Fox of France

The Capitol stood there silently, not even a single person could be seen from the outside.

"Hahaha..." A member of the royal party laughed loudly, "I knew these rebels would have left long ago! These cowards! Hahaha..."

Holding a huge white flag in his hand (no way, the flag of the Bourbon dynasty is this color.), he turned his head and shouted to the people behind: "Brothers, follow me! Put the white flag on the front of the Capitol. Go up!"

The crowd flocked to the Capitol, and many people shot at the walls of the Capitol aimlessly. The bullets splashed small sparks on the wall, and the window glass was smashed to pieces.

The crowd was getting closer and closer to the building, less than forty meters away. But at this moment, there were explosions in all directions.

Countless fireballs emerged from the underground of the square in front of the Capitol and the road leading to the Capitol, and then countless fireballs exploded in mid-air.

"This is..." Barras, who has been hiding behind a window on the second floor of the building and looking out with a periscope, asked in a trembling voice. Although it was winter, there was already sweat on his forehead.

Ballas knew that if he hid elsewhere at this time, it would definitely be much safer. But when the time comes to share the credit, there will naturally be much less. So, after thinking about it all night, he decided to close his eyes and take a gamble. After all, both Fouché and Lucien are here. If they're not sure, they probably won't...

But just now, when those thugs swarmed in, Ballas was really a little scared. He remembered the various strange and imaginative actions of those nobles during the massacre in September. The way to die is that the legs are really weak, and I almost forgot that I have prepared a small bottle of poison beside me.

But this series of big bangs changed all that. After the explosion, the entire square outside the Capitol building and several nearby streets were swept away by shock waves and shrapnel. Most of the turbulent crowd just now turned into corpses in disorder, and the remaining guys also fell to the ground and groaned. , There is no one in the empty squares and streets who can continue to stand there.

"It's an electric detonation mine," Lucien replied. "It's the latest product of our company."

In the original history, in 1799, Volt produced the first practical battery - the Volt stack. It was also in this year that EC Howard produced the important primer mercury fulminate. But in this time and space, when Lavoisier produced nitrated starch in the "Military Technical Research Institute" a few years ago, he also produced mercury fulminate. And recently, in order to develop various explosives, especially timed explosives, Joseph has reproduced the battery. Moreover, his starting point is much higher than that of the Volt. The easy-to-use carbon-zinc battery and the rechargeable zinc-copper battery using dilute sulfuric acid as the electrolyte are immediately available.

Coupled with the electric detonator made by Lavoisier, if a timer is added, a time bomb that is popular with the people of later generations and necessary for home travel, murder and arson will come out. In the future, giving this thing to those European revolutionaries, especially those who love assassination in Dabobo and Russia, will probably blow up half of the nobles in Europe.

Of course, the use of these technologies is not limited to assassination, they have a very important role in many fields. For example, here, it is just a slight modification of the technology that is going to be used in mine safety blasting (the fuse is unreliable and relatively dangerous), and this big killer is produced.

The so-called "electric detonation landmine", if you have a conscience, is a package of nitrated starch wrapped in oiled paper and tarpaulin, and then wrapped with some things like broken glass and iron nails, and then plugged in an electric detonator and connected to the wire; If you have no conscience, first nail a long nail on the ground, then put the explosives wrapped in glass slag and iron nails on it, plug in the electric detonator, connect the wires, and then put an authentic "Bonaparte melon" on it ", pull out the cable and fix it on the iron nail below. In this way, once it is detonated, the small melon on it will be blown into the sky, and its ignition tube will also be pulled. With just the right amount of dynamite placed, the melons can explode in the air, making it even harder for the target to escape.

In one night, the Red Army planted more than 300 such mines on the square and the main road leading to the Congress building, turning the entire area into a huge death trap.

"Counterattack! Take the opportunity to defeat them!" The current commander-in-chief of the Red Army and Colonel Berthier, the successor Cano worked hard to cultivate, shouted.

As a result, hundreds of soldiers in red uniforms suddenly appeared from behind the windows and doors, holding bayonet-loaded rifles, rushed out of the door, jumped out of the window, and faced the distant people who were hit by the explosion just now. Shocked, the rioters who hadn't figured it out rushed over.

Those rioters were already scared out of their wits by the explosion just now. The reason why they didn't disperse immediately, went back to their respective homes and went to their respective mothers was not because they had any courage, but because they were scared stupid. Now seeing a group of soldiers rushing towards them with sharp bayonets, they all suddenly came to their senses, turned around and ran, shouting as they ran: "We are defeated, run, run... ...Damn it, get out of my way!"

The crowd was in a mess, and of course they couldn't run fast, so the Red Army quickly caught up, first a round of volleys, then another round of small melons, and then...well, and then nothing.

The rioters didn't even think about fighting back or anything, they just ran away. The smarter people dropped their weapons, left the street, and fled into the alleys. Anyway, the Red Army didn't chase this way, they only chased towards the place with the most people.

"Mr. Barras, now, in the name of the commander of the city defense, you can issue counter-insurgency orders to the National Guards in all districts. I'm sure they will obey the orders honestly now." Lucien looked out , Then turned his head and said this to Balas.

In fact, there was no need for Barras to issue an order at all. After receiving the news of the failure of the royal party to besiege the National Assembly, it goes without saying that the National Guards in the district that had originally maintained a "good-faith neutrality" had already actively joined the ranks of beating dogs in the water. Even those who were originally inclined to the Royalist Party and even came out as a whole team to besiege the National Assembly, but they came out a little later, immediately said: We came out to suppress the rebellion and defend the Republic!

As the saying goes, "Thousands of people beat the drum, and everyone pushes the wall." The rebellion that changed the sky in Paris was suppressed in just half a day.

But to be honest, the royal party's losses are actually very limited. After all, among those who rushed to the front, there were not many people with truly noble blood. Moreover, before launching the rebellion, although these people said one by one that they would succeed this time, these nobles who survived the Robespierre era had already habitually prepared themselves to flee after failure. retreat.

In addition, Ballas and his new friends can't take care of arresting those nobles for the time being, so most of the nobles who participated in the riots, as long as they are not brave (stupid) At the very front, basically all escaped successfully. Of course, some people think that this is just that some people still need the existence of the royal party in order to put pressure on others.

The rebellion has been quelled, and the most important thing is to reward meritorious deeds. The Thermidorians met in the National Assembly to consider the questions of a new government and Congress.

First of all, in this incident, those who have made great contributions must be rewarded, otherwise it will be unreasonable, and... and the Red Army will not agree.

In the past, no matter how noisy Paris was, the army never really intervened in these political struggles in Paris. But this time, the army suddenly appeared on the stage, and with such a thunderous blow, it proved to everyone: "You must not misunderstand us. We are not targeting anyone here. We mean that if you want to compare Turn over the table, you are all rubbish!"

However, the 500-man Red Army easily defeated 40,000 thugs, but the casualties they paid were pitiful. The only soldier who was honorably injured in the battle was sprained while chasing the thugs. As for how many thugs died, God only knows. It is said that the wagons that dragged the corpses were busy all day.

Now that the military has begun to interfere in politics, it is impossible to go back to the past without doing anything. Even if the army is willing to do so, it is impossible. Now, anything in France can no longer ignore the attitude and interests of the army.

"In the past period of time, our military industry management has been in chaos, and we have sent too much junk to the army! Let me tell you, the soldiers are very dissatisfied! They are wondering if there is a conspiracy by the royalists, They are wondering whether any of us are selling them and France for money! They all feel that this situation must not be allowed to continue!" At the government meeting, Barras suddenly turned into an army interest spokesperson.

"So, we must pass a resolution to restore the military representative system, restore the quality inspection and quality accountability system for military procurement. How to try to stuff those rags into our army is a betrayal of the great France and should be punished. The most severe punishment!

The military's procurement, except for a few classified ones, should be done openly. The military has publicly proposed technical standards, and only qualified products from companies that meet the technical standards can enter our military..."

"It's really fast that Barras fell to the army." Just as Ballas was giving an enthusiastic speech, one congressman whispered to another congressman under the podium.

"Isn't it, Mr. Genet." The congressman also responded in a low voice, "But I am more concerned about the standards set by the army. I think it is very likely that some scientists developed something first, and then asked the army to follow their standards." products to tailor a standard."

"Hey, this guy Ballas is really a discerning guy." That Mr. Genet whispered, "He was the one who managed to sell the reserve price of the Naval and Technical Institute to that family. And I heard that , Mr. Ballas has just sold the two gunpowder factories under his own name to them, and it is said that he has also become a shareholder of some 'military-industrial complex'."

"It's really enviable... He's so rich that he didn't tell us beforehand..."