King's Landing in France

Chapter 341 Singing the Hymn of Victory

The Austrian commander-in-chief Vuksevich looked at the scene in front of him in disbelief.

"I can understand being crushed by the French army. What does it mean to be crushed by the Italians?" He muttered in a low voice.

As he spoke, his left flank was being swept away by red Italian troops, while the blue French line was still some distance away from his first line.

Vuksevich's chief of staff whispered: "Maybe it's true, as that Frost said, times have changed, and our troops can no longer keep up with the times."

Vuksevich turned his head sharply, and stared fiercely at his chief of staff: "Don't deceive people with your lies here! Did you secretly hide the enemy's brochures?"

The chief of staff shrugged: "Everyone here has read the newspaper published by the Italians, which reprinted Frost's article in full, about nation-states and national self-determination. He has a point."

Vuksevich stared at the chief of staff: "What are you talking about? You are an aristocrat! Are you going to let those trousers keep killing you?"

The chief of staff replied: "My family has long stopped relying on the fiefdom for support. My family's main business now is wine making. In Frost's classification, it is considered a new nobleman. It is different from those damned old nobles. They are moths, and we are new One of the masters of the age."

After the words fell, Vuksevich's staff officers let out a burst of admiration.

Because Vuksevich hated those incompetent old aristocrats, he drove away all the incompetent playboys after he took over as the commander of the Italian Legion, leaving only officers with real talents who had passed his inspection.

What he didn't realize was that the reason why these military officers have real talents has a lot to do with their positions and their backgrounds. They are naturally more likely to accept enlightenment ideas and the Great Revolution.

Now, Vuksevich's approach has achieved what he did not expect, but it is quite natural.

The chief of staff was boasting: "If we want to defeat the current French army, we must carry out reforms. Of course, we don't have to have a big revolution. There are too many dead people. After all, we also have noble blood. After the big revolution, we might move our heads."

The other officers agreed.

Chief of Staff: "But a top-down moderate reform is still feasible, just like what Her Majesty Maria Teresa did back then!"

Once again the officers gave voices of approval.

Vuksevich stared dumbfounded at these young officers who didn't care about the majesty of his commander and talked about reforms in the country.

At this moment, he felt from the bottom of his heart the defeat of the country of Austria.

At this time, someone shouted: "The main force of the Chinese army has contacted the French army!"

Vuksevich looked at his army without hope, just in time to see the white line formed by the white Austrian uniforms collapsing from the blue French front.

He muttered in a low voice: "Reform... Is reform really the only way out? Is the old way... not working anymore?"

**
A week later, news of Davout's overall victory reached the fortress of Sedan.

When the news came, An Ning was having a meeting with her officers to make the final deployment before the expedition.

As a result, the messenger knocked on the door and came in, reporting loudly: "Report, General Davout and General Massena have won great victories in Italy, the Kingdom of Sardinia has surrendered, and there is no Austrian army in Italy anymore!"

The audience suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at the messenger.

Berthier stepped forward, took the letter in the courier's hand, opened it, took out the letter, glanced at it, and said to An Ning: "Your Excellency, Davout won a great victory in Italy, and it is estimated that there will be no more major victory in Italy." He is going to lead the army north to attack Vienna after completing the handover work in Venice and other places."

An Ning opened his mouth wide, and subconsciously glanced at Napoleon.

——Isn’t this Nima your job?How come Davu's bald head can make the same drama?

Does it mean that we only need to hold down the main force of Austria on the Rhine front?Just wait for Dawu and Chen Bing to sign a contract in Vienna?
Napoleon misunderstood the meaning of An Ning's gaze, and clapped his hands fiercely: "Davout has done a good job, I won't be outmatched by him! In this way, you strengthen my army, and I will compete with Davout to see who gets to Vienna first." !"

Lana shook his head and said, "From Italy to Vienna, there are mountain roads all the way, and there are places that can be fortified, so I'm afraid it's not easy to walk.

"If we succeed in annihilating the enemy's main force, we will have a smooth journey to Vienna. If it is faster, we should be faster."

Bernadotte: "Uh, have you forgotten that there are hundreds of thousands of Prussian-Austrian allied forces on the front?"

Lana: "That's why I said the premise after annihilating the enemy's main force."

"No, no, no," Bernadotte shook his head repeatedly, "This premise is the most difficult thing to do, right?"

Lana: "It's just hundreds of thousands of enemies. We also have seven armies. In the past, we have won all the bigger gaps in strength. Now that we have these seven armies, it's over."

An Ning: "Don't underestimate the enemy. An army that underestimates the enemy will generally suffer defeat. Davout has done a good job. Maybe moving north from Italy to Vienna can indeed end the war forever, but we can't put our treasure on it.

"And we have more pressing goals. We want to promote internal changes in Austria and make Austria our ally!"

Berthier: "If this goal is to be achieved, should Davout be allowed to suspend the attack on Vienna first? According to Davout's letter, he plans to rectify the affairs of northern Italy in the first half of the year, and go north to attack Vienna in June. Postpone? Or simply give him a hard and fast rule not to attack Vienna and instead turn his attention in the direction of Zurich?"

An Ning: "Okay, let him focus on the affairs of Italy first, and turn the Kingdom of Sardinia into the Republic of Sardinia. Venice already has a tradition of a republic, so let's get things done first. The Pope also needs to deal with it."

An Ning was really worried that Davout would reproduce the glory of Napoleon in history and directly force Austria to the negotiating table and voted directly.

Then he let Archduke Karl take over, and the idea of ​​establishing a new Austria will be shattered.

Napoleon: "Why don't you simply call Davout back, and I, the commander of the First Army, will do it for him, and I will command the independent mobile artillery army and cooperate with him!"

An Ning looked at Napoleon, wondering if this was the ambitious Napoleon in history, that Napoleon would not give up the commander of the First Army he got to someone else.

My own arrival really changed some things.

An Ning thought for a while, but still shook his head: "Temporary substitutions are not good. Davout has done a good job in Italy. Let him continue to play. Just let him stabilize first, so that we don't ruin our big business."

(End of this chapter)