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Dmitry’s idea is very pragmatic, but Li Xiao cannot fully agree with him. His opinion is that it is not wrong to focus on the construction of Bulgaria’s first-line fortifications, but other directions cannot be completely ignored.

He reminded: “Although the direction of Turkey is the most dangerous, we must not forget the weak flank. I must remind you to pay attention to Transylvania! The Austrians have to guard!”

Dmitry was stunned. Although the Holy Alliance has been a bit bleak in recent years, Austria and Prussia are nominally allies of Russia. Even if you can’t count on their support, at least you don’t have to worry about stabbing them in the back, right?

Li Xiao told him frankly: “General, I am not alarmist. Since the outbreak of the rebellion in Hungary, our relations with Austria have fallen to a freezing point. On the Balkan issue, Austria and our interests are not exactly the same. Now we are monopolizing. Moldavia and Wallachia, and then seeking Bulgaria, the Austrians will never accept it!”

Dmitry asked, “So what?”

“So,” Li Xiao said with a sigh, “So once Britain and France make clear their position, Austria will most likely not stand on our side, or even secretly demolish the platform. They don’t have to do anything, as long as they concentrate their forces in Transylvania. Asia has conducted several military exercises, and the pressure on us is particularly great!”

Li Xiao solemnly urged: “So we must not ignore the threat of our flanks. We must build certain fortifications in the direction of Transylvania. There is no need to build a complete line of defense, but we must contain key nodes. Let the Austrians know that we are not unprepared!”

Hearing this, Dmitry immediately unfolded the military map and took a closer look. If the border between Wallachia and Transylvania is undefended, then if the Austrians are really moving, For example, placing Chen Bing on the border can make them very uncomfortable.

At that time, apart from dispatching troops to confront the Austrians, there was no particularly good way. However, Wallachia’s front face was already facing huge pressure from Turkey, and he had only forty thousand people on hand. Where could there be extra troops to stare at the Austrians?

If you can build strong fortifications in key hubs ahead of time and send capable forces to garrison them, you may be a lot easier in the face of the threat from Austria.

“This will cost a lot of money, right?” Dmitry hesitated.

Li Xiao replied: “If you don’t need too much funds, there was originally Austria’s focus on defense against Turkey. Historically, Turkey and Austria have built a large number of fortresses. As long as they are renovated and strengthened and some new supporting facilities are built, kick in!”

Dmitry thought for a while, and approved this suggestion. Transylvania really had to be defensive. Anyway, he couldn’t believe the Austrians.

“What else? Do you have any suggestions?”

If Dmitry asked Li Xiao’s suggestion before, it was of a courtesy nature. After all, in his opinion, Li Xiao was just a young man. He had never fought at all, and had not received particularly strict military education and training. It’s only half-knowledge. Naturally, he couldn’t make any decent suggestions, but after hearing what someone said just now, he felt that he still underestimated Li Xiao, who still has two brushes in the military.

“I don’t have any more suggestions. After all, I am not an expert in this field,” Li Xiao replied modestly. “In addition to preparing for military warfare, I suggest you better prepare for epidemic prevention. I I have traveled to the garrisons of some troops and found that the sanitary conditions are very worrying!”

Dmitry was stunned. As the generals of this era, they are more concerned with strategic and tactical issues, and they are also accustomed to preparing for war from these two aspects. But Li Xiao told him to do a good job in sanitation, which is a bit of an unanswered question, is it good? Does this matter need him to take care of it?

Li Xiao understands Dmitry’s incomprehension very well, because the limitations of the times are here. In history, it was only after the Crimean War that countries began to pay attention to health and epidemic prevention during the war, and these experiences are bloody. In exchange for lessons.

To put it bluntly, during the Crimean War, infectious diseases and poor sanitation caused more casualties than on the battlefield. Both sides of the war have paid a heavy price for this, and these can actually be dealt with in advance.

At least Li Xiao didn’t want to see a large number of soldiers die from the plague because of drinking water or unclean diet, and he didn’t want to see the wounded soldier who finally recovered a life on the battlefield died because of the worrying health condition.

So he explained to Dmitry in detail: “General, I have carefully studied the casualties of the previous wars against Turkey and found that not many soldiers died directly under the enemy’s guns. More soldiers are Deaths due to infectious diseases, plagues and delayed treatment, especially in our army, the proportion of casualties is staggeringly high!”

How could it not be high! You can see the condition of the gray cattle of the Russian army. They were originally a group of serfs who didn’t know a few big characters. They were rushed to the battlefield in a hurry. Their living habits were unhealthy, and once some infectious diseases were intensive and undefended. The barracks will explode in an instant.

In the last Russian-Turkish War, the main reason for the lack of strength of the Russian army’s successor was the **** plague, which caused a large number of soldiers to get sick and completely lost their combat effectiveness. The advantages simply cannot be brought into play.

“Is it so serious?”

Dmitry was taken aback when he heard those terrible numbers, and subconsciously thought it was impossible, because in his impression, the battlefield of the dead mountain and the sea of ​​fire was the Shura field, which was the root cause of the large number of casualties.

But Li Xiao told him that plague and disease are death’s sickle, which is somewhat beyond his cognition.

“Have!”

Li Xiao nodded heavily, and then detailed some statistics and memoirs of the veteran. This immediately evoked Dmitry’s memory-the plague was indeed widespread in the army, leading to a large number of non-combat attritions.

It’s just that these impressions were concealed by the glorious victory over Turkey, so that Dmitry almost forgot those painful memories.

“Then how can we reduce the outbreak of the plague you said?” Dmitry asked humbly.

“It’s very simple.” When Li Xiao saw that he could listen to the opinions, he was relieved and explained in detail the importance of doing a good job in sanitation. Then he suggested: “Soldiers must be forced to develop good hygiene habits. Killing mice and other pests, drinking raw water is strictly prohibited… After my experiments in Wallachia, this has a significant effect!”

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