After arranging Barras to stay in the most luxurious hotel in Milan, An Ning and her officers gathered in An Ning's study to discuss the latest domestic intelligence brought back by Barras.
Napoleon was the first to speak: "It seems that the country is more complicated than imagined! How about we give up Italy and go back to Paris, like Cromwell did!"
Just as An Ning was about to answer, Lazar Cano asked: "So when the country is unstable, do we stand with the royal party or the republic?"
Everyone looked at Lazar Cano together.
In fact, when An Ning chatted with the officers, he more or less talked about his future plans, his own position, etc., so the officers who had been following him in battles all knew his tendencies.
Especially Napoleon, Anning has been a die-hard republican since the days of Brienne.
However, Lazar Cano had been engaged in construction in the rear for a long time and basically only had correspondence with An Ning, and the letters were basically about business matters and did not express any views on politics, so it was normal for him to not know An Ning's inclination.
An Ning: "Of course it's the Republic. I'm a cobbler. People who support the royal party don't necessarily want me."
The officers all laughed.
Lazar Carnot said quite unexpectedly: "But the current King Louis XVII is the son of your sponsor, isn't he? I heard that you may also become the king's uncle. The kings gathered in Nice and Toulon
The party seems to think so, and they even regarded our army as a hard-core royalist force during the discussion..."
An Ning: "That is their illusion. It is true that I have a good personal relationship with the Duke, but that does not involve principles. I firmly believe that everyone is equal and want to establish a civilian society. I am naturally in conflict with the royal party."
When An Ning said this, he suddenly had an idea: Damn, what if these people forcefully push me to the throne in the future?
No way...forget it, emphasizing this now can be regarded as killing this possibility.
La Salle: "I propose that we drink to the Republic!"
An Ning: "You just want to find a chance to drink."
La Salle: "Wine, women, and killing enemies on the battlefield, shouldn't a man crave these three things?"
Napoleon smiled and said, "That's all you've got."
"Yes, unlike you, your dream must be to fire a cannon in the face of the enemy general." Lazarus retorted.
Napoleon: "If I can do it, I will definitely do it! Don't let your cavalry fall behind my cannon by then!"
"Oh, look, look, who is talking nonsense!"
It seemed that Napoleon and Lazarus were trying to defeat each other, but they both had smiles on their faces.
An Ning glanced at Napoleon and La Salle. He didn't know that the relationship between Napoleon and La Salle was so good that they could eliminate each other.
It seems that after several wars, the officers under his command have established a deep friendship with each other. Maybe there will be no such thing as friendly forces being unable to move when they are in trouble...right?
While Napoleon and Lazarus were teasing each other, Lazar Carnot was worried about the situation at home.
"Since we want to support the Republic, the domestic situation may be a bit bad, because there are really many royal parties in the south. Maybe... we must be prepared. After the break between the Parliament and the royal party, I estimate that there will be 20 people in the south.
More than 10,000 royalists rebelled."
An Ning frowned: "Are there so many?"
"This is just a conservative estimate."
An Ning curled her lips.
If you think about it carefully, in the original history, even in places like Paris, where the revolutionaries had the same base, the royalists launched massive riots. In the end, it was Napoleon who bombarded the royalists with grape bullets in the streets to suppress them.
Lazar Cano stroked his beard and muttered in thought: "I have to send the royalists in the army to Italy as soon as possible, and then ensure that enough Republican troops are stationed in the south to be ready to suppress the royalists at any time."
Napoleon: "Don't worry, as long as you bring the cannon to the street, load it with grapeshot, and bombard it hard, both the royal party and the old aristocracy will soon fall apart."
LaSalle joked: "Come on, it seems like grapeshot can solve all problems."
Davout: "In fact, even without cannons, bayonets and neat formations are enough to deal with the ragtag mob. I am willing to take three thousand troops back to suppress the rebellion..."
An Ning: "No, you can't leave. None of the frontline generals can leave. We still have to fight against Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia."
Lazar Cano: "Your Majesty General, just concentrate on dealing with the enemy in Italy, and I will take care of the domestic affairs."
An Ning: "Then it's up to you. If we really lack troops, you can recruit troops from the peasants who have obtained the land and tell them that this is to protect everything they have obtained."
Lazar Cano nodded.
Davout: "Let's discuss how to defeat Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia. According to the reconnaissance of our cavalry and the intelligence obtained from the Italians running merchants, the strength of the Mantua Fortress has been greatly enhanced, and to the north of the fortress, there are
There are obvious signs of reinforcements in the direction of Lunt and Bassano, and the Austrian army is expanding its warehouses and warehouses, obviously in preparation for supplying a larger army."
As he spoke, Davout made some gestures on the map.
An Ning looked at the map: "So is it possible for the Austrian army to attack from two directions, the Adige River and the Brenta River?"
Davout: "In terms of supply, the Adige Valley in the direction of Trent is closer to the supply center of HRE. Bassano obviously has to take a long detour."
An Ning: "Adige Valley..."
An Ning remembers this valley. In real history, Napoleon defeated the main Austrian army at a place called Rivoli in the Adige Valley.
Afterwards, although Austria made a breakthrough southeast of Verona and crossed the French defense line, it was ultimately blocked by the French army surrounding the Mantua Fortress.
In the end, the fortress surrendered, and the HRE army retreated to the Alps, leaving the fertile, vast and rich land at the foot of the mountain to Napoleon.
In real history, Napoleon twice defeated the Austrian army in the area north of the Mantua Fortress, and completely captured all of northern Italy except Venice.
Then Napoleon also subdued the Papal States and made the Pope make a generous donation.
Tranquility will face the armies of HRE and the Kingdom of Sardinia on this land.
The good news is that Anning was very familiar with the course of Napoleon's several victories north of Mantua and had a good idea of the entire terrain.
The bad news is that An Ning did not have the time difference to first defeat Austria, then kill the Kingdom of Sardinia, and finally concentrate on dealing with Austria like Napoleon did.
This time he had to face Austria and the Kingdom of Sardinia at the same time.