Recently, France's military production has also begun to reach its peak, but there is no synthetic ammonia. Napoleon refused to adjust the proportion of saltpeter in agriculture and military distribution. Therefore, although France has invested a lot of money to increase the output of saltpeter in Chile, the output of gunpowder and explosives is still limited. Compared with the consumption of today's war, the gap has become larger and larger.

The widening of the gap will of course stimulate the price of saltpeter. In the international market, saltpeter is basically priceless. Even if you take money, you can't buy saltpeter.

Since saltpeter is so rare, the deep processed products of saltpeter, such as various artillery shells and grenades of the French, naturally increased their prices. This made it difficult for the Russians to face the Russians. Because the Turks had their own saltpeter, and they could buy saltpeter from nearby Indians. (Although the British ordered a ban on the sale of saltpeter, the price of saltpeter increased almost a joke. At the beginning, the guys from the British East India Company arrested and smuggled everywhere.

The smugglers of saltpeter then register a small part of the seized smuggled saltpeter into the warehouse, and sell a large part to the Turks, and then stuff the money they get into their pockets. Then their warehouses containing saltpeter mines always cause fires due to various reasons such as fire dragon burning warehouses, spy destruction, and Indians operating randomly. Then the saltpeter, which is a flammable product, is naturally burned out. Of course, every time there is such a warehouse fire, the Turks can always buy a batch of saltpeter.)

The Turks transported these saltpeter to France, and then paid a high processing fee, and then they could take the ammunition produced by the saltpeter. Although in this "incoming material processing", the Turkish ships transporting the saltpeter will always float away as usual, and then the French will naturally lose some of them when processing, and then when they obtain the product and load it back, they will float away as usual. In the end, more than half of the saltpeter is lost. But at least the Turks can still be replenished.

However, the Russians' situation is much worse. Russia is vast and has everything. This saltpeter, well, is not much. Most of the saltpeter is produced in arid deserts and semi-desert areas. Although Russia is large, there is really not much desert. If the Russians want to purchase saltpeter, they can only purchase it from the Far East. However, there was no Siberian railway at that time, and the transportation was inconvenient. If the saltpeter purchased there, it would be really cold.

So after launching rounds of attacks on the Turks' defensive positions, spending a lot of ammunition and life, the Russian attack came to a halt. In this series of offensive operations, the Russian army suffered about 40,000 casualties. This number is definitely a scary number in this era. Although Turkey has a defensive bonus, coupled with the army trained by the French, the losses should be very small. However, due to various internal problems and critical moments, there should be a position guarded by 10,000 people on it, but for some reasons, there should be a fire on the record of a warehouse that is guarded by 10,000 people; (the warehouse manager received an order to send up as many as a certain ton of so-and-so supplies to a certain place tomorrow, and then the warehouse suddenly caught fire due to lightning strikes, meteorites, destruction of Armenian Christians or other reasons.)

As a result, although the Turks rely on Joseph-style defense to defend, the fewer people should have died, but in the end, the casualties were even higher than those of the Russians, with 60,000 casualties. Apart from some cannon fodder troops, Turkey's most elite, fully French equipment and French-trained army also lost more than 30,000.

But it doesn't matter. In Turkey, people are the most valuable, and some Turkeys are people. This is the Russians who can't fight against dead people. Besides, letting those elites loyal to Sudan die a little bit more, is not a bad thing for some people.

In short, you see, it is now blocking the Russians and consuming the direct power of the Turkish Sultan. How good do you think of such a best-of-two world thing!

In short, after paying such a large amount of expenses and casualties, the Russians made quite limited progress, so they had to prepare to retreat. Even the tough Kutuzov and the brave Baglation had to admit that the Russian army now had no way to take the defensive positions of the Turks.

"If we could give us a third of the shells and the 'little melon', I would definitely be able to tear the Turks' defenses apart." General Baglation said this.

However, these things are not more than one-third, and they are even much less. So the Russian army can only consider retreating now.

It is a troublesome thing to retreat in the enemy. If it is not done well, if someone takes advantage of the situation and fights back, he may suffer a big loss. Especially now, when he has suffered huge casualties but has gained nothing, the teacher and veterans are tired and have a low morale, which is even more so.

On the other side, His Majesty Sullym III was full of expectations for the situation on the battlefield. His reforms had achieved good results, and his army severely damaged the Russian army on the battlefield. Of course, he also paid a huge price, and the army that was truly loyal to him also suffered heavy casualties. So if this battle ended like this, due to the double losses in the army and wealth, he might not be able to suppress the conservatives who opposed his reforms as before.

So, he needs a real, unquestionable, brilliant victory.

Therefore, the Great Vizier Arondar Mustafa Pasha, who was commanding the battle on the front line, quickly received the order of His Majesty Sullym III - to pursue the possible retreating Russian troops, crush them, and regain lost ground in the last war.

Greater Vizier Arondar Mustafa Pasha knew that his army was in difficulties, but he also knew that victory was of great significance to the Turks today, especially to Sudan, so he also made the decision to pursue the Russian army.

After Kutuzov's Russian army began to retreat slowly, Vizier Arondar Mustafa Pasha led the most elite French army under his command, plus more than 30,000 other troops, to start the pursuit of the Russian army.

Kutuzov's retreat was organized quite well. He fought and retreated and maintained the army's organization. Although he suffered a little loss due to morale and supplies during the retreat, it was not a big deal. However, Arondar Mustafa Pasha was not in a hurry. Kutuzov had to retreat to a truly safe position and retreat far away. In this process, as long as Kutuzov revealed a flaw, all his previous efforts would be in vain.

Kutuzov retreated to the south bank of the Danube River and acted as if he wanted to cross the river and return to the north. The Turks chased after him, but they did not expect another Russian army that had been hiding beside him to run out of the flank under the command of General Baglation, cutting off the supply line and retreat route of the Turkish army.

The Russian army cut off the supply line of the Turkish army, with less than 20,000 people in terms of number, and there is no time to build a truly indestructible defense line. The Turkish army has more than 70,000 people, of which 40,000 are combat-capable. Just look at this, it should not be difficult for the Turkish army to break through the interception of more than 10,000 people. But we can't just look at one of them on the battlefield. You have to know where the 30,000 troops led by Kutuzov are still there? If they turn around and attack Baglation, then Kutuzov will definitely not just play soy sauce on the side, and will definitely give the Turks a front and back attack. So before turning around and opening the supply line, Arondar Mustafa Pasha must first prepare for defense against Kutuzov.

Of course, this defense preparation takes a lot of time. When the Turks are ready for defense here, General Baglation is also ready for defense.

"When I was in France, I had the opportunity to visit His Majesty Bonaparte, the first ruler of France. I happened to meet Bonaparte and President Bonaparte, and the two were studying military issues against a sand table. You all know that the Bonaparte brothers were both big military strategists, one was good at attacking and the other was good at defense. So seeing their homework on the map was a rare opportunity for me to learn. However, the time of that visit was limited, and I couldn't see their entire homework and the final result. But I went from Bonaparte

The Ba ruling government heard a concept: the best offensive means is to force the enemy to attack our defensive positions by creating various situations. The strategic offensive posture and tactical defense posture are not contradictory, and they can even complement each other. The battle we fought against Turkey in the last war was the practice of this idea..." This was what General Bagladion said later when he was teaching the students at the Petersburg Officer's School. As he said to him, this battle was a battle under the guidance of this idea.

The subsequent battle situation completely entered the rhythm of the Russians. Arondar Mustafa Pasha's army first launched a fierce attack on Baglation's position, but although the Russians were small in number, their combat effectiveness was very good. Relying on the fortifications, they blocked the Turks' first rounds of attacks and gave them considerable damage.

And behind, Kutuzov's restrained attack also firmly held down the most elite troops in the hands of Arondar Mustafa Pasha, making it impossible for these troops to be put into the attack on Baglation's positions.

Alondar Mustafa Pasha naturally knew that if the supply channel cannot be opened in a short period of time, the army would not be able to collapse if it loses the supply. In the first day of the breakthrough, in addition to some elites, there were more "other troops" that were barely combat-ready. Alondar Mustafa Pasha knew that just like he could not get supplies, Baglatian who was interspersed also could not get supplies, so his calculation was to use cannon fodder to consume Baglatian's supplies first, and then launch a general attack with real elites the next day.
Chapter completed!