Immediately after the accession to the throne of the new Tsar Alexander II, the commander of the original Russian garrison in the Crimea, Alexander V. Sergeyevich. Menshikov dismissed, appointed Mikhail? Dmitrievich? Gorchakov was appointed commander-in-chief of the new Russian front in the Crimea, and made the Russian ambassador to Austria in Vienna, Alexander Murphy. Mikhailovich. Gorchakov met with the Austrian Emperor Joseph and tried to ask for peace talks. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Austrian Emperor Joseph was overjoyed and immediately opened the Russian concession to cede the mouth of the Danube and southern Bessarabia to Moldavia, while Austria permanently occupied Wallachia and Moldavia, while Serbia and Wallachia were handed over to Britain and France under joint administration, the Black Sea was neutralized, warships of various countries were prohibited from passing through the straits, and Russia was prohibited from establishing or maintaining arsenals on the Black Sea coast.

Sure enough, Russia found it difficult to accept, but was willing to bargain, and as soon as the news came out, the British, French and Turkish forces immediately relieved themselves. They all believe that Russia will not last long and that the war will soon be over.

It's just that no one could have imagined that the newly enthroned Tsar Alexander II was extremely bold and directly announced that all Russian soldiers who died in battle would be subsidized with 0.2 hectares of land, so as to relieve the worries of Russian soldiers who died in battle.

At the same time, Alexander II began to embark on preliminary preparations for the attempt to emancipate serfdom.

He declared that if the serfs in Lithuania and Poland, Kiev and other more enlightened regions joined the army, not only would they be emancipated as serfs, but each serf would receive a payment of 0.3 hectares of land from the Russian Empire, and that he, the Emperor of the Russian Empire, would take care of the soldiers and cultivate them, or that their families could sell or cultivate them themselves.

Moreover, in order to prevent the opposition of the serf owners, as long as the serfs under their rule joined the army, the serf owners would receive compensation and honor from the state, and even if the Russian Empire bought serfs from them, they would pay them after one to three years, although the price was not as high as the real serfs, but it would not suffer too much. At the same time, in order to avoid causing a large number of serfs in these regions to join the army and cause regional turmoil, Alexander II directly ordered that prisoners of war and other populations be captured from Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East, and transported to Eastern Europe to serve as serfs in place of local serfs who joined the army.

As soon as the order was issued, the entire Russian-ruled regions of Eastern Europe, such as Lithuania and Poland, exploded, and hundreds of thousands of serfs asked to join the army, and some even brought their own hunting rifles and mules and horses, and asked to go to the battlefield in order to relieve themselves of their serf status in exchange for land.

Overjoyed, Alexander II quickly sent his cronies to secretly organize this army of serfs, quietly assembled, and after a short month of intensive training, he rushed to the front line of the Crimean battlefield.

At this time, the British, French and other allied forces just ended the second large-scale artillery bombardment of the fortress of Sevastopol, and the allied forces invested more than 500 artillery pieces and fired 160,000 shells. In response, the Russian troops inside the fortress fired back 100,000 shells with a thousand cannons.

After nearly ten days of shelling, the Russian army suffered more than 6,000 casualties, while on the coalition side, the French army suffered only more than 1,500 casualties and the British army suffered 300 casualties. The offensive and defensive battle of the entire position turned into a huge tug-of-war, although the Russian army suffered heavy casualties, but the commander at this time, Mikhail? Dmitrievich? Gorchakov had received a secret order from the newly enthroned Emperor Alexander II that a large number of reinforcements were arriving from the country, so he resisted the pressure and forcibly ordered the Russian soldiers to hold on at all costs.

Ten days after the shelling, the Allied forces advanced only 100 yards, and the British were only one-fifth dead for thousands of French troops, much to the annoyance of the closely watched French emperor, who ordered the French not to attack as the main force, but to let the British army as the main force. After all, France's purpose was to deteriorate the relationship between Tsarist Russia and Austria and Prussia, and now the relationship between Austria and Tsarist Russia is not tolerant of water and fire, and the expected goal has been achieved, and then entering the war is just to give its ally Britain some face, and at the same time hope to end the war as soon as possible and divide some interests, therefore, there is no need for the French army to act as the main force on the front line.

Originally, the British planned an expedition to Kerch on the Sea of Azov. Kerch was the logistics center of the Russian army, where the supplies brought from the Russian interior were piled up, and once Kerch was captured or the supplies of the Russian army were burned, the war could end early.

But two hours after the departure of the Anglo-French fleet, a telegram from the French Emperor Napoleon III arrived, ordering the French fleet to return to the sea, saying that any weakening of the siege of Sevas-Potor would not be allowed.

The French ships in the combined fleet were able to return home, but the British lost French support and were weak, so they had to follow the French ships back.

Something like this happens over and over again. As a result, the reluctance of the French emperor to fight had a major impact on the relationship between the British and French forces, and the British army was very dissatisfied with the French army's approach, and many battle plans that required the cooperation of the French army were constantly canceled, and although victory was in sight, the British commanders began to worry about the prospects of the alliance.

In desperation, the French commander Carlobot resigned directly to the emperor and continued to be his division commander.

At this time, Britain was led by Queen Victoria, first French Emperor Napoleon III protested, asking the French troops on the Crimean front battlefield to fully cooperate and win the war together, and at the same time, on behalf of Britain, promised that once the war reparations were obtained, 50% would go to France, Britain only needed 30%, and the rest would go to Turkey and the Kingdom of Sardinia and other warring parties.

With this assurance, the French Emperor Napoleon III agreed to an all-out attack by the French army. He immediately appointed Aimable. Let. Jacques. Pelissier became the commander of the French forces at the front, and immediately upon his arrival, Pelisier launched a brutal night assault between the central fortress and the bay.

Despite the heavy casualties of the French army, the French succeeded in achieving their goal, essentially isolating the fortress of Sevastopol. At the same time, the French Emperor Napoleon III approved the plans for the attack on Kerch by the coalition forces.

The Supreme Commander of the British Army, Lord Raglan, was overjoyed and immediately ordered the British fleet, together with the French fleet, to make an expedition to the Kerch Strait in the Sea of Azov.

When the combined fleet of Britain and France landed in Kerch, it suddenly found that it was originally just a supply base for logistics materials on the other side's front, and there were nearly 40,000 Russian troops stationed, although the weapons were only inferior flintlock shotguns and smoothbore guns, but they could not withstand the large number of people, and the marines of the coalition fleet were quickly surrounded and wiped out, and even more than a dozen warships were captured.

As a result, the entire situation of the war was reversed, and the Russian army took the opportunity to attack, with a large number of land infantry and artillery appearing in the Crimea region, and 100,000 Russian infantry directly around the fortress of Sevastopol.

With careful arrangement and deliberate concealment, the superior Russian army was able to suddenly appear in front of the coalition forces besieging the fortress of Sevastopol. The coalition forces besieging the fortress of Sevastopol launched a field battle with the Russian army, and the smoke of artillery and muskets on both sides drowned the entire fortress, and the Russian army in this battle purely relied on the tactics of the sea of people, they rushed the new serf Russian army to the front, acting as a meat shield, and the elite Russian army was behind, exchanging human lives for human lives, and the cruel price of killing more than 20,000 Russian troops in the battle was in exchange for more than 5,000 French casualties and 2,000 British casualties.

Despite the heavy losses and huge losses suffered by the Russians, they achieved their goal: although the Anglo-French forces did not retreat, they abandoned the siege of the fortress of Sevastopol, and only confronted the Russian troops stationed in the fortress in the south with the United Fleet as the support. All of a sudden, the war came to a stalemate.

At this time, the time came to May and June, and the weather slowly warmed up, so that the most unforgettable nightmare of the British and French forces began!