King's Landing in France

Chapter 133 Lafayette's Expedition
This morning, An Ning received a letter from Paris.

The letter was written by Marat, in which he said in a very urgent tone that the parliament had declared him a traitor, and that Lafayette had been appointed by the parliament and would set off to suppress the rebellion soon.

An Ning dropped the letter and sighed.Sure enough, the parliament at this time was very belligerent. If they hadn't had themselves, they would have declared war on Prussia, Austria, and a group of low countries in a few months.

At this time someone knocked on the door.

"Come in." An Ning replied softly.

The door opened, and a group of officers including Lazar Kano and Davout poured into the room, looking at An Ning eagerly.

Cano: "We heard a letter from Paris. How is the situation?"

"Just as we expected, prepare to fight." An Ning said as lightly as possible.

In fact, he was quite worried in his heart. After all, he was fighting with a general with actual combat experience like Lafayette, fighting a regular large corps.

An Ning is not sure of victory, no, it should be said that he is very uncertain now, after all, he only has more than 1 people, and his strength is too disadvantageous.

But he couldn't show it, so he could only say this in an understatement as much as possible.

The officers looked at each other, and Lazar Kano, as the chief of staff, said to everyone: "You heard me, go back to your posts!"

So the officers who had just entered filed out of the room again.

When only Lazar Carnot was left, he said to An Ning: "I think the cavalry should be dispatched to reconnaissance in the direction of Paris to monitor the movement of Lafayette's army."

An Ning nodded, and then rang the bell on the table.Immediately a messenger opened the door and entered.

"Call Miss Oliver of the Cavalry."

After the orderer left, Lazar Kano shook his head: "This is the disadvantage of having female soldiers in the army. Their officers don't act together with our officers. Every time they give an order, they have to call someone separately."

An Ning: "But have you ever thought that it is precisely because of the female soldiers that we now have 5000 soldiers and [-] female soldiers? If all male soldiers were recruited, there would not be so many people at all."

Kano: "I admit that the use of female soldiers has given us more soldiers..."

"You just don't want girls to go to war."

"If they perform well in this campaign, I will change this opinion." Kano said.

An Ning was about to make a sharp comment when Captain Oliver, the commander of the female cavalry, opened the door and said, "Cavalry officer Oliver has arrived."

An Ning: "You immediately organize a team of cavalry who are familiar with the road. It doesn't take much to ride the best horses to the direction of Paris and monitor Lafayette's movements. You can stay in a hotel."

Oliver saluted: "Understood, I will send troops immediately."

"Well, let's go, there's nothing else to do." An Ning waved her hand.

Oliver saluted, then turned to leave.

An Ning turned his gaze to Lazar Kano, and he couldn't help but ask, "Do you think we can win this time?"

"You must never ask such a question in front of the officers." Kano frowned slightly, "You should act confident."

"I know. So, do you think we're going to win?"

"It's hard to say. After all, the enemy has a huge advantage in strength. Our training has advantages over the ordinary National Guard, but compared with the army of the Old Kingdom...the advantage is not obvious. And we also have an advantage in artillery. Our artillery More, and plenty of mounted guns."

An Ning nodded, and added in her heart: We still have Napoleon Bonaparte, a talented artillery officer.

Just then, someone knocked on the door again.

"Come in."

After An Ning answered the door, it was the maid Fanny who came in: "Your Excellency, some gentlemen from the Konta Council are asking to see you."

An Ning frowned slightly: "What the hell, what are they doing here at this time? Let them in."

Fanny bowed and was about to leave when several gentlemen from the Konta City Council pushed in the door with their big bellies: "We are coming in, Your Excellency the General."

An Ning: "What can you do?"

"We heard that a letter came from Paris." The leader was the new chairman of the Conta City Council. "Your Excellency, I don't know that you are now..."

"The National Assembly in Paris considers me a traitor." An Ning replied bluntly.

A few guys with a big belly immediately beamed with joy, but immediately suppressed their expressions and tried to restrain themselves.

"That... that's too bad, Paris won't really send troops to suppress 'us', will it?"

An Ning: "I'm afraid they will."

"My God!" exclaimed a member of parliament, "there are [-] National Guards in Paris!"

"Not that many. According to our information, there should be about [-], but it is impossible to send them all." Lazar Kano explained calmly.

The current speaker: "Then there should be 4? What can we do, 1 people! 'We' only have more than [-] people!"

An Ning: "Just say what you want to say."

"I'm just worried..."

"Don't worry." An Ning stood up, "I will defeat Lafayette on the plain of Conta, and then I will go to Paris and the gentlemen of Paris to report my interests."

This time An Ning spoke very confidently, as if he really had a million soldiers in his chest.

The gentlemen of the parliament looked at each other in blank dismay, with very bad expressions on their faces.

"Then, we can only wish Your Excellency the General the best of luck!" the speaker choked out this sentence.

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In Paris, the news that Lafayette was going to send troops had already spread throughout the city.

The night before the troops were dispatched, there were a lot of big soldiers in the pubs in Paris.

The Parisians surrounded these big soldiers and asked curiously.

"Are you really going to fight Mr. Frost?"

The soldier replied: "Yes, yes! Otherwise we wouldn't have given out the money!"

So the people around asked again: "Has the money been distributed? Is it the silver coins?"

"Where can it be!" The soldiers all replied, "the coupons were issued! That's why we rushed to spend the money before departure! Who knows that outside Paris, there are few people who recognize the coupons. Everyone Use silver coins!"

As a result, some citizens asked curiously: "Why did you issue finger coupons? When General Frost sent troops back then, he issued silver coins!"

Then the person who said this will be warned by everyone: "Shut up, General Frost is already a traitor!"

This scene was played out in taverns all over Paris.

Soon, everyone in the city knew that Lafayette was a penny-pincher, imitating General Frost to hand out money before the expedition, but he didn't learn thoroughly, and he was stingy and handed out coupons.

That night, people in Paris were discussing who would win the next war, Lafayette or Mr. Frost.

No one knew that in the Tuileries Palace, the queen was also anxiously waiting for Lafayette's departure.

Early the next morning, to be precise, on the morning of August 1791, 8, the 5 French army led by Lafayette set off from Paris.

Louis XVI also attended the ceremony of dispatching troops. At the ceremony, Lafayette swore to Louis XVI and the gentlemen of the parliament that he would definitely capture the traitor Andy Frost.

(End of this chapter)