Hannover, Lingchen’s base camp.
Ling Chen has returned to Hanover. He is currently in the temporary command room, staring at the map.
There were three locations marked on the map. Everyone in the command room looked at the map and fell into thinking. Ling Chen glanced at it and said in a deep voice: "There are only three targets. Which one should we choose to attack?"
These three goals are.
Austrian army's grain and grass transportation line.
Located in the valley, we have only determined an approximate location, but have not explored the specific path.
The headquarters of the Franco-Austrian Allied Forces.
Located below Hanover, although the Austrian army completely withdrew from Prussia, the Franco-Austrian Allied Forces were not the only Austrian army.
Other armies are still stationed in Hanover, and it is also because of this army that most of Long Yan's troops cannot be mobilized.
There is also a city located at the other end of Hannover, Hamburg.
Hamburg is now taken over by Sweden, with mostly businessmen and a small Swedish army.
"Austria's transport lines."
Ling Chen looked at the captain of the third team who spoke and asked, "Why did you choose the Austrian transportation line?"
He walked to the map, pointed to Austria's transportation lines, and said calmly: "If Austria's grain and grass transportation lines are cut off, their troops in Prussia will no longer be able to maintain it."
No one spoke to refute.
It is already winter, and there is definitely food and grass on Austria's transportation lines. As long as this batch of food and grass is intercepted, their Long Yan Army's winter survival will be guaranteed.
Moreover, it is winter now, Austria's front in Prussia is too long, and large forces are in Poland attacking Prussia with the government-in-exile.
There will definitely not be too many troops left on this transportation line.
Everyone nodded, it was indeed a good choice.
"I disagree!"
A cold voice sounded, and everyone turned their heads to look over. It was in a corner.
Their eyes were all attracted to Diana, their brows furrowed slightly, and someone said with an unhappy look: "How can an outsider participate in a military meeting!"
Diana ignored him, walked up to Ling Chen and took a deep look at him.
Pointing to Austria's transportation insurance, he said coldly: "I don't agree to attack here."
"Why?" Ling Chen looked at her and asked lightly.
Diana looked away from Ling Chen's face, looked at everyone present, and said: "Winter has arrived, if the Austrian transportation line is cut off now."
"Leaving aside whether we can win or not, the Prussian civilians will ultimately bear the consequences of the war."
"The Austrian army under attack will definitely target objects they can quickly plunder when they are short of food in the winter."
"If such a situation is caused, what's the use of Long Yan's gathering of public opinion?"
Diana spoke coldly, leaving everyone speechless.
Ling Chen cast a look of approval at her.
"You're right." Ling Chen applauded, looked at her and said, "If we didn't cut off the Austrian army's transportation lines, wouldn't they attack Prussian civilians?"
"The initiative is no longer in our hands."
"Right, Miss Diana?" Ling Chen stared at Diana's face.
Diana wanted to refute, but suddenly found that she had nothing to say.
The Austrian army does not obey the command of Long Yan Army.
If they want to plunder Prussian civilians, they do not need the consent of the Longyan Army.
Ling Chen looked away from her.
Foolish kindness...
"Austria's transportation lines do need to be cut off, but I think there are better goals."
Ling Chen's finger landed on the map, and everyone was stunned.
"General, I don't understand. From a strategic perspective, Austria's transportation lines have a higher priority."
"As for Hamburg, there are Swedish troops stationed there, but we are not attacking the city but just grabbing food. We can only use 30,000 troops now, and heavy weapons such as siege guns cannot be used."
"It will be very detrimental to us if we attack the city."
Ling Chen glanced at everyone: "You think so too?"
Others nodded, but Ling Chen shook his head and sighed: "Our current problem is to solve the food and grass problem."
"As for Austria's transportation lines, we don't know when they will transport food. If we attack, we can only wait."
"And it's winter now. Since the Austrian army has not broken out into a large-scale conflict with Prussia, what will their remaining troops do?"
"It definitely doesn't know how to transport the line."
"The reason why we chose Hamburg is because although the Swedish army controls the city, it does not have many troops."
"The geographical location there is very important. Hamburg is close to the North Sea, and there are harbors on the land that can lead to the Baltic Sea and French territory."
Ling Chen pointed to the map of Europe. Other Franco-Austrian allies, almost most of them, needed to transport supplies through Hamburg.
"I have conducted reconnaissance and found that the city's defense force is too weak. Although we can only mobilize 30,000 troops, it is indeed difficult to capture Hamburg, but we need food."
"It is completely possible to intercept and deal with the grain and grass shipped from Hamburg to various places."
Ling Chen looked at everyone with emotionless eyes and said calmly: "Hamburg is the link between the Franco-Austrian allies. It will be their own residents who will suffer after we cut them off."
Everyone was stunned, and then they looked at the map carefully and found that it was exactly what Ling Chen said.
After the fall of Hamburg, it was connected through its various Franco-Austrian allies.
It's winter, the time of unwritten truce.
Now that food is scarce and economic development is stagnant, there is an urgent need for merchants to move between countries.
Hamburg's geographical location is very important, perhaps because the Franco-Austrian Allied Forces believed that Hamburg must have been surrounded by groups and it was impossible to attack.
Even if Lingchen entered Hanover and was connected to Hamburg, the Franco-Austrian Allied Forces did not add soldiers to Hamburg at all.
Just because the Longyan Army now looks like it has broken through the encirclement and united with Prussia.
But in reality, from the perspective of the Franco-Austrian Allied Forces, Ling Chen had entered their ambush circle.
But this ambush circle is very huge.
But it was as if the Longyan Army was right under his nose, and every move they made was seen by the French and Austrian Allied Forces, and they didn't take it to heart at all.
That's why we didn't set up so many troops in Hamburg, we just sent a Swedish army.
At this time someone asked: "General, but we are not familiar with the terrain of Hamburg."
"It doesn't matter, Miss Diana and we have carefully explored the terrain over there."
Ling Chen paused for a moment, then said softly: "Oh, by the way, I forgot to tell you that this plan was proposed by Diana."
Everyone was once again attracted to this European woman, but this time their eyes changed a lot when they looked at her.
"I agree to attack Hamburg, but we cannot attack the city, we can only intercept it."
Ling Chen nodded, and other generals also agreed to this plan.
