Fox of France

After selling the country at a low price, the Turks finally relied on the crusaders sent by the Pope. Ah, it was the South Italian Volunteers who blocked the Russians by relying on the Prut River.

In fact, neither side even engaged in any serious fighting. The Russians had consumed too much ammunition in the previous battles, (Kutuzov: I have saved a lot!) And the most important thing that Arundar Mustafa Pasha did before surrendering The most important thing is that all the materials carried by the Turkish army, especially ammunition, have been completely consumed. In the end, when they surrendered, the Russians were confident that they would be paid a fortune from the capture. As a result, a lot of weapons were seized, but ammunition was pitifully small. As a result, the average number of shells allocated to each Russian cannon is less than five rounds.

If there is a group of Sudanese soldiers on the opposite side, the Russians may still find a way to fight seriously to see if they can burst out some potion—ah, it’s ammunition. But the Italians... Well, if many years later, the Russians hear that the enemy army on the opposite side is "lovely Italians", then they don't need a powerful political commissar to display their skills, and their morale will burst.

Come to think of it, "lovely Italian"! They always bring delicious Italian sausages, and the Italians are versatile. Everyone knows one or two musical instruments. As long as they have them, they can rehearse "The Marriage of Figaro" in the prisoner-of-war camp. The entire army can have a lot of extra military bands at once. Also, the cooking class of the Russians can have a collective rest-how good do you think this is!

However, Italians in this era are not the kind of "lovely Italians". In this era, there are many Italian states, and wars are very common. However, Italians, although they are notoriously slippery and dishonest , but the combat effectiveness is still guaranteed.

In addition, at the beginning, under the command of the old Marshal Suvorov, many Russian generals also saw with their own eyes how the northern Italians ravaged the Austrians in the defensive battle. Although the Austrians insisted that it was a Frenchman wearing Italian clothes. But everyone knows that it is the Italians. Since the northern Italians are so good at fighting, then the southern Italians should not be too bad... Well, thinking about it this way, and considering the current situation of the army, the Russians have plans to accept it as soon as it is good.

As for the Southern Italian Volunteers, well, they have no willingness to take the initiative to attack. After all, they are only here to make money. If they can get money just by confronting each other, it is of course better than getting money from fighting.

So the two armies faced off across the Toprut River. At the same time, Russia and Turkey also started negotiations.

Of course, the Russians opened their mouths wide and made a series of demands. Such as ceding land and paying compensation are completely basic operations. What else is there to ask Turkey to allow Russian ships, including warships, to freely enter and exit the Black Sea straits. It also requires Turkey to restore the Hagia Sophia to its original appearance, that is, to re-convert it into an Orthodox church, and to tear down all the minarets that were later illegally built by the Turks.

The request to restore the Aya Sophia Mosque as the Hagia Sophia was naturally rejected by the Turks without even thinking about it. If this kind of thing is agreed, the legitimacy of the Turkish regime will basically cease to exist.

Of course, when the Russians made this request, they also knew that it was impossible for the Turks to agree to this request. This is just asking too much to put a little pressure on the Turks. It is also an excuse for Turkey to make concessions in other areas. Well, it is to allow the Turks to say to the country: "Look, we are still very capable of safeguarding national interests. We have firmly rejected their unreasonable demands... What, ceding land and paying compensation? This is not our fault, mainly the previous one. Sultan Selim III was not pious enough, instead of relying on the devotion to the true God to solve the problem honestly, he went to engage in the crooked ways of the heretics... I think back then, why did we Turks win every battle? That is because we piously trusted True God, if those reforms are carried out, the more they carry out, the worse the world will be..."

After such a publicity, the new sultan of Turkey betrayed his country and even sold a sense of tragedy. So many years later, there are still Turks who think that Sultan Mustafa IV is actually not bad, and he cannot be blamed for the land cession and compensation. There is even something like "You don't know the difficulties of the four generations when you are young, but you know the real Sudan when you are old" on the Internet of later generations.

The remaining thing is to cede land compensation and navigation rights. According to the opinion of Sultan Mustafa IV, this matter is easy to talk about. Isn't it just ceding land and paying compensation? My big Turkey is vast and has everything, but it is only to measure the material strength of Turkey and the favor of Yuyu country. Well said!

Sultan Mustafa IV said to his grand vizier Jevasbashe Mimas Pasha: "My elder brother, Sultan Selim III, far exceeds me in talent and wisdom. But he It failed in the end. Do you know why?"

Javasbashe Mimaspa shook his head.

"Sultan Selim III is pursuing an unattainable goal. He spent too much time looking at the starry sky, but forgot what the earth looks like." Sultan Mustafa IV also shook his head, "He He wants to bring Turkey back to the great era of Suleiman the Great, but he doesn't know that times have changed!

He found that the pagan countries in Europe were rising rapidly, and they became stronger day by day, while the star and moon flag of Turkey was not as dazzling as it was many years ago. So he tried to learn from those pagan countries, without considering that those countries were fundamentally different from Turkey.

The rise of those countries is largely at the expense of the weakening of religion, and the relationship between their kings and churches is completely different from ours. Their king has always been fighting for power with the church. The power of the church has been weakened, but the power of the government has been strengthened. However, we are different. In our tradition, religion and government are one. To weaken religion is to weaken the regime. Maybe what he did will indeed make Turkey stronger, but it will weaken our regime. Hehe, my brother always thinks that I am a bumpkin who has never seen the world, thinking that I don't know what the outside world has become. hehe……

The rise of those pagan countries was not only at the cost of the decline of religion, but even at the cost of the decline of the royal family. You see, in England, they were the first to cut off the head of the king. Although they still retained the royal family later, the power and majesty of the king had been trampled underfoot by the parliament. At this price, Britain once became the most powerful country in the world.

In order to surpass England, the French also beheaded the king and the queen, and turned the kingdom into a republic—there would be no more kings.

After paying such a price, the French surpassed Britain and became the most powerful country in the world now. So, if we learn from them and become as strong as they are, at what price do we have to pay? Be like England, chop off the head of a sultan, and then throw a covenant to the next sultan stipulating what he can and cannot do; or, like France, chop off the heads of the king and queen, and then turn Turkey into a into a republic?

No, if you want Turkey to be as strong as it was when Suleiman the Great was, it may not be enough to just reach the level of the French. It may be necessary to sacrifice the entire Ottoman family. Therefore, the path my brother took was definitely an evil path. It is an evil way to protect Turkey and not protect Ottomans!

If the ruler of Turkey is not Ottoman, then even if Turkey is advanced and powerful, what is the point? The real difference between me and my cousin is whether we choose to keep Turkey or Ottomans. "

Therefore, the top leaders of Ottoman Turkey quickly unified their opinions, that is, to protect Ottoman first, then to protect the nobles and priests of the Ottoman Empire, and finally to protect Turkey by the way.

With such a guiding ideology, the subsequent situation can be imagined. However, the French jumped out of the bar. Not only did they keep encouraging the Turks, they told them that reparations can be considered, (Anyway, Turkey has no money, so it can only borrow from the French, and then, at least in this time and space, no one dares to borrow money from the French. The land that the Russians have already occupied can be ceded, but the part that has not been occupied by the Russians must not be ceded. Their attitude towards the right of navigation proposed by the Russians is even tougher.

"Russian warships must not be allowed to enter the Mediterranean Sea casually!" The French ambassador to Turkey simply stepped forward to guide Turkey's diplomacy.

"But Mr. Ambassador, if we don't make concessions on this point, the Russians won't agree. We can't beat them now..." explained Jevasbashe Mimas Pasha.

As a result, the French ambassador immediately said: "The swords of the Russians are sharp, so aren't our French swords sharp? Allowing Russian warships to enter the Mediterranean Sea has harmed our interests. If your country cannot safeguard our interests...is it true? Is your country going to see how we French defend French interests?"

Well, the matter of the right of navigation is really hard to talk about. No matter how much pressure the Russians put on, the Turks just won't let go. After all, the Russians have been offended anyway, and they will never become Turkey's friends no matter what. Of course, if they discovered in time who was plotting to overthrow the Sultan, it might make them temporary friends. But this is only temporary. Geographically, they are inherently hostile. It is obviously incompatible to make the more powerful France dissatisfied or even angry in order to satisfy the Russians. Then, the negotiations were delayed, but the Italians were not in a hurry about the delay in the negotiations. Anyway, if you stay for one more day, you will be paid for one more day.

In the end, the Russians were in a hurry. They also owed a lot of debts for the war, and urgently needed a sum of compensation to repay the debts and as an investment in the domestic legal movement. So the Russians took a step back. They proposed that Turkey should ensure that Russian merchant ships can freely enter and exit the Black Sea Strait. As for warships, the Russians said that this can also be discussed. For example, capital ships are not allowed to pass.

Of course, what kind of ship is a capital ship is another matter of wrangling. But this matter, except for the Russians, everyone is not in a hurry. In the end, it was agreed that battleships and super cruisers were not allowed to pass. The total tonnage of cruisers and warships below cruisers must not exceed a few tons in any year. As for the standards of battleships and super cruisers, the existing standards of the French Navy shall prevail.

In this way, the most difficult link was broken through, and then Turkey signed a new peace treaty with Russia. According to this treaty, Turkey ceded the entire Bessarabia region and part of the Caucasus region to Russia. In addition, Russia was also compensated with 100 million francs.

Even for Turkey, which is rich all over the world, this amount of money is not a small amount of money that can be taken out casually. However, the Russians demanded that Turkey pay in one go, and the time was still very tight. In order to make up the money, Turkey applied for another loan from the Bank of Rome.

In the end, the Turks spent a total of 300 million francs for this, 100 million of which was given to the Russians, and the remaining 200 million were of course the legal proceeds of the Roman Bank.

Just as the war in the East was dying down, in Ireland the siege of Dublin was reaching its final stages. After the supply of ammunition to Russia was stopped, the supply of ammunition to the French artillery outside Dublin was finally improved. As a result, the efficiency of the Franco-Irish coalition's attack on Dublin has increased significantly.

Today, the number of shells falling on the heads of the British every day is at least three times higher than that of the previous period. Coupled with the ultra-long range of the French cannons, yes they have a clear advantage in the confrontation with the British artillery.

Relying on the condescending observation of the hot air balloon, and the huge range of the 280mm gun and the 203mm gun, the French army destroyed many British cannons in succession in the artillery battle. Especially because the British do not have smokeless gunpowder technology, the characteristics of the artillery are always very obvious when they are fired, which makes the French always quickly discover that they have no gunpowder and hit the shells on their heads.

Now part of the independent army has occupied the last strategic point leading to the urban area, so the British were already preparing to retreat before that.

To say that in the history of world wars, the British Army is not particularly good in many aspects. There is only one technology that can be called unparalleled in the world, and that is the British retreat technology. The British Army is best at organizing retreats, especially by sea...