King's Landing in France

An Ning: "Don't worry! Don't worry! It's not sure that the Austrians will turn their heads against us!"

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Vienna, Schönbrunn Palace.

Franz II looked at the British envoy in front of him: "You mean, Prussia also intends to go to war against France?"

"Yes, because most of Prussia's territorial needs for Poland have been met. If you go to war with France, this time you will get Prussia's assistance!"

Franz II: "Why a British envoy to tell me this?"

"Because this is the result of my country's mediation." The British envoy said happily, "In addition, our country also mediated the Kingdom of Sardinia. The kingdom has always been worried about the last time the French forced through their territory. The direction will receive the full support of the Kingdom of Sardinia!"

Franz II curled his lips: "You crows, you just want to watch the countries on the European continent fight together!"

The British envoy smiled and said, "For now, no matter what our plans are, don't you feel bad about losing Milan's taxes?"

Franz curled his lips: "Of course I feel distressed. If Russia had occupied Warsaw earlier and settled the division of Poland, I wouldn't even have a truce with them!"

British envoy: "Now you can continue to fight, after all, you still have a legitimate French king in your hand, you can angrily denounce the new king established by the French for being wrong, and then send your relatives back to the French throne. "

Franz II touched his lips, and the huge emeralds on his fingers reflected the sunlight.

British envoy: "Milan is the brightest jewel in your crown, just like India is to the British crown."

Emperor Shinra turned to look at his prime minister: "So what do you think?"

The prime minister replied: "The empire used to be for Poland. It retained its strength in order to check and balance Tsarist Russia and Prussia. Now there are only a few small places left in Poland, and Prussia is willing to send troops with us. I think the opportunity must not be missed, Your Majesty!"

"Look! We can transfer His Royal Highness Karl's legion to the Landin area, and then transfer all Marshal Wumze's troops to Italy. According to our information, the field strength of the Italian French army is only 3 people. Let us mobilize Wumze The Marshal's 5 people, plus the Sardinian Kingdom's 5 people, make a total of [-] people!"

The prime minister said while making gestures on the map with a stick.

Franz II was still very worried: "Then who is in charge of the line? Karl? No, no, my weak brother is not suitable for war!"

Prime Minister: "It can be handed over to Blücher of Prussia, this is an experienced general."

Franz II thought for a few seconds and nodded vigorously: "Very well, let's do it this way, although it looks like it was used by Britain, but... yes, Milan is a pearl I can't lose. I want to summon Wu Muze, teach him the opportunity face to face."

After finishing speaking, Franz II turned to the British envoy: "Go back and tell your Prime Minister Peter that his wishful thinking has come true this time. I thank you for helping to connect."

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Since France had a new king, the life of Louis XVI has been very comfortable. Most of the conservatives who had gathered around him ran back to France to lick the new French king, and his Queen Mary, who was going back to Paris, seemed to be depressed and stayed in the palace.

It is said that the queen's Swedish lover has been with her in the bedroom.

If you are Chinese, you will definitely be furious about being cuckolded, but in France, this kind of finding a lover is very common.

Louis XVI didn't feel that there was anything wrong with it. Instead, he felt that with the Swedish lover coaxing the queen, he was happy and relaxed, and he could play with his locks as much as he wanted.

That day, Louis XVI was playing with a newest style of double lock, and was having fun when the door was opened.

Louis XVI was quite angry. Although he was no longer the king of France, as a former king, he still couldn't tolerate servants coming in without knocking!

He raised his head angrily, and saw Queen Mary's chest muscles occupying his field of vision.

"Oh," said Louis XVI, "oh, my God, it's you, I thought..."

Queen Mary said happily: "Honey, have you heard! Franz is going to declare war on France again!"

Louis XVI: "What? Isn't it less than half a year after the armistice?"

"Yes, it's really great. This time there are Prussia and the Kingdom of Sardinia, and it is said that Britain will also get involved! France is over!"

Louis XVI: "Uh... I'm still a Frenchman anyway, can you stop talking so happily in front of me that France is going to end?"

Queen Mary: "Then let me put it another way! That nasty National Assembly is going to die! And the false king supported by the parliament, everything is going to die! We are going home!"

Louis XVI glanced at the lock on his hand, with an expression that he thought life in Schönbrunn Palace was not bad.

Queen Mary stuck to Louis XVI and asked softly, "Aren't you happy, my dear? Are you not happy to see that those who took your throne are about to die?"

Louis XVI: "I...I'm happy, of course I'm happy! It's great, hehe, I can go back to my country, hehe."

Louis XVI put down the lock in his hand and smiled awkwardly.

Queen Mary was elated. She hugged her husband, then stood up and walked back and forth in the room excitedly, saying excitedly as she walked: "We are going home! Go home! I can't wait to hang those Disgusting people!"

Chapter 183 Monsieur Paul Barras from Paris

While the world situation is changing, An Ning is also actively making preparations.

This time Lazar Cano came to Milan to personally escort the new products from the factory.

This is a new type of rifle that has been rifled after the production process has been improved.On the basis of the breech-loading gun sent by the British, the rifling inside the barrel was added.

Rifled rifles already existed in this era, but the rate of fire of muzzle-loaded rifles was too slow.

Because in order to exert the effect of the rifling, the projectile must be closely attached to the inner wall of the barrel, which makes it very troublesome to load the muzzle-loaded rifle. Drive the cleaning rod into the barrel like a nail, so that the bullet can be pressed to the bottom of the barrel.

Therefore, the rate of fire of this kind of front-loading rifle is only one-tenth of that of ordinary smoothbore guns, and it takes a lot of effort to load.

Knocking the cleaning rod is a standard manual job.

In addition, rifled guns are still difficult to produce. There are no machine tools in this era, so the rifling inside the barrel is manually planed out, and the production is very time-consuming.

Because of this restriction, when An Ning set off for Italy, the troops were not equipped with many breech-loading guns, nor did they bring double-track guns. Everyone carried regular muskets.

But An Ning arranged a task for Lazar Kano who stayed at home, and asked him to urge the craftsmen under him to study manual machine tools that can facilitate and speedy rifling, and improve the design of the breech-loading gun by the way to enhance productivity. An assembly line produced by An Ning.

Lazar Kano came this time with the results of An Ning's instructions.

Yes, after two years of tinkering, An Ning finally had the first batch of [-] breech-loading rifles.

The combination of a breech-loading gun and a rifle can perfectly solve the problem of too slow loading of the previous front-loading rifle.

After all, loading from the rear does not require the bullet to be loaded through the barrel engraved with rifling lines, as long as the bullet is directly inserted into the butt of the barrel from the rear.

The rest can be completely handed over to Gunpowder.

Such a weapon with long range, high accuracy and high rate of fire was born.

The only problem with this gun is that it is too complicated to produce, and the output is really worrying.An Ning still adopted the assembly line method, which greatly improved the production efficiency to obtain the production capacity. It took so long to only [-] pieces.

Not to mention the cost, the money to make one gun of this kind can make more than ten smoothbore guns.

If it weren't for An Ning, a traveler, who tried his best to promote the practicality of this thing, this kind of thing would definitely replace the smoothbore gun on a large scale when the productivity developed enough to mass-produce this thing like cabbage.

As a traverser, An Ning used her own power to advance the practicality of this technology in the army.

After Lazar Cano brought the [-] guns to Milan, An Ning was very happy to go to the outskirts of Milan to test and found that all the indicators of this thing were satisfactory.

Annin's officers had mixed reactions to the new rifle. Napoleon firmly supported the use of this new technology. La Salle thought the new gun was just an addition. He could win the war with his cavalry, Davout said. Cautiously optimistic, Berthier believes that this weapon will have no substantial effect other than increasing ammunition consumption.

But An Ning didn't care about the opinions of the officers. He immediately decided to form a precision shooter company, select 250 soldiers who were hunters, and each of them was assigned a new rifle, and the remaining 250 rifles were used as spares.

An Ning was very much looking forward to the performance of this precision shooter company in the upcoming war, and went to see them practice using the new rifle every day.

And his officers are more concerned about the [-] new troops brought by Lazarcano.

These new troops were recruited with the wealth An Ning plundered from Italy, and they were all progressive young people who supported the revolution.

The courage and morale of the army composed of progressive youths has been widely recognized by military officers, and some people even think that these fresh troops can be worth the dynastic army of 2 people.

However, the total number of troops in An Ning's hands is still far lower than the predicted enemy strength he will face after the war begins.

The action An Ning took for this was to form a large number of Italian Sequoia Army. He planned to use the Sequoia Army to defend various passes, and was responsible for logistics and transportation, and concentrated all the French troops for field battles.

Of course, it must be French troops guarding the strongholds along the line from Nice to Savona. After all, this is the lifeline of communication with the country.

After deducting the troops guarding these places, the French army can have more than 4 field troops.

The French army faced a combined army of [-] in Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia.

Fortunately, because the French army often wins more with less, the soldiers don't take this difference in strength seriously, and their morale is very high. The enemy was wiped out.

At the end of November, the latest order came from Paris. The newly elected National Assembly controlled by the Jacobins raised the ranks of all the officers under An Ning.

Both Davout and Berthier received the rank of major general. Lahalpe, who was recovering from illness, received the rank of colonel just like Rana. Massena, who had been reorganizing the former Italian army in the rear, was also promoted to colonel.

The only one who was dissatisfied with the result of the promotion was La Salle, a young hussar who only got the rank of lieutenant colonel, for which he complained loudly.

Lasalle: "Why am I lower than Lana at the first level? Just because I only commanded one cavalry brigade? Lana was also promoted to acting division commander because of Lahalp's wrestling!"

In order to appease the general under him, An Ning could only ask the painter David to paint him a painting called "General La Salle Charges to the Enemy in Diego", which mainly depicts his great achievements in Diego.

A week later, the painting was drawn and sent to La Salle's barracks, together with An Ning's Dolman coat specially made for La Salle by the most expensive tailor in Milan. The usual dolman coat has even more lace.

Hussars basically love beauty. When La Salle saw this beautiful coat, he liked it so much that he finally stopped talking about his rank.

Came from Paris with the promotion order, and one more.

An Ning did not know this person theoretically, but An Ning did know him, because in the original history, he was also a quite famous person.

This person is called Paul Ballas, yes, it is the special commissioner who appointed Napoleon as the commander-in-chief of the Toulon Artillery in the original history, Paul Ballas.

In the original history, this person was also the lover of Napoleon's wife Josephine, who cuckolded Napoleon.

Chapter 184 Paris Needs You

On the day of welcoming Balas to Milan, An Ning found that Napoleon happened to be wearing a cuckold.

An Ning couldn't help asking: "Napoleon, why are you wearing such a hat?"

Napoleon smiled and said, "Miss Melody chose it for me, how is it? I quite like it!"

An Ning: "Miss Melody, is that Milan courtesan?"

"Yes, she is the protagonist of all salons and balls!" Napoleon did not dislike An Ning's words at all, but seemed to be boasting, "I wrote a love story for her! I will show it to you when it is finished!"

Here comes the love of Napoleon!In the original history, everyone suspected that the heroine of this book was Josephine, the owner of Malmaison Castle. Now I am afraid that this protagonist will become a socialite in Milan.

Josephine is also a social butterfly, and she wore more than one cuckold for Napoleon. Does Napoleon like to associate with promiscuous women?

But in this era, it seems that it is normal for women to cuckold their husbands, especially noble women.

When An Ning read the biography of Napoleon, she always felt that the upper class society of this era was really chaotic.

This is also the reason why An Ning hasn't married a wife after traveling for so long. As a Chinese, he still resists cuckolding.

In the chaotic energy of this era, after marrying a wife, he went out to fight for a few years, and when he came back, his son was full moon.

That's disgusting.

But Napoleon, as a 24-year-old young man, was still full of longing for love, but historically he should have fallen in love with Josephine, the widow of Malmaison Castle.

Napoleon in this time and space has not even been to Paris a few times. He has been fighting with An Ning everywhere since he came back from Corsica. This time he is stationed in Milan. It should be the first time that Napoleon has been stationed in a big city for more than half a year after returning from Corsica. time.

So it is very normal for him to fall in love in Milan.

An Ning looked at Napoleon wearing a green hat with complicated eyes.

The reason why Miss Melody chose a green hat is probably because green is the color of the city emblem of Milan. She used this method to show that Napoleon was courting a Milanese girl.

But in the eyes of the Chinese, An Ning, this green color has far-reaching meanings.

Especially now that Paul Ballas came from Paris, looking at Mr. Ballas and Napoleon's green hat, An Ning felt a kind of karma that transcended time and space.

Ballas got off his horse, strode forward and stretched out his hand to An Ning: "General Frost, you have heard your name for a long time!"

An Ning held Balas's hand: "Hello, it's strange to say that I have also stayed in Paris for a while, but I haven't seen you."

"Because I hadn't joined the Jacobin Club at that time." Ballas replied, "I have been listening to your legend since I entered the club. Mr. Marat, Mr. Robespierre and Mr. Danton are all right. You appreciate it."

An Ning smiled and said, "They are all my old friends now. How are they?"

Barras: "Of course, very good. Mr. Robespierre and Mr. Danton hold high positions in the new parliament, and are limited by the rule that members cannot be re-elected. Although Mr. Mara has no post in the parliament, but He is actively active in the People’s Friend newspaper every day, criticizing the newspapers run by Brissot and others!”

An Ning couldn't help frowning.

After the Jacobins brought people down, they didn't kill the roots. Is this still like the Jacobins?

Sure enough, the current situation is not that dangerous, so the Accordbin faction did not implement the policy of terror as it did in real history.

Barras added: "Mr. Robespierre sent me as a commissioner to persuade you to return to Paris to preside over military work."

An Ning: "I can't go back. You should know that in this war, the Italian army may have to face the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia and the army of Shinra at the same time. The enemy's strength is more than twice that of ours."

As soon as the words fell, La Salle interjected: "We have been fighting more than twice as many enemies, and we have never missed it. We are almost used to it. But if you replace it with someone else, they will definitely not be able to do it."

An Ning nodded: "That's the case, so I can't, I can't leave Milan. I believe Paris will be fine, after all, Paris has far more troops than us."

When An Ning said this, he suddenly thought of one thing. Historically, Paris had a steady stream of soldiers because there was a Lazare Carnot who carried out military reforms in Paris, continuously reorganizing revolutionary citizens into French troops.