King's Landing in France

Chapter 41 Military Academy Life Begins!
An Ning asked the two senior brothers: "Do the noble ladies live in the dormitory or..."

"Most of them should be living in dormitories, because they are poor nobles with no money at home." The brother said, pointing to the tree-lined path next to the auditorium, "That road leads to the dormitory for the ladies, but you'd better not move Brain, the warden of the dormitory is a vicious tigress, she will send you to the whipping platform."

An Ning frowned: "Will you be sent to the whipping platform just by straying into the vicinity of the girls' dormitory?"

"You can try it." The brother shrugged. "Last year, I had a Marquis son who didn't believe in evil. He broke into the girls' dormitory once, but he was whipped twenty times with a whip dipped in salt water, and his flesh burst open."

——Why is it the son of the Marquis who caused the trouble?
An Ning: "Didn't the Marquis himself come to the school to make trouble?"

"This is the Royal Military Academy of Brienne. According to the order of His Majesty the Emperor, it is the place where future non-commissioned officers are trained for France. Can the Marquis be older than the king when he comes?" Brother asked back.

Another brother said: "Of course not every school rule is enforced so strictly. There are ten rules in the school rule that you will be whipped, but I have never seen any other violations except for the one that cannot go to the girls' dormitory. whipped.

"Of course it might be because those who violated the rules were the sons of nobles. You, a commoner, can give it a try."

An Ning: "No, I won't try. Are there many civilians in this school?"

The two brothers laughed together: "How could there be so many! How many civilians have you seen as non-commissioned officers?"

"Hey, I know most of the officers are nobles, but I thought non-commissioned officers..."

The two brothers laughed even more happily: "What are you thinking! Non-commissioned officers need to be literate at least, how many literate civilians are there?"

An Ning couldn't help frowning. He remembered that the literacy rate in France was not low in this era. In a big city like Paris, newspapers and various publicity pamphlets had many ordinary readers.

But in the eyes of these two nobles, commoners are still illiterate.

An Ning shook his head: "I remember that there are a lot of non-commissioned officers in the army. There are more than a dozen non-commissioned officers in an infantry battalion. Are there so many nobles in France? And not every noble will become a soldier..."

Brother: "Don't think too much, there may be civilian non-commissioned officers, but in this Brienne Military Academy, you can't find a few companions. As far as I know, you are the only civilian who was recommended by the nobles this year."

Yep, that's what happened.

An Ning originally thought that he could go to the military academy with the Duke's recommendation, so other people should be fine, too. There should be quite a few civilians who get the recommendation to enroll like this.

No wonder there were problems with the French army at the beginning of the Great Revolution. The army was the target of the revolution from the beginning of the non-commissioned officers. It is strange that the combat effectiveness is so high.

Brother: "It's almost time for small talk. Come on, I'll give you the military uniform. The size may not be correct. If it doesn't fit, you can take it to a tailor and modify it yourself."

"You still have to modify it yourself?" An Ning was a little surprised.

"Of course, many people actually find their own tailors to make their military uniforms, but you, a commoner, probably don't have your own tailor."

An Ning: "That's true. My maid was borrowed from me by the Duke."

Theoretically speaking, Fanny was indeed lent by the Duke to An Ning, but judging from what the Duke meant, he didn't care too much about a maid, and probably wouldn't ask An Ning to go back.

An Ning took the military uniform stuffed by his senior brother, and immediately opened it and put it on.

The French army uniforms in the kingdom era were gray and white, which looked white from a distance. So when the Royalist Party rebelled, people called the Royalist Party the White Party.

An Ning: "Isn't this white military uniform easy to get dirty?"

The brother shrugged his shoulders: "Then it depends on the ability of your maid. It is his duty to ensure that the master's clothes are clean."

An Ning glanced at Fanny, who immediately said, "Don't worry, I won't let you go out in dirty clothes."

Just as An Ning was about to reply, a carriage drove past him, and the mud splashed by the wheels landed on his white stockings.

One of the senior brothers was stunned: "The coat of arms I have never seen before should be the daughter of some poor noble family. She is going to the dormitory."

"That's right. This morning I saw a lady's carriage without a roof. It's hard to imagine that a noble family would be so poor that they couldn't even afford a carriage with a roof. However, that lady is quite beautiful and very charming. full."

An Ning was stunned. It seemed that there were more noble ladies in this school than An Ning had imagined. Maybe in the future, they would actually see a ceremonial cavalry team composed of daughters from noble families.

He turned his head and asked Fanny, "Cristina shouldn't live in that dormitory, right?"

"Of course not. Miss lives in a manor on the outskirts of the city. The Duke bought a beautiful little manor. You will know when you go to the dance on the weekend."

Fanny's words made the two senior brothers very excited: "The ball! It's great. Usually we can only attend the balls held by some rural nobles, which are not stylish and boring. The balls at the Duke's house must be Parisian."

An Ning: "Of course, the Duke also brought a chef from Paris. There must be the most popular dessert in Paris at the ball."

Brother: "How do you know?"

"I came here with Miss Christina." An Ning shrugged, and then gave Fanny all the information about the military uniform, "Then, two senior brothers, we will take our leave."

Brother: "Ah, goodbye. Remember not to be late tomorrow, don't blame me for not reminding you!"

In this way, the peaceful Briena Military Academy life officially began.

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Originally, An Ning thought that Brienne's military academy would conduct a few months of queue training like the military training in later generations of China.

However, this did not happen.

There is indeed queue training, but only every morning.During the queue training, the trainees will take turns serving as non-commissioned officers in the queue and be responsible for the entire team.

When it was An Ning's turn to serve as a non-commissioned officer, the nobles in the same class deliberately made An Ning a fool, and only Napoleon obeyed his instructions.

Yes, Napoleon is Anning's classmate.

Because only An Ning has a good relationship with him, the two of them are called the poor ghost combination by their classmates, because one is a poor Corsican nobleman, and the other is a commoner. The nobles subjectively think that commoners are poor ghosts. , because of the support of the Duke.

Back to the queue class.

Facing the aristocratic classmates who refused to obey the management, An Ning used his nirvana: he took off his gloves!
Being thrown in the face by the glove means starting a duel.

This group of students already knew that An Ning was a "noble killer" who beheaded three ruthless nobles. In addition, An Ning had an astonishing undefeated record in the swordsmanship class by relying on automatic defense, so no one dared to accept An Ning's offer. Duel, put yourself at risk.

So as soon as An Ning took off her gloves, the students immediately obeyed the management and obediently left the queue.

Relying on the school's queue training, An Ning finally figured out how the formation of shooting people in this era came about.

It turns out that when queuing up, the civilian soldiers were surrounded by non-commissioned officers. In a line of infantry, the non-commissioned officers would stand at the head of the two sides, and then the non-commissioned officers would also be deployed in the middle of the front and the middle of the rear.

So the head soldiers of the line infantry were actually coerced by noble officers—yes, literally coerced—to the battlefield.

No wonder the morale of the line cannot be maintained once it is disbanded.

In the morning, in addition to the queue training, there are also various military technical trainings. For example, there will be two fencing lessons, two musket training lessons and one riding lesson every week.As for why infantry officers learn riding, it seems that it is for the purpose of serving as herald officers in the future.

In the afternoon, it was basically time for cultural classes, and the military academy would teach French and mathematics to the non-commissioned officers.

Napoleon, as written in later biographies, was very good at mathematics, but in this time-space Brienne, his light was overshadowed by tranquility.

An Ning uses the mathematics knowledge of later generations to deal with the mathematics of this era, sometimes faster than the teacher.

Fortunately, mathematics is relatively developed in this era. In addition, An Ning deliberately restricted his thinking on solving problems, and did not use the knowledge he learned in college advanced mathematics courses, so he finally did not come up with something that would allow him to enter the Journal of the French Academy of Sciences.

In fact, An Ning didn't mind going to the journal too much, but he had forgotten most of the advanced mathematics content and returned it to the teacher.

(End of this chapter)