Arandar Mustafa Pasha's guess about Bagration's troops was generally not bad, Bagration's troops were lightly armed, they did not carry much supplies, and after a full day of fighting, there was indeed a certain lack of ammunition. And his position also makes it difficult or even impossible for the Russian army to send supply teams to him.

But General Bagration's army, however, was much better off than Arandar Mustafa Pasha had estimated. This is mainly due to two reasons, one is because the battlefield is controlled by the Russians, so after the battle, the right to touch the corpse is in the hands of the Russians. Although the Turks mainly wanted to rely on those trash fish to consume Bagration's bullets on the first day of attack, so these trash fish generally carried less ammunition, but less and less, there are always some, just like the larvae of the longhorn beetle, although they are a little smaller, but after removing the head, there is always some protein.

So after cleaning up the battlefield, the Russians still got some ammunition. In addition, because the main thing that rushed up was the larvae of the longhorn beetle, which was not well trained and morale was not high enough, ah, no, it was the Sultan's own soldiers. (The Sultan's own army was once the most powerful and fearsome army of the Ottomans, and at one time, like a certain army in a certain country in the East, gained the reputation of "so-and-so is less than ten thousand, but full of ten thousand invincibles.") However, by now, this army has begun to encounter similar problems to that of an army in an eastern country. But to be honest, the Sultan's own troops are still much stronger than the army of a certain country in the east, at least they can still be used as auxiliaries, and even under the supervision of the warlords, they can still charge the Russians' positions. It is not like the army in the East that loves art and loves peace. ）

As for the Sultan's own soldiers, if everyone shoots bullets at each other, then even if the casualties are larger, they can still support them for a while. If the Russians shoot at them, then the task of consuming Russian bullets can still be completed.

But General Bagration soon saw what was coming to him. So he gave this order to his subordinates: "Let them come near, don't shoot, and when they get close, beat them down with bayonets!" "Speaking of which, the Russian Army's long-standing credo – bullets are stupid, bayonets are heroes – was used to by the Sultan's own soldiers.

Facts have also proved that bayonets are indeed the best means of dealing with Sudanese soldiers, and the Russian army waited in the second line of trenches for Sudanese soldiers to approach the first line of trenches. As the Sultan's soldiers approached the first line of trenches, they threw a round of grenades indiscriminately, which made the hearts of the Russians, including Bagration, hurt.

"Damn dog thing! Don't litter! That's all mine! It's all mine! ”

Then, the Russians dug trenches very specially, the second to the trench and the first trench were only ten meters away. Before the smoke of the grenade explosion had cleared, the Ivan swooped down with bayonets and screams. Then, naturally, the Sultan's own soldiers turned their heads and ran, and then Ivan chased and stabbed all the way, and after the stabbing, they all squatted down and touched the corpse to see if there was anything to be done.

In general, the probability of the Sultan's own soldiers breaking things is not high, and what comes out is low-end whiteboard goods. Even with a dot prefix, it's basically "inferior", "damaged", "broken" and the like. For example, the grenades are basically Turkish homemade, (during Selim III's reforms, Ottoman Turkey also built an arsenal with the help of the French and began to produce some new weapons.) However, because of the chaotic management, embezzlement, and cutting corners, the things produced are not only of poor quality, but often have prefixes such as "broken" and "damaged", and the price is not cheap. Of course, all such things were lost to the Sultan's own soldiers. There aren't even many low-priced knockoffs from England with the "inferior" prefix, and even more so the authentic "Bonaparte melon" with the "super-strong" prefix.

But something is better than nothing. So after a day of fighting, the Russians' loss of ammunition is really not particularly large.

Early the next morning, as soon as the morning fog cleared, Arandhar Mustafa Pasha sent his most elite troops and began a decisive assault on the Russian positions in Bagration. He left behind the Sultan's own soldiers, who had been killed yesterday, and left behind a part of the Overseers to oversee their resistance to Kutuzov's army. Then he attacked the position of General Bagration with the most elite army of 30,000 men.

As soon as he saw the outfit of the Turks opposite, General Bagration understood that the decisive time had come. He gave an impassioned speech to the soldiers, telling them that this would be the most decisive battle, and that if the main force of the Turks was eliminated in this battle, the great cause of recovering Constantinople, recovering Rome, and returning the old capital would be within reach.

This phrase was addressed to those noble officers in the army. For them, having the double-headed eagle flag flutter in Constantinople was, of course, very attractive to these noble officers. But this was not very attractive to the other gray animals, who had no idea what Constantinople was, who had nothing to do with the Senate and the Roman people, who didn't even know what the Tsar's double-headed eagle banner meant. The glory of the Senate and the Roman people could not inspire them.

So General Bagration then spoke to them: "Constantinople is the holy place of Christ, and there is the most important church of the Orthodox Church, the Cathedral of St. Sophia, which is the seat of the Ecumenical Patriarch. It is the glory of God and Our Lady. But since the evil heretics conquered Constantine, they have converted this glorious church into a pagan, desecrated temple of the stars and moons!

What a humiliation, O devout believers! Our Lady is crying over this! Think about it, if we had the opportunity to liberate them, to expel the wicked heretics from the temple of our Father, and to make the temple shine again, but because of our weakness we failed to stop the infidels, and thus missed the opportunity to restore the holy place of God, then in the future, when we are old and dead, and our souls come to the gates of Heaven, we will be embarrassed to step into the gates of Heaven in the face of St. Peter, who guards the keys?

The Gospels say, 'Whoever will save his life will lose it; Whoever loses his life for me will save it. 'If we had spared the heretics today because of cowardice, weakness, fear of losing our lives; How will we be qualified to enter the gates of heaven in the future?

Therefore, for the sake of the multitude of saints, for the sake of Our Lady of Tears, for the salvation of the souls of all of us, I beseech you, and I command you, to fight to the death with all courage and zeal against those wicked infidels!

In today's battle, no one is allowed to take a step back! When the squad leader retreats and escapes, any soldier can shoot him; When the platoon commander retreats and flees, any soldier can shoot him; When the company commander retreats and escapes, any soldier can shoot him; Anyone, including me, can shoot him if he retreats and runs away! ”

The level of education of the Russians is not high, so the influence of religion in Russia is quite large, the lower the level, the more livestock, the more pious. If Bagration's speech had been addressed to the French, there would have been a lot of laughter below, and everyone would have thought of him as a harlequin who deliberately made everyone laugh. It's like when Yukio Mishima gave a lecture on the revival of bushido to the civil servants of the Self-Defense Forces on the balcony. For the mud people of later generations, the era of "smoke fluctuations in the Miluo abyss" has passed, and for the French, crusader fervor is a thing of the past.

But in Russia, this set of things is still very impressive, and the soldiers are also excited because of this speech. General Bagration was very happy to see that the morale of the people was high, so he struck while the iron was hot and promised everyone: "If you win this battle, everyone will have vodka." If in the future, we can liberate Constantinople, then I will drink with you for three days and three nights! ”

As a result, the whole army immediately burst into a deafening "Ula" sound.

Then the Turks ran head-on.

The intensity of today's battle far exceeds that of yesterday, and the fighting will and fighting skills of today's Turkish army are far from being comparable to yesterday's Sultan soldiers.

Because of the limited time and materials, the defensive positions of the Russian army themselves are not perfect, and the defensive bonuses that can be provided are limited. As a result, the Turks were able to rush to the positions of the Russian army in almost every attack. And almost every time the Russian army has to rely on white-knuckle combat to beat the Turks back. The consumption of ammunition is also far from comparable to yesterday. At the most critical moment, General Bagration even rushed forward with a revolver in one hand and a saber in the other.

But the situation of the Turks was just as bad, rushing forward again and again, and then being beaten back again and again by the Russians, not to mention the heavy casualties of the soldiers, and even worse, in the back, those Sultan's own soldiers became more and more unable to stop Kutuzov's attack, and just now, these guys even broke out, so that one of the most critical heights fell into the hands of Kutuzov.

Kutuzov could cover the surrounding targets by simply pulling the cannon to the heights, a bit like Napoleon in the Battle of Austerlitz in another time and space, after Napoleon dragged the cannon up the Platzen Heights. At that time, the defenses of the Turkish troops would definitely have been broken before they broke through the Russians.

In order to avoid this terrible situation, Arandar Mustafa Pasha had to redeploy the troops that were supposed to be used as follow-up forces to continue the assault on General Bagration's position in an attempt to recapture the high ground, but this move in itself meant that today's assault was too likely to succeed.

When the Turkish army began to retreat back in a panic, General Bagration immediately noticed the change in the situation, he stood up on the back of his war horse, looked at the retreating Turks, and saw that the Turkish flag was crooked and the ranks were disorganized. An order was immediately issued to the Cossack cavalry units to assault on all fronts.

The Cossacks shouted "Ula", urged their horses, brandished their sabers and rushed towards the retreating Turks, whose cavalry had been transferred to the rear to resist Kutuzov's attack, so for a while, the Turks had no other cavalry to deal with those Cossacks.

But if the infantry was prepared, the cavalry, especially the light cavalry like the Cossacks, actually had a limited threat. After all, the range and accuracy of the rifles far exceeded those in the hands of the Cossacks, while the homemade revolvers with the prefix "inferior" and sabers were only 90 cm long. But at this time the Turks were not ready to defend against the cavalry, their formation was disorganized, and their attention was on Kutuzov's side, and by the time they found the Cossacks rushing up, it was too late to make an appropriate response.

But these Turks were still elite, pagans trained by the French, and they fired a volley before the Cossacks rushed up. This round of volleys killed a lot of Cossacks. But they didn't have a chance to shoot a second shot.

The Cossacks shouted wildly, and with the speed of their horses, threw a large grenade at them, and then slammed into them with their sabers.

This round of grenades disrupted the already unruly formation of the Turks, and then the cavalry collided. The cavalry captain Merekhov stretched out his saber and, with the speed of his horse, with a slight drag, cut down a Turk to the ground; Then he leaned out to the left and slashed the other Turk, who was fleeing with his back.

Driven by the cavalry, these Turks were in disarray, they ran back haphazardly, while the Cossacks deliberately controlled the speed and drove them, like a sheepdog driving a flock. They then ran headlong into the other Turkish armies, swept them in as well, and snowballed the size of the out-of-control, chaotic rout.

In order to prevent the whole army from being swept in, Arandar Mustafa Pasha had to stop the retreat and open fire on the routs of the shock formation, thus repelling the Russian counterattack. But it also meant that his reinforcements for the battles in the rear were too late.

Kutuzov used this time to consolidate the defense of the heights, and now, so to speak, the overall situation has been decided.