Anning, upon hearing that Massena had breached the Austrian defenses at the foothills of the Alpine Mountains, made his first decision: to disregard logistics and to dispatch the elite troops to gallop towards Vienna.
He was closer to Vienna and indeed could arrive there first by ignoring the logistics.
As for what to eat upon arrival, Anning's thought was that in the original history, when Napoleon had just arrived in Italy, the supply situation for the Italian legions was terrible, and the soldiers fought on empty stomachs.
Then, they still managed to defeat both the Austrian army and the Sardinian Kingdom troops while hungry.
Thus, Anning also pinned his hopes on the soldiers' endurance.
His only worry was whether the soldiers, if truly starving, would rob the Austrians.
The French Army had shown good conduct on the lands of Bavaria and Austria; however, when extremely hungry, people's cognitive abilities diminish, and they might disregard military discipline.
