King's Landing in France

Chapter 187 Say hello to Maximilian for me
M. Barras, after a day's rest, came again to beg peace to return to Paris.

An Ning did not refuse, and directly told him the military situation of Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia that he had scouted face to face, and then asked, "Tell me, who can command the Italian Army instead of me?"

Ballas was silent.

In my impression, Ballas's military ability is actually not bad. After all, he was the one who put down the rebellion in Nice and other places, established the Maritime Province, and later discovered Napoleon's achievements.

But it is basically impossible for Ballas to suddenly become a person who can hold the Kingdom of Sardinia and Shinra in Italy.

Sure enough, Barras hesitated for a long time, but did not hesitate to come up with a reason.

Suddenly he had an idea, and asked back: "Then is it possible that General Frost has a way to deal with enemies twice as many as himself?"

An Ning glanced at his subordinates, and then Napoleon kindly reminded: "It's just to fight the enemy three times as big as yourself. We tried it in Konta, and we won a big victory, and then cut off the enemy general who surrendered." head."

Ballas: "This..."

An Ning: "Although there are many enemies, they are divided into two battlefields. Our army also occupied several obstacles in the mountains. There are 1 Massena divisions defending these obstacles. They should be able to hinder the Sardinian army for a long time. In the meantime we shall crush the frontal Austrian army and force them to retreat to their strongholds in the Alps."

Davout added: "It mainly refers to Trent, which is one of the most important strongholds of Shinra in the southern foothills of the Alps."

"As long as the enemy is forced to retreat to Trent," An Ning resumed, "as long as we leave a small number of people to surround the Mantua fortress, we can move westward to attack the Kingdom of Sardinia. Our army can start from Valenza Forced to cross the Po River, and then outflank the flank of the Sardinian army attacking Massena in the coastal hills."

Paul Barras asked suspiciously: "How many troops do you want to surround Mantua? If there are fewer troops, they will be rushed out, right? I suggest that before the enemy has time to act in unison, retreat back to France immediately, and then organize defense in Nice.

"Anyway, the territory of France in Italy other than Nice is basically the territory of the former commercial republic, which is similar to what was picked up in vain.

"If you're just defending Nice, your army must be fully capable, and you don't need a top-notch command ability. You can take the opportunity to go to Paris!"

An Ning: "I gave up such a large piece of land, what qualifications do I have to go back to serve as the commander of the Paris garrison?"

Ballas: "Whoever controls the newspaper can turn black and white. We just need to exaggerate and throw the responsibility to the Austrians!"

"Won't Wang's newspaper promote it?" An Ning asked back.

Ballas: "Of course they will publicize, but our Jacobin newspaper is more popular among the people. This is a game of whose voice is louder."

An Ning: "Yes, you may really be able to fool the people, but what about the facts? What about a large number of lands that have fallen for no reason?"

Most importantly, what about the blood-sucking plan in Milan that I managed to start?I just took a small sip, and I didn't feel good at all.

Barras: "Those things don't matter, Paris needs you!"

An Ning: "You better give up, I will never give up on my soldiers."

Ballas curled his lips: "You didn't let you give up your soldiers. In fact, we still need you to lead the army to defend Paris..."

An Ning: "Mr. Ballas, you must have never eaten Milan's radicchio cream risotto. It is really delicious. I will immediately ask the most famous chef in Milan to prepare it for you."

Ballas shook his head: "No, I don't like cream..."

"No no, although this dish is called cream risotto, it does not actually use cream. It uses Gorgonzola cheese and oil to achieve a creamy texture. In addition to the creamy texture, Gorgonzola The unique aroma of cheese..."

Barras continued to shake his head: "No, no, I'm not really interested in food. I'll just drink some bouillabaisse or some Provence stew..."

An Ning: "This is Italy! You still want to eat French food when you arrive in Italy, the Italians will hate you to death!"

Ballas: "Italian food is nothing serious, it's just variations on onions sautéed in olive oil! Let's talk about Paris!"

Without waiting for An Ning to respond, La Salle said first, "Hey, think about it carefully, it seems that Italian dishes really have to use olive oil to cook onions at the very beginning!"

Napoleon said firmly: "This is prejudice!"

An Ning couldn't help reminding Napoleon: "You are a Corsican, not an Italian. Corsica belongs to France. You don't need to be so excited about the dignity of Italian food."

Napoleon: "Well, it was my fault, but Italian food is really delicious, the kind that makes life suddenly brighter!"

The Frenchman Napoleon continued to maintain the dignity of Italian cuisine reluctantly.

Ballas: "These are all good! You can even take a few Italian chefs to Paris, and then you can have a big banquet, and then I will try the creamy risotto you have always recommended!"

An Ning: "Mr. Ballas, I think I have made it very clear that I will not leave my soldiers at this time."

Ballas gritted his teeth and used his trump card: "Now that you return to Paris, you will surely become the most powerful person in Paris! At that time, all French troops will be dispatched by you!"

An Ning: "Sounds a bit attractive, but I am satisfied with the number of troops I am commanding now, and the officers under me are probably barely enough to command such a number of people."

Ballas: "At that time, you will lead the whole of France and win victory after victory, just like the conqueror Alexander (or Iskandar in transliteration) in history!"

An Ning: "I don't need to go to Paris, I will continue to win and conquer."

Anyway, An Ning has already made up her mind. In such a complicated and turbulent Paris, whoever wants to go will go, and I will stay away anyway.

Balas sighed long in the face of the unrepentant peace.

He took a step back and said, "Then, I hope to mobilize an army of about 10 people from the southern region to the capital."

An Ning glanced at Lazar Kano, who shook his head silently.

So An Ning also categorically rejected this request: "No, our army has no plans to go to Paris at present. Of course, in the future, if the situation in Paris is really dangerous, our army will go to Paris.

"But this timing will be decided by ourselves."

Barras: "All right! All right! I'll tell your friends in Paris exactly how you feel!"

An Ning laughed directly. His friends in Paris are all good buddies with the same goals. Even if they listened to Ballas' report, they probably wouldn't say anything.

An Ning: "Go ahead and say hello to Maximilian (referring to Robespierre) for me, and say hello to Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna and give him some souvenirs."

(End of this chapter)