"I refuse." An Ning faced the commissioner from Paris and said categorically, "My actions do not violate the constitution! I purchased all the land with the certificates issued by the Parliament. The denomination of the certificates is as high as 400 million francs. You Do you know what four hundred million francs is?”
An Ning added in her heart, in Verne's novel "Bacon's Five Hundred Million Frans", five hundred million francs can build two cities, one is as beautiful as a paradise, and the other is like a super huge factory.
The city can even produce a super cannon that can shoot shells into Earth orbit.
In Verne's fantasy, only 500 million francs could accomplish such a thing!
So An Ning took out 400 million francs in bonds to buy the land in the entire Conta area, which is very reasonable!
The special commissioner blew his beard and stared at An Ning: "You are robbing!"
"What do you mean?" An Ning looked shocked, "I bought it with money, how can it be called robbery?"
"The coupons are worthless! It's not like you don't know!" The special correspondent said the words without stopping.
An Ning: "What? You actually said that the certificates are worthless? You are questioning the policies of the National Assembly! You even suggested that the National Assembly is robbing! I think you are not a special commissioner at all! Come on! Arrest him! "
The only officer in the room was Lazar Cano, who now held the position of de facto chief of staff.
As soon as he heard An Ning shouting, he pulled out his sword and put it against the commissioner's neck.
Then Napoleon opened the door and rushed in, holding a loaded pistol: "General! What's going on?"
Yes, Napoleon was quite involved in the performance, as if he really had no idea what was going on in the room.
An Ning: "This man falsely claims to be the commissioner of the Paris Parliament! But what he just made were all treasonous remarks, and he also accused the Parliament of robbing the people. I suspect that he is a rebel! Arrest him and verify him between us and the Parliament. Please ask him to stay in the dungeon when he changes his identity!"
Napoleon: "Understood! Gentleman, let's go this way!"
The commissioner's face turned pale: "You...you are rebelling!"
An Ning: "I am loyal to the Parliament! I even used my own money to help the farmers complete the redemption, and then distributed the land to the farmers for free! I spent 400 million francs (notes)!"
An Ning showed a painful expression as he spoke, as if the 400 million finger notes were real gold and silver.
Commissioner: "Who do you think you can deceive? As soon as the letter you verified with the parliament is sent, they will know that you have rebelled!"
An Ning: "No, I think the gentlemen of the parliament will understand my contribution! After all, they are all gentlemen who are smart and aware of current affairs!"
Commissioner: "Lafayette will make you look good! Just wait for him to deal with you!"
An Ning: "We are all National Guardsmen. Can Mr. Lafayette still send troops to attack me?"
An Ning means pretending to be silly and sweet.
Lazar Cano looked at An Ning with a complicated face. He seemed to think that An Ning's performance was too hard.
But Napoleon was even more forceful than An Ning: "Stop talking nonsense, you traitor, leave! Prison is your destination!"
The commissioner gritted his teeth and stared at An Ning. After a moment of stalemate, he turned around and followed Napoleon.
Lazar Cano immediately came to the window and looked out. After a while, he reported: "The person who looked like the entourage of the special commissioner mounted his horse and ran away."
An Ning: "Very good, just as planned. Tomorrow we will start counting the army's ammunition and gunpowder inventory, send people to purchase food, and make preparations."
Lazar Cano: "The opponent is Lafayette's National Guard Horse? It is estimated that the strength ratio is 2 to 1. This is not an easy battle."
An Ning: "I know. So we need the right time, the right location and the right people."
An Ning's translation plug-in translates "the right time, the right place and the right people" into Latin, which sounds very classy.
Then An Ning came to the map and asked Lazar Cano: "Departing from Paris and arriving at our last night, where do you think Lafayette will camp?"
Lazar Cano also came to the map: "I can only answer you from pure mathematics and geography. Recently, because I have to help divide the fields, I ran through the nearby terrain. I think the last thing before the decisive battle is
One night, Lafayette might have camped here, here, and here."
As he spoke, he took a pencil and drew three circles on the map.
An Ning: "What's the reason?"
"It conforms to the camping doctrine taught by the military academy." Kano shrugged, "I am a mathematician and a military engineer. I don't have a genius-like tactical awareness. If you let me choose, I will only camp in these places."
An Ning: "Wait a minute, you said it complies with the camp doctrine taught by the military academy? Are you sure?"
Theoretically, An Ning should have learned the same doctrine, but An Ning has forgotten most of what he learned at the Military Academy.
After all, he had never wanted to become a great military strategist in the past few years. He just wanted to hug Napoleon's lap.
Lazar Cano nodded with certainty: "That's absolutely the case, that's what is taught in the textbooks."
An Ning curled her lips.
He suddenly thought that Berthier was a very organized and strict person, but this guy had extremely poor adaptability, so he could only serve as chief of staff to implement other people's decisions.
If it were Berthier, he would very likely camp in these three places!
An Ning: "Call Lana and set off with me. I want to take him to familiarize himself with the terrain of these places."
Lazar Cano immediately turned around and shouted: "Herald!"
The door opened immediately, and a capable young man of sixteen or seventeen years old got in, stood at attention and saluted: "Sir!"
"Go and ask Captain Jean Lannes to come over and ask the stables to prepare the horses. We are going out."
"Yes!" The young man turned around and ran away.
An Ning: "New messenger?"
"With the distribution of land, some children from peasant families began to join us. I selected a few smart ones and added them to the messengers at the headquarters."
An Ning nodded.
Soon, Jean Lannes arrived.
So An Ning took a group of officers and left the monastery as the headquarters on horseback, heading straight to the place that Lazar Cano had just circled on the map.
After the group left the city, they rode for more than an hour when suddenly An Ning shouted: "Wait a minute!"
He took the lead in pulling the reins to slow the horse down.
Others pulled back their reins one after another and maintained a state of following the tranquility.
An Ning looked around.
Now he was standing under a solitary beech tree. This tree was astonishingly big and looked to be more than a hundred years old. From a distance, it looked like a huge mushroom growing on the ground.
An Ning stood under the tree and looked in the direction he came from: "Did we go uphill before we got here?"
Lazar Cano looked back and did not answer immediately.
But Rana said: "Yes, we have been going uphill. And it looks like it is going downhill ahead."
An Ning clapped her hands vigorously.
This place is a very small hill.
Looking to the east and west, An Ning could see that the ground had a small wrinkle under his feet. If you didn't look carefully, you would miss it.
An Ning turned and looked to the other side: Next to the beech, there was a large barn and a lonely windmill.
There is a windmill on the top of the hill, which seems to be suitable for harnessing the power of the wind.
An Ning touched her chin.
Napoleon spoke: "It turns out that this is a mountain. If we set up cannons here, we can hit an extra hundred or two hundred meters!"
An Ning shook his head: "No, no, we shouldn't mount the artillery on the mountain, no. We should mount our artillery on the back of the mountain, and the infantry should be placed on the back slope. This reverse slope will block the firepower of the opponent's artillery."
Then An Ning pointed to the barn and windmill next to him: "We will use a determined force to guard the barn and let the enemy know that we are going to fight them here.
"Forcing the enemy to deploy on the north slope. When the enemy pushes across the ridgeline, our line of infantry and skirmishers are waiting for them on the back slope! And of course artillery.
"Lafayette's artillery only has heavy infantry guns, and they move very slowly after deployment. Our artillery can take full advantage of it, especially the light cavalry troops commanded by Napoleon!"
When An Ning bought cannons, he specially bought a series of six-pound cavalry cannons. These cannons had smaller calibers and lighter projectiles, but they were light and could be moved quickly by horses.
An Ning remembers that in the biography of Napoleon from another time and space, Napoleon loved to command cavalry cannons and find places to attack the enemy flexibly.
Now it was time for Napoleon to do his old job.
An Ning gestured excitedly: "The enemy is here. After crossing the ridge, he will face our firepower. Just think about it!"
Davout: "Leave it to my first brigade to defend the mill and barn."
Rana: "The teaching company is also willing to take on this important task!"
An Ning: "No, no, the teaching company has its own mission, a very important mission. I will take you to see the terrain later. This barn and mill are the positions of the 1st Brigade. We don’t know Lafayette yet.
How long will it take to get here? I estimate it will take more than half a month. You can just bring the non-commissioned officers of your unit to make them familiar with the terrain nearby."
Davout saluted: "Understood."
An Ning: "The remaining four brigades should form a thin blue line on the back slope, which is the most suitable formation for exerting firepower. Once the enemy crosses the ridge, fire will continue."
Thin blue line, yes, the trick played by An Ning is actually the trick played by the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo.
Set up formation on the back slope, use the terrain to block the French artillery fire, and then disperse a large number of troops into a thin red line on the back slope.
When the French cavalry, led by Ney, joined in, the red line turned into square formations again.
It can be said that the French army will lose at Waterloo. In addition to the arrival of Prussian reinforcements, another major reason is that the French artillery did not work.
If the French artillery had bombarded Wellington's infantry hard when they were all in square formation, I'm afraid the result would have been different.
This was not the first time Wellington had used this tactic. When he was in Spain, he used this tactic called the "thin red line" to defeat the French army.
Of course, Wellington was forced to do this move. The French army's artillery fire was too fierce. After all, Napoleon was an artilleryman, so the artillery in the French army was highly valued.
Wellington experienced several French bombardments and then figured out this tactic.
This tactic can give full play to the high morale and high discipline of the redcoats while preventing the French army's artillery fire from taking advantage of their strengths.
As for An Ning, his artillery should be stronger than Lafayette's now, but this does not prevent An Ning from copying this tactic.
After all, if the enemy's artillery is unable to perform, wouldn't the combat power ratio of the artillery change from 1 to 1.5 to 0 to 1.5?