King's Landing in France

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An Ning: "But you all admit that Massena is a talent, right? Believe me, Lana will have the same performance."

Berthier and Davout looked at each other.

Napoleon suggested: "If you are worried that Lana will not be able to withstand it, you can strengthen my artillery unit to Lana. Anyway, the front is a superior force, and it doesn't matter if I don't have it. I want to go where I am most needed."

An Ning: "No, in case Lana's front line collapses, your artillery is actually not easy to run, although you are all horse-drawn artillery."

Napoleon: "What, I thought you trusted Lana completely."

"Of course I trust him, but this does not prevent me from arranging some insurance measures. Distance is our insurance measure. Even if Lana is defeated, we will have one day to deal with the Austrian army going south in the Adige Valley."

Berthier: "Very reasonable."

An Ning continued to gesture on the map: "Now La Salle is going to find the enemy's main force. I guess their current location is probably here."

An Ning drew a cross on the map.

"It will take two days to reach Rivoli from here, unless the Austrians forcefully march and come here without sleep. But it has just snowed heavily, and there should be considerable snow in the canyon. In this case, the forced march without sleep, Then when they reach Rivoli, we can easily defeat this tired enemy."

In fact, the reason why An Ning knew that Wumuze would take two days to arrive was because Wumuze in another time and space walked this road for more than two days and nearly three days.

An Ning, this is basically the same as cheating.

But this is different from the promotion of officers by leapfrogging. This is very cryptic. It seems that An Ning is just making an estimate based on common sense.

Davout: "My troops can reach Rivoli in a day and a half."

An Ning: "A forced march?"

"Yes, according to your estimation, after the forced march arrives at the position, there is still half a day to recuperate."

An Ning: "Execute it!"

At this time, an orderly rushed into the room: "Report! The second division is urgent!"

An Ning: "It's Lana, give it to me."

The messenger stuffed the letter into An Ning's hand, and then saluted.

An Ning opened the letter, and his apprentice in the dyeing workshop wrote in crooked characters: "There are a large number of Austrian troops in front of me, and they are fighting."

Chapter 195 This fortress is called Fort Lana today

At this time, Lana had just repelled the third wave of the Austrian attack.

The French army occupied a ring fortress on the top of the hill. The outer wall of the fortress was as high as a person, not too high, but it was enough for defense.

Now, when the Austrian army began to retreat, French soldiers stood on the earth wall and shot at the retreating Austrian army.

Lana's forehead was grazed by a bullet, and the blood from the wound just entered his left eye, which resulted in an inexplicable red filter on his vision-only when the left eye was closed would it return to normal.

After the battle, Lana got some wine from the barmaid accompanying the army and washed his wounds.

This is a new treatment method advocated by An Ning, and many military doctors in the French army have quite a few complaints about this treatment method.

But Lana believed His Excellency General's words unconditionally.

After all, that is His Excellency the General.

Your Excellency the General has no orderlies, so when Lana was instructing the regiment, he would occasionally appear as the General’s orderlies. He knew how knowledgeable the General was. He heard the General speak fluent Italian and German with his own ears, and directly communicated with Italians and The Austrian captives talked in the language they knew best.

It is said that His Excellency the General also understands Latin, so what a learned man must say is right.

When Lana was washing the wound, the female bartender joked: "You actually use this to wash the wound, what a waste! This is a wine for your courage. I specially picked it, although the place where it is produced may not be very good. Authentic, but this is definitely a good wine!"

Lana: "I know it's good wine. Only good wine can have the burning feeling when washing the wound."

The barmaid: "Really, I have been a barmaid for a while. When I joined the army, General Lafayette was still there! I saw those doctors who saw the legs and hands of the wounded. If you are injured, you have to amputate the injured limb, can washing the wound with wine work? I think this is your majesty’s whimsy!”

Lana: "You don't understand, do you? I saw it with my own eyes! Your Excellency the General charged in person, and got a few wounds on his face. He washed it with wine, and he almost healed the next day!"

"Really? This sounds like an old alcoholic's speech after drinking too much. Could it be that the wound on your head can also drink?" The female wine waiter asked suspiciously.

Lana said categorically: "I'm sober! I saw this with my own eyes. In addition, the little maid brought by Your Excellency the General, I would chat with her from time to time. She saw that Your Excellency was shot with her own eyes, and she was still alive. Just like no one else, it will be completely fine in a few days!

"It is said that this is the effect of washing the wound with wine!"

The female bartender snorted: "Okay, then I'll wait a few days to see if it's really that effective."

Lana: "Of course it is true. According to the statistics of Chief of Staff Berthier, after using the method of washing wounds with alcohol, the battle damage of the troops has been greatly reduced. The tail is back."

As soon as Lana finished speaking, the bearded soldier next to him said, "That's the case, if you don't believe me, look at me."

As he said, the uncle rolled up his sleeves, revealing the scar on his arm: "This is the wound he got in the battle with Lafayette. See this scar, how big is it! I knew it when I saw such a big wound. Time to say goodbye to my arms.

"In the end, guess what, after insisting on washing the wound with wine once a day, the wound began to heal within a few days, and white tender flesh could be seen on the edge of the wound! Not to mention necrosis, my wound didn't even fester change.

"The doctor said that this is a bad omen, and that your wound is recovering only if it has suppurated. So the doctor was going to wipe my wound with mud, when His Excellency the General appeared.

"He stopped the doctor and seriously asked every wounded person to keep the wound surface clean. Damn it, I don't even know what a wound surface is."

The characteristic of Chinese is that each word has a meaning. Even if you encounter a new word that you have never seen before, you can guess the meaning of each word according to the meaning of each word, and you will be able to make a good guess.

However, subtitle languages ​​such as French and English do not have this function, and the average person suddenly hears a brand new vocabulary, and it is basically impossible to guess what the word means.

The bearded veteran cursed: "Wounds and wounds! I don't know if I pronounced it right, but that's what I said anyway."

"It's Latin," Laner said. "I guess."

How could a dyehouse apprentice know Latin.

The bearded veteran continued to read: "In short, Your Excellency the General is a very remarkable person. Anyway, he is a hundred times, a thousand times greater than a barely literate person like me. Listen to him, you are right!"

The bartender: "Really? Then if you ask me for wine again in the future, I won't give it to you. I'll save it for washing your wounds after you get hurt."

The veteran immediately looked like a bolt from the blue: "Why is this? God's horn, you can't do this!"

The soldiers around laughed.

Lana also laughed. At this time, the scout observing the mountain shouted: "The Austrians are coming up again!"

As soon as the voice fell, the Austrian artillery began to fire.

Lana drew his saber and shouted to the crowd: "Get into the post and get ready!"

In this era, there is no concept of dodging artillery. When you hear the sound of the artillery, you will directly enter the position.

After all, artillery in this era is still a thing with a maximum range of only about 1000 meters and a solid iron ball.

The French swarmed up the earthen wall, lay prone on it, and fired at the enemy below.

Because the earthen walls of the fortress were not long enough to accommodate all the soldiers lying down, and it was impossible to reload while lying down, the French army adopted the practice of one person lying down to shoot, and the two behind them reloading.

A solid shell hit the earthen wall of the fortress. As a result, because the earthen wall was on a slope, the shell bounced straight up, flew into the sky, and passed over everyone's heads.

Standing next to the tricolor flag planted on the tower of the fortress, Lana held his saber in one hand and leaned on the flagpole with the other, and shouted: "Everyone! The general wants us to hold out for at least two days!

"I will be with you these two days! Let those damn Austrians never dare to look down on France again!"

The soldiers roared together.

The Great Revolution turned France into a nation-state in the true sense, and the army of the nation-state was destined to be different from the army of a dynasty like Austria.

What's more, the leader of this army is the "Immortal Grenadier" Lana.

Lana stood at the head of the city, completely ignoring the enemy's artillery fire and bullets. He was like a Greek statue, looking at the swarming Austrians with pity.

The Austrians climbed up the slope of the outer wall of the fortress. This slope is not only used to defend against artillery, but also has a function, which is to promote the coincidence of the attacker's marching route with the defender's firing line.

The French army on the city wall fired desperately. Even a musket with poor accuracy had a pretty good hit rate at such a short distance.

Countless Austrians were shot and fell, and then slid down the slope of the outer wall, turning into obstacles blocking friendly troops.

But the Austrians still rushed within range of the bayonets.

Lana roared angrily: "It's now, counterattack! Go!"

While shouting this, Lana jumped directly from the tower of the fortress, landed in the middle of the enemy group, and cut down an Austrian captain with a sword.

The French soldiers jumped up, screaming strangely like a tiger on the mountain.

Chapter 196 Go to the battlefield

While Lana was fighting, Anning's main force was rushing to the Rivoli Terrace.

In real history, Napoleon disrupted the deployment of Austrian commanders many times by relying on his ability to march.

In particular, the several battles between Napoleon and Archduke Karl were all because the French army moved too fast, causing Archduke Karl's tactical maneuver to be destroyed by the French army before it was completed.

An Ning, who is familiar with this, also places special emphasis on the marching ability of the troops, and often organizes long-distance forced marches during training.

So now the French army is moving very fast.

Davout's forwards had returned, they had reached Rivoli and began to defend the exit from the Adige Valley to Rivoli.

Anning's headquarters moved on to Rivoli with Davout's main force, together with Napoleon's mounted artillery.

While walking, An Ning was worried about Lasalle, who had already set out to investigate for a day and hadn't sent back a report yet.

Napoleon noticed his worried expression and asked, "Are you worried about La Salle?"

"Yes." An Ning replied truthfully.

Napoleon: "Don't worry, he probably just forgot to send someone back to report. With La Salle's character, this possibility is very high."

"Indeed." An Ning had to admit that Napoleon was right. After getting along with him for a while, he already understood why La Salle didn't get the marshal in the end. What is unreliable about this person is really unreliable. .

The marshal should be able to take care of himself, but if you let La Salle let him command a front army, then wait and worry.

La Salle was only an excellent cavalry officer, and the proper use of him was to put him in command of a cavalry brigade.

An Ning: "When La Salle comes back, I have to give him a good reprimand."

"You'd better do it," said Berthier, "as your direct descendant, even I dare not scold him."

An Ning: "I said a long time ago that there is no such thing as a direct line in my army, and I will treat it equally. As the chief of staff, you have the right to reprimand any junior officer who does not implement your plan well."

Berthier was silent for a few seconds before replying, "Okay, I understand."

An Ning looked at Berthier's expression, thinking that he probably didn't understand.

During the previous Battle of Diego, Napoleon seemed to have ignored Lahalpe's command. His artillery team crossed Lahalpe's entire front on the battlefield, and first launched a violent bombardment of the Austrians on the right wing of Lahalpe. Then he ran to the left flank of Lahalp to bombard the enemy in front.

In An Ning's army, in fact, the term "direct line" has been formed. Ordinary generals dare not command direct line officers, and these officers themselves do not listen to non-direct line officers at all.

An Ning is still very troubled by this, this is not the situation he wants to see.

But now that we are fighting, I don't care so much. After Wu Muze is driven away, I must find a way to reverse this situation in the army.

While An Ning was thinking about these things, he rode past a group of troops carrying golden guns.

It is a company of precision shooters. The breech-loading rifles they use are covered with a layer of brass, which looks golden.

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When An Ning noticed the guns of the precision shooters, the shooters also saw him, so they shouted in unison: "Long live the general! Long live your Excellency!"

An Ning waved his hand lightly, indicating that they could stop, but no one listened to him.

The shooters kept shouting: "Long live the general!"

Napoleon was very excited: "Look, Andy, everyone welcomes you like Caesar!"

An Ning looked helpless.

The troops walking next to him just now were newly added this time. These people have the habit of shouting long live before seeing him.

But the old troops he had commanded for a while would surely be chanting long live to see him.

It is estimated that these newly added troops will probably be led away by the old troops soon.

An Ning has also seen this kind of scene in Napoleon's movies. In the movie Battle of Austerlitz, the French army shouted Long Live the Emperor as soon as they saw Napoleon.

Wherever Napoleon went, Long Live followed him.

This is only 1792, and I am already enjoying the treatment of Napoleon during the Battle of the Three Emperors. After 1800, I dare not think about what will happen.

An Ning passed the precision shooter company and came to another army. This army also shouted: "Long live the general!"

An Ning could only wave helplessly.

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At this time, there was also a redwood army composed of Italians marching near Anning.