King's Landing in France

Chapter 209 France Doesn't Need a King

After the decision was made, the entire Italian Legion began preparations for the handover of command.

Of course, these are not bothering An Ning to worry about, and the energetic Chief of Staff Berthier is in charge.

Berthier seemed to be able to see that An Ning didn't like to deal with clerical tasks such as paperwork, so he directly took care of everything, and asked An Ning to just sign.

On the day before departure, An Ning decided to take a last look at the place where he had expected to become famous.

He set off on horseback without notifying anyone. As a result, not far away, Napoleon led Beethoven and the painter David to catch up.

An Ning was a little surprised: "Why are you here?"

Napoleon: "Fanny came to find me, you are too careless, at least bring a guard."

An Ning pulled back her cloak, revealing the pistol and saber on her belt: "What guards can compare to my sword and pistol?"

Napoleon laughed loudly: "You are right, thousands of troops did not kill you."

Beethoven was laughing too.

An Ning asked Beethoven: "Why are you with Bonaparte?"

"Uh, he wants to listen to the music he composed." Beethoven looked embarrassed. Needless to say, the music written by Napoleon is probably as bad as the novels he wrote.

An Ning: "You scold him generously, if you feel bad, just say it!"

Napoleon: "I just need practice."

Beethoven smiled awkwardly and changed the subject: "So what are we going to do?"

"It's nothing, just look at the land of Italy." Saying that, An Ning turned her gaze to the Alps. There was just a night of snow last night, and the mountains in the distance could be seen in the clear weather.

The whole world is covered in silver.

Seeing this scene, An Ning wanted to copy his old man's poem.

But there seemed to be something wrong with saying "the scenery of the Northland" in Italy, so he held back.

While An Ning was staring at the Alps, David took out his sketchbook and began to quickly record the scene.

Napoleon quipped, "Andy, aren't you going to have a poem or a riff?"

An Ning thought to herself, don't ask me this question, ask Le Sheng next to him, he is a true brother who can write famous songs while walking and looking at the moonlight.

He was about to answer Napoleon's question when he suddenly saw a funeral in the churchyard in front of him.

An Ning urged the horse over, curious to see what happened.

The priest presiding over the funeral found the peace first. He stopped praying and looked at the French commander who rode into the cemetery.

An Ning asked in Italian: "Sir, who is burying?"

The pastor replied: "It's the hunter in the town. He was affected by the battle and died."

An Ning got off his horse and said to the pastor, "Well, then I'll see him off."

Speaking of which, An Ning forced her way into the farewell line.

The Italians gave way to An Ning.

He just walked up to the coffin.Many flowers have been placed on the coffin.The people who came to see them off all brought flowers, and after silently saying goodbye in front of the coffin, they threw the flowers on the coffin.

An Ning didn't bring any flowers, so he took out his pocket watch from his pocket, put it on the coffin, and said in a voice that everyone around could hear: "This poor man died because of the independence of Italy. May he rest in peace in heaven." .”

The native obviously died because of the war between France and Austria on Italian soil, but An Ning said it was "because of the independence of Italy".

This can't be wrong, after all, there is also the Italian Sequoia Army in the French army.

After An Ning delivered the pocket watch, Napoleon and Beethoven also stepped forward to present their tributes.

When they left the cemetery, an old Italian lady stopped them with tears in her eyes.

"Good man!" said the old lady, "May God bless you!"

Then the little Italian girl who had been hiding behind the old lady stood up timidly and offered the flowers in her hand to An Ning.

An Ning squatted down, gently touched the little girl's cheek, and then took the flower——

The painter David witnessed the whole process.

On the second day of this episode, An Ning left for France.

**
Although Marseille is not the hometown where An Ning started directly, after more than a year of operation by Lazare Cano, plus good news that An Ning has always been on the front line, the whole city has welcomed the return of An Ning with amazing enthusiasm.

The citizens of Marseille blocked all the roads into the city, just to see the demeanor of the famous general who has won successive victories in Italy.

Before entering the city, An Ning specially changed the means of transportation from horse-drawn carriages to horseback riding, so as to better attract the crowds of the whole city.

You ask why not ride the whole way?This is to ask La Salle who insisted not to take the carriage and rode back all the way. He has been drawing blood for several days.

It's a pity that there is no Ma Yinglong in this era, La Salle can only bear it, grinning every time he sits down.

The king of the hussars, who claimed to live his whole life on horseback, was like this. An Ning naturally chose the horse-drawn carriage.

After changing to his big white horse around Masai, he also happily joked about La Salle: "My king of hussars, why don't you sit on the saddle and sit on the horse's butt?"

Lasalle: "You know what to ask! Forget it, this is also the fate of every hussar. When Attila expeditioned to Europe, he probably suffered from hemorrhoids."

An Ning smiled, and he suddenly thought of a wrong song: Riding a donkey grinds the butt, rides the donkey but rides the butt and still grinds the butt—I don’t know how to translate this when I read it now.

After turning over a small hill, the sea and Marseilles appeared in front of me at once.

Along with the sea breeze, there were cheers from the Maasai people: "Long live General Frost!"

An Ning smiled and waved in response.

Then a voice came from the crowd: "General, are you back to support the king?"

An Ning couldn't hold back immediately.

He glanced at Lazar Kano, who shrugged his shoulders with an expression that seemed to say, "I have already reported to you that the Royalist Party is very powerful here."

An Ning couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache, obviously he had no connection with the king at all, just because Philip Ping's son became the king, and now he was regarded as a royalist by many people.

An Ning took a closer look at the crowd and found that the royal party's white iris pattern flag was mixed with the tricolor flag. This clearly meant that he returned to the country and regarded the royal party's life-saving straw.

So An Ning adjusted the three-color emblem on her hat deliberately with very solemn and slow movements.

However, no one noticed this, and some people in the crowd shouted: "General, hang those blue party members!"

An Ning frowned, it seemed that some words could not be explained clearly.

So he cleared his throat and shouted in a bell-like voice: "Everyone! I return to France, first to defend my country from the power of Austria and Prussia! Second, to defend the tricolor flag!

"Some people mistakenly think that I am a royalist, here I want to clarify, I will always be a patriot!
"Many people have forgotten that I lit the first fire of the Great Revolution in the Bastille!
"It was I who said to Louis XVI that we refused to leave unless we were driven out by bayonets!

"It was also me who escorted Louis XVI from Versailles to Paris!
"France, in my opinion, has no need of a king! Never has!"

(End of this chapter)