King's Landing in France

Chapter 236 "The enemy is going to be in bad luck"

An Ning waited on the banks of the Marne for more than a day, and the enemy arrived as promised.

Although the French army marched desperately to get to the river as soon as possible before, but after a day of repairs, they have recovered to a seven or eighty-eight.

In addition, the French army is the defensive side in this battle, and they only need to squat behind the built fortifications and fire their guns, so the physical consumption of soldiers is not a big problem.

An Ning put down the binoculars, picked up the champagne on the table, and took a sip.

In fact, he didn't want to be so exaggerated, but for some reason, the whole army now thinks that General Frost should drink champagne and eat delicious steak when he goes to war, otherwise there is a problem.

So even Berthier, who has always been rigid, came to suggest that An Ning honestly set up a table to drink and eat meat, so as to prevent everyone from guessing.

So An Ning asked Fanny to set up a table on the high ground by the Marne River, with a parasol, red wine and steak.

He strongly suspected that the subsequent conductors would have to arrange this outfit themselves.

As soon as the enemy appeared, the cannon immediately began to roar.

Only a few shots were fired, however, before the enemy retreated out of range and began camping on the opposite bank of the Marne.

Berthier commented: "I didn't rush to cross the river, but set up camp first and waited for the troops to recover. The enemy's actions are very consistent with military common sense. This Prince Schwarzenberg is at least a commander with common sense."

An Ning asked, "According to military common sense, when will the enemy attack us?"

Berthier: "Tomorrow, generally speaking, before the regular battle takes place, the two armies will camp at a very close distance, and they can even see each other's camp. Yes, this is the case now. Your Excellency, you command a lot of battles By not following this principle, a number of advantages are gained.

"I think this is probably because the morale of our army is high, and there is no need to reorganize after a long march. This is a distinctive feature of our army, which is different from the army of the old kingdom."

An Ning: "It should be said that this is the characteristic of the citizen army and the characteristic of the nationalist army."

Berthier: "But this feature can't help us now. After all, we can't cross the river to attack the enemy now. We can only attack when the enemy is ready."

An Ning was about to respond when a messenger arrived.

"Report, General La Salle is crossing the upper reaches of the Marne, and should arrive tomorrow."

An Ning calmly corrected the orderer's words: "He's not a general yet."

"Feel sorry."

An Ning nodded, and waved the messenger to leave.

Berthier asked: "Do you want Lasalle to attack the enemy camp at night?"

An Ning: "We can't make it in time. The messengers arrived at Lasalle. It's probably late at night. Now the strength of our army and the enemy's army is balanced. It's fine to fight regularly."

Berthier: "I'm still worried. After all, our army is an untrained army, and many troops are not even proficient in loading."

An Ning: "But our morale is high."

In real history, when the French army first faced the intervention army, it was in a state of very poor training. Not only that, but the French army in real history is still a mixture of the old army and the self-defense army, with a lot of internal contradictions heap.

The army in An Ning's hands, at least not many old troops left, is a well-organized army.

Moreover, in real history, the French army was defeated by the intervention army at Valmy. They basically had no advantage in location, but relied on their high morale and solid pre-set positions to keep the coalition forces from moving.

The French army did not attack either, because Dumouriez, who commanded the battle, knew that the poorly trained French army would be finished if they left the position for field battles, so they stayed in the position and fought with the intervention army.

Then the French won.

An Ning is extremely familiar with history, so she is going to do the same.

High morale means you can do whatever you want!He stood up from the table and said to Fanny: "Maybe we won't be able to fight today, so you should clean it up. Is there a way to ensure that the steak will not go bad?"

Fanny: "Yes, just add more salt to marinate it. But are you sure you want to eat such a salty steak tomorrow? You should eat the steak today, and I will give you the same new steak tomorrow."

An Ning raised her eyebrows, and could only sit down again and start eating steak.

Fanny: "Drink some wine too, don't you get tired of just eating steak?"

An Ning picked up the wine glass and took a big sip of champagne.

Berthier: "I suggest that only half of the troops be left on the ground, and the rest of the troops withdraw to the camp to rest."

An Ning: "Okay, you can make arrangements."

Berthier nodded and left. After a while, the French army on the position began to withdraw from the position and entered the camp behind the position.

Quite a few troops passed by An Ning, all watching An Ning eating steak there.

Someone who has something to do asks loudly: "Your Excellency, the enemy has not attacked today, are you unhappy?"

An Ning smiled, and responded, "That's right! These damned guys actually retreated after only a tentative attack. Their commander, Schwarzenberg, must be a bastard!"

The soldiers burst out laughing, laughing at the waste on the opposite side, and the air was filled with joy for a while.

After the troops were over, Fanny whispered, "So this steak is not to your liking."

"No, no, it's very suitable for my taste. I was just right, it fits the occasion, it's just the occasion!" An Ning said hastily.

Fanny tilted her head: "Oh, so, I thought you like to eat raw or cooked steak."

Speaking of which, Fanny looked up at the tents gradually built by the coalition forces on the other side of the river, and asked, "Will the battle last for many days?"

"I'm afraid it will. After all, we are not the attacking side this time. If we want to fight until the enemy completely loses their will to fight, it is unlikely to form the kind of hearty annihilation battle before, and the winner will be determined in one day."

"Well, I thought it would be another clean victory this time, and I'm not prepared enough. Please allow me to bring a carriage back to Paris to bring some necessary things over."

An Ning was shocked: "What, you still have to use a carriage to bring things from Paris? I thought you could take everything you need from under your maid's skirt!"

After all, the skirts of the perfect and chic maids are all four-dimensional treasure bags, whether it is a large number of throwing knives or DShka heavy machine guns, they can be easily moved out.

Fanny looked at An Ning with a foolish expression: "How is that possible! I'm just good at planning and using transport capacity. Every time I ask the transport team to transport the general's personal supplies."

What the hell, these champagne and steaks are all made by taking up the resources of the transportation team after a long time.

An Ning pulled her face down: "This is not good, you can't take up precious luggage just because of me..."

Fanny: "Really? Then I won't do it next time?"

An Ning couldn't help rubbing his forehead. He remembered Berthier's words: "If you don't drink champagne and eat steak before the battle, your morale may be shaken."

An Ning: "No, please continue to prepare."

Fanny: "Oh. But I'm going back to Paris in the afternoon, so I probably won't be able to come back tomorrow. You can only move the small table out and pour the wine yourself."

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The next day, early in the morning, the Austrians began shelling across the river.

So the horns of urgent assembly sounded everywhere in the French camp.

An Ning lifted the curtain of the tent, carried a table in her right hand, and came out with a bottle of champagne in her left hand.

Berthier had originally come out of his tent to report to An Ning, but seeing An Ning's appearance, he hesitated.

An Ning: "Fanny has gone back to Paris, I have to move by myself."

Berthier opened his mouth wide, and it took him a long time to realize: "Ah, oh, that's it. You can call some orderlies."

An Ning: "No need, this thing is not heavy, just carry it by yourself and you'll be done."

Then An Ning walked towards his command position.

The flag bearer holding the general's flag arrived early, and when he saw An Ning coming up like this, he was stunned, as if he didn't know whether he should come up to help.

After all, no one has ever seen the appearance of a commander in chief of an army.

The infantry brigades lined up on both sides of An Ning's command position all looked at An Ning in shock.

An Ning smiled embarrassingly: "The maid has returned to the city, so I have no choice but to do it myself."

Then An Ning set up the table under everyone's gaze, and then turned down the chairs placed on the table and set them up.

He sat in a chair, opened the champagne himself, and realized he didn't have a glass.

Also, with only two hands, there is really no room for a cup.

An Ning thought about it, forget it, just blow on the bottle.

Seeing this scene, the soldiers looked at each other, and then An Ning heard someone say: "Did you see, Your Excellency General is so happy today, the enemy is going to be in trouble!"

An Ning raised her eyebrows, what the hell, can I improve the morale of our army no matter what I do?

As he thought this way, the artillery of the French army also began to fight back against the coalition forces.

Then An Ning saw that the engineers of the coalition army pushed the pontoon into the water in the distance.

Good guy, after they set up camp yesterday, they were not idle at all, they were building a pontoon bridge!

　There is a typhoon here, so I rushed to buy some daily necessities.After all, the typhoon landed in the afternoon, who knows if something big will happen.The second update is added, it’s still old time at night

　　
　
(End of this chapter)