July 8, Mosk, 3 p.m., the sun was shining.

Outside the city, Onufri and Ravl, who had long recovered from their wounds, led the 15th and 19th cavalry regiments to set off first, and more than 10,000 cavalrymen, divided into two routes, galloped on the left and right roads, and advanced towards Tver from east and west.

It didn't take long for the train loaded with artillery to depart, and the remaining tens of thousands of infantry were the last to move, lining up outside the station to board the train, carrying marching bags and carrying 'Edward I' rifles, everyone's face covered with the vicissitudes of life left by the wind and snow.

This is a real veteran, an army trained by Peter the Great himself, fought in the flames of war, and it is also the Romanov kingdom .... The Last Elite.

If there are enough troops, Katerina will never organize all the elites into a single corps, but should let them lead, train, and protect the recruits, and at the same time give full play to their combat effectiveness, they must also train the next batch of elites for the kingdom.

But Katerina did not recruit too many recruits, and people who had just experienced the war did not seem to want to go to war, or rather, in order not to make the direction of Petersburg suspicious, Katerina has not recruited large-scale soldiers, and the number of recruits is less than one-fifth of that of veterans.

On horseback, Katerina patrolled the soldiers boarding the car, clutching the reins, expressionless but worried.

"Your Highness, you seem to be nervous."

Ma Wei, who was also patrolling the army on horseback, saw Katerina's mood hidden under the mask: "Are you worried about these soldiers? ”

“.... They are the last elite of the Romanov kingdom, and once they are gone, who will pass on the experience to the recruits? Recruits without any battlefield experience, even if they have received professional military training, need to adapt to the battlefield for a long time, this is the most dangerous moment, and the vast majority of recruits have fallen in this period. "But if you have an experienced veteran by your side, it's a different story." ”

"Often a movement, a look, a word... can save a soldier's life. ”

Mavi knew what Katerina was worried about, these veterans were the treasures of the Romanov Kingdom, to put it bluntly, they were the trump cards at the bottom of the box, a top ace army, which should be like a sharp knife, straight into the enemy's henchmen, instead of being placed on the frontal battlefield and fighting the enemy's main force.

Not to mention that the enemy on the opposite side of the position was also a soldier of the Romanov Kingdom.

Katerina was by no means an indecisive person, she was just worried about the prospect of this decisive battle.

Archbishop Henry has 600,000 troops and 3,000 monks, on his side, 100,000 troops and 500 monks....

That's a 6-fold difference!

This is no longer a raw rice, it is not cooked at all, and it is hard to swallow.

Katerina glanced at Ma Wei, who was riding on a horse with a straight waist, and saw that he looked calm and calm, and couldn't help but wonder: "Father, aren't you nervous?" ”

"I believe that His Highness can defeat Duke Yinvanovich, and the Cult of Wisdom is the opponent I should worry about."

"If Father can stop the Cult of Wisdom, my side will definitely be able to defeat Duke Yinvanovich."

"Oh?" Ma Wei was surprised: "The difference between 6 times the strength of the army, are you still so confident, Your Highness?" ”

Katerina smiled: "Because each of them in Onufri is a general who can take charge on their own, all they need is a leader with strategic vision, and the only variable is the Wisdom God Cult." ”

Monks who know magic are fundamentally different from ordinary soldiers.

A veteran can use his rich experience to kill multiple enemy soldiers on the battlefield, but it is difficult for a monk to face more than two transcendents at the same time.

Unless their strength completely crushes the other party.

600,000 vs. 100,000 is not the same thing as 500 vs. 3,000.

Especially when the monks can chant and cast magic together, the defeat of the Church of Truth has already been revealed before the war has even begun.

The middle-level combat power has fallen into a complete disadvantage, and if you want to make up for it, you have to look at the top-level combat power.

Ma Wei... Or Eunia, who must defeat Archbishop Henry and the Saint Constance!

In the evening, the soldiers took the train in turn and set off towards Tver, and Mavi and the others were also on the train, and the monks of the Church of Truth were also on the train, and the sunset at dusk hung in the sky, and through the lattice window of the train, everyone looked out, and the atmosphere was silent, and there was a kind of solemnity about to come.

The train travels along the tracks, the sun sets over the horizon, and night falls.

At 9 p.m., with a screeching sound of brakes, the train began to slow down and entered the Tver station.

As soon as Ma Wei and the others got off the train, they saw Goffman waiting outside the station, who had arrived in Tver a few hours ahead of schedule and had already received first-hand information.

"Your Highness, the army group led by Duke Yovanovich and Duke Tbilisi has arrived outside the city, just across the river, and is stationed, Onufri wants to attack them at night...."

Walking quickly into the command post, Katerina looked at the map around Tver and immediately rejected Onufri's proposal: "Tver is in the upper reaches of the Volga, Duke Yovanovich and they are stationed on the riverside, it is not winter, the cavalry wants to launch a sneak attack, either force the river crossing, or go around in a big circle, then the enemy will already occupy a favorable position .... This method of sneak attack can only be used once, and the second time the enemy is on guard, and Onufri is ordered to return. ”

"Yes!"

In the defense of Tyumen, Katerina used the frozen river to sneak attack the headquarters of the Second Army overnight, and it was an information gap, but Duke Yovanovich was not the Marquis of James, and Tver was not the village of Hasha, what Katerina knew, Duke Yovanovich also knew.

Duke Yovanovich, who participated in the defense of Tyumen, will definitely be wary of Katerina's sneak attack at night.

"Father, you see...."

Katerina pointed to the map and said: "To the north of Tver City, there is a large plain, and there are only a few jungles on the left and right, if you spread out all the 600,000 troops.... It will become a net that surrounds us. ”

The difference in strength limits the tactics that Katerina can use, the number of enemy troops is large, and the formation can be completely spread out, but Katerina does not dare to do this, her troops are already small, and if it is launched again, it will be gradually eaten away by the enemy.

It is not possible to gather troops and hold the city, Duke Yovanovich has thousands of artillery pieces and sufficient ammunition to bombard Tver day and night, and he can only sit and wait for death in the city.

"Aren't we going to lose?" The communication glared and said: "The attack will be dumplings by the enemy, and the defense will be bombed, how can this battle be fought?!" ”

Katerina glanced at the communication, and thought: "If you want to win more with less, you need to use surprise soldiers, time is good for us, not good for the kingdom army, the longer the war drags on, the more difficult it is for the kingdom army to supply logistics, so.... The first thing we need to do is to disturb the enemy's morale! ”

"What do you mean?" The communication was somewhat incomprehensible.

"Trench warfare." Ma Wei suddenly said: "Your Highness, you want to fight trench warfare?" ”

"That's right!"

Katerina walked to the sand table and drew several long lines on the northern plain of Tver: "When fighting with the Kingdom of Windsor, I found out that they used a positional tactic called trenches, where trenches were dug in the ground, soldiers hid in trenches, barbed wire was laid outside the trenches, and if the enemy attacked, the soldiers would shoot in the trenches!" ”

"A two-meter-deep trench not only dodges shells, but also slows down the enemy's charge, and as long as we push our positions forward, we can keep Tver out of the enemy's artillery range!"

"Hmm.... Your Highness, what if the enemy doesn't confront us head-on? Makarov frowned and asked: "Next to Tver is Rzhev, if Duke Yovanovich orders the division of troops and lets Duke Tbilisi lead the Southwestern Front to attack Rzhev and raid the rear of our army, how should we deal with it?" ”

Although trench warfare can hold back the enemy, it also slows Katerina's footsteps.

As soon as the enemy forces take Rzhev, Mosk will be in danger, and Mosk will be in danger once ....

Tver will become an isolated city, completely besieged by enemy forces.

"Don't worry, if trench warfare is used, we don't need to arrange too many soldiers in the trenches, we just need to leave the front-line artillery positions here, so that the enemy army mistakenly thinks that this is our main force..... Fight an ambush battle! ”

Listening to Katerina's strategic arrangement, the generals pondered, some felt that they could give it a try, and some felt that it was too risky.

In the temporary command post, there was a lot of opposition and support, and there was a lot of noise.

"Why are you bothering so much?"

The room was suddenly silent, and Onufri, Makarov, and the others looked at Mavi in unison, "Do you have a better way?" ”

Let's try it soon, everyone. 】

"We have the help of the Bloodline, Edward..."

At the sound of Mavi's call, Edward, leaning against the corner, stepped out of the darkness and came to the sand table table.

"Artillery can't shoot in the air, the Blood Clan can fly, why don't we take advantage of this and let the members of the Blood Clan carry explosives and fly over the enemy's position to bombard?"

Ma Wei said in a calm tone: "If you bomb a few more times, the morale of the enemy will naturally collapse, and air supremacy can determine the direction of a war." ”

"System... Air supremacy? The generals were shocked to hear this tactic for the first time.

"Yes, air supremacy."

Ma Wei stretched out his hand and drew a circle on the sand table, wrapping the location where the enemy army was stationed in the middle: "We have sufficient logistics, countless ammunition, and air supremacy firmly in our hands. Isn't the bombing fragrant? ”