King's Landing in France

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There are also very deep trenches outside the fortress, and the defense of the entire fortress looks quite impenetrable.

When An Ning inspected it, he felt that this fortress could not be taken down without a several times superiority in troops.

Relying on this fortress alone, it may not be a big problem to guard it for a year.

After all, this is not a game of "Europa Universalis 4", which can spend the military points equivalent to a general to break the defense of the fortress.

But when An Ning asked the fortress commander and other professional city guard officers, they didn't seem too optimistic.

After careful questioning, An Ning got a piece of common sense from them: for each fortress, the main obstacles to sticking to it were disease and lack of supplies.

The attacker only needs to attack for a period of time, causing enough casualties to the defenders of the fortress, and then continue to surround the fortress.

At that time, the corpses that the defenders of the fortress have no spare time to clean up will become the best breeding grounds for diseases, and soon various plagues will be prevalent in the fortress.

In the era when trebuchets were used, the Mongol army would even throw corpses into fortified cities to catalyze the plague.

Now everyone doesn't use trebuchets, but the casualty rate of wars is much higher than before.

Of course, there are various medicines stored in the fortress, but the medicines of this era can basically only play a comforting role, and they don't really work much.

In addition, just defending the city does not win the victory.

Victory can only be achieved by defeating the enemy in field battles.

The officers in the fortress are not like An Ning. They don't know Lazar Kano's abilities, and naturally they don't know that the Ministry of War will form a terrifying new force by July this year.

So the officers of the fortress were pessimistic about the outcome of the war.

After an inspection, An Ning decisively decided to remove the chief officer of the fortress.

He then appointed the smug Napoleon acting commander of the fortress of Sedan.

Napoleon was the best at commanding artillery. Generally, artillery officers would minor in military engineering. Napoleon learned military engineering very well when he was in school, so An Ning handed over the entire fortress to Napoleon with confidence.

Handed over to Napoleon together, there are [-] fresh troops.

"You are only acting commander now," An Ning said to Napoleon. "After this war is over, I will promote you to brigadier general!"

Napoleon was overjoyed: "You can make a deal! Then you will let me command an army!"

An Ning wanted to laugh: Napoleon told me, "When the time comes, you will let me command an army." Compared with you in another time and space, you are too unambitious.

An Ning: "No problem, you will have an army by then! You can even have a legion! But you have to let me defend this fortress."

Napoleon: "Is it just me? No one will cooperate with me?"

"Of course there will be. Lana Division will harass the enemy near you, and La Salle, I will let his cavalry harass the enemy's supply line like the wind."

Napoleon: "That's all right!"

He paused and said with a smile, "I still expect to attend your wedding."

An Ning: "I'm afraid my wedding will end this war. That is, we will fight to Vienna and capture that old hag and locksmith back!"

Napoleon: "Just thinking about it makes your heart beat! I said, Andy, you just bring that locksmith and his wife back for trial? Don't you think the Holy Roman Empire is an eyesore? We should build A new Rome!"

Napoleon complained a lot when the National Assembly decided on the national flag and coat of arms of the Republic.

This Rome fan wanted a gold flag on a red background, not a tricolor.

The flag of Rome should be a gold map on a red background.

In the end, An Ning had no choice but to agree to Napoleon. After his troops became famous, when he chose his own military flag, he would be given a Roman eagle flag with a red background and a gold pattern.

Unexpectedly, Napoleon thought about "Shinra" again: "This country is too annoying. If we go to Vienna, we have to disband him! Why does the Habsburg coward have a crown, not even France Woolen cloth!"

An Ning thought for a while and nodded: "Indeed, we will deal with the illegal organization Shinra!"

Chapter 221

Arranging for Napoleon, An Ning inspected Verdun on his way back to Paris.

In fact, An Ning wanted to guard Verdun by himself, mainly because he was familiar with this place.

As a military history buff, he has read a lot of the battle history of the Verdun Meat Grinder, and now he can recall everything when he sees this terrain.

But Berthier, who accompanied him on the inspection, tried his best to prevent An Ning from personally serving as the guard of Verdun.

In the end, An Ning asked Berthier to recommend a trustworthy officer as the guard, and Berthier recommended Bernadotte.

An Ning looked at Bernadotte, his eyes gleaming: Good guy, another future marshal!

But this guy has been at odds with Napoleon in real history, and he even put a hat on Napoleon—the green one.

Thinking of this, An Ning's expression on Bernadotte became complicated.

He naturally doesn't like men who will give people a cuckold, this is a little cleanliness of a pure love warrior.

But Bernadotte's command quality should be enough.

After a short thought, An Ning made a decision: "Okay, since my chief of staff strongly recommended you, I will trust you and be handed over to you by Verdun! Remember, your task is to stick to it until July! July Next month we will have enough troops to launch a large-scale counterattack!"

Bernadotte was a tall man, half a head taller than the already tall An Ning, with slightly curly black hair and piercing black eyes.

After listening to An Ning's words, Bernadotte replied loudly with his head held high: "Don't talk about holding on until July, I can even hold on until December! I am very familiar with this fortress, and it will show the Prussians and Austrians a good look." Yes! Don't worry!"

An Ning raised her eyebrows.

At this time Berthier said: "Bernadotte admires you very much, and he has been preparing for his allegiance to you."

An Ning was a little surprised. When he read the biography of Napoleon, he felt that Bernadotte was a rebellious person, and he had never been very interested in Napoleon's personal reputation.

Why is he worshiping me now?

An Ning looked at Bernadotte again, and after the latter noticed his gaze, his body tensed even more, like a proud rooster.

Suddenly, An Ning remembered that Bernadotte is a hardcore republican!He didn't deal with Napoleon because Napoleon wanted to proclaim himself emperor.

In real history, when Bernadotte was in Italy, he felt that Napoleon was very ambitious and might be detrimental to the Republic, so he confronted Napoleon everywhere.

But this history, what is An Ning, is the founder of the Republic, a die-hard republican, Bernadotte worships An Ning, is it reasonable?

An Ning took a step forward, picked up Bernadotte's arm, and rolled up his sleeve at once, revealing the tattoo on his arm.

The tattoo reads "Death of a Tyrant" in Latin—yes, it's the same as in real history.

Berthier was shocked: "Why do you have tattoos? This is against the rules!"

An Ning raised one hand to stop Berthier from continuing: "Okay, it's not bad to express your ambition with a tattoo. Just deduct one month's salary as a punishment. Let me see, the tyrant dies, this Does the tyrant mean Louis XVI?"

Bernadotte replied: "Every tyrant who rides on the head of the people!"

Good guy, it's no wonder he didn't deal with Napoleon so much afterwards. After Napoleon became emperor, he became a tyrant in the eyes of many people.

This later became the regent of Sweden through election, and participated in several anti-French alliances, taking practical actions against the tyrant Napoleon in his eyes.

When watching the biography of Napoleon, I will unconsciously bring into the perspective of Napoleon. I naturally feel that Bernadotte is a rebellious boy, who is annoying to death, but jumping out of the perspective of the biography of Napoleon, from the perspective of a pure bystander, Bernadotte is a A ruthless person who carries out his beliefs to the end.

An Ning looked at Bernadotte's tattoo and took a deep breath.

Will he become a tyrant whom Bernadotte hates?

Will he ascend the throne of the French Empire one day in the future, and thus drive away Beethoven and Bernadotte?

no, I can not.

An Ning waved away these thoughts, and put down Bernadotte's arm: "Very good, I have already felt your will, I believe you will defend this fortress. When the counterattack in July is over, I will personally hold a grand ceremony for you Celebration banquet."

Bernadotte stood at attention again and saluted An Ning: "I will definitely live up to your expectations!"

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After inspecting the two fortresses, An Ning returned to his headquarters in Versailles outside Paris.

The reason why the headquarters is placed here is mainly because it was originally the palace of the King of France, and there are a large number of houses that can accommodate a considerable number of troops.

An Ning no longer wanted to see the continuous bloody scenes in Paris, so she moved out, and also isolated herself from the intrigue and political struggle in Paris.

Here he can concentrate on preparing for the defense of Paris.

Of course, An Ning also had a little bit of selfishness: he had been to the Palace of Versailles several times before and had seen the luxury of the palace, so he wanted to try living in such a luxurious palace.

Gotta give it a try.

Napoleon in another time and space also went to live in good houses everywhere. When he was in Spain, he even slipped into the city of Madrid, which was full of anti-French elements, to see the Spanish Royal Palace where his brother Joseph Bonaparte lived.

In short, An Ning's headquarters was placed in the Palace of Versailles, so his fiancée, Christina, who had been relieved of military affairs, became the temporary mistress of the Palace of Versailles, and Fanny became the temporary head maid of the Palace of Versailles.

The day after Anning returned to Versailles, Lazare Cano arrived from Paris with an update on the reorganization of the troops.

With him came a young cuirassier officer.

An Ning looked at the cuirassier officer who came with Lazar Kano suspiciously: "Who is this?"

Lazar Kano was a little surprised: "You don't know?"

An Ning let out an "oh", realizing that this might be a famous general that Lazar Kano had found based on the list he had given.

This list was only given to Lazar Cano, and Berthier didn't know it.

Of course, there is no Bernadotte in this list. After all, An Ning was still in the perspective of Napoleon’s biography when writing this list, and he thought Bernadotte was a rebellious boy.

An Ning recalled the list she gave, among them those who came from cuirassiers...

An Ning: "Could it be that you are Noahshan Murat?"

An Ning remembered that in the game "Battle Banner of the Maiden", Murat had her own armor and was a cavalryman, so it must be that the cuirassiers didn't run away!

Murat was shocked: "You know me?"

Not only do I know about you, I also know that you are going to marry Napoleon's youngest sister and become the king of Naples... But that's all in another time and space.

Good guy, now we have found two of the three heroes in the army, and only one neyin is missing.

Moreover, Murat is different from La Salle. La Salle can lead at most a brigade of cavalry, and he can't command larger troops. Murat is a general.

An Ning firmly held Murat's hand: "Great! You came just in time for this kind of time when talents are needed!"

Berthier looked at all this suspiciously, and just by looking at his expression, he knew that he had already made up a lot of plots in his brain.

Chapter 222 Xiao He, Where's My Han Xin? Where's My General?

An Ning won two prizes in a row, so he was naturally very happy, but he frowned when he saw Murat's military rank.

Murat was the captain.

This is not right, An Ning remembers that Murat was already a major in 93, and after fighting a few battles, he could use his relationship with Robespierre to give him the entire major general.

Major generals can be released to command divisions or even army-level units, and the value of these famous generals can be fully utilized.

But now it seems that there are some deviations in history. Murat is still a captain, and he was directly promoted from captain to general. It is estimated that the parliament will have some criticisms.

Although An Ning is now the leader of the Jacobin Big Four, he can forcibly ignore the opinions of the parliament and stand in for his generals, but no one dares to say anything.

But An Ning wants to use the power in his hands cautiously.

In An Ning's previous life, I don't remember whether it was Teacher Shen or Teacher Jin who said that the decline of American hegemony was because he did not use his hegemony cautiously, which led to excessive consumption of hegemony.

An Ning thinks so, so he intends to use the power he has obtained now cautiously.

That is to say, it cannot be abused.

Can you force Murat to be a major general, of course, but this matter is not urgent, that is, to lead Murat to fight a few more battles.

It just so happened that An Ning had sent La Salle out to fight guerrilla warfare. The king of the hussars was taking his two hussar brigades on a tour in the wilds of northern France.

A developed place has a revolutionary foundation, and La Salle can completely get the support of the locals, and a small number of troops can maneuver and harass the coalition's communication lines.

If you send La Salle out, then you must have an officer who understands cavalry by your side, right? You can't charge, let Ms. Oliver go?

As a cavalry officer, Ms. Oliver is relatively mediocre. She is better at making the ceremonial cavalry formed by girls out of beautiful formation.

Murat just came to fill this gap.

But Anning still lacks infantry officers.By the time of the counterattack in July, An Ning may have 20 troops under his command, at least divided into three armies, otherwise it will be really difficult to expand.

If one army is handed over to Lana, what will happen to the remaining two armies?Do you want to choose those faces of the public to command?

What if they screw up?

After all, An Ning is not playing games now, he can't see the stats of those generals, and he doesn't know which one of those popular faces can fight and which one is a coward.

If there is really no other way, Murat can only be temporarily promoted to five ranks, promoted to major general, and let him command an army.