King's Landing in France

Chapter 227

Unbeknownst to Anning, a strange clique of black writers (pseudo), architects, and lawyers had formed just outside her headquarters.

He is having a headache for the candidate for the army commander.

"Seven armies?" An Ning was shocked. According to the habits of later generations, he thought that three armies with 20 people would be enough, but Berthier told him to form seven armies.

After all, in this era, there are few people in an army, only 3 to [-].

If this is the standard of later generations, seven armies are seven columns, and seven columns can conquer the world.

Berthier: "15.00% of the division commanders and brigade commanders are the original old nobles. Regardless of their loyalty to the Republic, their military skills are still good. The rest are staff recruited from all walks of life, intellectuals and others with a certain reputation. Civilians are very loyal to the Republic, but basically have no military knowledge.

"We urgently issued some pamphlets to start training, but... we cannot expect their performance on the battlefield."

Peace of mind.

He has read the biography of Napoleon and the marshals. Ordinary officers don’t remember much. Otherwise, he can point out those officers who joined the army in a hurry and performed well in Napoleon’s era based on the memory of his previous life.

Anyway, now that so many civilians have become brigade commanders, it won't be a big problem for him to add a few more.

Too bad he didn't remember that much.

An Ning: "Under such circumstances, it is obviously unrealistic for us to have a formal frontal decisive battle with the enemy. The enemy is a regular army after all."

Berthier nodded: "Yes, this is completely different from our previous situation. Before us, although the troops were all ordinary patriots, and the officers were all kinds of civilians, they have undergone strict training, so they behaved like regular troops. Same discipline and order.

"Then the revolution gave them high morale, and it is normal for such troops to be better at fighting than the Austrian army.

"But now we have a bunch of rabble in our hands."

An Ning: "The only way to deal with it is to build a stronghold and fight silently. The good news is that we have several rivers that can be used as defensive barriers.

"We deploy ladder defenses by the river, trade space for time, and use troops to pile up the enemies. Let the troops go now."

Berthier: "It's reasonable. But before the troops leave, we have to decide on the army commander. The selection of the army commander must be cautious. I tend to choose old officers with certain military experience. There are still a few who support the Republic. General's."

An Ning curled her lips, wondering if she would rack her brains to disarm these old soldiers after defeating the enemy?

In the old French army system, four generations of nobles must be hereditary to become senior officers.

Therefore, the generals of the old French army were basically big nobles. Now the old nobles who are beheaded like the assembly line of the Republic can't really count on their loyalty.

After a short thought, An Ning vetoed the idea: "No, it's nothing more than a low-level military officer. After all, a lieutenant colonel can make waves is limited. Those who command an army must be loyal and reliable. Choose people who are famous in society. Be the commander."

"Everything is up to you." Berthier immediately agreed respectfully, but immediately changed the topic, "But these teachers, painters and businessmen really can't be expected to have such excellent conductors. Is it... just like before In that case, you can appoint some people to be the army commander? Anyway, you can find people with no experience, so why not just..."

Berthier has always had some complaints about An Ning's promotion of various front-line personnel. At this time, he took the initiative to ask An Ning to nominate some famous celebrities to serve as army commanders.

An Ning was scratching her head and faced a difficult situation. She also had to be famous and able to convince the public, but also had military talent to be able to fight well...

Those promoted by An Ning in the past had excellent performances, so there have always been rumors in the army that "General Frost has received a divine revelation".

Such rumors have side effects. If there is a problem with the person recommended by An Ning, they will immediately suffer backlash.

After thinking about it, An Ning shook her head: "No, I don't know such a person, it's better for you and Lazar to choose someone who is famous."

Don't make me take the blame if something goes wrong.

An Ning has already got some famous generals, and he will wait for their military ranks to be raised in the next war.

At that time, it happens that these celebrities do not perform well in the war, so we can take the opportunity to replace them.

Berthier didn't know An Ning's calculations, he frowned, not hiding his worry at all: "Crazy, we actually want to use such an army that has been almost laymen from top to bottom to defeat the coalition forces of two old powers. "

An Ning patted his chief of staff on the shoulder: "Believe in the great people of the great country, we are not facing the enemy alone, the whole of France is with us."

Berthier corrected: "It is two-thirds of France, and at least one-third of the region has rebelled."

An Ning thought what was wrong with this, I have encountered much worse situations than this - in "Europa Universalis 4".

The rebels guarding the country's gates are no joke.

Sometimes when the enemy country attacks when you explode the rebels, An Ning will move your army around the enemy's land and wait for the enemy country to wipe out all the rebels on your own land before returning to fight the weakened enemy army.

Thinking of the previous experience of playing games, An Ning even smiled.

Seeing his smile, Berthier showed an expression of "the general is really unfathomable".

Just then, someone came in to report: "Urgent letter from Nice."

An Ning: "Give it to me!"

As he spoke, he came to the courier in three steps, grabbed the envelope that the courier had just pulled out, and opened it.

The letter was written by Massena. He led 3 French troops to attack on his own initiative, and defeated more than [-] Sardinian troops on the plain in front of Mondoville, and had already approached Mondoville.

An Ning was overjoyed, and while handing the letter to Berthier, he said: "We must vigorously publicize Massena's victory, and now we urgently need a good news to boost morale!
"Tell our soldiers that the army of the Republic is a new type of army, an army armed with the ideas of the Great Revolution, and it is by no means comparable to the army of these old kingdoms!"

Berthier: "It should be publicized vigorously. By the way, don't we inform Parliament?"

"The parliament has special commissioners in Italy, and they will communicate... Well, let's talk to the parliament. After all, the parliament is the highest authority in France in theory, and we are just military generals appointed by the parliament."

As soon as An Ning finished speaking, a new messenger arrived.

This time it was a messenger from the parliament: "Report, the parliament has just passed the amendment of the new military rank. In order to ensure the smooth flow of the chain of command, the ranks of army general and legion general are specially added to the original highest rank of division general! "

An Ning: "What the hell, do they have to replace the original military ranks of the old kingdom? Is there any problem if the form doesn't change?"

Berthier asked the messenger: "Who proposed to consider this amendment? We just ordered to ignore the new military ranks of the conference yesterday. We will amend it today. The response is very fast."

Messenger: "It's Bishop Talleyrand."

An Ning frowned: "Talleyrand?"

Damn, this chameleon, shouldn't it treat me as a wall?
(End of this chapter)