An Ning was confronting the Austrian army across the river, and news came from Paris.
His jaw almost dropped to the ground and broke.
In the original history, the youngest son of the Grand Duke of Orleans played a cheating role - literally, someone wanted to help the little guy become the new king of France, but it failed and the little guy made money abroad on his own.
The Jacobins in power sent Dad to the guillotine.
The Grand Duke of Orleans can be said to be one of the many tragic figures in the French Revolution. He himself was very revolutionary. As a great aristocrat, he not only opened up his real estate to Paris citizens before the revolution, showing his people-friendly side.
He also personally funded many Enlightenment thinkers.
He helped publish many pamphlets for citizens, accelerating the catalysis of the revolution.
Then after the three-level parliament was convened, as a great nobleman, he joined the discussions of the third level very early and stood with the common people.
Later, in order to express his revolutionary stance, he even changed his surname to "Equal". Yes, historically his surname was "Equal".
For this reason, he also has a nickname, "Mr. Equality".
As a result, Mr. Equality, who was eating hot pot, singing songs, and supporting the revolution, was suddenly tricked by his son. Then the Jacobins seemed to have forgotten everything he had done before, and sent him to the guillotine very resolutely.
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It can be said to be very black humor.
An Ning looked at Christina before and thought about whether to save the Duke. After all, she had received a lot of favors from him, and she might marry his daughter in the future, so she was barely half a father-in-law.
When the time comes to bring him from Paris to his own territory, he can also easily take over the coal mines and other assets held by the Duke.
At present, the main use of coal is still for heating in winter. The coal used for steelmaking is dwarfed by the coal used for heating. But the future is an era of industrial revolution. Coal and money will have the capital of industrial revolution.
Of course An Ning's main purpose is to save people, not to be greedy for the Duke's coal.
As a result, An Ning's wishful thinking came true, and suddenly the Duke's son became the King of France.
Another throne that time and space cannot reach, he has reached it! The king’s father, rounding up, he is an emperor’s uncle!
Christina transformed directly and became the king's sister, a little bit more than a princess.
What the fuck is this magical unfolding?
Future history is completely unpredictable, and An Ning's advantage as a person from the future who has read the script is completely gone.
But An Ning didn't have much energy to lament this, because another very bad news came from Paris and Vienna.
Maybe the two countries are going to cease fighting.
It should be a good thing for both countries. The people don't have to fight anymore and can rest and recuperate, right?
But this is a big bad thing for An Ning.
He came to Italy to raise money for the future. The extremely wealthy Milan was less than a hundred kilometers away. Now that he was suddenly asked to stop, he would never be able to sleep well in his life.
You know, a little Diego, An Ning got five carriages worth of silver coins and jewelry and valuables. Thinking about An Ning in Milan, it makes her drool.
He must blitz Milan before the armistice.
An Ning summoned all his think tanks to discuss how to cross the Po River as quickly as possible, kill Beaulieu, and then rush into Milan to end Austria's rule in northern Italy.
A group of people discussed for a long time, and there was only one method that seemed to be relatively reliable: raid Valenza, shoot down the Valenza defenders before the Kingdom of Sardinia could react, and then cross the river here to bypass Beaulieu.
behind.
So on May 20, An Ning made up his mind.
Regardless of diplomatic issues, Commander Frost doesn't want diplomatic issues, he only wants Milan.
An Ning's deployment was like this. In order to prevent the Kingdom of Sardinia from suddenly joining the war and interrupting its supply line, An Ning placed the original Italian Army division commanded by Massena on the supply line from Nice to Savona, and then on the frontal battlefield, he
Division Harp, take a posture that requires strength.
Davout's division mobilized all the heavy infantry artillery and cooperated with Napoleon's cavalry artillery to form a highly mobile flanking force, which blitzed Valenza. When the Sardinian troops did not react, they fired their guns, and then crossed the river at Valenza.
According to the plan, in the early morning of the 21st, Davout and Napoleon would appear beside Marshal Beaulieu.
La Salle, who also crossed the river via Valenza, attacked Marshal Beaulieu's only retreat, the only bridge on the Adda River, the Lodi Bridge.
The key to the whole operation is to be fast, the faster the better!
Marshal Beaulieu's army in front of An Ning was only more than 10,000 people, mainly Vukosovich's division.
It is said that Marshal Beaulieu also transferred some troops from the Mantua Fortress, but these troops have not arrived yet.
Even Davout's troops could easily defeat Marshal Beaulieu's troops.
Not to mention that when Davout arrived, the Laharp tribe would really start to forcibly cross the Po River.
In the early morning of the 20th, An Ning ordered the artillery to open fire. At this time, the artillery unit in An Ning's hands also included all the heavy infantry artillery of the Laharp Division and the Davoux Division. The firepower seemed to be very fierce.
An Ning personally directed the firing, and a large number of enemy fortifications were destroyed in one day's bombardment.
Marshal Beaulieu's Austrian troops were arrayed on the front all day long. It seemed that the density of artillery fire convinced him that An Ning's entire force was on the front and he would use more than twice the force advantage to forcefully cross the Po River.
At night, An Ning used his telescope to see the Austrian army reinforcing its defense lines overnight.
When An Ning saw this scene, he knew he would win.
Early the next morning, Davout's troops appeared on Beaulieu's flank.
Anning ordered the artillery to advance to the Po River, and used artillery bombardment to make it impossible for Beaulieu to form an array on the side - once the array was formed, it would be penetrated from beginning to end by solid shells.
The Austrian army was defeated without any suspense, without even waiting for La Harp's division to cross the river.
What is more regrettable is that An Ning sent the cavalry to seize Lodi's ferry and was unable to capture Marshal Beaulieu alive who escaped.
When An Ning's headquarters followed Laharp's division across the river, a little accident happened to Commander Laharp's division.
His foot slipped before boarding the ferry, and he missed the step. His leg got stuck in the gap between the ferry and the pier, and then it hit his balls hard and pulled his crotch.
So the professional soldier recommended by Berthier had no choice but to go back to recuperate, and An Ning handed over his division to Lannes to command.
When crossing the river, An Ning suddenly remembered that this Laharpe seemed to have been killed by a stray bullet during the forcible crossing of Piacenza in real history.
The history here has reached this point, and he was still seriously injured in Piacenza.
Damn it, can it be considered a self-correction of historical changes?
Could it be that in this time and space, if An Ning sent Massena to capture Diego, Massena would still be attacked at night when he was looking for the little widow after capturing Diego, and he would run away in his pajamas overnight?
On the evening of the 21st, An Ning received the order from Lazarus, and he occupied the deserted Lodi Bridge with almost no fighting.
In the original time and space, it was here that Napoleon felt his destiny and felt that he was the chosen one.
As a result, in this time and space, the bridge was captured without even a fight.
An Ning couldn't help but ask Napoleon how he felt about today's battle.
Napoleon said excitedly: "My feeling is that you are simply a symbol of victory. As long as we follow you, we will never lack victory!"
peaceful:???
An Ning: "You proposed the plan."
"But when I mentioned it, I never thought it would go so smoothly!"
An Ning curled his lips and decided not to worry about it. He changed the topic: "Anyway, Milan is right in front of us! Davout, light the torch! We will march through the night tonight, and we will have breakfast in Milan tomorrow!"