King's Landing in France

Chapter 223 Xiao He, Where's My Han Xin? Where's My General?

An Ning was naturally overjoyed when he won the two-dollar general, but he frowned when he saw Murat's rank.

Murat was the captain.

This is not right, An Ning remembers that Murat was already a major in 93, and after fighting a few battles, he could use his relationship with Robespierre to give him the entire major general.

Major generals can be released to command divisions or even army-level units, and the value of these famous generals can be fully utilized.

But now it seems that there are some deviations in history. Murat is still a captain, and he was directly promoted from captain to general. It is estimated that the parliament will have some criticisms.

Although An Ning is now the leader of the Jacobin Big Four, he can forcibly ignore the opinions of the parliament and stand in for his generals, but no one dares to say anything.

But An Ning wants to use the power in his hands cautiously.

In An Ning's previous life, I don't remember whether it was Teacher Shen or Teacher Jin who said that the decline of American hegemony was because he did not use his hegemony prudently, which led to excessive consumption of hegemony.

An Ning thinks so, so he intends to use the power he has obtained now cautiously.

That is to say, it cannot be abused.

Can you force Murat to be a major general, of course, but this matter is not urgent, that is, to lead Murat to fight a few more battles.

It just so happened that An Ning had sent La Salle out to fight guerrilla warfare. The king of the hussars was taking his two hussar brigades on a tour in the wilds of northern France.

A developed place has a revolutionary foundation, and La Salle can completely get the support of the locals, and a small number of troops can maneuver and harass the coalition's communication lines.

If you send La Salle out, then you must have an officer who understands cavalry by your side, right? You can't charge, let Ms. Oliver go?

As a cavalry officer, Ms. Oliver is relatively mediocre. She is better at making the ceremonial cavalry formed by girls out of beautiful formation.

Murat just came to fill this gap.

But Anning still lacks infantry officers.By the time of the counter-offensive in July, An Ning may have 200,000 troops under his command, at least divided into three armies, otherwise it will be really difficult to start.

If one army is handed over to Lana, what will happen to the remaining two armies?Do you want to choose those faces of the public to command?

What if they screw up?
After all, An Ning is not playing games now, he can't see the stats of those generals, and he doesn't know which one of those popular faces can fight and which one is a coward.

If there is really no other way, Murat can only be temporarily promoted to five ranks, promoted to major general, and let him command an army.

An Ning looked at Murat, but what she thought in her heart was, what about Jourdan, Soult, and Marmont?

Could it be that my luck is actually not good, the famous generals drawn now are all given after the card is guaranteed, and the remaining 26 marshals are still in the pool?

What the hell, am I still continuing my African ancestry now after I travel through time?

Murat had been standing waiting for An Ning to speak, and finally couldn't stand it any longer, and asked suspiciously, "Well, Your Excellency, why are you looking at me all the time?"

At this time, Lazar Kano said: "You are not used to Your Excellency's style, he occasionally falls into deep thought like this."

If Napoleon or La Salle were there, they would definitely pick up Lazar Cano's words, bragging about "this is a moment of genius inspiration" or something.

It's a pity that one of the two went to defend the city, and the other led cavalry to harass the coalition forces, and they were not in the Palace of Versailles at this time.

Murat: "That's right...then..."

An Ning: "Berthier, for your records, I am now appointing Noachan Murat as the brigade commander of the 12th Hussar Brigade and serving as the direct guard of the headquarters."

Berthier nodded immediately.

Murat: "The enemy is at hand, I want to attack the enemy myself..."

An Ning: "You will have such a chance, I promise."

Berthier: "Do you think that the direct guards are just the showy troops responsible for protecting you? No, no, the direct guards are equivalent to the shock troops commanded by you personally. You will be used in the most critical position."

Murat was immediately overjoyed: "Really? That's great, I will definitely complete the task given by Your Excellency!"

An Ning nodded: "Now go and familiarize yourself with your troops and build a relationship of trust with the cavalry. I believe you can do well. The Minister of War and I still have important matters to discuss."

Murat immediately saluted, turned and left.

As soon as Murat left, Lazar Kano said directly: "Now the operation of forming the troops is going smoothly, but the problem is still the same as before. There is a shortage of officers. I have to adopt a new unit organization called half brigade, let the officer of the previous regiment command more troops."

An Ning nodded. He had known about the fact that the Revolutionary Army adopted the half-brigades instead of the regiments of the Anti-French Alliance.

"That's good," he said.

Kano: "The council wants to recruit young bourgeois from the city to serve as officers. Because there is a shortage of officers, I agree with their approach, but the quality of these officers...is hard to describe.

"My response was to promote some veterans who had done well and were literate, but their literacy was at best non-commissioned officers.

"I mixed these non-commissioned officers with the small bourgeois officers, hoping that they would not break up too quickly in the battle."

An Ning: "You always have a solution. But our biggest problem now is the lack of senior officers. We need at least seven or eight generals to command the newly formed troops."

That's right, Kano, didn't you occupy Xiao He's position, where is I, Han Xin?Where is my general?I gave you the list, go find them!

There are more than 20 marshals, and you only found one Murat, which is quite beautiful!

Lazar Kano: "I have been working hard to find, but the situation is so chaotic now, it is really too difficult to find a specific person according to the list, like finding a needle in a haystack."

That's right, it's so chaotic now, with rebellions everywhere, beheadings every day in Paris, and lynchings everywhere, even the "victorious organizers" can't do anything about it.

An Ning could only turn to Berthier: "It seems that we can only rely on the connections of the chief of staff in the army. The Bernadotte you recommended before is good, I appreciate it! Is there anything else you can recommend to me?" ?"

Berthier: "Of the noble officers I know, they ran and died, and Bernadotte is the only one left."

An Ning scratched her head and looked at the map: "It seems that a large number of troops can only be temporarily placed under my direct command. Berthier, you are going to suffer a lot."

Berthier nodded slightly: "I am duty bound."

An Ning pouted.

In his memory, the last person who liked micromanagement didn't turn out very well!
(End of this chapter)