King's Landing in France

Chapter 186 Tricky
After arranging Ballas to live in the most luxurious hotel in Milan, An Ning and his officers gathered in An Ning's study to discuss the latest domestic intelligence brought back by Ballas.

Napoleon was the first to speak: "It seems that the country is more complicated than imagined! Why don't we give up Italy and go back to Paris, like Cromwell!"

Just as An Ning was about to answer, Lazar Kano asked, "So when the country is unstable, should we stand for the King's Party or the Republic?"

Everyone looked at Lazar Kano together.

In fact, when An Ning chatted with the officers, he more or less talked about his future plans and his own position, so the officers who have been fighting with him all know his tendencies.

Especially Napoleon, An Ning has always been a hardcore republican since Brienne's time.

However, Lazar Kano has been engaged in construction in the rear for a long time, and basically only communicates with An Ning through letters, and the letters are basically business matters, and he has not expressed any views on politics, so he does not know that An Ning's inclinations are normal.

An Ning: "Of course it's the Republic. I'm a cobbler. People who stand in the royal party don't necessarily want me."

The officers all laughed.

Lazare Carnot said quite unexpectedly: "But the current King Louis XVII is the son of your patron, isn't he? I heard that you may also become the king's uncle. The King of Nice and Toulon assembled The party seems to think so, and they also regard our army as a hardcore royalist army in the discussion..."

An Ning: "That's their delusion. I do have a good personal relationship with the Duke, but that doesn't involve principles. I firmly believe that everyone is equal, and I want to build a civilian society, so I'm naturally at odds with the royal party."

When An Ning said this, she suddenly had an idea: Damn, what if these people push me to the throne forcibly in the future?
Not so... Forget it, now to emphasize this, it can be regarded as killing this possibility.

La Salle: "I propose that we toast to the Republic!"

An Ning: "You just want to find a chance to drink."

La Salle: "Fine wine, women, and killing enemies on the battlefield, shouldn't a man desire these three things?"

Napoleon smiled and said, "That's all you can do."

"Yes, unlike you, your dream must be to shoot a cannon in the face of an enemy general." La Salle retorted.

Napoleon: "If I could do it, I would! Before your cavalry are behind my cannon!"

"Oh, look, look, who is talking big!"

It seems that Napoleon and La Salle are burying each other, but there are smiles on their faces.

An Ning glanced at Napoleon and La Salle. He didn't know that the relationship between Napoleon and La Salle was so good that they could bury each other.

It seems that after several battles, the officers under him have also established a deep friendship with each other, and probably there will be no such troubles as friendly troops in the future... right?

While Napoleon and La Salle were teasing each other, Lazar Carnot was worried about the domestic situation.

"Since we want to support the republic, the situation in the country may be a bit bad, because there are really many royalists in the south. Maybe...we must be prepared. After the parliament breaks with the royalists, I estimate that there will be more than 200,000 in the south royalist rebellion."

An Ning frowned: "Are there so many?"

"It's just a conservative estimate."

An Ning pouted.

Thinking about it carefully, in the original history, even in a place like Paris, which was the general base of the revolutionaries, the Royalist Party set off a massive riot, and it was Napoleon who bombarded the Royalist Party with grape bullets on the streets to suppress it.

Lazar Cano stroked his beard, meditating and muttering: "I have to send the royalists in the army to Italy as soon as possible, and then ensure that enough Republican troops are stationed in the south, ready to suppress the royalists at any time."

Napoleon: "Don't worry, just pull the cannon into the street, load it with grape shells, and bombard it fiercely, whether it is the royal party or the old aristocracy, it will soon fall to pieces."

La Salle joked: "Come on, it seems like grape bombs can solve all problems."

Davout: "Actually, even without cannons, bayonets and a neat formation are enough to deal with the mere mob. I am willing to bring [-] troops back to suppress the rebellion..."

An Ning: "No, you can't leave. None of the generals on the front line can leave. We still have to fight against Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia."

Lazar Cano: "Your Excellency, you will concentrate on dealing with the enemy in Italy, and I will take care of the domestic affairs."

An Ning: "That's up to you. There is a real shortage of troops. You can recruit soldiers from the peasants who have acquired the land and tell them that this is to protect everything they have acquired."

Lazar Kano nodded.

Davout: "Let's discuss how to defeat Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia. According to the reconnaissance of our cavalry and the information we got from the Italians running merchants, the strength of the Mantua fortress has been greatly enhanced, and in the north of the fortress, the special There are obvious signs of increasing troops in the direction of Lent and Bassano, and the Austrian army is expanding its warehouses and warehouses, obviously in preparation for supplying a larger army."

As he spoke, Davout made gestures on the map.

An Ning looked at the map: "So is it possible for the Austrian army to attack from two directions, the Adige River and the Brenta River?"

Davout: "In terms of supply, the Adige Valley in the direction of Trent is closer to the supply center of Shinra, and Bassano obviously needs to take a detour."

An Ning: "Adige Valley..."

An Ning remembered this valley. In real history, Napoleon defeated the main Austrian army at a place called Rivoli in the Adige Valley.

After that, although Austria made a breakthrough in the southeast of Verona and crossed the French defense line, it was finally blocked by the French army surrounding the Mantua fortress.

Finally, the fortress surrendered, and the Shinra army fully retreated to the front line of the Alps, and handed over the fertile, broad and rich land at the foot of the mountain to Napoleon.

In real history, Napoleon defeated the Austrian army twice in the area north of the Mantua fortress, completely taking all of northern Italy except Venice.

Then Napoleon also conquered the Papal State by the way, and let the Pope generously donate once.

An Ning will face the armies of Shinra and Sardinia on this land.

The good news is that An Ning is very familiar with the process of Napoleon's several victories north of Mantua, and he has a good idea of ​​the entire terrain.

The bad news is that An Ning did not have the time difference to beat Austria away first, then kill the Kingdom of Sardinia, and finally concentrate on dealing with Austria like Napoleon did.

This time he had to face both Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

(End of this chapter)