King's Landing in France

Chapter 178 Mr. Bonaparte Feels His Destiny

Anning was confronting the Austrian army across the river, and the news from Paris came.

His jaw almost fell to the ground and shattered.

In the original history, the youngest son of the Grand Duke of Orleans played a cheating role—literally, someone wanted to help the little guy become the new French king, but it failed. The little guy went abroad by himself. The Jacobins in power sent Papa to the guillotine.

The Grand Duke of Orleans can be said to be one of the many tragic figures in the French Revolution. He himself was very revolutionary. As a great nobleman, he not only opened up the real estate he owned for Parisian citizens to play before the revolution, but also showed a closeness to the people. He also personally funded many Enlightenment thinkers.

He helped publish many pamphlets for the townspeople, which catalyzed the revolution.

Then, after the convening of the third-level parliament, as a great nobleman, he joined the discussion of the third level very early and stood with the common people.

Later, in order to express his revolutionary position, he even changed his surname to "Equality". Yes, his surname was "Equality" in the original history.

For this reason, he also has a nickname, "Mr. Equality".

As a result, this Mr. Equality, eating hot pot and singing, supporting the revolution, was suddenly cheated by his son, and then the Jacobins seemed to have forgotten everything he had done before, and sent him to the guillotine very resolutely .

It can be said to be very black humor.

An Ning looked at Christina before, and thought about whether to save the first-hand Duke. After all, she has received a lot of favor from him, and she may marry his daughter in the future, right? She is barely half a father-in-law.

At that time, he will take him from Paris to his own territory, and he will be able to take over the coal mines and other assets in the Duke's hands.

Now coal is mainly used for heating in winter. The coal used for steelmaking is nothing compared to the coal used for heating. But the future is the era of the industrial revolution. If there is coal and money, there will be the capital of the industrial revolution.

Of course, An Ning's main purpose is to save people, not to be greedy for the Duke's coal.

As a result, An Ning's wishful thinking was overwhelmed, and suddenly the duke's son became the king of France.

Another throne that cannot be reached in time and space, he has arrived!The king's father, rounded up, this is an emperor's uncle!

Christina transformed herself directly and became the king's sister, who is considered a princess.

What the fuck is this magical unfolding?

The future history is completely unpredictable, and An Ning's advantage as a future person who has read the script is completely finished.

But An Ning didn't have much energy to lament this, because another very bad news came from Paris and Vienna together.

There may be a truce between the two countries.

It should be a good thing for the two countries. The common people don't have to fight, and they can recuperate, right?

But this is a big bad thing for An Ning.

He came to Italy to raise money for the future, and Milan, which is extremely rich, is less than a hundred kilometers away. Now that he is suddenly asked to stop, he will never sleep well in his life.

You know, for a little Diego, An Ning bought five carriages of silver coins and precious jewels. Milan drools when he thinks about An Ning.

He had to blitz Milan before the truce.

An Ning recruited all his think tanks to discuss how to cross the Po River as quickly as possible, kill Beaulieu, and then rush into Milan to end Austria's rule in northern Italy.

A group of people discussed for a long time, and there was only one seemingly reliable method: to raid Valenza, shoot down the guns of the Valenza defenders before the Kingdom of Sardinia could react, and then cross the river here to detour Beaulieu's army. behind.

So on May 5, An Ning made up her mind.

Regardless of any diplomatic issues, Commander Frost does not want diplomatic issues, he only wants Milan.

An Ning's deployment is like this. In order to prevent the Kingdom of Sardinia from suddenly participating in the war and interrupting his supply line, An Ning placed the former Italian army division commanded by Massena on the supply line from Nice to Savona, and then faced the battlefield. Division Halpu, put on a stance to strengthen the Po River.

The Davust Division mobilized all the bulky infantry artillery, combined with Napoleon's cavalry artillery to form a high-mobility flanking force, blitzed Valenza, and fired their guns before the Sardinian troops could react, and then crossed the river in Valenza.

According to the plan, Davout and Napoleon would appear on the side of Marshal Beaulieu in the early morning of the 21st.

And La Salle, who also crossed the river by detour to Valenza, rushed to Marshal Beaulieu's only retreat, the only bridge on the Adda River, the Lodi Bridge.

The key to the whole operation is speed, the sooner the better!
Marshal Beaulieu's army in front of An Ning was no more than 1 people, mainly the Vukosovich Division.

It is said that Marshal Beaulieu has also sent some troops from the fortress of Mantua, but these troops have not yet arrived.

Even with Davout's troops, Marshal Beaulieu's troops can easily be dealt with.

Not to mention that by the time Davout arrived, the Laharp department would actually start to forcibly cross the Po River.

In the early morning of the 20th, An Ning ordered the artillery to fire. At this time, the artillery in An Ning's hands included all the heavy infantry artillery of the Laharp Division and the Davout Division, and the firepower seemed to be very fierce.

An Ning personally directed the shooting, and a large number of enemy fortifications were destroyed in a day's shelling.

Marshal Beaulieu's Austrian troops had lined up frontally all day long. It seemed that the density of artillery fire convinced him that all of Anning's troops were on the front, and that they were about to cross the Po River with more than twice the strength of their troops.

At night, An Ning saw the Austrian army strengthening the line of defense overnight with a telescope.

When seeing this scene, An Ning knew that she had won.

Early the next morning, Davout's troops appeared on Beaulieu's flank.

An Ning ordered the artillery to advance to the Po River, using shelling to make it impossible for Beaulieu to line up on the side-once the line was formed, it would be pierced from head to tail by solid bullets.

The Austrian army was defeated without any suspense, without even waiting for Lahalp's division to cross the river.

It is a pity that An Ning sent the cavalry to grab the ferry of Lodi, and Marshal Beaulieu was not able to capture alive.

When An Ning's headquarters was crossing the river with Division Laharp, Commander Laharp had a little accident.

Before he got on the ferry, his foot slipped, and he missed his foot, and his leg stuck into the gap between the ferry and the pier, and then hit his ball hard, pulling his hip along the way.

So the professional soldier recommended by Berthier had to go back to recuperate, and An Ning handed over his division to Lana to command.

While crossing the river, An Ning suddenly remembered that this Laharp seemed to have been killed by a stray bullet when he was crossing Piacenza in real history.

The history here has been screwed to this point, and he was seriously injured in Piacenza.

Damn, can it be regarded as self-correction of historical changes?

Is it this time and space, if An Ning sends Massena to capture Diego, Massena will still be attacked at night when he is looking for the little widow after capturing Diego, and run away overnight in his pajamas?

On the evening of the 21st, An Ning received an order from Lasalle, and he occupied the empty Lodi Bridge almost without fighting.

In the original time and space, Napoleon felt his destiny here, and felt that he was the chosen one.

As a result, this plane, the bridge was captured without even a fight.

An Ning couldn't help but ask Napoleon how he felt about today's battle.

Napoleon said excitedly: "My feeling is that you are simply a symbol of victory. As long as we follow you, we will never lack victory!"

peaceful:? ? ?
An Ning: "You proposed the plan."

"But when I mentioned it, I never thought it would be so smooth!"

An Ning curled his lips and decided not to worry about it. He changed the subject: "No matter what, Milan is right in front of us! Davout, light the torches! We will march overnight tonight, and tomorrow we will have breakfast in Milan!"

(End of this chapter)