King's Landing in France

Chapter 125 Exercise
At this time, General Andy Frost's army had 5000 regular troops.

Among them, there are 500 cavalry, a total of five cavalry regiments.There are also five reserve cavalry regiments. The reason why they are in reserve is because there are not so many horses for the time being.

It's not that An Ning lacks money to buy horses, he has enough money, but the problem is that there are not enough horses on the market.

Before the Great Revolution, many aristocrats who raised horses in the countryside were beaten to death, and no one managed the horse farms.

Now the whole of France is in a state of horse shortage.

Official horse farms only supply official post stations and cavalry regiments, and An Ning's cavalry is not counted as official, and there is no supply quota.

So An Ning had no choice but to build a horse farm by himself and raise horses from scratch. So far, there has been no result.

The horses he bought were only enough to equip four cavalry regiments, and together with the guard cavalry regiments originally given by the King of France, they made up five regiments of cavalry.

The rest of the female soldiers who were recruited to serve as cavalry were temporarily organized into infantry.

This group of infantry in skirts also got a nickname: the Scottish Highland Regiment.

This is because I don’t know who has heard that the British Scottish Highland Infantry Regiment wears skirts on the battlefield, and it happens that these female soldiers also wear skirts, so they were given such a nickname.

Those who didn't know thought there were British mercenaries on An Ning's side.

In addition to the [-] cavalry and the [-] reserve cavalry, the remaining [-] infantry formed five infantry brigades.

A brigade has two regiments, each regiment has two battalions, and each battalion has 500 people.

Why do cavalry regiments have 500 people and infantry battalions have 500 people? That is because the establishment is so stipulated.

In addition to these troops, Anning also has a direct infantry unit, which is divided into two parts.

The first part is the Sunset Knights. A total of more than 900 nobles formed a regiment, commanded by General Andy Frost himself.

The second part is the non-commissioned officer teaching team. The entire teaching team has a company establishment, and a group of students are replaced every three months.

Now this is the third batch of trainees. The first two batches of trainees have been scattered throughout the army and become grassroots non-commissioned officers.

Because the number of qualified non-commissioned officers in An Ning's army has reached 400, which is basically 25 soldiers to one non-commissioned officer. A more reliable sergeant.

The first two batches of "crash" non-commissioned officers will return to the furnace to continue training when they have the opportunity in the future.

On the morning of April 4th, several monasteries in Konta rang the bells, and Andy Frost's army marched out of the monasteries where they were stationed and headed for the exercise ground in a neat line.

Tranquility——General Andy Frost rode his favorite big white horse, standing at the gate of the monastery, inspecting his troops.

Several senior officers of the unit around him followed him on horseback.

They are: Captain Lazar Cano, Chief of Staff, Madame Valérie de Oliver, Commander of the Cavalry, Captain Louis-Nicolas Davout, Commander of the [-]st Infantry Brigade and Deputy Commander of the Infantry, [-]nd Captain Russell, Commander of the Infantry Brigade, and Sergeant Jean Lanner, Commander of the Instruction Team.

The commanders of several other brigades did not walk with An Ning because they did not know how to ride a horse.

In addition, except for Captain Davout, the commander of the first brigade, the commanders of the remaining four infantry brigades in Anning's unit were all directly promoted from the chief soldiers.

Lazar Kano was very worried about this. He believed that these people of civilian origin did not have the ability to command a brigade.

He once suggested that An Ning select someone from the Sunset Knights to serve as brigade commander, but An Ning refused.

An Ning's opinion is that instead of letting these old nobles serve as brigade commanders and cause the soldiers to have conflicts with them in the future, it is better to directly use people of civilian origin.

At least these people have been accepted by the Soldiers Council, and they can command movingly on the battlefield.

Lazare Carnot was a little strange, since Davout was also of old aristocratic origin.

An Ning said that although Davout is an aristocrat, he supports the revolution, which is different from the die-hard old aristocrats in the Sunset Knights.

All in all, that's what the senior officers of the Tranquility Force decided.

Now, An Ning was with them, riding a horse and watching the large army drive towards the performance location.

I don't know which unit started it. When they passed An Ning, they took off their hats and started cheering.

An Ning raised her eyebrows, and asked Dawu beside her, "Did you order this?"

Davout: "I didn't. The soldiers cheered like that."

An Ning hummed, Davu's character should not lie about this matter.

Lazar Kano: "You have a high prestige among the soldiers, which is a good thing."

An Ning nodded.

At this time, Beethoven and his assistant rode down the road and stopped in front of An Ning: "Sorry, I wrote late last night and got up late."

An Ning: "It's okay, you're not late yet."

Beethoven nodded, then turned his head to look at the cheering troops, and said excitedly: "The morale of the soldiers is very high! Even if they are pulled out to fight immediately, there should be no problem."

An Ning: "We're just going to put on a play. We're going to set up a formation on the fields outside Konta that haven't been sown, and rehearse our attack."

Beethoven: "I am looking forward to today. You must know that a year ago they were not in the same offensive formation!"

Lazar Kano immediately said: "Today they will not disappoint, after all, they have been training for a year. And now we have enough non-commissioned officers. Although it is not as good as the old army, there are ten non-commissioned officers. , but our non-commissioned officers and soldiers have a better relationship."

An Ning: "Mr. Beethoven, today you will see what an army with officers and soldiers looks like."

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In the exercise area, many citizens of Konta and farmers living nearby came early to take up positions and watch the training.

An Ning rode a horse and ran up the only hill nearby—this was probably the only hill in a radius of tens of miles.

On the hillside, he took out his binoculars and watched his troops expand from marching column to horizontal formation.

The officers around him were missing Davout and Russell, both of whom had gone back to command their own troops.

Lazar Kano was explaining to An Ning: "The one that completed the deployment first, the military flag should be the Sunset Knights. When I set up the exercise plan, I asked them to be deployed in the last row as the benchmark for the entire army. "

Since the Sunset Knights were nobles from the Old Kingdom, their military uniforms were gray with a blue belt.

Apart from flying the tricolor, this group looked much like the iris banners of the Old Kingdom.

And ahead of them, the blue troops were spreading out into a thin blue line.

To be honest, An Ning really felt like he was playing Mount and Blade 2 at this time, and it felt like watching his men line up with thieves.

He even heard the game's BGM.

Kano: "The deployment of Davout's troops is almost complete. He is a very good officer, which is also reflected in the speed of movement of his troops. Compared with the captain Russell you promoted, he is much inferior. "

An Ning: "But Captain Russell is deeply loved by the soldiers. He can serve as the brigade commander, which will give the soldiers hope, the hope of being promoted from the bottom to the top of the army. Kano, a soldier who doesn't want to be a general, is not a qualified soldier .”

Kano: "I am skeptical about how much military talent a general who rises from an ordinary soldier has."

An Ning: "Then just wait and see."

(End of this chapter)