King's Landing in France

Chapter 147 Public Trial of Lafayette
As soon as An Ning finished speaking, Lazar Cano grabbed An Ning and whispered in his ear: "Don't do this, if you punish Lafayette for this matter, those officers who originally wanted to defect to us may They all changed their minds, we are short of officers!"

An Ning thought about it calmly, it seemed to be the case.But then he recalled the fiercer ones among Napoleon's marshals in another time and space.

Massena was an Italian, and of civilian origin.

Murat's family runs a small hotel, a commoner.

Sirte's father is a notary, also a bourgeois, a commoner.

Ney's family was a beer keg maker, and of course a commoner.

Jourdan's father is a surgeon. He bought cloth himself. He belongs to a small trader, so he is naturally a commoner...

An Ning counted down all the way, it seems that more than half of Napoleon's marshals were of civilian origin, one of the nobles, Berthier, who is more fierce, is now a prisoner, and one is Napoleon, who is now his supporter.

There is also Dawu, who was born in a military family, aristocratic, but his family has fallen, so he is actually more close to the common people.

It seems that if the nobles don't come, they won't come?Doesn't have any effect?

Moreover, An Ning's martial arts are so high now, and many nobles have come to him for his martial arts. In this battle, An Ning has not yet invested in his afterglow knights.

This group of people must be very angry, watching the civilians get meritorious service.

If there is another battle, they will definitely work harder and rush to the dangerous position.

After making up his mind, An Ning responded loudly to Cano so that everyone could hear his words: "Yes, dealing with Lafayette for a soldier may keep the officers away from us! But it will also make the French citizens The Guards are against us! Let all the citizens of France be against us!

"Do you understand, Lazar? This is to declare to all citizens that in our army, everyone is equal! Officers are not officers because of their special status, but because they get won the love of ordinary soldiers!

"This is a very important thing! In my army, if the officers want to be convincing, they must have a reputation among the soldiers. They cannot use torture and terror to deal with soldiers!"

When An Ning was speaking, all the soldiers around stopped what they were doing and listened intently. When An Ning finished speaking, they immediately burst into thunderous applause and cheers.

Davu was also listening. As an ex-military officer and aristocrat, his expression was very complicated, but when An Ning finished speaking, he also applauded and cheered with everyone.

Perhaps it is not so easy for people to get rid of the influence of birth, but he still chooses to agree with An Ning's approach.

Seeing this posture, Lafayette couldn't help being anxious: "You! Since the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, there has never been a precedent for massacring an officer who has surrendered! Even if you tie me up and exchange for ransom, that would be fine!"

An Ning smiled: "General Lafayette, you probably don't know, soon the blood of nobles will flow into rivers throughout France."

What An Ning was talking about was the terror period of the Jacobins later, when beheading was like beheading melons. Nobles, capitalists and bourgeois were beheaded every day in the squares of Paris.

That is called equality of all living beings.

Even the leaders of the Jacobins could not escape the fate of being equal in the end.

However, it was precisely because of the rule of the Jacobins that swept away everything that was there that France entered a new era.

It's a pity that Nahuang changed it back later.

Later, during the Battle of the Three Emperors, Vilottel, the chief of staff of the Russian-Austrian coalition, said: "The Republic? Napoleon himself destroyed half of it! Now we are going to destroy the remaining half."

Thinking of this, An Ning couldn't help but take another look at Napoleon.

If you are here, maybe you can save Napoleon from destroying it a little bit in the future?
An Ning deliberately didn't think about another possibility. He kept comforting himself that Napoleon, who was so ambitious, would want to be emperor when he should.

Although An Ning's original intention was that the Jacobins would kill in the future, the people around them didn't know the future history, so everyone heard a different meaning: Obviously, General Frost wanted to let the French nobles bleed into a river.

Immediately, many soldiers were gossiping: "Look, noble gentlemen are in trouble. Your Excellency the General used to be a famous killer of nobles! It is said that he fought fourteen duels and killed fourteen nobles who didn't know what to do or not!" "

"No, no, I heard it was sixteen times. All nobles who looked down on his cobbler background were thrown off by him and killed in a duel!"

An Ning didn't hear the soldiers' gossip. He said to Lazar Cano: "Tie up Lafayette again! Keep a close watch on it! Leave the troops who cleaned up the battlefield. The others will return tomorrow after finishing tonight. Konta!"

**
The next day, everyone in the city of Konta knew the news of General Frost's victory. They flocked outside the city, looking forward to the victory of Frost's army.

The speaker and deputy speaker, with all the respectable gentlemen of Konta, were waiting outside the city.

Deputy Speaker Duncan stood in front of the team, next to Speaker Rob, feeling a little uneasy.

Because he secretly wrote a letter to Lafayette before, saying that the current councilors in the city acquiesced in the distribution of the land because of Frost's coercion, and they are definitely loyal ministers of the Republic.

Fortunately, this letter has become evidence of his collusion with the enemy. I don't know how General Frost will deal with him.

If General Frost gets angry, his life will be over.

He was in a state of anxiety when suddenly someone shouted: "The general's team is here!"

Everyone looked into the distance together, and sure enough, they saw a team appearing on the horizon, heading this way.

The team sang "Ode to Rome" as they walked, and the spirit was obviously a team returning with a big victory.

The band on the side of the welcoming crowd also hurriedly played the Roman hymn, and all the citizens sang together.

During the singing, two groups of people approached, and suddenly someone exclaimed: "There is a prison car!"

The citizens who were still singing the Roman hymn immediately started talking about it.

Duncan gasped. He has good eyesight and can see clearly. The person in the prison van is probably... Lafayette!

Speaker Rob turned his head and asked, "Is the man in the prison van General Lafayette?"

Duncan replied as if lost his soul: "Yes, it should be General Lafayette."

Luo Bo: "Speaking of which, His Excellency the General sent a team back last night and built a platform on the municipal square overnight. I don't know if it has something to do with it."

Duncan: "No way... That platform looks like a whipping platform. Could it be that he wants to whip General Lafayette? It shouldn't be, it will stain his glory of victory!"

That's right, the general tradition of this era is that if you win, you won't kill the opponent's coach. The battle of the navy is even more exaggerated. The loser will hand over the sword to the winner, but the winner will immediately return the sword, and then the two sides will fight together. Have a glass of toast on deck.

To do otherwise would tarnish the honor of the winner and make him despised by the world.

Because of this custom, there are so many wars in Europe, and the nobles can pass it down so many generations.

If it was an ordinary general, no one would doubt that General Lafayette would leave with dignity.

But Frost was no ordinary general.

At this time, Frost led his officers and came to the welcoming citizens.

He said: "Everyone! Everyone gathered here, just to witness one thing! That is, I want to publicly try the instigator of the Mars school tragedy, the villain who brutally killed unpaid soldiers, Gilbert du Motier (Lafayette's full name)!"

The citizens were in an uproar!
An Ning: "Take the prisoner to the City Hall Square!"

(End of this chapter)