I nodded slightly to them, then quickly pulled out the information I had gotten from the Assasin group and discussed the situation in Hungary.

In this discussion, I made a very bold assumption that the French army had crossed many imperial cities and officially arrived under Budapest, and that the siege of Budapest had begun!

"Do you make this assumption because, do you know that the generals of the Daoist Empire will shrink their forces in Hungary, and give up their territory and exchange space for time to consolidate the defenses of Budapest?"

"Yes. Let's hope our Imperial Overseers on the Hungarian side know what to do. ”

"Okay, we get it. ”

Trading space for time is common sense, and it is also my response plan when I lost the battle for the Hungarian Front and fell into the worst step. But if the Overseers over there don't carry it out, and there is so much difference in quality between the enemy and us, there will be no need to fight this battle.

"The enemy is besieging Budapest, which is located between the upper and middle plains of the Danube, stuck in the valleys of the two places, with a river running through it, and as long as the French set up positions on both sides and have heavy troops on the front, it can be said that the French occupy a very superior geographical advantage. Now we are on a par with the French, and we may not be able to defeat them if we attack strongly. ”

"What about bringing together the Romanian army?"

"With the Romanian army, we have the advantage in numbers, but Your Excellency the Commander, I would like to ask you if you have studied with the Imperial Army, where only seven legions are from Anatolia. The rest are all people gathered from Greece and Macedonia, and their fighting will and combat effectiveness can be compared to our Anatolian legions!"

"Hey, they're Romans too!"

"But we can't help but think about what the defense will do if we fail!"

"We can't fail!"

"But what if we fail!"

"Ahem, ahem!"

"You go on. "I signal the coughing Overseers not to care about such innocuous things. Defeat before you win, that's very much to my liking.

"And you have taken into account the fact that the French are located on a difficult terrain, and that the plains are indeed open on the front, and I think it is quite possible that the French will storm us in the pretext of waiting for us to cross thousands of miles from Constantinople, exhausted. ”

"Hmm. At that time, the French army had rested and recuperated, and the morale of the army had been sufficiently restored, while we were because of the long journey. The long march wears out the soldiers, and even if our morale is high, it cannot compensate for our weakness in strength. ”

"What are you afraid of, everyone is a proud Roman! It would be nice if the French were cowering in their positions. If they run out. Fight us head-on, our courage and pride will definitely crush them!"

"That's it!"

In the face of the French siege of Budapest, the commanders and commanders of the regiments expressed their thoughts, which gave me a general idea of the senior officers under my command.

The quality is okay, except for a few more reckless and blind worship of the pride of the Romans, they see a lot of problems that they should be able to see, and then there are only real baptisms of war below. They're going to grow.

"Seeing that you guys have discussed so much, it gives me a greater confidence that I will be able to win this war in the future. Right now. I have a question, ladies and gentlemen, what do you think about the route of the march, how to go?"

An excellent general and a general with unique experience are not only able to see the problem, but think of how to solve it, and how to march on this point, how to ensure the speed of the army, and how to ensure the physical strength This is the key to distinguishing an ordinary general from an excellent general.

Silent.

The senior officers who had just gossiped about it all closed their mouths.

"Use the canal!" said the overseer named Lucas Ventra after a moment's thought, and seeing the dazzling glint in the eyes of the other high legions, he seemed to have a little more confidence in his thoughts, "Put the baggage and the main infantry on the ship." The cavalry went first, and the elite infantry followed. The infantry changed every three days to regain strength on the ship, and by the way, there were troops from the provinces of Romania and Sofia along the way, so that if we encountered the enemy, with cavalry and infantry, we also had time to buy a buffer for the main force behind to disembark. ”

"That's a good idea. ”

"It seems feasible, but can the ships of the Empire transport so many soldiers?"

"I guess so, I've been on canal boats, each boat can carry 150-300 soldiers, 300 will do, there are many such ships in the harbor. ”

Seeing that everyone agreed to use the canal, I had to say: "The upper reaches of the Danube are under the control of the French, what will we do if the French break the embankment and the water rushes down?"

As soon as my words came out, many of the officers present were shocked.

I told me the consequences of the French flooding 100,000 troops: "If this were to happen, the 100,000 troops of the Empire would be annihilated, and in the years to come the eastern frontier of the Empire would be reduced to territory for the French to conquer." ”

"The French wouldn't do that, would they?" said someone who could not believe that the French would do this, or that the French would have thought of doing so.

"On the other side is the Duke of Bourbon. "Someone was careful to remind others of what I had done in the Netherlands, when I was flooding the French army in the Netherlands, and the person concerned was the Duke of Bourbon, and now that feng shui is turning, maybe the French won't do it?

"Won't we be able to use the canal and the plains?" exclaimed Aurestis.

Seeing that everyone was at a loss, I said: "The French army has many cavalry, they have gone through a hundred battles, from Austria to Budapest on the Danube in the empire, it is enough to show that they are the elite of the elite, and what about us? Although our morale is also high, as a newly recruited army, the soldiers will inevitably be inferior to the French in terms of ammunition and psychological quality. How long do you think our cavalry will be able to hold back the French once the French have broken through our cavalry, and how long will the flank infantry hold out against artillery and cavalry charges and infantry ramming?"

It's not that the empire doesn't have horses, but the cavalry that can fight on horseback is all on Alexander's side, which leads to the fact that we have horses but can't arm the cavalry, and this is also for why the Assasins want me to wait, because the latest cavalry regiment is still training. But even if I waited, even if we were equal in the number of cavalry to the French, the quality would still not be comparable to that of the French.

"Let's put it this way, gentlemen, as long as we can solve these four points: how to move the soldiers smoothly in front of the French army, without causing the French army to burst the embankment, to break the superiority of the French cavalry, to untie the French army at the Budapest Pass, and to weaken the high morale of the French army, the victory of this war will be ours!"

If we want to win, we have to play to our strengths, to play to our advantages in interior combat, to play to our artillery advantages.

Yes, artillery, I estimate that the French have traveled long distances, fought everywhere, and after several high-intensity siege battles, the French artillery, especially the cavalry artillery, has reached the limit of what can be used in the weapons and equipment of the present era, and try to reduce the French cavalry advantage, increase our artillery advantage, and avoid attacking the fortified battles, so the victory over the Duke of Bourbon is not so unattainable.

It's just that it's easy to say, but it's hard to actually do it.

Seeing that the high-ranking officers under his command were all jammed, the Overseer of Ventra couldn't help but ask, "His Royal Highness has fought with the Duke of Bourbon several times, is there anything the Prince can tell us?"

"What I can tell you is not to look at one part of the war in Hungary, but to zoom in on the whole of the French war! Find the point where the French are afraid of our attack, and fight it! ”

Could it be that the prince already has a countermeasure?"

"Yes, I already have a countermeasure. ”

"Please give us instructions at once, we can't wait to show the French who is the master of all Europa!!"

"Please also ask the prince to give us instructions at once!" (To be continued......)