The Sun Never Sets In Spain

Chapter 75: French Volunteers

Francisco did everything without ambiguity, and the next day, the news that Amedio would be elected as the new king of Spain was published in the newspaper.

However, he didn't do anything desperately, leaving a hand, using the current country's turmoil as an excuse to prevent Amedio from actually taking control of Spain.

The old king far away in Italy was very annoyed by this apparent caution, and prepared to card a francisco, suspend the volunteer army and borrow money.

But Amedio didn't want to alienate the relationship between the two parties again because of this matter, leading to the collapse of cooperation. He repeatedly begged his father to give in. There is no way. In the cooperation between the two sides, the more active party is always at a disadvantage.

In the end, Vittorio failed to hold back his son's pleading, and began to transfer the money to Francisco's account.

According to the agreement between the two parties, a considerable part of this money will be directly consumed in Italy, and there is no need to pay so much. Therefore, even if the Savoy royal family is not well-off, it still raises the loan in a short time.

But the issue of helping to issue bearer national debt was not so smooth. Italy was only reunified soon. The people were very, very poor. The number of middle class was much lower than that of the other powers and could not afford to buy too much national debt.

Even those who are able to buy are still on the sidelines of Spanish national debt, and are not optimistic about the free government, which is not optimistic about internal and external troubles. Except for a part of the subscription by the Savoy royal family, the total sales of the rest did not exceed 100,000 pounds.

Francisco was certainly not satisfied with the result, but he also knew that the Savoy royal family could not manipulate the market, so he only repeatedly urged the Kingdom of Italy to organize a volunteer army.

Of course, the 20,000 Italian army can be easily taken out, but it is a bit too presumptuous to let the active army enter the territory of another great power.

Therefore, under the impetus of the military department, the kingdom recruited 6000 and 5000 people in Lombardy and Tuscany respectively, and then retired part of the army and formed two volunteer divisions to go to Spain.

The two divisions will conduct short-term training (1 week) in the Autonomous Region of Castilla-La Mancha, and then use the Spanish designation and wear Spanish military uniforms into combat. The total number will reach 28,000.

This deceiving operation can't hide from anyone, but it can leave everyone with a leeway.

And not interfering in an official capacity indicates that Italy has no intention of strengthening political and economic ties with Spain, and that it is acceptable for international forces to just change to a Spanish royal family.

Diego, who was on the front line of Aragon, was very pleased with the news. In the past five days, they were defeated by the Catalan army steadily. The front line was pushed back by 7 kilometers in a short period of time.

Without the help of reinforcements, they will lose the provincial capital of Teruel and the supporting road within a month. Once this key road node is lost, they can almost declare the loss of Valencia.

It's not that he didn't work hard. After these few days of fighting, he was confident that he was better than Garcia, but the quality of the army could not be solved by his commander-in-chief.

Originally, he hoped that the Northern Army quickly eliminated Carlos's army and then came to support him, or transferred a part of the army.

However, the northern army officers have turned a deaf ear to the order of the liberal government, and kept flaunting Fernando and Catalonia. Each time they fought against the Carlos faction, the total casualties of both sides would not exceed 500.

Francisco was very upset, but had to provide them with military funds and salaries to prevent them from falling to other forces.

Therefore, Diego no longer counted on his colleagues in the north. At this time, the arrival of the Italian army was like the last straw. He decided to wait a week after the training of the Green Army and launch a major counterattack to boost the recent downturn. Morale.

On the other side, the French ambassador is negotiating with Alfonso.

Italy's daring to intervene in the Spanish Civil War made France a little angry, and once again talked about sending volunteers.

Originally, Alfonso refused because he was worried that this would damage his legitimacy and that France might offer conditions that he could not agree to.

Now this problem no longer exists, and the other party has called for off-site assistance, and of course he can.

French parliamentarians also felt that it was necessary to suppress this little brother who had emerged, and the conditions offered were much more generous than before.

As long as Catalonia pays for the armaments of the Volunteers, provides military salaries and pensions.

Of course, it must be agreed that as long as the French war breaks out, this army will immediately return to China to participate in the war and bring all its equipment.

That is Italy, France is just a little angry, and it's not going to do anything out of the ordinary.

In addition to the friendly relations between Italy and France, it is more because of France's three major land neighbors, Italy and Spain combined, which did not threaten France's power.

If Prussia expresses its intention to unite with any of the other two countries, in order to prevent the enemy from being attacked, France will definitely take tough measures to solve the problem, instead of sending a diplomatic letter like it is now, and it will be fine for a slight protest.

"Your Majesty, this time we decided to send the 11th and 12th Mobile Guards of Aquitaine and the 17th Mobile Guards of Provence.

In addition, due to humanitarian considerations, the volunteers will be replaced every three months. "The ambassador said.

Since the death of Marshal Neil on the operating table, the French Mobile Guard plan has stalled, and some areas are even in a documented state.

But Nasan didn't give up completely, replacing a group of volunteers every few months, obviously because of Catalonia's idea to help train troops and provide free equipment.

The first batch of Aquitaine and Provence mobile guards are currently the largest in number. As long as it takes a few days to replenish, it can reach the full number of 21,000.

It can achieve the purpose of evading domestic opposition forces (the left is worried that the Mobile Guard will strengthen the authority of the monarchy and mushroomism), and it can also only send very prepared troops like Italy.

Alfonso was a little helpless. France was so rich and still had to squeeze Catalan wool, but this condition was not excessive and he could not refuse.

"It changes every 5 months. For 3 months, they will return to China as soon as they learn how to use a gun." Campos said to the side.

In the end, after a lot of reasoning, the time was set at 4 months, and instead of returning all at once, it would return half of the time every two months after the first 4 months.

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