Marshal Kutusov, following a few days of assaults against the walls of Adrianople, adopted a new strategy and pulled the bulk of his forces off the walls to secure a perimeter while only a single corps would remain besieging the Turkish defenders. He was, it is recorded, quite surprised when the ottoman forces bolted from the fortress toward the northeast. Their divisions were exhausted and battered, in little shape for fighting, but word had reached them that their General, Alemdar Mustafa Pasha, was approaching with a relief force. What the breakout force did not know was that the only troops with Mustafa Pasha were some Syrian light horse.

They two Ottoman forces made contact as the Russians under Doctorow were able to intercept them and they turned to face the northerns.  

Alemdar deployed first and took hold of a small village, hoping that the overconfident Russians would go on the attack.

Although the Nezim-I-Cedit Corps was supposed to contain the very best and most modern infantry in the Ottoman Army, the the Mamluke Corps the finest cavalry in the world, the siege at Adrianople had left those divisions badly mauled. Though the Ottoman forces did not have anything like infantry parity against the Russians, they had plenty of heavy artillery and howitzers, a swarm of light cavalry, and a more flexible command structure.

Abd-ul-Aziz would take advantage of the Thracian forest to advance his thousands of horsemen against the left flank of the Russians.

A small force of Russian Jäger and an artillery battery would be split off from the main Russian army and tasked with securing the left flank. Doctorow, secure in this precaution, ordered the advance to continue against the center.

Russian Jäger would sieze the wood and use this protected vantage to harass the Ottoman artillery and village.

An initial Russian attempt to seize an apparently exposed Turkish battery results in the Russian infantry fleeing to the rear with heavy losses. On the Turkish right, Abdul Aziz has cut his corner sharply and his cavalry thunder through the light woods.

The Russians know that the cavalry on their flanks are hemming them into a murderous field for the Ottoman artillery. The only option is to find the courage to go forward and bayonets and lances are levelled. The Russians go forward everywhere and have some successes.

It is not enough though and the attack stalls. Howitzer fire rips through Russian columns at point-blank range while Syrian cavalry stand poised to pounce.

The Russian attack runs out of steam and the Ottoman envelopment tightens the noose. Ottoman mercenary infantry make counter attacks that disperse weary Russian soldiers.

    It is all that Doctorow can do to etricate his Corps and retreat it back to Adrianople in good order.