Updated: 09/0/202

Shen Chen went to the British War Office that afternoon, and with the help of Lionel's letter, she found the Secretary of War Sianey? Herbert, with a letter of introduction to the battlefield. Baron Raglan is now not in England, and as early as April 0 he was appointed commander of the expeditionary force and left for Paris, where he began his journey to the Crimea.

At the War Office, Shen Chen received the exact news that the British ** team would land in Crimea in mid-September. She talked to Sinside and Ju Zhuo in the London office of Huafu Company, and left London with Sneike the next day.

In mid-to-late September '54, the war reached the Crimean peninsula in Russia, which is now Ukraine. On the 5th, more than 60,000 French and British troops carrying more than 00 ships landed in Yevpatoria, north of the Russian naval base Sevapotor Fortress, and the siege of Sevastopol Fortress began.

In a series of battles towards the fortress of Sevastopol, the British suffered heavy losses. Although the coalition forces broke through the Russian defense line and approached Sevastopol, they were also suffering terrible casualties, and the cholera outbreak within the coalition army spread, thousands of cholera patients collapsed, and even the French commander-in-chief, San Dojarno, died of cholera disease.

It's already early October, and Shenchen took Sneik to the Crimea region. Snek grabbed a handful of sand on the Black Sea shore and put it in a bottle, handed it to Shenchen, and in the Great Patriotic War, the Soviet tank divisions located in the assault area quickly advanced all the way to the Black Sea, when the great Comrade Stalin did not believe that the Red Army was so smooth, so he asked the tankmen to bring back the sand from the Black Sea.

After much effort, Shen Chen finally met Baron Raglan on the Crimean Peninsula in mid-October, and through letters of introduction from the War Office and Lionel, Shen Chen was granted a concession to enter and leave the barracks.

Naturally, the arrival of a woman in the barracks was a good thing for the morale that had been low after the successful landing in September, at least Shen Chen brought greetings from the Minister of War and a few bottles of brandy, which were rare in war. Although Shen Chen was not Nightingale, he still won the favor of many soldiers by using precious brandy to wash the wounds of the wounded after arriving at the barracks. After all, the vulgar petty burghers and the proletarians are not very demanding, some respect, some conversation.

Of course, Nightingale also came to the Crimea with her aunts and the famous wind lantern, but Shen Chen had not yet met this great woman, but thanks to Nightingale's prestige and Sneick's brandy offensive, a war correspondent named Russell began to pay attention to this free mercenary, or rather a female knight full of pity. For the first time, the Times of London sent an official journalist to join the army in the brutal war, and Russell volunteered. He was a brave journalist, and Russell always went to the front lines of war in order to let the old men of the empire and the ladies full of fantasy and love experience the real war.

Vivid and truthful stories are always the most contagious, and Russell's Crimean War was always printed on the front page when the war reports returned to London on the airwaves, and the newsboys stuffed them into their pockets before dawn. When the capital of the empire woke up in the morning sun, the merchants of the prosperous financial city would buy the latest newspaper for 0pence, and then sit in a sun-drenched coffee shop, drinking black tea brought from Fujian, China, and talking about the war in small groups. The secretary of Downing Street would also hurry up and walk out of the famous three-room hut with the Prime Minister's house cat on night duty for the Prime Minister, and buy today's Times from the newsstand next to him. The Prime Minister was concerned and liked Russell's report. The young and courageous journalist is using his pen to paint a picture of the heroic warriors of the empire.

Russell repeatedly warned Shen Chen that the battlefield was dangerous. He kept paraphrasing Shakespeare's famous phrase, "Woman, your name is weak."

Shen Chen just smiled and didn't make any response.

On 24 October, Shen Chen and Sneike followed the British Light Cavalry Brigade to the Balaclava area. To the surprise of the war correspondent Russell, the ladies of the Empire never seemed to be able to do this, and the great, beautiful and gentle Lady Nightingale was only in the rear hospital.

The commander of the British light cavalry brigade, Earl Cardigan, was an arrogant and reckless man, a good non-commissioned officer, in Sneck's words, an unqualified officer. Sneik was much higher than Shen Chen in his treatment of men, and he soon got mixed up with the brave warrior and uncrowned king. In this situation, Shen Chen seriously doubted the real reason for Lando Sneike's stay in the three monkey bars. The men always use blood and alcohol to communicate their feelings, and maybe everyone should have a drink after this fight.

On the night of October 24, Sneike opened a bottle of brandy and poured a glass for every guest gathered in the tent. For the sake of the queen, Shen Chen first sent a toast, and everyone drank it. The attentive Earl Cardigan noticed how different the cutlery in the military tent was tonight, and the carefully polished metal cutlery was so lightweight, much to the surprise of the well-informed Earl Cardigan.

Understated luxury? Is this the habit of the Orientals? Sure enough, the East is a good place, at least you don't have to fight to the death with the evil Orthodox Christians in this damn place, and there is no loot to take. I noticed that Snyck on the side had a strong Russian accent on his good friend, so he didn't plan to put a map cannon and say that all Orthodox Christians are evil or something. The Earl of Cardigan began to boast of his erudition to Russell while flattering the generosity of the wine's owner.

"Hey, buddy, you know no, it's all made of aluminum! Aluminum, it's a metal that's more expensive than gold. This craft must be made by a famous artist. The shield on your cup, this must be Ms. Shenchen's family crest. A five-pointed star with mysterious Chinese characters written in the middle. Let me guess that Ms. Shenchen's family must have been a military aristocracy, right? Cardigan began to speculate wildly, if it wasn't for the military aristocracy, whose daughter would come to the battlefield?

Although Russell said that he had never seen a real aluminum cup, he was also a person who had seen the world, although he was also shocked by the value of the cup in his hand, but he was more willing to guess the oriental characters engraved on the cup, and the p written below In order to show the difference from those nobles, and by the way, a little show of the style of the parliamentarians, Russell pointed to a horizontal star in the five-pointed star on the cup and said, this must be some mathematical symbol.

Shen Chen was a little surprised that the other party's reasoning ability was half right, so he said that this five-pointed star is a Chinese character, which represents a powerful armed and violent group. They like to carve their logos anywhere they want, such as these cups, which are made for the convenience of tea. Mr. Cardigan is right, it is made of aluminum alloy, and this cup is called a teacup, if it is targeted by this violent gang, everyone calls it please drink tea, and naturally use this cup when drinking tea. Shen Chen said with a smile as he explained.

Cardigan confirmed his guess even more, Shen Chen should come from a powerful military aristocrat in the East. Although the so-called powerful East was only a competent opponent in front of the British Empire. Anyway, at the moment, everyone is friends and comrades-in-arms, so enjoy this hard-won friendship to the fullest. In order to win, Cardigan held out his glass to Shenchen.

For victory. Shen Chen drank the brandy in the cup, and the stomach ache from the hot wine sting, which also reminded her that 54 years was the expiration of the 2-year period of the Treaty of Wangxia, and the British hoped that the Qing Dynasty would be completely opened. Am I being too greedy? Shen Chen was puzzled by the plan he had set at that time. Didn't Sneike, the bad old man raised by the Red Army, have no complaints at all? Asking him to participate in the Crimean War, we are helping our enemies.

let-him-who-desires-peace-perpare-for-war. Shen Chen came with a thoughtless sentence, Cardigan obviously thought that Shen Chen was referring to this war, so he echoed and said, use war to create peace. Russell seems to have heard this quote from a Roman madman, and is more concerned with the phrase itself. When Russell was silent, Shen Chen added, the-wall-shall-shake-at-the-noise-of-horsemen, let the enemy tremble. Russell finished thinking and drank the wine from his glass, and Sneik yelled at him to make them tremble, Ulla. Apparently the drunk had already shaken before the enemy trembled.

Everyone except Sney didn't drink much more, and after eating something, they dispersed. Shen Chen couldn't sleep a little, so he pulled Sneek to sit under the starlight and chat. "If I tell you that this is for your country, and tomorrow your hands will be stained with the blood of your compatriots, will you bear this infamy?" Shen Chen stared at Sneike's eyes and asked word by word.

"This is not my homeland," Sneike said, pointing to the east, "it's not Moscow behind me, my homeland has been ruined by the damn map of the Earth." ”

"Although this is another time and space, they are still your people." Shen Chen handed Sneik a glass of water and said, I can feel your strangeness tonight. "Do you consider yourself an accomplice?"

"I felt pain, although I knew that only by losing the Crimean War would Russia collapse sooner, and the Great Mentor would wake up the people earlier, but I couldn't find a reasonable reason to lift my gun in the face of someone who spoke to me in one voice. They are not enemies that endanger society, they are just soldiers for the Russian Emperor's conquest, I..."

"With me, Sneik, do you know what these men will do in '56, invade Canton, invade my country again, and then the owner of the land where you are, the Russian bear has extended its claws to the east. Who should I hate? Is it the upright Earl Cardigan? Or is it this Russell of London, or damned Europe, including Russia? Capital has no borders, and capitalists have a motherland. Shen Chen took a sip and continued, "Tomorrow, I need you to protect that reckless man, that is, Earl Cardigan, no matter what, I can't let him die. If someone threatens his life, destroy him. When you can, try not to shoot. ”

"Well, I think I've drunk too much." Sneck shook his head.

He put his fist on his chest and said to Shen Chen, "Don't worry, I know what to do tomorrow." We are partners now! Since I have come to this time and space, I am Chinese. That's my promise. With that, he turned back to his tent, lit a kerosene lamp, and began to wipe down his guns in preparation for tomorrow's battle.

As in another time and space, on 25/0/54, in order to break the siege of the fortress of Sevastopol by the Anglo-French forces, 25,000 Russian soldiers crossed the river at 5 a.m. and launched an attack on the fortress occupied by the coalition forces. After heavy fighting, the first multi-sided fort, followed by the second, third, and fourth multi-sided forts were quickly captured, and then the Russian army struck its way along the valley to the south, entering Balaklava, which was defended by the British.

The Cossack cavalry swarmed across the heights into the valley, and the situation was critical. Cardigan's Light Cavalry Regiment roared with a sword of cold light, and Shen Chen and Sneik bravely fought with Cardigan to block the Russian attack.

The routed Russian troops temporarily retreated, trying to carry all the artillery inside the fortress. In the 9th century, the loss of field artillery was considered a disgrace. Perhaps, this is a kind of imprint left on the European military community since Napoleon's creative use of artillery in the early 9th century to achieve successive victories in Europe.

"Baron Raglan wanted the light cavalry to quickly advance to the front line, follow the enemy and prevent him from taking the field artillery. …… Instantly. The herald adjutant shouted the order to Cardigan.

"Baron Raglan ordered the cavalry to attack immediately?"

"Yes." The herald adjutant pointed to the hill behind him, "This is the order of the commander of the coalition forces, Baron Raglan, who is on the hill with you." ”

Cardigan opened his mouth, he wanted to say something, but opened his mouth, said nothing, turned around and was about to give orders.

"No, this is a valley, there are Russian artillery groups on the hills on both sides, and the Russian army on the other side of the 500 meters is digging trenches and defending, if we charge now, we will be cleaned by the Russian army's fire from three sides." Shen Chen grabbed Cardigan's arm.

Cardigan gently pulled away, "An order is an order!" ”

"A suggestion for you." Shen Chen shouted behind Cardigan, "If the Light Cavalry Brigade wants to win, it can only spread out and move forward in an S shape. Rushing straight through in a dense formation, that is to send to death! ”

Cardigan's footsteps paused for a moment, and Shen Chen quickly chased after him, and the two discussed it for a while, and soon the officers of the Light Cavalry Brigade were called together to discuss tactics.

"Forward, light cavalry, charge to the gun emplacement!"

The light cavalry brigade of 67 men of Cardigan was draped in the morning sun, scattered in formation in a heroic battle atmosphere, and began to advance heroically. Cardigan personally rushed to the front with a small detachment of 100 men, followed by a large group of men and horses twenty meters away.

In the face of sporadic artillery fire from the Russian army, the light cavalry brigade held vertical spears and marched at the trotting speed of war horses, and the pennant at the tip of the spear fluttered.

Soon, more than 600 cavalry in a straggler formation all rushed into the canyon, and the formation was spectacular. At this moment, although under fire from three sides, the light cavalry brigade was scattered, and only sporadic soldiers and horses were hit by artillery fire or stray bullets.

Sneck wears armor that is a combination of TG's knockoff MBSS tactical vest and titanium stamped plate armor, with a titanium helmet on his head, and follows Cardigan on horseback. Shen Chen, like Sneike, followed in full gear. Although the protection on her body was already quite strong, Shen Chen was still very nervous, she clutched the reins tightly, her legs clamped the saddle, and her face was pale, as if the blood in her whole body was in her lower limbs.

Shen Chen visually measured that it was less than 00 meters away from the Russian army's position, and she shouted loudly: "00 meters, almost close to the range of the smoothbore gun." ”

With Cardigan's order, the horses of the first group of light cavalry quickened their march and began to advance in an S-shape. The Russian field artillery blocked the fire at an increasingly close rate, and the Russian infantry waited quietly.

The British cavalry braved the artillery fire to maintain formation and rushed to a distance of 0 meters from the Russian position, and the Russian infantry opened fire at the same time.

The commander, Count Cardigan, was the target of the Russians' attention, and his mount was unfortunately shot and he fell off his horse. Through the smoke of gunfire, Sneek rushed over, and Cardigan, with a quick eye, grabbed Snyk's outstretched hand, turned over and sat behind Snyk.

"Forward, light cavalry, charge to the gun emplacement!" Cardigan's loud command. ”

The gunfire of the Russian soldiers was the signal, and there was no need for the officer to order, all the British light cavalry leveled their spears, and the war horses began to accelerate to the Russian guns in a straight line. At a distance of several tens of meters, the cavalry rushed over at once, and after the spear stabbed the Russian target in front of them, the light cavalry threw down their spears, drew their sabers, and rushed left and right in the Russian position.

Shen Chen felt the pungent smell of gunpowder and shrapnel flying in the air, but she didn't care about it. Shen Chen's gaze was fixed on a Russian commander as she raised the steel crossbow she had brought from the original plane.

The Russian commander went to Cardigan and was gathering several musketeers around him to aim at Cardigan for another round of shooting. At this moment, a poisonous arrow flew over, and Shen Chen sent him directly to heaven.

Soon the brigade of the second line also rushed over, the sabers flashed, and the Russian shooters rushed to the wolves, hugging their heads and running around. In a few encounters, Cardigan's hussar brigade broke one of the Russian infantry columns, scattered the enemy like hay and captured the artillery position.

"Thank you, honorable knightess, and accept the most sincere respect from an English earl." Cardigan bowed to Shen Chen, "You and your subordinates have saved my light cavalry brigade, and you have saved me. ”

Russell was at the headquarters of the British army on a mesa overlooking the battlefield, and everything on the battlefield was in his sights. It was as if he had witnessed this heroic feat in the box of the theater.

As soon as the battle was over, Russell sat in the saddle and wrote the war newsletter "Hussar Brigade Charge", which was immediately sent to London.