King's Landing in France

The French army who had just returned to camp was shouted by the messengers galloping on horseback.

In this situation, to ensure the smooth flow of command, in fact, it depends very much on the ability of the chief of staff. The chief of staff with a little less ability will be in chaos before the troops cross the river.

But Berthier may be the strongest chief of staff in Europe during the French Revolution era. He can dismantle the action of "crossing the river at night" into countless subdivided orders at once, and then let the messengers issue the order to implement it.

In addition to the messengers who called people out of the tent at the beginning, Berthier also sent many messengers to send specific instructions to each unit.

The troops who received the order began to move towards the river.

The river crossing point chosen by Berthier is the location where the coalition forces cross the river today. The coalition forces have already proved with practical actions that the river water in these areas is relatively shallow and can be waded across the river.

Berthier also arranged for a caller to shout loudly by the river: "Throw down the backpack, and raise the gun and powder pack above your head!"

The firearms and bullets of this era are not waterproof, let alone soaked in the river for a period of time, even if it rains, they will lose their effectiveness.

So if you want to swim, you have to hold your rifle, ammunition backpack, and gunpowder gourd high together.

The knapsack is full of paper bags that put the projectiles and propellant together. When loading, you only need to tear a hole in the paper bag, and you can pour the propellant and projectiles into the barrel together.

The horn gourd is mainly used to hold gunpowder to be poured into the ignition powder pool.

Both of these are things that should never be wet.

So a large number of French troops held their rifles, ammunition packs, and gourds, and entered the water mightily.

Because of the darkness, the scene still looked a bit creepy, as if the zombie army had learned something new.

Especially the fire on the other side turned half of the sky red, making the scene even more weird.

An Ning was watching this scene by the river.

He originally wanted to cross the river first, but Berthier stopped him with all his strength, thinking that the coach should not be put in danger at this time.

If it was only Berthier who blocked her, An Ning might just ignore it and go across the river to kill her, but Fanny also came back from Paris.

One word from the little maid made An Ning give up crossing the river herself.

She said, "Madam told me to take good care of you and not let you take any risks."

So An Ning could only give up and watched his French army cross the river from the river bank.

Looking at An Ning, he suddenly thought of something, and asked Berthier: "After crossing the river, won't you miss something because of night blindness? When I attacked Lafayette at night a few years ago, I sent the night attack troops a few days in advance. Eating carrots solved the problem of night blindness."

Berthier replied with some helplessness: "Night blindness does not mean that you can't see at night, but you can't see when there is no light. It is impossible to see such a big fire on the opposite side. I am really afraid of not being able to see, so I picked up some burning It would be good to use the firewood as a torch.”

An Ning: "That's right. I didn't suffer from night blindness, I don't know."

After he crossed, except for the first few days when he didn't eat very well, he ate well at other times. After all, he was a guest of the Duke of Orleans.

So he hadn't tasted night blindness.

But logically speaking, there is no reason why cobblers in this era should not suffer from night blindness.

In this era, night blindness is a common disease among civilians.

An Ning didn't notice this, so she just said that casually.But Berthier obviously noticed this, but he didn't say anything, but had an inscrutable expression on his face.

I don't know how many thousands of words of secrets he has made up in his brain.

At this time, the first wave of swimming troops had already crossed the river, and shouts of killing came from the other side of the river.

An Ning: "Can I cross the river?"

"After the engineers have set up the pontoon bridge, you can go there," Berthier replied.

An Ning: "You still let engineers build floating bridges?"

"Of course, you can't let all the troops swim like this? Although you can raise your guns and ammunition above your head, it's hard to guarantee that there will be no accidents. And not everyone can swim. The troops I ordered to cross the river are all from the seaside area Troops, they are less afraid of water."

An Ning said in a convincing tone, "As expected of my chief of staff, you are really thoughtful."

What he actually wanted to say was "he deserves to be the strongest chief of staff in Europe", but after thinking about it, he still didn't give Berthier this high hat.

While talking, a messenger ran over and reported loudly: "Your Excellency, the pontoon bridge has been erected!"

An Ning: "Is that it? I saw it."

While speaking, there were torches moving towards the middle of the Marne, apparently on a pontoon bridge.

An Ning: "Let's go."

After that, without waiting for Berthier's reaction, he kicked the horse in the belly, causing the horse to run at a small pace, and went straight to the pontoon bridge outlined by the torches in the night.

Berthier immediately followed.

When the engineering officer guarding the pontoon bridge saw An Ning approaching, he shouted loudly: "Long live Your Excellency, General!"

An Ning nodded, and rode onto the pontoon.

The iron plates on the horseshoes collided with the floating bridge, making a crisp sound.

On the pontoon bridge stood some distance away with sappers holding torches, illuminating the bridge deck brightly.

Every time An Ning passed by a soldier, he would shout "Long live the general".

After crossing the river, An Ning observed the Prussian-Austrian Allied Army's barracks at close range: "The fire is really raging, order the troops, and those who can capture the enemy leader, Prince Schwarzenberg, will be rewarded with twenty gold crowns!"

Berthier: "It's probably useless, the prince should have already taken advantage of it and ran away."

As soon as the words fell, a group of French soldiers came over surrounded by a man dressed as an aristocrat.

"Your Excellency, this nobleman wants to see you!" The escorting soldier said loudly, staring at the nobleman with wary eyes as he spoke.

It was no wonder that the soldiers were so vigilant. The nobles were basically enemies now. Even the nobles who were not hostile to the revolution had become opponents of the revolution because of the massacre of the nobles by the Jacobins in recent months.

The nobleman immediately shouted: "I am not a nobleman! I am a disguise prepared to deceive the coalition forces! I am a barber! This wig is something sold in my shop!"

When An Ning heard the words barber, she remembered the hard-core ruthless "John Fatto" that John Khan had mentioned. Yes, he was the ruthless man who faked kidnapping in order not to be extradited to the UK.

An Ning pressed down the memories before time travel that suddenly surged up, and asked the barber in front of him: "Did you light this fire?"

"No, it should be said that my companions and I lit it up! We are patriots from Epernay!"

An Ning: "You are real heroes! Without your fire, we might spend many days here fighting the coalition forces!"

The barber was overjoyed: "You actually praised us as real heroes! To get the praise of a hero like you, all our actions are worth it! I'm going to tell my colleagues about your praise!"

An Ning: "Go, give everyone a treat for me!"

After the barber left excitedly, An Ning said to Berthier: "See, this is the cohesion of the nation-state. This is something that the European nobles have never seen! They thought they were just with the National Assembly in Paris. They are their enemies, but in fact, the whole of France is their enemy!

"They will be caught in the ocean of people's war!"