King's Landing in France

Chapter 266
When the news came, An Ning was on his way to lead an army to rescue Babi Village.

Nearly 200,000 French troops lined up in a long line on the post road, looking very ordinary and shocked.

The messenger ran all the way along the marching column, finally found the commander-in-chief of An Ning, and rushed over to deliver a message: "Report to Your Excellency, the coalition forces that besieged the Sedan Fortress were defeated by us, and the Austrian commander Archduke Karl was captured alive."

An Ning took the letter immediately, read the contents carefully, and then said, "Hey, Napoleon arrested Grand Duke Karl? Shouldn't Grand Duke Karl beat Napoleon violently?"

In An Ning's impression, the direct confrontation between Karl and Napoleon has always been a pity. The two sides were going to fight to the death, but Archduke Karl's brother, he voted.

The real "the ministers are about to fight to the death, why did His Majesty surrender first".

Later, Archduke Karl defeated Jourdan, Massena and other famous French generals in succession, and was ordered to stop Moreau's advance after the Austrian army was defeated in the Battle of Hohenlinden.

But he never had the chance to fight Napoleon head-on.

There should have been a chance, but after becoming the savior of the country, Grand Duke Karl made great achievements. In addition, he learned from the experience of the French army to promote military reforms, and established a national army like the French army, which threatened the imperial power. In the end, he was jealous of his brother. Lost military power.

In fact, this has always been a pity for military history lovers. Everyone wants to see Archduke Karl fight Napoleon with all his strength.

As a result, the result is good now, this space-time Grand Duke Karl directly became Napoleon's prisoner.

An Ning shook his head. At this moment, he felt as if the long-awaited drama had finally kicked off, but in the end, it turned out to be a lack of energy.

He didn't know at this time that Grand Duke Karl only lost because Napoleon was shorter.

He didn't know that Archduke Karl was shocked by the power of the French army at this time, and began to abandon the outdated military thinking and accept new ideas.

All in all, An Ning didn't know at this time that this was just a catalyst for the transformation of Grand Duke Karl.

At this time, An Ning actually wanted to complain about Napoleon's record with his confidantes, but it's a pity that none of his old team members are here now.

Berthier was still serving as acting commander, Davout was in Italy, and La Salle was wounded and hospitalized in Paris.

So An Ning could only look at Murat, who was not yet a confidant, and said to him: "Look, Napoleon has arrested the emperor's brother, Archduke Karl of Austria."

Murat was a little surprised when An Ning suddenly spoke to him. He didn't know that An Ning already regarded him as a confidant in his heart, and he was completely ordinary people's attitude towards An Ning. He responded very respectfully: "What a beautiful victory, Your Excellency."

An Ning frowned, such a distant answer disappointed him a little.

Also, you can't ask others to be the same as the old subordinates as soon as they come up.

An Ning handed the letter to Murat: "Look at it."

Murat borrowed it cautiously, read it carefully, and then looked up at An Ning.

He may have seen that An Ning was expecting him to express his opinion, so he said, "Are you going to decide the decision of the Grand Duke Karl's disposal by the parliament?"

"No," An Ning shook his head, "The council is crazy now, maybe it will send him to the guillotine. He is a prisoner of our army. Naturally, our army decides how to deal with it. It has nothing to do with the council."

When Murat heard An Ning say "the parliament is crazy", her expression was a little subtle, as if she was saying, "Is this fucking something I can listen to?"

An Ning ignored Murat's expression, he just wanted to turn all future famous generals into his good buddies.

"We are just like before," he said, "sign an agreement not to participate in military operations against France for one year, and then collect a ransom. The Habsburgs are still very rich, and they can swindle a lot of money as Start-up capital for the future."

Murat looked inexplicable: "Start what?"

That's right, An Ning hasn't told him about his grand idea of ​​using steam engines to reform French production.

An Ning: "The steam revolution, using steam engines to replace traditional manpower, pushes productivity to a new field."

Murat: "Uh... ah, well, that's a very grand idea."

It feels like he doesn't understand.

An Ning suddenly missed La Salle. If this treasure is here, she will definitely complain crazily, such as: "You have cut off the tax revenue of Northern Italy, and you will continue to persecute that Franz of Austria!"

Hope Lasalle gets better soon.

**
La Salle: "Mrs. Fanny! I'm out of wine!"

The landlady appeared with a speechless face: "I started drinking it in broad daylight, this is the third bottle!"

"It's a lot of your money. I'm a hussar, and the hussars just want to drink and eat meat, and yell loudly and uneducatedly while eating."

As he spoke, La Salle patted the landlady's butt.

The landlord said angrily: "Take your dirty hands away! If you weren't the general's favorite, I would have slapped you."

Lasalle laughed, as if taking the landlord's reaction for fun.

At this moment, he heard crying from outside.

Just at this time, the landlady brought the wine, and La Salle asked, "What is this crying?"

"People's cries." The landlady said angrily.

"I know it's people crying, but I tell you the truth, who is crying and why?"

"Mrs. Langley across the street, someone reported that her house had pamphlets of the Royal Party, so her husband was arrested. He was arrested in the morning, and he came back in the afternoon, with a very neat cut on his head." Said the landlady drawing made a cross.

La Salle was obviously depressed: "Damn it."

He looked at the wine that the landlord had just brought, and gently pushed the bottle: "Take it away, this crying makes me not in the mood to drink."

"Then I'll tell her not to cry?"

"No, don't go, it's too much to ask people not to cry at this time, let her cry, poor woman."

LaSalle said.

**
While La Salle was resting, the Austrian cavalry major Jonah had just dispersed the third wave of the French army.

These French troops were very strange, they didn't form a phalanx at all. After seeing the cavalry, they were in chaos. Jonah thought that this time it would be another easy and happy victory.

Ordinary troops, without forming a phalanx, immediately collapsed when they saw the momentum of the cavalry rushing towards them, and then the cavalry could comfortably chase down the fleeing enemies and practice their sword skills.

This French army is different. They did break up, but after fleeing to a place where the cavalry was not good enough to play, they turned around and started shooting.

To disperse such a French army, you have to rush up and chop off a few heads with a saber, and scaring alone is useless.

As a result, after one morning, Major Jonah's hands were numb from chopping, and his saber was cut by some hard-headed person.

However, the French army continued to appear, one brigade and one brigade.

A good reconnaissance mission turned into a constant dispersal of the French army that emerged.

While cutting and killing, the major asked loudly, "Why are there so many French troops! Where did they come from?"

The major's subordinates replied: "Major, have you read One Thousand and One Nights? There is a story in it, there is a seed that can become a soldier if you scatter it, maybe that Andy Frost got this treasure!"

Jonah swore and was about to chop off a new head when he got shot.

He fell off his horse, and when he saw the scene of the world spinning, he wondered: What's wrong with me?Did I get shot?
Then he hit his head on the ground and passed out.

(End of this chapter)