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For the Spanish Republican Army, which was barely breathing, the situation of the war had become extremely grim. With the Nationalist Army, in coordination with the German-Italian forces, drove the Republican Army out of the mainland, leaving little room for manoeuvre.

Franco's forces not only controlled the ports of the Spanish peninsula, but also had more than 150,000 elite troops who had been battle-hardened. In addition, even the Spanish Navy Division, which had been inclined to the Republican Army, announced the change of flag to the National Army.

The "Alcedo" and "La Saga", which had assisted the Republican forces in the capture of La Palma, had now joined Franco's fleet. Prior to this, there was only one "Velasco" in the hands of the Nationalist Army, of which the three "El Saido" class destroyers were built with reference to the British Hausson-type M-class destroyers.

In addition, Italy sold 3 Aquila destroyers to the Spanish National Army in 1937 due to political considerations: Melilla 1, Melilla 2, and Ceuta. and the republican army to transform the Italian Alessandro. The two Huesca-class destroyers remodeled from the Pierio-class destroyers: the Teruel and the Huesca. Today's Nationalist Army has formed an absolute superiority over the Republican Army in terms of naval strength.

Although there were no battleships in the Spanish National Army today, the few cruisers of six were barely enough to maintain the rule of the colony. But in terms of the number of destroyers, it still maintains an absolute 17-0 suppression with the Republican Army, even if 10 of them are old destroyers that have long been behind.

On the other hand, the so-called Republican naval force consisted of only 3 gunboats and 15 armed merchant ships. Not even a single capital ship!

Recall that at the beginning of the war, the Republican Army had nearly three-quarters of Spain's fleet: 1 battleship, 3 cruisers, 11 destroyers, and all submarines. The Nationalist Army had only a quarter of 1 battleship, 4 cruisers, 2 destroyers, of which only one cruiser was in active service and the others were in the construction stage.

At that time, the leaders of the IRA never imagined that the war would come to this point.

On land, they beat the Nationalists and threw them off their armor. On the water, the fleet of the Nationalist Army was defeated in a hundred battles. Everything is so complete.

It's a pity that since the Germans made a move, all the good things have collapsed with them.

Rommel, with less than half the strength of the Madrid defenders, lightningly routed all the Madrid defenders, pursuing and capturing more than 100,000 people.

The Italians followed suit, albeit with a mediocre record on land. However, the Italian Navy cooperated with the Nationalist Army to sink the only battleship of the Republican Army, causing the Republican Army to lose heart.

Although later the Republican navy also relied on numerical superiority to sink one of the battleships of the Nationalist Army. But news of the defeat on land spread quickly, affecting the confidence of the Navy. Finally, after the fall of Barcelona, the republican navy finally wavered and gradually surrendered to the national army.

The major cities of the Spanish colonies were replaced with the flags of their national armies. One by one, factories that produced weapons preparation began to transfuse blood for the national army.

By the time the Spanish republican government reacted, they had lost their last bargain. The only remaining two islands are like the "underpants" of the Republican Army. If the gamble continues, the Republican Army will really lose and will not even have any underwear left.

In the past two years, Spain, once a European power, has experienced one of the greatest disasters in its history. Not only did it weaken a little of its naval foundation that it had managed to preserve, but it also lost more than 200,000 elite and brave soldiers. The two factions fought back and forth, you came and went, and there was a long-term scuffle, so that the people were struggling to make a living, and the national strength withered.

Especially in the past year, people from all over the world have engaged in a huge international power and ideological showdown on Spanish soil. And every one of their bombs fell on Spanish soil, leaving behind devastation and countless bones.

No one knows exactly how many Spaniards died in the war from July 1936 to today. But a quote from American journalist Matthews resonated a lot - this war left half of Spain dead.

As the military leader of the republican government, he was forcibly taken to Francisco on the island of La Palma by his subordinates, and at this moment he was arguing with the provisional government of the Second Spanish Republic on a humiliating topic - whether it was time to surrender.

As a soldier, Francisco was supposed to die to defend the dignity of his country. Unfortunately, the price of this dignity is too great. Two years of experience have turned the proud general into a supporter of the capitulation faction.

"We're already lost!" Francisco's voice lingered in the large conference room on the second floor of the La Parl Hotel, which was the building of the provisional government on La Palma: "Our entire army together is less than 10,000 men!" The navy in control is even more unable to prevent the landing of the Republican Army! Now the strength of the Republican Army is not even enough for self-protection, let alone a counteroffensive. I don't understand, why keep fighting and meet a doomed ending! ”

An older official shook his head dissatisfied, got up and faced Francisco and said, "General Francisco, isn't it your responsibility to say why the war is like this?" If you hadn't lost Madrid and Catalonia, how would we have fallen to where we are today? ”

Hearing this, Francisco's anger suddenly came up, pointed at the official's nose, and scolded in a gaffe: "What the fuck are you, dare to order me!?" ”

The officer was taken aback by Francisco's sudden outburst, and hurriedly stifled a large number of prepared mocking rhetoric.

"At the beginning, if you hadn't dragged the army back and interfered with our command many times, maybe the generals and I would have driven the national army back to the sea to feed the fish. Later, you fell for the conspiracy of the German chancellor and threw away more than 500 tons of gold accumulated by the Spanish government for hundreds of years, in exchange for a batch of junk weapons. If you want to talk about dereliction of responsibility, I think you politicians are the culprits! ”

Francisco's words, though unpleasant, resonated with most of the officials present. Before the Germans and Italians intervened, Francisco's track record was there for all to see. At that time, he had knocked the mighty Franco army out of armor and looked like it was collapsing.

If it had not been for the fact that the republican government, for the sake of international support, distributed a lot of equipment that should have been delivered to the front-line troops to the Comintern columns and the People's Guard, which caused the front-line to run out of ammunition and slow down the offensive. Perhaps, the national army would have been wiped out by Francisco's entire army long ago!

And the stupid politicians of the republican government, who did not know which tendon was wrong, approached Germany to sell weapons and were demanded to pay all in gold. (Historically, the Spanish republican government was also kicked in the head by a donkey and asked the Soviet Union to buy weapons at a high price).

You must know that the greatest advantage of the civil war** and the government is that the national gold reserves are in their hands, and Spain is the sixth largest gold reserve in the world. As a result, under the flickering of the German Führer Reinhardt. The republican government delivered 5 million tons of gold to Germany in one go, one of which was the purchase of weapons, and on the other hand, it also meant entrusting the custody of the war.

After entrusting the reparations, the poor and white Germans helped to keep the gold? What year is this a joke! If you see the refreshing one, you will go to [Vertex Network O]