Seeing that no one spoke, the Marquess of Wellesley continued loudly:
"The reason why the Blücher Corps wants to enter Switzerland is to break through the Mantua Fortress as quickly as possible.
"However, now we are discussing how to conduct operations in Switzerland!
"Even if we can completely occupy Switzerland under the circumstances where the St. Gotthard Pass is controlled by the French, it won't have any effect on the overall battle situation."
The Austrian Chief of Staff Verossi and several officers immediately nodded in agreement, "You are right. We should now concentrate our forces to break through the Mantua Fortress!"
"We cannot get bogged down in Switzerland!"
"Transfer the Kosakov Corps to Verona..."
Wellesley sighed, "No, the core factor in choosing Northern Italy as the main battlefield was that there would be a corps entering Lombardy to launch an attack on Mantua from the south.
"And that factor no longer exists."
