Because he did not expect that Krem, who faced the hundreds of thousands of French troops, would be able to withdraw and return north, at this time the Spanish army had been completely dispersed, busy slaughtering in the Rif Mountains, and could not concentrate at all in a hurry, and the fighters of the Rif guerrillas were aroused by the atrocities of the Spaniards, and the high morale brought by this made up for their lack of technical and tactical ability......

Originally, the Spaniards could still count on the French army to go north to rescue, but they never thought that the army had been scared by Krim, and when they first received the Spaniards' call for help, they thought that Krem was playing tricks to lure themselves into the bait, and only after the news was completely confirmed did they finally start a counterattack on all fronts, but it was too late at this time, and by the time the French army dragged on and finally hit the vicinity of the Rif Mountains, hundreds of thousands of Spanish troops had been almost wiped out. And because of the long wait www.biquge.info even the troops on the southern front, which Kerim had already decided to throw away as an outcast, withdrew a lot, so that Kerim, who had suffered a lot of losses, still had the ability to fight another war of annihilation......

Then, the French suffered another humiliating defeat, suffering more than 50,000 casualties in a few days, leaving behind countless weapons and ammunition, and fleeing back to Casablanca, while Klim was able to regain his morale with this victory and retreat safely into the Atlas Mountains (the main mountain range in Northwest Africa, running southwest-northeast, and the Rif Mountains are actually a branch of the Atlas Mountains extending to the northwest). ）。

The panicked French army did not realize that the Moroccan rebel army had reached the end of its strength, and if it was still when the army was strong before, Kerim would definitely seek to annihilate the enemy in formation, but with the continuous loss of the backbone and the fatigue of continuous combat has accumulated to a very dangerous level, he is now able to defeat more than 100,000 French pursuers, and he has done his best......

Although Krim has not yet tasted defeat on the battlefield for which he is personally responsible, more and more people in the rebel army have realized that the tide is turning, although Spain is now in great force, France still has a lot of strength to spare, the threat of colonizers is far from being eliminated, and Krim's rebel army is already running out of oil, and even if it succeeds in retreating into the Atlas Mountains, it will only be a little longer.

This is partly due to the fact that the Moroccan rebels have so far lost a staggering number of troops, and if the guerrillas are included, the total number of Moroccan rebels has exceeded 80,000, which is undoubtedly a staggering figure compared to its maximum strength of just over 100,000. To make matters worse, more than 60,000 of the 80,000 were permanently attrition because Klim had to leave behind a large number of wounded soldiers on his return to the north, most of whom were killed by the French......

It was already difficult for Krim to recruit young men from his hometown to replenish his losses, and for the Rif Mountains, with a total population of more than 400,000, the previous conscription and the massacre of the Spanish army had almost completely emptied its limited number of young and strong labor. In fact, if it weren't for the fact that Klim had anticipated the cruelty of the enemy and had given the rebels a front stop by the way, he had let the women and children of his hometown flee east in advance, but I am afraid that the villagers of Reeve would have been almost wiped out by now......

Not only the Rif Mountains, but also the plains of Spanish Morocco, which Spain had operated for many years, were also brutally retaliated against by the Spanish army, and the population has now lost more than a third of its pre-war level. Although an enraged Krim ordered the killing of all the Spanish prisoners of war who refused to convert, and the number of direct kills in the battle had so far exceeded 300,000, enough to avenge the atrocities of the Spanish colonial army, this was only a vent of anger after all, and could not restore the depleted army.

And in a sense, the brutal revenge of the rebels forced the colonial army to become more and more reluctant to surrender, and at the same time, the Spanish and French governments also had more reason to invest more forces in Morocco, because as the war became more and more brutal, the original colonial war has evolved into a vendetta between peoples, and the colonial war is completely different from the vendetta between peoples.

However, this is not entirely a bad thing for Kerim, in fact, before returning north, Kerim even secretly ordered his most loyal subordinates to slaughter all the French who refused to convert before the defeat, on the one hand, to increase the losses of France, on the other hand, to stimulate the French army to retaliate cruelly, in order to force the French Moroccans who were not as good as the Spanish Moroccans to resist, but even so, the quality of the local soldiers cannot be compared with the Spanish Morocco, how much support can be provided to the rebel army of Krim, It's still an unknown.

In fact, even if Krim's rebel army is still in its heyday, there is still no hope of victory in the face of the French army, which has reached a total of more than 600,000 troops through continuous military buildup. But even so, Kerim did not despair, because because he had broadened his horizons in China, his vision was now no longer limited to Morocco alone, but enlarged to all Berber settlements and even the Arab cultural sphere......

After making up his mind to start a war against France, Kerim immediately sent envoys to the Berber tribes in Algeria, hoping to fight side by side with them, but because the local tribes were not optimistic about the rebel army, after all, being able to defeat the Spaniards was not the same as being able to compete with the French army, coupled with the dispute over dominance, the negotiations were not successful at first, until Kerim defeated the French army again and again and proved his extraordinary talent, Algeria finally accepted this "Mahdi". (meaning Savior) command, united under his command to fight against the French colonial rule.

Algeria's natural conditions are far less favorable than those of French Morocco, except for the narrow strip of land along the northern coast, which is either lofty mountains or vast deserts, and the environment is extremely harsh, compared with the Rif mountains, and the local tribes have a long struggle against the French colonizers, so the local military resources are also very good. And it is worth mentioning that the population of Algeria is much larger than that of Morocco as a whole, and the population of the mountain people with the best military quality is far more numerous than that of the Rif Mountains!