The Sun Never Sets In Spain

The Italian army left thousands of corpses and withdrew back to the camp in a desperate manner. The next thing they have to face is a major internal rectification, and it will be difficult for them to organize another attack in a short time.

After the war, Italian envoys asked Spain to recover the body. Prim promised and sent someone to help. They took this opportunity to count the heads. Together with the soldiers who died outside the city walls due to mutiny, there were a total of 3,200 Italians in this area. Sacrifice in battle.

This is not to mention that some people were indistinguishable from the artillery fire, and the true death toll was only a lot higher.

Italy has a roster of soldiers, but they did not disclose the specific numbers, but acquiesced in the statement of 3200.

Ever since, the battle loss ratio in the First World War of Rome was set at 19:3200.

Among the 19 people who died in the Spanish army, 3 were killed by splashing stones after the city wall was broken, and the rest were killed in the howitzer attack that was adventurously promoted later.

In fact, if Italy is willing to continue fighting for a period of time, Spain's casualties will definitely increase further, but the situation can no longer be controlled when the Italian howitzers arrive. They have to fire a few cannons symbolically before firing gold and retreating.

The result of this battle quickly spread to Europe, and everyone who knew it was shocked. What is the concept of 19:3200? Machine guns only appeared at the end of this year, and this battle damage ratio has never been hit!

In the future, a series of British wars in Zulu will be quite close to this number, but they can only be fought by the indigenous people holding spears with thermal weapons, and one has to be careful not to be surrounded.

However, Italy is an advanced European country, and it is still fighting locally, and Spain has a lot of weapons. (Italy also has a machine gun, which didn’t come in handy in the charge)

Being able to be like this really makes people have to worry about the future of Italy as a country.

When the news came back, even Alfonso was stunned. He consciously underestimated Italy's combat effectiveness, but he didn't expect the opponent to be so bad.

If I knew this earlier, what other retreat plan and blockade plan? Directly the army landed and blossomed on all sides. Isn't Italy kneading at will?

But when he finished reading the battle report, he was relieved. It can only be said that this time a stupid commander was on the stand, and his body touched a bullet. The first battle completely ended the crowded tactics.

The "Pickett Charge" in the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War has proved that it is best not to take the initiative to rush the firepower net. This "Roman Charge" is just another re-enactment of history.

In any case, a complete victory is a good thing. In the next war, I am afraid that the Italians will be naturally short when they see the Spaniards. As long as they win the next two battles, Italy may lose their courage to attack.

The impact of this battle is not limited to the warring three countries, but also makes the war thinking of the whole Europe shift towards defense.

The most obvious is that France immediately increased the supply of machine gun bullets, trying to use the same tactics to hinder the Prussian offensive-the result may not be very good.

The French infantry was originally stronger than the Prussian infantry, and has always had the upper hand in short-range combat. Even the extensive use of machine guns could not strengthen this advantage.

One of the most serious weaknesses that they could not defeat Prussia was the lack of people, and the second was the inability to deal with the Krupp guns that had a too long range and a fast rate of fire.

In addition to France, the United Kingdom is also closely watching the war. As soon as the results came out, the British Army immediately submitted a proposal to Parliament to increase military expenditures, purchase Gatling and introduce production lines.

This bill will undoubtedly be passed, and no matter how the Army’s money is spent, it is only a small amount of money to the United Kingdom.

And according to the Times, the British Army Command intends to invite foreign tenders to develop advanced machine guns.

In addition to the changes in armaments, many people in Britain began to worry that this battle would make Spain's ambitions out of control, so before Italy had sent people to contact them, they first put forward their ideas to Spain.

Said that "I don't want unpleasant territorial changes between Spain and Italy."

Quite stark warning, but also in line with Britain's strength and diplomatic style.

In particular, the relationship between Britain and Spain has never been good. One is a Catholic country and the other is a Protestant country. Britain also occupies Spain’s Gibraltar. There are also many conflicts between the two sides on the colony issue. There is really no need to be too polite.

Alfonso naturally feels humiliated, but what can he do? On the one hand, he can only make a strong statement that “Spain will adopt the most advantageous strategy according to needs”, and on the other hand, he secretly suppresses the turbulent domestic public opinion storm.

This big victory suddenly increased the number of militants in Spain, and the call for annexation of Southern Italy overwhelmed all other voices.

The most exaggerated is that even the annexation of the whole of Italy has been shouted out, 16 million people swallow 28 million people are not afraid of choking to death, except for the later generations of moustache who dare to swallow it.

Obviously, this victory came too easy, so that the people regard Italy as a soft persimmon that can be slaughtered.

However, in the real fight, it is impossible for Sifao to beat Yingpuyi, and it is hard to say whether France is interested in carveing ​​up Italy.

The government can only do its best to shed the responsibility on Cialdini, trying to tell everyone that although we have won this battle, the Spanish fighters are indeed very brave, but this victory cannot be replicated.

Fortunately, the Spanish newspapers are basically controlled by the government, and the newspaper public opinion is one-sided, and the domestic mushroomism has been brought to a halt in just two days.

On the other side, the ironclad ships of the Atlantic Fleet have merged with the Mediterranean Fleet.

Except for the one in the Philippine town, Rome was stationed at this time with all of Spain's ironclad ships and some high-speed cruisers.

Among them, the Numancia and Victoria were incorporated into the harassment fleet, also known as the decoy fleet.

The Numancia was one of the first ironclad ships ordered from France, with a speed of 14 knots, a displacement of 7,350 tons, a crew of 560, and 34 68-pound artillery.

The Victoria is a British ironclad ship with a speed of 13 knots, a displacement of 7,250 tons, a crew of 560, and 21 guns of different calibers. The ship’s firepower is slightly weaker, but it is equipped with a collision angle to make up for part.

One of the two ships is a side gun and the other is a waist gun room, but they have one thing in common, that is, they both run very fast.

Speeds of 14 knots and 13 knots can be regarded as the best in this era. You must know that there are iron turtles with a speed of 8 knots in the Roman fleet.

Two days after the end of the Battle of Rome, the harassment fleet finally completed its plan and preparations for sailing. Their first stop was the port of Palermo in southern Italy.

The Port of Palermo is located on the island of Sicily. The defense is relatively weak, and there are not many warships in the commercial and trade development. It is the best choice for training.