Tsar of the Sphinx

Chapter 13 The Russo-Turkish War (Fear of Insufficient Firepower)

Although the Augustus Guard led by Alexander and Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky set off one night later, they still kept up with the frontier guards who set off earlier in Krivoy Rog military.

Then they rushed to Nikolayev together, did not stay in Nikolayev, but went directly south, on the second day after arriving in Nikolayev, they arrived in Ruoft, a small town at the southernmost tip of Nikolayev nevi.

Outside the city of Zovtniev is a long river, the South Bug River. The other side of the river is the territory of the Turks. I don’t know if there are Turks on the other side, but Alexander judges that there are.

So Alexander sent all his scouts to the opposite side.

When the scouts reached the other side, they found a group of Turkish scouts and began to fight.

Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili approached and asked, How did the Grand Duke judge that there would be Turks on the other side?And the Turks' scouts have already sent people back to report.

Alexander watched as his scouts captured the scouts on the other side and said, "Don't worry, the Turks have two ways to attack Kherson. One way is to attack Kherson directly from Au and Chav, or they can attack Kherson from Oja." Chav went north up the South Bug River and attacked Kherson from Zhoftniev.

But whether it is to attack Kherson directly or to attack Kherson by detouring Ruoft Nievi, there is a fortress that the Turks must conquer.

Fort Kimboon?
Alexander nodded and said: That's right, it is Kim Boon. Before Kim Boon is captured, the Turks will not march into Zhoftniev on a large scale, nor will they be able to directly march into Kherson.Also, I suspect the Turks will consider us reinforcements for Kherson.

Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili mused: "Then the Turks will not stop us, but let us go directly into Kherson, and we will have direct contact with them." Fight offensive and defensive battles in Kim Boon.

Alexander asked again: Ivanov, I heard that your ancestors are descendants of Andronikos I?

Yes Grand Duke, my ancestor is Alexios Komnenos, illegitimate son of Roman Emperor Andronikos I, who, after Andronikos was deposed, went to Georgia and accepted the order of Emperor Tamar the Great Asylum, granted to an estate in eastern Kakheti.

Then Androni Kashvili took root in Georgia.

So are you interested in traveling to Constantinople with me?Ivanov.Alexander laughed.

Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili saluted and replied: Of course, His Excellency the Grand Duke.

Alexander turned back and called: Grigory Andreyevich Repnin, go and send the order, the whole army rests for two hours, and then crosses the river.

Forehead!
Grigory Andreyevich Repnin felt that there was something wrong with this order, "Grand Duke..."

Didn't you hear?

Alexander's expression turned cold, and Grigory Andreevich Repnin had to go down to deliver the order.

The people behind him were muttering, they had cleaned up the scouts, they still had to cross the river, they had to rest for a while, couldn't they cross the river in one go and rest.

Tens of thousands of troops began to rest and eat.

Since it is two hours to cross the river, let's take a nap around the fire.

Two hours later, Alexander showed up.

Wake them up and prepare to cross the river.

The army began to cross the river.

Alexander and his general led the cavalry to cross the river first.

Alexander said: Let the Cossacks go too, and clear the way to Okhachav with the scouts, and clear the way for the army.

Yes.

Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili disappeared ahead with the Cossacks.

After crossing the Nanbug River, the army continued to set off.

The whole army reached the city of Okhachav the next night.

The city of Okhachav is not big. It was originally just an unknown coastal town. After the last war, Okhachav became the front line of the confrontation between Russia and Turkey.

In the years after the end of the war, Okhachev was built by the Turks as a fortress.

Grand Duke, how to fight this.asked a general.

Alexander Avenue; our soldiers are exhausted, the whole army camps, arranges the guards, and then rests, and we will talk about it tomorrow morning.

Tens of thousands of troops began to set up camp, and Chezairli Ghazi Hassan Pasha, the coach of the city of Okhachav, appeared on the walls of Okhachav.

He looked at the army outside the city, and said to his adjutant: Russia has divided the army into three groups, one is the lover of Tsar Ross, Grigory Alexandrovich Potemkin, and the other is Alexander Vasilievich Potemkin. Suvorov, the last road is the army that is before you and me. Its commander is Alexander Pavlovich Romanov, the grandson of Tsar Rus, who is only ten years old and a baby.As soon as reinforcements arrive, I will capture this doll and send it back to Istanbul.

get ready.Chezairli Ghazi Hassan Pasha said in a happy mood: All the things to defend the city have been obtained, as long as you persist until the reinforcements arrive, you will surely become officials and make a fortune.

Yes, Ghazi Pasha.

Following the order, the entire city of Okhachav boiled.

All kinds of defense materials were transported to the top of the city, and the city is still building these equipment continuously.

Chezairli Ghazi Hassan Pasha supervised until midnight and did not return until dawn.

He just went back, and within two hours, the troops outside the city began to line up outside the city.

Grigory Andreyevich Repnin found Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili said: Ivanov said: What's going on, the Grand Duke suddenly Let the army line up in the city?
Before Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili could answer, the tens of thousands of troops lined up outside the city of Okhachav looked excited.

Ulla!

Grigory Andreyevich Repnin and Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili saw Alexander coming out of the camp beside him Follow Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky.

When they saw the two of them, the army shouted like a rainbow.

Ulla!

Alexander pointed to the Okhachav City Road in front of him: Pass down the order, and the artillery battalions of each army will go forward, so that the artillery of each army will be divided into four parts, and each army will bombard Okhachav with a thousand shells every six hours. Let's talk about it for a day and a night first.

Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky stared at Alexander for a while, which made Alexander a little embarrassed.

Peter Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaiski said: Alexander, as far as I know, we only have [-] shells at the moment. It is impossible to continue to face the next war.

The last time Alexander led the army to receive supplies was in Smolensk. When he left St. Petersburg, he only brought [-] rounds of shells, and took another [-] shells in Smolensk. All the way straight to the city of Okhachav.

Yes, we only brought [-] rounds, but Marshal, have you forgotten Lieutenant General Johann Martin von Elmpter and Prince Gula Ivanovich Saltykov?I left one of them in Smolensk and the other in Yekaterinoslav, just to raise shells. Prince Saltyko had already gathered Johann Martin von Smolensk who was heading south from Smolensk last night. Lieutenant General Elmput, the two of them have already arrived in Bashtanka with [-] rounds of shells, and the [-] shells will arrive here at the latest tomorrow afternoon.

Boom boom boom boom!
A huge roar came over, and Alexander's war horse was a little startled, and Alexander hurriedly comforted him.By the way, look forward.

The adjutant is still cheering up his subordinates at the head of the city. As long as he guards Okhachav, everyone will be a hero.

Bang!
An iron bullet hit the top of the city, and the solid blocks of soil that the Turks spent three years casting scattered everywhere.

Boom!The gates of the city were smashed, leaving a frame that was crumbling.

Quickly, quickly block the city gate, and quickly repair the top of the city.The adjutant at the head of the city was lucky enough to escape the shelling, and lay down on the head of the city to issue orders to the troops in the city.

Alexander looked at the city wall of Okhachev and turned his head to Peter Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky and said: Marshal Rumyantsev, let's go back to the camp to discuss who will sweep the land in our north. the Turks.

it is good.

Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky said good morning, turned his horse and went back to the camp.

Alexander immediately sent an order: the officers of the armies came back to hold a meeting, and the whole army rested.

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Six hours later, the army outside the city of Okhachav was numb, and the Turks in the city were already numb.

The entire outer city wall of Okhachev was almost bombarded and there was no intact place.

In the big camp stationed in Russia, a group of generals returned to the army under their command.

Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili and Grigory Andreyevich Repnin were the two border guards who rode to Moscow Before the battle.

Immediately, the first and second Moscow border guards began to retreat slowly, and then the artillery battalions belonging to the first and second Moscow border guards began to retreat in front of the army array, and disappeared after joining the first and second border guards behind. In front of the two armies.
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Fiction by Ivanov Melkisekevich Andronikashvili.

Easter eggs: Androni Kashvili family.

The surname Andronikashvili, meaning "children of Andronikos," is attested to in sixteenth-century texts, but oral tradition holds that the family belonged to the Eastern Roman emperor Andronikashvili. Descendant of Alexios Komnenos (c. 1183-1185), illegitimate son of Rhonikos I Komnenos (reigned 1170-1199), by his mistress and relative West Inherited by Theodora Komnene, the illegitimate son of Eastern Roman Emperor Andronikos I Komnene (reigned 1183-1185). After the deposed and brutal murder of Emperor Andronikos, Alexius is said to have taken refuge at the court of his Georgian relative Tamar, who granted him an estate in Kakheti province in eastern Georgia.Despite the fragmented nature of Androni Kashvili's pedigree, which Professor Cyril Toumanoff (1976) found plausible, evidence collated in 1977 suggests it may be nothing more than a legend .Tumanov also believes that the lineage of the "provincial kings" of Alastani (c. 1230-1348), known from Georgian sources, including a king named Andronic, may have belonged to the Georgian Komnenoi .

The Androni Kashvili family estate is located in the southeast of Kakheti, one of the three kingdoms that emerged after the demise of the unified Georgian kingdom in the fifteenth century.

Like the Cholokashvili and Abashidze families, the Andronikashvili family is considered a first-class nobleman of the Kakheti kingdom.They held important political, diplomatic and military positions at court and were noted for their special devotion to the royal Bagrationi dynasty to whom they were married.In the 18s they served as military governors of the Ganja Khanate, which had been controlled by King Erekle II's brief conquest of Georgia.Several representatives of the family also served as bishops of Bodbe, Ninotsminda, Alaverdi and Nekresi.

After Russia's annexation of Georgia (1801), Androni Kashvili was recognized with the dignity of Knyaz in 1826 and served primarily in the Russian Army.After the Bolshevik takeover in the October Revolution of 1917, the head of the family, Jesse Andronikashvili (Andronikov), managed to send his family to France while he himself spent time in a Soviet prison for several years until he was shot in 1937.His son Constantin Andronikof (1916-1997) became a French diplomat, director of the Orthodox Seminary of St. Works translated into French.

接下来的彩蛋：杜卡斯分支后人：君士坦丁·杜卡斯：乔治·杜卡斯之子，1693年4月至1695年12月18日至1700年9月12日至1703年7月26日期间是摩尔达维亚的高官（王子）。

Although backed by his father-in-law, Prince Constantine Blancovianu of Wallachia, Constantine Ducas owed creditors in Constantinople.This led him to raise taxes and reintroduce vcrit (confiscation of every tenth cow).

He entered into a marriage alliance with the Costinesti Boyars (to which Myron Costan belonged) and persecuted his predecessors, the Cantemiers of the Constantines.

Dukas was dethroned by the Ottoman overlords after delaying the payment of tribute and ordering the killing of Check Kapuku.

He ascended the throne for the second time, after Brncoveanu had secured the removal of their mutual rival, Antioh Cantemir.However, Ducasse again reacted to Cantemireti (fleeing the country) by doubling taxes and enforcing the vcrit, only to fall into disgrace after relations with Brncoveanu soured.

Descendants of the Komnenos Trebizond line: Johan Komnenos Molivdos, an Ottoman Greek scholar and physician, later became a monk and Orthodox archbishop of Sid and Dristella.He was a descendant of the Komneni Byzantine dynasty, specifically the branch that ruled the Trebizond Empire, and is generally considered the last member of the family.

According to a document he commissioned in September 1695 from the Metropolitan Neophytus III of Heraclea, John was the son of Alexios Komnenos, surnamed "Molivdos", who was ordained a priest in 9.Alexios was again the son of Theodor Komnenos, who died in 1656.The document traces the ancestry back four more generations to another Theodore Komnenos), who settled with his family in Heraclea in 1637.According to the document, this Theodore was the great-grandson of the emperor Trebizond Basil Megas Comnenus (reigned 1480-1332).Buried in Bucharest in 1340.

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