King's Landing in France

Chapter 70 What does it mean to catch a duck on the shelves?
An Ning wanted to struggle at first, but he turned back to the people looking at him and said, "Everyone! Be safe, we will continue to ask the king to withdraw our troops this morning, and we must not give up hope. I am rushing to the Palace of Versailles to attend the meeting." Discuss, first..."

Desmoulins came up and grabbed An Ning: "What are you talking about! Are you discussing how the king used bayonets to expel representatives? At this time, you should arm yourself and save the National Assembly!
"Mr. Frost, please lead us!"

Just as An Ning was about to prevaricate, the driver of the carriage he had just stopped waved his whip and left!

——Don't go!In the name of the National Assembly I order you to stop!
An Ning let out a cry of despair.

But the car went away in a hurry.

It's over (the third liao tone), and now we're going to be the leader.

An Ning quickly completed the iteration of thoughts: If you can't run, then just stand on the post at this position.

So An Ning changed his expression, he pushed away Desmoulins in front of him, and walked straight to the table where he was standing just now.

An Ning climbed onto the table and scanned the entire square.

At this time, everyone in the square held their breath, and everything was completely silent all of a sudden.

An Ning: "His Majesty the King thinks that by uniting the legions, he can scare us! No, he is wrong! A united citizenry will never be defeated!
"Arm up, citizens!"

After An Ning finished speaking, someone shouted, "Arm up!"

"Disarm the Guards!"

An Ning spread his hands evenly to suppress everyone's noise, and continued: "I know that there are a lot of weapons in the cellar of the Invalides!"

You asked how An Ning knew it, of course she knew it by peeking at the script.

Anyway, at this time, no one would jump out and ask An Ning where he knew about it.

An Ning: "Let's go to the Invalides! Armed!"

At this time, someone rushed over from outside the square, found a flower bed beside the square, stood on it, and shouted: "Citizens! The people of San Antonio are armed. They captured the church and found a lot of food!"

"The priests are hoarding food and starving us!"

Everyone's attention was suddenly attracted by the sudden news: "What? They are actually hoarding food!"

"In addition to the priests, there are also grain merchants. They all want to starve us to death!"

Seeing that everyone's anger was about to turn to the grain merchants and priests, An Ning hurriedly shouted: "Everyone, why do the first and second ranks dare to ignore our life and death hoarding of grain?"

In fact, the grain merchants were the proper third level, but An Ning confused this concept and called the grain merchants the second level.

An Ning: "So we must completely change the French system! Abolish the privileges of the second and first estates! For this we must stand in solidarity with Parliament! Down with privileges!
"Only by overthrowing privilege can we really change our situation! Citizens, arm up! To Les Invalides!"

After An Ning finished speaking, many people shouted together: "Go to the Invalides!"

"Down with privilege!"

The crowd surrounded An Ning and began to march towards the Invalides.

At this time, An Ning encountered a problem: he didn't know how to get to Les Invalides. He had lived in Paris for five years, and he was only familiar with the terrain around the Paris Military Academy. I am familiar with it.

But the Les Invalides, this is beyond the scope of An Ning's cognition. In fact, An Ning usually travels in Paris by taxi.

He had no idea how to get from the Palais Royal to the Invalides.

Now he is just being surrounded by the crowd and can't decide where to go at all.

——Everyone should know how to get to the Invalides, right?
An Ning could only think so.

Don't worry, it will be funny when a group of people get lost in the huge city of Paris.

At this moment, An Ning suddenly saw Fan Ni coming out of the house. Fan Ni glanced at An Ning, pouted her lips lightly, then turned around and began to walk quickly.

It looks like Fanny intends to lead the way for An Ning.

It was a great help.

When they arrived at the Invalides, the guards guarding the Invalids looked very nervous, and they seemed a little shaken when they saw the black crowd rushing over.

At this time, the officer in charge of the Guards ordered loudly: "All raise your guns! Don't panic!"

The soldiers raised their guns, and a row of black muzzles pointed at the dark crowd.

An Ning yelled, "Stop!"

He pushed away those who stood in front of him and strode to the front of the line.

The officer took a step forward and said to An Ning, "Are you the leader of this group? Disband them immediately! Go home!"

An Ning pushed the officer away, casually pointed to a guard soldier and asked, "What do you do at home?"

The soldier hesitated, and replied, "It's a carpenter, sir."

"Very well, you are a carpenter and son, what about you?"

He pointed to the soldier next to him.

This time the soldier replied immediately: "My family is a tailor."

"Good job, tailor! And you?"

"Mason, sir."

"Okay! Look at you, you are the sons of carpenters, tailors and masons, and now you point your guns at carpenters, tailors and masons like you! The same third class, why point the gun at your own Fellow countrymen? Just because of an order from a nobleman of the second rank?"

The aristocratic officer saw that the situation was not good, and immediately lowered his command: "Don't be fooled by him! Soldiers take obedience to orders as their bounden duty! Now I order you, shoot! Shoot immediately!"

An Ning stood her ground, facing the black guns of the guards.

Although he knew the history, it was still a bit hypocritical at this time.

He basically pretended to be fearless, but in fact, he was extremely nervous inside, and the adrenal glands secreting a lot almost made his heart break through the shackles of his chest and rush to freedom.

At this moment, the carpenter soldier put down his gun first.

The officer said angrily: "What are you doing? I order you to raise your gun!"

The carpenter soldier shook his head: "No, I recognize this gentleman, he is Andy Frost, a nobleman killer, a hero to our civilians. I can't shoot him."

An Ning thought to herself, how the hell do you know me?Why am I so famous?
Can I not be so famous!
The other soldiers also put down their guns.

The officer was furious and drew his long sword directly: "I order you to raise your guns!"

"No, I..." The carpenter soldier glanced at his companions, and seemed to have gained courage from them, so he said firmly, "I refuse! I can't shoot my fellow citizens!"

The officer was so angry that he blew his beard. He took a step forward and was about to stab the soldier in the shoulder with the sword in his hand, but An Ning took a step forward, directly grabbed the officer's arm holding the sword, and disarmed him!

The crowd was now excited, howling and rushing forward, disarming the remaining sergeants.

Soldiers who refused to fire on the crowd were pushed aside, and people poured into the courtyard of the Invalides.

An Ning shouted: "Go to the cellar! The weapons are in the cellar!"

"This way!" Someone immediately found the way to the cellar, "The door is locked!"

"I'm a locksmith! I'll pick the lock!" Someone immediately volunteered.

Moments later, the gates were thrown open and the crowd poured into the cellar.

Masses of weapons were brought out of the cellars and distributed to everyone.

"There are still cannons!" Someone shouted excitedly, "Come on a few people, help us push the cannons out!"

At this time, Desmoulins, who first dragged Anning into this vortex, said loudly: "Frost is the artillery officer! Let him command the cannon!"

An Ning wanted to help her forehead.

Oh my god, when the Bastille was captured, the cannon was commanded by the owner of a laundry shop named Yu Lan, because Yu Lan didn't know how to use cannons, so the cannons didn't play any role in the capture of the Bastille.

Is it going to be me now?

Finally, the Bastille was breached. The soldiers guarding the Bastille mutinied and stopped the Marquis Delaunay who wanted to ignite the gunpowder and die together.

Before the mutiny of the soldiers, the Marquis Delaunay saw that the situation was over and had decided to surrender, but he proposed a conditional surrender, which was rejected by the people.

That is why the Marquis threatened to light the powder.

In short, the storming of the Bastille was carried out without the people breaking through the defenses.

But now, with Anning, a professional artillery officer commanding the artillery, the situation may be different... After all, the Bastille is not a bastion that can resist shelling, but an old-fashioned castle that is not very resistant to artillery...

—Forget it, don’t want to worry about it, I’m tired, destroy it, hurry up.

Resigned to her fate, An Ning raised her hand: "Okay! I am the artillery officer, and I will command the cannon!"

(End of this chapter)