Chapter 477： Battle of Tabia

After the Ottoman army had smashed the conspiracy of the Russian Empire to approach the bastion by means of excavation, they did not hesitate to turn around and return to the bastion.

As the group of Ottoman soldiers turned and returned, the cannons on the island in the river rang out, and the shells landed near the trenches of the Russian Empire.

The huge roar made the soldiers of the Ottoman Empire linger in fear. If they hadn't turned around and left the field just now, they would have been bombed into pieces by now.

The explosion of the twenty-four-pound cannonball blasted the level ground into a small crater, and the raised dust filled the trenches, leaving Musa Pasha on the bastion waiting in the dark. It is unclear whether there are still Russian regiments in the trenches.

"Presumably these Russians will not dare to do this kind of thing again after being taught such a lesson!" Musa Pasha on the bastion put down the telescope and said briskly in English.

"Respected Pasha, I think it is very likely that they will act again." Captain Barrett said to Musa Pasha in a very serious manner.

"Oh? What's the explanation for this?" Musa Pasha asked Captain Barrett humbly.

"Because of the frequency of attacks!" Captain Barrett replied, and then asked back, "Musa Pasha, I wonder if you still remember the shelling a few months ago!"

"Are you talking about the first time the Russian Empire attacked us?" Musa Pasha responded.

"That's right!" Barrett nodded, then pointed at the empty tunnel that was being shelled: "Dear Pasha, do you see how this shelling is different from a few months ago?"

Musa Pasha picked up the telescope again to check the situation in the open space, "The frequency of shelling seems to be more intensive than the first time!"

"Yes! You're right!" Captain Barrett's expectations for Musa Pasha have risen to a new level, but this is not a rookie who doesn't know anything: "With such a frequent shelling frequency, Presumably some more cannons have been added to the Russian Empire's army!"

"Will this affect our defense of the city!" Musa Pasha asked nervously, he was a little afraid that the bastion would be lost in his hands.

Although it is said that the loss of the bastion will not have much impact on his career, it still has a bad reputation.

After all, the bastion had just been handed over to him and was lost in a blink of an eye. No matter what he thought, it was all his fault.

Captain Barrett glanced at Musa Pasha, and his inner evaluation of him dropped back to the original position. He shook his head and said to Musa Pasha: "It won't cause much impact! Unless the Russian Empire takes all their The cannons are all lined up under the bastions! This will cause irreparable damage to our city walls. So we just need to harass them while they are digging in the trenches. ."

"Okay!" Musa Pasha turned to a smile. He patted Captain Barrett on the shoulder and handed over the task of defending the bastion to the two of them. Give them £5,000 each as a reward.

Looking at the wealthy Pasha in front of him, Nesmith also put forward a suggestion that could boost the morale of the defenders.

In the name of the government, Musa Pasha can send obituaries to the Ottoman residents in the bastion. Those who turn in the cannonballs will receive twenty pella (the currency of the Ottoman Empire) from Musa Pasha as a reward.

"What's the use of my projectiles?" Musa Pasha asked suspiciously.

"Musa Pasha, the cannonball is useless, but today can help the bastion to overcome the fear of the cannonball." Captain Nesmith responded to Musa Pasha: "I have seen many attacking ridges in the trees. In the case of the bastion, in the vast majority of cases, the bastion was not breached from the outside, but from the inside. Once there is a large-scale turmoil in the bastion, the bastion will not be far from being occupied. Now the most important thing is It is to improve the morale in the bastion, as long as our army can support the coalition troops to arrive here, then we can declare victory! The next thing, you can rest assured to hand over to the coalition army! "

Hearing Captain Nesmith's words, Musa Pasha nodded in understanding, and then asked Captain Barrett and Captain Nesmith if they knew when the British and French troops would be able to arrive here.

Captain Barrett and Captain Nesmith shook their heads and said that they had been out of the army for a long time and did not know when the British and French troops would arrive.

"Alas! I hope they can be faster!" Musa Pasha sighed.

On the other hand, in the Russian base camp on the other side of the river, the commander of the Guards Division and the commander of the 13th Army Corps, who both failed in the attack and in the excavation, were seen by Paskevich in the camp and criticized.

Paskevich first loudly asked why the division commander of the Guards had withdrawn suddenly. Could it be that the Russian Imperial Army could not bear even a few hundred casualties?

The commander of the guard division hastily explained that his army was suddenly hit by a double attack, and the current situation was caused by a sudden turmoil in the army.

Later, Paskevich asked the commander of the 13th Corps why he withdrew in the middle of the excavation. Lieutenant General Hield also found a reason for the withdrawal. They said that their army was luring the enemy to go deeper.

"Going deep? Where did they go?" Paskevich reprimanded viciously.

"That Turk is a bunch of cowards!" Hilde finally pushed the pot to the Turks again.

Gu Zyg If Hield knew that he was defeated by an English captain, he would have to find a crack in the ground and go straight into it.

"I don't care what reason you find! I just want it to be a bastion!" Paskevich glanced around with stern eyes, and emphasized again: "Listen clearly, I don't want to hear how many difficulties you have, as long as the result !"

"Yes!" All the generals present knew that Prince Paskevich was already angry, and it was obviously unwise to go to trouble at this time.

In short, under Paskevich's forcible encouragement, the 13th Corps carried out the civil work against the Turkish light artillery on the city wall in the early morning.

In the open space under the dark night sky, there are occasional flashes of ammunition and dull gunshots.

On the first night, the two sides were tied, and the number of casualties was no less than 2,000. The trenches of the Russian Empire also moved forward a distance of about six meters.

Early the next morning, the sound of cannons awakened the Bulgarians and Albanians who had been sleeping in the bastion and were loyal to the Ottoman Empire. Due to the advance of the trench, the cannonballs transported to the front end of the trench can also be shot into the bastion, and the residents in the bastion walked in the bastion in fear.

However, this fear was soon diluted by the obituary posted on the wall. The content of the obituary was exactly what Captain Nesmith had told Musa Pasha last night, and Musa Pasha ordered it to be posted overnight.

Some daring children look forward to the reward of leading twenty pela from the hands of Musa Ju, and the vast majority of adults also look forward to something, but they are also afraid of cannonballs exploding around them. .

At noon, a young child fortunately picked up a cracked cannonball. After he took the cannonball projectile in front of Musa Pasha, Musa Pasha rewarded him in front of everyone. He was twenty pella.

The fear caused by the cannonball was overshadowed by greed, and they all desperately hoped to get the twenty pella in the hands of Musa Pasha.

For a time, the residents in the bastion were enthusiastic about picking up cannonballs.

And the Russian imperial army outside the bastion is still constantly pounding the main city wall outside the bastion.

But this time they didn't care whether the artillery would injure their own people.

With a pious cry, the soldiers of the Guards charged towards the Turkish army on the bastion against their own and opposite cannons.

Captain Barrett, as usual, dispatched the Tunisian regiment to rush out of the city to attack the Janissaries. This time, the Guards did not disintegrate like the previous one, but divided their troops into two groups, continuing to climb the city wall all the way, and resisting the attack of the Tunisian army the other way.

The two sides immediately fell into a state of anxiety. People continued to die outside and on the bastion. The debate between the two sides over the bastion once again turned into a **** meat grinder battle.

The battle lasted for more than an hour. The two sides continued to add "chips" to the meat grinder. In the end, the Bastion side won.

The Russian Imperial Army hurriedly dropped the bodies of more than 1,000 Russian soldiers and then evacuated, and the Turkish army, who was on the defensive side of the city, also paid the price of nearly 700 deaths.

After the "long" meat grinder ended, the two sides once again entered the bombardment time of your coming and going.

Neither side under the shelling caused much damage to the other side, and few unlucky people were hit by the shells and died.

In the evening, a new round of battle for positions kicked off again.

After dawn, hundreds of corpses appeared again around the Russian trenches.

Prince Paskevich, who received the battle damages of the Russian Empire on the second day, almost wanted to take out his pistol and kill the division commander and Lieutenant General Hield directly in the camp.

If it wasn't for General Gorchakov and the special envoy of the Tsar to block it, the first and second generals who died in the Danube region since Operation Danube would have been buried in the hands of their own people.

When things got to this point, Paskevich had no choice but to go to the front to supervise the battle.

This time even Gorchakov could not dissuade the stubborn prince.

On this new day, Musa Pasha was still praying that the coalition would arrive sooner.

Unbeknownst to Musa Pasha, the coalition forces living in the Varna region are also facing an embarrassing problem.

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