While the Italians were discussing An Ning's achievements, An Ning came out of the headquarters.
The Milanese in Sequoia watched the general's stable boy named Julian bring the general's horse. The bearded man joked: "This stable boy is very suitable for Baz. I don't know if the general wants an Italian."
Stable boy."
Someone immediately spoke: "Baz wanted to be the general's stable boy, so he had to change his name. I heard that the stable boy changed his name to Julian, which is the name of a Roman emperor."
Italy also has a Rome, so Italians regard themselves as Roman orthodox in their hearts, especially the anti-Austria revolutionaries, who use Roman orthodoxy to mock the Holy Roman Empire.
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Voltaire's famous saying was very famous in Italy, which was ruled by the Holy Roman Empire: "The Holy Roman Empire, which is neither holy nor Roman, is not yet an empire."
The general mounted his horse and waved to the Italians as he passed them.
A bold Italian shouted: "General, where are you going? You are going in such a hurry!"
The general smiled and said: "It is said that the Austrians ran away with their tail between their legs. I went to the front to see the situation."
The Italians heard this and started talking: "Run away?"
"Didn't you say that there is a main Austrian force in the direction of Trent? It won't come down?"
"Really, if I had known that the Austrians would escape, I wouldn't have rushed so slowly for fear of wasting the opportunity to fight."
Unexpectedly, these words were heard by the general. He looked at the Italian who spoke: "Although the Austrians ran away, everything we did before was not in vain. We now have a very large initiative in the scene, and we have
It will be hard for you to continue trekking in the snow for a few days."
After speaking, the general turned his horse's head and trotted towards the slope from the mesa to the Adige Valley.
The general's direct line officer corps all followed in a mighty manner. Among them were two people who were not wearing military uniforms.
"Look," the bearded man lowered his voice, "he went to the battlefield with two jesters."
Baz looked strange: "Rigoletto?"
"Yes, they are also called bards. They are the two men who are not wearing military uniforms. One is a painter and the other is a musician. The general leads them around all day long."
Buzz: "Why Rigoletto?"
"Have you never seen a comedy? It was performed in the open-air theater in Milan in the evening.
Every king has two idle characters who are responsible for flattering and amusing the master, and they are called jesters."
To say that Italy is indeed a land of art, even a bearded man in trousers can talk to you about drama like those aristocrats in trousers.
But Baz was in a worse situation. He was too young and had never seen these things at all.
He can only use the wings of his imagination.
"Jester." Baz muttered, thinking that the general was in a bad mood, and the two jesters were trying to think of ways to make the general happy.
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On An Ning's side, he was wondering why the Austrians were so happy all of a sudden, when he suddenly saw the Italian from Sequoia carrying a strange musical instrument on his back.
The military band of the army mainly consists of drums and various horns. Some countries use bagpipes and flutes, but as far as An Ning knows, there is no military band that plays plucked string instruments.
So An Ning slowed down his horse and asked the Italian: "What kind of piano is this?"
The Italian replied with a Venetian accent: "This is the mandolin, my precious general."
The soldiers nearby shouted: "It's his wife!"
Then everyone burst out laughing.
An Ning then remembered that there was indeed a traditional musical instrument in Italy called the mandolin, which looked like a rounded pipa.
The last time An Ning saw this instrument was in Nicolas Cage's war film "Captain Colin's Mandolin", which vividly showed how talented Italians were during World War II.
But An Ning quite likes that movie, because the movie is very Italian. During the war, Italian soldiers only cared about eating well, drinking well, and falling in love with local girls. Don't worry about whether they can fight or not. Just say it's romantic or not.
An Ning stopped his horse and reached out to the Italian soldier in Sequoia for the mandolin. He fiddled with it and dialed a few notes.
The Italian asked: "General, do you want to learn how to play?"
An Ning shook his head: "No, I have fifty thousand or more Austrians to worry about now. They were about to fall into our pockets, but they ran away this morning without looking back."
"They must have been scared away by you," said the Italian with the mandolin, while strumming a few chords.
An Ning waved his hand and urged his horse forward to continue towards the Adige Valley.
As he was walking forward, he asked Beethoven who was going with him: "Are you familiar with local Italian folk songs?"
Beethoven: "A folk song played with a mandolin? Although I have never played this instrument, as long as you know one of all the string instruments, you can understand the others. If you want to use the mandolin in your music,
I’m going to learn it now.”
An Ning looked at Beethoven and thought that he was indeed a music saint. Your proficiency in musical instruments depends on their categories.
He suppressed his desire to complain about this damn genius and continued to talk about what he had just thought of: "We now have Italian troops under our command. We should compose some songs suitable for them. I think using the tune of local folk songs will lower their spirits."
The difficulty of accepting it. Sometimes folk songs have a unique charm and are particularly suitable for publicity."
Then An Ning began to hum the melody of "Ah Goodbye, Friend". This song was originally a song of Italian guerrillas. In the Yugoslav movie "The Bridge", it seems that it was originally sung by an Italian guerrilla Zavadoni.
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Beethoven listened to the melody carefully and said with a smile: "It sounds pretty good. I don't know what the lyrics are?"
The lyrics that An Ning knew were the versions that were re-written in Yugoslavia and then polished by domestic translators, so he hesitated a bit, but still did not seize the "right to invent" the original lyrics.
The Italian guerrillas still sang this song to hang Mussolini. This cannot be changed.
So An Ning chose a safe explanation: "I didn't hear it very clearly, and I just heard the word 'Bella copy'."
Beethoven, a German, frowned: "Bella Chao? Well, it sounds like goodbye in Italian. This is how the beautiful local ladies in Milan sent me off at the salon I attended recently."
An Ning raised her eyebrows: "Why did you also go to the beautiful lady's salon?"
Beethoven shrugged: "I'm a musician."
What is this answer?
Do musicians necessarily attend beautiful ladies’ salons?
At this time, Napoleon interjected: "I actually tried to write some music. I wonder if Ludwig has time to help me take a look?"
An Ning looked at the most capable officer under his command and frowned slightly at his lack of professionalism.
In another time and space, Napoleon liked to write lame or love stories.
This time and space is good, I changed the music.
No, he seems to have written it too! You have quite a wide range of hobbies, take a look!
Beethoven looked embarrassed: "Okay, I'll take a look at it when I have time."
At this time, the painter David intervened: "Sir, let's put aside the matter of Italian music for the moment. What happened to the Austrians? Why did they just run away?"
An Ning glanced at David, and he had actually noticed a long time ago that painters and musicians were secretly competing to see who could contribute their talents to the great general (brackets they thought).
We had been talking about music just now, and the painter felt that he had been left out.
An Ning: "This is what we want to find out. I want to see for myself the traces left by the Austrians. Maybe I can find some clues."