In January 1794, Anning moved his main forces from Paris to Sedan.
Due to the large number of reliable troops being divided into rural squads and dispersed across the vast northern France, the field troops that Anning actually mobilized this time were around 200,000.
However, this was also roughly the upper limit of field troops that France could supply during this era. Historically, Napoleon mobilized the power of all of Europe and still only managed to gather an army of 600,000.
Therefore, Anning had no complaints about the strength of 200,000 troops.
His only regret was that his most capable general, Davout, was still in Italy.
Fortunately, Napoleon had already made a name for himself in the civil wars, so Anning assigned the first French Army, the elite of his main forces, to Napoleon's command.
The core of the first army was essentially the group Anning had brought from the south, and some of the non-commissioned officers had been with Anning since the Conte era.
