Not long after they were immersed in the happiness of escaping from death, the hearts of these lucky people became heavy again. The road to Paris is usually extremely busy, and there are also lively villages on both sides of the road, including factories and workshops. Starry sky.
The popularity that it should have had has all disappeared today. Almost all the villages are lifeless, with only wild dogs and cats running around inside.
There is no one working in all the farmland. The black smoke that the small factories and workshops used to spit out is now completely closed!
The nervousness made these fleeing people shut their mouths. After another ten minutes, there was a sudden noise at the end of the southern road, followed by smoke and dust rising into the sky.
These frightened birds hurriedly jumped to the grape fields on both sides to take shelter. They hid behind the grapevines and looked carefully, but ten minutes later they saw several red flags of the National Guard.
"It's the National Guard in the city! Look, it's the National Guard that was established... there are countless of them, they are all... Long live!"
A few children jumped up first and waved their arms at the soldiers on the road. Soon, soldiers from the Self-Defense Forces rushed down the road.
"Where did you come from? Have you encountered any enemies..."
"We came from Bobigny... The enemy was stationed in Bobigny last night! Woohoo... I met you!"
Many women hugged these soldiers and cried loudly. When these soldiers heard that they were refugees from Bobigny, they immediately reported the situation to their superiors. Soon, two war horses came to the scene carrying two commanders.
"How many enemies are there? What kind of weapons are there? How did you get here last night..."
"Why did they let you go?"
A series of questions were asked, and before these women and children could explain, a commander discovered the compressed biscuit crumbs at the corner of the little boy's mouth.
"What is this?" The soldier snatched half of the cream-flavored compressed cookie from the boy's arms.
The little boy shouted anxiously, "Give it to me, give it to me... This is what I have left for my mother and sister, give it to me..."
A worker leader broke off a bit of biscuit crumbs and put it in his mouth. His face suddenly changed. "Is it Chinese military rations? I tasted it when I was in Bavaria. It is a special product exported from the East. It seems to be called compressed biscuits." !”
"What exactly did you encounter? Why did the Chinese give you military rations?"
"Separate them, interrogate them in isolation...find out what's going on?"
The person shouting loudly was a Hungarian named Frankl, who was also one of the leaders of the international workers' movement. This time he also came to support Blanqui and others.
Standing next to him is the Frenchman Delecrouz, a journalist and a veteran of the labor movement, who has high prestige among leftist forces.
The two leaders with livid faces looked at the women and children in front of them crying and complaining. The soldiers separated them and started interrogating them in turns in the grape fields. Even the children were not spared.
"What happened yesterday? Why did the enemy let you go? And why did they give you food rations..."
"Look...this woman has money on her? A big bag of francs...Damn it*, did you get this money by betraying the country?"
With a snap, the soldier gave the little girl a hard slap in the face. "How dare you talk nonsense and lie! The money from selling the cow? This money can already buy three strong bulls!"
"Will those invaders still pay for what they took away?"
"Did you sell yourself to the enemy? Have you become a lowly prostitute at a young age? Smelly..." There was another big slap in the face.
No matter how the girls tell the difference, no one believes what they say. "It's all lies at such a young age. It must have been obtained by selling information. A yellow-haired girl like this, even if she sells meat, she can't possibly make so much money!"
"Look...this old nun has more money! Damn it, there are more than two thousand francs...where does the money come from!"
There were even soldiers who separated the children and threatened them with threats and deceptions: "Be good, tell the truth and I will take you to your mother... If you dare not tell the truth, I will sell you overseas to work as a gangster." slave!"
"Say it quickly... don't cry, tell it quickly..."
The scene was in chaos. No matter how these women and children explained it, these soldiers just didn't believe it, because they absolutely didn't believe that there were invaders in this world who didn't rob or commit adultery!
I don’t even believe that the invaders would spend money to buy your cattle and sheep. It’s a complete fantasy!
"We didn't... God, we really didn't. Why don't you believe me? Wuwuwu... We were just locked up in the church all night, and we didn't do anything..."
Delecluse said with a livid face, "They are just a group of women and children. It doesn't look like they are lying, so let them go..."
Frankl said with a dark face, "War is not a child's play. This is the first time that our National Guard has fought against the invaders. We can only win but not fail..."
"It won't work if you don't know every move of the enemy! If these women didn't betray the information, how could they have escaped safely? How could they still get so much money?"
When the topic of the first battle was brought up, Delecreuz stopped talking. He was silent for a moment and said, "Don't interrogate anything else first. First, ask them about the enemy they saw..."
"How are the weapons and equipment? What is the quantity? What is the composition of the troops..."
But those who stayed in the town and did not escape last night were a group of ignorant women and children. They didn't even know how to count. How could they count the number of enemies in the dark.
After interrogating them for a long time and receiving several beatings, they finally found out that this vanguard force was all composed of Chinese. Except for some translators with European faces, the rest were all Chinese.
Such a pitiful amount of information caused the two commanders to fall into great worry.
The chaos began last night, when Bobigny's defeated army and residents sent horrific news to Paris, and the whole city was in a sensation.
It was only in the morning that the establishment of the Republic and the establishment of the new government were announced. At four o'clock in the afternoon, Blanqui and others received the first batch of one million francs in military pay from the reorganized Ministry of Finance.
At around eight o'clock in the evening, fully half of the Self-Defense Forces soldiers had not received their daily military pay of 5 francs! But at this moment, shocking news came from the Porte de Chapelle near the train station in the north of Paris.
Thirty thousand Bobigny citizens mixed with the defeated army fled into the city walls of Paris like bereaved dogs. The news of the arrival of the Chinese vanguard shocked the whole city.
The news was quickly sent to the Bourbon Palace on horseback, and a temporary committee of 26 people immediately convened a meeting!
Rumors have been flying all over the city of Paris. These Bobigny country bumpkins have exaggerated the number of enemies to the sky. In their mouths, the number of Chinese vanguard troops has exceeded 20,000, and some even shouted that the number of enemy troops is 100,000. Rumors!
"Fart! It's all fart! The total amount of the army that Xiao Letian brought from Asia this time is only more than 2,000. Where can we find 20,000 or 100,000?"
"These damn idiots actually messed up our military morale!"
Thiers, as a member of Parliament attending the meeting, loudly refuted the rumors in the city!
