King's Landing in France

"Ah? I was thinking, since skirmishers are more dominant in shooting against line infantry, why not use skirmishers as the basic form of infantry combat?"

An Ning shook her head: "You probably saw that in school, the students organized skirmish formations in an orderly manner, so they were misled.

"However, that's not the case. Everyone in the school is a non-commissioned officer, and most of them are nobles. Therefore, order and morale can be maintained when everyone forms a scattered formation.

"In actual combat, the line infantry has to be surrounded by non-commissioned officers to maintain their morale. Once the formation is disbanded and becomes a skirmisher, they will directly retreat.

"The conscripted line infantry does not have the high fighting desire and initiative of the non-commissioned officers.

"The skirmishers of various countries are either mercenaries who fight for money, and they can be exchanged for money when they gain military exploits, or they are criminals or robbers. These people like to kill and rob.

"In order to maintain the morale and desire to fight of these people, countries will also assign female alcoholics to the skirmishers, with strong alcohol and dangling breasts, to stimulate the fighting desire of the skirmishers."

Napoleon was shocked: "The bartender?"

"Yes, they are responsible for providing spirits and sex to the skirmishers." An Ning said, as if he had actually seen it.

In fact, he has never seen it on the front line, but he has read Hugo's "[-] Years". The opening chapter of this masterpiece describes a group of stragglers of the Republic and the female bartender assigned to them to give the entire army They went to the front line together and found a rebel female family member with a child.

Napoleon shook his head: "Crazy, I thought that women mainly went to the battlefield in the form of Miss Christina and the others."

An Ning: "There are still many things you don't know, so come with me, and I will teach you one by one."

Napoleon curled his lips: "Okay, but I still don't want to go to Miss Christina's estate, she must not welcome me."

An Ning: "How can you be sure, maybe one of Christina's noble lady friends has already taken a fancy to you?"

Napoleon shook his head: "Even if some lady takes a fancy to me, I won't be happy. I have decided to dedicate my life to the liberation of Corsica."

—Don't talk too much, Napoleon, you won't talk like that when you meet that Josephine Beauharnay.

An Ning: "Come together, treat it as your only friend."

He calmly put himself in the position of "only friend".

Napoleon sighed: "Okay. Let's go to taste the craftsmanship of Miss Christina's chef in Paris."

Chapter 044 What it's like to molest a priest at Christmas

When An Ning led Napoleon home, the carriage sent by Christina had already arrived.

Fanny stood beside the carriage, and when she saw Napoleon, she showed an expression of "I knew it".

An Ning: "Do you have any opinion on my friend?"

"No. I'm just a maid, how dare I have a problem with the master's friend."

Napoleon: "Your maid seems to have a problem with me."

An Ning: "No, she said it herself, she doesn't dare to have an opinion on the master's friend, come and get in the car."

Fanny: "Miss Christina and her friends are worshiping in the church. Shall we go to the church together, or wait for the lady to return from the manor?"

An Ning thought about it, and felt that France was a Catholic country after all, so it was unreasonable not to go to church on Christmas.

So he said, "Go to church. It's been a long time since I went to church to pray."

Napoleon was surprised and said, "You actually go to church?"

An Ning: "I am a devout Catholic."

"Come on." Napoleon shook his head and said, "If you are a devout Catholic, I will be a loyal subject of the King of France."

An Ning laughed loudly: "Don't say that, you still have to do the appearance, after all, today is Christmas. Come on, get in the car."

Speaking of which, An Ning got into the car first, followed by Napoleon, and Fanny came up last.

The carriage took the two to the largest church in Brienne.

Many local aristocrats who came to worship had gathered at the church. When they saw the carriage with the coat of arms of the Duke of Orleans approaching, they immediately stepped forward to make friends, but when they saw the tranquility of getting on and off the carriage, they immediately stayed where they were.

An Ning put on a condescending air and greeted these local nobles as if he was the Duke himself.

Although Fanny's face was full of desire to complain, she still faithfully served An Ning.

Napoleon was not as natural as this pair of master and servant. He put on all his energy and put on a lonely air, just like a toy tin soldier.

An Ning heard some local nobles gossiping: "How could the Duke's family get mixed up with this old Corsican hat?"

"Who knows? Maybe the Duke has taken a fancy to that place in Corsica and plans to make it his fief."

An Ning thought to herself, these people are indeed rural nobles, and now they still hold feudal ideas and seize fiefdoms. Do they still think this is the Middle Ages?

In a few years, it is estimated that these rural nobles will become street lamp pendants.

The urban revolution and the rural revolution of the French Revolution are two different things. In the urban revolution, the progressive aristocrats still have a chance to become a new aristocracy, while the rural aristocrats are much more unlucky. The peasants who can't make it through will kindly send the rural aristocrats to hang Then they set fire to all the feudal land deeds found in the noble mansion.

But a few years later, the peasants remembered the kindness of the nobles and lords again, joined the rebellion set off by the royalist party, and massacred the revolutionaries everywhere.

It can only be said that this era is so magical.

An Ning led Napoleon and Fanny all the way into the church, and happened to see Christina with a group of noble ladies.

Christina was wearing a gorgeous blue dress, as beautiful as a fairy in the lake. Although the surrounding country noble girls tried their best to dress up, they could tell at a glance that they were on a different level from Christina.

When Christina saw An Ning, she immediately said "Sorry" to the noble ladies, and then ran towards An Ning with her skirts in hand: "Andy!"

When she was in front of An Ning, she slammed on the brakes, stood up straight, put on a dignified air, and extended her hand to An Ning.

An Ning held her hand and kissed the back of it lightly: "My Miss Christina, today you are the most beautiful flower in the whole world."

Christina smiled from ear to ear, and then saw Napoleon behind An Ning.

"Uh," Christina paused, obviously remembering what Napoleon's name was, and then she extended her hand to Napoleon, "Hello, Monsieur Bonaparte."

Napoleon held Christina's hand with stiff movements: "Hello, Miss Tollestel, you are so beautiful today."

It can be heard that Napoleon is trying hard to make his pronunciation without a Corsican accent.

But this effort unfortunately failed.

There were already people laughing around.

But Christina didn't care about these, but smiled and said to Napoleon: "Thank you. I heard that you and Andy are very good friends..."

An Ning: "It should be said that he is the only person in the entire Brienne Military Academy who treats me as a friend."

Christina smiled brighter: "Really? Thank you so much, I was worried that Andy, a civilian, would not be able to make friends in the military academy. I even wanted to run directly from the classroom of the cavalry department to the infantry Looking for him."

An Ning: "Don't, as soon as you appear in front of the classroom of the Infantry Division, our group may not be able to resist forming a phalanx."

Christina laughed.

After laughing, she said: "By the way, wasn't our cavalry department going to help you with your class that day? I saw you. You seem to have answered that you were rewarded by the instructor?"

An Ning: "Yes, while the instructor commended me, he didn't forget to ridicule me as a commoner."

Christina sighed: "How can this be? You have won a medal anyway. In the era of Louis XIV, you would have received a title of nobility."

An Ning: "Although it is only the lowest knight title."

"But that's also a noble title."

An Ning: "Okay, I'm not interested in titles of nobility. Have you finished your worship? Let's go back to the manor."

Christina: "I'm done... But, you can't leave as soon as you arrive, don't you pray? At least make a show?"

An Ning raised her eyebrows: "Okay, I'll go to pray..."

At this time, An Ning saw the door of the confession room opened, and a man dressed as an aristocrat came out of it.

So he said, "I'll go to the confessional."

It's not that An Ning has done something guilty to repent. He wants to go to the confessional, mainly out of curiosity. After all, the future he has read a lot of books on confessionals, and the lecherous nuns in them are so awesome.

An Ning bid farewell to Christina and entered the confessional.

This is a very small compartment. There is a wooden grille in front of the compartment. Behind the mesh of the grille is a patch of blackness, and the priest's robe and the cross on the robe can be vaguely seen.

The old priest's voice came from beyond the grate: "My child, the Lord will hear your confession."

When An Ning heard that it was a man's voice, her interest was halved.

It's not the nun sister with big breasts, I'm not interested.

So An Ning said: "I came here with a question, may I ask, can God create a stone that he cannot lift?"

The priest opposite:? ? ?

……

Ten minutes later, the priest fled in sweat.

An Ning left the confession room contentedly.

Christina: "What the hell did you tell the priest?"

An Ning: "Ah, I asked him if God could create a rock that he couldn't lift."

Christina looked puzzled: "This question... What's wrong? Of course God can create it, he is omnipotent."

Apparently Christina hadn't turned the corner.

At this time, Napoleon laughed loudly: "Hahahaha, so it is like this, Andy, you are such a genius! This paradox is awesome!"

Chapter 045

After molesting the priest, An Ning returned to his manor with Napoleon and Christina.

After a short lunch break at noon, Christina opened a literary salon in her garden in the afternoon.

An Ning is basically a layman in literature. If he wants to pretend to be a copyist, then he can only copy the texts that he was required to recite in middle and high school.

There must be something wrong with Zhu Ziqing's "Moonlight in the Lotus Pond" in eighteenth-century France.

It's even more wrong to play with Mr. Lu Xun's stuff. It's impossible for a French noble lady to care about how many ways to write fennel beans.

So An Ning didn't say a word the whole time in the salon, silently listening to those country nobles, and reading those extremely embarrassing limericks in front of Christina.

And Napoleon seemed to be a literary critic. After every nobleman finished reading, he would jump out and make a sharp comment in French with extremely non-standard pronunciation.

The nobles who had been sharply criticized by Napoleon were all furious and clamored to fight Napoleon.

Then they would quickly calm down as soon as they saw the tranquility of drinking tea next to Napoleon.

The prestige of An Ning's Duel King has been enhanced several times in the past six months, and it has become thunderous among the rural nobles.

Because of Napoleon's poisonous tongue, gradually everyone stopped speaking in the literary salon, and a good salon became a chatting tea party for girls.

When the men were bored, they played tennis in the garden.

Because of his short stature, Napoleon would suffer from playing tennis, so he ate snacks.

An Ning was captured by Christina to tell the story of the duel to the noble ladies, but she got along like a fish in water among a group of ladies.

Afternoon tea passes quickly, transitioning seamlessly to evening dance.

An Ning can't dance, so she can only sit and watch the dance.Napoleon can dance, but he doesn't want to dance, so he chats with An Ning.

However, the two have many topics to talk about, from mathematics to military affairs, and it is not boring.

Christmas is over.

Then came New Year's Day, and the last few days of 1780 went by without a trace.

In the second year, the Brienne Military Academy repeatedly taught the cadets how to drill the queue, and did not teach more advanced war theories at all.

Finally, An Ning understood that the goal of the Brienne Military Academy is to train non-commissioned officers. Non-commissioned officers do not need advanced military theory, as long as they can manage the big soldiers and let them line up well, it is enough. At most, they can teach individual combat skills .

However, the mathematics, history and other courses offered by the Brienne Military Academy obviously benefited Napoleon a lot.

Napoleon is the same as that written in the Napoleon biography that An Ning has read. He likes the story of Rome very much. He is a die-hard Rome fan. Whenever he comes to chat with An Ning about Rome with great interest, An Ning knows that he has read another biography about Rome. .

Napoleon’s own money was basically used to buy the biography of Rome, while the books of Rousseau, Montesquieu and others were basically bought by An Ning and given to him.

It can be said that An Ning watered Napoleon's understanding of the enlightenment thought with his own financial resources.

At the end of the school year, when the Brienne Military Academy held a full-year examination, Napoleon was No. 1 in the exam, and Anning was in the eleventh.

In fact, An Ning could have taken the first place, because he has too many advantages. French and Latin can be done by cheating, and mathematics has advanced knowledge of later generations.

But An Ning made a mistake on purpose and made a point control.

Because he didn't want his grades to surpass Napoleon's. As the saying goes, there is no sun in the sky, and there is only one sun in my heart, His Excellency Napoleon.