King's Landing in France

Chapter 131 Topographic Survey
"I refuse." An Ning said categorically to the commissioner from Paris, "My actions did not violate the constitution! I bought all the land with the coupons issued by the parliament. The coupons have a denomination of [-] million francs. You Do you know the concept of [-] million francs?"

An Ning added inwardly, in Jules Verne's novel "Bacon's [-] Million Francs", [-] million francs can build two cities, one is a beautiful city like a paradise, and the other is like a super huge factory.

The city can even produce a super cannon that can shoot projectiles into Earth orbit.

In Verne's fantasy, such a thing could be done with only [-] million francs!

So it is very reasonable for An Ning to take out [-] million francs—the certificate to buy the entire Konta area!
The commissioner blew his beard and stared at An Ning: "This is robbery!"

"What do you mean?" An Ning looked shocked, "I bought it with money, how can it be called robbery?"

"The coupon is worthless! It's not like you don't know it!" The special commissioner didn't stop, and spoke out.

An Ning: "What? You actually said that the coupons are worthless? You are questioning the policy of the National Assembly! You even hinted that the National Assembly is robbing! I don't think you are a special commissioner at all! Someone! Arrest him! "

The only officer in the room was Lazar Kano, who now serves as the de facto chief of staff.

As soon as An Ning yelled, he pulled out his sword with a swipe, and pressed it against the commissioner's neck.

Then Napoleon opened the door and rushed in, holding a pistol that had been loaded: "General! What's going on?"

Well, Napoleon is quite involved in acting, as if he really doesn't know what's going on in the room.

An Ning: "This man falsely claims to be a commissioner of the Paris Parliament! But what he just said is all treasonous remarks, and he also accused the Parliament of robbing the public. I suspect he is a rebel! Arrest him and verify him before we and the Parliament Please ask him to stay in the dungeon when his identity is revealed!"

Napoleon: "Understood! This way, sir!"

The special commissioner's face was ashen: "You...you are rebellious!"

An Ning: "I am loyal to the parliament! I even used my own money to help the farmers complete the redemption, and then distributed the land to the farmers for free! I spent [-] million francs (the coupons)!"

An Ning showed a painful expression while talking, as if the [-] million finger coupons were real money.

Commissioner: "Who do you think you can fool? As soon as your letter of verification with the parliament arrives, they will know that you have betrayed!"

An Ning: "No, I think the gentlemen of the parliament will understand my contribution! After all, they are all smart and current affairs gentlemen!"

Commissioner: "Lafayette will make you look good! Wait for him to clean you up!"

An Ning: "Everyone is the National Guard, can Mr. Lafayette still send troops to attack me?"

An Ning just wants to pretend to be silly and sweet.

Lazar Kano looked at An Ning with a complicated expression. He seemed to feel that An Ning's performance was too hard.

But Napoleon tried harder than An Ning: "Stop talking nonsense, you traitor, go! Prison is your destination!"

The commissioner gritted his teeth and stared at An Ning. After a stalemate for a while, he turned around and followed Napoleon.

Lazar Cano immediately went to the window, looked out, and reported a moment later: "The man who looked like the entourage of the commissioner got on his horse and ran away."

An Ning: "Very good, as planned. Tomorrow, we will start counting the ammunition and gunpowder stocks of the troops, and send people to purchase food and make preparations."

Lazar Cano: "The opponent is Lafayette's National Guard horse? It is estimated that the force is 2 to 1. This is not an easy battle."

An Ning: "I know. So we need the right time, location and harmony."

An Ning's translation plug-in translates the right time, place, people and everything into Latin, which sounds very good.

Then An Ning came to the map and asked Lazar Carnot: "From Paris, where do you think Lafayette will camp on the last night we are here?"

Lazar Kano also came to the map: "I can only answer you from pure mathematics and geography. Recently, because I want to help divide the fields, I ran all the nearby terrain. I think it is the last place before the decisive battle. One night, where Lafayette might camp is here, here, and here."

As he spoke, he took a pencil and drew three circles on the map.

An Ning: "What's the reason?"

"It conforms to the camping dogma taught in the military academy." Kano shrugged. "I'm a mathematician and military engineer, and I don't have a genius-like tactical awareness. If I were to choose, I would only camp in these places."

An Ning: "Wait a minute, you said it conforms to the camping doctrine taught in the military academy? Are you sure?"

Theoretically speaking, An Ning should have also learned the same dogma, but An Ning has almost forgotten what she learned in the Military Academy.

After all, he never wanted to be a great military strategist in the past few years, he just wanted to hug Napoleon's thigh.

Lazar Kano nodded very positively: "Absolutely, it's taught in textbooks."

An Ning pouted.

It suddenly occurred to him that Berthier is a very organized and strict person. This guy has extremely poor adaptability, so he can only be the chief of staff to implement other people's decisions.

If it is Berthier, he is very likely to camp in these three places!
An Ning: "Call Lana here and follow me. I will take him to familiarize himself with the terrain of these places."

Lazar Kano immediately turned his head and shouted: "The orderly!"

The door opened immediately, and a capable young man of sixteen or seventeen came in, stood at attention with a snap and saluted: "Sir!"

"Go get Captain Jean Lannes over, and get the stables ready, we're going out."

"Yes!" The boy turned around and ran away.

An Ning: "A new orderly?"

"As the land was divided, some children from peasant families began to join us. I selected a few clever ones and added them to the orderlies of the headquarters."

Anning nodded.

Soon, Jean Lana arrived.

So An Ning led a group of officers, rode away from the monastery that was the headquarters, and went straight to the place that Lazar Kano had just circled on the map.

After the group left the city, they rode horses and galloped for more than an hour, when An Ning suddenly shouted, "Wait a minute!"

He pulled the rein first, slowing the horse down.

The others took the reins one after another, maintaining a state of following An Ning.

An Ning looked around.

Now he was standing under a solitary beech tree. This tree was astonishingly large. It seemed to be more than a hundred years old. From a distance, it looked like a huge mushroom growing on the ground.

Standing under the tree, An Ning looked in the direction she came from: "Did we keep going uphill before we got here?"

Lazar Kano looked back and didn't answer right away.

But Lana said, "Yeah, we've been going uphill. And it looks like it's going downhill."

An Ning clapped her hands vigorously.

This place is a very small hill.

Looking to the east and west, An Ning could see that there was a small crease on the ground under his feet, and if he didn't look carefully, he would ignore it.

An Ning turned her head and looked to the other side: beside the beeches, there was a large barn and a lonely windmill.

There is a windmill on the top of the hill, which seems to be suitable for harnessing wind power.

An Ning stroked her chin.

Napoleon said: "It turns out that this is a mountain. If we set up cannons here, we can shoot an additional 200 meters!"

An Ning shook his head: "No, no, we shouldn't put our guns on the hill, no. We should put our guns on the back of the hill, and the infantry on the back slope. This reverse slope will block the firepower of the opponent's artillery."

Then An Ning pointed to the barn and windmill next to it: "We use a firm army to guard the barn and let the enemy know that we are going to fight them here.

"Force the enemy to spread out on the north slope. When the enemy pushes across the ridgeline, our line infantry and skirmishers are waiting for them on the back slope! And artillery, of course.

"Lafayette's artillery only has cumbersome infantry artillery, and they move very slowly after deployment. Our artillery can give full play to its advantages. Especially the light cavalry running troops commanded by Napoleon!"

When An Ning bought guns, he specially bought a series of six-pound cavalry guns. These guns have small calibers and lighter projectiles, but they are light and can be quickly moved by horses.

An Ning remembered that in another biography of Napoleon in another time and space, Napoleon liked to command the cavalry artillery the most, finding a place to attack the enemy flexibly.

Now is the time to let Napoleon do his old job.

An Ning gestured excitedly: "The enemy is here. After crossing the ridge, they will face our firepower. Think about it!"

Davout: "Let the task of guarding the mill and the barn be left to my first brigade."

Lana: "The teaching company is willing to take on this important task!"

An Ning: "No, the teaching company has its own mission, a very important mission. I will show you the terrain later. This barn and mill are the positions of the First Brigade. I don't know about Lafayette yet. How long will it take to come here, I estimate that it will take more than half a month, you can just bring the non-commissioned officers of your unit and let them familiarize themselves with the surrounding terrain."

Davout saluted: "Understood."

An Ning: "There are four remaining brigades. Put a thin blue line on the back slope, which is the most suitable formation for firepower. Once the enemy crosses the ridge, keep shooting."

The thin blue line, that's right, what An Ning played is actually the same one that the Duke of Wellington played in Waterloo.

Set up an array on the back slope, using the terrain to block the French artillery fire, and then a large number of troops scattered into a thin red line on the back slope.

When the French cavalry led by Ney entered, the red line became a phalanx again.

It can be said that the French army at Waterloo will lose, in addition to the arrival of Prussian reinforcements, another major reason is that the French artillery did not play a role.

If the French artillery bombarded Wellington's infantry in a square formation, the result might be different.

This is not the first time Wellington has used this trick. When he was in Spain, he used this tactic called the "thin red line" to beat the French army.

Of course, Wellington's move was also forced out. The artillery fire of the French army was too J8. After all, Napoleon was an artilleryman, so the artillerymen in the French army were highly valued.

Wellington experienced several French bombardments, and then worked out this tactic.

This tactic can give full play to the high morale and high discipline of the Red Army, while avoiding the French artillery to take advantage of its strengths.

And now, An Ning's artillery should be stronger than Lafayette's, but this does not prevent An Ning from copying this tactic.

After all, if the enemy's artillery can't be used, then the combat power ratio of the artillery will change from the original 1:[-] to [-]:[-]?

(End of this chapter)