A few days later, An Ning was watching training at the playground in the garden behind the manor, when Lazar Cano suddenly found An Ning with a man.
An Ning looked at the person Kano brought with confusion and asked, "Who is this?"
Carnot: "This is Louis Nicolas Davout, second lieutenant of the Twelfth Cavalry."
An Ning said "Oh", then carefully looked at the person Kano brought, and asked doubtfully: "Why aren't you bald?"
In most of the portraits of Tatsumi, the most obvious feature is the bright sky cap, which is similar to the Japanese kappa monster.
This impression was too deep, so An Ning blurted it out subconsciously.
Davout was shocked: "What? General, how do you know that I am losing my hair so badly?"
Lazar Cano was also shocked: "General, you actually even considered his hair loss?"
Now An Ning realized that her performance was too much, so she quickly made up for it and said: "The person who recommended you to me noticed that you were losing hair very badly, so he also told me."
Davout: "May I ask who recommended me, a person who has committed a crime, to you?"
An Ning: "Being guilty?"
Cano explained: "He was arrested by the local National Assembly because he led his troops to mutiny and fought for wages."
Davout corrected angrily: "I was not fighting for wages. I was an officer who led them against the old kingdom. Instead, I was arrested by the National Assembly and I have been imprisoned until now!"
"I relied on many connections to get him out of the prison where he was originally stationed in the army." Cano said, "But it was very worthwhile. I have seen the resume of Second Lieutenant Davout. He comes from a military family and is proficient in riding and shooting. He is extremely skilled in swordsmanship and archery, and he also studied at the Paris Military Academy... the same university where you teach."
An Ning thought about it for a moment and felt that it didn't make sense to say that he had noticed Davout when he was in college, so he said vaguely: "I mainly taught mathematics at that time."
When he was at the Military Academy, An Ning didn't pay much attention to finding a marshal from the Napoleonic era, because he didn't think he could become a general at all at that time.
At that time, he wanted to be a flexible wall rider, but he didn't expect that he would become a wall, be armed, and start poaching talents.
It can only be said that a person's fate mainly depends on the course of history.
Davout: "By the way, I knew a Corsican dwarf when I was in college, and he seemed to respect you very much."
An Ning raised his eyebrows. He remembered that Davout was deeply impressed by Napoleon, so he was willing to be a pawn. Why was he now "a Corsican dwarf"?
Which version of the biography of Napoleon I read was wrong? Or maybe the creator thoughtlessly exaggerated about Napoleon?
Or am I changing the history again?
While thinking about this, An Ning replied: "Oh, you are talking about Napoleon Bonaparte. He is my friend and a very great genius, but he should go home to Corsica to visit relatives now."
Shortly after the capture of the Bastille, Napoleon wrote to Anning, enthusiastically praising Anning's action in capturing the Bastille and declaring that he would imitate Anning in Corsica and do great things.
Shortly after that, Napoleon took leave and returned to Corsica.
Now he is probably experiencing a setback in Corsica - just like in real history.
Davout: "Really? That's a pity. He is a very good artillery officer."
An Ning: "So, Second Lieutenant Davout, do you know that all the cavalry in my army are female soldiers now?"
Davout: "I don't think female soldiers can perform cavalry tasks. Their hands will be exhausted after a few heads are chopped off, and their ability to continue fighting is questionable.
"Cavalry are also very powerful! They are good as infantry, especially as skirmishers. Skirmishers generally do not fight hand-to-hand with line infantry. They are mainly responsible for shooting and harassing, and their physical consumption is relatively low."
An Ning raised his eyebrows. It was Davout who pointed directly at the weak point of female soldiers: There is a physical gap between women and men, but in skirmishers, a branch of arms that mainly uses muskets, women's and men's
The impact of physical differences will be minimized.
An Ning: "Forced by the current situation, all parties are now holding on to the cavalry very tightly. I can only use this method to raise an additional cavalry unit. No, that is not what I want to say. What I want to say is, now
There are currently no cavalry units for you to command, so you may need to command the infantry for a while."
Davout: "I have no problem. I am very familiar with infantry tactics and am good at leading a charge."
An Ning nodded, and then said to Kano: "Let Second Lieutenant Davout serve as the captain of the teaching team here. His ability should be fully sufficient."
"No problem. Then let him educate Rana, the dyeing shop apprentice a few days ago?"
An Ning thought for a while, and it seemed that there was nothing wrong with Davout educating Rana. He could just make Rana learn how to manage the army and fight.
An Ning: "Let's do it."
Kano saluted An Ning: "I understand, I will make arrangements right away. Second Lieutenant Davout, come with me."
Davout also saluted An Ning, and then the two of them walked towards the main building of the manor.
**
On the way to the main building of the manor, Davout asked curiously: "What is the teaching team?"
"It is a demonstration unit established by His Excellency the General to train key non-commissioned officers. Your mission is to educate the trousersmen drawn from the entire army into qualified non-commissioned officers."
Davout: "Is it true that your army, General, is all composed of men in trousers?"
"Yes, the trousers guy and the farmer, you will know if you have actually seen their training. He led such an army with lax military discipline and poor training and defeated an enemy ten times his own size." Kano glanced at him.
He glanced at Dawu and was satisfied to see an expression of reverence on his face.
Davout: "Really? It's amazing."
Kano: "But it is not possible to continue like this, so our task is to turn this ragtag group of trousers and farmers into a regular army."
Davout: "Leave it to me. I will train these trousers guys hard. However, when I first came here, I thought I would join those Sunset Knights."
Carnot: "Does everyone in a prison so far away from Paris know this news?"
"The warden of our prison is a guy who pays attention to current affairs. He tells us this every day. He said that the Sunset Knight is the general, maybe the people who oppose the National Assembly have gathered together and are under strict supervision."
Kano: "The situation is similar. In fact, the Sunset Knights are old nobles who admire the general's military exploits. Because putting them in an army full of trousers may cause conflicts, they were gathered alone. Do you understand?"
"I understand," Davout nodded thoughtfully, "The Sunset Knight is the general's private soldier?"
"That's more or less the case. Most of these people are targets of the revolution. The only reason why they are here is that they admire the general. It took me a long time to understand why such a force should be formed." Cano paused, "This force is
The use of them is completely decided by Your Majesty the General and has nothing to do with us. We just train those trousers guys well."