King's Landing in France

Chapter 313 The Necessary Sacrifice

The venue for the duel was Mars Park.

This place was originally a holy place for Parisians to go outing. As a result, the Mars tragedy occurred in the second year of the revolution. They fired.

Since then, this place has been no longer used by young people in Paris as a place for outings and picnics. After a long time, the park's square is covered with grass, and the stone pavement is completely invisible.

On the day of the duel, An Ning brought Paulina over early.

Napoleon was unable to attend the battle, and An Ning wrote him a letter to ensure that his sister would return from the duel unscathed.

Desmoulins came early, too, and brought his witnesses.

When seeing that witness, An Ning couldn't help frowning.

Georges Jacques Danton got out of the carriage, looked around, and then his eyes fell on An Ning.

He scratched his head: "Desmoulins is my good friend. If a good friend is going to a duel, I must at least be present to witness his last moment, right?"

Desmoulins is indeed a good friend of Danton, and as the "old man" of the Jacobin Club, An Ning is very aware of this.

He took a step towards Danton and asked, "Do you know why Desmoulins was thrown with gloves?"

Danton replied: "Because he was rude to you, I know. But you should know that Desmoulins is just like this, he is not bad, and you even went to the Bastille with him."

An Ning: "It wasn't the glove I threw, it was Paulina. Although I was a little angry at the time, I haven't reached this point yet."

After all, they were the ones who fought the Bastille together, so there is still some tolerance for this.

Dandong: "Then you hold her, we Jacobins, before we fell in the battle with the enemy, we died in a duel with our own people first, and outsiders will see it as a joke.

"The Jacobins should have died at the hands of the hated enemy, like Marat, by the butcher's knife of the enemy."

An Ning: "Forget it, the contestant is grabbing Desmoulins. If he chooses the sword, I can still teach Paulina to show her mercy."

The pistol is basically to look at the face.

So An Ning was very worried. After all, he didn't have a Steinway prosthesis, so he couldn't save Paulina before the bullet hit him.

As a witness to the duel, he actually only played a role of reassuring himself. If he didn't stay at the nearest place to Paulina to watch at this time, he would definitely go crazy with worry.

Christina also came, sitting behind the table and chairs set out by Fanny in the distance, a pair of hands that had no place to rest moved nervously on the table, showing her uneasiness.

Only Paulina, who seemed to be all right, was a little girl who definitely had a big heart—carved out of the same mold as hers.

Dandong looked at Paulina, and then at An Ning: "Did you teach her some magical skills?"

An Ning almost laughed, thinking that I am a general of Fage, not a boxer, what magical powers can I have-no, I really have it, but this cannot be spread to the outside world.

At this time, Lazar Kano also appeared, and Danton and An Ning stepped forward to greet the third-party witness.

An Ning: "Thank you for your hard work. I found you for this kind of thing when I was busy organizing food, grass and ammunition to march into the Rhine."

Kano: "Actually, it wasn't too hard, so I just went out for an outing—sorry, it's a bit disrespectful to the two who may be bloody. Now that the three witnesses have arrived, then..."

At this time, another carriage stopped beside the three of them, the door opened, and Robespierre in full costume got out of the carriage.

Even An Ning was shocked, because this duel is not a salon, and theoretically speaking, no one else needs to come here except for the witnesses and the parties involved.

Robespierre doesn't even like to attend social occasions, so it's incredible to join in this kind of excitement.

An Ning took the lead to meet him: "Maximilian, why are you here?"

He hugged Robespierre while talking, and then smelled the lavender scent on Robespierre.

The former Robespierre would definitely not have this kind of smell, because he found this kind of thing boring.

Robespierre: "I heard that you and Dandong are both here as witnesses, so I thought, why don't I come to be the third-party witness, which is also a good fit."

Robespierre said and looked at Lazar Kano: "I don't know what Minister Kano wants?"

Kano bowed slightly: "You are willing to be a third-party witness, of course I am willing to give up this position."

Robespierre nodded, and was about to speak, when Desmoulins said, "Okay, now the three giants are all together, one is a corrupt criminal who enriches his own pockets, and the other is a big devil who kills innocent people indiscriminately."

Danton: "Desmoulins! Shut up!"

"Why? During the kingdom era, we could criticize whoever we wanted. In the Jacobin era, as a Jacobin, I can't speak anymore?"

Robespierre looked at Desmoulins with icy eyes, without replying.

An Ning silently thought that if Danton was to go to the guillotine in the future, it must have something to do with Desmoulins' mouth.

Forget it, for the sake of the unity of the Jacobin Big Three, let Desmoulins exit at this time.

It just so happened that there was a duel here.

An Ning turned her head and winked at the weapon craftsman on her side.

The pistol prepared by her own weaponsmith for Paulina is a breech-loading pistol, and Paulina has been trained to use it.

The accuracy of this gun is much higher than that of ordinary pistols.

The only problem is that before the duel, the weapons of both sides have to be inspected by the weapon craftsmen brought by the other side to ensure absolute fairness.

But this problem is no longer a problem.

Because as soon as the weaponsmith brought by Desmoulins entered the arena, when he met An Ning's eyes, he smiled silently.

An Ning looked at Desmoulins again. In the real history, one of the signs of the break between Danton and Robespierre was that Danton funded Desmoulins to start the "Vequier Driere", criticizing the actions of the National Salvation Committee. .

If Desmoulins is killed, this history may be avoided.

——It's time for you to retire, my comrade in arms.

An Ning suddenly remembered that summer four years ago, when Desmoulins wore a standard trousers outfit, jumped into the carriage in front of the cafe, drew a pistol and pointed it at his head.

"The king wants us to stop, all he has to do is shoot me!
"My countrymen, unite! Forward!"

Desmoulins' loud cry still lingered in An Ning's ears, almost making him change his mind.

But in the end, he still stabilized his mind.

This is a necessary sacrifice in order to change history.

(End of this chapter)