King's Landing in France

Chapter 221 General Frost Inspects Sedan Fortress
Although it was only exile for Louis XVII, it still caused a fierce reaction from the royal party.

Of course, the Royalists in Paris have either exposed their dead bodies on the streets or hid them. In short, Paris is still calm.

But the surrounding cities and villages are not as stable as Paris. In many places, the royalists massacre patriots.

The patriots and the National Guard were stimulated, and in turn, a large number of royalists were arrested and tried.

The compulsory conscription bill passed by the National Assembly had a very bad effect at this time. The compulsory conscription pushed many originally neutral farmers to the royal party.

Before the Jacobins wanted to follow Anning’s practice in the south to divide the land, but the bill was blocked by Louis XVII and could not be implemented. The farmers still had to pay for the land by themselves. I'm cornered.

The funniest thing is that it was Louis XVII who obviously blocked the land division bill, but the old farmers who didn't even know a few big characters didn't care about it. They thought it was the National Assembly that took the king away, which made the situation so bad.

In Paris, news of riots broke out in new places every day, and the whole Paris was panicked.

At this time, An Ning was regarded as a life-saving straw by everyone. Wherever he went, the Parisians grabbed his hand and said, "It's all up to you, we're all counting on you!"

On An Ning's side, they have been preparing for the upcoming decisive battle.

The Republic established the Ministry of War, and Lazarcano served as the Minister of War under An Ning's recommendation, leading the army's preparation and training.

The National Assembly also issued three decrees calling on patriots across the country to defend Paris, and armies of patriots continued to come to Paris from all over the country.

However, as the country fell into chaos, the number of troops from the north began to decrease sharply, and troops from the relatively stable south continued to arrive.

An Ning repeatedly emphasized to Robespierre and the others that this was the result of the division of fields, and the farmers were willing to join the army in order to defend the fields they had just acquired.

So on March 3, the parliament once again passed a bill that confiscated the land of the feudal nobles across the country and distributed it to farmers.

Many councilors who were nobles voted against it, and they were branded as enemies of the republic, traitors, and swiftly tried and executed.

Danton shouted loudly in the parliament: "Now the Republic has reached the most dangerous time, and only thorough, cruelty and terror to the enemy can save the Republic!"

Set up the guillotine on Revolution Square, spreading terror day and night, executing the enemies of the Republic with astonishing efficiency.

Amidst this horror and bloodshed, a piece of news came.

The Prussian-Austrian coalition forces finally crossed the French border.

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When the news came, An Ning was inspecting Sedan Fortress.

He doesn't know what the Sedan Fortress looked like in history, but the Sedan Fortress in this time and space is a very standard bastion fortress.

The corners of the fortress were all built into a prismatic shape, and the shooting blind spots were filled with the walls protruding outward.

There are also very deep trenches outside the fortress, and the defense of the entire fortress looks quite impenetrable.

When An Ning inspected it, he felt that this fortress could not be taken down without a several times superiority in troops.

Relying on this fortress alone, it may not be a big problem to guard it for a year.

After all, this is not a game of "Europa Universalis 4", which can spend the military points equivalent to a general to break the defense of the fortress.

But when An Ning asked the fortress commander and other professional city guard officers, they didn't seem too optimistic.

After careful questioning, An Ning got a piece of common sense from them: for each fortress, the main obstacles to sticking to it were disease and lack of supplies.

The attacker only needs to storm for a period of time, causing enough casualties to the defenders of the fortress, and then continue to surround the fortress.

At that time, the corpses that the defenders of the fortress have no spare time to clean up will become the best breeding grounds for diseases, and soon various plagues will be prevalent in the fortress.

In the era when trebuchets were used, the Mongol army would even throw corpses into fortified cities to catalyze the plague.

Now everyone doesn't use trebuchets, but the casualty rate of wars is much higher than before.

Of course, there are various medicines stored in the fortress, but the medicines of this era can basically only play a comforting role, and they don't really work much.

In addition, just defending the city does not win the victory.

Victory can only be achieved by defeating the enemy in field battles.

The officers in the fortress are not like An Ning. They don't know Lazar Kano's abilities, and naturally they don't know that the Ministry of War will form a terrifying new force by July this year.

So the officers of the fortress were pessimistic about the outcome of the war.

After an inspection, An Ning decisively decided to remove the chief officer of the fortress.

He then appointed the smug Napoleon acting commander of the fortress of Sedan.

Napoleon was the best at commanding artillery. Generally, artillery officers would minor in military engineering. Napoleon learned military engineering very well when he was in school, so An Ning handed over the entire fortress to Napoleon with confidence.

Handed over to Napoleon together, there are [-] fresh troops.

"You are only acting commander now," An Ning said to Napoleon. "After this war is over, I will promote you to brigadier general!"

Napoleon was overjoyed: "You can make a deal! Then you will let me command an army!"

An Ning wanted to laugh: Napoleon told me, "When the time comes, you will let me command an army." Compared with you in another time and space, you are too unambitious.

An Ning: "No problem, you will have an army by then! You can even have a legion! But you have to let me defend this fortress."

Napoleon: "Is it just me? No one will cooperate with me?"

"Of course there will be. Lana Division will harass the enemy near you, and La Salle, I will let his cavalry harass the enemy's supply line like the wind."

Napoleon: "That's all right!"

He paused and said with a smile, "I still expect to attend your wedding."

An Ning: "I'm afraid my wedding will end this war. That is, we will fight to Vienna and capture that old hag and locksmith back!"

Napoleon: "Just thinking about it makes your heart beat! I said, Andy, you just bring that locksmith and his wife back for trial? Don't you think the Holy Roman Empire is an eyesore? We should build A new Rome!"

Napoleon complained a lot when the National Assembly decided on the national flag and coat of arms of the Republic.

This Rome fan wanted a gold flag on a red background, not a tricolor.

The flag of Rome should be a gold map on a red background.

In the end, An Ning had no choice but to agree to Napoleon. After his troops became famous, when he chose his own military flag, he would be given a Roman eagle flag with a red background and a gold pattern.

Unexpectedly, Napoleon thought about "Shinra" again: "This country is too annoying. If we go to Vienna, we have to disband him! Why does the Habsburg coward have a crown, not even France Woolen cloth!"

An Ning thought for a while and nodded: "Indeed, we will deal with the illegal organization Shinra!"

(End of this chapter)