I finished my lecture with Alexander at Kafbas, and stayed there for another night, but the Mitroglu Overseer seemed to be overwhelmed. He hoped that we would be able to go elsewhere to boost the morale of the other legions who had not been able to show up. We weren't in a hurry to return to Constantinople anyway, and since giving a lecture to the Legion would increase the Legion's sense of identity with our Theofano family, we asked the Mitroglu Overseer to take me and Alexander around the seven local legion stations in rotation under the pretext of boosting the morale of the local garrison. It wasn't until more than ten days later that we boarded a particular ship and headed for Constantinople.

The special ship that the Mitroglo Overseers had prepared for me and Alexander was very beautiful, the cabin was full of red embroidered wool carpets, red velvet curtains, elegant standing tables, luxurious gold-trimmed chairs, and the huge imperial red eagle emblem in front of me glittering in the sun, all of which clearly showed off the noble status of Alexander and me.

Less than an hour after the ship left the port of Odessa, Alexander went into his room and went to sleep. Last night's banquet was a busy day, nothing to me, but his biggest headache was these boring entertainments, so he had nothing to do and stared at the local Poles all night with his eyes open.

It's time for lunch. The guards tried to wake him up for dinner, but I stopped him from doing so, knowing that Alexander was in pain.

After lunch, standing on deck, I found Berkhard.

Enjoying the sea breeze, I asked the former enemy for his opinion on our army: "Your Excellency has reviewed our army with us, what do you think of our army?"

"A very high morale army!" said Burkhhard in a very affirmative tone.

I was a little confused by his diction: "Oh, very morale-boosting troops?" I thought the general would describe our legionnaires as good or good. ”

"They're all new recruits. So good or good, I don't think that can be used to describe them. But it is undeniable that the use of this army for white-knuckle warfare will be very effective. I don't think there is anyone in Germany who can deal with such a team. ”

I immediately heard Berkhard, this is a very selective compliment.

"In Germany, that means that the armies of France, Sweden, and Russia can be stopped?"

"That's not what I meant. "As an army that has just been formed and conscripted from the towns, the legions of your country and Rome are very rare, if there are no surprises. A newly recruited army of 8,500 men can defeat the same number or even twice as many newly recruited enemy infantry through hand-to-hand combat. It's just that the shortcomings of such a unit are also obvious. ”

"You also know that the generals I used to be hostile to this army are in my eyes. An obedient army is a good army, and the downside of the Roman legions is that the morale of this army is very high, and sometimes he will not listen to orders when you want him to retreat. They will feel that it is a shame. When you don't want them to attack, the clan commanders who have command in their hands may do something crazy. ”

"Actually, you want to say that the middle and upper class generals in charge of our command are inexperienced and blindly superstitious about their pride, so they will make wrong decisions. ”

"Yes, you are wise. ”

Wise ghost.

"The lack of experience in the middle and upper classes of generals makes such an army vulnerable to ambushes. Burkhard said bluntly.

"And what do you think we should do to solve it?" I asked.

"I'm sorry, but I'm only a general, not a military minister, so I can't advise you on the big picture. But. Actually, the army of your country is not bad. Let's put it this way compared to Russia. The Russian army was almost equal to Rome, and that was because the Roman army was attacking Russia's strengths with its own weaknesses, that is, white-knuckle warfare. The Russian army has 10,000 smoothbore guns that can shoot bullets at most, but the bayonet has all the smoothbore guns. Moreover, the country that survives in the ice and snow is born with a fierce folk style that far surpasses that of other countries. Asking them to line up for a salvo might have their morale waning faster, but if they were ordered to charge, they would rush in a hurry. For reasons that even I can't explain, in white-knuckle combat, the Russians are better. Even if they are at a disadvantage, unless the defeat is very obvious, they can hold their own defensive line, but the weakness of the Russian army is also very obvious, once there is a white-knuckle battle, then this army will not be able to redeploy anyway. ”

Looking at Burkhard's words of emotion, I laughed: "It's not easy for you in Russia." ”

Burkhard smiled: "Fortunately, it is not difficult to deal with the Russians, in a fight, even if you can't win the fight, you have to give him a hard beat, and then drink to fight them, if you can't do the above, then there is enough wine for them to drink, then almost everyone in the Russians is a friend." ”

With Burkhard's nostalgic smile, I asked, "Your Excellency told us about Russia's flaws so quickly, and you don't plan to go back to Russia?"

"The death of Vasily, a member of the Dolgoruky family, who reconciled domestic conflicts for the queen, completely collapsed the balance of the Russian kingdom, and the old family, believing that the queen was going to take advantage of the heavy blow to the old nobles, took back power, so they all sided with the new successor of the Dolgoruky family. The Dolgoruky family, the Lepnin family and the Gorchakov family are united, and even the queen has to leave Moscow under the pretext of going out, and there is still room for maneuver, but the queen signed an agreement with Rome later...."Burkhhard paused, "I originally went to the Russian Kingdom because I saw that the queen needed outsiders to build up her power, and now a civil war in the Russian Kingdom is inevitable, no matter what the victory or defeat, Russia will be torn apart, and the strength is no longer enough to fulfill my dream for me..."

"Is it your Excellency's dream to have a kingdom of your own?"

Berkhard looked at me in astonishment, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Yes, but not a kingdom, but an independent territory, a candidate or a principality." ”

"I think a colleague with you will interest you in a while, because he has the same dream as you, to have a kingdom of his own. ”

After my conversation with Burkhard, I returned to the cabin on deck, and at a later point I talked to Alexander about the arrangement of Daddy Cheap in Ukraine.

The recruits there are obviously newly recruited legions, and they form a new defensive force in the new territory with several main legions on the front line, but in this way, more than 60,000 troops will be distributed in the north, and the total strength of our imperial legion is only 200,000, even if it is a new army, it will be less than 300,000, and now 70,000 or 80,000 people are in the north, and nearly 60,000 people are in Germany, where is the remaining army enough for the empire to fight with the French, and take care of this ass in the Anatolian region in the east?

Alexander was confused about this, and I realized that I had asked the wrong person, and this guy hadn't returned home for a long time.

Leaving the stressful room, looking up and not looking down, I ran into Pennivis.

Ever since the last time I was stripped naked by Assasin and let me touch and touch it, this girl has always stood aside with her head down and obediently made way when she saw me.

Looking at her like that, I can't do anything even if I want to say something, but this doesn't mean that I have to give up, now this sister has read the paper, and even hugged it, as the eldest wife, Feletlia doesn't even have an opinion, and if I don't take it into the harem together, I'll be sorry for myself.

Let's go back and find a time.

It took the ship six days to reach its destination, Constantinople.

However, the ships did not dock at the royal harbor on the northeast side of Constantinople, but stopped directly at the harbor fortress opposite the strait of the harbor of Constantinople, where a team of court guards pulled the ships for us and carried the carriages up. The leader told us that Caesar would meet us at the Eagle Castle.

Eagle Castle?(To be continued......