There was silence in the council halls.
At this moment, the council hall had evolved into a gladiatorial arena for Leopold and Maximilian, and at this moment, even the closest allies of the two could not say a word, because it was a duel between the two.
"Leopold, your suspicion of murdering His Majesty Joseph II has not been cleared, and the order to blockade the palace of Viana was indeed given by you personally, in such a situation, what is the issuance of several edicts, who can prove that these edicts were issued willingly by His Majesty Joseph II or simply overbearing!"
A confrontation made a strong smell of gunpowder between the two. .........................................
In April 1789, as commander-in-chief of the defense of Paris, Simmond was quickly arrested by the Duke of Orleans while he was planning the defense of Paris, and was later sentenced to death as quickly as possible on trumped-up charges of treason against the people.
The Duke of Orleans made up his mind to arrest Simmond at this very important moment because the Duke found that Simmond's attitude had changed as the tide of war had become more and more unfavorable.
After Napoleon's counterinsurgency army arrived in Paris and Napoleon began his own layout, Simmond knew that Paris would not be able to resist for long, so he privately sent an envoy out of the city to make contact with Napoleon.
Despite Simmond's stealth efforts, the Duke of Orleans' men had already infiltrated his perimeter.
His every move could not hide from the eyes of the Duke of Orleans.
It is precisely because of this that the Duke of Orleans insisted on taking Simond without regard to the terrible consequences that might be caused by the killing general.
After Simmond's death, the Duke of Orleans personally assumed the post of commander-in-chief of the defense of Paris.
But at the moment he had less than 20,000 troops in his hands.
Originally, when Napoleon's army first came to the city, the Duke of Orleans's men and horses, Simmond's men and the so-called democrats in Paris, these resistance forces combined with more than 40,000 people.
Although the number of troops seems to be large, compared to the elite soldiers under Napoleon's battle-hardened command, these garrisons in the city of Paris are somewhat inadequate.
And Napoleon was not a reckless man, thanks to the good education he received as a teenager, Napoleon knew that sometimes he didn't have to rely on war to achieve his goals.
Paris is a cosmopolitan city.
If you exclude the populous country of the Far East, Paris is definitely among the top five in the world in terms of prosperity and population.
According to incomplete statistics, in 1788 the population of Paris was about 500,000.
Even if Paris has experienced two wars, the current inhabitants of the city should still be about 300,000 to 400,000, which means that the daily consumption of materials in Paris is in the millions, tens of millions.
Obviously, the city of Paris alone could not have enough for so many necessities, and Napoleon had already studied it.
Although there are several French national warehouses in the city of Paris.
It was stored with food and the country's taxes, but even if everything was taken out, it would certainly not be enough for the inhabitants of Paris.
Therefore, although Louis XVI repeatedly gave Napoleon orders to conquer Paris as soon as possible, Napoleon ignored this, and in his opinion, he finally seized control of his army, and did not take advantage of this opportunity to expand his power and train his men.
Then in the end, what you get is not a nothing!
After figuring out the joints, treat the Paris War.
Napoleon adopted the strategy of a local offensive and a total blockade.
Use local attacks to keep the spirit of the defenders in Paris tense, you must know that people's mental power cannot be tense forever, and the mental power will always be relaxed after a long time, of course, if you don't relax, then a long period of mental tension will make people suffer from mental illness.
And the situation offensive can also train Napoleon's soldiers recruited from the city of Paris, although these soldiers have experienced the attack and defense of Calais, but these are still far from enough in Napoleon's opinion, he needs not ordinary soldiers, he needs an elite army!
What is the elite, take one as the elite of the ten directions!
The total blockade was to send nearly half of the men to blockade the whole of Paris, Napoleon believed that without the blood supply from the outside world, even if there were stores in the city of Paris, it would not last long, after all, the population of the city was there, and it was spring.
If it is winter, maybe every household can still have some food in stock, but in the spring, the winter food stock has been eaten up, and at most each family still has some daily supplies to last for a few days, and Paris will definitely not be able to bear it after a long time.
Although Napoleon's move was intended to preserve his strength, and Louis XVI saw his thoughts, in the whole of France, Napoleon's army was the last mobile elite army of the Bourbons, and in this case, Louis XVI could only rely on it as best he could.
And Napoleon also gave himself a suitable excuse for his actions, the Calais region is still in the hands of the British, and if Napoleon's army is badly wounded in Paris, then there will be nothing that can be done about Calais, and when the time comes, what will Louis XVI do against the British who are eyeing the British!
The siege lasted for more than two months, and in mid-April, less than a week after Simmond's death, the skies over Paris were covered with food shortages.
In fact, just as Napoleon expected, the food and other materials in the homes of the civilians in Paris were exhausted as early as a few days after the siege of Paris, and the grain and oil stores in the city were blocked because the roads outside the city were blocked, and the materials could not be transported at all, so they hoarded the grain and grass one by one.
Over time, the grain and grass in the city of Paris have risen to incredible heights.
The Duke of Orleans also stepped forward to punish the grain merchants at the request of everyone, but how could there be no support behind these grain merchants who were in the clouds and rain in Paris, and these grain merchants were either relatives of an important person in the democratic party, or the family of a certain important general in the army of the Duke of Orleans, and even the Duke of Orleans found that someone in his family was involved in this price gouging incident.
After that, although Orleans punished several grain merchants with weak backgrounds, it was of no avail, and in the end, the Duke of Orleans had to take out the materials in the warehouses in Paris to appease the hearts of the people and the army.
However, at the beginning of May, no matter how much the Duke of Orleans saved, the reserve of grain had reached the red line, and in this case, the Duke of Orleans had to adopt strict military control, and the people in the city had no other food except a thirty-gram piece of black bread and a bowl of porridge every day.
By mid-May, even such food rations were not guaranteed, and people were no longer receiving any food.
At this time, the severe food shortage made the law and order in Paris rapidly deteriorate, and murder cases abound for a bowl of porridge and a piece of bread, and even some former aristocratic ladies had to sell their ** for a piece of bread, all they wanted was to live.
In the black market in Paris, the price of food was also sky-high, a 30-gram piece of black bread was sold for 3 gold louis, and 10 grams of meat was sold for 50 gold louis, and the price increased nearly 100 times.
By contrast, the army, which had the full support of Orleans, had not yet run out of ammunition and food, but now the soldiers were only fed about 300 grams of black bread and 100 grams of omnivorous food a day.
These 400 grams of food were the daily rations of the soldiers, whereas in the past, the soldiers had more than 400 grams of food for a meal, and not only that, but every day these soldiers had to deal with the local attack of Napoleon's army outside the city, and the fierce battle was very physically exhausting.
It can be said that not only the people at the bottom, but even the soldiers guarding Paris began to be dissatisfied with the Duke of Orleans, and even the remarks about Symond's death that had been suppressed by the Duke of Orleans came up again.
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The Duke of Orleans knew everything that happened in Paris, but it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and even the Duke of Orleans was powerless.
The Duke of Orleans could feel the change in the attitude of the people in Paris, and even in mid-May, some democratic parties openly gathered in front of the palace of the Duke of Orleans to chant the slogan of the Duke of Orleans' resignation, all of which made the Duke of Orleans angry and eager to kill these people, but after the anger, only fear remained in his heart.
The Duke of Orleans knew that if the present situation did not improve, Paris would become a grave for him, and that he, his family and even his dreams would be buried in this bottomless abyss.
On May 25, 1789, the Duke of Orleans gathered the last 5,000 men to break through to the south of Paris, and he was confident that as long as he could escape to the south or even his own fiefdom, then he could make a comeback!
But Orleans missed one thing, that is, the military spirit, just imagine how many of these 5,000 soldiers were able to exert their combat effectiveness after nearly a month of continuous starvation, and even when the Duke of Orleans, who rushed out of the city, saw that all the soldiers were lying on their stomachs like snails on the march except for the hundreds of guards around him, Orleans no longer had hope for these soldiers.
The Duke of Orleans led his family and hundreds of guards to the south, and in a wilderness about ten miles from Paris, the Duke of Orleans was besieged by Napoleon's Grand Army, who had been waiting here, and the Duke of Orleans was killed in battle, and his son, the Duke of Chartre, and his family were captured!
After that, Napoleon's army marched into Paris with the head of the Duke of Orleans aloft.