Rebirth of the Spanish Empire

Looking back, the UK has increased its number of armored cruisers by eight to 39 in the past ten years, while Germany has made significant progress from 11 to 25. In this way, the British in front were so anxious that they stared. After all, Britain has always claimed to implement it, and after Germany is the United States. Although the United States seems to be stationary and incomprehensible compared to other European countries in North America, its every move still falls into the trap of Afghanistan. In Fangso's eyes, the United States had statistics on how many armored cruisers the United States had before, but now what Alfonso knows is that the United States has 20 armored cruisers. Only because of economic problems, France did not build many armored cruisers. It added one every two years. Including the previous ones, there are now 19 ships. Not to mention that Germany has surpassed them, and the United States has also surpassed it by one. Not to mention Italy, during its difficult economic period, it now has 10 ships, and two more ships will be added in ten years. The Austrian Empire added 5 ships to reach 12. As for Russia, its army is relatively strong, and its navy has developed due to regional relationships. It was also difficult, and coupled with technical problems, it was even more difficult. Fortunately, in recent years, because Britain and France needed Russia to balance Germany, they specially built 5 ships for them in advance, making them one of the most powerful naval powers.

As for Spain, Alfonso's eyes have already turned to the future. If separated, 6 battleships and 18 pre-dreadnoughts can form 6 fleets with 3 battleships and 3 pre-dreadnoughts as flagships, and one Alfonso Thirteen As the base ship with the headquarters, the dreadnought can just be the center to provide support. Therefore, Alfonso finally settled on 18 armored cruisers as a round number. Just enough to form 331 combinations.

Although there are many naval bases in Spain, it seems that there are only five deep-water ports that can really be used as deep-water military ports.

One is the Port of Cartagena, which is the only best deep-water port on the Spanish coast in the Mediterranean. It is also the naval homeport of the Spanish Empire. In addition to it, the Port of Valencia was originally a good port and a good military port, but it was too close to the Port of Cartagena, so it would be a waste to have a military port there. Therefore, it became a port.

The second local military port is Barcelona, ​​which is located on the northeastern coast of Spain in the Mediterranean Sea and close to France. It is also a deep-water port. Although it is a bit dangerous to build it close to France, after all, it is easy to be attacked if the two countries fall out one day. But similarly, isn't Marseille in France still very close to Spain? Can't Spain pose a threat to it? Therefore, Barcelona has become Spain's largest naval branch. Its jurisdiction includes the Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean Sea.

The second branch seaport is the Port of Cadiz located in the Gulf of Cadiz. Its jurisdiction includes the Gulf of Cadiz, the Strait of Gibraltar, the Spanish Sahara and the Canary Islands. Management also includes the Canary Basin and Equatorial Guinea.

The third largest part is located in the northwest port of A Coruña, which controls all the northern seas of the empire. Fortunately, it has many ports, such as the Port of Vigo near Portugal on the south side, and the Port of Acoruna on the Bay of Biscay. Velez, Santard, and Baracaldo. These were stationed with small fleets. In addition to these seaports, the Third Naval Division also needs to supervise the Western European Basin area outside the Bay of Biscay from time to time.

The fourth largest naval branch is located in Pas, the capital of Western Australia, in the Indian Ocean. It controls Spanish maritime rights in the Indian Ocean.

The 5th Naval Division is in Wellington, New Zealand. He doesn't know that he has jurisdiction over New Zealand. He also has this fleet stationed on Guam and Palawan, specifically responsible for guarding the territory in that area. Every three months, the Wellington Division will send a fleet to rotate there, one each. An armored cruiser and a pre-dreadnought are stationed there. I believe that with such a formation, there should be giants there except the United Kingdom, which wants to station troops in the Philippines, and Japan and the United States in the north. This kind of rotation is also to further train the navy's long-distance voyage capabilities. ….

The five major divisions finally named the battleships after the ports where they were stationed. For example, the first division directly named the battleships Barcelona, ​​Cadiz in Cadiz Port, A Coruña in A Coruña Port, Southeast Pas in the Indian Ocean and Wellington in the Southwest Pacific. Plus the Cartagena in its home port. Six battleships have been named, plus Alfonso XIII. There is also the Queen Patricia dreadnought under construction. The context of the Spanish Navy seems very clear.

Each of the five major naval divisions has a strength of 10,000. The headquarters location is 30,000, and the Spanish Navy has a total of 80,000 navy. This number is not too much for countries such as the United Kingdom. It can even be said to be too small.

After talking about the navy, next is the army.

In fact, the distribution of the army before was different from what it is now, but Alfonso disrupted it because he felt it was very unreasonable, so he made some other adjustments.

Spain's army numbered 400,000 men. There are also 6 major legions in the mainland. Each army is divided into 40,000 men. They are the city of Zaragoza guarding the First Army approaching Barcelona in the northeast. The Second Army is guarding the city of Valladolid in the northwest, with Madrid behind and A Coruña in front. Valencia in the east-central part is the location of the Third Army. To the south, it guards the port of Cartagena, to the north it can support Barcelona, ​​and to the rear is Madrid. The position is dangerous. The Fourth Army is in Seville behind Cadiz. It oversees the Strait of Gibraltar, protects the land rear of Cadiz Port, and can also threaten the corner occupied by the British on Gibraltar Spain. It has always been able to do so. From time to time, it would check and balance the French army in Morocco.

The 5th and 6th armies are located in Madrid and are the capital military district, dedicated to guarding the capital. They are also military districts directly under the royal family and guard outside the northern and southern suburbs of Madrid.

Except for the 240,000 local army troops, the same two military districts are stationed in Western Australia. 1 in the southern capital of Pas. One is in the northern port city of Port Hedland, which separates the garrison range from the north to the south of Western Australia. The 1 military region of New Zealand is also a military region. Wellington's 20,000 troops and Auckland's 10,000 troops were stationed in the Western Pacific Territory, while the remaining 10,000 troops were stationed in Christchurch, the central city of the South Island.

The remaining 40,000 people occupy 20,000 in Equatorial Guinea, Spanish Sahara, Ceuta, and Morocco in West and Southern Africa respectively. The remaining 20,000 are in Angola and 10,000 in Mozambique. As for the servant army, the former numbered 60,000 and the latter 50,000 each.

In addition, there is an air force of 10,000, but most of them are still in the training period, or most of them were flying airships before. As long as there are enough planes now, these people will become Spanish flying warriors in the future to protect their families and expand their territory. Now, in addition to the 8,000 people in Malcolm in Western Australia who receive training, test flights, etc., the 2,000 people in the mainland are also receiving the same people in the Madrid Air Force, but on a smaller scale than Malcolm. As for why , of course, to prevent other countries from paying attention to the air force.

The 10 locally manufactured aircraft were named Eagle bombers by Alfonso. They will be the pioneers of Spanish air combat aircraft and the most original generation of aircraft. After them, more different styles of aircraft will appear. , currently, the most important thing is to speed up the production of Eagle Type A. Because now the people of Spain and Portugal have reached an almost boiling level of protest, but it is not directed at the two governments, but against this action of the British Navy. On the contrary, various private surveys conducted by major newspapers show that nearly 90% of the people hope that the government will take corresponding actions in response to the British's arrogant and arrogant actions. The remaining 10% are mainly experts who do not compromise in exchange for peace.

At this time, Alfonso had achieved his goal. He knew that the development of things had not deviated from the planned route. ….

The number of Portuguese troops is even smaller than that of Spain. Unlike Spain, which recruits 90 soldiers per soldier, Portugal recruits 60 soldiers per soldier. In other words, the Portuguese army has nearly 100,000 people. Nearly one-third of the 30,000 people are deployed in overseas colonies, and only about 70,000 are deployed in the mainland. Excluding the 10,000 in the navy, half of the remaining 60,000 are deployed in the Porto area, and the remaining half are deployed in Lisbon. Military ports are also located in these two places. Angola and Mozambique have 10,000 navies among the 30,000 local soldiers, 5,000 each, and the remaining army is 100 million. In addition to the Portuguese army, there are also armies formed by locals recruited from the colonies. It can be said that their establishment greatly reduced the Portuguese's military shortage, and the arrival of Spain relieved Portugal's long-standing worry about whether those servant armies would rebel.

The alliance between Portugal and Spain is somewhat suspicious of Portugal sharing the cake with itself. Although they make a lot of money, there is no reason for them to take out the treasures in their pockets and share them with others. But fortunately, the Portuguese are also a realistic country. They know that if they don't do this, it will be too late to cry if they don't even get one of their own. Therefore, the alliance between the two countries hit it off so quickly. Everyone gets what they need, Portugal is protected and has an extra ally without having to send troops to defend each other.

Spain has more colonies to settle down, and like Portugal, after the alliance between the two countries, Spain can rest assured that it does not have to worry about the defense of the homeland and the west. Just like now, the five major military regions can show greater strength. As for other benefits, after analyzing it, the alliance between the two countries will be very effective in intimidating the surrounding tigers and wolves and preventing them from moving. Of course, a statement is not enough. Just like the British this time, the arrival of the British fleet is simply a direct slap in the face to the two countries that have just formed an alliance. If there is no counterattack, then the threat of this alliance will be will be greatly weakened. This is not what the two governments want to see. The final result is,

On April 10, 1908, the governments of Spain and Portugal announced at a press conference in Lisbon that the two countries would conduct joint army and navy exercises in the mainland and Africa on April 20, with an initial estimate of 400,000 people. Above, for a time, the news of Spanish and Portuguese military exercises shocked the world as soon as they came out.

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