The Sun Never Sets In Spain

In the command of the Aragonese army, everyone was a little nervous. Catalonia gave a speech at 9 am, and it is now 3 pm.

Since Alfonso does not recognize that a free government is a regime, this is just a counterinsurgency war, and the opponent may launch an offensive at any time.

"What's happening on the front line?" The commander-in-chief, Marshal Don Diago asked this question again.

"No." Admiral Juan said dryly.

The room fell silent again.

The feeling of waiting is always uncomfortable. As the defender, they can only wait for the war that is about to break out with tense spirits.

They were all pessimistic about the outcome of this war. They knew their family affairs and the undercurrents in the barracks had already known them, but at this juncture, they really couldn't spare their hands to deal with the growing republicanism. This is one thing. A bomb that will explode at any time.

Regarding the dispute between Primm and Francisco, although they sympathized with Primm, they were generally neutral. They just wanted to win the battle. After all, no soldier wanted to be defeated more by less.

But this is destined to be an extravagant hope. The continuous wars and **** have caused the free government to build high debts. Maintaining a huge army is the limit they can do, and they are unable to help Diego's army carry out any changes.

The Battle of Lleida has proved that equipment can make up for the disadvantage of the number to a large extent. Can their extra 15,000 people be guaranteed to withstand the Catalan attack?

At this time, in Catalonia’s position, Garcia silently waited for the arrival of 5 o’clock. He will personally preside over the battle. For him, it doesn’t matter whether he is attacking today or tomorrow. Therefore, the above requirements show demeanor, then wait.

The war in this era is still a point-to-point war, which is equivalent to a fight between the two sides to compete for an important location. This location may be a city or a fortress. With them, the surrounding area can be radiated based on this.

The attack location they chose this time was Teruel, south of Aragon.

Although there are few resources here, few people, and low industrialization, the location is very important. If they take this place, they can prevent the free government from increasing reinforcements to the north and east, and then take the northern part of Aragon and Valencia. It's a matter of course.

An important strategic goal set by Alfonso was to seize all the provinces on the Mediterranean coast and to combat the already fragile economy of the free government.

The terrain of Spain is high in the middle and low on all sides. Basically the developed areas are coastal areas. As long as these areas are lost, the free government will lose its ability to produce equipment.

Garcia is full of confidence in this, he is more concerned about how to win the victory beautifully: "Are the people of the Red Cross ready?"

Adolf is also here, and he nodded: "A total of 154 doctors and 415 nurses are all ready, the venue and medical supplies are all arranged, and they can start working at any time."

Most of these medical staff are drawn from France. The people who can sign up for the Red Cross are basically true caring people. They are not very concerned about the wounded soldiers of which country is being treated. Therefore, a convening order was issued. , Got a positive response, and gathered hundreds of people without much effort.

"Okay." Garcia praised. It will be at least three months after the training of the next batch of soldiers is completed. At present, there is not a single reserve in Catalonia, and every soldier is precious.

"The order goes on, as planned, the attack will begin at 5 o'clock." He turned his head and ordered to the adjutant.

...

Two hours passed in a flash. Under the nervous watching of the government soldiers on the opposite high ground, the Catalan soldiers moved. They gradually moved forward and entered the range of the Armstrong cannon.

"It's the same again."

Diego heard the news that the other party had begun to attack and launched the shelling, and he was relieved. It was finally an ordinary war process. The two sides shelled for a period of time, and did not kill as soon as they came up.

In this way, he was confident that he could fight the opponent for a long time, slowly backed up, and waited until the northern troops or the reinforcements of the new service troops.

But he couldn't help being annoyed, and relying on the range of Armstrong's heavy artillery, the unilateral consumption, so that the embarrassing situation of being beaten and unable to fight back, Carlos' army had tasted it, and they had to try it again.

At present, the only thing that can exceed this range is the Prussian Krupp steel cannon, and it is far more than that, more than doubled, but they have no ability to get it.

Fortunately, as a defender, they are in a much better situation than the Carlos army. Armstrong has a small number of heavy artillery, and it shoots at a distance. The terrain is lower than them. The damage caused is very limited, and it is more about morale. Blow.

"Boom!" "Boom!"

On the high ground, government soldiers looked boredly at the cannonballs (explosive shells) that were continuously fired from a distance, most of which hit the nearby unmanned ground.

Occasionally, once launched into the battlefield, it would cause little harm to them who had built simple cement fortifications. There were at most one or two unlucky ones, bad luck, poor response, and were hit or hit by splashed stones.

When the soldiers prayed for the unfortunate comrades in the distance, they could only laugh at each other and comfort each other: "In terms of cost, we make money."

"Don't fight back?" Admiral Juan asked, listening to the fire outside.

"If you don't fight back, they won't be able to shoot long if you have money." The old **** Diago is there, his soldiers still have so many, and the enemy's ammunition is consuming all the time.