A. Prozorovsky, decided to take the fortress by storm, but the assault of Zhurzhi and Brailov ended in heavy defeats.

Meanwhile, the sovereign demanded decisive action; the elderly and sick commander-in-chief confronted him with various reasons for the impossibility of crossing the Danube earlier in the fall.

The ease of crossing the Lower Danube was explained by the small number of Ottoman troops stationed there, since the vizier moved his main forces to Serbia in early May.

At that time, Prince Prozorovsky recognized the possibility of separating only Isaev's three-thousand-strong detachment to help the Serbs, who was soon forced to return to Wallachia.

Meanwhile, thanks to subsidies from England, the Ottoman army was significantly strengthened, and the Supreme Vizier had the intention, taking advantage of the removal of the main Russian forces to the Lower Danube, to invade Wallachia, capture Bucharest and thereby force Bagration to retreat to the left bank of the Danube.

Langeron, having learned about this, decided, despite the insignificance of his forces, to go to meet the Ottomans and ordered General Essen, who had moved to Obilesti, to join him.

On April 11, a river squadron of 22 ships under the command of Akimov arrived from Galati and, standing near Brailov, began bombarding him.

A bombardment of Turkish positions began, but "our structures were so far away that the fire from our batteries could do nothing against the earthen hoards and huge rounds, each of which was almost a fortress.

They began to put up ladders, but they turned out to be short.”[2] Russian soldiers were subjected to devastating shooting by the besieged Turks.

The attacking battalions of the remaining two columns, S. Y. Repninsky and N. Z. Khitrovo, having rushed forward, went down into the ditch and opened fire: “they shot in the air and at each other, wasting cartridges and stupidly shouting hurray!

On alarm, the Turks hastily took their places and with volleys in the light of burning torches and tarred barrels they met the assaulters.

Having sent the wounded and sick to the hospital and lifted the siege, the army retreated across the Seret River, where it set up camp; the main apartment was located in Galati.

At the same time, a significant mass of Turkish cavalry moved along the coastal road towards Chernovody to attack the flank of Miloradovich's corps.

Bagration sent Denisov's detachment of 6 hundred men to bypass the Turks' left flank to block the road to Silistra.