King's Landing in France

Chapter 80 The March to Versailles
Soon, news of the Flemish Army's presence near Paris spread throughout Paris.

At the same time, there is also a vivid story: it is said that at the banquet hosted by the King of France for the Flanders Legion, the officers of the Legion trampled on the tricolor emblem.

As for the origin of this little story, it is not clear.

Anyone who swears to tell this little story will claim that someone who witnessed it told him, but if you ask who it is, you will definitely hesitate to tell.

On the third day of the Flemish Legion's garrison near Paris, in the early morning of October 10, a large number of Parisians gathered in the square in front of the City Hall.

Lafayette ordered the National Guard to disperse the crowd, but the order was not carried out.

The crowd got bigger and bigger, and there were a lot of women among them.

At 10 o'clock, a female fruit seller climbed onto her cart and shouted: "Everyone! I believe His Majesty the King does not want everyone to fall into such a miserable situation! He must have been kidnapped by that German-speaking Austrian woman." Yes, cheated!
"We French women, let His Majesty wake up! As long as His Majesty wakes up, he will never sit back and watch us starve! Sisters, let's go to Versailles! Let's meet His Majesty!"

The shout of the fruit seller was immediately responded by a large number of women present.Many of them are housewives, and now they can't buy bread. The whole family is starving, and they only go to the street when they have no choice.

Someone chanted: "Get that Austrian woman who let us eat cake!"

"Yes, let her make cakes for us!"

The fruit seller at the very beginning shouted: "Sisters, follow up! Let's go to Versailles!"

Saying that, she jumped out of the car and drove away.

The crowd followed him and set off from the municipal square in a mighty way.

Lafayette watched all this from the second floor of the city hall, with a smile on his lips.

Beside him, Paris Mayor Bailly said: "Shouldn't the National Guard be ordered to take resolute action?"

Lafayette: "What action to take? Isn't this just right? The king thinks that with the support of the Flanders Legion, he can rest easy. Then I want to see what he uses to deal with the angry people. It's the Legion A bayonet?"

Bayi: "What if he used a bayonet?"

Lafayette: "He won't. When I went to meet the king yesterday, Frost tried it out. It can be heard that the king has not made up his mind to be an executioner. Because of this, we can use public opinion, Force the king to submit.

"The National Guard just needs to be ready and come out at the right time to pick up the pieces."

Bayi raised his eyebrows: "You are still as wise as ever. However, I want to remind you that the artillery unit led by Mr. Frost is closer to the Palace of Versailles. You'd better control the timing of standing up, otherwise you will be killed again." Mr Frost picked the peaches."

Lafayette frowned.

"That Frost, he is either very good at hiding himself, or... Anyway, I have been observing him recently, and I think he is a guy with no ambitions. He really doesn't seem to be interested in fame and fortune."

Bayi: "Maybe. Anyway, I reminded you."

Lafayette nodded: "Don't worry, I will take care of it."

**
On An Ning's side, he was supervising the training of his small army early in the morning, but suddenly a large group of men with black shoulders and black jackets drove over along the road outside the manor.

All the troops who were training stopped, looked in the direction of the road, and someone whistled: "Hey, it looks like they are all old women!"

An Ning turned her head and said to Jean Pole, the corporal she had promoted: "Corporal, the whole team, let them be serious!"

"Yes!" Jean Paul responded, turning around and ordering, "Line up! Stand at attention! Seriously, don't talk!"

With her hands behind her back, An Ning walked towards the main road with square steps, stood on the side of the road and said to the people walking on the main road, "Ladies, where are you going?"

"To Versailles!" was answered, "we will ask His Majesty for bread!"

An Ning understood what happened at that time: no need to ask, this is a very famous event in the history of French revolution "March to Versailles".

This incident almost caused Louis XVI's head to fall early, scaring him and the queen enough.

After that, the king completely succumbed, and he could no longer be tough in the face of the National Assembly.

While An Ning was recalling the script, a woman recognized An Ning: "Wait a minute, sir, are you the noble killer, the berserker who broke the Bastille, and Mr. Andy Frost?"

Berserkers who broke the Bastille?What the hell, am I a Berserker?Will a little girl with white hair and red eyes become my master in the future?

Little Lolita's voice actress is Mai Kadowaki, right?

An Ning rubbed her nose: "Uh, that's me. But I don't mean Berserker..."

"Mr. Frost, come with us! Let's convince His Majesty! He must have been tricked by that Austrian bitch!"

- don't take me!I can hardly ride the wall anymore, you should hire someone else!
An Ning: "Sorry, I still have to train the troops, so I can't get away for the time being."

"Then let your troops come along! Bring your cannons!" A big sister said enthusiastically, "Let's go and convince His Majesty that he must have been tricked by the Austrian women!"

Darling, bring cannons to convince His Majesty?
An Ning: "Forget it, you go, His Majesty will definitely listen to your opinions."

Saying that, An Ning waved his hand, turned and walked towards his troops—to be precise, he fled.

He was afraid that if he did not escape, he would be forcibly carried to Versailles by the rushing crowd.

Then the mother himself is really an opinion leader.

As soon as he returned to his troops, Jean Pole reported: "Mr. Captain, we have completed our team and are ready to go at any time."

An Ning was shocked: "What are you going to do?"

Let Boer look puzzled: "Eh? Aren't you going? I thought we were going to help the masses."

An Ning: "Help me, Artillery, don't move! We are a unit of the National Guard, and we can only be dispatched when we receive orders from General Lafayette."

"Really?" Bohr asked suspiciously.

"Of course, what do you think?"

"I thought we were your army, fighting wherever you said."

An Ning: "Shut up! You can't say that. In short, this matter has nothing to do with you. You continue to train."

Then An Ning supervised his troops to train for another two hours, during which time there were people going to Versailles on the road outside the gate.

An Ning pondered, the Palace of Versailles was probably already surrounded by people.

At this time, I ran to the Palace of Versailles by myself, maybe the people would misunderstand.

What if the people carry An Ning and rush into the Palace of Versailles?
Anyway, the last time An Ning was carried into the Bastille, she already had psychological shadows.

So An Ning didn't go to the meeting in the afternoon, and stayed with his troops in the manor.

At five o'clock in the afternoon, Dandong came to find An Ning on horseback.

"Andy!" Danton shouted as soon as he entered the courtyard of the manor, "Why are you still here! The people surrounded the Palace of Versailles, and they asked His Majesty the King to leave Versailles, go to Paris, and live in the Tuileries Palace! "

An Ning: "That's right."

Seeing An Ning like this, Dandong couldn't help laughing: "You seem to have expected this situation a long time ago? When are you going to show up?"

An Ning: "What come out?"

"Aren't you waiting for the most suitable time to come forward? With your prestige among the people, you will definitely be able to persuade the people to leave!"

An Ning was shocked: Did I think so?Even I know for the first time.

An Ning: "Doesn't the king have the Flanders Legion? There are only a few thousand people in the area. How can they be the opponents of the [-] Flanders Legion?"

Dandong said with a smile: "The soldiers of the legion refused to disperse the people and have already retreated to the station. Now the people have surrounded the Palace of Versailles, and only the French King's guards are still preventing the people from entering the palace."

An Ning: "It seems that even if you are the Flanders Legion transferred from other places, you are also deeply influenced by the enlightenment thought."

"That's right, His Majesty the King is about to run out of moves. So when are you going to come forward to force the palace on behalf of the people?"

——Let’s just say I have no such plan!

At this moment, two officers came galloping on horseback. When they arrived at the gate of the manor, they shouted: "Your Majesty's order! The National Self-Defense Forces will go to Versailles immediately and disperse the people gathered in Versailles."

After speaking, the two officers continued to gallop towards the city of Paris on horseback.

On the road they galloped across, there were still a large number of people rushing towards Versailles.

Dandong looked at An Ning: "The order has come, are you going to ignore the king's order? The king may investigate your disobedience afterwards."

An Ning pouted.

If he was not in the courtyard of the manor, he could still excuse himself by saying that he did not hear the order.But the two officers who had just sent an order saw An Ning through the gate of the manor.

An Ning: "Bohr!"

"Here!" Corporal Jean Paul said loudly.

"Assemble the troops! Let's go to Versailles."

"Yes!" The corporal paused, then asked again, "Do you want to bring cannons?"

—What are you going to do with the cannon at Versailles?
"Nonsense, of course we don't bring it! We will march to Versailles as infantry."

(End of this chapter)