King's Landing in France

Chapter 88 New Troops

After accepting the mission, An Ning left directly from the council meeting and went to the military camp to see the 2000 people assigned to him.

Lafayette also traveled with him.

As soon as we arrived at the barracks, we could see a troop lined up in the barracks yard.

Lafayette: "It seems that the troops to be handed over to your command have been lined up. Let's meet with them."

An Ning: "I will do it without you telling me."

As he spoke, he walked towards the queue, observing the queue as he walked.

The National Self-Defense Forces have always been enthusiastic, but the military discipline is not good. On the way to the queue, An Ning has already seen several fools in the queue.

When he reached the front of the line, the sergeant at the front of the line shouted: "Attention, all!"

The team responded to the sergeant's words with sparse movements.

An Ning couldn't help but raise his forehead. His artillery unit has been carefully reorganized, and the military discipline is at least acceptable. This group of self-defense troops is simply a bunch of street thugs. It seems that the military discipline is not good at all.

An Ning: "Sergeant, are you the most senior officer in this unit?"

"As you can see, yes." The sergeant showed a helpless expression, "The military officer doesn't want to come to the National Guard, he thinks we are a bunch of idlers."

Someone in the army said loudly: "It is true!"

An Ning turned to look at the troops: "Who said that just now?"

Everyone looked at each other in blank dismay, and finally their eyes focused on one person.

The man looked sloppy, everyone stood at attention, and he stood sideways by himself.

An Ning: "Let me introduce myself."

The man said, "My name is Sheridan Wendell, and I'm a carpenter in the Saint-Antoine district. Paris was in chaos at that time, and there were no carpenters at all, so I came to join the army."

An Ning: "Now that social security has been restored, you can go back and continue to be your carpenter. We will go to Konta to suppress the rebellion next, and we will go through very dangerous battles. A carpenter does not need to go through all this."

Wendell: "Go back now? Being a National Guard can make more money than a carpenter, and it doesn't have to be so hard, and there are clean and handsome military uniforms to wear. I don't want to go back to be a carpenter."

An Ning: "Don't you know? We are going to deal with Konta's rebels. They brutally slaughtered the Libreville National Guard. In the future, the National Guard will undertake more and more tasks to fight the rebels. , You will regret it if you stay in the army with such an idea.”

The carpenter hesitated for a while, then said, "If the military salary for this month is also paid, it's fine for me to leave."

An Ning turned her head and said to Lafayette who followed, "Who should I turn to so that I can pay him the military salary?"

Lafayette: "Scribe! Give this carpenter this month's military salary."

An Ning: "Who else wants to quit, just leave after receiving the military salary. I only want those who are willing to fight for a better France!"

After the voice fell, the soldiers looked at each other in blank dismay, and then another hundred or so people came out of the queue.

An Ning: "Is that all? The rest are warriors who are willing to bloody the battlefield for a better tomorrow? I can tell you that the rebels in Konta are very brutal, and it is very likely that we will go to suppress the rebellion here." Back!"

After finishing speaking, An Ning scanned the queue.

Another group of people stepped out of the line.

An Ning: "Is there any more? I want to make sure that the rest are warriors who are willing to sacrifice themselves for a better tomorrow!"

After An Ning finished speaking, the entire playground fell silent.

Suddenly someone shouted: "We are the warriors you want!"

"That's right!"

"We are!"

"Heroes of the Bastille, take us up!"

An Ning nodded, then turned to Lafayette and said, "These soldiers who are about to leave will be handled by you."

Lafayette: "I'm not going to fill you in for these guys."

An Ning: "It's okay if you don't make up, anyway, I'm just performing a pre-reconnaissance mission."

Lafayette nodded, and then gestured to the adjutant behind him, so the adjutant stepped forward and said to those who left the line: "You come with me, and I will send you a month's military pay."

An Ning watched Lafayette's adjutant leave with these "deserters", and heaved a sigh of relief.

This at least ensured that his troops were full of revolutionary patriots.

An Ning turned to Lafayette again: "General, can you lend me that Libreville lieutenant?"

"What are you going to do?" Lafayette asked suspiciously, "Are you adding him to the army? One lieutenant is better than nothing for the discipline of the entire army."

An Ning shook his head again and again: "No, no, you misunderstood. I want him to tell the soldiers about the brutality of the rebels, so that the soldiers can be mentally prepared."

Lafayette raised his eyebrows, then turned his head and said to the person behind him, "Go and call Captain Bell."

Moments later, the survivor from Libreville arrived on the playground.

An Ning invited him to the soldiers: "Captain, tell us about the brutality of the rebels."

The corner of Bell's mouth twitched, obviously remembering this incident made him extremely painful.

"I... really don't want to recall it anymore, that is my nightmare, visiting me every day, and waking up sweating profusely!"

An Ning patted the captain on the shoulder: "In front of you are the troops that have just been sent to me. We are going to Konta to suppress the rebellion. We need you to tell us how brutal the enemy is and to prepare them mentally."

The captain was shocked, and then glanced at the troops on the playground: "What? Such a small army is going to counter the rebellion? This number of troops is about the same as Libreville's Self-Defense Forces. Going to counter the rebellion is like going to the tiger's mouth!"

Lafayette looked embarrassed: "They are just the advance team, fighting for the main force of the National Guard."

Captain Bell glanced at Lafayette, then at the soldiers who were staring straight at him, and then heaved a long sigh: "The rebels are wearing black military uniforms, as if they were wearing mourning clothes. They rushed into Liber Vail, slaughter everyone who wears the tricolor..."

As Captain Bell began to narrate with a painful face, An Ning saw that the faces of the soldiers assigned to him became serious.

Very good, very good.

His approach actually refers to the approach of our army at the beginning of its founding.

Ensuring that soldiers know who the enemy is and why they are fighting can somewhat make up for some of the lack of training and discipline.

As for other things...

At this time, An Ning actually had a new idea.

In order to carry out this idea, he had to go back to the estate where his little army was stationed.

He was about to split his little artillery unit in two.After all, there are only a few cannons in total, and 100 people are enough to use them.

When An Ning was training, he thought about adding artillery to him in the future and expanding his staff, but now there is no additional artillery, so he can't use so many gunners.

In this way, the unit that I personally trained can be divided into two, half of them will operate the artillery, and the other half will be added to the more than 1000 infantry that I have newly acquired, as non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level.

(End of this chapter)