King's Landing in France

Chapter 156 General Frost's Expedition to Italy

Early in the morning when she was about to leave, An Ning had just finished her breakfast when she found Fanny packing her things.

"What are you doing?" An Ning asked suspiciously.

"Follow the baggage train." Fanny turned her head to look at An Ning, and then said angrily, "I told you to find an orderly, but you only found one person to take care of your horse, but no one to take care of you. !"

An Ning scratched her head: "I think I can take care of myself."

After all, An Ning was also a social animal who had lived independently for so many years before crossing, so she still had confidence in taking care of herself.

But Fanny snorted: "When I don't take care of you, you always wear the same military uniform repeatedly, just like Mr. Robespierre in Paris!"

Robespierre can be seen by AOE, which shows how deeply impressed Fanny was by his green coat that never changes.

An Ning: "Forget it, if you're willing to go with the transport team, just follow. I don't rule out having someone help me arrange what to wear every day. Then I'll go first."

"Go." Fanny stopped what she was doing, turned around and saluted An Ning.

An Ning adjusted her military uniform and strode away from the residence.

As soon as he went out, he saw Beethoven and David, who was carrying a light drawing board, riding past the entrance of the headquarters.

An Ning: "What are you two doing?"

Beethoven: "We will move with the headquarters, please allow me to record this expedition! I have a hunch that this expedition will go down in history!"

David: "I don't think you will refuse a painter's interview."

An Ning: "Okay, if you want to follow, just keep coming. Since I can't stop my maid from following, I can't refuse you either."

David: "We will record your heroic appearance in the most artistic way!"

Just as he was talking, Berthier came out of the headquarters. Seeing An Ning, he saluted, and then reported loudly: "The vanguard has already set off first, and we will try to arrive in Nice within three days and set up a supply center there. "

An Ning nodded: "I leave it to you."

Thanks to Berthier, otherwise An Ning would not know how to arrange various matters for the [-] army.

The supply of [-] troops alone is an extremely complicated matter.

But after getting Berthier, you can throw all these complicated things to the energetic chief of staff.

And Lazar Cano was left in France to run the factories and chambers of commerce created by An Ning, and raise supplies by the way.

With the full cooperation of these two talented people, An Ning could easily lead the troops to expedition to Italy.

The troops would first go to Nice, and then advance into Italy by the seaside road.

This requires a large circle, and the supply distance has increased a lot.But this is also impossible. There is still a Kingdom of Sardinia between the peaceful base and the French-controlled area in Italy.

The Kingdom of Sardinia did not declare war on France, so An Ning had to make a detour.

In another time and space Napoleon Wars, Napoleon defeated the Kingdom of Sardinia before the decisive battle with the Austrian Army, and then signed a contract to obtain the military access of the Kingdom of Sardinia, allowing his supply line to pass through Sardinia. Ding Kingdom's territory.

Then Napoleon fought a decisive battle with Marshal Beaulieu on the plain of the Po River, and after winning the battle, he went straight to Milan.

After occupying Milan, the supply problem of the Italian Army was completely solved by relying on the rich Milan.

An Ning cannot fight the Kingdom of Sardinia, so he must fight Beaulieu as soon as possible, and occupy Milan after defeating Beaulieu.

Otherwise, the supply is really choking.

The supply line from Nice, to San Remo, through Andora, and finally to Savona was too long.

Although this road is a relatively easy coastal road due to the better economic development, but such a long distance is unbearable.

From Savona to the plain of the Po, there is also a large area of ​​coastal hills.

These will affect An Ning's logistics.

In order to prevent his troops from being dragged to death by the logistics, An Ning must fight quickly to take down Milan!
An Ning was thinking about this, all the officers came out from the headquarters, and everyone looked confident.

Napoleon was the most familiar with An Ning, so he joked first: "Andy, why do you look serious? This battle will be much easier than fighting Lafayette!"

An Ning shook his head: "No, don't underestimate Marshal Beaulieu. Moreover, the Austrian army is not comparable to those of the National Guard in Lafayette. Lafayette's army is divided, and the grassroots soldiers fear my reputation on the one hand. On the other hand, I envy the treatment of our army.

"But the Austrian army, they have at most heard of my name a little bit, and our reforms have nothing to do with them.

"And they speak German, they don't understand our language, and they basically won't be affected by us like Lafayette's troops."

After An Ning finished speaking, La Salle added: "They still have military pay in real money!"

An Ning nodded: "Yes, they still have military pay in real money."

At this moment, An Ning suddenly noticed what David was writing in his sketchbook.

"What are you writing?" An Ning asked curiously.

"I am recording your admonitions to your subordinates! You will never underestimate any enemy!" David said, "You are indeed the No.1 general of France!"

An Ning can figure it out, and he needs to add another stroke to his biography, what a perfect man!He didn't bother to correct it, so he turned to the officers and said, "Okay! Get on the horse and go!"

By this time the officers' orderlies had brought up their horses.

Anning's exclusive groom Julian also brought Anning's big white horse over.

This young man was chosen to be the groom because his name was Julian. After all, An Ning was a "magician on the battlefield", so the orderly who took care of him should be called Julian.

But after thinking about it, An Ning was still afraid that she would follow in the footsteps of Admiral Yang Weili, so she sent Julian to raise horses instead of making him an orderly.

An Ning got on the horse, lightly pinched the horse's belly, and let the horse trot smoothly.

His officers immediately followed him.

A group of people walked out of the ancient gate of the monastery in a mighty manner.

Beethoven and David stood on the side of the road on horseback, and the artist took a sketchbook and quickly recorded the scene.

In the sketchbook, An Ning looks high-spirited, while the bald Davout on his left has a serious expression, with fierce eyes, full of aggressive colors. On the left of Davout is the equally serious Lana; while Napoleon on the right of An Ning looks like a happy Boy, to Napoleon's right is La Salle in high spirits.

Perhaps because he was a surrendered general, Berthier followed silently at the rear of the troops, with a look of thinking on his face.

As the background of this painting, the neatly lined spears of the soldiers resemble a forest.

Following closely behind the officers, the troops with high morale clapped in neat formation, walked in neat steps to the drumbeat of the military band, and sang "Ode to Rome" in unison as they walked.

After finishing the sketch, David smiled and said, "I've decided, this painting is called "General Frost's Expedition to Italy"!"

(End of this chapter)