Struggle in Russia

While the British were scrambling to regroup and accuse and condemn the Turks, the Russian infantry occupied Forts 1 to 4 on the Causeway Heights, destroyed the cannon mounts in them, and discarded the 4th fortress.

Seeing that the passage had been opened, Menshkov immediately ordered General Ryzhov's cavalry to move to the northern canyon of Balaklava behind these forts, and charged towards the defense line of the 93rd Highland Brigade.

At this moment, the moment that decides the fate of the British or coalition forces has come. If Rezhov can quickly break through the defense line of the 930th Brigade, then the coalition forces will have nothing to prevent the Russian army from breaking into Balaklava, and the logistics supply of the coalition forces will definitely be over.

But what makes people wonder is that the 93rd Highland Brigade of the British Army has only built a line of defense that cannot be called a solid line of defense, but it has blocked the charge of the Russian light cavalry!

At that time, Ryzhov's first wave of four cavalry squadrons of about 400 cavalry began to charge, from the Causeway Heights straight to the Highland Brigade.

Campbell ordered his men to line up in two rows, forming a slender line of defense, rather than the squares that infantry usually uses to block cavalry. Fanny Duberley, who was on the sidelines, was very puzzled and terrified, and said:

"The bullets began to fly, and the Russian cavalry was rushing down the hillside, over the canyon, and into the Highland Brigade's position. Ah! The situation is urgent! How could that slender line of defense be able to stand against so many enemy troops in the face of the oncoming cavalry? The enemy was rushing so fast, yet they stood there motionless!"

However, the reason why Campbell is in such a formation is that he knows that it is very difficult to block the enemy with his own troops. But he can maximize his firepower. As long as he can block the onslaught of the Russian cavalry, reinforcements will come to support him soon.

The Russian cavalry was getting closer and closer. Campbell ran along the defense line on his horse and shouted to the soldiers. He ordered everyone to stand still and die here.

According to Lieutenant Colonel Stirling of the 93rd Brigade, he felt that Campbell was not lying when he said these words, and it seemed that he did intend to fight to the death.

Reporter Russell, who was also watching the battle from the heights, to him the 93rd Brigade's line of defense looked like red stripes on the tip of a steel rope. He saw that the line of defense composed of British soldiers in red was motionless and the Russian cavalry began to hesitate.

At this time, the distance between the two sides was only the last one thousand meters. Campbell issued an order to fire, and the first round of the British salvo started. After the smoke cleared, Sergeant Munro of the 93rd Brigade saw that the Russian army was continuing to charge, and then the British army immediately launched a second round of salvos from the top of the second row of soldiers.

At this time, the Russian army began to be in chaos, changing direction and rushing towards the flank of the British army. The third British salvo came even closer, hitting the flanks of the turning Russian cavalry, forcing the Russians to turn around and retreat.

The cavalry of the four squadrons of Rezhov's first echelon were just repelled, and they could have changed history, but they were not confident enough to let this opportunity go, so that the Russian army could no longer threaten Balaklava.

Seeing that the first echelon's charge was not going well, Rezhov immediately dispatched his main force of 2,000 hussars and Cossacks to launch a second attack on the British army.

It was just too late. At this time, the British heavy cavalry brigade had arrived on the battlefield to support the 93rd brigade. The seven hundred heavy cavalrymen slowly climbed the hillside, keeping the same pace and orderly formation. 100 meters away, waving the long sword in his hand and charging.

The vanguard of the British Heavy Cavalry Brigade were the Scottish Grey Knights and the Inniskillings, the 6th Dragoons. They came face to face with the charging Russian cavalry and were completely surrounded. Fortunately, the 4th and 5th Dragoon Regiments of the British Army who followed up soon joined the melee.

The cavalry on both sides were tightly entangled in the trembling, and there was absolutely no room to use swordsmanship.

Sergeant Major Henry Franks of the 5th Dragoons witnessed the simultaneous attack of Private Harry Herbert by three Cossacks:

"He slashed the back of the neck of one of them, killing him instantly. The second hurried away. Then Herbert stabbed the third in the chest, but the blade was three inches from the hilt. Broken... He threw the heavy hilt at the Russian cavalry, hitting him in the face. The Cossack fell to the ground at once..."

Major William Forrest of the 4th Dragoons also recalled: "A Russian hussar chopped at my head, but was blocked by my brass helmet, leaving me only slightly scratched. I immediately charged him with I chopped it off, but I don't think it hurt him much, just like he didn't hurt me. I don't know who hit me on the shoulder. Fortunately, it wasn't heavy. It just cut through the soft armor and injured my shoulder slightly. ."

It seems that the battle is very fierce. The two regiments of cavalry are fighting in one regiment. You have me and I have you, which is dizzying. But what people did not expect is that the fierceness is fierce, but the casualties are really not worth mentioning. The two sides together killed only a dozen people, and another 300 people were injured, most of which were on the Russian side~www.readwn.com~ After ten minutes, the fierce battle came to an end, because the Russian army collapsed first. Now, they turned their horses and fled in the direction of the northern gorge, while the British pursued closely until they came under fire from Russian artillery on the Fijukshi Heights and Causeway Heights.

However, the British heavy cavalry also completed the task. They bought enough time. When they returned from horseback, the British reinforcements outside the city of Sevastopol finally arrived on the battlefield, and then the French reinforcements also arrived.

If the battle ended like this, the British would not be at all bad, not to mention a big victory. But as the Russian cavalry retreated, Raglan, who was watching the battle at Saporn Heights, noticed that the Russians were dragging away the artillery from the British fort on the Causeway Heights.

Suddenly Raglan couldn't stand it, because it is said that the Duke of Wellington never lost a gun in battle, which is the myth and highest honor of the British Army. Raglan and his staff believed that if the British artillery was captured by the Russians and sent to the streets of Sevastopol as trophies, it would be slapped in the face!

Raglan immediately gave orders to the cavalry commander, Lord Lucan, to retake the fort on the Causeway Heights and do everything in his power to prevent the Russians from taking away the artillery, so the British cavalry, who had just won a great victory, was immediately pushed by Raglan. Fire pit!