King's Landing in France

"I'm arrested now, what if General Frost wins?" Bo Luo patted the table, "No! You can't act rashly, we'd better wait for the news from the front line!"

"How is it possible to win? General Lafayette has 4 troops! Forty thousand! That cobbler only has 1 troops!"

As soon as the words fell, there was the sound of horseshoes outside the door.

Speaker Boro immediately turned around, walked to the gate in three steps, opened the door and rushed out, and then saw Ludwig von Beethoven, the royal musician of General Frost, getting off his horse.

Speaker Boro: "Mr. Beethoven! How is the situation?"

Beethoven looked up and saw that it was the speaker, and said with a smile: "A complete victory! You were not there! I was less than 100 meters behind the general's command post, and I saw the general personally leading the army to charge! Lafayette's troops were as fragile as butter in front of the general's army, and they were swept away in an instant!

"That scene had a strong impact on me, and I was instantly seized by inspiration! So I came back, and I want to turn this shock into music! I want to write a song to praise the majestic appearance of the general charging himself !"

After speaking, Beethoven began to hum, and even a layman like Speaker Boro could tell that it was indeed a very majestic and cheerful song.

The deputy speaker came out behind the speaker, and he asked with an unbelievable expression: "Win? You mean, General Frost defeated Lafayette's 4 people? How is this possible?"

Beethoven: "We won! When I left the battlefield, Lafayette had already fled, and Frost's army was in a storm, picking up the enemy's rout! There should be a messenger to report soon. Not to mention, I'm going to compose music, what I need now is to fight with music scores all night!"

After speaking, Beethoven got into his house opposite the city hall with a look of excitement.

The speaker and the deputy speaker looked at each other.

The deputy speaker still had an expression of disbelief: "How is that possible! That's 4 people!"

Speaker Boro: "Beethoven doesn't look like he's lying... Hurry up and prepare the celebration banquet! I know many people are secretly preparing to welcome Lafayette, now it's time to take out the things to welcome General Frost's triumphant return !"

The deputy speaker shook his head: "No, I can't believe it! Steward, prepare the horse! I want to go to the scene to see for myself!"

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At the scene, Lazar Kano was reporting the casualties to An Ning: "Preliminary statistics show that our army has lost a total of 300 people. Whether it is dead or injured will be further counted. The medical center in the rear currently accommodates [-] wounded soldiers .”

An Ning: "The casualties of 2000 people are completely acceptable. Make a note. The fallen soldiers will find their family members. Each family member will be given five louis d'or, and a piece of church land will be rewarded!"

Some of the soldiers listening around exclaimed: "Five louis d'or! And land!"

An Ning turned her head and said to the screaming soldiers: "If you die, your family will get so much! Do you want to die?"

The soldier hesitated for a moment, but still shook his head: "No, I'd better live."

Dawu put on a serious face: "Don't be lazy here! Go to work and clean the battlefield!"

The few soldiers who eavesdropped went to work reluctantly.

Davout turned his head and said to An Ning: "General, this pension is a little too much, five louis gold! It's too much, so we can do it this time with less loss."

At this moment, Napoleon Bonaparte ran over on his horse and said to An Ning, "Andy! Look who is coming!"

An Ning looked in the direction Napoleon pointed, and saw Lana leading a group of people walking over proudly.

He was overjoyed, hurried forward a few steps, and gave Lana a hug: "Lana! That's great, you are alive!"

Lana laughed and said, "Not only am I alive, but I also brought you an army! Look! These are Lafayette's troops. As soon as I tell them, they will defect to you, Your Excellency the General!"

An Ning was startled. Does Lana still have this ability?

Lana pulled An Ning and walked up to a sergeant: "Look, this sergeant was originally from Lafayette's second division, and his brothers are behind him. I said that I am the captain of your teaching team." , they will all turn against each other!"

The sergeant saluted An Ning: "General Frost! We have heard for a long time that you are brave and good at fighting and want to fight under your command!"

An Ning: "Okay, okay! You are now my soldier!"

Then he turned his head and said to Lazar Kano: "You tell the troops, those prisoners who are willing to serve me are welcome to join our army!"

When Lana saw Kano, he took a step forward and asked, "By the way, Chief of Staff, how many members of the teaching team I took out for night raids last night have returned?"

Kano showed embarrassment: "This...Actually, a total of ten people have returned so far."

Lana: "Ten? How come there are so few? There must have been chaos last night, they hid! They are all elite and loyal fighters, they won't die so easily!"

An Ning pressed Lana's shoulder: "Lana, the casualty rate is high in missions like night raids, so be careful. By the way, I asked Christina from the cavalry to lead a team to find you. You saw him Yet?"

Lana shook his head: "No. I recruited rout soldiers all the way, and found them directly, without encountering cavalry."

An Ning: "Then you just missed each other."

At this time, the soldiers on the lookout shouted: "Our cavalry is back!"

An Ning immediately turned her head to look, only to see a large group of cavalry approaching.

They soon approached, and An Ning looked at the good guy. Not only Christina and Clarice were there, but also the old lady Oliver, the head of the cavalry regiment, was also there.

Oliver stopped in front of An Ning, saluted, and reported proudly: "Your Excellency, Oliver salutes you on behalf of the entire cavalry regiment!"

An Ning also saluted: "My respected lady, where have you been? When only Christina reported to me just now, I thought I lost you forever!"

Christina smiled and said, "She caught a big fish for you! Look who is this?"

An Ning looked at Christina's hand, only to see a group of captives who were tied up and rode on horses.

An Ning: "Berthier! And Lafayette!"

An Ning has always wanted to capture Berthier as chief of staff, so when he saw the group of prisoners, he called Berthier's name first, and then thought that he should call Lafayette first, after all, he is the whole army commander in chief.

Lafayette was furious: "What do you mean? Frost! You defeated me on the battlefield, deprived me of my honor, and ended up insulting me verbally?"

An Ning: "No, no, I didn't mean that. It's just that I was very impressed with Berthier's staff work. He arranged everything in the army in an orderly manner!"

Berthier looked distressed: "Is this a kind of sarcasm?"

Only then did An Ning realize that this sounded like a kind of sarcasm.

"I have absolutely no intention of doing so. Come here, let the gentlemen loose. Their performance in today's battle is also remarkable! Especially after the first wave of attack was defeated by me, they gathered at a very fast speed. Troops, I'm impressed."

Lafayette became even more angry: "What? Are you trying to ridicule me in a different way, saying that my command today is useless?"

An Ning: "So you lost. Forty thousand against ten thousand, I don't even know how you lost."

Lafayette: "You! If you hadn't launched a dastardly raid last night!"

"You actually think that I only won because of a sneak attack? It seems that your understanding of the art of war is nothing more than that. You can't even understand how wonderful the tactics I use today!" An Ning mocked unceremoniously .

Do you understand the reverse slope tactics!Wellington's signature!Great no, I'm crazy!

Lafayette blew out his beard.

At this time, Lana suddenly came to An Ning's side and whispered, "Your Excellency, before the expedition, Lafayette killed a soldier who was dissatisfied with his salary. Now the soldier's brother wants to sue him."

An Ning: "Really?"

He glanced at Lafayette, and then raised his voice: "I will make the decision for that soldier! Blood debts will be paid in blood!"

Chapter 146 Public Trial of Lafayette

As soon as An Ning finished speaking, Lazar Cano grabbed An Ning and whispered in his ear: "Don't do this, if you punish Lafayette for this matter, those officers who originally wanted to defect to us may They all changed their minds, we are short of officers!"

An Ning thought about it calmly, it seemed to be the case.But then he recalled the fiercer ones among Napoleon's marshals in another time and space.

Massena was an Italian, and of civilian origin.

Murat's family runs a small hotel, a commoner.

Sirte's father is a notary, also a bourgeois, a commoner.

Neiyin's family is a beer keg maker, so of course he is also a commoner.

Jourdan's father is a surgeon. He bought cloth himself. He belongs to a small trader, so he is naturally a commoner...

An Ning counted all the way, it seems that more than half of Napoleon's marshals were of commoner origin, one of the nobles, Berthier, is now a prisoner, and one is Napoleon, who is now his supporter.

There is also Davout, who was born in a military family, aristocratic, but his family has fallen, and he is actually closer to a commoner.

It seems that if the nobles don't come, they won't come?Doesn't have any effect?

Moreover, An Ning's martial arts are so high now, and many nobles have come to him for his martial arts. In this battle, An Ning has not yet invested in his afterglow knights.

This group of people must be very angry, watching the civilians get meritorious service.

If there is another battle, they will definitely work harder and rush to the dangerous position.

After making up his mind, An Ning responded loudly to Cano so that everyone could hear his words: "Yes, dealing with Lafayette for a soldier may keep the officers away from us! But it will also make the French citizens The Guards are against us! Let all the citizens of France be against us!

"Do you understand, Lazar? This is to declare to all citizens that in our army, everyone is equal! Officers are not officers because of their special status, but because they get won the love of ordinary soldiers!

"This is a very important thing! In my army, if the officers want to be convincing, they must have a reputation among the soldiers. They cannot use torture and terror to deal with soldiers!"

When An Ning was speaking, all the soldiers around stopped what they were doing and listened intently. When An Ning finished speaking, they immediately burst into thunderous applause and cheers.

Davu was also listening. As an ex-military officer and aristocrat, his expression was very complicated, but when An Ning finished speaking, he also applauded and cheered with everyone.

Perhaps it is not so easy for people to get rid of the influence of birth, but he still chooses to agree with An Ning's approach.

Thinker

Seeing this posture, Lafayette couldn't help being anxious: "You! Since the Hundred Years' War between Britain and France, there has never been a precedent for massacring an officer who has surrendered! Even if you tie me up and exchange for ransom, that would be fine!"

An Ning smiled: "General Lafayette, you probably don't know, soon the blood of nobles will flow into rivers throughout France."

What An Ning was talking about was the terror period of the Jacobins later, when beheading was like beheading melons. Nobles, capitalists and bourgeois were beheaded every day in the squares of Paris.

That is called equality of all living beings.

Even the leaders of the Jacobins could not escape the fate of being equal in the end.

However, it was precisely because of the rule of the Jacobins that swept away everything that was there that France entered a new era.

It's a pity that Nahuang changed it back later.

Later, during the Battle of the Three Emperors, Vilottel, the chief of staff of the Russian-Austrian coalition, said: "The Republic? Napoleon himself destroyed half of it! Now we are going to destroy the remaining half."

Thinking of this, An Ning couldn't help but take another look at Napoleon.

If you are here, maybe you can save Napoleon from destroying it a little bit in the future?

An Ning deliberately didn't think about another possibility. He kept comforting himself that Napoleon, who was so ambitious, would want to be emperor when he should.

Although An Ning's original intention was that the Jacobins would kill in the future, the people around them didn't know the future history, so everyone heard a different meaning: Obviously, General Frost wanted to let the French nobles bleed into a river.

Immediately, many soldiers were gossiping: "Look, noble gentlemen are in trouble. Your Excellency the General used to be a famous killer of nobles! It is said that he fought fourteen duels and killed fourteen nobles who didn't know what to do or not!" "

"No, no, I heard it was sixteen times. All nobles who looked down on his cobbler background were thrown off by him and killed in a duel!"

An Ning didn't hear the soldiers' gossip. He said to Lazar Cano: "Tie up Lafayette again! Keep a close watch on it! Leave the troops who cleaned up the battlefield. The others will return tomorrow after finishing tonight. Konta!"

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The next day, everyone in the city of Konta knew the news of General Frost's victory. They flocked outside the city, looking forward to the victory of Frost's army.

The speaker and deputy speaker, with all the respectable gentlemen of Konta, were waiting outside the city.

Deputy Speaker Duncan stood in front of the team, next to Speaker Rob, feeling a little uneasy.

Because he secretly wrote a letter to Lafayette before, saying that the current councilors in the city acquiesced in the distribution of the land because of Frost's coercion, and they are definitely loyal ministers of the Republic.

Fortunately, this letter has become evidence of his collusion with the enemy. I don't know how General Frost will deal with him.

If General Frost gets angry, his life will be over.

He was in a state of anxiety when suddenly someone shouted: "The general's team is here!"

Everyone looked into the distance together, and sure enough, they saw a team appearing on the horizon, heading this way.

The team sang "Ode to Rome" as they walked, and the spirit was obviously a team returning with a big victory.

The band on the side of the welcoming crowd also hurriedly played the Roman hymn, and all the citizens sang together.

During the singing, two groups of people approached, and suddenly someone exclaimed: "There is a prison car!"

The citizens who were still singing the Roman hymn immediately started talking about it.

Duncan gasped. He has good eyesight and can see clearly. The person in the prison van is probably... Lafayette!

Speaker Rob turned his head and asked, "Is the man in the prison van General Lafayette?"

Duncan replied as if lost his soul: "Yes, it should be General Lafayette."

Luo Bo: "Speaking of which, His Excellency the General sent a team back last night and built a platform on the municipal square overnight. I don't know if it has something to do with it."

Duncan: "No way... That platform looks like a whipping platform. Could it be that he wants to whip General Lafayette? It shouldn't be, it will stain his glory of victory!"

That's right, the general tradition of this era is that if you win, you won't kill the opponent's coach. The battle of the navy is even more exaggerated. The loser will hand over the sword to the winner, but the winner will immediately return the sword, and then the two sides will fight together. Have a glass of toast on deck.

To do otherwise would tarnish the honor of the winner and make him despised by the world.

Because of this custom, there are so many wars in Europe, and the nobles can pass it down so many generations.