After accepting the mission, An Ning left directly from the parliament meeting hall and went to the military camp to see the two thousand people assigned to him.
Lafayette also traveled with him.
Upon arriving at the military camp, you can see a troop lining up in the courtyard of the military camp.
Lafayette: "It seems that the troops that are going to be put under your command have been lined up. Let's meet them."
An Ning: "You don't need to tell me, I can do it."
As he said that, he walked towards the queue, observing the queue as he walked.
The National Guards have always been enthusiastic, but their military discipline is poor. On the way to the queue, An Ning saw several idle guys in the queue.
When he reached the front of the line, the sergeant at the front of the line shouted: "Everyone stand at attention!"
The team responded to the sergeant's words with sparse movements.
An Ning couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. His artillery unit had been carefully reorganized and the military discipline was at least passable. This group of self-defense troops were just hanging out on the street. It seemed that the military discipline was completely lacking.
An Ning: "Sergeant, are you the most senior officer in this unit?"
"As you can see, yes." The sergeant showed a helpless expression, "The officer doesn't want to join the National Guard because he thinks we are just a bunch of idle second-rates."
Someone in the army shouted: "This is indeed the case!"
An Ning turned to look at the troops: "Who said this just now?"
Everyone looked at each other, and finally their eyes focused on one person.
The man looked carefree. Everyone was standing at attention, but he was standing sideways.
An Ning: "Introduce yourself."
The man said: "My name is Sheridan Wendell, and I am a carpenter in the Saint-Antoine district. Paris was in chaos at that time, and there were no carpenters left to work, so I came to join the army."
An Ning: "Now that social security has been restored, you can go back and continue to be your carpenter. We will go to Konta to suppress the rebellion, and we will experience very dangerous battles. A carpenter does not need to go through all this."
Wendell: "Go back now? Being a National Guard soldier makes more money than a carpenter, and it doesn't have to be so hard. You can also wear clean and handsome military uniforms. I don't want to go back to be a carpenter."
An Ning: "You don't know, right? We were going to deal with the rebels in Konta, but they brutally massacred the National Guard in Libreville. In the future, the National Guard will take on more and more tasks in fighting the rebels.
, if you stay in the army with such thoughts, you will regret it."
The carpenter hesitated for a while and then said: "If this month's military salary is also paid, it will be no problem for me to leave."
An Ning turned to Lafayette who was following him and said, "Who should I find to give him military pay?"
Lafayette: "Scribe! Give this carpenter this month's military pay."
An Ning: "Whoever wants to quit, just get their military pay and leave. I only want those who are willing to fight for a better France!"
After the words fell, the soldiers looked at each other, and then another hundred or so people walked out of the queue.
An Ning: "Is that all there is? Are the rest all warriors who are willing to stain the battlefield with blood for a better tomorrow? I can tell you that the rebels in Konta are very brutal. If we go to suppress the rebellion, we will probably have no success.
Come back!"
After the words fell, An Ning glanced at the queue.
Another group of people came out of the queue.
An Ning: "Are there any more? I want to make sure that the remaining people are warriors who are willing to sacrifice themselves for a better tomorrow!"
After An Ning finished speaking, the entire playground fell silent.
Suddenly someone shouted loudly: "We are the warriors you want!"
"That's right!"
"We are!"
"Hero of the Bastille, take us up!"
An Ning nodded, then turned to Lafayette and said, "These soldiers who are leaving will be left to you to deal with."
Lafayette: "I will not fill the vacancies of these people for you."
An Ning: "It's okay if you don't make up for it. Anyway, I'm just performing a preliminary reconnaissance mission."
Lafayette nodded, and then made a gesture to the adjutant behind him, so the adjutant stepped forward and said to those who left the team: "Follow me, and I will give you a certificate as promised by Mr. Frost."
Month’s military pay.”
An Ning watched Lafayette's adjutant leave with these "deserters" and breathed a sigh of relief.
This at least ensures that his troops are filled with patriots full of revolutionary enthusiasm.
An Ning turned to Lafayette again: "General, can you lend me the lieutenant from Libreville?"
"What do you want to do?" Lafayette asked doubtfully, "Add him to the army? One lieutenant is better than nothing for the discipline of the entire army."
An Ning shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, you misunderstood. I want him to tell the soldiers about the brutality of the rebels so that the soldiers can be mentally prepared."
Lafayette raised his eyebrows, then turned to the person behind him and said, "Go ahead and call Captain Bell."
After a while, the survivor from Libreville arrived on the playground.
An Ning invited him to the soldiers: "Captain, tell us about the brutality of the rebels."
The corners of Bell's mouth twitched, obviously recalling this incident made him extremely painful.
"I... really don't want to remember it anymore. That is my nightmare. It visits me every day and makes me wake up sweating!"
An Ning patted the captain on the shoulder: "The troops in front of you are the troops just sent to me. We are about to go to Konta to suppress the rebellion. We need you to tell us how ferocious the enemy is and make them mentally prepared."
The captain was shocked, and then glanced at the troops on the playground: "What? Such a small number of troops have to go to counter the rebellion? This small number of troops is about the same as the self-defense forces in Libreville. To counter the rebellion, it is like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth!"
Lafayette looked embarrassed: "They are just an advance team, standing in front of the main force of the National Guard."
Captain Bell looked at Lafayette, then at the soldiers who were looking directly at him, and then sighed: "The rebels were wearing black military uniforms, as if they were wearing mourning clothes. They rushed into Lieber
Vail, kill everyone who wears the tricolor..."
As Captain Bell began to speak with a painful look on his face, An Ning saw that the faces of the soldiers assigned to him were becoming serious.
Very good, very good.
His approach was actually based on what our army did when it was founded.
Ensuring that soldiers know who the enemy is and why they are fighting can more or less make up for some of the deficiencies in training and discipline.
As for other things...
At this time, An Ning actually had a new idea.
In order to execute this idea, he had to return to the manor where his small army was stationed.
He planned to divide his small artillery unit into two. After all, there were only a few cannons in total, and a hundred people were enough to operate them.
When An Ning was training, he thought that he would be able to expand his staff after adding more artillery pieces, but now there are no more artillery pieces, so he won't need so many gunners.
In this way, he can divide the unit he personally trained into two, with half of them manning the artillery, and the other half being added to his newly acquired more than a thousand infantrymen as grassroots non-commissioned officers.