King's Landing in France

Chapter 154 You are declaring war, Shenluo Tianzheng!
On October 15th, news finally came from the north that General Bouille had begun to march towards Paris.

An Ning was very happy to get the news, and thought that Leopold II was going to declare war soon.

As a result, after waiting for a few days, Leopold II remained completely silent.

An Ning has already ordered the troops to prepare to go to Italy, and as soon as war is declared, he will go to Italy to find Marshal Beaulieu of Austria.

As a result, Bouye went to Verdun, Emperor Shinra hadn't declared war yet, An Ning paced back and forth in front of the map every day, thinking what are you doing, Leopold II, fast God Luo Tianzheng, how much can you carry in a bag of rice? Floor!

Several letters a day from Paris, urging An Ning to go north to defend Paris.

An Ning is also in a dilemma. The Holy Roman Empire did not declare war, and going to Italy by himself is an undeclared war, and the teacher is unknown.

If you go north and declare war halfway, it will be embarrassing. If you go north, you must use 3 people to face the two enemy forces of Bouye and Austria.

The key point is that there is no money to go north, and you can't return for blood transfusions to let Lazar Kano conscript. He can only fight to the end with these 3 people.

While An Ning was hesitating, several military officers who came to An Ning brought back the latest news from Paris. Paris was already mobilizing. The revolutionary people of Paris refused the treasonous royal family to return to Paris and joined the army one after another.

Some bank owners were also worried about liquidating old accounts after the restoration of the royal party, and funded the National Assembly with money, so that the troops received relatively sufficient military pay.

The number of National Guards in Paris has expanded to more than 8.

A few days after the news came, new news came. The French army led by Dimouriez defeated Bouye's royalist army in Verdun and killed a large number of enemies during the pursuit.

The letters from Paris for help stopped at once, and a few days later, new news came that Dumouriez had been commended and promoted to lieutenant general-this is an honorary title.

The news came one after another, and the National Assembly in Paris started its propaganda machine, obviously trying to promote Dumouriez as the "French God of War" not inferior to An Ning.

General Bouille took the remnants of the army and ran directly out of the border, taking Louis XVI and the queen into exile in Austria.

Until this time, Leopold II had not declared war.

An Ning could only lie dormant in the south of France with a depressed face.

In addition to reading all kinds of information every day, he went to the engineers and scientists he had recruited to see the steam engines they were tinkering with.

At this time, after all, it was only half a century before the completion of the first industrial revolution in 1840. Many technologies that were the cornerstone of the industrial revolution had actually appeared, and most of the technological bottlenecks that restricted technological development had actually been overcome.

An Ning wants the kind of "qualified time traveler" who knows how to make cement and make soap. At this time, he can completely throw off his arms and work hard.

Unfortunately he is not.

He could only watch the recruited engineers fiddle with it.

However, An Ning still has some gains in this regard. On December 1791, 12, a British infantry major who admired his achievements brought Anning a Ferguson breech-loading rifle.

The major just heard that Your Excellency General likes new weapons, so he brought them here as a gift, and didn't have any more ideas at all.

After all, the British army generally believed that this difficult-to-produce rifle would hardly have any major effect.

But as soon as An Ning got the gun, he felt like a treasure, and immediately handed it over to the craftsmen gathered in Konta to imitate it.

The imitation work was completed quickly, but at this time, the craftsmen still thought it was just a whim of His Excellency the General.

But soon, An Ning gave the craftsmen a new order: to redesign the rifle, split it into a series of parts that are more suitable for production, and then try to use the assembly line to produce it.

Yes, An Ning doesn't know how to rub cement and soap by hand, but he understands how an assembly line works.

The assembly line can be used to reduce the man-hours and cost of producing Ferguson rifles.

Only then did the craftsmen and generals realize that An Ning really planned to equip a breech-loading gun.

Davout first objected, on the grounds that the reloading process of breech-loading guns is completely different from that of front-loading guns, which would invalidate the training of troops and require retraining.

Berthier believed that breech-loading guns were flashy and did nothing but make resupply more difficult.

Napoleon accepted new things very enthusiastically. He specially ordered a breech-loading gun and played with it every day.

Then he made a request to the engineers, hoping to have a gun that could be loaded from the breech.

Napoleon also plausibly said: "Hey, you can magnify the gun twenty times. What's so difficult about it? Work harder!"

Then the engineers really took out the breech-loading gun. As a result, on the day of the test firing, because the breech block was locked too badly and the air leak was serious, the gunner who fired the test was burned, and Napoleon himself burned his arm.

All in all, in the last few months of 1791, An Ning almost gave up the idea of ​​going to Italy, and was ready to concentrate on promoting technological innovation in his hometown.

But at this time, the situation quietly changed.

The first change came from the Girondins.

After Dumouriez repelled General Bouille's royalist army, the Girondins began to believe that France, after the Great Revolution, already had an invincible army, and the French army composed of citizens was invincible.

They even began to publicize that Frost was able to defeat Falayette's army, which was three times their own, because Lafayette's army was not revolutionary enough.

All in all, Frost was able to win not because of his outstanding military talents, but because the revolutionary French army was invincible.

With this recognition, Brissot, one of the leaders of the Girondins, began to advocate war.

He cried out in Parliament: "Who says Leopold's throne cannot be overthrown? Who says there will be no limit to the prowess of the French army? Who can guarantee that the French will be bound by the frontier?
"If the kings will wage a war against the French people, the French people will give them a war against the kings!

"Volcanoes that are about to erupt are everywhere and only a spark is needed to ignite them! Worrying about the consequences is unpatriotic. War only threatens the king!

"We're going to Vienna to force him to hand over the traitor Louis XVI and his Austrian women! Bring them back and stand trial by the people!

"Our answer is, war!"

All the Girondists in Paris fell into a frenzy, and only a few peaceful friends in Paris remained rational.

Robespierre unequivocally opposed the war, but now there are only a few people in the Jacobin Club, including Marat, in the parliament, and it is impossible to stop the spreading war frenzy.

The second change is that not long after entering 1792, Leopold II, who had always maintained restraint, died.

(End of this chapter)