"Occupied Leuven?" Dawu was the first to react, immediately exclaiming with surprise, "Then Prussia and Austria will be unable to deploy troops directly to Southern Netherlands."
Lefevre immediately echoed, "They're left with only one route from the north via Scheveningen to get around to Brussels."
Dawu contemplated the Crown Prince's earlier words and added, "This also means that the Duke of York cannot retreat eastward to Gelderland. He's practically a lone army!"
Indeed, the Duke of York still had Holland behind him, but everyone automatically disregarded it.
The Dutch could at best provide supplies for the Allied Forces, but their army was hardly worth mentioning—the most elite Dutch soldiers were under Davidoivich's command, and in previous battles, they were among the weakest performers. Moreover, those ten-plus thousand troops were currently holed up in the western city of Ghent, completely cut off from the Duke of York.
