The Ottoman army, having smashed the Russian Empire's conspiracy to use the method of earth excavation to get closer to the fortress, did not hesitate to turn around and return to the fortress.

On the way back from the turn of the Ottoman soldiers, the cannon on the island in the river made an earth-shattering sound, and the shells fell near the Russian Imperial trenches.

The roar was so loud that the Ottoman soldiers were so scared that if they hadn't turned around and left the field at once, they would have been blown into several pieces by now.

The explosion of the twenty-four-pound cannon shell blew a small pit out of the flat ground, and the dust raised filled the trenches, making it difficult for Musa Pasha and others on the bastions to see whether there were still Russian legions in the trenches in the night.

"Presumably, these Russians will not dare to do such a thing again after receiving such a lesson!" Musa Pasha on the fortress said in a brisk tone in English as he lowered his binoculars.

"Dear Pasha, I think there's a good chance they'll act again." Captain Balrat spoke to Musa Pasha with great seriousness.

"Oh? How does this explain? Musa Pasha humbly asked Captain Balret.

"Because of the frequency of attacks!" Captain Barrett replied, and then asked rhetorically: "Musa Pasha, I don't know if you remember, that shelling a few months ago!" ”

"Are you talking about the first time the Russian Empire attacked us?" Musa Pasha responded.

"That's right!" Barrett nodded, then pointed to the clearing where the shelling was being carried out and said, "Dear Pasha, how do you see the difference between this shelling and a few months ago?" ”

Once again, Musa Pasha picked up his binoculars to check the clearing, and "the shelling seems to be more frequent than the first!" ”

"That's right! You're right! Captain Ballett's inner expectations for Musa Pasha have risen to a higher level, after all, this is not a rookie who does not know anything: "With such a frequent shelling, presumably some new cannons have been added to the army of the Russian Empire!" ”

"Will this have an impact on our defense of the city!" Musapasa asked apprehensively, a little afraid that the fortress would be lost in his hands.

Although the loss of the fortress will not affect him too much in his career, it is still a little bad in terms of reputation.

After all, the fortress had just been handed over to him and was lost in the blink of an eye, and it was his fault no matter what he thought.

Captain Balrett glanced at Musapasha, and his inner evaluation of him fell back to his original position, he shook his head and said to Musapasa: "It won't make much of a difference!" Unless the Russian Empire places all their artillery in a row under the bastion! Only then will it be possible to inflict irreparable damage on our walls. So we just had to harass them while they were digging in the trenches. ”

"Good!" Musa Pasha smiled instead, patted Captain Balrett on the shoulder, and gave the two of them the task of defending the fortress, promising them both that he would privately pay them £5,000 each when the war was over.

Looking at the wealthy Pasha in front of him, Nesmith also made a suggestion that would boost the morale of the defenders.

Musapasa could send obituaries in the name of the government to the Ottoman inhabitants of the fortress, and any inhabitants who handed in cannon pellets were rewarded with twenty peras (Ottoman currency) from Musapasa.

"What's the use of me asking for projectiles?" Musa Pasha asked suspiciously.

"Musa Pasha, the cannon projectile does not do much, but today it can help to overcome the fear of the cannon shell inside the bastion." Captain Nesmith replied to Musapasha: "I have seen many cases of bastions being breached in the trees, and in most cases the bastions were not breached from the outside, but from within. If there is a large-scale unrest in the fortress, then the fortress will not be far from falling. The most important thing now is to boost the morale inside the fortress, as long as our army can sustain the arrival of the coalition forces, then we can declare victory! The rest of the matter can be left to the coalition forces with confidence! ”

Hearing Captain Nesmith's words, Musa Pasha nodded as if he didn't understand, and then asked Captain Barrett and Captain Nesmith if they knew when the Anglo-French forces would be able to arrive here.

Captain Barrett and Captain Nesmith shook their heads and said that they had been out of the army for a long time and did not know when the British and French troops would arrive.

"Alas! Hopefully they can be faster! Musa Pasha let out a long sigh.

On the other hand, in the Russian base camp on the other side of the river, the commander of the Guards Division and the commander of the 13th Army Corps, who had failed in both the offensive and the excavation, were seen in the camp by Paskevich for criticism.

Paskevich first loudly asked the commander of the Guards Division why he suddenly retreated, could it be that the Russian Imperial Army could not withstand even a few hundred casualties.

The commander of the Guards Division hurriedly explained that his army was suddenly hit by a double attack, and the army's heart was disturbed for a while that led to the current situation.

Paskeewicz then asked the commander of the 13th Army why he had withdrawn in the middle of the tunnel, and Lieutenant General Hilde also found a reason for withdrawing, saying that his army was luring the enemy deeper.

"Deep? Where did they go deeper? Paskewicz reprimanded viciously.

"That Turk is a bunch of cowards!" Hilde will finally push the pot to the Turks again.

If Heard knew that he had been defeated by a British captain, he would have to find a crack in the ground and go straight in.

"I don't care what reason you find! All I need is that to be a fortress! Paskevich glanced around with a stern gaze and once again emphasized: "Hear clearly, I don't want to hear how much difficulty you have, as long as the result!" ”

"Yes!" All the generals present understood that Prince Paskeewicz was already angry, and it was obviously unwise to touch the mold at this time.

In short, under Paskewicz's forcible spur, the 13th Army Corps carried out civil engineering in the early morning against the light Turkish artillery on the city walls, and fought two field battles with the Turkish troops leaving the city.

In the open space under the dark night sky, there were occasional flashes of ammunition and dull gunshots.

The first night was evenly matched, with no less than two thousand dead and wounded, and the trenches of the Russian Empire moved forward by a distance of about six meters.

Early the next morning, the sound of cannons once again awakened the Bulgarians and Albanians loyal to the Ottoman Empire who were sleeping in the fortresses. As the trench advances, cannon shells delivered to the front of the trench can also be fired into the fort, and the inhabitants of the fort walk in fear.

However, this fear was soon diluted by the obituary posted on the wall, which was exactly what Captain Nesmith had said to Musa Pasha the previous night, and which Musa Pasha had ordered to be posted overnight.

Some of the daring children looked forward to leading the reward of twenty pera from the hands of Moussa, and the vast majority of adults also expected something in their hearts, but they were also afraid of the cannon shells exploding around them.

At noon, at noon, a young boy was lucky enough to pick up a cracked cannonball, and when he brought the projectile to Musa Pasha, Musa Pasha rewarded him with twenty peras in front of all the people.

The fear caused by the cannonballs was overshadowed by greed, and they were all desperate to get their hands on the twenty peras in Musa Pasha's hands.

For a time, the residents in the fortress were enthusiastic about picking up cannonballs.

And the Russian Imperial army outside the fortress was still constantly attacking the main wall outside the fortress.

But this time, they didn't care if the artillery would hurt their own people.

With a reverent shout, the Guards soldiers charged the Turkish troops on the bastions, with their own guns and on the opposite side.

As usual, Captain Barrett sent the Tunisian regiment out of the city to flank the Janissaries. This time, the Guards did not break up like the previous one, but divided their forces into two routes, one continuing to climb the city walls and the other to resist the attack of the Tunisian legions.

The two sides immediately fell into a state of anxiety, and people continued to die outside and on the fortress, and the argument between the two sides over the fortress once again turned into a bloody meat grinder battle.

The battle lasted for more than an hour, with both sides constantly adding "chips" to the meat grinder, and in the end, it was the Bastion side that won.

The Imperial Russian army hastily left behind the bodies of more than 1,000 Russian soldiers and then evacuated, while the Turkish army, which defended the city, also paid the price of nearly 700 deaths.

After the "long" meat grinder ended, the two sides once again entered the time of shelling back and forth.

Neither side did much damage to the other under the shelling, and few unlucky people were killed by shells.

In the evening, a new round of battle for positions kicked off again.

After dawn, hundreds of corpses again appeared around the Russian trenches.

Prince Paskevich, who received the information about the second day of battle damage in the Russian Empire, almost wanted to pull out his pistol and shoot the commander of the Guards Division and Lieutenant General Hilde directly in the camp.

If General Gorchakov had not been stopped by the Tsar's envoys, the first and second generals who had died in the Danube region since the Danube operation would have been buried at the hands of their own people.

Things got to this point, and Paskiewicz had no choice but to go to the front line to supervise the battle.

This time even Gorchakov could not dissuade the stubborn prince.

And on this new day, Musa Pasha was still praying for the coalition to arrive soon.

Unbeknownst to Musapas, the coalition forces living in the Varna area also faced an awkward problem.

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