Just as Prussia informed Austria that they had withdrawn from the war and made Austria feel inexplicably angry, when Austria informed the Ottomans that they had also withdrawn from the war, the Ottomans cried.

If you don't make peace alone, what about the country's credibility, what about the monarch's reputation, and don't you want your face?

Now what? Let the Ottomans face the Russian Empire alone, aided by the militarized kingdom of the Urals?

The Ottoman Sultan was furious in the palace, denouncing the Europeans as untrustworthy and slaves without a sense of honor, and then calmed down and hurried to negotiate peace.

What made the Ottoman Empire want to cry without tears was that the female tsar suddenly became tough, not only unwilling to cede part of the land occupied by the Ottoman Empire to the Ottoman Empire, but also demanded that the Ottoman Empire quickly return the Crimean peninsula to Russia, otherwise the war would continue.

In fact, the location of the land occupied by the Ottomans is really not good, they control the area around Odessa, and it is impossible for Russia to give up here. In addition, after Austro-Pu withdrew from the war, Russia no longer took the Ottoman Empire in his eyes, and the female tsar just didn't want to fight anymore, she also wanted to use the old enemy of the Ottoman Empire to establish her authority!

The main force of the Russian army moved south in large numbers, and the strength of the Black Sea Army Group continued to increase, rapidly increasing from the previous 700,000 to 1 million, and then to 1.2 million, which has far exceeded the Ottoman army.

The Ottomans continued to make concessions, they could restore the dual territories to their pre-war status without claiming Russian territory, with the Ottomans taking control of the Crimean peninsula and returning occupied Odessa to Russia. But Russia still refused, the 700,000 Ottoman troops were already a turtle in the urn, and after the Austrian army retreated, the Russian army took advantage of the space behind their retreat and had already made a large-scale movement by sea.

To the west of Odessa, a large number of troops were transported in the space left by the Austrian army, and now the Ottoman army was alone. To retreat to the west, it is hundreds of thousands of Russian troops, and only by breaking through the Russian army's interception can they enter Austrian territory, and whether the Austrians will allow them to pass through their own territory at this time is not certain, so Russia relies on sea supremacy, not only leaving the Ottoman army isolated, but also unable to guarantee logistics and supplies.

The 700,000 Ottoman troops were thus surrounded.

On the Crimean peninsula, Russian troops also landed on a large scale, again encircling the fortress of Sevastopol.

Obviously, they had a partnership with two good friends of Puo, but the two brothers made a lot of money, but when they came to the Ottoman Empire, they had to face the situation of losing everything, and they really found it difficult to accept this result. Diplomatic protests against Austria and Prussia, demanding that they continue to fulfill their alliance obligations and continue to fight against or put pressure on Russia.

Austria only agreed to mediate and persuade Russia to accept the withdrawal of 700,000 Austrian troops to the country, and as to whether the war could be ended, Austria said that they could not do anything, and the two countries did not say anything about making peace without permission, only saying that they could not afford to fight again.

The Ottomans could only turn to the British for help, but they did not know that the British had contributed to the way things had gotten to the point where they were now. At least the demarcation of the border between Prussia and Russia was the plan proposed by Britain before, and after the peace between the two countries, Britain did not raise any objections.

The current state is the state that Britain wants, after a war, no one will do what to whom, Europe continues to balance the continent, Russia still maintains a certain strength, to the east can block the westward advance of the Chinese, to the west can limit the Austrian two, on the European continent, there is no hegemon, how good!

Because the peace between Austria and Russia, although not the result of direct British mediation, was in the interests of Britain's diplomacy, Britain did not intend to interfere.

The biggest strategic mistake of the Ottoman Empire was that it had already declined into a golden cat, but it still thought that it was the golden lion king, and it was unhesitating to join the great power competition. Of course, when the Ottoman Empire was wooed by Austro, it also sought strategic security considerations, and it was possible to improve their strategic security environment by forming an alliance with the two great powers to jointly confront Russia.

However, the collective security constructed by this alliance system is only effective for large countries, and the security system of small countries often seeks to seek a balance between large countries, such as Li Hongzhang's pursuit of using razing to defeat razing. China was also the victor in World War I, but it did not gain more than neutrality.

At the beginning of the declaration of war by the Three Kingdoms on Russia, no one would have thought that the Ottoman Empire would become the only loser, and everyone could only think at that time, either Russia won and the Tripartite Alliance was all the losers, or Russia lost, and the Tripartite Alliance was all winners, and no one could have imagined that after the Tripartite Alliance and Russia were on a par, the two became winners and the Ottoman Empire became the only loser.

After falling into the siege, the Ottoman Empire was alone, and fell into a state of panic, and the Russian army, which had been fighting for two years, was not in a hurry to end the battle for a while, and they had already paid too many sacrifices, so they decided to besiege the Ottoman army, constantly compressing the defensive line, not giving the other side room to move, but not launching a frontal attack with huge casualties.

The sea route cut off the merchant ships to Odessa, so that the Ottoman army could not get even a grain of grain.

The same is true for the Crimean peninsula.

The Ottoman Empire's crying still had some effect, and Britain began to intervene in mediation, and if the Ottoman Empire was actually surrounded and annihilated, it would inevitably be greatly damaged, and the strategic imbalance of the Asia Minor Peninsula was also a troublesome thing.

The tsar was adamant about not budging, stating that the war would never end unless the Ottoman Empire returned the Crimean peninsula to Russia.

The female tsar fell into the dilemma of Alexander II at this time, that is, if he did not win prestige for himself with military victories, how to get the support of the people, Alexander II at that time, taking advantage of the situation of the revolution between Prussia and Austria, could not give up the low-hanging fruit, and now the female tsar could not let the other party go when the Ottoman army had completed the strategic encirclement, because this would not only lose the new appointment of the people, but most importantly, she would make the army that was not very supportive of her more opposed to her.

When Alexander II seized the territory of Austria, the contradiction between Russia and Austria was irresolvable, which caused the war, and the attitude of the tsar made Britain start to suppress Russia again.

The British tried to enlist Prussia and Austria to exert pressure, but China, which had been very restrained in this war, finally took action.

China has not made a clear statement, in order to prevent Europe from confronting China as a whole in recent years, China has been openly expressing its attitude of not intervening in European issues, although this time it did not take a position, but the Chinese crown prince made a high-profile visit to Russia, which was ruled by the female tsar.