The great victory of Venice was only a long time before the news spread to Constantinople.

The people's cheers shouting long live were everywhere throughout the city, even I could hear them in the palace, and in the following days, because of these two huge battles, all the doubts that had surging before turned into praise, and the speed of the transformation was really caught off guard.

If he has no effect, he will mercilessly slander and question it. If he fails, he will fall down and everyone will push it. If he wins, he will praise it endlessly. I seem to vaguely understand the contempt mentality of the cheap dad looking down on the entire empire.

But this is human nature, isn't it?

Soon, I got the exact battle report, which was provided by Caesar himself.

In the battle under the city of Venice, the unprepared Italian city-confederate coalition and the French army suffered heavy losses. The 40,000 French army of more than 20,000 were either killed or captured, with a total of 30,000 people. The coalition formed by several dukes and small countries was killed or injured more than 10,000, and more than 30,000 were captured. In the end, there were only a few thousand coalition forces that fled to the Duke of Ferrara, while the main force of Alexander's fleet suffered only a thousand. In addition, the two battles in Syria, the pagan Sultanate coalition forces had 100,000, and the total number of people who were captured and fled was about three times more than three times, which completely disintegrated the massive invasion of Muslims, capturing and capturing hundreds of nobles.

Two big victories, one rises and the other goes down. There is no doubt that more than a dozen southern sultanates will not become our obstacles in the next year or more, and within a few months, we will have no rivals on the Italian Peninsula.

However, the problem after victory comes. How should we use these hard-earned victory?

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

In the history of war, there are countless generals who know how to win, but fewer generals who know how to use it. The reason why some genius generals suffered a tragic defeat after the peak of their lives is because they don’t know how to use the hard-won victory they have won.

The most famous example among the generals who don’t know how to use it is Hannibal, who defeated the Romans several times, and the command art of the Battle of Canny was at its peak, but what after that?

He wasted the victory of the Battle of Canny and stayed foolishly on the Italian Peninsula for almost a year before finally retreating from the Italian Peninsula in shame. According to the historical records of our Rome, this old man stayed foolishly for a year. In the time when the Romans were restored, he was not only going south to bully the Latin allies of ancient Rome, but also doing another thing.

It was neither a siege nor agitating for separation, but awaiting the elephants he collected from Carthage.

If the elephant doesn't come, he won't go to Rome.

If the elephant doesn't come, he won't hit Rome.

Anyway, he wants an elephant.

Without an elephant, unhappy!

OK, the elephant was waiting, but the Roman troops were full again.

It doesn't matter, Hannibal said so at the time that with an elephant, no matter whether he had Rome's full force, he could still attack the city. However, most of the elephants that Carthage had worked hard to transport to the Italian Peninsula died in several months. He immediately withered and then retreated.

Hannibal is this weirdo. It is the giant elephant control, just like all the giant elephant controls conquered by the huge elephant body. As a result, he controlled himself to death. The cheap dad is not the giant elephant control, nor is I, nor is Alexander. So we will never do such a waste of time.

The failure of the pagans in the south is easy to solve. After all, they are coalition forces, and when they first started, there were still a few sultans and caliphs who did not take action. They caught up with the defeat of the sultans who invaded Rome. The life and death of the lord and the sultans were unknown. It was a good opportunity to instigate them to annex their own camps, separate factions from the pagans who still gathered strength, and provoke conflicts between old and old things. If any faction is slightly superior, we will release their past bosses to go back and gather people's hearts and let them fight.

In short, in a word, let the pagans pear their own land on their territory!

It's a little harder on the Italian Peninsula.

They have few small towns. Although the degree of licentiousness is no less than that of the Caliphs and Sultans who live a life of drunkenness and despair in the south, they have at least built a lot of fortresses and castles. If Alexander defeated the main force of the army and ate those castles one by one, it is estimated that in a few months we will receive news that Alexander encountered the main force of the French army in a certain place on the Italian Peninsula and was entangled.

It is a choice for the Italian Peninsula to conquer cities and land, but it seems unreasonable to leave with such victory.

I really don't have a good idea.

The cheap father called the clerk in front of me: "Write a letter to the emperor and tell him to hand over the prisoners from France to them on the condition that the Austrians hand over their ships, but before that, all the pagans who were captured by him would be executed in front of the Catholics."

It turns out that all the pagans in Syria were brought to Alexander to the boat for the hard work of paddling, and then?

"Send messengers to the states to ask if they want their captives, and if they want them, put the Catholics whom we captured are not the French and Venetian traitors, and the Milanese Catholics. If they don't want, keep them, and the army goes to Rome, leave the heads of the pagans to the old Catholic dogs in Rome, and then let the Romans take the city-confederate forces that we captured."

I can understand the threat to the Roman Catholic Church and unify the domestic orthodox voice. I can understand this. I will not let the French, Milan and Venetian prisoners take charge. I can also understand it. This is the empire telling other city-states that our enemies are only these three, and we don’t want to cause trouble anymore, but will we do too much to throw away our heads?

Then what?

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

I could not see any big mistakes in Caesar's thoughts: "I think it is necessary for us to be wary of the fleets of Castile and Aragon, and before they take action, let our cannons destroy their ships."

"Well, just like that, I wrote to the emperor, the prince of the navy, suggesting that the Kingdom of Castile must be destroyed by any means and the ships of the Kingdom of Aragon. If the Kingdom of Aragon does not hand over their ships, then destroy them together! At the same time, we must also help the Austrians to wipe out the local Venetian rebels and attack Milan to control the local strategic rush."

The advantage of the empire is that we have fleets that can come and go freely in the Mediterranean, but the French cannot. The main force of the French naval fleet was destroyed by the Netherlands on the Netherlands, and the remaining ships were trapped in the ports on their northern coast, which was not as good as the climate.

However, if the ships of the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon were forced to gather a fleet by the French, our idea of ​​mobile warfare through the Mediterranean would not be able to proceed smoothly. Therefore, while the French were still coordinating and communicating with the Kingdom of Castile and the Kingdom of Aragon still had resistance, it was necessary to attack Castile and Aragon.

Thousands of heads rolled down in front of the captured Italian coalition, should be very lethal. If they put these people back, they will not be afraid even if they become our enemies again in the future.

However, those pagans captured many prisoners?

A week later, the data closest to the real number came out.

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

Alexander used 3,000 executioners, and each person cut off six heads on average.

The next day, all the captured Italian coalition forces started digging pits and divided the labor and cooperated. Some gathered all the corpses that had dried the blood, dug the pit and buried it, and the other part picked up the heads and put them in so that we could take them to Rome.

After such a doomsday scene, Alexander's army was divided into two, and the main force set out for Rome. The naval fleet along the coast from the Adriatic Sea to the Ionian Sea, crossing the Tyrrhenian Sea, blocking the port of Rome, and the partial division stayed in Venice, besieging the rebel city and fortress that were in harmony with the French.

Then, the imperial army threw the heads into the city of Rome, left the Italian Peninsula, arrived in Barcelona, ​​Aragon, where they forced the ships to conscript, and then fought with the main French army in Aragon in Valencia.

However, Alexander's move this time was obviously not about the drunkenness, and attacked the French who helped the rebels rebels in Aragon. When our army confronted the French on land, the navy raided the fleet gathered in Benidorm by the rebels of the Kingdom of Aragon. (To be continued...)

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