Chapter 1079: Heart of Paris

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At the beginning of the 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIV's grandfather Henry IV, he converted the dilapidated houses of Paris into neat brick and stone townhouses, and did some urban construction projects such as roads, bridges, and water supply.

In 1616, the then Empress Mary. Morality. Mariede Medicis transformed a marshy field in front of the Louvre into a tree-lined avenue – the Champs-Élysées.

The Champs-Élysées runs east and west and is the main thoroughfare in front of the Louvre, which is still heavily controlled by the French army. Yun Teng, with 211 Daqin Royal Marines, stepped on the morning light that was gradually brightening, and was rushing towards the Louvre along this avenue.

Woohoo!

Woohoo!

The three-stage firing formation with a platoon of 40 people, when encountering the blocking French troops, a row of bullets immediately sprayed out, and the rifled design of the Type 69 flintlock rifle made it much longer than the French army's smoothbore gun.

The French army was still waiting for the invading Qin army to enter the firing range, and the bullets of the Qin army had already whizzed, beating the rows of French troops into a sieve, one by one blood holes, a puff of blood, a miserable howl, row after row of falling, and the smell of blood quickly filled the entire street.

At this moment, the city of Paris, except for a few main roads such as the Champs-Élysées, is almost in flames, full of rebels with sandbags, sundries, and barricades, and robbery and killing almost spread to the entire city.

The French army, which was less than 5,000 in the city, could only shrink its forces and hold on to a few main roads, except to ensure the safety of the Louvre.

Heavily guarded by the French army, almost all the rebels who rushed to these main roads at night were shot and killed. At all the street corners, corpses lay on the ground, stained with blood.

However, in the face of the rebel people, the French army could gain the upper hand, in the face of the fierce attack of the Qin army, it was like light ice seeing the sun, quickly melting, their bullets could not hit the Qin army, but the bullets of the Qin army could shoot them far away and were full of blood holes.

When encountering a place where there was a barricade, rockets whistled past, and under the loud bang, the barricades were blown to pieces.

because of the riot in the city. The French army, which was already demoralized, died and fled under this fierce artillery fire, and the defense line was breaking down with astonishing speed, and the footsteps of the Qin army almost did not stop, and they were advancing towards the Louvre.

The Louvre is located north of the Seine, in the middle of the city of Paris, and is the heart of the city, which is known as the heart of Europe. The Queen Mother, who was steadily known as "Anna of Austria", did not close her eyes all night, asking again and again about the situation in the city and when the reinforcements would arrive.

She was forced to flee Paris with her son, Louis XIV, also because of a rebellion by the city's Fronde. She still had lingering palpitations about the extremely thrilling and wolf-bèi scene at that time, and she didn't want to run away again.

However, again and again. But there was no news of the arrival of reinforcements.

Mazarin sent several groups of messengers to recruit Frode to lead an army back to suppress the rebellion in the city, and the fifteen-thousand-strong army led by Frode should have not reached Orleans by this time. Even if the army can't all return in such a short time, it should always be time to get some light horsemen back to support first.

Then to Mazarin's alarm, the several groups of messengers sent were all like stones, and there was no news of Freud's reinforcements.

In the middle of the night, the Stonethrower spread rumors that the "Austrian Anna" was trying to overthrow France, and used the words of former Prime Minister Richelieu to stir up the people of the city, which made the riots in the city even more raging.

It is true that Anna was the wife of Louis XIII, but she also had an identity - the daughter of Philip III of Spain. She was the sister of the current King Philip IV of Spain.

Her marriage to Louis XIII was purely a political marriage. Married to Louis XIII at the age of 13, the couple was unhappy and effectively separated from 1620.

Cardinal Richelieu, Louis XIII's most important minister, was suspicious of Anne's role in France. Due to Anne's Spanish origins and her status as a member of the Habsburg dynasty, Richelieu was constantly concerned about her betrayal of France.

After several rebellions against Louis XIII, Richelieu accused Anne of Austria of being complicit in the conspiracy, but failed to find any valid evidence in each case.

But in any case, Richelieu is one of the greatest prime ministers in French history, and he accused Anna of Austria (the Spanish royal family of Habsbao originated in Austria, so the French call Anna of Austria, the daughter of Philip III of Spain), naturally formed a huge influence in France, and now the Fronde party has once again moved out of the former Prime Minister Richelieu to talk about things, and the light yì has triggered a wave of opposition from the Parisian people.

The rebellion intensified, the reinforcements were nowhere to be seen, the Queen Mother Anna and Mazarin stayed up all night, and finally survived until dawn, thinking that the situation would improve because of this, after all, the rebels in the city lacked weapons, most of them relied on the cover of night, and launched attacks with stones and bricks, once after dawn, they had nowhere to hide, and the shape would be much more beneficial to the well-armed palace army.

However, what Anna and Mazarin were waiting for was a news that shocked them even more, and they saw Nasser, the captain of the palace guard, rushing into the Louvre in a panic in the hazy morning light;

"The Queen Mother, Prime Minister, it's not good, the people of Qin suddenly entered the city, their weapons are too terrible, we can't stop it, the Queen Mother go quickly"

"Qin people?"

Anna and Mazarin asked in unison, they were still a little unable to react for a while, didn't the people of the Qin State flee to Le Havre? They

"Come on, how could the people of the Qin Kingdom appear in the city of Paris, how could it be? What nonsense are you talking about? ”

"Queen Mother, I'm not talking nonsense, I don't! The Qin people suddenly entered the city, and quickly broke through many of our defensive lines, and they were almost advancing to the Louvre."

Austria's Anna and Mazarin were instantly messy!

Mazarin still did not believe Nasser's words, and he hurried out of the palace gate, only to see that in front of the palace gate, General Willik was personally directing the soldiers, shelling the western section of the Champs-Élysées.

Boom, boom, boom

The sudden sound of cannons shook Mazarin's ears like thunder, and the pervasive gunpowder smoke choked him a little dizzy, and he saw that it was really from Qin, although he had not seen the people of Qin, but those intruders hiding behind the doors and pillars on the side of the street clearly had the faces of orientals, and Mazarin could assure God that he had really seen it.

"Quick, continue the shelling, stop them from approaching" General Willik had already sensed the danger approaching rapidly, and those Qin troops were using the buildings on the street as cover, and the cannon fell and rushed over, one by one, moving flexibly and quickly, appearing and disappearing between the buildings.

Boom, boom, boom

The artillery rang out again, and one by one the barrage sprayed wildly, shooting at the houses on the street, crackling like raindrops, but the Qin army took advantage of the house to dodge, these shotguns could not cause any damage to them, and as soon as the cannon fell, they jumped up and jumped up.

Before the French could reload their shells, they saw two hundred paces away, several flames rising into the air and flying down the street, "Oh! Oh God," Captain Nasser exclaimed, and threw himself down Mazarin;

Rumble! Boom

Several fierce explosions exploded near a few cannons, several flames rose up, and the violent shock wave overturned several cannons, and rows of French soldiers were blown away, and their bodies were torn apart, which was unbearable to see.

On the opposite street, the Qin army let out a shout, and while rushing over, there were flames rising from time to time, and they bombarded the scattered French army, and the hundreds of French troops guarding the palace gate were blown away, screaming and crying and scurrying around.

Mazarin only felt his head buzzing, he overturned Nasser who threw himself on top of him and sat up, Nasser was moaning in pain, and he didn't know where he was hurt, Mazarin looked to the other side of the street in panic, and saw that the Qin army was getting closer and closer, he didn't care about Nasser, and immediately fled to the palace.

The two hundred Qin troops, chasing the French army who had lost their armor, shouted excitedly, and rushed into the heart of Paris - the Louvre.

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