February 18, 1855

6:00 a.m

The coalition forces concentrated thousands of artillery pieces to bombard the Russian positions, and the fierce artillery fire pierced the morning light and smashed on the Russian positions, making the ground dusty and shaking.

The shells that exploded on the ground were triggered by the new Colt breech field guns, and when they hit the ground, they exploded in large areas, and the debris of the blasted soil shattered, and clouds of blue-black heavy gunpowder smoke rose.

And the solid shells fired by the old artillery smashed on the walls and bastions of the Russian positions, at most the stone skin the size of a basin collapsed, which was far inferior to the new shells in terms of lethality and deterrence.

The Russian army was accustomed to the shelling of the coalition forces, they hid in the trenches with their guns, and they had spare time to take out the black bread in their arms and chew it in their mouths, looking calm and composed.

In the army camp in the city of Sevastopol and its suburbs in the rear, a large number of Russian soldiers who had hurriedly got up were driven by officers and gathered in a long queue towards the front line.

Russian soldiers have been reinforced to the front line through two large iron bridges, preparing for a desperate battle with the coalition forces.

Generally speaking

The Russian soldiers who were cowering on the defensive positions of the fortress used a 50-gram cone-shaped heavy bullet loaded with a smoothbore gun to counterattack, which was able to inflict fatal damage on the attacking British and French forces.

Often when attacking at close range, after the cross-fire of artillery fire and bullets, the ranks of the British and French troops have lost more than 1/3 of the soldiers.

In the end, the Russian soldiers were able to repel the attacking enemy forces through a fierce white-knuckle counterattack.

Similar battles have been repeated countless times, which has made the Russian army, from commanders to soldiers, form a habit of coping with the attack of the coalition forces step by step, and gather a large number of troops to the front line.

The heavy shelling lasted more than two hours, and at 8:15 a.m., the horns of the attack sounded from the coalition positions, and 100,000 coalition soldiers poured out of the trenches and lined up for the attack under the supervision of the officers.

The huge military formations spread out one after another, column after column, far away on the vast snowfield of more than ten square kilometers, and the British soldiers in red uniforms, the French soldiers in dark blue uniforms, and the Ottoman soldiers in high hats formed an offensive formation that could not be seen at a glance.

The first sunny day after the snow

The army formations on the vast snowfield are particularly conspicuous, spreading layer upon layer until the end of the sky, and the battlefield filled with gunsmoke renders a strong atmosphere of decisive battle.

On the fortress positions held by the Russian army

Prince Menshikov, who was dressed in a ferret fur cloak, had a red nose from the cold, and his deep brown eyes revealed solemnity, he put down the monocular brass telescope in his hand and said in a reserved tone; "It's confusing, but I admire Lord Raglan for his persistent attacking spirit, oh...... By the way, there is also the old French Marshal Armand, who knows that they are not popular and incompetent, and they make futile efforts again and again, which is really regrettable. ”

"Your Royal Highness, your Russian warriors are ready to fight back and let them taste the iron fist of Rus' again."

"It seems that it is necessary to give a deeper memory to the Anglo-French army, and to bring up my Guards Cavalry Division and Cossack Cavalry Division, whose sharp sabers are eager to harvest heads, this will be a good opportunity for military exploits."

"Your Royal Highness, as you wish."

"Inform the generals and gentlemen, let them carry out the established combat rhythm, presumably everyone will be familiar with it, and I will not make specific deployments."

"Yes, Your Highness."

Prince Menshikov, with a beautiful upturned beard, nodded gracefully, and seemed neither nervous nor strange at the huge offensive array on the part of the coalition forces.

As the commander of the Russian army that resisted the British and French forces for nearly a year in the defensive battle of Sevastopol, the two sides fought 10 battles large and small.

From this point alone

Prince Menshikov was undoubtedly the best commander of the Tsarist army, and he was indeed entitled to be conceited, and he single-handedly blocked the combined forces of the British, French, Tang, Ottomans and Sardinian kingdoms, and threw the tide of war into the quagmire of confrontation.

Hurt each other, who's afraid of whom?

The upper nobility of Tsarist Russia never cared about the lives of lowly serf soldiers, they were like weeds, cutting a stubble and growing a mouse, which was an inexhaustible consumable.

Just as the Russian troops were converging on the narrow frontline positions on the northern shore of the Sevinaya Bay and the Bebek Gorge, suddenly a dense burst of gunfire came from the west, faintly coming with the cold wind of February.

"Where is the gun?" Prince Menshikov turned back with a frown, his eyes looking at the West with an unhappy expression, and it was obvious that he was very unhappy with this sudden situation.

"Report to Your Highness, this seems to be the sound of gunfire coming from the camp of our army in the west, where General Yanukovych is supposed to be stationed, how can it be...... I immediately sent someone to check on the situation. ”

"General Yanukovych, is that Ukrainian nobleman?"

"Yes, Your Highness, General Yanukovych arrived at the fortress more than a month ago with reinforcements from Odessa, assigned to be stationed on the western outskirts of the city, with about 15,000 troops under his command."

"What do you think is going on there?"

"Oh, Your Highness, is it ...... Could it be that they were attacked by the enemy? ”

"Hahaha...... Poor Excellency General Valery Stokimir, I am really amazed by your brain-opening that yesterday a foot-thick blizzard has just stopped, what kind of army do you think will be able to fly over the steep mountains of Akamond? This is ridiculous. Prince Menshikov burst out laughing, then suppressed his smile and said with a very oppressive look at his subordinates;

"It must be a damn battalion howling, ordering that stupid General Yanukovych to immediately crush the troops, I don't want to be bothered by these little Ukrainian fleas when facing a decisive battle of the coalition forces, so that they can solve these troubles as soon as possible."

"Yes, Your Royal Highness, I will send someone to convey your order at once."

"Go ahead, maybe you can use these Ukrainians when you fight back."

Speaking of which

The arrogant Prince Menshikov turned around, refocused his attention on the approaching British and French troops, and his face became solemn.

He could see that;

The coalition forces on the opposite side gathered almost all their strength and made a desperate bet, and the 160,000-strong army poured out, which would be a severe test for the frontal defense of the fortress.

Western suburbs of the city of Sevastopol

An astonishing number of expeditionary forces of the Tang Kingdom poured out like a tide, and under the initial intensive gun attack, the soldiers have stormed the military camp of the Ukrainians, slaughtering the Russian army with deadly and dense firepower, and harvesting lives efficiently.

The expeditionary force appeared so suddenly, it seemed to come out of nowhere after a heavy snowfall, and even the Ukrainian soldiers guarding the camp did not recognize the enemy at first, and thought it was a friendly unit that was about to move urgently.

Caught off guard

Already overwhelmed by the tide of expeditionary soldiers, they slaughtered into the camp with rifles in their hands and carried out an almost one-sided bloody massacre.

The soldiers of the expeditionary force are generally equipped with the Colt 1848 lever repeating rifle (extended version), which can press 13 rounds of bullets into the chamber of the rifle, commonly known as "thirteen rounds".

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These Ukrainian soldiers from Odessa were unlucky, because they did not receive an order for reinforcements, some of the Russian soldiers in the barracks were eating breakfast, some gathered together to discuss the fierce shelling in the morning, and some held their sleeves and looked like the south of the barracks, unaware that disaster had come.

Their guns were kept in a centralized manner, and when they encountered the murderous soldiers of the expeditionary force rushing in, they were all frightened, and then they were shot to the ground one by one in the dense gunfire......

Just over 20 minutes

This Ukrainian barracks entrenched in the western suburbs was completely eliminated, killing and wounding tens of thousands of Russian soldiers and capturing more than 5,000 people.

Adhering to the brave attack style, while some of the soldiers of the expeditionary force surrounded and entered the Ukrainian military camp, the other part of the soldiers of the expeditionary force kept a strict line and marched all the way to the city of Sevastopol.

They were ordered to crush and clear any Russian units they saw, take advantage of the gap to occupy the fortified defensive positions, batteries and fortifications of the city of Sevastopol and hold on to them, ready for a frantic Russian counterattack.

The vanguard troops who entered the Ukrainian camp in the western suburbs left a small number of troops to guard the prisoners of war after a short rest, and the brigade of about 23,000 troops continued to kill towards the north.

along the way

Due to the fact that the Russian high command moved forward to hold the defensive line, the soldiers of the expeditionary force who fought all the way were almost unhindered, and even if they encountered a small number of Russian soldiers of several hundred people, they would be crushed with one blow, and they could not be stopped at all.

More than an hour later

Shortly before 10 a.m., the soldiers of the expeditionary force, who had been fighting all the way, approached about two or three kilometers from their positions on the southern shore of Sevinaya Bay.

From here

You can see the black pressure of the Russian soldiers in the distance waiting in formation, all facing the north, the south and north shores of Sevinaya Bay are full of surging heads, rifles are like a forest, simply count, the Russian army in front of you is at least more than 120,000 people.

This is just what you see, and I don't know how many you don't see?

The cannon roared ahead, and the dense gunfire was like a storm and rain one after another, and the solemn smoke of gunpowder filled the battlefield like a heavy fog.

Under the interference of the sound of gunfire, the Russian troops in front did not realize that a large number of soldiers of the expeditionary force had been killed behind them.

The visibility on the battlefield was low, and some of the Russian heralds who had just been sent out rushed to the scene, and when they saw the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom advancing in formation, they shrugged their colors, and it was too late to run back to report the news.

A burst of gunfire rang out, and these Russian heralds fell from their horses like birds with broken wings.

Soon, the expeditionary force was getting closer and closer to the Russian troops with their backs to them, from two or three kilometers to within a thousand yards, and the Russian army was still unaware.

Major General Duan Debiao, who commanded the army to steadily move forward, was ecstatic, and the military band stopped playing, and the phalanxes composed of infantry regiments quietly moved closer together in the process of advancing, thus forming a long snake formation formed by more than a dozen regiment-level phalanxes, and steadily pressed towards the Tsarist Russian army.

The distance is getting closer and closer, and it is already close to a position of 500 yards.

From here, you can faintly hear the tsunami-like shouts of killing from the north, mixed with the sound of gunfire, and it is obvious that the battle is raging ahead.

In order to firmly attract the main force of the Tsarist Russian army, the French army in charge of the main attack also showed the ability to watch the house, after the heavy artillery bombardment, the soldiers carried the Mini rifles and steadily pressed forward, and fired round after round of guns at a position more than 400 yards away from the Russian army, posing a fierce offensive posture.

The distance of more than 400 yards was beyond the range of the old smoothbore guns equipped by the Russian army, so the Russian soldiers on the front line were suppressed by the strong fire of the French and could not raise their heads, and many soldiers were shot to the ground.

Not to be outdone, the Russian artillery fired fiercely at the French array, which also brought a bloody storm to the French soldiers.

The effective range of the Colt 1848 repeating rifle equipped by the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom Expeditionary Force is 300~350 yards, which is slightly inferior to the 500-yard range of the Mini rifle, but the rifle firepower and shooting continuity crush the Mini rifle, and both sides have their own strengths.

The breech-loading smoothbore flintlock rifle equipped by the Russian army, because of the use of a 50-gram cone-shaped heavy bullet, although the damage is high, the shooting accuracy is poor, and the firing range is also greatly reduced, and the actual strike distance does not exceed 200 yards, which completely belongs to the level of old weapons in the early 19th century.

When the expeditionary army was approaching within 300 yards, Major General Duan Debiao suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, stopped the impulse of the officers to attack, and led the army to continue to approach.

250 yards ...... 220 yards ...... 180 yards ......

Until this time

Several Tsarist Russian officers turned around and found the approaching Tang Kingdom military column, which had low visibility on the battlefield filled with gunsmoke, and they were shocked after careful identification, and hurriedly shouted loudly.

More Russian soldiers turned around one after another, looking in surprise at the soldiers of the expeditionary force approaching about 150 yards, some of them couldn't help shouting, and some turned around and fled in fear.

The originally well-organized ranks of the Tsarist Russian army showed great restlessness......

Such a close distance

The Russian soldiers were already able to see the unfamiliar uniforms worn by the soldiers of the expeditionary force, and the Chinese characters "Tang" with a capital letter on the banners fluttering high, although they could not see the specific faces, but they were certainly not Russian troops.

The rest of the answers are ready to be answered.

I don't know when, the expeditionary force of the Tang Kingdom appeared behind the Russian army like a divine soldier.

When aware of this

There was obvious panic in the Russian ranks, and even a small number of Russian soldiers turned their guns and fired bullets at the slowly approaching expeditionary army of the Tang Kingdom.

The sporadic gunfire did not affect the commander, Major General Duan Debiao, whose face showed a cruel smile, and only when the soldiers of the expeditionary force approached the distance of about 120 yards of the Russian army ranks, did he raise the command knife in his hand and issue an order to stop advancing.

"Gun up, free fire, fire!"

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