After more than half a month of fierce fighting, the Ottoman Empire and Austria suffered losses on both sides. Although the Ottoman Empire lost more troops, with more than 40,000 dead and wounded, while the Austrian Imperial Army had less than 20,000 dead and wounded, it was the Austrian Empire that could not bear it first.

The Ottoman army, all from the crazy Muslin, although from all over Turkey, and even the army in Baghdad Province and Damascus Province, but because of the large population of Turkey, and the army training requirements are not high, simply a few months or even temporarily recruit people to raid a month to become soldiers, therefore, for the loss of 40,000 Turkish troops, they are not distressed, on the contrary, the Ottoman Empire is distressed by those military expenses and compensation for the war dead. But now that the Chinese Empire has backed up and issued a large number of loans, they are naturally less worried, even if they use the taxes and customs duties of the entire Ottoman Empire as a guarantee for repaying debts.

The Austrian army was different, of the more than 80,000 troops who attacked the Podol Heights of Tsarist Russia with the Duchy of Moldavia this time, nearly half of the troops came from the Hungarian region, and among the main forces attacking the areas south of the Balkan Mountains, there were also more than 20,000 Hungarian troops, so that as the news of nearly 20,000 casualties of the Austrian army reached Hungary, the families of these soldiers quickly resisted and protested to the Austrian Empire through the Hungarian nobles, demanding an end to the war as soon as possible. Avoid the death and injury of the soldiers. The reason why the Hungarian aristocracy did this was naturally because the expansion of the Austrian Empire was not very beneficial to them, and now the contradictions between the Hungarian region and the Austrian mainland Vienna began to grow, and there was a gradual tendency to break away from the Austrian Empire, especially in terms of taxes and military service, Hungary complained more and more, and in the event of a war, it would cost money, and the dead and wounded soldiers would have to be financially compensated, which would bring a burden to the Hungarian side. And even if the Austrian Empire occupied a large area of Tsarist Russia to the east, it would not only be a bad thing for Hungary, but even a bad thing, after all, Hungary would become the hinterland of the Austrian Empire, and the Austrian Empire's control over Hungary would become stronger, and it would be even more detrimental to the interests of the local Hungarian aristocracy.

Thus, the Hungarian boycott soon put the Austrian Empire under great pressure. For the Austrian emperor, the territory of the Russian Empire, although tempting, was not as attractive as Hungary, which was close to his confidants. Moreover, the greatest goal of the Austrian Empire, the annexation of the two principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia, had been achieved, and it was not so wise to fight to the death with the Ottomans for the territory of Tsarist Russia. At this time, the Austrian foreign minister suggested that the Austrian emperor could use pressure to use negotiation to divide the territory of Tsarist Russia with the Ottoman Turks, especially after the Ottoman Empire was attacked by France and the Serbian principalities, the Ottoman Empire would definitely panic, and at this time, it was completely feasible to force the Ottoman Empire to submit.

The Austrian emperor could not resist this temptation, and was able to make the Ottomans submit without paying a huge price, even if it was a cost-effective way to occupy some less territory of Tsarist Russia. Therefore, the Austrian emperor soon sent a foreign minister to the Ottoman Empire to intervene.

At this time, for some reason, the Polish leader Bobrowski heard that Prussia had close relations with the Chinese Empire, and he also sent a special envoy to send a message to Guo Songtao, the special envoy of the Chinese Empire in Europe, asking him for help, asking the Chinese Empire to act as an intermediary to say that with the Kingdom of Prussia and Poland, their Polish Provisional Government was willing to cede some territory, and only asked the army of the Kingdom of Prussia to recognize the legitimacy of the establishment of the Polish Provisional Government, armistice and sign a non-aggression pact.

Guo Songtao had just contacted Shi Dakai, the commander of the Western Expeditionary Army, who was stationed in the town of Azov on the Black Sea, and when he learned of this, he immediately decided that this was an excellent opportunity to intervene in Europe, and decided that he would represent the Chinese Empire and coordinate negotiations between the countries in Sevastopol, a seaport fortress on the Crimean Peninsula now controlled by the Ottoman army.

A week later, the Crimean peninsula, the fortress of Sevastopol.

This supposedly undefeated fortress, the pride of the Orthodox Christians and the birthplace of the Black Death, has been conquered one after another.

The Ottomans were extremely pleased to be able to reclaim the fortified city. You must know that the entire Crimean peninsula was once a vassal state of the Ottoman Turkish Empire - the Crimean Khanate, that is, it was originally the territory of the Ottoman Empire, and now it is just a reclaim of its homeland.

Due to its warm and comfortable Mediterranean climate, Sevastopol has always been used as a holiday destination for successive tsars, but today, the top of the Sevastopol fortress, in the garden-like beach castle, is now the place where the envoys of the various countries who divided Tsarist Russia negotiated.

Led by Guo Songtao, the envoy of the Chinese Empire to Europe, Baron Carl Ludwig von Bruck, Foreign Minister of the Austrian Empire, Fuad Pasha, Foreign Minister of the Ottoman Turks, Brechrod, Privy Adviser to the Kingdom of Prussia, and Badelevski, Special Envoy of the Polish National Government, all gathered in the beach castle and began the armistice talks.

With the growing strength of the Chinese Empire and the successive victories in foreign wars in recent years, Guo Songtao's status has become more and more noble, and it is no longer the situation that no one paid attention to in the past. Moreover, because he has lived in Europe for many years, Guo Songtao has now mastered several foreign languages, although the accent is not very pure, and he always has a Hunan accent, but because these countries rely on Guo Songtao to mediate, the entire negotiation meeting is presided over by Guo Songtao.

Guo Songtao first directly stated the requirements of all parties:

1. The Ottoman Empire and the Austrian Empire ceased to be at war with each other, and the two principalities of Wallachia and Moldavia in the south, the Ottoman Empire renounced its suzerainty and allowed it to merge into the Austrian Empire. The eastern Bodol Highlands and the Black Sea coastal lowlands were bounded by the South Bug River, the western part of the river bank was occupied by the Austrian Empire, and the eastern part of the river bank and the Crimean Peninsula were all governed by the Ottoman Empire. As for the other territories of Tsarist Russia, whoever occupies them first will belong to whomever they want.

2. As for the army of the Principality of Serbia, Austria did not intervene in its disputes with the Ottoman Empire.

3. The war between the Kingdom of Prussia and Poland also ceased. Neither Prussia nor Austria could attack Poland again, provided that Poland permanently renounced its territorial claims to the Duchy of Poznan and the Free City of Krakow, that the Duchy of Poznań would be governed by the Kingdom of Prussia and that the Free City of Krakow would be governed by the Austrian Empire, and that Poland would not take advantage of the civil strife in Tsarist Russia to occupy the territory of Tsarist Russia and would not take the initiative to go to war against the Kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Empire.

These three demands were decided, and the dispute between Austria, the Ottomans, Poland and Prussia was immediately settled. However, in the face of the Chinese Empire's westward expeditionary army, the Austrian Empire was not at ease, especially on the issue of how to divide the territory of Tsarist Russia, so the parties also agreed that the principle of territorial occupation of Tsarist Russia, except for Poland, would implement the principle of preemption, that is, each according to its ability, but not to attack each other.

In fact, this has already determined how to divide the sphere of influence of Tsarist Russia, after all, it is impossible to govern the enclave, so whoever is closer and easier to govern, whose army is faster, is basically whose territory.

As soon as the Sevastopol agreement ended, both the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia seized the speed of sending troops to Tsarist Russia and quickly seized territory, while the Tsarist army complained bitterly again and again, because of the backward weapons, coupled with the civil strife in Tsarist Russia, there was no will to fight, and even military salaries and logistical supplies became problems.

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