The British, French, and Turkish forces stopped on the north bank of the Arma River, and then formed a company in 2-3 columns, with a distance of about 10 meters from each other.

On the south bank of the Arma River, the Kurgan Mountains and the Telegraph Mountains look at the north bank and you can clearly see the endless sidewalks.

Even the soldiers who had faith in the Russian Empire could not help but feel a pang of fear in their hearts for the more than 100,000 coalition troops on the south bank.

As for the generals of the Russian Empire, it was another point of view.

Prince Menshikov, who was the governor of both the Crimea and the Caucasus, had never been more confident after a wave of sneak attacks, and he believed that with more than 50,000 men at his disposal, he would be able to defend for a few weeks!

As long as he can hold out until His Majesty Nicholas I sends someone to support, then he can form a situation with the troops who come to support him to form a situation of encirclement against the coalition forces, and keep them to know that they are powerful.

Prince Menshikov's generals had no knowledge of the British, French, and Turkish armies, and they confidently believed that if the coalition forces dared to approach them, it would be the time of death for the coalition troops.

The weak coalition forces would certainly not be a match for the great Russian Empire in a bayonet contest, they just had to wait in the Kurgan Mountains to send off wave after wave of coalition troops.

In this way, the lower soldiers of the Russian Empire did not know the thoughts of the upper generals, and the upper generals also did not bother to know the thoughts of the lower soldiers of the Russian Empire.

On the side of the coalition forces, the old General Pellissier, who was the commander-in-chief of France, saw through his telescope (partially) the south bank of the Arma River, and quickly returned to a wooden house near the sea at the rear of the group.

The old general Pelissier, who entered the wooden house, saw the head of the wooden house, Brigadier General Trochu, who was leading a group of staff officers of the General Staff to add some details to the map of the south bank of the Alma River, and the arrival of the old general Pelisier made Brigadier General Trochu temporarily pause his work and salute General Perissier: "Commander Perissier!" ”

"Hmm!" Perisier nodded indifferently, and then asked Trochu, "How is your map redrawn?" ”

"Some parameters are missing!" Brigadier General Trochu replied to Pellisier.

"What parameters?" Pelissier asked Brigadier General Trochu.

"The deployment of the forces of the Russian Empire, and the location of artillery!" Brigadier General Trochu replied to Pelisier.

"What method are you going to use to get it! Our army is not going to get close to Arma! The enemy's artillery is aimed at us at all times! Pelissier responded to Brigadier General Trochu all the way to.

"Commander, we don't need to come closer!" Brigadier General Trochu replied to General Pellisier, "Please come with me!" ”

With that, Brigadier General Trochu left the cabin, and Pellisier followed Brigadier Trochu out of the cabin.

Guided by Brigadier General Trochu, General Pelisier came to a clearing where a colorful rag, a "brazier" and a basket large enough to seat two people were piled up.

"This is ......," General Perissier asked, looking at the pile of rags in front of him.

"Commander, please wait a moment!" Brigadier General Trochu replied to General Pellisier, and then ordered the engineers in the open field to assemble all the broken copper and iron in Pellisier's eyes.

Dozens of soldiers from the Engineering University of Paris assembled it for about an hour, and finally put the pile of "rags" together.

When the engineer ignited the fuel in the metal brazier, the rag bulged as if blessed by some kind of power.

"This is ......," Perissier looked at the scene in front of him with a look of surprise.

"Your Excellency, this is a hot air balloon!" Brigadier General Trochu briefed Pelissier on the principles of hot air balloons, as well as their uses.

After hearing Brigadier General Trochu's introduction, Pelisier couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "What a great invention!" What exactly was this thing invented? ”

"The man who invented it was already dead in the time of poor King Louis XVI!" Brigadier General Trochu shrugged his shoulders and replied to General Perissier.

"Really! Why didn't anyone think of using this method to scout before? Pelissier whispered.

"Because it's easy to want this thing to float, but it's hard to get it down! If you don't make trouble, you will die! Brigadier General Trochu replied to Pelisier.

It was the uncertainty of manned hot air balloons that brought the technology to a complete halt after Louis XVI.

"Human life? The last thing that is missing in the army is human life! Pellisier replied to Brigadier General Trochu with an indifferent expression, and then looked at the gadget in front of him obsessively and said: "This thing is really too helpful to us, even if we lose a company!" ”

Subsequently, Pelisier gave the order to Brigadier General Trochu to take to the air, and a manned hot air balloon with a staff officer flew into the sky.

In order to prevent the hot air balloon from flying into the camp of the Russian Empire under the influence of the wind, Brigadier General Trochu specially installed a rope on the hanging basket of the hot air balloon, through which the people on the ground could control the balloon so that the balloon would not fly out of the control of the coalition forces.

The manned hot air balloon slowly rose into the air and soon reached an altitude of more than 600 meters above the ground, and the staff officers on the balloon used binoculars to watch the Russian Imperial Army on the south bank of the Arma River, and at the same time marked the location of the soldiers of the Russian Imperial Army on the south bank of the Arma River.

The soldier on the south bank of the Alma River exclaimed, "Oh! My God! Look what that is! ”

When the first Russian Imperial soldier spotted the staff officer on the manned balloon, he immediately told the soldiers next to him, and then passed ten, ten and hundred, and the soldiers on Kurgan Mountain and Telegraph Hill both found the manned balloon, and many soldiers tried to use smoothbore guns to knock down the manned balloon, but found that they could not reach the staff officer on the manned balloon.

Although Prince Menshikov knew that the guys floating in the sky were likely to tell the coalition forces on the ground about their disposition, Prince Menshikov had nothing to do, and at the moment his troops could not be mobilized on a large scale, and any movement could be a precursor to collapse.

Another twenty minutes passed, and the staff officers recorded all of Alma's deployment, waiting quietly for the balloon to fall.

The flames on the brazier waned over time, and the manned hot air balloon gradually decreased.

Twenty-five minutes later, the basket slowly fell to the ground, and Commander Pelissier and Brigadier General Trochu applauded the warrior in front of him.

A shy smile appeared on the corner of the staff officer's lips, and then he handed over the deployment of Alma, which he had recorded in the sky, to Brigadier General Trochu.

Commander Pelisier and Brigadier General Trochu returned to the hut again, and Brigadier General Trochu lowered the deployment on the other side of the Alma River to the other staff officers in the hut.

The staff officers in charge of the Crimean peninsula began to move, adding troops to the drawn plan.

After Commander Pellisier waited quietly for almost an hour, the Expeditionary Force's Commander's Staff finally put the drawings of the Alma River in front of Pellisier.

Brigadier General Trochu made a suggestion to Pelisye: "In view of the serious shortage of the Russian Imperial Army in the area of Telegraph Mountain, our proposal is to use part of our forces to attack the Akurkan Mountains, to create a posture of attacking the Kurgan Mountains with all our might, to firmly anchor Menshikov's troops on the Kurgan Mountains, and then to draw a part of the troops from the left and right flanks to form a pincer offensive ......." ”

"Well said!" Pelissier praised Brigadier General Trochu with a surging heart.

He then returned to the front-line troops with the plan provided by Brigadier General Trochu.

At this time, the Russian Imperial Army and the British Army on the Kurgan Hill had already begun to fight, and nearly 100 heavy artillery pieces of the Russian Empire (some of which were dismantled from ship guns) began to launch a fierce attack in the direction of Britain, and the British Kingdom was also not to be outdone and launched an attack on the Russian Imperial Army with 6-pounder guns in their hands.

After nearly a thousand shells were fired back and forth between the two sides, more than 100 people were killed in the Russian Empire, and the total number of dead and wounded in the Kingdom of Britain was only about 70 or 80.

Artillery has gradually become a deterrent weapon in war, and fewer and fewer soldiers die on artillery, and more and more on rifles.

After exchanging artillery greetings, the Kingdom of Britain went on the offensive.

The British Kingdom continued to march towards the Kurgan Mountains of the Russian Empire in a three-column horizontal line, and the Russian Imperial soldiers in the trenches and bastions around the Kurgan tried to pull the trigger when they saw the British Kingdom soldiers walking on the river to set up planks.

Unfortunately, a smoothbore gun at a distance of 300 yards could not hit the British army, but the British kingdom, which had crossed the Arma River, was able to use the Minne gun in its hand to attack the soldiers of the Russian Empire on the Kurgan Mountains.

After a round of fire, the fire of the soldiers of the Russian Empire was crushed by the Kingdom of Britain.

The soldiers of the Russian Empire had no choice but to seek the help of the artillery, and this time the artillery finally did not have the stroke gunnery that it used to fire at the foot of the Kurgan Mountain, and the solid shells were fired at the foot of the Kurgan Mountain.

Seeing the successive British soldiers being crushed to death by solid shells, Commander Raglan hurriedly ordered his men to withdraw their troops.

The British soldiers who crossed the Arma retreated like a tidal wave.

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