Chapter 537: Tolstoy Captured
Brigadier General Trochu never dreamed that the Anglo-French army he led would win a battle in two hours after landing at the port of Kalatina.
With only 5,000 troops, he fought from the port of Karatina to the vicinity of the fortress near the southern shore (bay) of Sevastopol.
The defenders in charge of defending the fort saw the deserters returning from the rout, as well as the Anglo-French troops who "fell from the sky".
The morale that had been built up was suddenly deflated, and in the eyes of this group of Russian soldiers, the Anglo-French army had become an army with demonic powers (don't ask me, Slavic soldiers in the 19th century would have thought this way, modern old men and old ladies still believe in local wild orders), and Captain Perep, who guarded the fortress, fled directly.
The Imperial Russian soldiers inside the fortress scrambled to flee inside Sevastopol after seeing the captain flee from the fortress.
The few soldiers who had the big picture in mind tried to prevent the other Russian soldiers inside the fortress from escaping.
"Stop! What will happen to the Russian Empire if you run away? What about residents inside Sevastopol? One of the Russian sergeants stood in front of the fleeing Russian soldiers, and reprimanded the group of Imperial Russian soldiers in front of him.
The sergeant's heartfelt words shook the hearts of the Imperial Russian soldiers in the front row, who had wanted to escape from the fortress, and they looked at each other before stopping.
"Get out of the way! Get out of the way! The Russian soldiers in the back row, after shouting twice, squeezed from the back to the front.
In the sergeant's stunned gaze, he raised his leg and kicked the sergeant in the abdomen.
The sergeant was directly kicked to the ground, and the Russian soldier with a slight ruffian shouted: "I won't stop you if you want to die here, Lao Tzu doesn't want to die here!" β
Then he turned to the soldiers behind him and said, "Brothers, don't listen to his gossip here! Even our Governor has abandoned this fortress, so what's the use of us staying here! Wake up! Do we simply not have the ability to fight with an army from outside? β
Yes! Our commanders have already run away, what's the use of us staying here! With us as people, can we really fight against them?
The Russian soldiers, who had already been inclined to hold on to their hearts, were now even more determined to escape from this fortress.
"No...... No! Cough...... cough" The sergeant, who was kicked out by the Russian soldier, coughed heavily twice and said: "The British and French troops are also the same people as us!" They don't have any special abilities, and if we work together, we can definitely defeat them! β
"No kidding! If we can defeat them, how did our army in Arma fail! I can see that you guys are trying to trade our lives for your medals! The Russian Imperial soldier retorted, and then said to the Russian soldier behind him: "Brothers, follow me!" β
With the Russian soldier's order, the Russian soldier behind him rushed towards the gate of the fortress.
When several Russian Imperial soldiers in charge of guarding the gate saw this, they did not dare to stop them at all.
The gates of the fortress were opened by Russian Imperial soldiers who wanted to escape from the fortress, and the Russian soldiers fled towards the dock area on the south bank of Sevastopol.
Unfortunately, this group of Russian soldiers, who had just run out of the fortress, encountered a small group of lobster soldiers in the blink of an eye.
The British soldier armed with a Lee Enfield Model 1853 rifle quickly pulled the trigger.
Dense projectiles rained down on the fleeing Russian soldiers, and in the blink of an eye, several Russian soldiers fell.
Seeing this, the remaining Russian soldiers hurriedly turned and fled, but did not want to meet a small group of Zhuaf soldiers.
Under the front and rear of Zhuaf's soldiers and lobster soldiers, this group of Russian Imperial soldiers could only lay down their arms and surrender.
Faced with the surrendered Russian soldiers, the Anglo-French forces had to draw part of their existing forces to escort the Russian Imperial soldiers to the rear.
Before the escort, the Anglo-French forces also inquired about the situation in the fortress of the captured Russian Imperial soldiers.
"There aren't many people in the fortress anymore!" The soldier who answered this question of the Anglo-French army was none other than the unruly guy who had just been unruly in the fortress, and at this time he had already become a "good baby" who could answer whatever he asked under the guns of the Anglo-French army.
"Good!" Captain Baptis, who was about to be promoted to second lieutenant, nodded, and then ordered his men to escort him to the rear.
Baptis then led the rest of the squad into the bastion.
After attacking the fortress, Baptis made his way forward, and soon saw the remaining Russian soldiers in the fortress.
They aimed their smoothbore guns at the French soldiers in front of them.
"Give it up! You can't win! Sergeant Baptis said to the group of Russian soldiers in front of him.
Before the translators who followed the French army translated French into Russian, the Russian soldier who was facing Baptis said to Baptis in fluent French: "I know! β
There was a hint of surprise on Baptis's face, this guy in front of him could actually speak French, it seemed that he must be a nobleman of the Russian Empire!
Thinking of this, Baptis's tone was inevitably a little respectful: "You already know the result, so please lay down your arms and surrender!" I can guarantee you the nobility in the French barracks! β
When the translator translated the sentence to them, the few remaining Russian soldiers in the fortress were a little moved, and they looked at their commander with their spare eyes, hoping to hear the surrender from his mouth.
The sharp-minded Baptis, after noticing the strangeness of the Russian soldiers on the opposite side who generally did not want to fight, struck while the iron was hot and said to him: "Even if you don't think about yourself, think about your soldiers!" Why let them die in vain! They're all so young! β
The noble officer on the opposite side glanced at the soldier beside him after hearing Baptis's persuasion.
He himself wanted to be loyal to the Tsar, but the Russian soldiers under his command obviously did not have the consciousness of being loyal to the Tsar, did he really want to lead them down this road to death?
"I ......," the nobleman let out a long breath, and at last ordered his men to lay down their guns, and came to Baptis alone, and said to him: "You are very eloquent! β
"You're overrated!" Baptis modestly responded.
Afterwards, Baptis curiously inquired about the name and position of the nobleman in front of him.
"Lev. Nikolaevich. Tolstoy, who had previously participated in battles in the Caucasus, had the rank of sergeant! β
That's right, this guy in front of him is none other than the future famous Russian writer Tolstoy.
Originally, after the battle in the Caucasus, Tolstoy went to fight under Prince Paskevich in the Danube region, and after Prince Paskevich led the army back to Bessarabia, Tolstoy followed Commander Gorchakov to the Sevastopol fortress.
Due to the fact that Prince Paskevich in this timeline ended the Danube campaign relatively early, Tolstoy did not go to the Danube army, as in history, but was transferred directly to Sevastopol by Prince Menshikov.
Tolstoy, who had been in Sevastopol for less than two months, is now a prisoner of the French army.
Although it was humiliating to be captured by the French Empire, it also indirectly allowed Tolstoy to avoid subsequent battles.
Because the battle after that was even bloodier than it is now, the future great writer who was not careful became a consumable under the Tsar and was buried in this land.
Of course, Tolstoy didn't know what was going to happen next, and he didn't know that he would become a legendary writer.
Baptis, who had occupied the fortress, quickly ordered his men to lower the Imperial Russian flag that hung it on the fortress, an act that undoubtedly announced to the surroundings that the Russian Empire had lost the position.
Brigadier General Trochu in the distance saw through the telescope that the flag of the Russian Imperial Army had been lowered, and a smile of joy appeared on his face.
Brigadier General Trochu, who was riding a horse that had been "captured" from the vicinity of the South Bay of Sevastopol, immediately gave an order to the chief of staff of the regiment beside him: "Quick! Transfer a battalion of troops over! β
"Yes!" The chief of staff of the regiment hurriedly moved after listening to the order of Brigadier General Trox, who also galloped in the direction of the fortress on horseback.
When Brigadier General Trochu arrived near the fortress, he saw Baptis and his soldiers at the gates of the fortress.
Brigadier General Trochu hurriedly dismounted, came to Baptis, shook Baptis' hand, and said excitedly: "You have done a good job! β
"You've won a prize!" Baptis modestly replied, and then he introduced Brigadier General Trochu to the remnants of the Russian Imperial soldiers in the fortress.
"Your Excellency, this is Tolstoy, the nobleman of the Russian Empire!" Baptis said to Brigadier General Trochu.
Brigadier General Trochu looked Tolstoy up and down and said, "You didn't run away?" β
"Why should I run away! This is on the territory of our Russian Empire! Tolstoy rightly replied to Brigadier General Trochu: "You should be the one who should leave here!" β
"Your land?" Brigadier General Trochu replied to Tolstoy with a disdainful smile on the corner of his mouth: "You have occupied this place for less than 100 years, how can you be embarrassed to call this your land!" This is the land of the Ottomans, and we are here to help the Ottomans restore their land! β
"I ......," Tolstoy said with a little inadequacy: "You have no right to this!" β
"So what right do you Russia rely on to occupy this land?"
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