The distance between the two sides was only more than 120 yards, which was almost like a gun against the back of the Russian army, and the lethality caused was extremely amazing.
Due to the large-scale offensive of the British and French forces, the Russian army's forces were concentrated on both sides of the river, and the first-line position from the north bank of Sevinaya Bay to the Bebek Gorge held by the Russian army was relatively narrow and not large, so a large number of second-line troops were hoarded on the south bank of the river, with a total of more than 50,000 people.
According to the combat situation, the second-line Russian army can move forward at any time to reinforce and participate in white-knuckle counterattack operations.
Now
The bank of the river, which is more than 10 kilometers long, was instantly covered by thick gunsmoke, and only countless muzzles could be seen flashing with flames, and the dense gunfire was endless.
"Stop shooting, everyone stop shooting."
In the anxious shouts of the commander, the dense gunfire gradually subsided.
Then accompanied by the heavy smoke of gunpowder, a choking and strong smell of blood permeated, enveloping the battlefield on the bank of the river.
Under the strong cold wind
The smoke quickly dissipated, and what appeared in front of everyone was a hellish bloody scene, where tens of thousands of Tsarist Russian troops who were originally neatly arranged were subjected to a one-sided bloody massacre, and the dense corpses lay layer after layer, as if the corpses were a mountain of blood.
The army of more than 50,000 people collapsed in less than ten minutes, with countless casualties, and a large number of Russian soldiers who survived jumped into the cold river with panicked expressions, and then quickly lost their body temperature and quickly sank to the bottom.
More soldiers crowded on the two large iron bridges, and many Tsarist soldiers fell from the bridges like dumplings and planted into the river.
A small number of Russian soldiers raised their guns to fight back under the strong supervision of the officers, but they were soon enveloped by a fierce rain of bullets and fell down in pieces like leeks.
In front of the Colt repeating rifle, the old smoothbore rifle equipped by the Russian army has only one chance to shoot a bullet.
The Russian soldiers on the south bank were slaughtered in a frenzy, and under the slow approach of the soldiers of the expeditionary force, they either raised their hands and surrendered, or died, or jumped into the icy river with their eyes closed, but the chances of being able to swim to the other bank were slim.
It didn't take long
On the icy river, the floating corpses of Russian soldiers are densely packed, and the river water is dyed blood-red, which makes people's scalps tingle.
This, in the eyes of the Russians, is simply the end of the world.
"Each regiment determines the target of the attack and covers the shooting in an orderly manner."
The new order was delivered, and the rhythmic gunfire rang out again, knocking the desperate Tsarist soldiers to the ground one by one, steadily and ruthlessly harvesting lives.
"God, how is this possible? Did these devils from the East crawl out of hell......"
Seeing that two-fifths of his strong forces were wiped out in a short period of time, most of the remaining troops were blocked in a narrow first-line position, and they were already a turtle in an urn.
Prince Menshikov, who was pale, muttered to himself in disbelief, his hands trembling and unable to stop due to the extreme fear in his heart, watching the tragedy happen but unable to do anything about it.
Now the situation of the Russian army is extremely dangerous, the British and French forces in front of the position have launched a fierce attack, and behind the position, the soldiers of the Tang Kingdom Expeditionary Force who fell from the sky are one-sidedly slaughtering the Russian troops stranded on the south bank, blocking the two big iron bridges with intensive firepower.
And with the captured artillery, continue to carry out fire strikes on the Russian troops on the north bank, the Russian army is in a bad situation of being attacked on both sides, and the situation is critical.
The Russian high command was already in a mess, and several officers of Prince Menshikov were running around like flies, and were hit by stray bullets flying from nowhere, and fell to the ground and died.
Shells flew in the air, bullets shuttled back and forth like locusts, and the battlefield was shrouded in the smell of death, and the Russian army, which had been struggling to hold on, was already facing collapse and had to make a decision.
Prince Menshikov's eyes showed wordless tragedy, and the sacrifices of hundreds of thousands of Russian troops in the past year and more than a year have been in vain.
The defeat of the crucial Battle of Sevastopol would have made the situation even more difficult for the already lone Russian Empire, which was initiated by the Tang Expeditionary Force.
He didn't understand it if he wanted to break his head; How did these armies of the Easterners climb over the blizzard-ravaged mountains of Acamund?
Nowadays, there is no point in pursuing all of this.
"The order went down, and the whole army, led by the Belorussian Corps, prepared to break through with the whole army, and headed northeast, where the direction of the British attack." With great sorrow, Prince Menshikov gave the order to break through the siege, and his heart was now full of hatred for the British.
It was the Anglo-Saxons who led the Russian Empire into a mass fight, and the betrayal of the two allies of Prussia and Austria-Hungary was even worse, and all the glory of the Tsarist Empire, the former "gendarme of Europe", was knocked to the dust, and this was all done by the hateful British old man.
Without the British old, there would be no Anglo-French intervention army.
No old Britain, the Tsarist Empire broke through to the Black Sea a few decades ago.
Without the British age, the powerful and powerful Tsarist Russian Empire was able to tear the Ottomans to pieces, occupy the Balkans along the Danube, deeply integrate its power into Europe, and fulfill the dream of the Tsarist Empire for countless years.
By the way, without the British old, these oriental soldiers of the Tang State would not have appeared on the battlefield in the Crimea.
All these sins must be borne by the heinous British elders.
After the order to break through was issued, all the Russian front-line troops immediately went into action, except for a part that remained behind the two large iron bridges, the rest of the troops were concentrated in one direction.
It was close to noon
The main force of the Russian army, which was heavily surrounded, suddenly rushed out of the entrenched position like a flood that opened the floodgates, and launched a decisive charge with a shining white blade, and the slogans of "Ula" and "Ula" resounded throughout the world, killing out like an unstoppable torrent.
The main force of the British army was caught off guard and collided head-on, and they immediately covered the Russian army with frantic artillery fire and fire, and the two sides launched a desperate struggle.
The Minny rifles equipped by the British army were capable of inflicting fatal wounds on Russian soldiers within a range of 500 meters.
But the main force of the Russian army, which broke through the siege, rushed up with huge casualties, trampled on the corpses of the fallen soldiers, stared at the red eyes, and launched a charge in a state of almost crazy screams.
Knocked down a piece of Russian soldiers, and more soldiers rushed up, and so on, the charging Russian soldiers seemed to be endless, and soon overwhelmed the main force of the British army.
Then there was the selfless hand-to-hand combat and fighting between the two sides, and the shouting and killing were loud and loud, which made the main force of the French army not far away stunned, and immediately organized a platoon of guns to attack and fight together......
At this moment, the fortress of Sevastopol was shrouded in a heavy shadow of death, and hundreds of thousands of troops fought together, showing the most cruel side of the war.