"Your Highness, I wonder what will happen to Pomerania if the Swedes suddenly ask us to cooperate with their landing at this time? Sweden is already involved in this war, and they will seize the opportunity to land in order to keep their territory on the European continent, right? This could lead to a new change in the situation"

Bestuzhev closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then asked.

"Swedes? Well... Indeed, the Swedes are also a spoiler, tsk"

Peter pouted and smacked.

"But the Swedes are also easy to do, if we don't attack, can the Swedes dare to attack alone? Joke! Of course, it's true that the Swedes can't stand loneliness, but the Danes are also not honest. So I feel that the current European battlefield is divided into two major battlefields, with the longitude of Denmark as the baseline, on one side the French against Britain and Prussia, and on the other side we plus Austria against Prussia. Perhaps, Denmark joined the British side because of its greed for the small principalities of Holstein and Schleswig. But since we have taken East Prussia, it is equivalent to opening the road to Prussia, and if Denmark really falls to England, then we will encourage the Swedes to attack the Danes, and the Russian army will attack Brandenburg from East Prussia."

"So, does Your Highness want to wait for the Prussians to act before deciding on the battle plan after that?"

Bestuzhev asked again.

"Tsk... In my opinion, it is better for us to first determine the premise of formulating the combat plan, because different prerequisites correspond to different combat plans, so that the plan we formulate will be more targeted."

Peter tapped the table a few more times, as if deciding something.

"First of all, well, I think it needs to be made clear that whether or not Vienna is captured does not affect our ultimate goal of the war, which is to gain more from this war. One is that even if Vienna falls, the Austrians will not necessarily surrender immediately, although it may cause the Austrian army to be more combat-effective and accelerate the surrender of the Austrians in disguise. Secondly, judging from the whole situation of the war, as long as Austria and France do not surrender at the same time, we still have to fight with Prussia, of course, without the Austrians to disperse Prussia's forces, it will indeed be more difficult to fight. On the other hand, I don't think Britain will sit back and watch Prussia replace Austria in control of the entire Holy Roman Empire, even if the British try to occupy France and restore the territory before the Wars of the Roses, but the change of the HRE throne is not in Britain's interests on the European continent. And I believe that if France and Austria were really defeated by Prussia, everyone in the Iberian and Apennine Peninsulas would be in danger, and even the Ottomans would have to worry about whether they would be able to hold the Balkans in the future, after all, the Goths who had destroyed the Roman Empire and occupied half of Europe came from the north bank of the Danube. But this is far from the time of more than a thousand years ago, and no matter how powerful Prussia is, I believe that it is still possible to counterbalance it. No two eagles will fall on the same tree, no powerful country will endure the rapid rise of a new force, and the world needs to be balanced, even if it comes at the cost of blood and bones! ”

Speaking of excitement, Peter clenched his fists and was impassioned.

"I agree with His Highness that the Anglo-Prussian alliance cannot last"

Volyntsov said with great agreement.

"Therefore, let's put aside the question of Vienna for the time being, and only make a targeted response based on the possible actions of the Prussian army."

Peter glanced around the conference table with several of the superiors before continuing.

"Of the 90,000 troops now remaining in East Prussia, at most 30,000 can be used for defense and as reserves, and the remaining 60,000 are immediately drawn to Marienburg, the westernmost point of East Prussia, as a field army. Frederick the Great may have made one of the following options: one is to continue to gather all his forces to attack Vienna and try to capture the city before the cold winter arrives; the second was to besiege but not attack, and at the same time attack the Austrian supply lines and other reinforcements separately; Third, another deceptive tactic, which may be a feigned retreat, or a feigned division of troops to attack, in fact, is to deceive the main Austrian force that is currently in a state of stalemate out of Vienna, and then defeat it with all its might, and then quickly return to the division to storm the city of Vienna, which has lost support from outside the city. All we have to do is that whatever Frederick the Great chooses, we must be ready to attack Prussia's eastern frontier at any time. If Frederick the Great had moved troops from Silesia in the direction of Vienna, our 60,000 field troops would have cut straight west into Brandenburg; If it was attacking from the Saxon direction in the direction of Moravia, then the field army attacked Silesia to the southwest. In short, this field army did not need to enter the territory of Austria, on the one hand, to prevent the supply line from being too long, and on the other hand, to defend East Prussia, which could be attacked and retreated, which was the essence of the field army. Of course, in this case, it will still be difficult for our 100,000 troops to support each other and form a joint force, and the Saltykov army on the southern front is in danger of being surrounded and annihilated, and it will actually suffer a great loss when fighting an army like Prussia, which is known for its combat effectiveness. However, there is a reward for giving, because the army on the southern front has a very important task, that is, to hold back Frederick the Great's main force and prevent him from retreating to the mainland in the winter to rest. For this purpose, we had to try to ensure that the army on the Southern Front would not collapse in a short period of time, so we must put pressure on the Austrians during this period to ensure the safety of the flanks of the army on the Southern Front. Well, I think Frederick the Great would probably have used this to get around Moravia, and if he wanted to do that, in addition to deceiving the Austrians with tactics, he would probably have placed heavy troops in Silesia to block our support from East Prussia. If this is the case, as soon as it is confirmed that the Prussian army in the Saxon direction is moving south into Bohemia, and the Prussian army in Silesia is not moving south, the field army immediately marches west into Post-Pomerania, and at the same time, beckons the Swedes to attack Brandenburg from the direction of Trans-Pomerania"

When Peter finished speaking, he saw that there was no reaction from several people, and their brows were tightly locked, but they had no desire to speak.