King's Landing in France

Chapter 126 The Elite Teacher
After speaking, An Ning continued to observe the battlefield with binoculars.

He suddenly noticed that at the very edge of the formation, another army had completed its deployment.

An Ning pointed to the army and asked Kano: "What army is that?"

"The ones in the skirts are the female soldiers. There are few of them, so it's normal for them to unfold faster."

An Ning: "Not bad, it seems that the female soldiers are quite organized."

"Maybe it has something to do with male soldiers taunting them when they get the chance, saying that old women can't fight." Lazar Kano shrugged. A gun is enough, you don’t even need to think about hand-to-hand combat, and it can greatly weaken the disadvantages of women in terms of physique.”

An Ning: "If the cavalry is just scouting..."

"The cavalry is not only for reconnaissance. It is wrong to regard them as reconnaissance troops. They are also an important shock force and need to undertake combat missions."

An Ning raised her eyebrows: "I asked Davu to watch the ladies' training, and Davu said they can be used as shock force. This is the judgment of professional cavalry."

Lazar Kano curled his lips and stopped talking.

Since other professional cavalry judges that female cavalry are available, he has nothing to say about his expertise in paperwork such as troop establishment.

But after a short silence, he asked again: "Is Davout willing to command an infantry unit? He is a cavalry soldier, and his father is also a cavalry officer!"

"I think he is very happy." An Ning replied.

Davout in history was a well-rounded talent, he could play both cavalry and infantry, unlike Murat, the cavalry was stubborn.

At this time, a second lieutenant of the artillery came to An Ning on horseback: "The artillery unit is deployed, can we start the drill?"

"Okay, let's fire and add a bit of battlefield atmosphere to everyone." An Ning ordered.

The second lieutenant went through immediately and rode away.

Soon the artillery salvo began.

The supreme commander of the artillery is An Ning himself. He ordered the artillery to be concentrated and placed on the hillside of the small hill where he was.

All one hundred artillery pieces are concentrated and arranged on the hillside, and the scene of the salvo is quite spectacular.

Lazar Cano: "That way the shells would whistle over the deploying infantry, and I'm guessing a lot of them peed their pants."

Of course, An Ning's troops had no experience of being bombarded by artillery, nor did they have the experience of such shells whizzing past their heads.

When An Ning saw the cannon firing, many people turned their heads and looked back.

He even saw someone fall down in fright.

An Ning: "I'm very dissatisfied with the fact that someone fell down because of the sound of the guns. You can deal with it after the exercise."

Lazar Kano: "It's simple. After the exercise, let the non-commissioned officers check who peed their pants. But don't ask them too much. The cannon is a big killer for those who haven't seen it."

An Ning nodded and continued to observe the practice field.

At this time, the southeast wind was blowing on the battlefield, and it was blowing from behind An Ning and the others, so the smoke from the cannon fire was blown to the infantry units that were deploying.

An Ning is very satisfied with this situation, and the smoke can further test the organization and training of the troops.

The cannons began a second salvo, and hundreds of cannons sprayed shells into the opposite field.

In the lingering smoke, you can see that the infantry's offensive line is gradually taking shape.

Lazar Kano took out his pocket watch and looked at it, and said in a low voice, "The time from when it first entered the field to when it was fully deployed...not bad. It's what a well-trained army should look like."

An Ning: "It was much faster than when I ambushed the Konta rebels in the apple orchard. Of course, at that time, the rebels were being bombarded by our artillery. At that time, I only had eight guns, but they were quite accurate. If I had the hundreds of gates at that time, they would never have had time to expand.

"The rest is to see if the attacking queue can get together..."

An Ning laughed to herself.

Kano asked suspiciously, "What's wrong?"

"I remembered the terrible formation my troops walked in during the Battle of Apple Orchard. The distance was only a few hundred meters, and the formation was completely chaotic after walking, like a wavy line, with a huge crest in the middle bulge."

An Ning laughed loudly as he spoke, and Lazarcano laughed too. After a while, everyone laughed together, as if An Ning had just shaken a huge funny burden.

After laughing, An Ning put on a straight face: "Since then, I have decided not to fight a regular line attack. In the end, I won the victory by an ambush battle. In that battle, our infantry only charged a dozen meters before reaching the enemy. It’s basically a matter of running for a few seconds.”

At this time, Beethoven, who had not spoken much, said: "Let's make use of our strengths and avoid our weaknesses."

An Ning: "Now let's see the results of nearly a year of training."

At this time, Davu, the commander of the [-]st Infantry Brigade and the deputy commander of the whole army, rode over and saluted An Ning: "Report..."

Just at this time the artillery began a new round of salvo.

Davout's words were completely drowned out by the rumble of artillery.

Davout frowned, but did not complain, but waited for the salvo to end and said again: "Report, the whole army has completed formation."

An Ning nodded: "I saw it...although I can't see it very clearly."

At this time, the white smoke from the bombardment had covered the entire battlefield, and the entire formation could not be seen from the hill where An Ning was located, and some parts were always blocked by the thick smoke.

Davout nodded: "The smoke is too thick, after all, it's a hundred cannons."

An Ning: "How about it? With this kind of visibility, are you confident that you can walk in the attacking formation?"

Davout smiled: "My brigade must be fine."

An Ning: "Then your brigade will come first. Let me explain first, the artillery won't stop firing. Maybe some shells will fall into your brigade during the march."

Anning's shelling area for the artillery is directly in front, and all the artillery have raised their muzzles, so generally the shells will fall at a distance of 800 to 1000 meters.

But in this era, the artillery has no rifling, and the shell and the inner wall of the barrel are not tightly fitted, so when the cannon is fired, the shell will bounce back and forth in the barrel, so the direction of motion is random when it comes out of the barrel.

Just like the flintlock gun, the landing point of the artillery is really based on the face.

The training subject An Ning gave them was to maintain the formation and walk a distance of 500 meters. In theory, they might be bombarded when they walked to the last 100 meters.

So An Ning's words were not meant to scare people.

Davout replied confidently: "Don't worry, Your Excellency, the First Brigade will not let you down."

An Ning nodded, and said: "The first brigade, start attacking!"

Davout saluted and rode back to his troops confidently.

An Ning watched him go all the way back to his troops on the rightmost side of the formation, dismounted and stood at the front of the formation.

An Ning heard Davout's voice in the air: "The first brigade, move forward!"

An Ning: "The voice is really loud."

But these days, when you are an officer, especially a grassroots officer, you must have a loud voice, otherwise you will not be able to give orders on the battlefield.

So An Ning made a special rule for his coaching team: Say everything in a very loud voice and be very energetic.

In addition, An Ning also added a subject that she didn't have when she was in Brienne: every morning when she woke up, she would go to the playground and shout to the trees in the playground.

The inspiration for this trick also comes from the "Ah Navy", in which the Jiangtian Island Naval Academy also has the subject of shouting in the playground this morning.

Over time, everyone thought that An Ning liked people with loud voices, not to mention the big soldiers who had loud voices all day long, even the ladies who came to see An Ning for the dance all had loud voices.

Yes, like Christina, who made her voice hoarse because of her loud voice.

As for Davout, he probably didn't do it on purpose, he was already very loud.

Not only that, the non-commissioned officers of the first brigade also all spoke loudly, and their voices, like the echo of Davout's roar, resounded throughout the battlefield.

Then the first brigade began to advance.

At the beginning, because of the different starting sequence, the people in the middle were closer to Davout, so they started early, so the whole queue formed a bow shape.

But then the bow flattens out.

The entire brigade has 2000 people, lined up in four horizontal lines, which look like four thick parallel lines from a distance.

Each line has three rows of people, which is a standard line infantry attack line.

An Ning observed with the binoculars for a long time, and waited for the horizontal team to walk a hundred meters before nodding in praise and saying, "Very good, Davout did a great job."

Lazar Kano also nodded and said, "This training rate is higher than I thought. Davout is indeed a general."

An Ning nodded again and again: Isn't that a general? Among Napoleon's marshals, Davout can be said to be the best at fighting, and he also has the least hair.

At this time, An Ning suddenly noticed that Beethoven looked like he wanted to talk, and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Uh, I'm sorry to interrupt your inspection of the troops. Well, the [-]st Brigade is using my new offensive march. How do you feel?"

It was only then that An Ning realized that the music played by the military band was different from usual. The new music sounded very cheerful and contained a kind of fearless spirit.

An Ning: "Very good."

"Thank you for your compliment." Beethoven breathed a sigh of relief, "But every time your evaluation is very good, very good, you never pick a fault..."

An Ning thought to herself, Nima is a saint of music, why the hell am I picking on you.

But on the surface he said: "My principle is to let professional people do professional things. If it is to arrange artillery positions, I will definitely express some opinions. But music, no, I'd better not make fun of it."

An Ning's translation plug-in translated the idiom Yixiaodafang into Latin.

Just then, the artillery fired another salvo.

Kano: "Should I turn a gun around and fire at the [-]st Brigade? This will give them a test of their morale in the face of shelling."

An Ning hesitated for a moment. To be honest, doing it like this would definitely improve the combat effectiveness of the troops, and it was normal for some casualties during the exercise.But after a brief hesitation, he shook his head: "No. Next, France will definitely fall into civil strife. We have plenty of wars to fight, and many people will die in continuous wars. Let's not waste their lives in the exercises Well, although this will indeed improve the standard of the entire army."

Kano nodded: "Understood."

Beethoven looked very touched: "You really love soldiers like a son!"

An Ning originally wanted to say that this is not considered loving soldiers like a son, but based on his past experience, he knew that this would definitely be interpreted as humility, so he didn't say anything at all.

At this time, Davout's troops had reached the offensive stop line, and the non-commissioned officers guarding the stop line raised a green flag to indicate that they had arrived.

Anning and Lazarcano raised the binoculars to observe Davout's formation.

Kano: "It's a little bit messy, but it's still within the category of the elite division."

An Ning: "Well, send an order to Davout, saying that I am very satisfied. Order the second brigade and start moving forward!"

(End of this chapter)