"Even if Bohemia were lost, the Prussian army would have been supplied from Moravia. Daun's real purpose is actually to attack Berlin, and the attack on Prague is just a cover for his actions, hehe"

Saltykov shook his head with a sneer.

"This trick made by Marshal Daun is indeed very ingenious, the Prussian army in charge of defending the homeland is afraid of a head-on clash with the army of the Holy Roman Empire, and does not dare to attack, but is only to be placed by a cavalry of no more than a few thousand men, which is hardly like the style of the marshal, but more like the means of King Frederick"

Suvorov praised impartially.

"Let's put aside the discussion of the art of war, I think you'd better understand the difference between your suggestion that I attack Berlin and Marshal Daun's attack on Berlin."

"The difference? If, according to my original idea, if our army wants to reach Berlin, it must first pass through Saxony, and if the Prussian army defending Saxony engages our army head-on, even if the number of soldiers on the other side is insufficient, I am afraid that our army will be damaged. If you fight all the way to Berlin, it's really hard to say with only these 50,000 people. But if it had been the good fortune of Marshal Daun's surprise attack on Berlin this time, perhaps Berlin would have been taken by now, and King Frederick had been forced to withdraw his troops from Vienna."

"Hehe, I have to say... Major Suvorov, you have a lot of military talent and talent, but you don't know anything about politics"

Saltykov said with a smirk.

"Oh... Please also ask His Excellency the Duke to give advice"

"It seems that you still haven't figured out my question just now, that is, why Marshal Dawn would send a cavalry to quickly attack Berlin at this time..."

"A surprise attack on Berlin could indeed demoralize the Prussian army, but if it was just a fight and then withdraw, it would be a little insufficient to demoralize, and it would not force King Frederick to abandon Vienna and immediately return to the capital. Could it be... Marshal Dawn had other purposes? ”

"So, what do you think is the other purpose?"

"Well, this... Please forgive me for being incompetent and unable to think so far."

Suvorov bowed his head in shame.

"Hehe, it's actually easy to say, after all, Berlin is a capital, as for what the capital has, you should always be able to think of it, right?"

"Oh, what's in the capital ... The capital has a royal palace, the relatives of King Frederick, the princes and nobles and the high officials of the government, there are..."

Speaking of this, Suvorov suddenly stopped.

"Duke, what do you mean... Marshal Dawn's sneak attack on Berlin was for money? ”

"Hehe, you deserve to be from a military family, you finally see the clue"

"Well, thank you duke for the compliment..."

Knowing that Saltykov was mocking, Suvorov did not complain. He has always considered problems from the perspective of military strategy, and has never thought that there are other goals or possibilities other than military ones.

"The war seems to be on the moral side, but in fact it is a very despicable act, but it is not to blame Field Marshal Daun, with whom I quarreled that day, and it was only after learning of the surprise attack on Berlin that I suddenly realized why I had been ordered to leave Vienna and go north into Bohemia."

"Oh"

Suvorov hurriedly nodded yes.

"At the beginning of the war, King Frederick had a good plan, occupying Saxony, plundering the Saxony treasury and the taxes of the people's property, so that he would not have to spend his own money to maintain the huge military expenditures. And if we were still in Vienna, we would have eaten, drank, and fought all from the long supply lines of the Austrians and Poland, and the longer the siege dragged on, the greater our losses would have been greater than those of the Prussians, and in the end, even if we were not defeated by the Prussian army, we would have been dragged down by supplies and huge financial deficits. And the invasion of Bohemia, in addition to striking at the supply lines of the Prussians, is also equivalent to robbing them of their supplies for our use, and in doing so, as long as we can make up for the losses caused by the war, we will not lose money. As for the replenishment of soldiers, you also know that we in Russia are not short of people at all, and we can call up a group of peasants to the front at any time, but money alone is the most necessary and important thing to keep the war going. Field Marshal Daun's surprise attack on Berlin would inevitably result in a considerable fortune from the Prussians, which would continue to sustain Austria in the war, whether for military salaries, or for war readiness or otherwise. However, for us, far from Russian soil, the Austrians did not necessarily treat their own soldiers as if they were their own, and this was another reason for my quarrel with Field Marshal Daun. Although you warned me at the beginning, I thought that as allies there should be no gap between us and the Austrians, but I found myself thinking too much..."

"Oh..."

Suvorov knew that there was a deeper problem in the middle, and did not dare to answer.

"This is one of the reasons why I chose Brno as the target of the attack, if you look closely at the map of Europe, you will see that the eastern border of Prussia is a crescent and has a long border with Poland, and Silesia is a protruding area, and it is very difficult for the Prussians to defend their homeland. However, when King Frederick quickly conquered Saxony, Bohemia, and Moravia, Silesia ceased to be a protruding part, but formed an almost square whole with Brandenburg, Pomerania, and Bohemia. You'll find that Breslau, the capital of Silesia, and Dresden, the capital of Saxony, are at the same latitude, while Prague and Ognietz are at the same latitude. Therefore, even if we help the Austrians to liberate Bohemia, King Frederick in Vienna will not have to worry about the supply of his army as long as any of Moravia and Silesia are in Prussian hands."

"Well, that's true"

Suvorov recalls that he grew up holding a map of Europe that he loved so much.