King's Landing in France

Chapter 222

Arranging for Napoleon, An Ning inspected Verdun on his way back to Paris.

In fact, An Ning wanted to guard Verdun by himself, mainly because he was familiar with this place.

As a military history buff, he has read a lot of the battle history of the Verdun Meat Grinder, and now he can recall everything when he sees this terrain.

But Berthier, who accompanied him on the inspection, tried his best to prevent An Ning from personally serving as the guard of Verdun.

In the end, An Ning asked Berthier to recommend a trustworthy officer as the guard, and Berthier recommended Bernadotte.

An Ning looked at Bernadotte, his eyes gleaming: Good guy, another future marshal!

But this guy has been at odds with Napoleon in real history, and he even put a hat on Napoleon—the green one.

Thinking of this, An Ning's expression on Bernadotte became complicated.

He naturally doesn't like men who will give people a cuckold, this is a little cleanliness of a pure love warrior.

But Bernadotte's command quality should be enough.

After a short thought, An Ning made a decision: "Okay, since my chief of staff strongly recommended you, I will trust you and be handed over to you by Verdun! Remember, your task is to stick to it until July! July Next month we will have enough troops to launch a large-scale counterattack!"

Bernadotte was a tall man, half a head taller than the already tall An Ning, with slightly curly black hair and piercing black eyes.

After listening to An Ning's words, Bernadotte replied loudly with his head held high: "Don't talk about holding on until July, I can even hold on until December! I am very familiar with this fortress, and it will show the Prussians and Austrians a good look." Yes! Don't worry!"

An Ning raised her eyebrows.

At this time Berthier said: "Bernadotte admires you very much, and he has been preparing for his allegiance to you."

An Ning was a little surprised. When he read the biography of Napoleon, he felt that Bernadotte was a rebellious person, and he had never been very interested in Napoleon's personal reputation.

Why is he worshiping me now?

An Ning looked at Bernadotte again, and after the latter noticed his gaze, his body tensed even more, like a proud rooster.

Suddenly, An Ning remembered that Bernadotte is a hardcore republican!He didn't deal with Napoleon because Napoleon wanted to proclaim himself emperor.

In real history, when Bernadotte was in Italy, he felt that Napoleon was very ambitious and might be detrimental to the Republic, so he confronted Napoleon everywhere.

But this history, what is An Ning, is the founder of the Republic, a die-hard republican, Bernadotte worships An Ning, is it reasonable?
An Ning took a step forward, picked up Bernadotte's arm, and rolled up his sleeve at once, revealing the tattoo on his arm.

The tattoo reads "Death of a Tyrant" in Latin—yes, it's the same as in real history.

Berthier was shocked: "Why do you have tattoos? This is against the rules!"

An Ning raised one hand to stop Berthier from continuing: "Okay, it's not bad to express your ambition with a tattoo. Just deduct one month's salary as a punishment. Let me see, the tyrant dies, this Does the tyrant mean Louis XVI?"

Bernadotte replied: "Every tyrant who rides on the head of the people!"

Good guy, it's no wonder he didn't deal with Napoleon so much afterwards. After Napoleon became emperor, he became a tyrant in the eyes of many people.

This later became the regent of Sweden through election, and participated in several anti-French alliances, taking practical actions against the tyrant Napoleon in his eyes.

When watching the biography of Napoleon, I will unconsciously bring into the perspective of Napoleon. I naturally feel that Bernadotte is a rebellious boy, who is annoying to death, but jumping out of the perspective of the biography of Napoleon, from the perspective of a pure bystander, Bernadotte is a A ruthless person who carries out his beliefs to the end.

An Ning looked at Bernadotte's tattoo and took a deep breath.

Will he become a tyrant whom Bernadotte hates?

Will he ascend the throne of the French Empire one day in the future, and thus drive away Beethoven and Bernadotte?
no, I can not.

An Ning waved away these thoughts, and put down Bernadotte's arm: "Very good, I have already felt your will, I believe you will defend this fortress. When the counterattack in July is over, I will personally hold a grand ceremony for you Celebration banquet."

Bernadotte stood at attention again and saluted An Ning: "I will definitely live up to your expectations!"

**
After inspecting the two fortresses, An Ning returned to his headquarters in Versailles outside Paris.

The reason why the headquarters is placed here is mainly because it was originally the palace of the King of France, and there are a large number of houses that can accommodate a considerable number of troops.

An Ning no longer wanted to see the continuous bloody scenes in Paris, so she moved out, and also isolated herself from the intrigue and political struggle in Paris.

Here he can concentrate on preparing for the defense of Paris.

Of course, An Ning also had a little bit of selfishness: he had been to the Palace of Versailles several times before and had seen the luxury of the palace, so he wanted to try living in such a luxurious palace.

Gotta give it a try.

Napoleon in another time and space lived in good houses everywhere. When he was in Spain, he even sneaked into Madrid, which was full of anti-French elements, to see the Spanish Royal Palace where his brother Joseph Bonaparte lived.

In short, An Ning's headquarters was placed in the Palace of Versailles, so his fiancée, Christina, who had been relieved of military affairs, became the temporary mistress of the Palace of Versailles, and Fanny became the temporary head maid of the Palace of Versailles.

The day after Anning returned to Versailles, Lazare Cano arrived from Paris with an update on the reorganization of the troops.

With him came a young cuirassier officer.

An Ning looked at the cuirassier officer who came with Lazar Kano suspiciously: "Who is this?"

Lazar Kano was a little surprised: "You don't know?"

An Ning let out an "oh", realizing that this might be a famous general that Lazar Kano had found based on the list he had given.

This list was only given to Lazar Cano, and Berthier didn't know it.

Of course, there is no Bernadotte in this list. After all, An Ning was still in the perspective of Napoleon’s biography when writing this list, and he thought Bernadotte was a rebellious boy.

An Ning recalled the list she gave, among them those who came from cuirassiers...

An Ning: "Could it be that you are Noahshan Murat?"

An Ning remembered that in the game "Battle Banner of the Maiden", Murat had her own armor and was a cavalryman, so it must be that the cuirassiers didn't run away!
Murat was shocked: "You know me?"

Not only do I know about you, I also know that you are going to marry Napoleon's youngest sister and become the king of Naples... But that's all in another time and space.

Good guy, now we have found two of the three heroes in the army, only one Ney is missing.

Moreover, Murat is different from La Salle. La Salle can lead at most a brigade of cavalry, and he can't command larger troops. Murat is a general.

An Ning firmly held Murat's hand: "Great! You came just in time for this kind of time when talents are needed!"

Berthier looked at all this suspiciously, and just by looking at his expression, he knew that he had already made up a lot of plots in his brain.

(End of this chapter)