Well, if you don't count the prisoners, we are almost as dead and wounded as the French, you can imagine how ruthless the Duke of Marsen is, how powerful the elite of the French army is, if it weren't for the fact that not all of the French elite under the command of the Duke of Marsen, including some of the armies of the Italian city-states, I estimate that Alexander would have won even more badly.

In the final analysis, it is the artillery that is to blame, among the more than 8,000 casualties, more than 2,500 cavalry casualties, if there is no artillery blockade, we would have swallowed all the French into our stomachs, and we don't have to pay such a big price.

However, it was precisely because of the cannon that Alexander was able to completely suppress the French army in a head-on engagement, alas, it can only be said that the cannon is a double-edged sword, hurting both others and himself.

The defeated Duke of Marson is no better now, although he inflicted great casualties on Alexander in the battle of Latinro, but he himself was also broken, not only lost most of the artillery, but also lost most of the cavalry, and the strength was at an extreme disadvantage of 30,000 to 65,000 men, and more importantly, the French army had little food and baggage.

It seems that Alexander's cleanup of Duke Marson is already a matter of nail on the chopping block, so as the main force of the French army in the Italian peninsula, the defeat of Duke Marson means a lot of things.

For example, the French did not have troops to carry out a counteroffensive in the Italian peninsula anymore, well, it should be simple for the fifteen-thousand-strong French army to be packed up.

For example, Alexander fought whoever he wanted on the Italian peninsula.

Another example, if Alexander wanted to. He could go and attack the French fortress passes in Provence at any time.

In the Italian theater of operations, there were many likes and assumptions, but for the French. They have few options.

Can they save Duke Marson?

The French want to save the Duke of Marson, are there any other troops besides the main force of the Duke of Vendôme?

There are still some of them, but those troops can be sent out?

Since the domestic army cannot be sent, it means that the main force of the French army of the Duke of Vendôme will be the only hope of the Duke of Marson. But whether the Duke of Vendôme was going to run headlong into the line I had set up in Kesterheily, or whether he had to return to Austria by the same route. Then cross the mountains from the path between the Alps to the plain of Milan.

The latter words, this comes and goes. I'm afraid that before the Duke of Vendôme allowed his more than 100,000 men to cross the Alps, the Duke of Marson was dragged into a corner by Alexander.

In the case of the former, although I have fewer troops than the Duke of Vendôme, and the cavalry is several times inferior to the French army. But. We built a camp in the mountains, and we couldn't fight in the plains, and even if the French tried to gnaw us in the mountain defense battles, we would have to break our bones, and then it was estimated that at that time, they would have to face the group beating of Alexander's reinforcements.

That is, the French will not go to the rescue of the Duke of Marson, because it is not worth it.

Since it's not worth it, then what is the most important thing for the French to do.

Shrink the front. From Imperial Budapest to Germany, they consolidated their gains.

Even if the French don't do that, I want them to do it. As soon as they retreat, we will be able to regain all the territories and cities that have fallen into the hands of the French.

Yes, this is all my plan, through Alexander to solve the Duke of Marson, a force to cover the flank of the French army, and then let Alexander lead his troops over the Alps, threaten the lines of communication and supply behind the French, and force the Duke of Vendôme to surrender the imperial territory they have swallowed into their stomachs, and I myself do not have to lead a soldier and use the new recruits of the empire to fight to the death with the tiger and wolf elite of the French army. And the arrangement for the reinforcements of the 16,000 two legions was both to reinforce Alexander, and to set up a suspicious formation, so that the Duke of Marson could devote all his forces in a battle. Because only if the Duke of Marson voluntarily committed all his forces, Alexander, the Italian Front, was able to enter the German theater of operations to join us after defeating the Duke of Marson.

I don't know what other people think, but for me, the biggest headache in fighting in these years is not how to defeat the enemy, but how to kill and injure the enemy's vitality after defeating the enemy.

Many generals of this era fought like a rich man who spends money and is stingy, and halfway through the battle, they find that they can't fight, so they begin to retreat, and because of the presence of artillery, if the pursuing side does not want to turn a victory into a defeat that outweighs the loss, the only way to stop the pace of cavalry and infantry in the face of artillery resistance.

This scenario leads to the fact that in many battles, both sides have invested a corresponding number of troops, and then after one side retreats, the winning side will stop the pursuit, and when the results are counted, the losing side is not much heavier than the losses of the winning side, that is to say, there is still vitality, and they can still resist. After retreating, find a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and he is a good man, so that the winning side can only stare at the group of "remnants of the defeated generals", and then waste a victory in vain.

Therefore, in order to prevent the Duke of Malson from getting out of the battlefield smoothly with an army that was only slightly damaged, I let the small army of 6,000 rifles carry out the attack instead of deliberately breaking in and letting the Duke of Malson eat this army, although the Duke of Malson will get carried away after eating the support army, at this time we will be much more successful in a sneak attack in the back, but it is also a good choice to divide into small forces to harass, so that the Duke of Malson realizes that his opponent is much smarter than he imagined, and then let him expand his own brain, and it is also a good choice to be afraid。

I was not surprised by the Duke of Marson's retreat, but the army I had sent was at sea, and no matter how much he searched, it would be impossible to find my army out of the sea without a ship.

Then, between choosing to retreat, or attacking, Duke Marsen chose to attack, because as far as the situation at that time was concerned, although Duke Marsen was trapped, the outdated situation he received told him that Alexander's army was smaller than him, and Alexander's many battles were won by sneak attacks, as a battlefield general, Duke Marsen thought that he beat Alexander violently It was a matter of minutes, and the last reason I can think of is that some of the troops under his command are from Italian city-states, and if they retreat, the consequences will be very serious, and it will cause unnecessary blows to the morale of the army。

Now that morale is high, and the military is superior, and he is better able to fight than Alexander, why should he retreat? It is only necessary to defeat the enemy before reinforcements appear.

As for why the army should be divided into two routes, and the ships that have more than the actual number of troops should be used, that is, to deceive the spies in Constantinople.

I don't have to think about it to know what kind of information those guys are going to send to Duke Marson.

"Wow, the Roman Empire has prepared a large fleet of about 25,000 men in the harbor, and after the departure of the large army, there are still 16,000 troops who have not left. ”

"Wow, that army of 16,000 is gone!"

"Wow, the vanished army turned out to be all infantry!"

"Have you ever considered Alexander losing the battle?"

Confronted with Penevis's question, I gave my answer.

"Of course, if Alexander fails, the Duke of Marson will definitely abandon the port of South Naples and march here, because if we are defeated, the empire will lose two main armies, and what capital will there be to negotiate with the French. When the time comes, as soon as the Duke of Marson appears, the Duke of Vendôme will also go south. ”

"Isn't it dangerous for us to go through the past for a while?" Penevis interrupted.

"That's why I'm here for nothing, supervising the soldiers digging trenches, building forts, and building forts every day. Less than 90,000 men had to deal with an enemy almost twice their size. ”

"Overseer, you are tired of being around people all day long, shouting every day to take a pen and write a book, and I haven't seen you go out a few times. ”

Listening to Penevis's complaints, my old face flushed: "Isn't that idle and nothing, cultivating sentiments." ”

"Damn, don't compare me to those superficial mistresses!"

"Don't bite!" (To be continued......)