The Sun Never Sets In Spain

Two hours after Garcia received the news that the railway was attacked, he was furious but helpless, so he could only quickly dispatch troops to Lleida Province.

Gabriel hit the gun, but not everyone was as unlucky as him.

In the end, 11 of the border railways distributed in the three provinces suffered varying degrees of damage.

Although they are all ordinary sections, at the current engineering speed, it will take at least a week to repair them.

The enemy obviously did not leave this time. At 7:30 in the morning on the 17th, the 60,000 Carlos army climbed the western hills and entered the Lleida Plain!

Barracks Staff of Barcelona.

"General, at most one hour, the Second Infantry Division will begin to engage." The operator reported nervously.

Carlos' army was full of cavalry, and they were galloping in the plains, marching very fast.

"Damn it, where are the first and fourth divisions now?" Garcia asked annoyedly, smoking a cigarette.

He is a person who rarely smokes, but now he has to rely on cigarettes to paralyze himself. Since becoming a general 12 years ago, he has never fought again. This is the first time he has commanded a war independently. Such a big basket.

"Reports, according to communications along the route, the 1st Infantry Battalion, 2nd Infantry Battalion, 4th Cavalry Battalion, and 7th Artillery Battalion are on the train, and it will take 4 hours to reach the battlefield. The vanguard of the 4th Division still needs 15 hours." The signal soldier said bitterly.

Due to the damage to the railway, the Fourth Division could only advance along the road. 15 hours were already the result of their emergency blockade of the road and abandonment of a large amount of armaments.

The first division is a division stationed in Barcelona. The railway from the center to Lleida is undamaged. They are transporting along the railway to the border with the 2500 Progressive Guards.

Garcia was even more annoyed when he heard this. Originally, the 80,000 troops were confronting the government forces in the Aragonese area. Unexpectedly, they would turn around and take a blow to destroy Catalonia first.

"Where's Primm? Carlos transferred all the troops to our side. The front line is very weak. As long as Primm launches an attack, everything will be fine!" Garcia asked eagerly, since he was attacked. After the news, he will ask this question once in a while.

"This..." The operator was a little embarrassed: "This is the specific information just translated." As he said, he passed the manuscript paper that the code was translated into.

Chief of Staff Espartero took the report and looked at it, and his face gradually showed an angry expression: "All the sporadic exchanges of fire have ceased. The two sides are sitting in the outskirts of Zaragoza, 20 kilometers apart."

Hearing this news, the people in the staff ignited the anger of being betrayed, although Prim had no obligation to them.

"I want to try our fineness." Garcia took a deep breath, but calmed down: "It seems that I can only rely on myself next, and it doesn't make much sense to stay here. Pack things up and we will go next. Train transfer."

The reason why they didn't follow the first train to the border was to coordinate the overall situation, but now, it is most important to command the battle well.

In fact, the situation is not as bad as they thought. Garcia is a general who has not fought in 12 years. It is unnecessary to mention that Espartero and other staff members were elected not long ago. Although they all graduated from military academy, The war experience is really doubtful.

In this case, they do not have a clear estimate of the strength of the enemy and ours, and naturally hope that the more cards in their hands, the better.

They didn't know that although they were caught off guard by the Carlos faction's careful planning in advance, Chen Cang was caught off guard, but these are after all small sections, and in the end they still have to rely on their strength to speak.

Unlike them, the soldiers of the Second Division had a lot of expectations for the future. Of course, they had the fear before the war, but the background of the civilians made them more aware of what kind of broken troops the other side was.

Among the members of Carlos are Catholic fanatics and reactionaries similar to Gabriel, but most of them are beggars and gangsters who can't eat enough to eat on the street. I heard that some people included food and accommodation, so they went.

Don't expect how well-trained and well-equipped these people are.

The soldiers knew this well, so they were full of ambition and prepared to rely on advanced weapons to give the opponent a fatal blow.

Lleida, where the Second Division is stationed, is inside Spain. Naturally, the government will not build a fort here for no reason. The previous Catalan government did not have this awareness.

After Alfonso came to Catalonia, he rushed to consolidate his defenses, but in less than a year, it was obviously far from enough to build a complete fortification.

Therefore, in a sense, the two sides can almost be regarded as field battles.

They discussed whether to retreat to Lleida and rely on the less solid defenses of the provincial capital for defense, but after weighing them, they felt that it was better to stay.

Once back, a large number of artillery will be left to the Carlos army, making it more difficult to fight behind. Armstrong cannons can blast the walls of Lleida with just a few shots.

Gradually, as time passed, it seemed to be able to feel the tremors of the earth.

"Rumble."

That was the huge horror caused by the collective action of Carlos's tens of thousands of cavalry.

Affected by reactionary ideas and religion, the leaders of the Carlos faction became obsessed with the knight culture and spent huge sums of money to expand the cavalry force.

Nowadays, this is the thing they take the most, and many people call it Carlos's Howling Soldier.