"Without further ado, let's discuss a new battle plan! It's that I'm thinking about things too simply, if you have any good suggestions, just put them forward, we have all won such a difficult battle as Bresano, and we can't lose at the last step. ”

His Majesty Otto took a sip of wine from the silver glass, and with a little wine stain on the edge of his beard, he reached out and wiped it, and continued:

"The food reserves in the castle of Engels are enough to support a long siege, and there are special wells in the city, and a continued siege will only be detrimental to us, and everyone knows that our army is already short of food and grass, and it is necessary to fight quickly to keep Italy firmly in our hands before the French and Eastern Empires withdraw from the Balkans and intervene."

His Majesty the Emperor once again emphasized the urgency of time, for Germany, Italy is not only a supply of money and food, it is also the most brilliant pearl in the crown of the empire, the reason why His Majesty can surpass other feudal monarchs in Europe, so as to keep pace with the Byzantine emperor, the most important thing is to control Rome and the Holy See, and the coronation of the pope to ensure the legitimacy of his imperial title inherited from the Roman Empire.

That is to say, without Italy, the empire is no longer an empire, and the emperor is no longer an emperor, but only the king of barbarians in the mountains of the German Black Forest, a peripheral country rejected by the whole civilized world, even if it has a vast territory.

The venue fell silent again, everyone knew that the problem was difficult, everyone was helpless, and they were even more afraid of being forcibly assigned such a cruel task, and their heads were eager to shrink into their necks.

His Majesty drank the wine in the glass silently, Grand Duke Henry was not stressed because the main force was almost exhausted, and he stared at everyone actively, and his eyes seemed to say: Small, anyway, my old book is broken, just be a bad guy, look at which of you is not pleasing to the eye, but don't blame me for unceremoniously picking out the top cylinder!

"Viscount Randy!"

Grand Duke Henry pointed to a man and was about to speak, when His Majesty the Emperor suddenly put down the wine glass in his hand and called out my name, and I slowly moved out of the crowd with a sad face.

I have long guessed that this kind of good thing cannot be imagined of me, and I am the only professional household to overcome difficulties!

"Your Majesty, you called me?"

Pretend to be stupid first, and see if you can fool the past, after so many births and deaths, it's time to change someone to the scourge, right?

"When I encounter a problem, I think of you first, I have solved things that others can't do for me before, how about it, are you confident that everyone will be surprised again?"

Emperor Otto is very good at agitating people, first I put on a lot of high hats on my head and face, thinking that I would be embarrassed to refuse him, it seems that he imagined my face too thin, this is what my mother said, the titanium alloy face that the electric drill can't penetrate.

"Your Majesty, this ...... I'm afraid there's nothing I can do. ”

I put my eyes down, standing there pretending to be dead, anyway, dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, no matter what you say is pretending to be stupid, see what you can do to me.

Emperor Otto seemed to have guessed my answer, unhurriedly pushed the wine glass in front of me, and said with a lewd smile: "I know that your own soldiers have been exhausted, so let's do it, I will draw elite forces from the troops of each duke and form a mixed army for you to command, and ...... the other."

He deliberately dragged out the tone, tickling my heart, this young emperor has never spoken to me so politely, obviously he can force the task to me, but he is so easy to talk about and let everyone do their best, this is to use me as an introduction, looking for opportunities to weaken the strength of each principality equally, and by the way, to show Duke Henry his impartial and wise image, but he turned me into the target of the public, and the emperor's art is very good.

"I seem to remember that the royal family was in the lower Rhine Low Countries, and there was a large fiefdom directly under the Rhine......"

"Willing to share your Majesty's worries!"

I didn't say a word and drank my wine glass, in fact, in the process of watching the battle just now, a plot in the novel I had read before came to my mind, which was just right for the current situation, His Majesty the Emperor deigned to discuss with me, and took out real things, no matter what the big duke and the little duke he was, my principle is to have a cheap and not take advantage of the bastard!

"Your Majesty, it is very difficult to capture the geographically advantageous Engels Castle, and I have an idea now, but it will require the cooperation of everyone here to complete it."

I pointed to the rough map of the city on the table, provided by the Imperial merchants, who took advantage of the ease of entering and exiting the castle to spy on the enemy's intelligence, and I could not help but admire His Majesty's efforts on another front, which was also a force that I must cultivate in the future.

Although the hidden firing points and troop configurations are not clearly marked, at least the location of the two inner and outer walls of the castle, as well as the towers, is clearly marked and makes it clear at a glance.

It was a fortified fortress that had been in operation for a long time, and in an era without gunpowder, it was almost impossible to capture it.

"Viscount Randy, Your Majesty has already provided you with great help, what more do you want?"

The Grand Duke of Swabia was active at this time, and for fear that I would take the opportunity to ask for any more benefits from them, he hurriedly reprimanded me, and the subtext also reminded me to pay attention to my identity and not to get an inch.

"Don't worry! Your Excellency the Duke, my request is so simple that it cannot even be counted as a request. ”

I deliberately pointed to the hill where the castle is located, and the map depicts a section of the cliff in a very realistic way, indicating the dangerous terrain here.

"Engels Castle is built on a hill, so that the enemy in the city has a geographical advantage, can condescendingly overlook our attack formation, plus the back of the river, both sides are cliffs with knives and axes, the attacker can only choose the front hillside to launch an offensive, the mountain road is narrow and rugged and uphill, the siege troops can not fully spread out their forces, they need to make greater efforts than usual to move forward, coupled with the inconvenience of attacking from the back, physical limitations, so all previous attack attempts have ended in failure."

"We all know what you said, and the key to the problem now is not to ask you to repeat to us how strong and difficult this castle is, but to tell us what you can do to make Germany quickly pull out this nail and march into Rome, so many people can't use their fists and kicks, and the knights' attacks have failed!"

The Grand Duke of Swabia interrupted me angrily, thinking that what he had just said was completely sarcastic that they had no military common sense, and that they still chose to attack in the face of the possession of the fortified city, and their faces were a little unbearable.

I patiently listened to him finish speaking, and made a humble look on his face, but in my heart I slandered with contempt, these great nobles were always superstitious in numerical superiority, like street gangsters fighting in groups, as if everyone flocked to solve all problems, so they despised the tactical Byzantines, and felt that it was a coward's act to arrange troops.

However, they seem to have forgotten that the mighty Roman Empire relied on strict phalanxes and forbidden discipline to defeat countless enemies and eventually become a superpower across the Mediterranean.