"Is this your plan? The enemy we are going to deal with is in the Hungarian province and in Budapest. I only ask you to control the situation, but you have to use the entire empire's navy and half of the empire's army to cooperate with you."

"Do you have any comments?"

"I don't want things to be out of my control!"

"But now the situation has been out of your control! Don't think I don't know that the control of our Seofano family in the west relies on high pressure to stabilize my rule. Now the French have attacked Budapest. If Budapest falls, the chain reaction will be a disaster that is most likely to evolve into an imperial civil war!"

“….”

After a short silence, Caesar, the empire, approved my plan.

Since we received the support of Caesar, all departments of the Empire quickly started to operate. First of all, the empire's naval forces. As the key to the entire war, although the imperial warships were only 100, there were many transport ships, from large paddle boats carrying 500 people to small sailboats with 120 people. As long as we need them, we can recruit thousands of ships from the port of the Danube at any time.

Although these slender ships driven by humans are not reliable in the ocean, they have great advantages in the inland basin lake of the Mediterranean. Otherwise, the ancient Greeks would not have been used by modern Eastern Romans to this day. If the sailing warships had not used the power of cannons to the extreme, and the human-powered paddle boats occupied all the space for placing cannons, the Mediterranean Sea would still be the world of such ancient Greek ships.

However, even if the large sailing ships can exert their firepower to the extreme, the paddle ships have advantages in transporting the army. The most powerful point for the empire is that the paddle ships do not have high requirements for ports. As long as there are shallows, the paddle ships can dock on the shallows, and the army can disembark from both sides of the hull. The low paddle ships can make the army move faster and faster to the beach than the large sailing ships. On the Mediterranean coast, there are so many places where the empire lands. However, before me, the empire never systematically developed this kind of Marines that relies on the ocean to quickly move troops to combat sites.

Since I have had several successful examples of Alexander several times, I should carry forward the advantages of the empire.

In less than three days, a total of 155 paddle boats were collected. More than 25,000 paddle boaters were collected and concentrated in the port, waiting for the army they were going to carry. Soon, two legions of 16,000 infantrymen were concentrated. In the plan, they left the large army and left the port of Constantinople by boat and advanced towards the Adriatic Sea.

At the same time, the Empire gathered in Constantinople and set off together.

At this time, news of the fall of Bratislava came from the front line, which led to the subsequent news of the fall of the empire.

On February 26, 1725, Senetz fell.

On February 27, 1725, Ger fell.

On March 10, 1725, Nitra was captured by the French army.

On March 16, 1725, the French army besieged Dorogue and Bagno, two barriers of Budapest, persisted in falling. It was only a matter of time before the siege of Budapest was siege.

The French army advanced two hundred kilometers and won three battles. Three important cities were seized one after another, killing and wounding more than tens of thousands of people. Such a huge failure was a shame that had not been in the past twenty years. It can be said that after the news spread, the whole country would be shocked.

This newly recruited legion is called the Imperial Great Roman Legion. Nominally, led by the Governor of Ventera, a mighty Roman Legion composed of eleven newly formed legions was moved into two groups by transport ships to the estuary of the lower Danube plain. I intend to use the ready-made canal to move the army to Belgrade and prepare various arrangements along the way for us to lose.

Taking the Carpathians in the south and the Stara Mountains on one side as the key points of the defense, I mobilized the three Emperors in the six Emperors in the Danube Plain to take control of this strategic point, and then at the gathering point of the Danube tributaries, a legion was arranged in the Belgrade area. If we are unfortunately defeated, the troops in the Belgrade area will become the outpost for the offensive and defensive battles of the Southern Carpathians and Stara Mountains. Only by breaking this line of defense can the French threaten Constantinople behind the Stara Mountains. There are only two important roads in front of Constantinople. As long as the army behind the cheap dad is guarding this place, they can advance to support Belgrade, retreat, and consolidate Constantinople.

As the defense of the inside, the defense lines from Belgrade to Constantinople are easy to defend and difficult to attack, and are difficult to break by the existing forces of the French. However, in the plains of the middle Danube, it is much more difficult here, because Bratislava, which is defending the outside was occupied by the French, and Budapest was surrounded by the French army. The strongest line of defense built around Budapest to consolidate the middle Danube has been dissolved by the French army. As long as the French break through several cities around Budapest that guard the river channel and control the entrances and exits of the river, they can enter an uninhabited land from the vast plain between the Delava River and the Tisa River.

But it does not mean that the Empire was completely exposed in the plains of the Danube. The Empire arranged a series of strongholds and fortress defense lines with crisscrossing rivers. Although those arrangements cannot be made to build the area behind it like a solid foundation, it can also slow down the French offensive.

Seeing Budapest and the surrounding areas approaching, I issued an order to give up the left bank of the Danube. Part of the remnants of the Empire's army except Budapest evacuated to the right bank and entered the Tisa River defense line area to consolidate the eastern defense line of the plain basin, part of which joined the Delava River defense line, and consolidate the empire's forces in the southwest of the plain basin. Then, as much as one-fifth of the territory of the central Danube plain, the middle reaches of the Danube River will be ignored, but by gathering a small amount, the imperial troops on both sides are also strengthened. Even if the French change their minds and quickly capture Budapest, or separate out partial divisions to try to destroy the local people's livelihood, the defense lines on the left and right basins can resist them, so that the Great Rome in my hand can arrive, force the main forces of the French army to merge, and then confront us.

However, overall, the empire invested as much as 160,000 troops in this battle, but there were less than 100,000 troops able to truly enter stealth combat. This was much less than the French.

But even so, we set out.

Then, the gathering point where the Emperor** group gathered, I was surprised to find that I had an elite force on hand.

The 33rd Spartan Legion was once again incorporated into my Great Roman Army, and the original commander was transferred to Constantinople, and the cousin of Komuning had been promoted to the latest commander of the Legion.

"What's going on?"

"We have been garrisoning here for the past few years, and after the French surrounded Budapest, they became the only legion guarding the main road at the confluence point of the river in front of Belgrade. Then, not long ago, we received an order to become the Prince's guards. In the future, we will be responsible for the safety of the Prince."

"Very good, I'm always worried that there is no army under my command that can suppress the scene. With you here, we will feel much more at ease! Commander of the Komuning Legion!" I realized the existence of Leon, so in order to distinguish this Komuning cousin, I did not call his name directly, "Return to your base, rectify the army, and prepare to hand over the defense. The 33rd Spartan Legion will follow me into the battlefield!"

"Long live the empire!"

After replenishment and reorganization, the 33rd Spartan Legion had a maximum of 11,000 troops. The various regiments under the ranks were composed of soldiers who survived the bloody battle of the German Prussian throne war and veterans drawn from the original second-line corpses. Therefore, the 33rd Spartan Legion had strong combat effectiveness, and it seemed that because of being in the horse-producing holy site for more than a year, the cavalry of the 33rd Spartan Legion was strengthened, and a pair of two thousand breastplates came out of nowhere! A group of tall horses, plus shiny breastplates, and dazzling red tassels, when the cavalry pulled a piece of smoke and dust from the road, I saw in the eyes of many infantrymen on the roadside that they were envious and jealous.

But as the commander of the entire army, I know very well that the moment this cavalry cannot charge on the battlefield, at least this battle will not work.

"I said, haven't you repeatedly mentioned that you are afraid that the French will burst into dams and flood your army, so why do you still have to come in?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!