The War Court and Lap Pillow, Austria’s Mandate of Heaven

June 20, 1836.

Isabella II is officially engaged to Louis-Philippe's youngest son, Antoine, and they will marry when Isabella II is sixteen years old.

The marriage of Queen Isabella II means that she can personally control the court power, so the position of queen regent is no longer needed.

Although Queen Regent Christiana wanted to keep her position, she could only compromise under the strong pressure of France.

The bandit suppression work of the Northern Army went very smoothly, but this army was not the strongest army sent by Queen Regent Christiana.

During the early days of the Carlos Wars, the Queen Regent organized several larger regiments.

However, the quality of soldiers and officers is very low. Most of the officers rely on bribery and suppression of civilians. Their command can be described as incompetent, and the soldiers are completely bandits who legally rob. They burn, kill, and loot. For scorched earth.

This made the mountain people and the guerrillas unite as one, using their familiarity with the terrain, they repeatedly won more with less.

On the other hand, when the government army is fighting smoothly, it is fine. Once it falls into a passive position, internal conflicts erupt immediately, and there have been many occurrences of internal confrontation, fighting, desperate, and even betraying the information of one's own comrades in order to attack the opponent and stabilize oneself in the government army. status.

The guerrillas sent by Carlos, under the command of General Suramar, once pushed the front line to Bilbaja.

However, due to Carlos' random command, General Suramar died in battle.

At the same time, the government army of the Queen Regent has finally emerged such outstanding generals as Espartero and Earl Sabir.

Espartero, of civilian origin, his father was a carriage repairman.

Espartero participated in the anti-Napoleonic war at the age of fifteen, and was promoted to captain for his bravery in the war.

After the Napoleonic Wars, he went to fight in the Spanish colonies.

Experience in South America made Espartero very familiar with guerrilla warfare.

After returning home, Espartero joined the government army. He had repeatedly repelled guerrilla attacks and successfully ambushed the Carlist leader General Suramar in the Battle of Bilbaja, causing the latter to die of serious injuries.

Espartero was also promoted to general by virtue of this battle feat.

And now Espartero was exceptionally promoted by the Queen Regent to be the commander-in-chief of the Northern Legion, responsible for cooperating with the French army to completely eliminate the remnants of the Carlos faction entrenched in the Pyrenees.

Espartero is an excellent general, and he has figured out the details of the Carlos faction before taking action, and made detailed arrangements.

The Carlist army claims to be 20,000, but most of them are untrained farmers and herdsmen. At the same time, there are a large number of speculators and rogues in the Carlist faction, who can be bought with money.

And Carlos himself is an idiot. If it wasn't for his lack of talent and his tendency to command randomly, Suramar would definitely be the biggest challenge he faced.

Fortunately, Carlos buried himself, this general who was good at fighting.

Most of the current Carlos generals have never attended a military academy. Their eyes are only on the gains and losses of one city and one place, and they have no overall view at all.

The Army of the North led by Espartero achieved great success in the early days of the war, defeating the Carlos faction.

On the other hand, the French Foreign Legion led by Lieutenant General Pierre also attacked very smoothly, successively conquering several important strongholds of the Carlos faction.

However, there is a huge problem now. Espartero received an order from the Queen Regent asking him to stand still to preserve his strength, and Lieutenant General Pierre seemed to have a tacit understanding with him and stopped marching.

Louis-Philippe also didn't want the French army to suffer losses, and he didn't trust the Queen Regent herself, so he needed to weaken the Queen Regent's strength as much as possible and preserve the combat power of the French army.

Ever since, the two sides started a sit-in competition, but the two leading generals also felt that it was inappropriate to do so.

Then the two sides informed each other of their difficulties, hoping that the other party could advance in advance, and promised that as long as the other party advanced, they would keep up.

Espartero

"Her Majesty's government army, although there are 62,000 people, but the cavalry in the mountains can't play a role, and they also brought 100 cannons, and most of these cannons are old and heavy, which seriously slowed down our marching speed , I had to let my men fix it."

Lieutenant General Pierre

"His Majesty the King sent the foreign legion. They have no experience in mountain warfare, and we also need to cut off the supply line of the Carlos faction. There are really not enough troops to move forward."

In fact, both sides understand that whether it is from the direction of Spain or the direction of France, the supply line has been cut off, and Carlos is already the turtle in the urn.

As long as it takes two months here, Carlos' army will cease to exist, and those soldiers will become helpless farmers and poor beggars.

However, they did not wait for Carlos' battle of trapped beasts, which made the two generals who were good at fighting feel a little uneasy.

Their hunch was correct, and the British found Carlos.

"His Majesty..."

"You call me Your Majesty? Don't you British want to persuade me to give up the throne and always call me Mr.? You also want to give me a pension so that I can retire in England."

Carlos has reached the end of the road at this time, the territory is compressed in the mountains, the supplies are running out, and several companies have already left without saying goodbye.

The general loyal to Carlos proposed to fight back to boost morale, but Carlos did not have the guts to fight desperately. He hoped to hide in the mountains as before, and retreat when the opponent's supplies were exhausted.

It's just that this time Carlos' supply line was cut off by the French, and the Spanish government army had allocated a large amount of supplies in advance, and the initiative was not on his side.

The arrival of the British can be said to be like a life-saving straw, but Carlos, who was in a rage, didn't seem to notice this.

The liaison officer, Baron Peter, was also very depressed. If it weren't for the order from above that he must reach an agreement with Carlos, he really wanted to leave immediately and ignore this idiot, but at this time he could only speak patiently.

"It was just our test for you at the beginning. If you are willing to accept the conditions to go to the UK now, we are also willing to provide a pension of 30,000 yuan per year. UU Reading www.uukanshu.com But now we have seen your ambitions, we The British Empire stands behind you with all its might."

Carlos was still dissatisfied, and he wanted to continue to say something, but was blocked by the staff and generals around him.

Baron Pitt continued.

"It is said that there are 70,000 troops of the Queen Regent of France and Spain outside the mountain, while you have less than 20,000 and are seriously short of supplies.

For your safety, I propose that you take our ship to Portugal, where we will train your army for you. "

"That's impossible!" Carlos replied categorically, "I am here, this is my home, and I will live and die with my soldiers!"

"With all due respect, your army may be vulnerable. But you insist on this, we are willing to provide you with supplies, mercenaries, and an experienced commander..."

Baron Peter was interrupted by Carlos before he finished speaking.

"What are your plans!"

Carlos didn't believe that there was such a good thing. The other party must have an attempt. Baron Peter directly stated his purpose.

"We hope that you will refuse to marry the French and promise never to ally with the French."

United States, New York.

A young man dressed as a gentleman said a few words to the teller.

With just a few simple words, the teller became flustered. He asked the young gentleman to wait first, and then quickly ran to the lobby manager's office.

A butterfly in the tropical rainforest of the Amazon River Basin in South America, occasionally flapping its wings, can cause a tornado in Texas two weeks later.

And a withdrawal on June 28, 1836, would detonate a global economic crisis a few months later. …