King's Landing in France

Chapter 169 Chief of Staff Bei's Speech Is Too Reasonable, Who Said Women Are Not As Good as Men

Andy was on the hillside, watching Beaulieu deploy his formation.

In this era of infantry formation, the most basic unit is a single horizontal row, so just click on the number of small blocks in the opponent's formation, and you can estimate how many troops there are on the opponent.

For this reason, the staff department of this era also has a special position, which is responsible for counting the small pieces on the opposite side with a telescope.

Berti summarized the results of his observations to An Ning when he was in Egypt: "The enemy concentrated their main force in front of us. I am afraid they are preparing to launch a breakthrough in the center."

An Ning: "Very good, so we may soon make progress on the two wings."

Berthier: "The frontal enemy may have a strength advantage of [-] times. Is it really okay?"

An Ning: "No problem, because I will personally lead the team to fight."

Berthier was shocked: "Personally? This is too dangerous. If you die in battle, even an advantageous situation will become dangerous. Especially when you have such a high prestige! You should avoid going to the front line in person!" "

An Ning waved his hand: "I have my own measure."

At this time, Fanny appeared pushing the trolley. A small folding table was installed on the trolley. When it was taken down and unfolded, it became a small round table, just enough to hold a glass of wine and a cold plate.

Then Fanny took out the prepared cold meal and put it on the small table, and then poured wine.

Fanny: "This wine is a gift from a local gentry in Savona. It is said that it has been cellared for 30 years!"

An Ning: "Go ahead, if you have good wine, bring it out early. I'll give La Salle some. After he drinks, he can pierce the enemy's line by himself."

As soon as the words fell, the sound of artillery came from the opposite high ground.

This means the battle has begun.

An Ning gestured to the artillery position next to him: "We will fire too!"

So the thirty infantry cannons placed beside An Ning opened fire.

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Marshal Beaulieu was speechless: "The French army has a lot of artillery. The force is close to ours, but there are so many artillery, and they are used together."

Condore: "It's normal. The cobbler was born in artillery. It is said that he was able to become an artillery officer because he was good at mathematics. You know, you need to know mathematics to make leather shoes, at least you must know how to draw circles."

Condore's words amused the officers nearby, and everyone laughed contemptuously.

But Beaulieu looked serious: "With so many artillery in front, our army will be killed by a large number of artillery when rushing down the hill. Order the troops to act quickly! We must attack the enemy with a firm attitude!"

At this time, the watchman shouted: "Marshal, look!"

Marshal Beaulieu immediately picked up the binoculars and looked in the direction pointed by the watchman. He saw Frost riding away from his position as the headquarters with the general's standard, leaving the small table set by his maid.

The marshal's eyes followed Frost as he patrolled among the frontal French troops.

Condore: "This is ridiculous. How can a cobbler patrol the front line bring courage to soldiers!"

Beaulieu ignored Condoré, and he loudly ordered the orderly: "Bring the horse, I will also inspect the troops and give them a lecture!"

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An Ning led Berthier and others to inspect the infantry battalions on the front line, and gave a speech: "You have seen that the enemy has obviously concentrated a large number of troops on the front and is preparing to make a breakthrough in the center. I will never let them succeed. So I'll be with you guys!
"I solemnly promise you that on the land of Italy, you will gain the glory of conquest and the wealth of Italy! When you go home, everyone will be honored and rich!"

The soldiers shouted in unison: "Long live Your Excellency General! Your Excellency General is always healthy and victorious!"

An Ning was very satisfied with the effect of the speech, then turned his head and gave Berthier an order: "I ordered that half of the troops in the front be disbanded into skirmishers and scattered into the bushes near the main defense line, and let the skirmishers harass you with free fire. Enemy! Attack the opposing officer!"

Berthier was shocked: "What? Our strength is already at a disadvantage, and you still have to separate out scattered soldiers? This will cause our strength to be too weak and be broken by the enemy!"

An Ning shook his head: "You don't understand, the era of stragglers has arrived. The army that has undergone the baptism of revolution is not like those troops of officers and gentlemen. Even if they disband their formation, they will continue to fight and will never collapse! They will let the front The enemy has suffered a lot!"

Before the French revolution, European countries generally looked down on skirmishers—or light infantry, and regarded this unit as an auxiliary arm. Even Austria, which has a tradition of using light infantry, is also working hard to promote the regularization of light infantry. sports.

At this time, the light infantry were mainly mercenaries. They were originally robbers or hunters living in mountain forests. These people would get rewards according to the results of the battle, so they had a strong desire to fight.

Frederick the Great once tried to disband the line infantry and use them as light infantry. It turned out that most of the dynastic army was forced to go to the battlefield by officers, and most of them would flee once the formation was disbanded.

Therefore, it is impossible for the dynastic army to use light infantry tactics on a large scale. Over time, everyone also believes that light infantry can only be used as an auxiliary, and the real decisive thing is the line infantry.

Fage is different. In the beginning, Fage mostly adopted skirmish tactics because the training of troops was too bad and they couldn't form a line formation.But the soldiers of Fage are citizen soldiers, they have a sense of honor, they fight for the country, they have a high desire to participate in the war, and they will not escape without formation.

Therefore, the combination of the two reasons led to the fact that most of the French army in the early days of the French Revolution were stragglers, scattered all over the mountains and plains.

As a result, the officers of the French Revolutionary Army discovered that the effect was actually good, so the French Revolutionary Army began to use skirmishing tactics on a large scale.

An Ning decided to skip this part of summarizing experience and use skirmish tactics first.

Just between the front line of oneself and the enemy, the terrain is very complicated, which is very suitable for the deployment of skirmishers.

But Berthier strongly objected: "No, if we divide half of the troops again, the frontal force difference will reach three to one. This is very dangerous. Unless we have the same geographical advantage as you did last time, we will be unstoppable! "

An Ning was about to refute Berthier when she suddenly saw a troop.

It was the female soldiers. Originally, An Ning planned to train all the female soldiers to become cavalry, but there were not enough horses.

So An Ning let these female soldiers receive skirmish training.

Because skirmishers generally do not fight hand-to-hand with the enemy, the disadvantage of female soldiers' weak strength can be ignored.

An Ning asked Berthier: "Did you include the female soldiers when you calculated the strength of the troops?"

Berthier: "What? Oh no, how can the female soldiers be included? Once they enter hand-to-hand combat, they will retreat immediately!"

An Ning: "You guy, you have to pay a price for looking down on women."

Berthier: "I admit that your female cavalry performed very well in previous battles, but that is because they have undergone rigorous cavalry training, and they are all noble noble ladies. But your female cavalry are all washerwomen and Textile mill girls!"

An Ning shook her head, and said to Berthier, "Come and bet, I bet they will hold up half the sky in this battle."

After finishing speaking, An Ning galloped to the girls on horseback, and asked them loudly, "Girls! Why are you staying here?"

Immediately, a particularly stern voice responded: "Your Excellency, you have to ask your chief of staff. We lined up and waited this morning, but there was no order for us! We still came to the front on our own initiative. !"

An Ning: "On behalf of my chief of staff, I apologize to you. He doesn't want you to be involved in the battle! Now, I have a task that I want to give to you personally! I ask you to disband into skirmish formations and disperse to the line Go to the bushes on both sides of the infantry column!
"The enemy must look down on you as much as the chief of staff, so they won't stop and deal with you! I ask you to aim at the enemy's officers and fire fiercely! Of course, if the officers are too difficult to find, you can also aim at the military musicians!

"I ask you to kill them severely!"

After finishing speaking, An Ning turned her head and said to Berthier: "You ask the logistics team to take out some of the spirits we collected to treat the wounds of the wounded soldiers, and share them with the girls!"

This is also a tradition. In this era, for those troops who need a higher subjective desire to participate in the war, they will be given alcohol before the battle.

This is true of both hussars and light infantry.

The light infantry unit also has the profession of wine attendant, which is usually held by women. They will carry two barrels of wine and follow the light infantry unit. When fighting, whoever has no courage will have a sip.

Berthier muttered: "Crazy, crazy..."

An Ning: "What did you say?"

"I say the general's opinion," Berthier replied.

(End of this chapter)