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The conditions put forward by the Prussian king were unacceptable to Russia. The Prussian king wanted not only all of Poland, but also Finland. But the Tsar did not even want to hand over the whole of Poland, and could only accept partial territorial adjustments in Poland, such as when the parties returned to the partition of Poland in 1895, and Russia was even willing to make more concessions and hand over Volhynia to Austria. As for Finland, the tsar thought it was a joke.

The Tsar's greed was somewhat unwise, which made the British feel very helpless, and the purpose of the British mediation, of course, was not for the sake of these countries, nor how much they loved peace, but for the sake of their own strategic balance.

Russia is continued to be weakened, which is absolutely detrimental to the balance of the European continent. For Britain, weakening Russia meant weakening the resistance to China's westward expansion into Europe. Therefore, it was the aim of Britain to maintain the main power of Russia. But if Russia is too stubborn, it will further worsen the situation against them. If hundreds of thousands of more troops are wiped out, it will take many years for Russia to recover.

In addition, Prussia was too powerful and not something Britain wanted to see. Britain was willing to see a small but strong Prussia, which would depend on Britain and become an important pawn in Britain's balance of the continent, and could not become the hegemon of the European continent. But once Prussia became too large, combining their strong side with the large side of Poland, it became powerful, less dependent on Britain, and in turn became the new hegemon of Europe.

Poland's potential is enormous, with a population of more than 10 million, coal and iron resources are quite abundant, and it already has the ability to exploit these resources. And Poland is not a weak people in the pure sense of the word, because the Poles are not weak, and Poland dies mainly politically, not in the fighting power of the Poles. On the contrary, the Polish cavalry has always been famous in Europe, and the soldiers in Poland are no worse than in other regions. In this war, the Polish army formed by Prussia was able to fight side by side with the main Prussian forces.

The geographical characteristics of Poland are similar to those of Prussia, the Polish plain is connected with North Germany, the agricultural conditions are good, and if there is a peaceful environment, the population grows rapidly. The whole of Poland is larger than that of North Germany, and if the German nation is allowed to rule here, no matter how many immigrants multiply, within a generation, Prussia will have the strength to stabilize European hegemony. This is a historical proof, when Frederick the Great occupied the sparsely populated western Poland, it only took a dozen years to increase the population of Poland from hundreds of thousands to more than a million, which can provide more than 30,000 troops.

Preserving the main power of Russia and limiting the excessive expansion of Prussia was the purpose of British mediation.

But the Prussian king was greedy, and the Russian tsar was even more greedy, and the difference between the conditions of the two countries was too great. Britain has done a lot of work, and what Britain can accept is that Prussia gets half of Poland, Austria gets half of Poland, and Russia gives up most of Poland, shrinks its main forces back to the Eastern European Plain, and concentrates on blocking China. As for Finland, Britain also believes that it should not be given to any country.

However, both sides could not accept Britain's proposal, which believed that Britain's plan was too different from its own interests.

A bunch of gamblers!

If you don't lose the last copper plate, you always think that you will turn the tables, the British think so, and according to the battlefield situation, Britain feels that Russia will lose more and more likely.

So British policy began to balance with Russia, and began to accept Russian loan demands, while cutting off the German Confederation's financing channels in London.

British weapons and equipment quickly passed through the northern seas of Russia, entered Russia, and then quickly armed the Russian army.

The combat effectiveness of the Russian army has been strengthened.

With the support of the British, the Russians were even more emboldened, they cooperated inside and outside, concentrated superior forces, and finally expelled the North German coalition from Brest, successfully tore a gap, and lifted the German coalition army's encirclement of Gorchakov.

Britain continued to mediate at this time, hoping that Prussia would be able to pull back from the precipice of the present situation, accept the acquisition of part of Poland, and then put an end to this senseless war.

The Prussian king had some intention of compromising at this time, but Bismarck was adamantly opposed. Previously, after the successful siege of the Russian army, Bismarck repeatedly asked the king to negotiate with Russia, and hoped that the king would accept a limited concession and reach an agreement with Russia. But the king was too greedy in good times, and now he is in trouble, and the king is beginning to be cowardly again.

If an agreement had been reached with Russia at that time, it would have been grateful to Russia, and now reaching an agreement with Russia would only make Russia think that Prussia had been forced to compromise in desperation, and would look down on Prussia.

Moreover, Austria, Prussia's ally, has been insisting on fighting, because Austria has not become the direction of Russia's key attack due to its geographical location, and when the Russian army broke through, the Austrian army was not attacked.

If Prussia had compromised at this time, and Austria had held out to the end, it would have led to a total defeat for Prussia in the struggle with Austria for supremacy in the German region.

In contrast to Britain, which did not support Prussia's expansion, Britain was relatively tolerant of Austrian and Ottoman expansion in Russia. According to the British idea, he hated the Ottoman Empire to regain the territory of the Russian Black Sea coast, let Austria occupy Western Ukraine, and completely close Russia into a country without access to the Black Sea. In this way, it can only compete with China on land, and will not project its power on the ocean. Moreover, Austria's geography, once they are strong, will inevitably compete with China for hegemony in the Black Sea region, and become another thug for Britain to resist China's westward advance.

At Bismarck's insistence, the Foreign Minister also supported Bismarck's attitude, and the king made a difficult decision to continue the war. The king also did not want to see Austria become the leader of the German region, squeeze the Hohenzollerns into the second rank, and completely lose the gains of the struggle from the time of Frederick the Great.

Austria also actively encouraged the German nation to continue fighting, not only raising funds from Britain, but also issuing a large amount of domestic debt in Vienna, and also financing the port of Silla through some channels, and Austria also received the support of France, from which they purchased a large amount of weapons and equipment when Britain refused to sell weapons.

The combined forces of Austria and the great southern German states of Bavaria, Baden, and Württemberg had 300,000, the Bohemian army of 150,000, the Hungarian army of 100,000, and the Slavic army of Croatia, Bosnia, and other places, 200,000, and 50,000 Polish troops, bringing the total strength to 850,000.

Among them, Austria and other German national coalition armies, Bohemian armies and Polish armies, with a total of 500,000 troops, can be used as the main force to fight, both in terms of loyalty and combat effectiveness, are relatively reliable. The fighting capacity of the Hungarian army was not weak, but the will to fight was not good, and there was a great resentment for the German nation. The Slavic army was also not actively fighting with the Russian army, and they were unable to cooperate with the Hungarian army, and there was even a possibility of friction. So Austria could only put the Hungarian and Slavic armies on the second line and used them to maintain the lines of communication.

It was enough to have 500,000 main forces, they used 200,000 to deploy on the northern front, and 300,000 quickly moved south.

Because Moltke's transfer of the Russian army provided an opportunity to annihilate the Russian army on the southern front.