Fox of France

The overall situation has indeed been determined. The Turks lost the battle. They failed to break through the Russian defense line today, but on their own defense line, they failed to stop the Russians and lost the most critical high ground. Under such circumstances, it is impossible for them to break through the Russian defense line tomorrow. In today's situation, it is not easy for them to maintain themselves without collapse. In fact, if it hadn't been getting late, which prevented the two sides from carrying out new military operations, perhaps the Turks would collapse on the spot.

Although the coming of night temporarily saved the Turkish army, it did not change the plight of the Turkish army. The Turks are now unable to advance or retreat, and they cannot last long.

By noon the next day, the situation became more and more unfavorable for the Turks, and the Russian Danube River Fleet also joined the battle. This fleet is not large in scale, and there are not many cannons, only a dozen or so cannons. But their addition brought valuable supplies to General Bagration. Now the possibility of the Turks breaking through Bagration's defense line is completely non-existent.

Of course, with the strength of the Russian army, it is naturally impossible to surround a larger number of Turks. In fact, they just control the road. The Turks also seemed to be able to escape if they abandoned the road. But the risk of doing so is actually very high, because the cannons and all kinds of luggage are inseparable from the road, which means that they must abandon all the cannons and luggage and march entirely on their legs.

They can't bring much weapons and ammunition, can't bring much food, and the enemy army controls the road and can move faster than them, they will easily be completely defeated under the constant attack of the enemy army.

In many cases, the dominant side on the battlefield will often come up with a trick of surrounding three queries and one, seemingly giving the enemy a way of escape, but if the enemy flees according to this way of escape, then they will most likely die in the future. was easily wiped out in the pursuit. Compared with airtight encirclement and fierce attack, for the offensive side, the cost of time, life, and material costs are much lower.

Arundar Mustafa Pasha knew that if his army abandoned those carriages and fled off the road, considering the distance of one to two hundred kilometers in the middle, not even one tenth of them would be able to escape in the end. have. In the process of destroying them, the Russians had almost no other losses except for weapons and ammunition. This result was even worse than staying in place and finally surrendering collectively because they had eaten up all the food and war horses. Because the latter approach lost one-tenth more people, but it held back the main force of the Russian army and bought time for the Turkish army in the rear to respond.

Of course, the news still had to be sent out, so Arendar Mustafa Pasha sent several cavalrymen, each of them took several horses, and hung the horse around the necks of these horses. A cloth bag filled with concentrated feed such as beans, and then broke out from a place without roads to report the situation here to the country.

Naturally, the Russian army has been staring at the Turks. After discovering that the Turkish army sent a messenger, they naturally sent cavalry to chase and intercept them. However, although the Don horse of the Russian cavalry has the advantages of being hard-working, easy to raise, and mild-tempered, this kind of horse is not outstanding in terms of speed. At least it cannot be compared with the Arabian horses in the hands of the Turks. Whether it is absolute speed or endurance, the Don horse is not as good as the Arabian horse in the hands of the Turks. (Of course, Don horses are much cheaper to raise and can adapt to cold environments, which is what Arabian horses cannot do without.)

Therefore, the Russians' actions to stop the Turks' messengers were not successful. Relying on the advantages of the horse's speed and endurance, most of the messengers got rid of the Russians' interception quite easily.

On the other side, Arendar Mustafa Pasha gathered the remaining troops and built fortifications to prepare for defense. He kept encouraging the soldiers, making them believe that the country would soon send reinforcements to rescue them, and at this time, of course, they said as long as you hold on, there will be a solution.

But in fact, Arundar Mustafa Pasha knew very well that there was no reinforcements in the country that could be sent out. This statement is just to barely boost morale, so that those soldiers can last longer.

Facing Alandar Mustafa Pasha's iron barrel formation, neither Kutuzov nor General Bagration planned to launch a general offensive and to solve it in one fell swoop. This is not because they can't do it, but because they are already in a state of victory. There is no need to do this at all. It will cost a lot of casualties and it is not worth it. Anyway, the supply line of the Turks has been broken. Use Before long, they will run out of ammunition and food, and they will collapse on their own.

So there was a strange silence on the battlefield. The Russian army looked at the Turks quietly, and the Turks also looked at the Russian army quietly, but neither side took the initiative to attack. The war seemed to have become a sit-in. .

But the Russian army has complete logistical supplies. But the Turks had no supplies. In order to last longer, the Turks began to restrict food. The rations of the soldiers were halved, and each soldier was so hungry that his eyes stared like gold stars, and his calves were trembling. But the food is still eaten up soon.

So the Turks began to slaughter war horses, but the number of war horses is also limited, and each soldier can naturally get very little, so most of the soldiers are still hungry.

As for the Russians, what they are best at is taking advantage of others' dangers. They didn't rush forward to attack directly, but what they did was more terrifying than directly rushing forward to attack. They found an upwind position and grilled the sausages. Let the wind carry the smell of the sausage to the Turks.

They also called out to the Turks, telling them that if they would come with arms and surrender, they would have pork sausage and vodka.

According to the teachings of Xingyue Sect, these two things are prohibited. So logically, it should be very difficult to use these two things to seduce a person who believes in Xingyue Sect. But there are still Turkish soldiers who believe in the Xingyue religion, running over with weapons, and then start eating (grilled sausages) and drinking (vodka), becoming shameful apostates.

After persisting in this way for more than half a month, don’t eat up all the war horses, even the nearby mice have moved for safety reasons. The Turks finally couldn’t bear the hunger, so they sent people, hoping to discuss it with the Russians. A matter of surrender.