Chapter 1744: Stiff Offensive

Gliders—that was a technology Ling Chen envied greatly.

It could ignore terrain and launch a devastating offensive against the enemy army.

However, the conditions for its use were extremely harsh.

According to the battle reports received, Liu Zheng had used gliders to directly destroy the city of Dresden in Saxony.

But the geographical environment where Liu Zheng was located occupied the advantages of time and place; Dresden was right at the foot of Halei Mountain, and Liu Zheng had simply used the gliders to carry a very simple impact-triggered explosive bomb and dropped it.

It was not that Ling Chen had not thought about replicating such a tactic, but their conditions could not replicate it.

It was not that there was no way to manufacture gliders.

The principles of the glider had long been written in a letter by Liu Zheng to Ling Chen.

Rather, their geographical environment was not that good; the hilly terrain was very flat, the highest point was no more than three hundred meters, and there was no suitable runway for the glider to accelerate.

The glider had no way to glide in the air at all.

More crucially, even if they had gliders, they could not reach the enemy's fortress.

In short, this very harsh method of attack using gliders could not be utilized.

Diana looked at the map and suddenly said, "We might not be able to attack from the sky, but perhaps we can launch an attack from somewhere else."

Ling Chen looked at Diana and asked, "Are there other attack routes?"

Diana nodded: "There is one, but this route is not safe or reliable."

Diana's finger landed on the location of the Holy Cross Army and said: "Although the Holy Cross Army has guarded this place airtight, there is a river passing through between these three cities."

"Although the Holy Cross Army has now blocked the river channel, they should not know that the deepest part of this river connects to a shelter built a long time ago."

"These shelters are right under this city; if we can pass through them, we can launch a surprise attack on the Holy Cross Army in these three cities."

"It is just that the shelters have existed for a very long time, and I am not sure if these shelters still exist."

Ling Chen was lost in thought; he looked at the river intercepted by the Holy Cross Army and gradually had an idea.

"I have already thought of how to attack the Holy Cross Army."

"Diana, please tell me, how wide and long is this river, and where does it flow?"

Diana thought for a moment and said: "This river is called the Laina River, with a total length of over two hundred kilometers, and it connects to Saxony."

"The widest part of the river is about three hundred meters wide, and the narrowest part is over one hundred meters."

"If the narrowest part is over one hundred meters, the simplest way to prevent the enemy from attacking by sea is to build a dam; this dam would need to be built about one hundred meters long to intercept this river."

Thinking of this, Ling Chen already had a strategy for the attack in his mind: "We will attack via the waterway and blow up the dam."

Ling Chen looked at the Chief of Staff and said: "How much explosive do we have left now? Can we blow up the dam?"

The Chief of Staff flipped through his notebook and said: "The explosives we have on hand are completely insufficient, and the support Prussia promised us has been slow to arrive."

"There is less than five hundred kilograms of explosive."

Hearing this number, Ling Chen was stunned.

These explosives were not enough to blow open the dam, let alone make a hole in it.

After thinking about this, Ling Chen asked again: "What about white sugar?"

The Chief of Staff had a bitter expression: "Right now, the soldiers cannot even get enough to eat; there is definitely no white sugar, which is a scarce commodity. General, if you want to attack the Holy Cross Army..."

"Going by waterway is no problem, but we have no explosives."

"Sieging the city is also no problem; now that the Holy Cross Army's supply lines have been cut, General, forgive me for speaking bluntly, but a siege battle will be the best choice."

Ling Chen was silent; a siege battle was merely a tactic of suffering eight hundred losses to inflict one thousand on the enemy.

This battle

could only be dragged on helplessly.

Up to now, they had no good way to attack, so this battle could only be dragged on.

But Ling Chen did not know that the enraged Pope had not given him that many opportunities.

The Pope's letter was delivered to the Habsburg Dynasty.

In Europe, the Divine Right of Kings is emphasized, and a large part of the reason why the Habsburg Dynasty could have so many emperors was because of the Pope's investiture.

Therefore, the current power-holder of the Habsburg Family attached great importance to it after receiving the Pope's letter.

The Italian Grand Duke, located on the Sinai Peninsula, urgently convened a meeting.

The current Italian Parliament was controlled by the Habsburg Family, and those who could attend this parliament were all people of the Habsburg Family.

These Italian Grand Dukes were dressed in bright and beautiful clothes, looking like decent people.

But no one who had seen these people of the Habsburg Family did not feel shocked.

The appearance of these Italian Grand Dukes was truly hard to compliment; sometimes they even felt that these people managing the parliament were like a group of disgusting lumps of meat.

Disgusting in appearance, ugly in heart.

But these Habsburg people felt honored by this; this was a symbol of their pure and noble bloodline.

The Habsburg Family in Italy would never marry their family members to outsiders; this was a rule they had to follow.

Scenes like a younger brother marrying a cousin were common in the Habsburgs.

Everyone sat in the Italian parliament hall, and on the table was the Pope's personal letter requesting aid.

"Gentlemen, the Pope is asking us for aid. This is a good opportunity; we can agree to the Pope in order to secure the position of the Holy Roman Empire's throne."

"This is greatly beneficial to us."

"I agree too, but how many troops should we send out?"

"I heard that in the Longyan Army's battle in Saxony, they brought down divine thunder from Tianshan, turning the city of Saxony into a sea of fire. It is said that this fire has not been extinguished yet."

Someone gave a cold laugh and said indifferently: "Would you believe such a thing?"

"The Pope does not even have the ability to make the Lord manifest; do you think those savages from the East, who do not understand noble bloodlines, could do something that only the Lord can do?"

Everyone fell silent; it was indeed so.

They did not really believe that Long Yan had this ability; in their eyes, only the Lord could send down such punishment.

"Enough, the Long Yan Army must be annihilated; their open support for Protestantism is, in itself, the greatest insult to us."

"We should not allow Long Yan to exist in this world; he is too dangerous."

"Protestantism must also absolutely not be allowed to rise, as this would affect the ruling status of our great Habsburg Family in Europe."

Everyone nodded one after another.

The person sitting at the head of the conference room had eyes that gradually turned sharp: "Therefore, I propose launching a full-scale attack on Long Yan, and Long Yan's ally, Prussia, must be destroyed!"

Clap clap clap clap!

Everyone applauded one after another.

"Good, I agree with this proposal!"

"I do too."

"I do too."

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