Struggle in Russia

Leaving aside Kornilov's other arrangements for the time being, the morale of the coalition army has fallen to the bottom after repeated setbacks. At this time, even the generals who despised the Russian army would not dare to say that they could easily conquer Telegraph Mountain.

As a result, the allied forces faced a dead end.

If even Telegraph Hill can't do anything, let alone Sevastopol. But they lost tens of thousands of people on the defense line on Telegraph Mountain, but they couldn't move forward. According to such a loss rate, how many troops must be invested in order to take down this **** mountain?

Anyway, there is already a consensus among the coalition forces, and it is meaningless to continue to attack Telegraph Mountain. Unless the country is willing to fill this mountain with hundreds of thousands of lives, it is best to find another way.

As for what else to do, either take a detour, and since Telegraph Mountain can't get through, then take a different route! If the mountain does not come, Muhammad, and Muhammad will go to the mountain!

We don't need to be so stupid, every road can lead to the harbor of victory, why should we hit the wall on a damned telegraph mountain?

There are a lot of people who have this idea in the coalition, but there is only one problem, the shortest way to Sevastopol is to cross the Alma River and go south through the Telegraph Hill, unless you like to take a detour and go to Simferopo Go around the corner of Ernest or Bakhchisaray and go south.

So can we go there? Of course, the coalition can even revise its strategic objectives and simply go to capture Simferopol, the capital of Crimea, and then go straight east after landing in Kalamita Bay, and there is no need to go south at all.

The problem is that Simferopol is not as strategic as Sevastopol. Even the capture of Simferopol will not shake the foundation of the Russian army in Crimea. As long as Sevastopol is still there, as long as the Black Sea Fleet can rely on this seaport for activities, then as long as the coalition forces leave, the Russian army will be defeated. Can make a comeback immediately.

It is impossible for Britain and France to seize Crimea. They really don't have the ability. The only thing they can do is to weaken Russia's strength as much as possible, so that Russia will always be trapped in the Black Sea.

Therefore, if the effective force of the Russian army is eliminated as much as possible, it is their goal to disintegrate the military advantage of the Russian army in the Black Sea region.

Therefore, it is meaningless to turn to attack Simferopol. As for going south from Simferopol or Bakhchisarai, this method is also problematic. Not to mention Bakhchisaray, Simferopol is the capital and big city of Crimea. How much troops and how much time will it take to attack such a big city?

What's more, if the coalition forces go to attack Simferopol, is it tantamount to exposing their fragile supply lines to the telegraph hill in the south, the Russian army in the direction of Sevastopol, and the possible reinforcements of the Russian army in the direction of Ukraine in the north?

Once the coalition forces whose supplies are completely reliant on sea transportation are cut off from the supply line, needless to say the consequences?

What's more, the Russian army in these three directions can completely surround the coalition army, and then the whole army will be wiped out!

Anyway, Raglan, who is prudent by nature, would not dare to gamble like this. He strongly opposed attacking Sevastopol by taking a goodbye path, believing that it was too risky and could easily be copied.

As a result, the coalition seems to have only one heart to attack Telegraph Mountain?

Not really. After a series of quarrels, Raglan made a concession. He agreed that it was meaningless to continue to attack Telegraph Mountain, but the coalition could not foolishly trapped in Telegraph Mountain.

So the only way is to find another way!

How about a different way?

The high-level coalition forces quickly thought of their own maritime superiority, because the Black Sea Fleet voluntarily gave up sea control and retreated in the Sea of ​​Azov. The coalition forces in the Black Sea can be said to be almost unimpeded, and there is no force that can stop and threaten them wherever they want to go.

Since the landing in Kalamita Bay was unsuccessful, then fix this mistake and directly find a place to the south of Sevastopol to re-land a wave, which can not only bypass the difficult telegraph mountain, but also take Sevastopol directly. Seoul's "weak" Southport!

To be honest, it is hard enough for the coalition forces to think of such a solution that is not a solution. But anyone with a normal mind would never come up with such an idea.

The reason is very simple, that is why the coalition generals did not think about it, they could not handle the Telegraph Mountain and the Alma River, whose strategic position and terrain were not dangerous enough. The strategic position is extremely important. How could Sevastopol, which the Russian army has been operating for decades, be easier to obtain?

What if they hit a wall again in Sevastopol? Can I re-login elsewhere to solve the problem?

The primary problem to be solved by the coalition forces now is the lack of ability to attack fortifications and the miscalculation of the strength of the Russian army. If these two problems are not solved, even if they successfully land in the south of Sevastopol, the result will still be the same, and the coalition forces will not be able to do so. Was made even more embarrassed.

However, at this time, the leaders of the coalition forces could not care so much. They decided that landing in the area south of Sevastopol and attacking the South Port of Sevastopol was the best way. So I immediately decided to do it.

It's just that there was a little trouble during the period, that is, the coalition forces have fallen into a new debate, that is, whether to keep some forces in the area north of the Alma River to threaten the Russian army~www.readwn.com~ Some people may think this It's not a problem. Since we are going to log in again, it is natural to concentrate all the strength and A to go there. Why leave a tail to the north of the Alma River, what's the use of this?

Don't say it, it's really useful in theory. Sevastopol is located in the southernmost tip of Crimea, which means that the supplies and reinforcements needed by Sevastopol depend on the supply of the hinterland of Crimea and Ukraine in the north.

Keeping a unit on the Alma River can harass the Russian supply routes in Sevastopol, which is still very meaningful for siege warfare.

The key to the coalition's quarrel is not whether to stay, but how much to stay. The French army headed by Saint Arnault thought that it would be enough to leave a small force of at most 10,000 people. But the cautious Raglan disagreed with him. He believed that ten thousand people were of no use at all, and that if such a small number of people were reinforced by the main force of the Russian army, there was a danger of being surrounded and wiped out.

Raglan thought at least 20,000 people, preferably 30,000, would remain in the Alma River region.

Good guy, there are only tens of thousands of troops in the coalition? If 30,000 were really left, the number of troops that could be used to attack Sevastopol would probably be around 30,000. What are so many people doing?