In the days after the Ottoman navy fled to the port of Sinop in panic, the Russian Imperial Navy, led by Nakhimov, under the orders of Governor Menshikov, galloped more brazenly across the Black Sea, hunting down the Ottoman supply fleet, thus affecting the war between the Ottoman army and the Russian imperial army in the Caucasus.

Many of the regular Ottoman troops deep into the Caucasus were forced to retreat back to their own territories because logistical supplies could not reach safely.

The Caucasian Russian army that repelled the Ottoman Empire did not choose to pursue the victory, but consolidated its own defensive positions under the order of the Caucasian commander-in-chief Menshikov, and at the same time transferred a group of elite soldiers from the existing Caucasian Russian Imperial Army to carry out "stone to sword, grass to fire, and people to change" type of encirclement and suppression against the rebellion in the Caucasus.

In just one week, nearly 100 pacifist villages were slaughtered by the Russian army, and the rich smell of blood and raging fire became the cruel music of the Caucasus.

Hidden in the jungles of the Caucasus, Shamil knew that the Russian Imperial Army was using its brutal and harsh tactics to warn the peaceful people of the Caucasus that there was only one way to help the partisans and that there was only one way to die.

In the face of the brutal tactics of the Russian Empire, some of Shamiler's partisans began to waver, fearing that their villages would be razed by the Russian Empire for their own sake.

Under the pressure of the lack of supplies and the iron fist of the Russian Imperial Army, many of the partisans who followed Shamil chose to break away from the ranks and surrender to the Russian Empire.

The troops, which were originally expanded to more than 3,000 people, were left with less than 1,000 people after many anti-encirclement and suppression and psychological warfare.

Shamil had to choose to temporarily withdraw to the territory of the Ottoman Empire in order to wait for the right moment.

Of course, with the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in the Caucasus, the commander of the Caucasus and the Ottoman Pasha who was stationed in Sinop Harbor were reprimanded to varying degrees.

In a letter to the commander of the combined fleet in the port of Sinop, Abdul. Mejid I reprimanded Osman Pasha in a stern tone for behaving like a coward in the face of the Russian Imperial fleet, and ordered Osman Pasha to break through the Russian Imperial blockade as soon as possible and deliver supplies to the Caucasus.

"Breaking through the blockade? How can it really be easy! "Accept Abdul. Osman Pasha, who had received a letter from Mejid I, slapped the rebuke in his hand on the table and spoke to himself.

Then Osman Pasha got up again and went to the window, and stood with his hands in his hands to look at the round sun that was gradually setting in the distance.

Since the last naval engagement, Osman Pasha had figured out the naval level of the Russian Empire, and the current Russian Imperial fleet was far from the naval novice who followed Britain and France in 1828. (In 1828, the Russian fleet joined the British and French fleets in destroying the Ottoman navy, a war that devastated the Ottoman navy.) ）

In terms of warships, the Ottoman Empire was slightly inferior to the Russian Empire.

The Ottoman Empire was also a cut behind the Russian Empire in terms of training naval personnel.

At least in their own combined fleet, there are no "madmen" who dare to fight and rush like the Russian Imperial Fleet. In the last war, if it weren't for the steamer on the side of the Russian Empire, the double-deck warships of our fleet would have been able to leave the battlefield without any problems.

Thinking of this, Osman Pasha sighed again, and he had no choice but to find his subordinates and order him to lead the fleet to escort the supply fleet to the Caucasus at night.

Since he could not sail during the day, he chose to sail at night.

However, in the middle of the night, the captain of the ship, sent by Osman Pasha to the Caucasus, led the rest of the fleet back to Sinop again.

Not only that, but the captain also reported a desperate message to Osman Pasha.

The current port of Sinop is surrounded by the rapid response fleet of the Russian Empire.

"Looks like the Russian Empire is preparing to trap us in this port!" Osman Pasha gritted his teeth and said to the captain beside him.

"Your Excellency, what should we do now?" The captain set his sights on Osman Pasha, the backbone of the entire fleet.

"Wait!" Osman Pasha responded, then added: "I don't believe that the ships of the Russian Empire can stay outside the port 24 hours a day!" ”

"But ......" the captain hesitated for a moment, and cautiously asked, "Your Majesty the Sultan, will you be unhappy over there!" ”

"Now is not the time to care if Your Majesty is unhappy!" Osman Pasha said categorically: "I don't want my soldiers to fight a war that I know will be lost!" ”

Immediately, Osman Pasha looked at the captain beside him and said with relief: "Don't worry! His Majesty the Sultan, if he knew the situation we are facing, would have agreed with us! ”

After hearing Osman Pasha's explanation, the captain's heart finally relaxed.

Gu Fei/span Anyway, the sky is falling, and there is a tall man on top.

"I see!" The captain nodded in response.

For the next few days, the Combined Fleet remained in a state of "presence fleet", with only a small number of ships under the orders of Osman Pasha attacking the Russian Empire's steam clippers roaming the port of Sinop.

So far, however, not a single steam clipper has sunk to the bottom of the sea.

Every time the Russian Empire's steamer was about to win, the Ottoman ships immediately returned to the port of Sinop.

Seeing this, the Russian Empire no longer pursued, and this situation continued for another week, and the skirmish between the two sides had formed a tacit understanding.

As long as the Ottoman navy entered the port of Sinop, the navy of the Russian Empire did not choose to attack.

Osman Pasha wrote to Abdul in Constantinople. In his letter, Mejid I also boasted that his fleet had fought at the Sultan's behest, and had damaged several ships of the Russian Imperial fleet.

In such an atmosphere of coming and going, people have more confidence in Sinop Harbor, and the soldiers of Sinop Harbor Fort have slackened off because of this.

In the early morning of October 20, the fog that shrouded the sea at Sinop Harbor had not completely dissipated.

A large naval formation of five sail battleships, eight double-deck battleships, two fast three-sail ships, and all steam clippers was quietly approaching Sinop Harbor.

And the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, which gathered the entire Russian Empire, was none other than Prince Menshikov, who wanted to take advantage of the fact that the fog had not yet dissipated to lead his fleet into the port of Sinop and annihilate the main fleet of the Ottoman Empire in one fell swoop, so as to win the peace of the Ottoman Empire in the Black Sea.

As for why Menshikov chose to carry out the raid at this time, firstly, because the fleet march was more concealed in foggy weather, and secondly, according to the news from the secret agents of Sinop Port, Menshikov knew that Sinop Port was now in a state of laxity, so he made up his mind to complete the raid on them before the Ottoman Empire had a complete reaction.

In order to make this raid more successful, Menshikov deliberately brought a lot of secret weapons that he had hidden a lot, and he believed that with his secret weapons, he would be able to bury the Ottoman Empire.

The main fleet of five sails rushed into Sinop Harbor in a formation, and then quickly turned into a side-by-side horizontal formation.

By the time the soldiers in charge of guarding the batteries discovered Menshikov's main fleet, the five sail main fleets had been perfectly inserted between the main Ottoman fleet and the battery.

At the same time, the eight double-deck fast-piercing ships that arrived with the sail battleship quickly aimed their side guns at the vicinity of the battery.

When everything was ready, Menshikov, inserted between the two Ottoman sail battleships, quickly gave the order: "Let's go!" ”

After hearing Menshikov's order, the flag-whisperers on the lookout also waved the flag in their hands and began to issue orders to the surrounding Russian Imperial warships.

The five sail main fleets opened fire almost at the same time, and 24-pounder naval breech guns fired flowering catapults at the Ottoman fleet.

The flowering bomb quickly unloaded and smashed into the Ottoman ship, and then the flowering bomb that entered the warship quickly exploded after releasing all the kinetic energy.

The explosion caused the wooden sailship to burst into flames, and the skyrocketing fire quickly overwhelmed the entire ship.

Just as the main sail battleships were attacking the Ottoman Empire, the double-deck fleet also fired flowering shells at the battery.

The explosive air generated by the flowering shells falling around the battery directly overturned the sailors who controlled the battery's counterattack, and under the saturation attack of the eight double-deck battleships, the soldiers of the Sinop port battery had no ability to impress the Russian Imperial sail battleships at all, and could only fall into a passive dialing situation.

In this way, only half an hour after the start of the battle, the entire main fleet of the Ottoman Empire was buried in the port of Sinop by the Russian Empire.

After the five sail battleships had wiped out all the fleets anchored in Sinop Harbor, they began to attack in the direction of Sinop Harbor Residential Area and Garrison Headquarters.

For a time, the entire Sinop port was in flames, and the major general and Osman Pasha, who were in the Sinop port garrison headquarters, were paralyzed on the ground at the same time after seeing this region-like scene in front of them.

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