As a squadron leader of the French Royal Guard, Franco's family has a history of origins, and the twenty-seven-year-old Franco was able to become a glorious squadron leader of the Royal Guard, and the family's help also played a certain role in this.
Although Franco's family has never been powerful or wealthy in France's history, it is perhaps because it has never climbed to the pinnacle of power that Franco's family has been able to survive for hundreds of years.
Before the coalition army came to Paris, Franco's small life can be said to be quite good, Franco, who was born in a small aristocracy, has a well-connected wife, two lively and lovely sons, plus the prominence of his position, life can be said to be peaceful.
But after several defeats in France, especially when the coalition forces turned their fingers on Paris, Franco's family was like thousands of families living in Paris, and their lives were suddenly thrown into a state of no return.
With all the kingdom's financial resources used to recruit soldiers, even Franco, a squadron leader who commanded nearly a hundred royal guards, had not received a salary for three months, and the prices in Paris were rising like airplanes, making people almost unable to make ends meet.
As for the enemy outside Paris, Franco knew the strength of the enemy, and as a mid-level officer of the royal guard, he could often see a trace of resentment and panic against the coalition on the faces of the kingdom's magnates.
Under these circumstances, Franco had to leave Paris with his wife and children to flee to the western part of the kingdom, and Franco himself was a member of the royal guard.
So it was impossible to leave Paris at all.
Stand on top of the walls of Paris and watch the enemies that appear in the distance.
Franco felt his calves twitch a little.
The French royal guard is not like the Prussian royal guard, Prussia because of its belligerent and warlike monarchs, so the royal guards who are guarding the monarch are made up of veterans who have been in battle.
In France, because Louis XVI would not send the royal guards around him to the battlefield at all, coupled with Louis XVI, a large number of nobles exhausted their brains to place their children in the royal guard, which directly led to the French royal guard being far inferior to the Prussian royal guard, and even the combat effectiveness of the veterans under Napoleon was much higher than that of these glamorous royal guard soldiers.
Because Louis XVI had already appointed Napoleon as commander of the defense of Paris.
As an important member of the armed forces in Paris, Louis XVI's royal guards were naturally drawn by Napoleon to participate in the defense of Paris.
"Squadron leader, do you think we can beat those Prussians?"
Several Royal Guards soldiers, who had been frightened by the bombardment of the coalition forces just now, stood beside Franco and asked their squadron leader in a trembling voice.
Although the shelling just now also made Franco a little frightened, but in the face of his subordinates, Franco naturally wanted to put on the appearance of his superiors, only to see Franco reluctantly said: "Don't look at so many enemies outside the city.
But the enemy could not enter Paris at all!
Don't forget, our commander is Napoleon, the first general of the kingdom!
” Hearing Franco mention Napoleon, the faces of the soldiers around him looked a little better.
In France, although Napoleon was not recognized as the first French warrior by the top because of his age and seniority, he was in the middle and lower classes of France.
Napoleon's name is a great name.
Whether it was the suppression of the rebellion of the Duke of Orleans in Paris, the suppression of the rebels in the south of France, and the annihilation of the British Expeditionary Force in the Netherlands, this is a remarkable achievement.
Although Napoleon subsequently suffered a defeat, no one who has carefully analyzed the balance of power between the two sides will think of it as a different place.
I can do better than Napoleon.
"Squadron Leader, we're the Royal Guard.
Why be on the front line on the walls like those untouchables!
” "That's it, that's it, squadron leader, we're all children of nobles, how can we be equal to those untouchables!"
The two unscrupulous soldiers said to Franco's side, but Franco was frightened when he heard the words of the two of them.
Although what these two soldiers said was not wrong, in the French royal guard, more than eighty percent of the soldiers were from noble families, and even the children of big noble families above the earl level were quite a few.
Just like Franco, although he is only a squadron leader, his father is a viscount, and as the eldest son, Franco is obviously the heir to the title, and the two soldiers who just spoke to him belong to the baron's family, and the other is the earl's family.
"You don't want to die, you haven't heard the military order issued by His Excellency the Marshal before!"
Franco looked to both sides, and when he noticed that no one was noticing his side, he was relieved and said: "Don't say this kind of thing anymore, fortunately, you are lucky, the military judge is not here, otherwise, no one will be able to protect you!"
When Napoleon recruited these Guards soldiers, he thought of the complex relationships in the Guards, which is why Napoleon also issued an order to prohibit any words that disturbed the morale of the army in the army, and among them, cowardice before fighting, fear of the enemy like a tiger, and contempt for colleagues were the first punishment.
After saying that, Franco stopped paying attention to the two boys under his command.
In fact, there are many people who are dissatisfied with Napoleon in the royal guard, and when the news came out that Napoleon was going to transfer the royal guard, a large number of nobles wanted to remove their children from the royal guard through relationships, especially those nobles who originally just put their sons-in-law in the royal guard.
But in the face of this situation, Napoleon decisively said no.
Of course, there is one exception, that is, the soldier is missing an arm and a broken leg, so he can not go to the battlefield.
This harsh rule naturally made many nobles dissatisfied with Napoleon, and in the eyes of these nobles, the reason why the aristocracy was aristocracy was because God had given them the mission to rule, but now Napoleon actually treated the children of the nobility and those untouchables equally, which is simply ridiculous!
In less than half an hour, the coalition forces were less than five hundred meters away from the walls of Paris "The soldiers in the front row are ready, and the officers at all levels are waiting for orders!"
A command rang out over the walls, and the soldiers guarding the first line of defense on the walls and the watchtowers raised their loaded rifles.
The artillery on the walls was also reloaded with ammunition.
The coalition army also expected this situation for a long time, only to see that the formation of the coalition army suddenly changed from the original tight type to a skirmish line, and although the soldiers carrying siege equipment were not easy to disperse, in front of these siege teams were also suddenly erected countless huge shields made of thick wooden planks and coarse cloth.
The ten-centimeter-thick planks and several layers of coarse cloth were enough to withstand the shots of the rifles, and they were also useful for the shells.
After all, today's thermal weapons are not as powerful as those of later generations, otherwise they would not have been the turn of those cuirassiers during the Napoleonic Wars. .....................................
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"My little Eric, call Daddy, call Daddy!"
Standing in the garden of the Brandenburg Palace, William kept teasing little Eric in his arms, but it seemed that little Eric was very strange to William, even though William tried his best, but little Eric was very faceless and pinned his head to the side.
This scene made William touch his nose in embarrassment.
"Poof, okay, William, Eric is still so young, how can he speak, you, you're so anxious!"
Anna walked up to William and took Eric from William's arms, and said with a little complaint on her lips.
When Eric arrived in Anna's arms, he behaved completely differently from William's arms, only to see a bright smile on the little one's face, and even rubbed his own mouth on his mother's face with his own saliva.
Although her face was full of saliva, Anna still laughed, no mother would not want her child to be spoiled in her arms, and for Anna, Eric was even more entrusted with her all.
Seeing the happiness between Anna's mother and son, William became even more embarrassed, as if William, the father, was completely superfluous at the moment.
Unwilling, William came to Eric again, and then took out a delicate ring as if by magic.
"Eric, Eric, smile, Daddy will give this to you!"
William dangled the ring in front of Eric as he put it on his face and smiled like a flattering smile.
But Eric still didn't give William a little face, and the little guy even had a crying expression on his face under William's repeated teasing.
And Anna was already a little stunned when she saw the ring in William's hand, and the ring that William took out was the Hohenzollern ring that he had worn on William's hand before, that is, the family crest ring mentioned earlier.
Although William was only used to tease Eric, Anna was startled by William's act of taking out the ring.
Anna, who was relieved for a while, hurriedly cooperated with William to make Eric smile and then reached out to take the ring, but little Eric still didn't give face.
In the end, William had no choice but to put the ring in his hand again, which also made Anna feel a little sorry in her heart.