"Don't tell me anything else about what I say to you!"

Prince Paskevich sat on the bed and pulled Mikhail. Gorchakov said with his hand in his heart.

"But Your Excellency, it's not a good idea for you to keep pretending to be sick like this! Sooner or later, Your Majesty will rebuke you for this! General Gorchakov leaned into Prince Paskevich's ear and whispered: "I once heard a rumor that His Majesty the Tsar had secretly placed his third hall in the various units so that he could keep track of the situation of the troops in time!" ”

"It's not a secret!" Prince Paskevich seemed to have known about these things, and he replied in a flat tone: "It's just that we don't think that His Majesty the Tsar knows about it, and Count Orlov himself, whom he considers a confidant, has already told us about it!" ”

Hearing Prince Paskevich's words, Gorchakov's heart was like a rock beaten by overwhelming waves: "Then you still ......"

"I don't want to do such pointless things!" Paskevich said to Gorchakov in a sincere tone: "What the Russian Empire needs to do now is reform, and not aimless expansion here!" ”

Then, Paskevich responded to Gorchakov freely: "To be honest, I may completely lose the favor of the Tsar because of this incident!" But so what, I'm 71 years old, how long will I be able to survive! (Paskevich stretches out his hand and pats Gorchakov on the shoulder) You're different, you can go on! I hope that after I am deposed by His Majesty the Tsar, you will be able to treat your soldiers well! Don't let them make unnecessary sacrifices! ”

Speaking of this, Prince Paskevich sighed, and General Gorchakov, who was sitting next to Prince Paskevich, was also silent.

Time and space seemed to freeze completely at this moment, and after a long time, Prince Paskeevich spoke again: "I'm really sorry for wasting your time listening to me, an old man who is about to die, say some grumbling things!" ”

"Please don't say that!" General Gorchakov hastened a response to Prince Paskevich.

Subsequently, Paskevich asked about the situation at the Gorchakov Russe fortress.

Gorchakov reported to Paskevich on the storming of the Ruse Fortress, since Prince Paskevich chose to divide his forces to attack, General Gorchakov, who had nearly half of the main army, disregarded Prince Paskevich's orders and began to target the Ruse Fortress, in the past few months, Russia launched a total of no less than 100 attacks on the Ruse Fortress, and even almost broke through the fortress cluster of the Ruse Fortress several times.

However, the Turkish troops stationed in the Ruse fortress pushed the Russian army directly back with tenacious fighting spirit, and Gorchakov immediately realized that this Ruse fortress was different from the Ruse fortress more than ten years ago, and he deliberately built a fortress against the Russian Empire, and the trenches and mines were the nemesis of the Russian Empire.

In the end, Gorchakov had no choice but to postpone the attack and order his Serb militia (a team of Serbs with their own rations) to attack the Ruse fortress in an attempt to weaken their potential.

After several bitter and bloody encounters, the Serbian militias were reluctant to continue to serve Gorchakov, and they even believed that General Gorchakov was deliberately draining their strength.

After winter, the temperature plummeted, and his soldiers were even more reluctant to attack, so he had to sit and fight like Prince Paskeewicz.

"Alas! It's not easy to fight! Don't dare to fight! Prince Paskevich shook his head with a wry smile and sighed: "What we are facing is only the Turkish army, and it is still fighting like this!" If we face the British and French troops, we are afraid that we will be defeated! ”

"Your Excellency, in addition to paying a special visit to you, I also want to ask you to transfer my subordinates to the legions stationed in the northwest direction! That way, I'll have more troops to break through Ruse! ”

"What can you do with defeating Ruse?" Paskeewicz asked rhetorically.

"We can support Serbia along Rouen!" Gorchakov responded to Paskevich.

"Leave the Austrian army in Transylvania alone?" Paskewicz asked again.

"This ...... Recently, the attitude of the Austrian Empire towards our country has been quite deferential! They probably won't declare war on our country anytime soon! Gorchakov replied uncertainly.

"Once you have broken through Ruse, then the Austrian Empire will inevitably take action against us!" Prince Paskevich replied in a firm tone.

"But my army can't stay there forever, so it's better to do anything!" General Gorchakov responded to Prince Paskevich.

"So be it! Pull all your armies over, and we'll merge them all in one place! Paskevich replied to Gorchakov.

"What about the Turkish troops in the Ruse fortress? Is it really good to just leave them alone? Gorchakov asked Paskevich in a somewhat unconfident tone.

"Don't worry, I know them! They definitely did not dare to pursue! Prince Paskeewicz replied confidently.

General Gorchakov obeyed Paskevich's orders and set out from the Russian Imperial tents around the fortress of Silistra that night, and soon arrived near the fortress of Rouen, announcing the latest order of Prince Paskevich to the Russian troops stationed around the fortress of Rouen.

With the exception of a few Serbian militia chiefs, everyone present expressed no obedience to Gorchakov's orders.

Subsequently, General Gorchakov told the chiefs of the militia. If they do not wish to go with the Russian Imperial Army, then ask them to leave the Russian Imperial Army immediately.

"You guys are betraying!" ”

The angry Serbian militia chief accused Gorchakov with his trembling arms.

"If you want to think so, then I can't help it! Because it was an order from Prince Paskewicz, I had to obey it! Gorchakov responded indifferently to the Serbian militia chief.

At 6:30 a.m. the next day, when the hazy fog still hung over the Danube in front of the fortress of Rouen, the packed Russian Imperial army began to move towards the fortress of Silistra.

They were accompanied by the Serbs near the fortress of Rouen, who had formed a blood feud with the Turks in Rouen, and if they stayed any longer, they would only be tortured and killed by the Turks.

The "civilized" Turks still maintained their barbaric style when it came to the killing of prisoners, and anyone who tried to rebel against them was punished with the most severe punishment, and the massacre of entire villages was a common thing.

At about ten o'clock in the morning, the Turks stationed at the fortress of Rouen found that the Russian tents on the other side seemed to be empty, and they immediately sent a small force to investigate first.

After a while, a small force of his troops went to see him report the departure of the Russian Imperial troops to the fortress of Rouen.

For a time, the entire fortress fell into a carnival, and in addition to the carnival, the Pasha stationed in this fortress did not forget to report the news to Constantinople, in order to obtain Constantinople's commendation.

Of course, in the debriefing, it is not possible to write about the natural withdrawal of the Russian troops, but to write that under the example of Pasha, the Russian Imperial Army was so frightened that it did not dare to fight the Turkish army.

As for whether the troops besieging the fortress of Ruse would go to Silistra or not, it had nothing to do with him.

After all, Silistra is not his turf.

……

After a long journey of several hours, Gorchako's party finally arrived at Silistra at the cost of five dead and twelve wounded.

Such attrition was already commonplace in the Russian Imperial Army, no one cared about the death of a gray wound, and sometimes a serf soldier was far less expensive than an intact rifle.

Since Gorchakov had abandoned his tent and came to the vicinity of the fortress of Silistra, they could only use the supplies they had on hand to re-establish the tent.

Time has passed one day, and something unexpected happened.

A fellow who claimed to be a tsarist envoy entered Paskewicz's tent and announced the order of Nicholas I to Prince Paskewicz.

That is, Prince Paskevich led the Danube troops to completely defeat the defenders of Silistra in the shortest possible time, thus opening the way to a decisive battle with the Anglo-French forces!

After delivering the instructions, the Tsar's envoy repeatedly stressed that it must be completed in the nearest period, and His Majesty's patience was running out!

Unexpectedly, the speed of the tsar was much faster than before, and Paskeevich couldn't help but sigh.

He knew that this might be his last attack, after this attack was over.

If he hadn't breached the fortress of Silistra, he would have been either retired or deposed.

"Please let me prepare for a while!" Paskevich responded to the tsarist envoy.

The Tsar's envoy nodded, and then added: "It must be as soon as possible!" ”

In the course of a few days, Paskevich demanded that all artillery (6-pounder guns, cannons) be transported to the islands in the river occupied by the Russian army, and Paskevich's command was moved to the front line.

Omar Pasha in the fortress of Silistra saw Paskevich in such a position, and immediately realized that Prince Paskevich wanted to launch a general attack, and he quickly ordered the troops in the fortress "Tabia" to speed up the construction of fortifications, and at the same time sent small forces to harass the Russian Empire at night so that it could not work smoothly.

On the first night, gunfire came from the camp of the Russian Empire, followed by the sound of fighting each other, and after the fighting gradually subsided, the Turkish troops retreated into the fortress in the darkness of the night.

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