King's Landing in France

Chapter 184 Monsieur Paul Barras from Paris
While the world situation is changing, An Ning is also actively making preparations.

This time Lazar Cano came to Milan to personally escort the new products from the factory.

This is a new type of rifle that has been rifled after the production process has been improved.On the basis of the breech-loading gun sent by the British, the rifling inside the barrel was added.

Rifled rifles already existed in this era, but the rate of fire of muzzle-loaded rifles was too slow.

Because in order to exert the effect of the rifling, the projectile must be closely attached to the inner wall of the barrel, which makes it very troublesome to load the muzzle-loaded rifle. Drive the cleaning rod into the barrel like a nail, so that the bullet can be pressed to the bottom of the barrel.

Therefore, the rate of fire of this kind of front-loading rifle is only one-tenth of that of ordinary smoothbore guns, and it takes a lot of effort to load.

Knocking the cleaning rod is a standard manual job.

In addition, rifled guns are still difficult to produce. There are no machine tools in this era, so the rifling inside the barrel is manually planed out, and the production is very time-consuming.

Because of this restriction, when An Ning set off for Italy, the troops were not equipped with many breech-loading guns, nor did they bring double-track guns. Everyone carried regular muskets.

But An Ning arranged a task for Lazar Kano who stayed at home, and asked him to urge the craftsmen under him to study manual machine tools that can facilitate and speedy rifling, and improve the design of the breech-loading gun by the way to enhance productivity. An assembly line produced by An Ning.

Lazar Kano came this time with the results of An Ning's instructions.

Yes, after two years of tinkering, An Ning finally had the first batch of [-] breech-loading rifles.

The combination of a breech-loading gun and a rifle can perfectly solve the problem of too slow loading of the previous front-loading rifle.

After all, loading from the rear does not require the bullet to be loaded through the barrel engraved with rifling lines, as long as the bullet is directly inserted into the butt of the barrel from the rear.

The rest can be completely handed over to Gunpowder.

Such a weapon with long range, high accuracy and high rate of fire was born.

The only problem with this gun is that it is too complicated to produce, and the output is really worrying.An Ning still adopted the assembly line method, which greatly improved the production efficiency to obtain the production capacity. It took so long to only [-] pieces.

Not to mention the cost, the money to make one gun of this kind can make more than ten smoothbore guns.

If it weren't for An Ning, a traveler, who tried his best to promote the practicality of this thing, this kind of thing would definitely replace the smoothbore gun on a large scale when the productivity developed enough to mass-produce this thing like cabbage.

As a traverser, An Ning used her own power to advance the practicality of this technology in the army.

After Lazar Cano brought the [-] guns to Milan, An Ning was very happy to go to the outskirts of Milan to test and found that all the indicators of this thing were satisfactory.

Annin's officers had mixed reactions to the new rifle. Napoleon firmly supported the use of this new technology. La Salle thought the new gun was just an addition. He could win the war with his cavalry, Davout said. Cautiously optimistic, Berthier believes that this weapon will have no substantial effect other than increasing ammunition consumption.

But An Ning didn't care about the opinions of the officers. He immediately decided to form a precision shooter company, select 250 soldiers who were hunters, and each of them was assigned a new rifle, and the remaining 250 rifles were used as spares.

An Ning was very much looking forward to the performance of this precision shooter company in the upcoming war, and went to see them practice using the new rifle every day.

And his officers are more concerned about the [-] new troops brought by Lazarcano.

These new troops were recruited with the wealth An Ning plundered from Italy, and they were all progressive young people who supported the revolution.

The courage and morale of the army composed of progressive youths has been widely recognized by military officers, and some people even think that these fresh troops can be worth the dynastic army of 2 people.

However, the total number of troops in An Ning's hands is still far lower than the predicted enemy strength he will face after the war begins.

The action An Ning took for this was to form a large number of Italian Sequoia Army. He planned to use the Sequoia Army to defend various passes, and was responsible for logistics and transportation, and concentrated all the French troops for field battles.

Of course, it must be French troops guarding the strongholds along the line from Nice to Savona. After all, this is the lifeline of communication with the country.

After deducting the troops guarding these places, the French army can have more than 4 field troops.

The French army faced a combined army of [-] in Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Fortunately, because the French army often wins more with less, the soldiers don't take this difference in strength seriously, and their morale is very high. The enemy was wiped out.

At the end of November, the latest order came from Paris. The newly elected National Assembly controlled by the Jacobins raised the ranks of all the officers under An Ning.

Both Davout and Berthier received the rank of major general. Lahalpe, who was recovering from illness, received the rank of colonel just like Rana. Massena, who had been reorganizing the former Italian army in the rear, was also promoted to colonel.

The only one who was dissatisfied with the result of the promotion was La Salle, a young hussar who only got the rank of lieutenant colonel, for which he complained loudly.

Lasalle: "Why am I lower than Lana at the first level? Just because I only commanded one cavalry brigade? Lana was also promoted to acting division commander because of Lahalp's wrestling!"

In order to appease the general under him, An Ning could only ask the painter David to paint him a painting called "General La Salle Charges to the Enemy in Diego", which mainly depicts his great achievements in Diego.

A week later, the painting was drawn and sent to La Salle's barracks, together with An Ning's Dolman coat specially made for La Salle by the most expensive tailor in Milan. The usual dolman coat has even more lace.

Hussars basically love beauty. When La Salle saw this beautiful coat, he liked it so much that he finally stopped talking about his rank.

Came from Paris with the promotion order, and one more.

An Ning did not know this person theoretically, but An Ning did know him, because in the original history, he was also a quite famous person.

This person is called Paul Ballas, yes, it is the special commissioner who appointed Napoleon as the commander-in-chief of the Toulon Artillery in the original history, Paul Ballas.

In the original history, this person was also the lover of Napoleon's wife Josephine, who cuckolded Napoleon.

(End of this chapter)