After Lazar Cano joined, he immediately began to improve the training of the company that An Ning was currently working on.
After a morning of training, Kano found An Ning in his study: "It's so surprising, your troops can't even line up! How did you defeat so many rebels with such a troop?"
An Ning sat behind the desk, put down the artillery list he had just received, and looked up at Kano: "First of all, there are not as many rebels as the Parisians say. I have corrected them many times, but to no avail. Rebels The total number is probably only eight or nine thousand people.
"As for how I defeated them...the three thousand rebels I encountered at the beginning had no artillery or cavalry, so I caught them off guard in the wilderness and took advantage of our complete range of arms to defeat the enemy.
"In the second battle, I set up an ambush and used a bush to ambush the enemy."
An Ning introduced the situation of the second ambush in detail, including how he threw the baggage on the road to cause the enemy's misunderstanding, and how he took advantage of the enemy's underestimation to completely defeat the enemy with a volley of guns and a charge.
Lazar Cano's eyes widened: "You used an army with this level of training to defeat the enemy with a single bayonet charge?"
An Ning: "The enemy is just like this rabble. And it's just a bayonet charge. Just charge out of the fence."
"Even so, this is an incredible achievement. You are truly a military genius."
An Ning was speechless, and he himself began to doubt: Do I really have some talent in this area? It makes no sense. Anyone who played RTS (real-time strategy) in my time could probably fight this kind of battle. Could it be that I People who liked to play RTS in that era became great military strategists per capita in ancient times?
So is it RTS games that allow humans to evolve?
Kano continued: "So that's it. You know that your troops are not capable of launching a normal march. This troops will disperse within a hundred meters of formation, so you chose to ambush in the hedge. , it’s really high!”
An Ning: Yes, that’s what I think from now on!
However, Kano was right about one thing. His troops were indeed serious about launching an attack, and their formation would break up within a hundred meters.
When An Ning's troops were fighting an enemy force of 3,000 men before, it was true that the formation was about to break up after the troops walked about a hundred meters away. Moreover, this group of people did not stop to fire a volley, but rushed directly into the enemy's face.
The standard procedure should be to stop and fire a volley first, then charge.
However, given the already dispersed formation at that time, it would probably be chaotic if they stopped to fire a salvo, and stray bullets might even hit their own people.
An Ning: "So the task of training these troops is left to you."
Carnot frowned: "To train such a force, I'm afraid I can't do it alone. I think you should put out a recruitment notice and recruit experienced officers and non-commissioned officers from all over Paris.
"But in that case, there may be a problem."
An Ning: "What's the problem?"
"Your army values equality between officers and soldiers. There is no rank difference between soldiers and non-commissioned officers," Cano paused, "but I'm afraid the old officers recruited won't accept it."
An Ning thought for a while and asked: "Can this be done? I will first select outstanding non-commissioned officers from the army and let them form a teaching team of about 200 people, and you and your classmates will teach them.
"With just these people, the conflict between the old officers and the soldiers who demand equality should not expand. Even if it expands, it will be easier to resolve in this training team.
"After the training of the teaching team is completed, these people will be sent down to train the soldiers. These people are of the same origin as the soldiers, and there will be no conflicts in official rank.
"The teaching team will now replace a group of non-commissioned officers for training. Over time, we will be able to have a group of non-commissioned officers who have the same background as the soldiers and are equal to them, but who are also experienced, and the troops will become well-trained."
After An Ning finished speaking, Kano stroked his beard and thought for a few seconds, then nodded and said: "Well, you can give it a try. In this way, even the most ordinary soldier in the army may be gradually promoted to an officer. I think the army
The initiative will be greatly improved.”
An Ning: "You probably don't know yet. Because the grassroots officers and soldiers are all patriots and citizens, the morale of my army is higher than that of the old army. They just lack training."
"An army composed of citizens has a path to promotion. Unlike the old army, after fighting for several years, a private soldier can be promoted to a first class soldier at most. Yes, I can't imagine how strong the desire to fight such an army will be.
Just imagine." Kano said with a smile, "I will start setting up a teaching company right now."
An Ning: "From today on, you are the captain of our army's teaching brigade!"
Kano nodded, and suddenly he thought of something again, and asked: "What about the cavalry? The cavalry in the current army are only those noble ladies, right? Such a small cavalry unit is not enough at all. Do you have to choose from the infantry?
Do people learn to ride horses?”
An Ning curled his lips and sighed: "I haven't decided where to get cavalry yet. Maybe after a while, I will hire some hussars."
Carnot frowned: "The military discipline of the hussars is very poor. They are good at eating, drinking and gambling. If we really recruit them, those noble ladies will be defeated by pigs soon. You don't want your beautiful noble ladies cavalry either."
Regiment, will it become a military regiment?"
An Ning stopped talking. Kano's words eliminated An Ning's idea of hiring wild hussars.
Not only can wild hussars no longer be hired, but skirmishers with poor military discipline - called prancing troops in France - can also no longer be hired.
But this is not a big problem, because the French citizen soldiers have high morale, so they can be used directly as skirmishers.
An Ning stood up and walked around the room.
Suddenly, he had a brilliant idea: "Wait a minute, what do you think about us recruiting pure female soldiers as cavalry?"
Lazar Cano stared at An Ning with an expression like "Do you know what the hell you're talking about?"
An Ning: "You may not have experienced last year's March on Versailles, but I saw it with my own eyes. Women came to Versailles with guns and cannons, forcing the king to promise to give them food.
"In the skirmishers, there has long been a tradition of appointing female bartenders. These female bartenders would carry wine barrels and charge behind the skirmishers.
"As for my cavalry troops, they also perform well in reconnaissance and hunting down enemies. I think women can be cavalry. This is also in line with our principle of equality for all. Women can hold up half of the sky!"
Carnot: "This... you are willing to give it a try, and I have no objection. But you can only recruit in Paris. There are many ladies in Paris who are deeply influenced by the Enlightenment. When it comes to the countryside of Conta, there probably will not be that many ladies willing to leave.
Families are out fighting."
An Ning nodded: "Okay, then I will draft a notice and post it together with the notice for recruiting officers."