Bagration knows better than anyone what the success or failure of the battle at Astrakhan means. He knew that the Motherland was looking forward to him, that millions of people in Russia were expecting him, that countless kings and nobles of Europe, large and small, were expecting him to give a victorious answer to the outcome of the war. This war is related to his fate, to the fate of Russia and more than 100,000 Russian troops, and even to the fate of Europe, and to the fate of monotheistic civilization.

For Bagration, the burden of the latter two is too heavy and too heavy, he is not the Napoleon who threatens the continent, he does not need to think about the future of the whole of Europe, he only needs to think about Russia for himself. The pressure of the first two is heavy enough, who can be indifferent to things related to their life and death?

Bagration was ostensibly calm because he was adept at maintaining his composure during the most tense moments of the battle. His bravery and persistence are never senseless bravery, it is just recklessness, just brainlessness, there are thousands of such people in the Russian army, and he, Pyotr Ivanovich Bagration, was able to stand out from the countless descendants of nobles in the Russian army, was able to be awarded the title of prince, and was able to be awarded the rank of cavalry general, which relied on his brain.

In the most tense moments of the battle, he can keep his head calm; In the most dangerous moments of battle, he was able to keep his mind calm.

Only in this way can he fight against the 30,000 French troops with 6,000 grenadiers in Shengraben, cover the main force of the Russian army and retreat to the Vienna Zneim Avenue under the pursuit of 200,000 French troops, and then lead his subordinates to re-encircle and rush to join the main force after the task is completed. In the Fourth War against France, it was Kutuzov's old strategy and Bagration's brilliant empress that enabled Napoleon to completely defeat the Russian army before the Battle of the Three Emperors. In the final Armageddon, the right flank of the coalition army commanded by Bagration confronted Murat and Lana, and was able to maintain good order when the coalition forces were defeated.

This is by no means blindly brave, but more of a wise brain, the wisdom of war!

And with Kutuzov's loss of power again, the Russian army has also seen clearly Alexander I's prejudice against Kutuzov, and it can be said that Bagration has already taken over Kutuzov's banner, and one of his hands has been held on the flagpole of the military flag. Under these circumstances, Bagration could no longer look at war purely from a military point of view as a soldier.

The military is a continuation of politics.

This is a sentence recorded by the Chinese when they analyzed the war in their military teaching materials, which spread throughout Europe twenty years ago and was deeply recognized by European military circles.

The Chinese also say that military personnel do not interfere in politics, but military personnel cannot not understand politics and cannot fail to stress politics.

China's high-ranking military generals must understand and stress politics.

This is the case with Bagration, who has passed the stage of being a mere military general, and as a banner of the Russian army he must bring politics.

Now Bagration's 'politics' is that he must maintain his position, and if the position of commander of the Eastern Front is taken by Bennigsen, it will be a heavy blow to the entire Russian army nativism.

But this should be good for the authority of the tsar, there is no real leader in the entire army, and the leader of the Russian army can only be the tsar.

Historically, Bagration died of his wounds at the Battle of Borodino, and throughout the Napoleonic Wars, Alexander I only sparedly rewarded Kutuzov and Barclay, who died of illness the following year after the end of the Franco-Russian War in 1812. And because Barclay was strict in governing the army, which made him gain an excellent reputation among the French residents, but he invisibly offended a large number of Russian officers and soldiers. In his later years, he was slandered and died of depression.

During this period, the Russian army, which had many marshals like dogs at the end of the 18th century, did not have a single active marshal, let alone a generalissimo like Suvorov.

Ivan Vasilyevich Gudovich was made Marshal of Russia in 1807, but he received the rank of Marshal from the Ottomans, and the year after he was ordained Marshal he retired from the army because he lost sight in one eye.

A year later, he was elected a member of the State Council and a member of the council, but by this time the marshal of the Russian army had degenerated into an eccentric old man. In 1812 he retired completely. As a large landowner, Gudovich had about 13,000 serfs and spent his old age playing music and hunting.

But that was in the original time and space, in the current world changed by Chen Ming, the Seventh Russo-Turkish War had not broken out at all, Gudovich retired in 1810, and until he retired, he was only an army general. Alexander Aleksandrovich Prozorovsky, who had been promoted to field marshal with him in the original plane, did not die of illness in the army near Merchin in defeat, but chose to retire with Gudovich, although he died on his estate only two months after retiring at the age of seventy-eight, which was also a year longer than the original plane.

Therefore, after the death of Generalissimo Suvorov in 1800, the Russian army has experienced 13 years without a marshal, knowing that Tukuzov was made a marshal, but this obese veteran is already sick and decrepit.

This is really ridiculous, Paul I was able to offend seven marshals including Suvorov in one go, but before Paul I was sent to see God, those old marshals who were canonized during the time of Catherine II went to see God one by one.

Then the historical Alexander I was not canonized as a Russian marshal for more than ten years after Kutuzov and Barclay, until his death.

It was not until his brother, the third Nicholas I, succeeded to the throne that he immediately canonized Wittgenstein and Austin Saken as marshals. ended the history of the Russian army without a marshal for more than ten years, and at that time, the Romanovs had greater control over the army.

But some things in the original time and space are impossible to happen in Russia at the moment.

The Russian army had a new leader, and as long as Bagration did not suffer a major defeat under the city of Astrakhan, he would inevitably be made field marshal by Alexander I at a later date. But this premise is that he cannot fight a big defeat on the battlefield of the Eastern Front!

Bagration can 'dry thunder and not rain' on the periphery of the Chinese's defensive circle, and in any case, the Chinese artillery will not be able to bombard the town named 'New Astrakhan' on the banks of the Volga River and seize the time to repair the tunnel defense line and fortress after fortress.

But it's a loss of points.

The Russian army came to Astrakhan after the hard fighting of Turinsk, and along the way, they were cheering up their soldiers for the purpose of recovering Astrakhan. It will give people a handle!

Bagration believed in the power of the warriors who fought to defend their homeland; He believed that the Russian warriors would not retreat, and he would definitely be able to rush to the city of Astrakhan, even if it would cost a lot of sacrifice and blood, but as long as the Russian shells could fall on Astrakhan's head, it would be a great victory for Bagration.

So Bagration is very calm in his heart, because the casualty figure of the Russian army is far from reaching his psychological bottom line - 50,000.

Of course, the sacrifices paid by the Russian army were definitely not bloodied in vain, 50,000 people were the price, and the goal that Bagration set for himself was to shoot shells into the city of Astrakhan.

The fighting spirit of the Russian army was very strong, and even the newly formed units did not show weakness in battle, as evidenced by the 27th Division commanded by Mikhail Semenovich Vorontsov. The division was one of three divisions that had been reorganized by the remnants of Dokhturov after the Battle of Turinsk, and the soldiers had all gone through the previous difficult battles, and it was not yet a month since then, but when they were thrown into the battlefield, the performance was absolutely amazing.

On the battlefields of Astrakhan, the Russian army, which fought for the defense of the Motherland, is really a heroic army.

Even Chen Wei was amazed by the performance of the Russian army, in the previous Sino-Russian battles, the Russians did not behave so toughly. He watched the Russian soldiers on the battlefield retreat one by one, and then slaughtered them again, and two idioms came to mind: regard death as home, and would rather die than give in.

"There are patriots in every country." It was the burning patriotic fervor that made the Russian generals and soldiers so loyal and heroic. If it weren't for this momentum, the army would have been routed long ago......

In this battle, Chen Wei's will began to waver for the first time, but he was not discouraged. Didn't you see that the performance of Chinese soldiers on the battlefield was not bad?

The infantry regiments of the Seven Khanates could not hold out, but the Chinese infantry remained extremely strong.

But Chen Wei also knew in his heart that the reason why China's various troops behaved so toughly, in the final analysis, was still different from the Russians.

As an invader, Chen Han's army could not have the ardent determination to defend the country. However, as a 'heaven and court', the pride of Chen Han's army cannot be underestimated.

Because glorious traditions are also a great force.

A strong army, an army that has been victorious and undefeated, it is difficult to bow to the opponent and admit defeat in a close battle.

Otherwise, 'pride' would not have been classified as one of the original sins of human nature by n different religions.

Supported by the power of pride, China's national defense forces also fought the Russians without showing weakness in blood and fire.

The number of troops on Chen Han's side was 30,000 more than that of the Russian army, which was not a big advantage in the entire battle, but when it came to a small battlefield in a big war, it was still very powerful. If the 1450,000 troops are all genuine Wehrmacht, the result of this fight, the Russian army is very likely to end in defeat. But alas, they are not.

Of the 1440,000 troops commanded by Chen Wei, the Chinese army was only 80,000, more than half, and the rest were all troops of the Seven Khanates, and many of them were cavalry. After dividing these cavalry units, in terms of the number of infantry, the army in Chen Wei's hands was not more than that of the Russian army, and there was still a small half of it that was the army of the Seven Khanates. To a certain extent, these armies have really dragged down the Wehrmacht.

On the front-line battlefield of "these Mongols ......", Pan Chang looked at the retreating Khalkha and Chahar infantry regiments, and he was so angry that he really didn't know what to say. The infantry of these two khanates and the Heshute Khanate, they are all third-rate goods, not to mention compared with the Wehrmacht and the Japanese soldiers, even the Gurkha are much stronger than them, that is, the Turks are performing well.

The infantry of the Khalkha Khanate and the Chahar Khanate retreated, and Pan Chang did not immediately let the rearly adjusted Wehrmacht go to the top, but sent the cavalry units of the Kazakhs, and the Russian army was about to chase them, so they had to rush at them with cavalry.