Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796

The Turkish cavalry were lined up neatly and looked like they were about to fight.

Even in order to guard against possible shelling by the Russian army, they assembled very quickly and maintained a relatively loose formation.

After that, these cavalry will always charge, which is the only way for the besieged Turkish army to fight.

But they did not estimate that the Russians did not spare artillery shells, and at the stage when they were forming the team, they had already adjusted several nearby artillery positions.

Even due to the concealment measures after changing the gun positions, the positions of some 6-pound guns were well hidden.

It doesn't matter if you can't shoot accurately. With the accuracy of this muzzleloader gun, it just needs to fall into that area. A dozen or twenty cannons will take turns to fire in order. Later, it will become free fire. Just hit the place.

Alexander Euler stood behind a 6-pounder gun, looking at the situation ahead.

"Sir, do you want to have sex?"

"It's time to fire. The order is to calibrate the cannon and fire."

A solid bullet was stuffed into the barrel of the gun. After lighting the fuse, the shell was fired quickly.

As for the target, if it hits the crowd, it will naturally be very effective.

Although wearing armor can effectively prevent sword and bayonet blows, it is often not effective against blunt force blows.

What's more, the bullets fired this time were solid bullets, and the effect would be devastating to everyone.

Although some people still look intact, if the solid bullet passes through the body and leaves a bloody hole, the person will definitely die.

If you take the armor apart and see what's going on inside, it's clear that people can be shot in two parts.

Moreover, the Circassian commander was killed at the beginning. This effect cannot be said to be good, but it is also very good.

After all, sometimes in a battle, a person who seems to have a high status can be killed by just "that person's preparation".

However, the people who fired the artillery still don't know what the outcome of the battle will be. They are still working hard to fire at the place where the Turkish cavalry is the most numerous.

In this way, the remaining elite cavalry of the Turks in the encirclement circle had to be dispersed and used, which was the Russian army's favorite method.

"It looks good. If the cavalry is dispersed, it won't be that effective. It's a pity that our army is not equipped with hot-air balloons, otherwise it can be seen very clearly from the air."

"Mick, hot air balloons are not very stable."

"But the location looks good. I haven't taken a hot air balloon ride yet. Maybe when it's our wedding anniversary, I can take Katya to see it in the air."

Clausewitz felt that this guy was passionate enough, and he could also step into a few boats.

In fact, Solovyov's method was to constantly change his position and then choose to jump off the ship, just like Minamoto Yoshitsune did when he was being chased on the ship.

"If you want to see the infantry's formation, it won't be like this, right?"

"As communications improve in the future, it will still be possible. As for..."

While he was talking, he saw the movement of Turkish infantry through the telescope.

"It seems like they reacted very quickly. They want to fight to the death. We can't give them this chance. Shoot out all the cannonballs, don't care if they are 6 pounds, 12 pounds or unicorns!"

His order was transmitted through semaphores, which was very fast. Soon the artillery at the front of the Uvarov Division and the 9th Division opened fire.

The Turkish army was "gifted" a wave of artillery shells in such a faceless manner, and they were quickly beaten back.

"We should fight back. When fighting, if the enemy retreats, we should attack, especially when they can't hide anything. Just like the girls in the Turkish bath, they can see everything they should see. ”

He said this partly because he wanted to try a real Turkish bath. Kutuzov was old and disrespectful, and sometimes he would be in the sauna with young girls.

Young people should also accept this. Some people always say that Turks are different from Greeks except for the religion they believe in. In fact, the only difference between Turks and Greeks is the turban on their head.

Even when wrestling, you apply olive oil on your body. This process is the same for everyone.

But when fighting, it can be clearly discovered that the fighting style of these Turks is generally the same as that of the Ottoman Empire in the past. Even the new army is too lazy to use bayonets, and the soldiers still carry machetes.

It's hard to say what the formation is like like this. In short, with a knife hanging on the butt, it can't be too dense, otherwise it will always be a bit stumbling.

They liked to form extremely dense formations, which was actually the fault of the Prussians, and they were often beaten.

"Forget about your hammam, what should we do?"

Uvarov said this, and Solovyov was brought back to normal thinking.

"As it is now, continue to bombard with artillery. Our infantry regiment advances across the board, but don't go too far. The two joint grenadier battalions control the high ground combined with the 9th Division. They are all standing firm and fighting, and there are not that many enemies. The boat is enough for them to escape on the Danube, even the officials are afraid they only have the opportunity to take a small boat, they just need not to feed the fish. "

That said, it is a river like the Danube. It is not as slow as in the waltz. No matter how slow the downstream is, it is still an east-west river.

Now it is summer again, when the water level is about to rise. Considering the amount of water coming from these places in the upper reaches of the Danube River, the pressure has reached the areas controlled by the Ottoman Empire downstream.

After the Russian infantry advanced, they did not rush to launch an attack. Instead, they moved forward in battalion units to cover each other. This was safer.

Faced with the Russian army's strict front line, the Turks actually lost the courage to attack this front.

This is only the third day of fighting, that's all.

It can be seen that the Turkish army was able to maintain relatively high morale on the first day, but now it has lost its courage to bravely launch a breakout.

As Russian soldiers squeezed in from three directions, the space left for these Turks became smaller and smaller.

Some guys with good brains have chosen to lay down their weapons and surrender, but this also depends on which Russian troops they encounter.

If they had come with bare hands and raised their hands, the Russian army might have let them pass, but there were also places where the Cossack Cavalry Regiment appeared. These people probably had to taste the power of sabers and lances first, and then they could surrender after being "selected".

"The army is defeated like a mountain! It's really not impressive. I thought that if we could break through, we would still have some morale!"

"Mick, you're not going to drag it on any longer?"

"No more delay. Compared with the Mamluks in the Pyramid, to defeat these people, except for the cavalry, there may be no sense of honor at all. This battle is almost over. We need the grenadiers to push through from west to east. We to end this fight."

Solovyov originally prepared many plans, but he never expected that the enemy would retreat backwards so unmotivatedly that some people were already in the Danube River below their knees.

At first, the Turkish army approaching the bank of the Danube was able to leave some standing space for those who arrived first. However, as the people behind them crowded over, the space for the tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers was increasingly compressed, and naturally they had to stand. It turned into a stampede.

In this situation where a huge crowd of people descend into the Danube, the person who drowns will always be drowned, even if he is a good soldier, because his companions may catch him when he is struggling, and he will be dragged to the Danube together. Go inside.

The Turks who came later may not have stepped on the mud at the bottom of the river, but only stepped on the stiff-limbed corpses of their drowned companions.

Under such circumstances, they would be squeezed out by the people who came after them. When the Russian army launched an attack, some Turkish soldiers simply put down their weapons and knelt down to beg for mercy.

The battle in Lom seemed to have little value in the end. Although the Turks claimed that there were at least 60,000 troops, please note that it was not 60,000 troops. Compared with other Turkish armies, the personnel were relatively uniform. Most of them were considered Those who carry weapons can fight.

Only the cavalry were left fighting on their own, seemingly continuing to fight for the dignity of their own old knights.

However, because the infantry's resistance was over and the artillery had no cannons at all, these cavalrymen were either stabbed to death by the Russian infantry with both men and horses, or the bold Russian soldiers compressed them into a small area. Use the butt of your rifle to knock them off their horses.

There are even some who are more daring, because these guys have a lot of valuable things on them, and they are willing to cooperate with their close comrades to pull the Circassian and Sipaxi cavalry off their horses.

When Solovyov approached the front, he even saw the method in which the Gallic cavalry and the Parthian cavalry died together in the Battle of Kalai, throwing the armored knight from his horse to the ground.

However, because of the soft ground here, it seemed that these knights were only bruised and swollen, while the Russian soldiers who rushed forward were dividing the spoils.

"Oh, if that's the case, I'm afraid there won't even be any crotch cloth left."

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"Are you going to stop them?"

Clausewitz knew that Solovyov was always strict, so he asked.

"I don't care about it today. I just want to get some good horses to show our victory and even to arm our own cavalry."

Clausewitz looked at this guy's appearance today and had to roll his eyes a few times.

Deep down, this guy is still a guy who likes to take advantage of others in battles.

"Then today's seizure must be particularly rich. But the battle is not over yet. Look over there."

Clausewitz pointed to some places in the middle of the encirclement, where Russian soldiers fought with some soldiers of the New Turkish Army.

"What the heck! It looks like we're going to finally bring in the artillery and force the remaining guys to surrender."

They did not intend to continue moving forward, but Stazenko, the quartermaster of the Selenge regiment, passed by Solovyov and others, taking some veterans of the regiment with him, carrying a lot of things on his back. Go behind.

"You worthless quartermaster, are you getting paid today?"

"You will be rich if you pay the brothers, sir. It's just that we have to take it back and distribute it this time. When the war is over, we can also send some back home to the brothers."

"Can you make arrangements?"

Seeing him like this, Solovyov couldn't help but want to beat him. Russia now has a postal system, but it is very inefficient and packages are easily lost in the middle.

"I can only send it to those who have the chance to go home!"

Solovyov didn't care about him either. There were so many people trying to make extra money and lick their bags on the battlefield today that he couldn't even manage him.

As for the defeated and captured Turks, they obviously no longer had the arrogance and dignity they had before. With their heads hanging down, they were pushed aside by some Russian recruits with bayonets, at least they could not block the way.

But this is about the infantry. There are still some people in the cavalry who are still arrogant even though they were beaten black and blue.

Solovyov was thinking that if some Turkish cavalry were willing to form some troops like the Mamluks accepted the French recruitment, they might be useful in the future.

But at this moment, his thoughts were interrupted by the continuous artillery fire from the 9th Division.

It seems that the last few Turkish troops will not be honest without artillery.

But the strange thing is that the Russian army failed to capture Mustafa Bey. This person seemed to have evaporated from the face of the earth.

His personal guards were also missing. His camp was on the shore. Where did he go?

There was no news from the Turks. He probably went down to the river to feed the fish. There was no news about this person. Even if he was incognito, this kind of person would be discovered because of his habitual arrogance.

Victory seems to be much more boring than expected. The number of Turkish soldiers killed, wounded and captured here, not counting those drowned in the Danube, is already astonishing.

Compared with the more horses than people drowned in the icy lake at Austerlitz, here the horses are probably all alive, but many people drowned.

Even after the battle, Langeron wrote a letter to "condemn" Soloviev, congratulating him on his brilliant victory while complaining about the large number of rotten corpses floating on the surface of the Danube, which made the local water quality very poor. The Bucharest garrison and the Russian garrisons along the Danube have strengthened sanitary measures to prevent the plague caused by corpses.

If you look at it this way, there are not a few enemies who drowned, and the lower reaches of the Danube below Lom are relatively wide.

But this is also after that, the victorious Russian army is now looking for suitable spoils for themselves.

Soloviev selected a lot of good horses, and there are even very beautiful Arabian horses among them.

"What a nice white horse. Whose trophy is this?"

"Sir, if you like it, you can take it away."

"It's not good to take it away directly. This is for the emperor to show our military feats of victory here."

After hearing this, the Cossack who had just replied, who seemed to be the owner of the trophy, took the initiative to hand over the horse.

"If you say so, it's a free gift."

"It can't be a free gift. When I offer the warhorse, I also need to know your name and which regiment you are from."

"I am the Cossack Captain Karpov. I also participated in the task force that went to Count Tolstoy before. We also blew up the ammunition depot."

"Then you will be awarded a medal, because you are an officer. Who knows what I can approve of you if I report it to the commander-in-chief."

This is a happy ending for everyone. The only ones who were hurt are the Turks. (End of this chapter)