King's Landing in France

"But I have a bad premonition. There have always been rumors that the Vendée region is dissatisfied with the National Assembly. Recently, riots broke out in the capital of the Vendée. I have a bad premonition.

"Lafayette is also stepping up the expansion of the army. The National Guard in Paris has expanded to 8 people."

An Ning frowned. It turned out that Lafayette was expanding his army. No wonder he could bear to be the commander of the Paris city defense and share half of the power.

He has [-] troops in his hand, which is not empty at all.

The Duke looked at An Ning: "Tell me the truth, is there going to be a war soon?"

An Ning pursed her lips and nodded solemnly.

Duke: "If it really falls into a civil war, maybe there will be a military dictator like Rome..."

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An Ning: "That will be a long time later. It seems that everything is moving in a good direction now."

The Duke laughed: "The parliament is indeed full of optimism. Many people think that the revolution can be over here, and there will be a stable and good life after that. Only a few people are as worried as I am."

An Ning: "Let's not talk about that, everyone is already here, butler, let's serve appetizers."

As soon as An Ning finished speaking, the young master of the Duke's family who had been waiting on the chair patted the table: "That's right, I'm hungry, Dad!"

The Duke sighed, nodded to the butler, and motioned for the food to be served.

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After dinner at the Duke's house, Christina wanted to stay at home and have a good chat with her parents, so An Ning rode back to the manor in the suburbs alone.

When approaching the manor, An Ning saw a solitary lamp at the gate of the manor in the distance, away from the lights of the manor itself.

An Ning adjusted the position of the saber so that he could quickly draw the sword later, and then urged the horse forward.

Fanny held the lamp, and stood alone outside the gate of the manor, waiting quietly.

An Ning got off the horse and gave Fanny a hug as soon as she got up.

As a result, Fanny quickly dodged.

Fanny: "Be more reserved, the ladies of the Royal Cavalry Guard live in the back yard, maybe they will see it on the terrace."

An Ning: "Then we'll go into the house later, and we'll hug when we can't see it."

"If you insist on taking advantage of me like this, then I can only obey." Fanny replied, "But I still hope not to do this."

An Ning scratched her head: "Okay, okay, I just haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss you very much."

"It's only a few months, not too long." Fanny said, and then changed the topic, "I have prepared the bath water, and the bed has been remade, and it is velvet. After the news of your victory came , Many people sent gifts to the manor, I piled up the gifts in the small hall, and prepared a list."

An Ning: "Is that velvet bed a gift?"

"Of course, our own finances cannot afford velvet."

An Ning: "Understood. By the way, you should make preparations. We should move to Konta, and we will live in Konta for a long time."

Fanny: "Are you going to resign as a member of the National Assembly? Isn't this a critical period for the formulation of the Constitution?"

An Ning: "No way, the situation in Konta is not optimistic. So I became the military commissioner of the parliament stationed in Konta, with full authority to deal with Konta's affairs."

"Is this promoted or demoted?" Fanny asked curiously.

"Of course I was promoted, and I became a junior general—no, major general." An Ning replied.

Fanny: "But I heard before that you may be the commander of the Paris Garrison."

"Who said that?"

"That's what everyone said, and you said you're going to divide Lafayette's army in half."

"No matter, in short, you will start making preparations for moving to Konta tomorrow."

Fanny nodded: "Yes, I see. Do you also live in a manor in Konta?"

"No, I live in a big monastery. Because it is a monastery, there is no manor garden, so I don't need to bring gardeners and the like."

Fanny: "A monastery, is it the kind of monastery like a fortress?"

"Yes, it's the kind of monastery like a fortress."

"Understood." Fanny nodded lightly, "Stop mentioning this, let's go into the house. By the way, there is something very important that I haven't said yet, young master, welcome back."

An Ning nodded: "Well, I'm back."

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In the next few days, there was an endless stream of guests from An Ning's manor.

The Duke said that he wanted to introduce the big merchant who made the cannon to An Ning, and the next day the merchant came over with the Duke's letter of introduction.

An Ning bought a hundred of the latest eight-pound guns in one go, and also ordered about four thousand flintlock guns and one thousand rifles with rifles.

The businessman was shocked by the order for the rifle, because only elite hunters in some countries would use this rifle with rifles these days.

This kind of rifle is much more accurate than a smoothbore gun and has a longer range, but it has a fatal flaw: it is now loaded in the front, and in order to maximize the advantages of the rifle, the rifle will require the difference between the bullet and the barrel. The inner wall fits snugly.

Therefore, the rifle reloads very slowly, and it takes a small hammer to hit the cleaning rod hard to finally press the bullet into the innermost part of the barrel.

Because the rate of fire is too slow, the accuracy advantage of the rifle is offset.

In addition, rifles have to be rifled by hand, so the production is very slow and the cost is too expensive.

Therefore, the rifle is defined as an auxiliary weapon, and it is generally handed over to hunters or skirmishers to harass the line infantry brigade.

An Ning wanted to order a thousand rifles at once, which surprised the businessman.

But no one would refuse the door-to-door business, so in the end the businessman agreed with An Ning that the rifles would be delivered in batches, and the production would be gradually completed in the next two years.

When the businessman left the manor, his face was full of joy, obviously this transaction made him very satisfied.

An Ning was also very satisfied, anyway, he didn't pay for it himself, and the duke paid for it, which was great for others.

In fact, the Austrian Geraldoni air gun that An Ning most wanted to get.

In this era, there was a kind of air gun hunter in Austria, which once caused great trouble to the French army on the battlefield. It is said that many French troops did not allow air gun hunters to surrender in private, and they would be killed if caught.

It's a pity that the merchant frowned as soon as An Ning made a request.

"Girandoni air rifles are very expensive. Even in Austria, only the royal guards have a small amount of equipment. I can get a few for the major general, so that the major general's guards can equip them. Armed troops are unlikely. "

In this way, An Ning could only give up the plan of getting an air rifle unit.

An Ning has such an idea because when he played "Total War Empire", he used Austria's favorite unit, the air rifle hunter, and had a very high battle loss ratio.

Except for the merchants who came to sell guns, most of the people who came to Anning Manor brought gifts, and some even brought their own daughters.

An Ning is still unmarried, and has suddenly become a favorite in Paris. Many former aristocratic families want to marry their daughters to this former cobbler's son.

Fanny complained unceremoniously: "The nobles who come to sell their daughters look like old farmers who go to the market to sell livestock. At most, the master's living room can be filled with a dozen noble ladies, and it is as lively as a market! "

It's not that An Ning has never thought about taking the opportunity to marry a wife, which can be regarded as fulfilling her obsession in her previous life.It's a pity that I don't know why. Recently, it's popular for ladies in Paris to make their hair very fluffy and afro.

An Ning wanted to complain when she saw the afro, but she lost her desire.

So in the end, no one liked An Ning.

In this way, a week passed, and it seemed that the first anniversary of the Bastille was approaching.

The parliament has designated this day as "Revolution Day" and renamed the original Place Louis XV as "Revolution Square" (after the restoration of Bourbon, it will be renamed again to Place de la Concorde).

The parliament decided that on July 7th, a grand celebration would be held in Revolution Square.

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On the morning of July 7th, a large number of citizens gathered in Revolution Square early in the morning.

At eight o'clock, Lafayette's National Guard marched into the square and surrounded a large area in the middle of the square as an area for the ceremony.

Starting at nine o'clock, more and more citizens gathered, and the area surrounded by the Self-Defense Forces was already crowded with citizens.

An Ning also took his troops to Revolution Square at this time.Some people saw An Ning riding tall and tall in front of the troops, and they shouted: "It's the hero of Versailles!"

Someone immediately corrected him: "Bastard, what a hero of Versailles, a hero of the Bastille, a magician on the battlefield of Conta!"

An Ning pretended not to hear the voices of the crowd, but his expression had already betrayed him: in fact, he was very happy to hear the crowd praise him like this.

According to the plan, An Ning's troops will participate in the subsequent military parade. For this reason, the company he brought back from Konta has been training in formation for seven days, all of which are marching in four columns.

As for the Guards Cavalry Regiment that had just been placed under the name of An Ning, they usually practiced ceremonial guards of honor, but they didn't need much training.

Afterwards, the various armies participating in the military parade gradually took their positions, and the number of the crowd increased several times over time, and the entire Revolutionary Square was completely blocked.

Many of the crowd wore red Liberty Caps, so from An Ning's perspective, the entire square was red, making him seem to have returned to his homeland.

An Ning was on the viewing platform and saw Danton and the others. Robespierre was still wearing his old green overcoat, but he didn't wear a wig on his head, and he also put on a Liberty hat.

The Liberty Cap is said to be a traditional costume in the former Asia Minor region. Later, in the Roman era, it became a symbol of the liberation of slaves. Now it is extended to a symbol of freedom because of this meaning.

At ten o'clock sharp, King Louis XVI and Queen Mary appeared in special seats on the viewing stand.

Instead of the Liberty Cap, the King wore a black three-cornered hat with a very large three-coloured park emblem on the brim.

Queen Mary didn't wear anything related to red, white and blue, and she seemed to be proudly insisting on her aristocratic status.

When the crowd saw that the queen did not have the three-color logo, they immediately became restless.

An Ning heard someone yelling: "Damn Austrian bitch! She still doesn't support freedom!"

An Ning glanced at the direction the sentence came from, but didn't see clearly who said it.

At this time, Lafayette walked up to the viewing platform where the king was, and he said something to the queen, and the queen reluctantly took the hairpin with the tricolor emblem handed over by Lafayette, and put it on It is worn on the head.

So the crowd who were cursing just now burst into cheers, as if this was some kind of huge victory.

Lafayette himself was dressed in National Guard uniform and an officer's cap with a feather dyed in three colors.

An Ning looked at the feather, and suddenly thought that the presents sent to the manor these days seemed to contain the feathers of this bird, so it turned out that they were used to make hat decorations!

An Ning didn't know it at all, and thought it was used as a quill pen for writing, so she just threw it away.

Now An Ning wears an unremarkable three-color round emblem on her head.

However, An Ning's clothes were also carefully prepared by Fanny. The fabrics are very high-end and there are many accessories, just like the old Beijing bannerman in the movie "Teahouse".

An Ning's Legion of Honor medal hangs on his left chest. Fanny has carefully polished it and probably waxed it, so the ankh is shining brightly in the sun.

After greeting His Majesty the King, Lafayette came to the front of the viewing platform.

"Now I declare that the capture of the Bastille marks the beginning of the first anniversary celebration of the beginning of the revolution! The following is the first item of the event, the National Guard parade! Military band, play music!"

Because there were no amplifiers or other equipment in this era, Lafayette's voice sounded a bit low to An Ning, as if floating from far away.

An Ning couldn't hear what he was saying at all.

But when the military band started playing, An Ning could hear it clearly.

An Ning didn't know the name of the song, anyway, he hadn't heard this song before traveling, so it probably wasn't passed down to later generations.

It should be an ordinary march.

An Ning glanced at the ceremonial officer next to him, and said: "The military parade has begun, let's go!"

As he spoke, he lightly touched the horse's belly with the spurs on his feet, causing the horse to walk forward slowly.

Yes, the vanguard of the entire military parade is him Andy Frost.

An Ning rode a big white horse and walked in the forefront of the entire military parade, striding proudly.

The ceremonial officer loudly announced An Ning's name: "The first person to walk past the viewing platform is Andy Frost, the hero who captured the Bastille, the escort of Versailles, the pacifier of the Konta rebellion, and the magician of the battlefield." special!"

The crowd cheered loudly.

An Ning couldn't help straightening up amidst the cheers.

After the cheers died down, someone suddenly sang loudly: "Do you hear the singing of the people?

"The angry people singing?

"This is the song of a nation

"Break the shackles and win liberation!

"When your heart beats

"To the sound of the drums of war,