Solovyov in Tsarist Russia 1796.

On the Turkish side, Ahmed Pasha did not come. After nearly 200,000 Turkish troops arrived in Thrace, he had to split his troops into two groups.

Along the way, Kamensky the Younger faced the absolute main force of the Turkish army. Although the previous attack was defeated, considering the terrain of central and eastern Bulgaria and the large number of fortresses built in the European heartland of the Ottoman Empire, it was indeed not an easy nut to chew.

Most of this flat land along the Danube was controlled by Kamensky the Younger. After a period of siege, Rushchuk finally laid down his arms and surrendered. However, starting from Pleven and other places, the roads ahead were all mountainous, and there were a series of small fortresses and Turkish military garrisons behind them.

It can be said that after the Russo-Turkish War shifted from the battlefields in southern Ukraine and Crimea to Moldavia and the Danube River Basin, the biggest trouble for the Russian army was probably that once the Turkish army adopted the pig tactics and hid in the fortress, it would take a considerable amount of time.

The victory at Rushchuk was due to the advice of Solovyov and Clausewitz adopted by Kamensky the Younger. In order to achieve the suddenness of the battle, he sent his eldest brother and Langeron, which led to the victory at Rushchuk.

Slobozia, that is, the Turks themselves had a small number of troops, and when they saw that they were surrounded by the main force of the Russian army, they quickly surrendered smoothly. This was completely different from Vidin and Rushchuk.

Attacking a city with a majority of Orthodox Christians and attacking a fortress filled with Turks are two different levels of difficulty. In fact, the latter is more troublesome. After seeing the situation inside the fortress, little Kamensky was glad that his sneak attack was successful. If his elder brother's troops had arrived a day later, they might still be besieging this place. The subsequent attacking troops could only sprinkle toppings on pizza, with some on each piece, but not that much to share.

In that case, with the Turks' massive fortresses and garbage soldiers, he would not be able to hold Rushchuk. After a long time, the Russian army would have to retreat because of the depletion of food.

In fact, what Kutuzov said later was correct. In the end, the Turks would be forced to kill horses and eat horse meat. After all the horse meat was eaten, it would be time for them to surrender.

Solovyov only knew about the frontal combat from Kamensky's letter, and the pile of fortresses at the back were indeed not easy to deal with.

The breakdown of this war was that he did not restore history very well, adding an additional 40,000 troops and regularizing the Serbian rebel army.

As for Karageorge's affairs, Solovyov could only arrange them until the end of the year to see if their military training could show some initial progress within half a year.

After all, it is much easier to transform troops with combat experience than to train new serfs who know nothing. Moreover, the last thing the Serbs lack when fighting is courage. Those big guys who are not afraid of death are indeed high-quality soldiers.

If I could get a volunteer corps to follow me back when I leave Serbia, it might be considered a win-win.

But he just thought about it. His main goal now was to compete with the Turks.

After convening a two-level military meeting with division commanders and regiment commanders, his initial plan was agreed upon by everyone below him, who also believed that this was a way to quickly weaken the enemy.

Even Solovyov didn't dare to think that fighting a battle here would completely eliminate the enemy.

At times like this, we still have to adopt the salami-slicing tactic and eliminate the enemy piece by piece.

However, among the scouts he had sent out, only the Belarusian Regiment reported. When the other hussar regiments reported back, they even used optical communications.

Using this method and not sending out sentries would definitely not cause any major problems, but Solovyov could not trust that every regiment commander under him would strictly follow orders.

Buckholden got drunk in Austerlitz, which inevitably affected the left wing of the Allied forces. Naturally, he was also responsible for the consequences, running faster than a rabbit.

But this was not a matter of concern to the immediate localities. Solovyov sent himself and Christian's adjutant to the front cavalry regiments to inquire about the situation.

He still believed that there would be no problem only if someone saw the situation with their own eyes.

Soon, several of Christian's adjutants came back, and the Cossack regiments they had visited did not have any problems ahead.

But when the Hussars, deployed along the Danube, heard that the Turkish army had reached the other side of the river at Lom and was even preparing to capture the city.

Their regiment commander wanted to ask for instructions, but Solovyov actually wanted him to retreat.

"Is this appropriate?"

"Not only must we withdraw the cavalry, but we must also give the pontoon bridge to the enemy. At the same time, we must send someone to row a boat across the river from our side and mobilize some infantry from the other side to block the other side of the pontoon bridge."

"If we do this, we can prevent the enemy from crossing the river."

"Crossing the Danube is more difficult than crossing the Po. Karl, pass on the order first. Also, call Arkady. I have something to do for him."

The 9th Division led by Arkady was marching on the far right of the team. The terrain along the way was very flat, but there were many obstacles, which required his infantry to act as lumberjacks and use the wood to fill the road.

Fortunately, most of the Russian troops were farmers. Regardless of whether they were self-employed farmers or serfs, they were all familiar with the work of logging and shoveling soil.

Now that he knew Solovyov wanted him to come over, he was naturally very happy.

Although Suvorov had many disciples, he did not have enough time to educate his own son, and several of his disciples were often sent abroad. Therefore, his son basically relied on self-study to learn military theories and relied on courage to fight. Over the years, most of the famous generals of the Russian army were self-taught.

To have Suvorov as your teacher, you had to have been in active service before he went to Italy, and you had to be able to interact with him for a long time, and you must have had talent as well.

Arkady's talent was obviously average, but compared to his father, who was a skinny and withered old man, he was tall and handsome. If this kid had not lived with his father since he was a child, he could have shown the same character as his father.
Of course, he failed to learn Suvorov's skills and abstraction, but he did have moral character. There were two other very important things: his wife loved him and was from the Naryshkin family, the mother's family of Peter the Great; the other was that he was very popular in the circle of noble ladies and had good social skills.

Before Solovyov set off, he heard that Durova had been taught by him how to attract girls.

Well, Durova was losing her femininity, no wonder Arkady made the mistake. A doctor even suggested that she sleep with a girl so that her complexion wouldn't look so healthy and rosy.

There were outrageous things in St. Petersburg. After Arkady arrived here, what he liked to complain about the most was his fellow Taoist Mishka, who never gave him a chance to fight and seemed to be too protective of his master's only son and heir.

Now it is finally his turn, and he is ready to do a great job.

During the pre-war meeting, Solovyov also arranged that the troops on the left and right wings had different responsibilities.

The left wing was naturally the chopping block for the enemy, while the two divisions and cavalry on the right wing were to attack this time.

Anyone who has read a little bit of books knows that Alexander the Great and Iskander across from him often liked to do this.

This simple tactic can be changed later. In response to the enemy's movements, the enemy can also launch an attack. When Arkady arrived at Solovyov's place, he saw him waiting for him on horseback.

"Misha, why did you change your horse?"

"The horse the emperor gave me is already old, so I chose one from its offspring. Isn't that normal? You have a good eye and have noticed the details."

“Although they are all white horses, there are subtle differences in coat color.”

"Observation is very important. What should you do if you are on the right wing facing the Turkish flank?"

"It is Uvarov who has to protect Christian in the front. I and several Cossack cavalry regiments will get behind the enemy and cut off their retreat. When Uvarov squeezes from the flank, the grenadiers and I will attack from the front and back and drive the enemy into the Danube!"

"That's right. This opportunity is very important now. The enemy wants to burn our pontoon bridge. We can't let them get too complacent. We must strike while the enemy's deployment is still relatively loose. After destroying the enemy in the front, you have to command the entire division to turn back and buy time for Uvarov's redeployment."

"What if something happens that we don't want?"

Seeing this, Solovyov was quite satisfied with Arkady. At least he had considered the worst possible situation.

"Then the 9th Division will perform the retreat mission. The grenadiers will cover Uvarov's retreat, and then you will cover the grenadiers' retreat, and then we will withdraw from the battlefield. In this situation, we cannot say that there are no concerns, but we must win this battle. Otherwise, even if Alexander Vasilyevich is my mentor, I will also change to someone else."

Fortunately, he speaks Russian now, otherwise, my accent would have changed.

For example, "Flower Line Enemy Crop Cutting".
"Misha, don't worry. I know you're worried about my future, and you're not the only one."

Arkady said this, and Solovyov looked at him. He always had to trust him. The young eagle also had to take off. Arkady's starting point was even higher than his, but he had less experience on the battlefield.

At this time, he had no choice but to take up the task. It would be fine for Uvarov to serve as a link between the two divisions, but Solovyov was not at ease if he were to take on the main task.

Therefore, his headquarters was not with the grenadiers.

The six grenadier regiments led by Christian accounted for more than 40% of the Russian grenadier regiments' current strength. They were the elite of the Russian army besides the Guards. He was Elena's brother-in-law. With this status as a royal relative, and the fact that he was assigned to the Moscow Grenadier Regiment, his abilities were always recognized.

Otherwise, he would not have been able to fight in almost the entire Napoleonic Wars and would not have been able to stay on the front line despite being wounded in several battles.

Compared with Alexander's cousin Eugen the Younger of Württemberg, who had some talent for command, was very good at thinking, and was an expert in division-level combat, Christian's main advantage was that he was strong-willed, was relatively brave in battle, and was often in the most dangerous areas.

Well, if Solovyov had the opportunity to command these royal relatives, he would know how to arrange them, and now the combination is like this.

Fortunately, I have a close relationship with all three of them, so it is convenient to give them orders.

But after the war started, anything could happen, and he also issued the mission objectives to Christian.

After Arkady left, Solovyov was still looking at the map. He had already explained how to seize that piece of land.

To see the contour lines, Arkady had to go around the east side of a high ground, which was the source of a small river. After the Turkish vanguard entered the battlefield, Uvarov and Arkady were on the other side of the river.

Christian's division is only enough to stop the Turkish army head-on, but it is difficult to expand the front line. The Turkish army is probably unlikely to make a detour. For the Turkish army, if they want to fight flexibly and mobile on the battlefield, they may have to single out the cavalry, as most of the infantry are still not capable of doing so.

After this period of deployment, Solovyov has completed the final planning and is still able to fight a big battle.

But he was still worried about the situation of the outpost battle.

When I was the vanguard, I raided the Polish army's camp.

There is a problem in the current outpost battle with the Turkish army. For the Russian army, this time the opponent has the advantage.

The trouble is here, he can only grit his teeth and fight.

He gave the opponent the initiative and also because he did not give up the ferry on the south side of the pontoon bridge, it was unlikely that the Turkish army would enter his pocket in this battle.

If he knew that a commander with some experience like Ahmed Pasha did not come, and only a Pasha from Greece was sent to lead the team, he would be grateful.

In the current situation, he still needs to observe the enemy's movements.

"There is a report that the troops ahead are engaging in a firefight with the enemy."

Clausewitz pointed to the other side of the creek, but Solovyov couldn't see clearly through the telescope because the distance was too far.

However, the Russian signalmen were very conscientious. In addition to sending out optical signals, the hunters in the front were also releasing smoke signals.

If you have watched Tom and Jerry, you probably know that Jerry once brought two Indian gray mice, and they used smoke to sound the alarm.

This level can be said to be the black technology of primitive society, and it is still very useful under this level of communication.

"Very good, now we need the hunters to engage the enemy and lure them deep into our territory. Let them pass quickly. Come here."

But it was not so fast. The Turkish marching column was very long. By the time Arkady's adjutant arrived here, Solovyov knew that the enemy at the end was still lingering in the city of Lom. It was difficult to estimate the number of enemies here because the troops were sparse and such a long marching column was unevenly distributed.

But since they are all here, we can naturally fight back since the enemy is poorly organized.

The dice must always be thrown. (End of this chapter)