Struggle in Russia

The 95th Regiment immediately went into battle according to Mailang's order, and they quickly met the same fate as they charged forward along the route of the fallen comrades of the 97th Regiment.

A large number of French soldiers were knocked down by artillery fire, and the corpses in front of Nicholas Bastion were scattered with blood. This was no longer a battle but a one-sided slaughter.

Finally, the French couldn't bear it any longer, and began to lie down to seek cover. After more than ten minutes, a signal rocket finally appeared in the sky - this is the signal of a very positive charge!

It's just that the signal returned to the signal, but the real general attack did not come immediately. The generals of other French troops were not as active as Mailan. When Mailan launched the death charge alone, these people were not ready for battle.

So even if they saw the signal rocket, these people just spread their hands and continued to prepare slowly.

This made Pelissier dumbfounded, because he originally thought that as long as he sent a signal from his side, it would immediately be a shocking charge, but he looked at it for a long time with the telescope. It was a dead silence, as if everyone ignored his signal!

When Perissier learned what happened to the front-line troops, his nose was crooked, but at this time, even if he was furious, he couldn't order the front-line generals to obey, and the French could be mad when they were loose!

In desperation, he could only order the deep reserve team to charge first, but this order aroused even greater confusion.

The reason is very simple. The reserve team feels that they are the second echelon and should start the battle after the first echelon has launched a charge, but now that the first echelon is clearly grinding foreign workers, why should I let Lao Tzu die first?

According to Lieutenant Colonel Sand, the French military's political department, many soldiers refused to leave the trenches, even if the officers threatened them with the harshest punishment, because soldiers had an innate sense of the disaster that awaited them.

Raglan, who was watching the battle on the Vorontsov Ridge, soon discovered that something was wrong with the French, and he thought the attack was likely to turn into a disaster!

Sure enough, the few French troops that launched the attack were killed by the crossfire of the Nicholas Bastion and Vorontsov Bastion as soon as they set off, and the French attacking force was soon defeated.

Raglan made a peculiar decision at this time, since he could have shelled Vorontsov Bastion as originally planned, and then plunged into the infantry charge. But he did not do this, but directly ordered his infantry to start charging!

The reason was that the shelling had to be given up on the basis of duty and honour to the ally, although he later admitted knowing that doing so would be a disaster and would cost a great deal of life, he later wrote to Lord Panmore, Secretary of State for War:

"I was always on guard against being forced to charge at the same time as the French, and I hoped that the French had won before I went into the charge, but when I saw that they were meeting strong resistance, I thought it was an obligation , I must immediately charge to assist them... One thing I am sure of is that if our troops are in dire need of staying in the trenches, the French will attribute their failure to our refusal to join the fight!"

The British charged quickly on Raglan's orders, leaping from the trenches along the ridge and attacking the Vorontsov bastion on the top of the hill, with countless support troops carrying ladders behind them.

However, as soon as the British army emerged from the trenches, they were killed by the concentrated fire of the Russian artillery battery on the top of the mountain. Countless cannonballs fell on their heads, instantly beating the assault troops to their knees.

The first salvo of the Russian army killed a third of the British stormtroopers. Major General Codrington will never forget that morning. He recalled the disastrous consequences of the Russian volley of cannonballs:

As soon as our soldiers climbed out of the trench, the cannonballs flew over their heads. In addition to knocking down many soldiers, the cannonballs also smashed the ground and stirred up soaring dust, so that we couldn't see anything clearly.

The British army was suppressed by the cannonballs in the sky, and the determination of the troops to attack began to waver. Even if the officers scolded and threatened to use various methods to try to reorganize the soldiers, it was still to no avail. Many of the scared soldiers turned their heads and ran away.

After about half an hour, finally the first wave of attackers and a handful of support troops carrying ladders rushed to the Russian army's Luzhai. It was only thirty meters away from the Vorontsov bastion, but as they struggled to pass through the gap between the deer villages, the Russians kept firing on them from the parapet of the bastion, beating the British to their knees.

Even the Russians raised a huge black flag and laughed loudly for the British to hurry up. On the British side, people could be heard shouting: "This is murder!" Because the British found that even though most of them were dying in a pool of blood, the Russians continued to fire for hours.

The British assault troops were getting fewer and fewer, and finally there were only more than a hundred people left. Finally, they could no longer resist the order and began to retreat. Even when the officers threatened to shoot the escapees, they were ignored. According to the surviving British soldiers, we believe that as long as we take one step forward, we will be blown into the air. For us, no matter how many enemies there are, we will not be afraid of fighting, but we are not willing to waste our lives in vain to die!

Finally, the cruel reality made Raglan and Pelissier give in. They ordered to give up the attack. Whether it was the British or the French, the soldiers of the two armies, who were unable to lift their heads under the pressure of the Russian artillery, turned around and ran away. In an instant, he disappeared from the battlefield.

At dawn, the coalition army and the Russian army reached an agreement to declare a truce again, and began to count the number of casualties and rescue the wounded~www.readwn.com~ In just a few hours, the British army paid the price of 3,000 casualties. As for the loss of the French army, it was the British army. Three times the army, the huge casualties of nearly 10,000 people made the French military high-level stunned!

It's just that the exact number of casualties has been suppressed. The reason is naturally that the number is too amazing for the senior officers to lose face.

The only thing worth mentioning is that when Perissier reported to Napoleon III the reason for the failure, he put all the blame on General Mairon, on the grounds that Mairan had changed his attack plan without authorization.

It's just that the real reason is probably that Myron has been killed, and the dead have no way to defend themselves, but Raglan said justice, he believes that the main responsibility for the failure lies in Pelissier, if it is not for him to change the attack plan without authorization, and Confine the attack to Vorontsov Bastion and Nikolai Bastion. If you can launch a full-scale attack, the result may be completely different.

It's just that not many people are willing to listen to Raglan's words, not to mention that he himself feels guilty because of the needless sacrifice of a large number of British soldiers, and soon fell ill and died...