"Withdraw your troops!"

Just when General Sheldel thought that Deputy Commander Gorchakov would order him to lead the troops of the 2nd Division of the Polish Corps in a fierce battle with the Allied forces opposite, he was waiting for the order of Deputy Commander Gorchakov to retreat.

This order came out of the mouth of the deputy commander of the main battle faction, Gorchakov, so much so that General Sterdel almost thought that he had a hearing problem.

General Sterdell showed a stunned expression on his face, and asked cautiously: "If I heard me correctly, Deputy Commander, you just said the withdrawal of troops?" ”

Deputy Commander Gorchakov exhaled and responded with a wry smile to General Sterdel in a lost tone: "That's right! Withdraw your troops! We don't have the capital to continue to stay, and if we continue to fight, I'm afraid we won't be able to run away! ”

"Deputy Commander, not really!" General Sterdel replied to General Gorchakov with a look of disbelief, "With the forces we have in our hands, we can ...... it completely."

Before General Sherdel could finish speaking, Deputy Commander Gorchakov interrupted with a false point in the distance: "Do you guarantee that the coalition forces on the opposite side will not shoot specifically at our commander?" ”

"I ......," General Scheldel couldn't say a word, his mouth open.

The bitter lesson of the 1st Division taught General Sterdell that if they chose to attack, they would also suffer the same fate with the 1st Division.

One thing is for sure, the range of the rifles in the hands of the coalition forces is much greater than the rifles in their hands.

In a contest between two armies with a large difference in range and distance, it is easy for them to turn into a one-sided slaughter.

What's more, this group of despicable coalition forces was killed specifically against the grassroots commanders of the Russian Empire.

When the grassroots command system collapses, soldiers will only be like headless flies who don't know who to listen to.

Many historical battles have shown that there is no difference between a scattered army and a herd of pigs waiting to be slaughtered.

General Sildel, who had been thinking for a long time, finally held back a sentence: "If you leave like this, I'm afraid Prince Paskeiewicz won't be able to explain it!" ”

Regarding Sheldel's worries, Deputy Commander Gorchakov shook his head helplessly and broke the news: "Actually, His Excellency the Prince did not approve of my action from the beginning, and he thought that it would be better for our army to retreat to the other side of the Danube as soon as possible!" In that case, our troops will be able to counterattack the coalition forces by relying on favorable terrain and bastions. ”

"But isn't our mission to capture the fortress of Silistra and thus open the way to Varna, and even to Constantinople?" General Shyldel asked Deputy Commander Gorchakov suspiciously.

When Gorchakov heard Shyldel's familiar words, his eyes darkened, and his face showed a mocking look: "The premise for the implementation of this strategy is that our army can defeat the Turkish army and the coalition forces in the fortress of Silistra!" Now, do you think our army will really be able to defeat them? ”

Speaking of this, Gorchakov paused, swallowed a mouthful of saliva, and continued: "Rather than let our army continue to do some pointless battles here, it is better to withdraw to the north bank of the Danube as soon as possible and wait for the arrival of the coalition forces." Maybe we'll beat them in the next defensive counterattack! ”

Hearing the words of Deputy Commander Gorchakov without fighting spirit, General Sherdell did not know how to comfort Gorchakov for a while.

"Now that you have made up your mind to withdraw your troops, I am willing to follow your instructions!" General Silder said excitedly: "It's just that His Majesty the Tsar is afraid that there will be ......."

General Sheldel remembered the order given to them by the Tsar's envoys, and now they not only did not break through the fortress of Silistra, but were also ready to withdraw their troops.

Tsar Nicholas I, who was far away in Moscow, probably would not listen to their justifications, and if he did not make trouble for the official post of deputy commander of Gorchakov, he was afraid that he would usher in a big change.

"This kind of thing, just let it be!" Gorchakov said to General Sterdel in a slightly relieved tone.

Under the orders of Deputy Commander Gorchakov, the 1st and 2nd Divisions of the Polish Corps, which had been crippled, left the temporary tents of the Allied troops, and nearly 28,000 troops returned to the 13th and 14th Corps in the dark of night.

When the two divisions arrived at their previous positions, Deputy Commander Gorchakov immediately went to Paskeevich's tent to look for Prince Paskevich.

Immediately after Gorchakov arrived at the camp, he was informed that Prince Paskevich was still at the front, and Deputy Commander Gorchakov had to go to the front line of the siege of the fortress of Silistra in search of Prince Paskevich.

When Gorchakov arrived at the front, the soldiers of the 13th and 14th Corps, led by their commander, General Hilde, continued their fearless charge towards the fortress, vowing to take the Tabia fortress on this bright night.

The Ottoman Empire is also desperately trying to prevent the Russian army from climbing up the ladder to the fortress, on the top of the fortress, loaded with grapeshot light artillery is trying its best to shoot at the dense Russian Imperial army below, and the explosion of each grapeshot will inevitably lead to the injury of more than ten people around the grapeshot.

Blood splattered on the walls of the Tabia Bastion, and white smoke filled the battlefield.

Everyone in this brutal meat grinder war tried their best to win, but the two armies never reached a turning point in the war.

"Huh? What are you doing here! Prince Paskevich, who was supervising the battle from afar, asked with a surprised expression when he saw Gorchakov's arrival.

"Commander, I think...... Be careful! Gorchakov was about to say something when a shell landed around Gorchakov and Prince Paskevich, who hurriedly pulled Prince Paskevich backwards.

The expected explosion was not loud, and the shell that fell around Prince Paskevich was a dud.

Just as Gorchakov was relieved that he and Prince Paskevich could continue to survive on the battlefield, a cannonball fired from the Tabia flank bastion smashed into the crowd, and this cannonball happened to hit Hilde's general's side, and the grapeball exploded immediately after falling to the ground, and the lead bullet inside was fired in all directions.

The unprepared General Heard was immediately killed by lead bullets through his skull, and the soldiers surrounding him to protect him also suffered varying degrees of damage.

The soldier whose thigh bone was shattered by lead bullets could only roll back and forth on the ground, blood flowing down the soldier's thigh.

The death of General Hilde heralded another defeat of the Imperial Russian army's siege of the fortress group of Silistra, and the Russian Imperial soldiers desperately retreated backwards.

Prince Paskevich and General Gorchakov also retreated with the bulk of the army.

……

Prince Paskevich, who had returned to the camp, asked Gorchakov why he had come at this time, and told him that he had nothing left to hand over to him.

"Your Excellency, Commander, I'm not here to ask you for troops, but to lead us out of here!" Gorchakov pleaded with Prince Paskeevich.

Prince Paskevich looked at Gorchakov in amazement, he did not understand what had happened to his deputy commander that had made his deputy commander just like him.

"You've failed too?" Prince Paskevich asked Gorchakov.

"That's right!" Gorchakov nodded and replied to Prince Paskevich.

"How many people died?" Prince Paskeewicz then asked.

Gorchakov stretched out five fingers and said lightly to Paskevich: "5,000 people!" ”

"5,000 people a day?!!" Paskevich stared at Gorchakov with wide eyes and raised his voice.

"That's right!" Gorchakov nodded and added: "Moreover, the grassroots commanders of the 1st Division have suffered heavy casualties, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to conduct high-intensity combat battles in a short period of time!" ”

"What's going on?" Prince Paskevich frowned, pressed his temples lightly with his two hands, and asked Gorchakov.

"The weapons in their hands have a longer range than ours!" Gorchakov gave a reason that could not be simpler, but what is reflected behind this reason is not something that can be summed up by a simple group of words.

"That can't be ......," Paskevich muttered to himself, and then asked in a hurry: "What about Brigadier General Orlov?" Where is he now? ”

"Brigadier General Orlov has returned to the arms of Christ!" Gorchakov replied in a sad tone.

"Alas!" Prince Paskevich sighed at the death of Brigadier General Orlov Jr., who was originally a favored person for Prince Paskeewicz, but now died on the battlefield.

It's really a creation that makes people.

"Where is the body? The battlefield is still ......," Prince Paskevich asked again.

"The body has been put into the coffin by me!" Gorchakov replied to Paskeevich.

Subsequently, Gorchakov told Prince Paskevich that the guns in the hands of the coalition forces could inflict damage on the enemy at a distance of about 500 meters, and that many of the officers in the 1st Division were killed by the coalition forces at a distance.

The range of their smoothbore guns is only about 300 meters (260 meters to be exact), and the accuracy of the smoothbore guns will be greatly reduced beyond 300 meters.

The difference of more than 200 meters was enough for a skilled soldier to shoot two rounds, and after hearing Gorchakov's description of the lineup and rifles of the coalition forces, Paskevich knew that this battle was not Gorchakov's fault, nor was it the fault of Brigadier General Orlov Jr.

In other words, he will also use this tactic to launch attacks on coalition forces.

After all, in the face of the entangled barbed wire, Paskeewicz also has no better solution, and can only use his numerical advantage to win.

However, the coalition forces had a much longer rifle range than the Russian army, and their troops faced massive combat attrition before they could get close to the barbed wire.

Morale had already hit rock bottom before it was close to the barbed wire, not to mention that the coalition forces were specifically targeting their military command, and a major collapse was inevitable.

If there is one sentence to describe the current mood of Prince Paskewicz, "tired!" Destroy! That couldn't be better.

Prince Paskevich, who had suffered successive defeats around the fortress of Silistra and the temporary camp in France, with the support of Gorchakov, once again summoned the surviving generals of the army to discuss whether it was necessary to return to the north bank of the Danube.

The generals, whose troops had suffered a large number of human losses, unanimously agreed to Prince Paskeiewicz's proposal.

At one o'clock in the morning, the Russian Imperial Army, under the orders of Paskevich, put away its tents, carried stretchers, and slowly moved northward with torches.

Musa Pasha in the city saw through his telescope the long dragon of Russian Imperial troops retreating from the fortress of Silistra and returning to the north, and he was distracted by the opposition of Captain Balrett and ordered the Bashpozuk cavalry in the city to pursue and kill the Russian army.

Unexpectedly, he was ambushed by the Cossack cavalry, and the Bashpozuk cavalry of more than 1,000 people was annihilated.

When Musa Pasha in the Tabia Fortress heard the news, he was so frightened that he almost fled again.

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