The big picture was indeed decided, the Turks lost the battle, they were not able to break through the Russian lines today, and on their own lines they were unable to hold back the Russians, losing the most critical heights. In such a situation, they will have no chance of breaking through the Russian lines tomorrow. In today's situation, it is not easy for them to sustain themselves from collapsing. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that it was getting late, preventing both sides from conducting a new military operation, perhaps the Turks would have collapsed on the spot.

Although the arrival of darkness saved the Turkish army temporarily, it could not change the plight of the Turkish army, and the Turks could not advance or retreat now, and they could not hold on for long.

By noon the next day, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable for the Turks, and the Russian Danube flotilla joined the battle. This fleet is not large, and there are not many cannons, only a dozen or so cannons. But their accession brought valuable supplies to General Bagration. The possibility of the Turks breaking through Bagration's defenses is now completely non-existent.

Of course, with the strength of the Russian army, it is naturally impossible to surround the Turks with a larger number of people, in fact, they only control the road. It seems that the Turks could also flee if they abandoned the road. But the risk of doing so is actually very large, because the cannons and all kinds of baggage are inseparable from the road, which means that they have to abandon all the artillery and baggage and march entirely on their legs.

They don't have much weapons and ammunition with them, they can't bring much food, and the enemy forces control the roads and can move faster than them, and they can easily be completely defeated under the constant attacks of the enemy army.

In many cases, the dominant side on the battlefield will often come up with a trick of "surrounding three ques", which seems to give the enemy a way to escape, but if the enemy runs according to this way of life, then most of them will be easily eliminated in the subsequent pursuit. Compared with the airtight encirclement and fierce attack, for the attacking side, the cost of time, life, and materials is much lower.

Arandar Mustafa Pasha knew that if his army left the wagons behind and fled off the road, not even a tenth of them would be able to escape back, considering the distance of one or two hundred kilometers in between. And in the process of destroying them, the Russians will hardly lose anything other than weapons and ammunition, and the result is even worse than staying where they are, and finally eating up the food and horses, and then surrendering en masse. Because although the latter method lost one-tenth more people, it dragged the main force of the Russian army and bought time for the response of the Turkish army in the rear.

Of course, the news had to be sent, so Arandar Mustafa Pasha sent a few cavalrymen, each with several horses, and hung a cloth bag around the neck of each of them, filled with beans and other concentrates, and then broke out from the place where there was no road, and reported the situation to the country.

Naturally, the Russian army has been keeping an eye on the Turks, and after discovering that the Turkish army sent messengers, it naturally also sent cavalry to pursue and intercept them. However, although the Don hippopotamus of the Russian cavalry has the advantages of being hard-working, easy to raise, and mild-tempered, in terms of speed, this horse is not outstanding. At least not on par with the Arabian horses in the hands of the Turks. In terms of absolute speed and endurance, the Don hippopotamus is not as good as the Arabian horses in the hands of the Turks. (Of course, the Don hippopotamus is much cheaper to keep and can adapt to cold conditions, which is indispensable for Arabian horses.) ）

Therefore, the Russians' efforts to stop the Turkish messengers were not successful, and thanks to the speed and endurance of the horses, most of the messengers were able to escape the Russians' interception with considerable ease.

On the other side, Arandhar Mustafa Pasha gathered the remaining troops and built fortifications in preparation for defense. He constantly cheered up the soldiers, convincing them that reinforcements would soon be sent from the country to rescue them, and at this time, of course, "as long as they hold on, there is a way".

But in fact, Arandar Mustafa Pasha was well aware that there was no reinforcement in the country. This was just a slight morale boost so that the soldiers could hold out longer.

In the face of Arandar Mustafa Pasha's iron bucket formation, neither Kutuzov nor General Bagration had any intention of launching a general offensive and solving it in one fell swoop. It's not because they can't do it, it's that they're already in a state of victory, there's no need to do it at all, it's not worth it to do so at a great cost of casualties, anyway, the supply lines of the Turks are already broken, and it won't be long before they run out of ammunition and collapse on their own.

So there was a strange silence on the battlefield, the Russian army looked at the Turks quietly, and the Turks also looked at the Russian army quietly, but neither side took the initiative to attack, and the war seemed to have turned into a sit-in.

But the Russian army has good logistical supplies. And the Turks were left without supplies. In order to last longer, the Turks began to impose food restrictions. The soldiers' rations were halved, and all the soldiers were so hungry that their eyes were shining, and their legs and stomachs were trembling. But the food ran out quickly.

So the Turks began to slaughter war horses, but the number of war horses was also limited, and each soldier could naturally get very little, so most of the soldiers were still hungry.

As for the Russians, what they are best at is taking advantage of the danger of others. They didn't pounce on the attack directly, but what they did was more terrifying than Sister Hui rushing up to attack. They found an upper hand and grilled the sausages. Let the wind bring the aroma of the sausages to the Turks.

They also shouted to the Turks, telling them that if they were willing to come and surrender with weapons, there would be pork sausages and vodka.

According to the teachings of the Star Moon Sect, these two things are forbidden. Therefore, it stands to reason that it should be very difficult to use these two things to tempt a person who believes in the Star Moon Sect. But there are also Turkish soldiers who believe in the Star and Moon Cult, who come running with weapons, and then start eating (grilled sausages) and drinking (vodka), becoming shameful apostates.

In this way, after holding out for more than half a month, the war horses were not eaten up, even the nearby rats had already moved for safety reasons, and the Turks finally couldn't stand the hunger, so they sent personnel, hoping to discuss the surrender with the Russians.