King's Landing in France

Chapter 195
Although An Ning knew the terrain of Rivoli like the back of his hand, it was hard for him to show it directly.

After all, there is no way to explain it. It cannot be said that God entrusted me with a dream and told me the terrain.

So An Ning said to La Salle: "Hurry up and go to Rivoli to scout."

La Salle: "Do you need me to delay the enemies going south from Trent?"

An Ning: "No, the cavalry of the Adige Valley cannot be used. You just need to ensure that your scouts are always in the enemy's sight."

Lasalle: "No problem! The boys under my command like this kind of exciting mission, and they can fight against the Austrian cavalry!"

Berthier: "Don't worry, battles between cavalry and cavalry rarely happen, and there is a high probability that they will shoot at each other at a certain distance."

In this era, the cavalry rarely confronted each other. During the decisive battle between An Ning and Lafayette, the cavalry fought for several hours. This is a very rare situation in this era.

Normal cavalry hedging, generally because of the physiological instinct of the horses, they can't collide at all. In this case, the side with the faster speed will often win - because the horse has more courage when it is fast, and the oppression of the opposite horse The power is also stronger.

La Salle: "Don't worry, I will take care of everything, you just wait for the news here."

An Ning: "Be careful, I don't want to lose my cavalry commander so soon."

An Ning hasn't found Murat yet. If La Salga is lost, there will be no one to command the cavalry.

At that time, maybe Christina and her immediate boss, Ms. Oliver, will be in command of the cavalry.

Those hussars are wild, like bandits, let women command them, don't know what to do.

As soon as Lasalle left, Davout came in from the outside.

"My troops are also marching towards Rivoli now, do you want to send some troops to support Lana?" Davu looked at An Ning, "We have you personally commanding us, so we probably don't need so many troops."

An Ning is speechless, what does it mean that with my personal command, so many troops will not be needed? Is this reasonable?
An Ning turned to look at Berthier, expecting Berthier, who has common sense, to scold Davout, but Berthier said: "The current information shows that Marshal Wurmze has indeed divided his troops into two groups, even if some troops are allocated to support In Lana on the west bank of the lake, our frontal force ratio is also one to one, and we have no disadvantages. With the personal command of His Excellency the General, our army's morale must be very high, and we will exert stronger combat effectiveness than the enemy."

Berthier's words sounded a little more reasonable than Davout's, but only a little bit.

It seems that both Berthier and Davout really feel that with the command of the "battlefield magician", even if the force is one to one, it can be regarded as a huge advantage.

As a last resort, An Ning can only correct this wrong perception by herself.

An Ning: "No, I was just forced to fight a few battles with inferior forces. I had no choice, do you know? If I had a choice, I would choose to concentrate superior forces to fight annihilation battles. I have already decided to fight in the front Concentrate local force superiority."

Davout: "I also support the advantage of concentrated forces, but will Lana have a problem? He is just..."

Davout hesitated.

An Ning said the second half for him: "Just a dyeing apprentice, I know what you want to say."

Berthier: "As a regimental commander, or even a brigade commander, Lana has no problem. He performed very well when teaching the team, and his tactical learning is also top-notch. But..."

Berthier also half-spoken.

Both Davout and Berthier came from traditional military backgrounds and were also nobles. It is normal for them to have doubts about Lana's ability to command the blocking battle on the west bank of the lake.

The top soldiers in the army will be fooled by the saying that "Your Excellency the General has received a divine revelation", but this method is obviously not very feasible for these professional soldiers.

An Ning: "I promoted Massena, can I fight?"

Davout immediately replied: "Of course it is very good at fighting. The offensive and defensive work is really good."

Masséna took the initiative to attack without An Ning's instructions, and caught the Kingdom of Sardinia by surprise, which seemed to make Davout have a very good impression of him.

Berthier did not express his position immediately like Davout, and he said after a brief hesitation: "It is indeed a very bold action, but it is a bit too risky."

An Ning: "But you all admit that Massena is a talent, right? Believe me, Lana will have the same performance."

Berthier and Davout looked at each other.

Napoleon suggested: "If you are worried that Lana will not be able to withstand it, you can strengthen my artillery unit to Lana. Anyway, the front is a superior force, and it doesn't matter if I don't have it. I want to go where I am most needed."

An Ning: "No, in case Lana's front line collapses, your artillery is actually not easy to run, although you are all horse-drawn artillery."

Napoleon: "What, I thought you trusted Lana completely."

"Of course I trust him, but this does not prevent me from arranging some insurance measures. Distance is our insurance measure. Even if Lana is defeated, we will have one day to deal with the Austrian army going south in the Adige Valley."

Berthier: "Very reasonable."

An Ning continued to gesture on the map: "Now La Salle is going to find the enemy's main force. I guess their current location is probably here."

An Ning drew a cross on the map.

"It will take two days to reach Rivoli from here, unless the Austrians forcefully march and come here without sleep. But it has just snowed heavily, and there should be considerable snow in the canyon. In this case, the forced march without sleep, Then when they reach Rivoli, we can easily defeat this tired enemy."

In fact, the reason why An Ning knew that Wumuze would take two days to arrive was because Wumuze in another time and space walked this road for more than two days and nearly three days.

An Ning, this is basically the same as cheating.

But this is different from the promotion of officers by leapfrogging. This is very cryptic. It seems that An Ning is just making an estimate based on common sense.

Davout: "My troops can reach Rivoli in a day and a half."

An Ning: "A forced march?"

"Yes, according to your estimation, after the forced march arrives at the position, there is still half a day to recuperate."

An Ning: "Execute it!"

At this time, an orderly rushed into the room: "Report! The second division is urgent!"

An Ning: "It's Lana, give it to me."

The messenger stuffed the letter into An Ning's hand, and then saluted.

An Ning opened the letter, and his apprentice in the dyeing workshop wrote in crooked characters: "There are a large number of Austrian troops in front of me, and they are fighting."

(End of this chapter)