Venice's victory was a great victory, but in a short time, the good news reached Constantinople.

The shouts of joy from the people were heard throughout the city, even at the palace, and in the days that followed, after these two great battles, the voices of the previous crowd of doubts had all turned into voices of praise, and the speed of the change was really unexpected.

Ruthlessly slandering and questioning without any effect, pushing the wall down when it fails, and praising the victorious, I seem to vaguely understand the contemptuous mentality of the cheap daddy looking down on the entire empire.

But that's human nature, isn't it?

Soon I was able to get the exact report of the battle, which was provided by the Caesar himself.

In the next battle of Venice, the unprepared Italian city-state alliance and the main force of the French army suffered heavy losses, and more than 20,000 French troops of 40,000 were either killed or captured, and the number was as high as 30,000, and the coalition army composed of several dukes and small states suffered more than 10,000 casualties and 30,000 prisoners. The coalition that fled to the Dukedom of Ferrara was only a few thousand men, while Alexander's main fleet lost no more than a thousand. In addition to the two battles in Syria, the infidels of the Sultanate coalition army of 100,000, with a total of more than 20,000 dead and wounded, and the number of prisoners and fleeers is probably more than three times, which can be regarded as a complete collapse of the Muslim invasion, capturing and capturing hundreds of dignitaries.

There is no doubt that in the next year or so, more than a dozen southern sultanates will not be an obstacle to us, and for a few months we will have no rival in the Italian peninsula.

It's just that the problem after the victory comes. How do we use these hard-won victories?

You must know that winning two huge battles does not mean victory, and the French are still alive!

In the history of war. There are countless generals who know how to achieve victory, but even fewer who know how to use it, and the reason why some genius generals have suffered a crushing defeat after the peak of their lives is because they don't know how to use their hard-won victories.

The most famous example of how to use the victorious generals is none other than Hannibal, who defeated the Romans several times, and the art of command in the Battle of Cannae is the pinnacle, but what about after that?

He wasted his victory at the Battle of Cannae and spent almost a year in the Italian Peninsula in a stupid state before retreating from the Italian Peninsula in disgrace. According to our Roman historical records. This old brother stayed stupidly for a year, and the time to restore the Romans was except for going south to bully the Latin allies of ancient Rome. There's another thing I'm doing.

Neither to besiege the city, nor to instigate secession, but to wait for his elephants to be collected from Carthage.

If the elephant does not come, he will not go to Rome.

Elephants don't come. He won't fight Rome.

In a word. He just wants elephants.

No elephants, no happiness!

Well, the elephants came, and the Romans were full again.

It doesn't matter, that's what Hannibal said at the time, with elephants, he can still attack the city regardless of whether he has a full Roman army or not. It's just that most of the elephants that Carthage had painstakingly transported to the Italian peninsula died within a few months. He immediately withered, and then retreated.

Hannibal this wonder. It was this giant elephant control, like all the giant elephant control conquered by the huge body of the elephant, and as a result, he controlled himself to death. Cheap daddy isn't a giant elephant, neither am I, and neither is Alexander. So we're not going to do this kind of time-wasting thing.

The defeat of the infidels in the south is easy to solve, after all, they are a coalition army, and when they first started, there were still so many sultanates and caliphs who did not make a move, and they caught up with the defeat of those sultanates who invaded Rome, and the fate of the lord and the sultan is unknown, which is a good opportunity to instigate them to annex their own camp, separate factions in the country of the pagans who are still gathering strength, and provoke conflicts in old things. If one faction has the slightest advantage, we'll send their former bosses back to gather the hearts and minds of the people, and then let them fight.

In a word, let the pagans pears their land on their own turf within!

It's a little bit harder in the Italian peninsula.

They had few small towns, and although they were no less debaucherous than the Caliphs and Sultans in the south, who lived drunken lives and dreamed of death, they at least built a lot of fortresses and castles. If Alexander had defeated the main forces of his army and gnawed at those castles one after another, it is estimated that in a few months we would receive news that Alexander had encountered the main French army somewhere on the Italian peninsula and was entangled.

Conquering the Italian Peninsula was the next choice, but it seemed impossible to leave with such a victory.

I really don't have a good way to do it.

Daddy Cheap called the clerk in my presence: "Write a letter to the Emperor and tell him to hand over the captives from France to them on the condition that the Austrians surrender their ships, but before that all the heretics he has captured will be executed in the presence of the Catholics." ”

The pagans who dared to love Syria all took Alexander to the boats to do the drudgery of oars, and then what?

"Send messengers to the states to ask them if they want their captives, and if they do, to put back those Catholics whom we have taken prisoner, who are not French or Venetian rebels or Milanese. If you don't want it, keep it, go to Rome with the army, leave the heads of the infidels to the old Catholic dogs in Rome, and let the Romans lead the city-states that we have captured. ”

I can understand the act of not letting the French and Milan and Venice traitors prisoners go, and I can also understand that this is the Empire expressing to other city-states that our enemies are only these three, and we don't want to cause trouble anymore, but will it be too much?

And then what?

"What else do you think needs to be added?"

I don't see much wrong with Caesar's thoughts: "I think it is necessary for us to beware of the fleets of the Castile and Aragon sides, and let our cannons destroy their ships before they strike." ”

"Well, in this way, write to the Emperor, the Prince of the Navy, suggesting that the fleet of the Kingdom of Castile and the ships of the Kingdom of Aragon must be destroyed by any means, and if the Kingdom of Aragon does not surrender their ships, then destroy them together!, at the same time, we must help the Austrians to suppress the local Venetian rebels, and attack Milan to control the strategic points of the region. ”

The advantage of the empire was that we had a fleet and could come and go freely in the Mediterranean, not the French. The main force of the French naval fleet was destroyed by the Dutch in the Netherlands, and the remaining ships were trapped in the harbors on their northern coast.

However, if the ships of the Kingdom of Castile and Aragon were to be forcibly requisitioned by the French to assemble a fleet, our idea of a movement war through the Mediterranean would not have been able to proceed smoothly. Therefore, while the French were still coordinating and communicating with the Kingdom of Castile in Castile, and the Kingdom of Aragon still had the strength to resist, it was necessary to attack Castile and Aragon.

Thousands of heads rolling down in front of the captured Italian coalition should be devastating, and if we put these people back, they would not be afraid even if they become our enemies again in the future.

However, those infidels have a lot of captives, right?

A week later, the closest data came out.

More than 17,000 people, nearly 18,000.

Alexander used 3,000 executioners, each of whom had an average of six heads cut off.

The next day, all the captured Italian troops began to dig pits, and divided their labor, some of them gathered all the blood-dried corpses, dug pits and buried them, and partly picked up the heads of the people and put them so that we could take them to the city of Rome.

After staging such an apocalyptic scene, Alexander's army split into two, the main force set off for the city of Rome, while the naval fleet followed the coast from the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea, crossed the Tyrrhenian Sea, and blockaded the ports of the city of Rome, while the partial division remained in Venice to besiege the rebellious cities and fortresses that were in line with the French.

Then came the news that the Imperial army had thrown their heads into Rome and sailed out of the Italian peninsula to Barcelona in Aragon, where they forcibly conscripted ships and then engaged the main French army in Aragon in Valencia.

However, Alexander's act this time was clearly drunkard's intention to attack the French army in Aragon who was helping the rebels rebels, and while our army was confronting the French on land, the navy raided the fleet of the rebels of the Kingdom of Aragon gathered at Benidorm. (To be continued......)

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