In the pre-industrial era of Europe, cities were not yet brightly lit at night, but big cities like Paris and London were in the midst of a period of rapid changes in nightlife; people slept later and later, and went outdoors after dark to find joy and joy.
The cafes, pubs, casinos, and brothels all over the city are full of guests even late at night.
Since the establishment of the "First French Republic" in September, the curfew in Paris has been relaxed a lot. Although it was already past twelve o'clock when Zhao Xin and the others came out, and they were walking in the shadows of the street,
But occasionally you can still see a few pedestrians going home together on the street.
At the end of the 18th century, whale oil lamps were commonly used for street lighting in Europe. Usually, two ropes were stretched diagonally from both sides of the street, and the lamps were hung below the intersection point of the ropes. The lighting effect can be imagined by relying on a high-hanging oil lamp on an empty street.
You know. In fact, the purpose of this thing is not to facilitate citizens to walk at night, but to improve public security conditions. The problem is that because the lighting effect is not good, it is difficult to improve the urban security situation much, so there is still a risk for a person to walk alone at night.
It's easy to get slapped.
Relying on the help of night vision devices, the 21 people were like a swimming black snake, stopping and walking, and it took them almost 40 minutes to reach the wall located in the northeast corner of the monastery garden.
The old method of building a ladder in groups of five people is still used, and one person is quickly sent to the wall for surveillance, and then the others climb up one after another. Although Zhao Xin has not been fighting for a long time, he has been exercising and his physical coordination is still good.
I didn't waste much time when climbing over the wall.
The 21 people who participated in the operation divided into two teams after entering the Garden Square according to the previously planned plan. The first team of 11 people, including Zhao Xin, was responsible for attacking the Temple Fort Prison. They would move forward along the bushes on the east side.
To the north, climb up from the city wall on the west side of the Temple Castle, where there is a corridor connected to the Temple Tower Prison.
The second team of 10 people will move westward along the shrubs on the south side, remove the sentries on the roof, and monitor the National Guard in the monastery.
The above two teams are each divided into two groups, namely the support group responsible for fire cover and the assault group responsible for surprise attacks.
According to their respective goals, the two groups advance in single columns with alternating cover; that is, the first group moves a certain distance, stops and covers, and the second group flanks the first group, moves forward some distance, stops, and covers.
Alternate in cycles. Although the progress is a bit slow, it will be safer at a higher alert level.
When everyone is moving forward, in order to facilitate the transmission of information among teammates and the rapid transfer of positions, the people behind will put their left hand on the shoulder of the person in front. These tactical actions are not actually the daily training subjects of the soldiers of the North Navy's special warfare battalion.
But for this operation, many night trainings had been carried out on the Thor.
Just when Zhao Xin and his team arrived at the foot of the north wall, the person at the front suddenly raised his arm and made the stop and lie down gestures. The eleven people in the first team immediately lay down on the grass.
There was no movement inside. A few minutes later, two National Guard soldiers carrying guns and holding lanterns came along the path from the west.
When the two soldiers passed by Zhao Xin and the others and turned their backs to each other, four soldiers from the special operations battalion slowly stood up from the grass like ghosts and tiptoed behind them. The two at the front suddenly opened their arms.
They rushed forward, covering each other's mouth with one hand, and strangled each other's neck with the other arm.
The two French soldiers were shocked. They instinctively pulled the arms off their necks, and their legs kicked up unconsciously. However, their legs were soon tightly hugged, and the pieces hanging on their bodies made a loud sound.
There was a slight noise, and after more than ten seconds, the two fell into a coma completely.
The four people who took action quickly put the hands of the National Guard soldier behind his back and locked them with plastic handcuffs. The same was true for his feet. His eyes and mouth were wrapped twice with tape, and then he tied a tape between his hands and feet.
A rope; in this way, they could not move even if they woke up. The four people then carried the two guys away and placed them behind a dense bush.
In this way, the two teams acted independently, clearing out the National Guard soldiers patrolling and standing guard in the square one by one. Half an hour later, these people were either turned into corpses under the crossbows, or they were tied up with four hooves like pigs waiting to be slaughtered.
, thrown into the grass...
Since the 38-year-old Louis XVI moved into the Temple Tower Prison, except for his personal servants, people around him no longer regard him as a king; everyone calls him "Louis Capet", and his tone no longer contains
Every bit of respect.
Louis XVI explained that his name was not "Capet", but "Auguste". You must know that the Capetian dynasty in French history ended as early as the 14th century, and there was still a brick wall between the Bourbon dynasty and the Capetian dynasty.
As for the Loire dynasty. The problem is that the people guarding him are not historians or heraldry scholars. They still stubbornly call him Capet.
The National Convention has a headache about how to deal with Louis XVI's family. Public opinion throughout France now generally believes that the king and his wife deserved their crimes, but 7-year-old Louis Charles and 14-year-old Marie Therese are innocent.
, these two brothers and sisters have not made any mistakes and should not be punished by law, but they are being imprisoned together.
Unlike his elder sister who is already sensible, the 7-year-old little prince seems not to care much about everything around him and looks carefree every day.
Since his birth, rumors have been circulating among the nobles, saying that he is not the son of Louis XVI, but the product of an affair between Count Fersen and the Queen. However, Louis XVI never paid attention to it. He doted on this little son extremely. For two years
In the past, the leader of the reformists, the Marquis de Lafayette, and some people from the National Convention even conspired to try to threaten Marie Antoinette with charges of adultery and get her to declare the child illegitimate. The queen scorned this,
If you have the ability, try it!
Although he is a prisoner, everyone else in the castle likes this beautiful, lively, and kind-hearted child. Even the most despicable and vicious guy among them cannot get angry with him. No matter where he is, this innocent and innocent child
Evil children always bring smiles to people's faces.
Life in Temple Castle Prison is simple and orderly, with the same content repeated every day...
Around seven o'clock in the morning, when Louis XVI gets up to wash up, the valet Harnett will wake up the young Louis Charles. From this moment on, the cheerful squeaking and tickling laughter will make the sad
The room was full of joy. When Louis XVI was getting dressed and washing, his father was already sitting by the fireplace reading. After getting up, there was a routine prayer. At this time, Louis XVI would also go to another room and read.
Read the Bible for 15 minutes.
At nine o'clock in the morning, the father and son, accompanied by four monitors sent by the Paris Commune, will go to the third floor to have breakfast with the women. Breakfast usually includes coffee, hot chocolate, hot double cream, hot milk,
Cold syrup, cold milk, barley water and lemonade, plus three buttered breads, a plate of fruit, six coffee loaves, three table breads, besides salt and sugar for condiment.
After breakfast, Louis XVI took his son back to the second floor and gave him geography lessons in the room; Hartnett combed the ladies' hair on the third floor, then returned downstairs to take care of the little prince, teaching him writing and
Grammar. After studying, he would play with blocks or dolls in the front room on the second floor. Louis XVI sat in the corner of the fireplace, watching his son through the open door. As for the watchers, they either sat by the stove
, or leaning against the window and watching Louis XVI's every move.
The queen who lives upstairs usually reads with her daughter and sister-in-law, and occasionally sings or plays musical instruments to pass the time. At noon, the family can take a walk in the garden under the supervision of guards.
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At two o'clock in the afternoon, Louis XVI's family would start having lunch, and the Commune Committee responsible for surveillance would cut all the cakes and breads to check whether there were messages conveying messages; sometimes even the fruit would be cut open to check.
Afterwards they usually played chess or dominoes. Louis XVI would take a walk in the tower, walking from his room to the stairs, looking up at the shuttered windows and asking how the weather was. Four o'clock in the afternoon
, he went back to take a nap, the little prince did his homework, and the queen and princesses returned to the third floor to wait for dinner.
At nine o'clock, the little prince would go to bed, and the watchers would step aside to let the queen and princess kiss the child and say good night to each other. Louis XVI would read a book until eleven o'clock.
To the confusion and surprise of all the observers, when the royal family's arrogant and indifferent cloak was removed, the king's family turned out to be very amiable, simple, and even kind.
But in fact, the friendliness of the Louis XVI family to the watchers was a means to divert the attention of the watchers and secretly exchange information. So don't think that these royal nobles are just silverfish. They are thieves one by one at critical moments.
It’s here!
The servant who is responsible for delivering the message will convey the message through gestures during the meal. For example, if he happens to rub his right eye, it means the defeat of the National Guard against the coalition forces of various countries; another example, if he inadvertently touches his hair with his hand, it means that the national guard is defeated.
The guild is discussing issues related to the royal family; using the right hand means good news, and the left hand means bad news. In addition, the queen will use lemon juice as invisible ink to write a secret message, and when the servant hands over the plate, she will pass the small piece of paper out.
In addition, with the help of sympathizers, a loud voice would come to the vicinity of the great monastery every night and shout out the important news of the day in the silence of the night; Louis XVI also learned from this that a Chinese mission was coming to the city.
, but it was not sent by his pen pal Emperor Qianlong, but called "Beihai".
As for Louis Charles, who has experienced three turbulent years, his innocent appearance has a very precocious heart. He knows that he is behind bars and his every move is under surveillance. He is afraid that the guards will torture him.
To his parents, he never mentioned the life in Versailles or the Tuileries Palace, nor the unhappy things since the Revolution, trying to leave a good impression in front of the most despicable caretakers.
For example, during the massacre in September, the scene in which sans-culottes wearing red hats stuck Marie-Thérèse Louise's head on a spear and held it up in demonstration outside the window of the temple tower has been deeply engraved in my mind.
It entered his heart, but he never mentioned it. Even if someone around him said those things, he would pretend not to know. However, this also caused him to often suffer from insomnia at night. He would open his eyes and look at the dark ceiling, recalling what he had done during the day.
,What did you say......
When Zhao Xin and the others quietly climbed up the city wall and killed all the patrolling National Guard soldiers, everyone else in the castle knew nothing about it, but Louis Charles, who had not yet fallen asleep, heard "ta da da"
"The sound. He pricked up his ears and tried his best to distinguish the subtle sounds outside. He must know that his biggest fear in his heart was that those members of the National Convention would suddenly come to the prison and hurt his parents.
Suddenly, there was a "bang" sound outside, and the huge roar made Louisa shrink into the quilt like a kitten. Then, he heard the sound of messy footsteps upstairs, and it seemed that there was something wrong.
Many people poured into the Temple Tower.
"Huh?" The little guy felt a little strange. If the National Convention people came in, they should have come up from downstairs. Why did they go to the third floor?
At this time, Louis XVI had been awakened, but because of the darkness in the room, he was a little at a loss. He turned to his son and whispered softly: "My child, where are you? Are you okay?"
Louischard jumped into his father's arms from the crib and whispered: "Dad, I'm fine. Someone is coming, a lot of people!"
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With a "bang", the locked door was kicked open from the outside. The servant named Goulet rushed in with a rattling key chain in one hand and a sword in the other, followed by a sword.
Hartnett, the servant with the candlestick.
This Goulet did not come from the Tuileries Palace, but was a servant of the Count Artois, the previous owner of the castle. This Count Artois was the brother of Louis XVI and the last member of the French Bourbon dynasty in history.
A king - Charles X.
Previously, the Paris Commune issued a decree requiring all former servants of the Count Artois to leave the Temple Tower. However, these servants had already considered this place their home, so they tried every means to stay, and were even hired as guards or service personnel.
Goulet is one of them. Because this guy is a flatterer and imitates the sans-culottes in wearing a red hat, he is appointed as the "key keeper".
Through the light of the candlestick, Goulet saw Louis XVI and his son nestling together. In his opinion, those who came in must be royalists and came to save the king. The problem was that there were more than two hundred nationalities in the great monastery.
The Civil Guard and cannons made it impossible for anyone to escape. So he quickly walked to the bedside, raised his sword and pointed it at Louis XVI and trembled: "If they come, I will kill you!"
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As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of musket shooting rang out outside the temple tower. However, in the gaps between each shooting, there were countless "swish" whistling sounds echoing, and then, the tragic sounds of the injured were heard.
The shouting started.
Hartnett put down the candlestick and walked quickly to the blinds, trying to see what was going on outside. However, since the blinds were nailed shut and could not be opened, he could only turn around and shake his head with a pale face.
Upon seeing this, Goulet shouted: "Quick! Lock the door and no one can come in, otherwise I will kill him!"
At the same time, in the tower, Erlu, who was holding a shotgun, was leading people to the second floor. They had searched all the rooms on the third floor and found that they were all women.
Zhao Xin shouted loudly in English for a long time, and finally found Marie-Antoinette and three others shivering in the corner in the innermost room. The two guys guarding them saw that the situation was not good and were about to
He raised his sword to stab the queen, but two soldiers raised their guns and blew off half of his head. Blood mixed with pink and white objects splashed all over the queen's face.
Because the stairs were too narrow and dark, the flashlight hanging under the muzzle of the gun could not shine very far, so Elu at the front did not dare to walk too fast. Sure enough, when they were about to reach the second floor, they just showed up.
, at least four or five long and short muskets were fired immediately, causing gravel to scatter on the wall, and then someone rushed over with a long sword and a musket with a bayonet.
It's a pity that those who came were not royalists.
Tom! Tom! Tom...
Within ten seconds, Elu and a soldier behind him fired half of the bullets in the shotguns in their hands. The entrance to the second floor was littered with dead and wounded, and the smell of blood instantly filled the air.
"Don't come in! Don't come in! I will kill him!" Goulet was frightened and yelled. Little did he know that by doing so, he pointed out the location to Elu and the others. Elu walked outside the door and stood across the door.
The fence probe above quickly swept inward and roughly saw the situation inside the house.
"Bang!" The sound of banging against the door sounded instantly. Goulet was shocked. He raised his sword and was about to stab Louis XVI. Unexpectedly, Harnett rushed up and knocked him into the corner. The two quickly
A scuffle broke out on the ground.
Erlu hit him with his shoulder several times, but the heavy oak door could not be opened at all. In desperation, he was about to aim the gun at the door knocker when he heard a crash inside the door, and the door actually opened!
I saw a blond and blue-eyed child appearing in front of me...