8,000 Russian soldiers were locked in a bitter battle with the defending Kutuzov rebels, and at this moment, the two cavalry regiments deployed in the east and west of Riga launched a charge, and nearly 3,000 cavalry rode their horses and rushed towards the Russian troops in Gnezhl in the city.
However, I am afraid that no one expected that just as the cavalry regiment was charging, the Baltic Fleet, which was still near the sea, suddenly launched another round of artillery bombardment on Riga, and a considerable part of the shells in this round of shelling fell on the heads of the two cavalry regiments that were charging.
This round of shelling alone caused more than 1,000 casualties among the cavalry, which was probably not expected by anyone, of course, the main reason was that the cavalry could not be used in the narrow streets of the city, and many of the shells hit the houses on both sides of the street, and the collapsed houses were enough to kill many people.
And the impact of this round of shelling is not only that, just when the surviving cavalry has not come to their senses because of all this in front of them, they only feel that the war horses under the seat have gone crazy, and these war horses have scattered and fled regardless of the cavalry on their bodies, which makes all the cavalry stunned, they did not expect that the well-trained war horses in the past are suddenly out of control.
However, for the sake of their lives, these cavalrymen still sat on their horses one after another, and the artillery fire in front of them made them feel terrified.
A true warrior dares to face a bleak life, but when you find that you are surrounded by enemies many times your size, whether you are a warrior or not, you will feel uneasy, and Sergei is like that.
The commander of the 27th Regiment was now surrounded by the Russian Guards in an ordinary neighborhood of Riga, and now the 27th Regiment had only 300 men left.
However, if Sergei knew that the 16th Regiment was only in the area only a street away from him, I am afraid that even if the last person was killed, Sergei would have to break through, but unfortunately he did not know.
"Is there any news of our reinforcements?"
"Your Excellency.
We sent more than a dozen waves of heralds, but they didn't bring us a single reinforcement!
” Hearing this answer, Sergei only felt as if his heart had been poured with a basin of cold water.
"Your Excellency, we have less than three hundred men.
Now we can only rely on the houses on this street to resist, but I would like to remind you that we are seriously short of ammunition and most of our men have been injured and they can no longer support it" The words of a subordinate staff officer made Sergei sit paralyzed on the ground, although Sergei for more than ten years is worthy of the title of a warrior.
But with the rise of his status, Sergei is no longer the fierce man who dares to rush at hundreds of enemies with a saber, and now the more he enjoys, the more he feels the beauty of life.
"Your Excellency, I would like to remind you that the enemy outside has declared their target only General Kutuzov, if we do not resist.
They are willing to let us go, Your Excellency, and I hope you will make a decision sooner rather than later, we simply won't last long!
” Sergei sat in his chair, his hands clutching his hair weakly, his face full of tangled looks, but when he looked up and saw the faces of his subordinates in the room.
Sergey already knew what he had to do "Send people to contact the enemy immediately, we are willing to surrender, as long as they guarantee our safety, I will immediately order to stop the resistance!"
After Sergei's words, although no one in the room cheered, everyone was still relieved, it was obvious that no one wanted to risk their lives in a battle with no hope of victory.
The sky was already bright, and the warm sun was shining on the city of Riga, but in just one night, the once prosperous Riga had completely turned into a scene of hell on earth.
Blood stains and stumps can be seen everywhere, and the collapsed buildings and the ubiquitous green smoke make people feel disillusioned.
Kutuzov's eyes were bloodshot, and if it weren't for the sounds of fighting that sounded everywhere in the city, he would have thought that everything in front of him was his own dream.
And Kulickov, who was standing next to Kutuzov, was no better, his face was covered with dust.
But the general, who had always loved neatness, didn't care.
Although after dawn, Kutuzov's 10,000 troops deployed outside Riga had arrived on the battlefield, the battle in Riga did not change the situation because of the addition of Kutuzov's army, and the 8,000 Russian Guards gradually expanded their area of control despite the difficulties of their steps.
Now that the battle was fought, Kutuzov had to think about the consequences of defeat, and Riga, the capital of Latvia, was full of supplies that Kutuzov had prepared for the rebellion, including a large number of aid he had received from Prussia and Sweden.
Kutuzov knew that Riga could not be lost, and once Riga was lost, not to mention its important strategic value, the supplies in the city alone would be enough to deal a great blow to Kutuzov's career.
"Tell all the officers that no matter what the reason, I must completely destroy those enemies in the city within today, recapture Riga, and everyone will receive a large reward, if you can't take Riga, all the officers will be killed by eleven shots!"
Kutuzov's words made the faces of the generals behind him change greatly, the so-called eleven killing, as the name suggests, is to make a group of ten people into a group of lots, one of which is dead, and the person who draws the lot will be sentenced to death.
This cruel punishment was invented by the ancient Romans and later carried forward at the hands of the famous Roman general Crassus.
The Eleventh Kill Order had been abolished for thousands of years, but the officers were no strangers to the punishment, which was originally aimed at soldiers who had fled in battle, and now under Kutuzov's orders, some of these officers would become another sacrifice of the Eleventh Killing.
"Your Excellency, General!"
"Kulichkov, you shut up for me, if Riga City can't be taken back, you will also give me a chance to participate in the eleventh smash!"
Kulichkov's face changed dramatically after saying this, for so many years, Kulichkov has always played Kutuzov's right-hand man and the second man in the East Polish Army, but now Kutuzov actually asked Kulichkov to also participate in the eleventh smash, which is simply an insult to Kulichkov.
Now Kutuzov is already in a hurry, of course, if he is not in a hurry, he will not come up with this trick, the cruelty of the eleven smash is there, and there is only one way forward if he doesn't want to die.
I saw that under Kutuzov's strict orders, the officers immediately became nervous, especially the generals who led the troops, and they all knew that if Riga could not be recaptured, then Kutuzov would definitely spill his anger on their heads.
Alien to the chaotic scene around him, Kulichkov stood still and did not move.
Over the next two hours, Kutuzov's army launched two beautiful counteroffensives, but each time was defeated just as the dawn of victory was about to dawn.
Gniezhle laughed at the Kutuzov army that was bombarded by naval shells, it turned out that every time Kutuzov's army attacked, then Gniezhle would order the army to pretend to be oversupported and retreat to the range of the guns of the large warships of the Baltic Fleet, and then contact the navy, and Ushakov would help him destroy the enemy.
It can be said that Gniezhle can be famous all over the world with today's tactics, because his tactics simply opened a precedent for a genre.
The two successive defeats made Kutuzov's men see the situation clearly, even if the Russian army in Gniezhl retreated, they would not continue to advance, because they knew that there was a dead land ahead!
The two attacks resulted in nearly 3,000 casualties in Kutuzov's army, which now remained intact under Kutuzov's command with only one regiment and many more soldiers who had been scattered and regrouped, adding up to nearly 6,000 men.
On the other hand, on the side of Gnezhl, although Kutuzov's army attacked more ferociously, but relying on the support of the navy, Gniezhl still has nearly 7,000 soldiers who can fight, and the gap between the two sides is not very big in terms of strength comparison.
But in terms of morale, the soldiers on both sides were very different, although Kutuzov's army used a large number of artillery, but at the moment Riga was completely turned into a ruined city, and these artillery could not play their due power at all.
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And in comparison with the firepower of the Baltic Fleet, Kutuzov's guns are simply not one or two levels worse.
Moreover, nominally, Gnezhl's men were the Imperial Guard, they represented the center of the Empire, and in terms of righteousness, Gniezhl's army had the upper hand.
Although Kutuzov's army is the elite he has cultivated for many years and his henchmen, most of the soldiers at the bottom are not Kutuzov's henchmen, they just joined the army for a bite to eat, but this does not mean that they are idiots, Kutuzov is just a local prince, and Paul I is the orthodox of the Romanov dynasty, he is the orthodox heir of the Russian Empire, compared to Kutuzov, Paul occupies the righteous name.
If we can't fight and fight, and morality can't prevail, in this way, the morale of the army can be imagined.
Seeing that the intensity of the enemy attack on the opposite side had weakened, Gniezhle was overjoyed, and he immediately ordered his army to attack, and apparently the time he chose was very coincidental, exactly at eleven o'clock in the afternoon.
You must know that most of the soldiers in Kutuzov's army have been fighting since last night, and they have not even had time to eat, and the soldiers are tired from the long fighting, and the attack of Gniezhl has worked wonders.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, Kutuzov's army was driven out of Riga, and the 17,000 people under Kutuzov's headquarters deployed in Riga were only more than 2,000 people left after the battle.