Chapter six hundred and forty-eight relief and dumplings
"What exactly is going on?"
Looking at the groups of Russian Empire's broken troops running towards him, the officer who was originally responsible for delivering General Soilov's next order felt extremely ridiculous. Only half a month had passed since he reported to General Soilov. Within an hour, this meant that their four and a half regiments on the left plus an artillery regiment were completely defeated by the Sardinian army on the left in only half an hour.
No way... definitely not Sardinia...
The officer shook his head repeatedly. He did not believe that Sardinia had this ability. If the Kingdom of Sardinia really had this ability, they would not restrict their activities to the trenches.
After a few seconds, the officer once again thought of other possibilities. He remembered that General Soilov had just said that the elite troops of the five regiments deployed by the Russian Empire on Inkerman Mountain did not defeat them. Instead, they were defeated by the French army. I lost my armor and abandoned my armor.
Could it be that France used all their troops to rescue the left wing!
The more the officer thought about it, the more reasonable he felt that this possibility was the only one. After all, losing to the French Empire was not too shameful. Anyway, they had been losing to the French Empire since the beginning of the Crimean Peninsula War, and they would lose one or two more. It doesn't hurt.
However, losing to the Kingdom of Sardinia would be fatal.
As a result, the officer on horseback quickly intercepted a group of fleeing imperial troops with a flintlock pistol and asked what happened to the left wing of Inkerman Mountain.
The Russian soldier who was forced to stop by the officer shook his head in frustration and replied: "Sir, I don't know what happened?"
The officer who heard the soldier's answer showed a dumbfounded expression on his face: "Then why did you run away?"
The Russian Imperial soldier was stunned for a few seconds, and then responded politely to the officer: "I saw that the people in front were running backwards, so I followed suit!"
"People in front... together..." The officer quickly realized that this might be a military disaster caused by a small-scale collapse, leading to a complete collapse.
After understanding the cause of the military disaster, the next thing to do now is to quickly find the location of the brigadier general.
Later, the officer asked the defeated soldiers if they knew the location of the brigadier general.
The defeated soldiers shook their heads and said that their troops had always been at the rear and knew the situation on the front line. This time they fled with the large troops in a confused manner.
After the explanation, the defeated soldiers carefully asked the officers if they could leave.
The officer on the horse looked at the broken troops like waves and sighed.
At this point, it is meaningless to hold one or two defeated soldiers accountable. On the contrary, it will cause a stress response in the defeated soldiers, which may cause another big mess.
If you don't make a mistake, you may be shot directly by the defeated soldiers. The soldiers who want to escape here don't care whether you are an officer or a general, so the top priority now is to find the brigadier general!
"Go! Go!" The officer waved his hand and said to the defeated soldiers, and then added: "After you go down, you must return to your own army! Remember not to run around, otherwise your situation will be very difficult. !”
"Yes! Yes!" The defeated soldiers nodded and bowed to the officer on the surface, seeming to agree with the officer's judgment. In fact, they did not want to return to the army and work as horses.
He had heard that the French army in Sevastopol would give special preferential treatment to the Russian soldiers who surrendered. At least they would have enough to eat every day. Instead of following the Tsar and starving for nine meals in three days, it would be better to surrender to France.
After the broken soldiers separated from the officer, the officer continued to ride forward. After asking several people in succession but getting no answers, he shifted his target to people with the same military rank as him.
Finally, he got the information from a major.
It turned out that not long after he arrived at the headquarters, a French army came over from the side of the imperial army with overwhelming force. The Russian army, which was caught off guard, was quickly stunned by the sudden French army.
At the same time, the brigadier general responsible for commanding the attack and his adjutant were also killed by the French army.
The colonel who replaced the brigadier general had not yet issued an order and was also killed by the French army.
The Russian Imperial Army, which had lost several commanders one after another, was simply unable to organize an attack on the Sardinian positions. After seeing this, the Sardinian army in the trenches also came under the order of La Maramore.
, launched an attack on the Russian army with artillery.
With the joint efforts of the French army and the Sardinian army, the frontline troops of the Russian Imperial Army were quickly defeated.
The partial defeat, fueled by panic, immediately turned into a comprehensive defeat. They were just a little cheerful and praised by Soilov, but in the blink of an eye, they became the scene they are now.
"Hey! What a huge defeat!" The fleeing major sighed and said with hindsight: "Actually, the French troops supporting this time are not too many. It is entirely possible for us to defeat them all! But, we
Not only did I not defeat them, but I was chased around by them!"
With the sound of gunshots coming from behind, the defeated major suddenly changed. He hurriedly said to his comrades on horseback: "You should run too! Sardinia will catch up soon!"
After saying that, the defeated major ran away, not wanting to launch a counterattack against Sardinia and France.
The officer, who had no hope of finding the brigadier, had no choice but to turn his horse around and head down the mountain.
On the other hand, Trochu, who led the regiment of soldiers to support, successfully joined forces with La Maramore.
La Maramore, who had turned from defeat to victory, excitedly held Major General Trochu's hand and said: "Thank you for your support! If it hadn't been for your timely support, I really don't know what I would have done... You are really brave.
A good general!"
Major General Trochu also smiled at La Maramore. At this time, he seemed to have forgotten what he said on Inkerman Mountain. He said with a reserved look: "Marshal, you are overly complimentary! France
The Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia are a pair of friendly countries that support and help each other! And I don’t think that the mere Russian army can defeat your army!"
"You're flattering me!" La Maramore responded with a wry smile. His family knew about his family's affairs. Although the army of the Kingdom of Sardinia was not inferior to great powers like Britain and France in terms of marching and formation, they
The gap in quality, quantity and will between the armies of first-class powers like Britain, France and Russia is simply not on the same level.
Take Sardinia's most elite chasseur battalion, for example. They are indeed better than the Russian Imperial Army in shooting, but when it comes to a real competition of wills, they are still far behind.
This led to the situation where his Jaeger battalion won first and then lost, not to mention that their army was unable to quickly organize an effective counterattack after being bombarded.
If the French artillery regiment stationed here had not acted quickly and used rapid fire to block the attack of the Russian Imperial Army, they would probably not have been able to survive the arrival of the French army. If you think about it carefully, it was really embarrassing.
La Maramore then asked Major General Trochu what they should do now.
Major General Trochu gave the suggestion that while the Phasa army continued to pursue the fleeing soldiers, it sent people to Sevastopol and the Ferdokin Hills to seek assistance.
"Marshal, do you want to keep the troops at the foot of the mountain?" Major General Trochu asked La Maramore.
"Of course!" La Maramore asked without hesitation.
"Then send people to the nearby Joanna River!" Brigadier General Trochu said to La Maramore: "I guess they must have built pontoon bridges near the Joanna River. As long as we can destroy those pontoon bridges, we will
We are sure to annihilate them all!"
"Okay! I'll do it right away!" Marshal La Maramore's eyes lit up, and he hurriedly responded to Brigadier General Trochu.
Brigadier General Trochu shook his head and said to Marshal La Maramore: "Wait a minute! There are at least nearly 50,000 troops at the foot of the mountain, and the two of us combined are not as many as them (the Third Division has 20,000 people,
Sardinia (10,000 people) still needs some assistance!”
"Okay! I listen to you!" La Maramore nodded and said to Brigadier General Trochu.
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The message from Inkerman Mountain crossed the Shipwreck Ravine and arrived at the south bank of Sevastopol. At this time, the south bank of Sevastopol was also on tight alert, with one or two people standing on each street.
French soldier.
After the messenger arrived at the expeditionary force headquarters, he was immediately received by Jérôme Bonaparte, the supreme commander of the expeditionary force headquarters. Jérôme Bonaparte asked them about the situation at Inkermann Mountain and whether it was still possible.
Defend Inkerman Mountain.
The messenger briefed Jérôme Bonaparte on the situation at Inkermann Mountain and the Russian army's attack on Inkermann Mountain.
"Very good!" Jerome Bonaparte nodded and said approvingly: "Please help me tell the troops on Inkerman Mountain that they are all good! France will be proud of them!"
"Yes, Your Majesty!" the messenger responded respectfully, and then told Trochu's guess about the number of Russian troops attacking Inkermann Mountain: "Your Majesty, Major General Trochu said that the Russian Empire is deployed near Inkermann
The army has exceeded 50,000!"
"50,000!" Jérôme Bonaparte picked up a pen and circled the quarry ravine under the Inkerman Mountain, "50,000 (Inkerman Mountain), 40,000 (Qiao on the north shore of Sevastopol).
Yana River), 30,000 (Yevpatoria), the total adds up to 120,000, so Russia still has more than 100,000 troops that have not been used... Where will their target be?"
After the messenger was silent for a moment, he expressed his own opinion: "My subordinates guess that the Russian Empire's target is probably the south bank of Sevastopol! Only by defeating us can they possibly occupy this city!"
"Then why didn't he send troops to the Ferdogin Hills? It would be better to attack the Inkerman Mountains from a distance from the Vorontsov Trail to the outer periphery of the south bank!" Jerome Bonaparte retorted?
The messenger opened his mouth, not knowing what to say!
"I don't understand, what on earth is Gorchakov doing? Does he want to win or not?" Jerome Bonaparte scratched his head, then threw the pen on the table and politely issued an eviction order.