon's house was not protected by the high and strong walls of the Bastille.
Willis told Napoleon.
Now Napoleon's family still has a garrison of less than 100 people, and this 100 people also count all the men of Napoleon's family, including Napoleon's older brothers and younger brothers who personally hold weapons and guard the front line, although because Napoleon's house layout is somewhat compact.
Reduced the attack surface of those mobs.
But the numerical superiority of the mob is overwhelming.
If nothing else, Napoleon's family can hold out for two hours at most, and if they don't get reinforcements within two hours, the members of the Napoleonic family living at home will be devastated!
With members of the family on one side and the Bastille on the other, Napoleon was a little conflicted and frightened, and the current situation had forced him to make a choice.
If we talk about supporting a family, there is no doubt about it.
The fall of the Bastille under heavy artillery bombardment would be inevitable, and once it fell.
The rescued heretics will use their influence to make Paris even worse, and even the whole of France will be swallowed up by this volcanic lava!
But if the Bastille prison is rescued, the Napoleonic family will inevitably be protected, and if you think about the father and kind mother and sisters who want their son Jackie Chan, they will never be able to give up that family affection.
Thinking of this, Napoleon wanted to divide the army, but the last reason in his mind told him that it was not advisable to divide the army, originally he had only one regiment in his hands, and if the soldiers of one regiment were divided into two teams, there would be only five or six hundred soldiers at most, and five or six hundred soldiers were a drop in the bucket compared to the mob that could easily reach thousands of people, and the already stable streets also needed to be defended by additional soldiers.
In this way, Napoleon still had less than nine hundred mobile forces in his hands, and nine hundred men could only guarantee one aspect.
Napoleon's mind was constantly thinking about gains and losses, but time did not allow him to think about it anymore, and just as he gritted his teeth and made up his mind, Mary's face crossed his heart.
"Everybody follow me, let's go to the Bastille!"
Because of Mary, Napoleon gave up the original idea of supporting the family, some people may say that Napoleon's move is simply a loss of people, but only Napoleon himself knows what his choice means!
Paris was so big that the movement of the nine hundred men was not very conspicuous to the whole city, but Paris was also so small that Napoleon could see the direction of his home, but he could only stop at a distance.
When the difference in strength between the organized mob and the organized army is not overwhelming, the strength of the two sides is not at the same level at all.
The addition of Napoleon's 900 new troops was an opportunity to change the situation.
The original mob around the Bastille was about 14,000 people, nearly 7,000 people besieged the Bastille, nearly 6,000 people were blocking the 3rd Jingbei Regiment supporting the Bastille, and more than 1,000 people were rioting in the surrounding streets.
Caught off guard, Napoleon led the 4th Regiment to break through the mob's defense line and make contact with the 3rd Regiment of the besieged Chinese and Russian, and then more than 2,000 people from the two regiments launched an attack on the more than 3,000 mobs blocking the front.
With more than 2,000 fully armed soldiers facing a mob of more than 3,000 people with only rudimentary weapons, the two sides were not at all on the same level, and fortunately, just after Napoleon had routed the mob in front of him, his garrison was met by more than 1,000 men of the First Army who had just arrived here.
After joining the forces of the First Legion, Napoleon did not rush to the Bastille, he ordered his troops to exterminate the remnants of the mob in the surrounding streets.
In Napoleon's mind, the Bastille should still be able to hold out at this moment, and if the mob besieging the Bastille knew that a regular army of more than 3,000 people was coming behind them, these mobs would surely fall into a state of unrest and even panic.
And the situation developed just as Napoleon thought, just as the walls of the Bastille were about to be breached, several mob leaders who were directing the siege of the Bastille had received the news of the arrival of the king's army.
When it was learned that Napoleon was personally leading an army of more than 3,000 men to the place, several mob leaders panicked.
Don't look at the siege of the Bastille before, but this is because they have a numerical advantage in their hands, but now with the increase in casualties, they have less than 5,000 troops in their hands, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on a rabble of 5,000 to resist the front and rear attacks of the regular royal army.
The commanders of the mob had the idea of retreating, and just as they were weighing the pros and cons, suddenly there was a "Boom!"
"It shocked everyone.
Bridgestone immediately rushed to the Bastille wall and raised his binoculars, but what made him suspicious was that the Bastille wall, although badly damaged, was far from collapsing.
Just when Bridgestone was confused, there was another "boom", and suddenly he heard someone shouting: "Everyone, run, the cannon is blown up!"
Behind the mob besieging the Bastille, a puff of smoke rose into the sky, and it seemed to be the beginning, only to see the explosions coming from the positions of the cannons.
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Bridgestone felt a blackness in front of him, of course he knew what these cannons meant, but he didn't expect that at such a time, the explosion of the cannon would actually cause a chain reaction.
The exploding cannons ignited the surrounding hoards, and the detonation of these cannons caused the cannons not far from each other to suffer.
In fact, the cannons of this era are very limited, if they are used for a long time, the explosion is the inevitable result, although these six-pounder cannons have been maintained quite well, but the frequency of the use of artillery by the mob is too frequent, and most of the artillery used as artillery are the private soldiers of the Duke of Orleans, and these private soldiers have limited cognition of cannons.
The royal family has never relaxed its vigilance against the Duke of Orleans's faction, which makes it impossible for the Duke of Orleans to train his artillery on a large scale, and because of Marie's wariness of the Duke of Orleans and the idea of being in a state of control, most of the troops controlled by the Duke of Orleans have not been on the battlefield for more than ten years.
This led to the fact that every time the Duke of Orleans could only secretly invite those old gunners to teach his family's private soldiers, and in order not to make too much noise and be discovered by the royal spies, these artillerymen did not have much knowledge of actual combat.
Although the artillerymen of the Duke of Orleans kept in mind the precept that artillery is easy to explode during a long battle, they were not allowed to rest at all during the siege of the Bastille, and although some of these mobs were in the hands of the Duke of Orleans, most of them were spontaneous.
These people don't know whether the artillery explodes or not, they just blindly know that letting the artillery fire has no meaning to let the artillery rest at all, and as long as the artillery stops for too long, those mobs will even get angry and point the finger at their own people.
To be continued. ） ps: Just came back, and then posted two chapters, thank you