After selling the country at a bargain price, the Turks finally relied on the crusaders sent by the Papal States, ah, it was the southern Italian volunteers who held back the Russians by the Prut River.

In fact, the two sides did not even engage in any serious fighting. The Russians have consumed too much ammunition in previous battles, (Kutuzov: I've been saved!) And one of the most important things that Arandar Mustafa Pasha did before surrendering was to consume all the supplies carried by the Turkish army, especially ammunition and so on. Eventually, when they surrendered, the Russians thought they would be able to make a fortune on their capture. As a result, a lot of weapons were captured, but the ammunition was pitiful. As a result, the Russians have been able to allocate less than five shells per cannon on average.

If there is a group of Sultan's own soldiers on the other side, the Russians may still find a way to fight seriously and see if they can burst some potion - ah, ammunition out. But the Italians ...... Well, if, many years later, the Russians heard that the enemy troops on the opposite side were "lovely Italians", they would not need a powerful commissar to show their skills, and they would be demoralized directly.

Think about it, "lovely Italian"! They always carry delicious Italian sausages, and the Italians are so versatile that they know one or two instruments, and they can rehearse a play of "The Marriage of Figaro" in the prisoner-of-war camp. The entire army can have a whole bunch of military bands all at once. Also, the cooking classes of the Russians can rest en masse - how good do you say that!

However, the Italians of this era are not the kind of "lovely Italians", in this era, Italy is full of states, and fighting is a very common thing, and the Italians, although they are notoriously slippery and dishonest, but their combat effectiveness is still guaranteed.

In addition, at the beginning, under the command of Marshal Suvorov, many Russian generals also saw with their own eyes how the Northern Italians ravaged the Austrians in defensive battles. Although the Austrians insisted that it was the French in Italian clothes. But everyone knows that it's Italians. Since the Northern Italians are so capable of fighting, then the Southern Italians should not be too bad...... Well, thinking about it this way, and considering the current state of the army, the Russians have the intention to take it when they see it.

As for the South Italian Volunteer Army, well, they have no intention of taking the initiative to attack, after all, they are only here to make money, and if it is just a confrontation, they can get money, which is of course better than fighting a war and taking money.

So the two armies confronted each other across the Toprut River. At the same time, negotiations began between Russia and Turkey.

The Russians, of course, opened their mouths and made a series of demands. What kind of land cession compensation or something, is completely a basic operation. What else is there to ask Turkey to allow Russian ships, including warships, free access to the Black Sea straits. Turkey was also asked to restore Hagia Sophia to its original appearance, that is, to convert it into an Orthodox church, and to demolish all the minarets that were later built illegally by the Turks.

As for the request to restore the Ayasophia Mosque to Hagia Sophia, the Turks naturally refused without even thinking about it. If such a thing is agreed, then the legitimacy of the Turkish regime will be largely non-existent.

Of course, when the Russians made this request, they also knew that the Turks could not agree to it. This is just a sky-high asking price to put a little pressure on the Turks. At the same time, it is also an excuse to give Turkey an excuse to make concessions on other fronts. Well, it is so that the Turks can say to the country: "You see, we are still very capable of defending national interests, and we have forcefully rejected their unreasonable demands...... What, land reparations? This is not to blame us, mainly because the previous Sultan Selim III was not religious, and did not honestly rely on piety to the true God to solve the problem, but engaged in the crooked ways of those infidels...... Think back then, why did we Turks win all battles? That's because we sincerely believe in the true God, and if those who carry out any reforms, the more they do it, the worse it will be for the world......"

After such propaganda, the new Turkish Sultan betrayed the country and even sold a sense of tragedy. So much so that many years later, there were Turks who felt that Sultan Mustafa IV was actually not bad, and he could not be blamed for the land reparations or anything. Even in later generations, there was something like "I don't know how difficult it is when I am young, and I know the true sultan when I am old".

All that's left is the land reparations and navigation rights. Originally, according to Sultan Mustafa IV, this matter was easy to discuss. Isn't it just a land reparation? My great Turkey has all over the world, and it is all about measuring Turkey's material resources and the favor of the rest of the country. Well said!

Sultan Mustafa IV said to his Grand Vizir Jewasbaşaşeh Mimaspasha: "My elder brother, Sultan Selim III, is far superior to me in both talent and wisdom. But he ultimately failed. Do you know why? ”

Djewasbaşe Mimaspar shook his head.

"Sultan Selim III was pursuing an unattainable goal, and he spent so much time gazing at the stars that he forgot what the earth was really like." Sultan Mustafa IV also shook his head, "He wants to return Turkey to the great era of Suleiman the Magnificent, but he doesn't know that times have changed!"

He found that the pagan nations of Europe were rapidly rising and becoming stronger day by day, while the Turkish flag of the stars and moons was not as dazzling as it had been many years earlier. So he tried to learn from those pagan countries, without considering that those countries were fundamentally different from Turkey.

The rise of those nations came largely at the cost of the weakening of religion, and the relationship between their kings and the church was completely different from ours. Their king had always been a power-wrestling affair with the church. When the power of the church is weak, the power of the government is stronger. However, we are not the same, in our tradition, religion and government are one. To weaken religion is to weaken political power. Perhaps his actions will indeed make Turkey stronger, but it will weaken our regime. Hehe, my brother always thinks that I have never seen the world, thinking that I don't know what the outside world has become. Hehe......

The rise of those pagan states was not only at the cost of the decline of religion, but even the decline of the royal family. You see, in England, they were the first to cut off the king's head, and although they still retained the royal family, the king's power and majesty had been trampled under the feet of Parliament. At the cost of this, Britain became the most powerful country in the world for a time.

In order to overtake the British, the French also cut off the king's head, and also cut off the queen's head, and turned the kingdom into a republic - there will be no king anymore.

After paying this price, the French overtook Britain and became now the most powerful country in the world. So, if we learn from them and want to be as strong as them, what does it cost us? It is to cut off the head of one sultan and throw it at the next sultan, as the British do, a decree that stipulates what he can and cannot do; Or do you like France, chop off the heads of kings and queens, and then turn Turkey into a republic?

No, if Turkey is to be as strong as it was in the time of Suleiman the Magnificent, it is probably not enough to be as French as it is. 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, not the Ottomans!

If the rulers of Turkey were not Ottomans, then what was the point of Turkey, no matter how advanced and powerful it was? The real difference between me and my cousin is whether I choose to protect Turkey or Bulgaria Ottoman. ”

As a result, the top brass of Ottoman Turkey quickly agreed that the Ottoman should be given priority, followed by the Ottoman nobles and priests, and finally Turkey.

With such a guiding ideology, the latter situation can be imagined. The French, however, jumped out and stuck a stick. Not only did they cheer up the Turks vigorously, telling them that the reparations could be considered, (anyway, Turkey had no money, so it could only borrow from the French, and then, at least in this time and space, no one dared to repay the principal and interest after borrowing the French's money) to cut the land, and the Russians could cut off what they had occupied, but the part that was not occupied could not be cut. They were even more assertive about the Russians' proposal for navigation.

"The Russian warships must not be allowed to enter the Mediterranean Sea at will!" The French ambassador to Turkey simply came out and directed Turkey's diplomacy.

"But Mr. Ambassador, if we do not make concessions on this article, the Russians will not agree. We can't beat them now......" Jewasbaşe Mimaspasha explained.

As a result, the French ambassador immediately came with this sentence: "The sword of the Russians is sharp, is it not the sword of our French?" Allowing Russian warships to enter the Mediterranean Sea harms the interests of our country, and if your country fails to defend our interests...... Is your country going to see how we, the French, defend the interests of France? ”

Well, so the matter of navigation rights is really hard to discuss. No matter how much the Russians put pressure to the limit, the Turks just won't let go, after all, the Russians have already offended anyway, and in any case, they will not become Turkey's friends. Of course, if they find out in time who is plotting the plot to overthrow the Sultan, it may make them friends for the time being. But this is also only temporary. Geographically, they are inherently hostile. It is obviously not in keeping with the satisfaction of the Russians and the dissatisfaction and even anger of the more powerful France. Then, the negotiations dragged on, but the Italians were not in a hurry about the fact that the negotiations dragged on, anyway, if they stayed for one more day, they would give one more day's money.

In the end, the Russians were in a hurry, they also owed a lot of debts for the war, and they urgently needed an indemnity to pay off the debts and invest in the domestic legal campaign. So the Russians took a step back, and they proposed that Turkey should ensure that Russian merchant ships could freely enter and leave the Black Sea straits, and as for warships, the Russians said that this could also be discussed, for example, capital ships should not pass.

Of course, what kind of ship is the capital ship is another matter to be argued about. But this matter, except for the Russians, everyone is not in a hurry. In the end, it was agreed that the battleships, as well as the supercruisers, were not allowed to pass. The total tonnage of cruisers and warships below the cruiser shall not exceed a certain number of tons in each year. As for the standards for battleships and supercruisers, they were based on the existing standards of the French Navy.

The most difficult part was thus overcome, and a new peace treaty was signed between Turkey and Russia. Under this treaty, Turkey ceded the entire region of Bessarabia, as well as part of the Caucasus, to Russia. In addition to this, Russia was compensated 100 million francs.

This money is not a small amount of money that can be taken casually, even for Turkey, which is rich all over the world. But the Russians demanded that Turkey pay it all at once, and the time was still very tight. In order to make up for this money, Turkey applied for another loan from the Bank of Rome.

In the end, the Turks spent a full 300 million francs on this, of which 100 million were for the Russians, and the remaining 200 million, of course, were the legitimate proceeds of the Bank of Rome.

Just as the war in the east was gradually extinguished, the siege of Dublin in Ireland was in its final stages. After the cessation of the supply of ammunition to Russia, the supply of ammunition to the French artillery on the outskirts of Dublin was finally improved. As a result, the efficiency of the Franco-Irish attack on Dublin increased dramatically.

There are at least three times as many shells falling on the heads of the British every day today than there were some time ago. Coupled with the ultra-long range of French artillery, yes they had a clear advantage in the confrontation with British artillery.

Relying on the condescending observation of the hot air balloon, as well as the huge range of the 280 mm guns and 203 mm guns, the French army destroyed a lot of British artillery in successive artillery battles. In particular, because the British did not have smokeless gunpowder technology, the characteristics of the artillery were always very obvious when firing, which made the French always quickly detect that they were not and hit them with shells.

Now that part of the Independence Army had occupied the last strategic point leading to the city, the British were already preparing for a retreat.

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