King's Landing in France

Chapter 326 The Organizer of Victory

After the dinner, a salon was seamlessly joined only for members of the An Ning faction.

La Salle glanced at everyone in the hall, and suddenly said: "I was still wondering why something was missing, and after thinking about it, I finally found out that Davout's bald head is missing! Our party, without Davout's bald head, feels nothing Something is wrong!"

As a newcomer to this group, Bernadotte disapproved of Davout's feats of martial arts, he curled his lips: "Davout has been besieging a Mantua fortress in Italy for almost a year, isn't he Not good at siege."

An Ning: "He defeated Austria's several rescue operations against Mantua, and he has done a very good job. The troops sent by Austria to rescue the siege reached twice his strength at most.

"The Mantua fortress has not been taken yet, maybe Davout wants to surround the fortress, starve the people inside, and see if the Austrians will come to rescue the siege again."

Napoleon thought for a while, then nodded: "There is indeed such a possibility. In addition, Davout, despite the high casualty rate in several battles he fought under Andy, actually he personally doesn't like such a big sacrifice. .”

An Ning: "I know, but when he needs to go up, he won't refuse. So every time I put him in the most dangerous position, the casualties will be high."

"That's right," Napoleon nodded, "but if Davout is allowed to command by himself, he should prefer a strategy with low casualties. I've seen the Mantua fortress, and it's really difficult to attack."

Bernadotte was a little embarrassed by everyone's joint rebuttal: "This..."

An Ning stood up and patted Bernadotte on the shoulder lightly in front of him: "Davout is someone I can trust to let him take charge of the entire front. I handed over the whole of Italy to him. What are you doing?" When I can safely hand over the whole front to you, it will not be too late to comment on Davout."

Bernadotte nodded like a chicken pecking at rice: "Okay, okay, I will."

An Ning patted Bernadotte's shoulder heavily again, and then returned to her position.

Christina whispered, "Hey, don't do this, you scared Bernadotte."

An Ning was a little surprised: "Scared?"

"Look at his face! You probably don't know how scary your expression was just now, do you?"

Napoleon: "I have to say, I'm also intimidated. I'm going to try to be the general that you, Andy, will work so hard to maintain."

An Ning smiled: "You will be."

You are Napoleon, you will definitely be responsible for one aspect in the future.

An Ning suddenly thought badly, or else the world line would send Napoleon to Spain and let him be in charge of Spain's affairs.

Just at this time, the small band in the venue was playing, and the violinist in the band played a melodious melody, which was very suitable for the occasion.

However, the current French Republic has not yet gone to war with Spain, and the bad things in Spain have not yet been related to France.

An Ning scanned the entire room, thinking that someone in this room would make her unhappy in the future, so she sent him to Spain to let him experience how bad things in Spain are.

At this time, Napoleon started to talk about another topic: "By the way, which country are we going to attack first?"

"Parliament wants us to attack the low countries first to obtain financial resources. But to be honest, the low countries are republics like us. I don't think it is appropriate to attack directly. We should win on the Rhine front first, and then use diplomatic offensives to convince the Netherlands to stand with us. Come here."

As soon as An Ning spoke, the hall fell silent, and everyone looked at him, waiting for him to continue.

An Ning: "War is not the only means to achieve the goal, it should be multi-pronged."

"But who can persuade the Republic of the Netherlands to fall to our side?" Berthier asked. "France had a great influence on the Netherlands in the past, but these influences mainly came from the great nobles who were overthrown by us."

An Ning stroked her chin: "I do have someone to choose, but he's not in this room right now."

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay. At this time, everyone defaulted to talking about the internal affairs of the faction, and "not in this room" meant that they were not in Andy's faction.

An Ning said: "I think Mr. Talleyrand should be able to take on this responsibility. His diplomatic mission in the UK has been done quite well."

In the original history, Talleyrand was the foreign minister and chief of the first French Empire established by Napoleon, and his ability should be beyond doubt.

An Ning does not have much ability to know people, and can only judge a person's talent by the historical evaluation of later generations.

So when it comes to diplomacy, all he can think of is Talleyrand.

As soon as An Ning said it, La Salle laughed: "Talleyrand, he is a good man, and he gave me a good wine from the wine cellar! He is obviously a priest, so he shouldn't have anything to do with wine."

An Ning raised her eyebrows, thinking that you, Talleyrand, have already begun to corrupt the people around me?

For a person like Talleyrand, he might not be able to make any moves outside, so it's better to use it.

After all, this person's talent is also a real talent, so there is no need to use it for nothing.

Moreover, this kind of speculator who is good at calculation is actually quite easy to control.

After An Ning made up his mind, he said, "I am very satisfied with Mr. Talleyrand's achievements in London, so I am going to recommend him to be in charge of the mediation of the Republic of the Netherlands. And our offensive on the Rhine front will give Talleyrand China's diplomatic mediation and strong support."

Bernadotte asked again: "How many troops can we send to fight against the Rhine? Shinra and Prussia are estimated to have a combined strength of 500,000 troops. Although they have to guard against the Russians, it is impossible to use them all in front of us. But if our dispatched force is less than 20, the entire operation will be very difficult."

Napoleon was not happy: "What are you talking about? Andy alone is worth [-] soldiers. When did he beat twice as many enemies?"

An Ning raised a hand to stop Napoleon from continuing: "Well, I don't fight more with less because I like it.

"There is a classic book on the art of war in the East that says: Therefore, the method of using soldiers is to encircle them if they are ten, to attack them if they are five, to divide them if they are twice as many, to fight them if they are few, to escape them if they are few, and to avoid them if they are not enough." Of.

"This is ancient wisdom from the East. Napoleon, remember, the more troops the better, if you can fight with more, you must fight with more and fight with less. Don't talk about chivalry.

"If you don't have an advantage in overall numbers, you have to form an advantage in strength in a local area, so that you can fight more and fight less, understand?"

Napoleon curled his lips: "Well, I just want to emphasize that you are not afraid of the disadvantage of the force."

An Ning smiled: "Napoleon, my brother, don't worry about the inferior force, we have Lazarcano, we will not be short of troops."

Lazar Kano said with a smile: "You trust me so much, but it puts me under a lot of pressure. However, I can guarantee that with the harvest of autumn grain, when we send troops to attack the Rhine front next year, we will probably be able to dispatch 400,000 troops." Force, to fight for two to three months."

Lazar Kano's words made the generals in the room gasp in amazement.

Then I don't know who will take the lead in clapping.

After the applause fell, An Ning stood up and raised his glass: "Let us salute the organizer of the victory, Lazar Kano!"

(End of this chapter)