An Ning quickly stood up and interrupted Mirabeau loudly: "Mr. Mirabeau, please wait a moment! Commander Lafayette, you don't know that my unit is only an artillery unit of 200 people!"
Lafayette smiled slightly: "Of course I will provide you with infantry. I plan to mobilize two thousand infantry to form a counter-rebel force together with your artillery."
An Ning: "Wait a minute! That Captain Bailey just now..."
"Captain Bell." Lafayette corrected An Ning with a smile.
"Didn't Captain Bell say that their local self-defense force has nearly a thousand people? A force of one thousand people was easily defeated. Isn't it a bit weak for me to bring only these few soldiers to counter the rebellion?"
"You have two thousand men, twice as many as the local troops in Libreville! And you also have artillery." Lafayette kept smiling, "Why, do you think these troops are not enough?"
An Ning: "I think it's not enough, give me another 8,000 people."
He didn't want to go, so at this time the lion was asking for a high price, with the purpose of rejecting the job.
Lafayette: "The National Guard in Paris only has a total of 43,000 people. You are going to remove 10,000 people. Isn't it appropriate? If you transfer so many people, the security of Paris will definitely deteriorate. Are you going to
Do you expect the king’s army to maintain law and order? Are you not afraid of vicious incidents like last year’s happening?”
There are now two types of French armies. The old army is called the "King's Army", and its military uniforms generally maintain the royal gray of the old era, while the new army is the National Guard composed of patriots, and their uniforms are all blue.
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Both the old army and the new army will wear the tricolor emblem.
An Ning: "Then give me the king's army..."
"Our purpose this time is to prove that the National Guard is a solid and reliable force and must be used to suppress the rebellion."
An Ning: "Then it would be better to ask the Commander-in-Chief of the National Guard to personally put down the rebellion."
"Why," Lafayette raised his head slightly and looked at An Ning with squinted eyes, "The heroes of the Bastille are not afraid, are they? You dare to attack a strongly fortified fortress with only a group of unorganized uprising people.
Strong man, during the Versailles Incident, you had the courage to go to Versailles Palace surrounded by tens of thousands of people with only 200 people to rescue him, but now you want to tell me that you don't dare to suppress the rebellion of mere clergy?"
An Ning: "This is not a question of whether I have the courage or not. I dared to rescue the people in Versailles because I know the people well and know what they will do. But this time we have to face the rebels, and they have already let go to massacre.
A city of patriot rebels!
"Facing this kind of enemy, I must have a military advantage, otherwise I will just sacrifice the lives of the National Guard in vain!
"Isn't the sacrifice of the Libreville National Guards enough to remind you of this? General Lafayette!"
Lafayette curled his lips.
Mirabeau showed his flexible stance at this time: "It seems that Mr. Frost is right. Maybe more troops should be deployed."
Lafayette was silent for a few seconds and said: "Okay, I will send more troops, your troops are just the advance team! If the enemy is strong, you just retreat and don't fight them."
An Ning: "Since it is the advance team, then I should have cavalry. The cavalry is the most suitable arm for carrying out reconnaissance and outpost missions. If you ask me to lead an infantry unit with a heavy infantry cannon as an outpost, is there anything wrong with it?
wrong?"
Lafayette replied: "It is a pity that the entire National Guard does not have a cavalry unit. The National Guard is composed of free citizens, and its main source of troops is urban civilians. Many of them cannot ride a horse at all."
An Ning: "How can you conduct reconnaissance without cavalry? Lafayette, you are a professional soldier. Tell me, what is the difference between an army without cavalry and a blind man?"
In this era, cavalry was the main means of reconnaissance for the army, and was the eyes and ears of the army.
In particular, light cavalry represented by hussars were very important in battlefield reconnaissance in this era.
Seeing that he could not argue peacefully, Lafayette grimaced: "So, the hero of the Bastille is determined to refuse this job?"
An Ning was about to answer when the rotating speaker Petion spoke: "It's just reconnaissance. The main force led by General Lafayette is behind. Mr. Frost, I think you can accept it. I think most people in the parliament,
We all hope that you will show your talent in war again. You are a person with the Ankh."
An Ning received a Legion of Honor medal for her courageous action in saving Christina.
An Ning thought to herself, damn, when did I become a person with a talent for war?
Wasn't I just forcibly carried to the Bastille?
The representatives of the parliament all looked at An Ning. Most of them looked at her with expectation, but some looked at her with obviously evil intentions.
An Ning pursed her lips and considered it.
Actually, it's not impossible to go. Take the troops to a city near Kongta and station them there, waiting for the main force to follow.
If the main force doesn't come, I won't be able to do it myself.
It just so happens that I'm getting a little tired of having meetings all day long, so it would be nice to go out for an outing.
So An Ning gave in: "Okay, I will lead this advance army. Before that, just to be on the safe side, let me ask, how many professional non-commissioned officers are there among the two thousand people given to me?"
Lafayette: "Fifteen."
An Ning was shocked: "Fifteen non-commissioned officers? Fifteen non-commissioned officers have to manage two thousand people?"
Lafayette: "I mean, there are only fifteen professional non-commissioned officers trained by the Brienne Military Academy, and the rest were promoted after the formation of the National Guard."
An Ning raised her forehead directly: "Then have they been elected by the Soldiers Committee?"
"Most National Guard units do not have soldiers' committees. This organization can be regarded as a proprietary system of the Self-Defense Artillery." Lafayette replied seriously.
An Ning wanted to sigh. There were two thousand stragglers, and all the non-commissioned officers at the grassroots level were inexperienced junior brothers. If this unit was pulled up and lined up to shoot, it would probably not be defeated faster than the National Guard in Breville.
Forget it, I didn't expect to defeat the rebels with this small force, so I just drove into the city near Konta and set up.
So An Ning replied: "Okay, I understand, I will be the commander of this small force. Oh, by the way, I am just a captain. Is it a bit much to command 2,200 people?"
An Ning's original intention was to ask Lafayette to give him a promotion.
But Lafayette didn't take this trick. He smiled and said back: "Don't worry, you are already the highest-ranking among the two thousand people. You will be the sergeant directly below you."
... Damn it, there isn’t even a second lieutenant.
This kind of army might not be able to even line up the infantry, but it would be ridiculous to line up and shoot them!