As a result, it seems that the coalition forces can only make one decision to attack Telegraph Hill?
Not necessarily. After a series of quarrels, Raglan made concessions. He agreed that it was pointless to continue attacking Telegraph Hill, but the coalition forces could not be trapped here in Telegraph Hill.
So the only way is to find another way!
How to find another way?
The top leaders of the coalition quickly thought of their own maritime superiority, because the Black Sea Fleet voluntarily gave up its control of the sea and hunkered down in the Sea of Azov. In the Black Sea, the coalition has almost unimpeded access and can go wherever they want. There is no force that can stop or threaten them.
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Since the landing at Kalamita Bay was not successful, we should correct this mistake and directly find a place south of Sevastopol to land again. This way we can avoid the difficult Telegraph Mountain and go straight to Sevastopol.
You defend the "weak" Nangang!
To be honest, it is quite difficult for the coalition forces to think of such a non-solution. But no one with a normal mind would ever come up with such an idea.
The reason is very simple, that is, why the coalition generals didn’t think about it carefully. They couldn’t handle Telegraph Mountain and the Alma River, which are neither strategically important nor dangerous enough. Sebas, which has an extremely important strategic position and has been operated by the Russian army for decades
How could Topol be easier to win?
What if they hit a wall again in Sevastopol? Can they log in again to solve the problem?
The first problem that the coalition forces need to solve now is the lack of attack capabilities and the miscalculation of the strength of the Russian army. If these two problems are not solved, even if they successfully land south of Sevastopol, the result will still be the same, and there is a risk that the coalition forces will
He was made even more embarrassed.
However, the leaders of the coalition forces could not care so much at this time. They decided that landing in the area south of Sevastopol was the best way to attack the South Port of Sevastopol. So they immediately made up their mind to do so.
However, there was a little trouble during this period, that is, the coalition forces fell into a new dispute, that is, whether to retain part of their forces to stay in the area north of the Alma River to threaten the Russian army.
Some people may think that this is not a problem. Since we are going to land again, we should naturally concentrate all our efforts on getting there. Why leave a tail north of the Alma River? What is the use of this?
Don’t mention it, in theory it is really useful. Sevastopol is located at the southernmost tip of Crimea, which means that the supplies and reinforcements Sevastopol needs rely on the hinterland of Crimea and Ukraine to the north.
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Keeping a force on the Alma River can harass the Russian supply lines in Sevastopol, which is very meaningful for siege warfare.
The key to the quarrel between the coalition forces was not whether to stay, but how much. The French army led by Saint-Arnault believed that leaving a small force of up to 10,000 men would be enough. However, the cautious Raglan disagreed with him.
It is of no use to have such a small number of people at all, and if such a small number of people are reinforced by the main force of the Russian army, they are in danger of being surrounded and annihilated.
Raglan believed that at least 20,000 people should be left in the Alma River area, and preferably 30,000.
Good guy, the coalition forces only have a total of tens of thousands of troops now. If they really leave 30,000 troops, then the number of troops that can be used to attack Sevastopol is probably only about 30,000. What can such a few troops do?