Struggle in Russia

The battle for the turrets has intensified.

The two sides fought together, sometimes charging to drive the opponent down the hill, only to be countercharged by another force from further up the hill.

Soldiers on both sides were completely disciplined and became a disorderly mob, uncontrolled by the officers, completely dominated by fury and fear.

The inability to see the opponent in the thick fog increased the sense of fear. The two sides continued to charge and counter-charge, shouting and screaming, firing bullets, and dancing wildly with swords. , even kicking and biting with teeth.

In such battles, the synergy of small units is crucial. It all depends on whether the small units and their commanders can maintain their fighting spirit and maintain unity - and only when they do, can they help each other continue to fight, rather than being scared and fleeing.

Obviously the Tarutinsky regiment of the Russian army was not qualified.

Khodashiewicz was the company commander of the 4th Battalion of the Tarutinsky Regiment, and his task was to occupy the British positions east of Incerman Mountain and cover the rest of Pavlov's troops in transporting fortification materials up the hillside.

He lost his way in the thick fog, turned to the left, and mingled with the disgruntled soldiers of the Yekaterinburg regiment, who, as Soymolov's men, had already reached the heights.

Two different troops were mixed into one regiment, which made the command sequence even more confusing. Because there was no officer to command, some soldiers of the Tarutinsky regiment began to climb the mountain again. They could identify some friendly troops in front standing in front of a small battery and shouting and cheering. Shaking their caps motioned them forward.

Khodasevich recalled: "The bugle kept blowing the advance, and some of my soldiers got out of formation and ran straight ahead. By the time we got to the front of the battery, we had no formation at all... We took up our bayonets. After repelling the recalcitrant Britons, the soldiers scrambled together to **** the property and loot from the corpses, making a mess..."

Because of the thick fog and the disruption of combat units, there have been many incidents of friendly fire and misfire on the Russian side. Soymolov's troops, especially the Yekaterinburg regiment, started firing at the Russians in the battery.

Some people thought they were shooting at the enemy, others were ordered by the commander to maintain discipline by having soldiers who obeyed the order shoot at those who didn't.

"It was an extraordinary chaos," Khodasevich recalls. "Some people were complaining about the Yekaterinburg regiment, others were shouting for the artillery, and the bugle continued to blow the advance and the troopers. The drums let us attack, but no one moved forward, just like a flock of sheep standing there dumbfounded."

At this moment, the bugle changed suddenly and began to order the Tarutinsky regiment to turn left, which caused a new panic.

Because most of the soldiers felt that this was for them to deal with the French on the left, because the French bugles could be vaguely heard in the thick fog.

"Where is the reserve team?"

The Tarutinsky regiment, which was worried about being attacked by the French and British troops, was in chaos, and someone shouted: "Where is the reserve?"

But no one could answer this question, and soon the soldiers became confused and began to run down the slope, stamping on each other, leaning forward and back together.

"The officers shouted at the soldiers and ordered them to stop, but no one paid attention, no one wanted to stop," Khodasevich said.

The Tarutinsky regiment fled all the way to the bottom of the quarry ravine, until it was blocked by the aqueduct leading to Sevastopol.

At that time, Lieutenant General Kiriakov, commander of the 17th Infantry Division, who ran faster than a rabbit in the Battle of the Alma River, appeared by the aqueduct. He rode on a tall horse and waved his The horse whip whipped the soldiers and shouted for them to return to the mountain, but none of the soldiers listened to him, and some even confronted him face to face: "Go up yourself!"

When Khodasevic, who stayed in the battery, regrouped and organized his formation, he found that his company had dropped from 120 to 45.

The sound of the drums that caused Tarutinsky's chaos was indeed from the French. At seven o'clock in the morning, when Raglan arrived at the front to inspect the battle, he asked Bosquet for reinforcements, and he ordered two eighteen-pounders to be dragged from the fort that shelled Sevastopol against the Russians. cannon.

It's just that Raglan's order was wrong again. Fortunately, Bosque's troops actually realized the danger in the British position after hearing the earlier gunfire. The soldiers of the Zhuav Division even heard the Russians the night before. The voices of the military marching - the experience of fighting in Africa taught them how to listen to voices from the ground - so the French were ready to support, just waiting for orders.

Moreover, Zhu Afu's most handy situation is to fight in the thick fog, in the mountains covered with bushes, and it is best at ambushing the enemy with small arms.

The soldiers of the Zhuav Division and the French African Chasers eagerly wanted to enter the battle, but Bokes did not move. He paid more attention to the movements of the Liplandi troops in the southern canyon. The French reconnaissance found that there were more than 20,000 Russian troops and Nearly a hundred cannons. At that time, the army had already started shelling them, and it was possible to launch a general attack on them at any time.

In fact, Boske doesn't need to worry about Liplandi at all, because he doesn't have that many troops at all~www.readwn.com~ The reason is that Liplandi ordered half of the troops to stay behind the Joelnaya River as a reserve, The front-line troops were scattered on the slopes at the bottom of the Saporn Heights.

When he heard the sound of guns and guns in the thick fog getting more and more intense, and after finding a few broken British soldiers to ask about the situation, Bokes knew that he couldn't wait any longer.

Bokes came to the Zhu Av division, pulled out his saber, pointed at the thick fog and shouted: "Go forward! Let's go! It's time to destroy the Russians!"

The soldiers of Zhuav's division immediately attacked the Russian army in small units and under the cover of trees. They deliberately made various noises to frighten the Russian army. Play the snare drum as loudly as possible.

Jean-Claire, a colonel of Zhuav's division, even said to his men during the pre-war mobilization: "Open your pants as wide as possible, and try to make you look bigger!"

Don't you say that this trick is very effective. Didn't the Tarutinsky regiment of the Russian army in front of the French army frighten it?

So when Zhu Av's division just killed the Russian army, the Russian army was beaten to shame, and the French army killed hundreds of people with Mignet rifles just after the fight, which caused the Russian army to be even more chaotic...