Chapter 392: On the Civil War of the Republic

At the beginning of the 54th year of the Han Dynasty, after the War of the Spanish Succession, the War of the Austrian Succession, and the successive military weakening and annexation of colonies by the Han Empire, Spain, which had once been in Europe, had declined somewhat. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The wealth originally obtained cheaply from the American colonies did not lead to any decent development of Spanish industry and commerce. Religious and territorial wars between European nations also cost Spain too much of its manpower and material resources. Moreover, Spain itself is not rich, and the natural environment in most areas is relatively harsh, with high mountains, ravines, dry and little rain, and the agricultural production conditions are really poor, which cannot support a prosperous economy.

On top of that, Spain was made even weaker by the incompetence and strife of the royal family. The ambitions of the French for the territory of the Kingdom of Spain were already evident as early as the time of Louis XIV of the Bourbon dynasty of France.

The famous monarch of French history tried to erase the border between France and Spain on the map, for which the "Sun King" also fought a war with most of Europe, and obtained the Spanish throne for his grandson, the Duke of Anjou, but the peace treaty concluded after the war stipulated that France and Spain could not be merged under the same king. It was also the beginning of the Bourbon dynasty in Spain.

The French Directory, which had achieved great success in the world revolution, naturally kept in mind the territory of Spain, a weak country, and that Spain could not but obtain a strategic location if it wanted to control the Mediterranean world; If we want to improve the continental blockade policy against Britain, we also need more effective control over Spain and Portugal!

Under the world revolution, the stupidity and even fragile resistance of the Spanish royal family made the French even more contemptuous of the Spaniards.

After the establishment of the Revolutionary League, the French Revolutionary Army, which withdrew the remnants of the main force, soon invaded the Spanish territory where the army was weak, disarmed the Spanish Revolutionary Army, and began to occupy in the true sense of the word!

The half-dead Spanish Revolutionary Army, in the face of the sudden decision of the three republics of the Revolutionary Alliance, and the French Revolutionary Army, which had been tempered by Poland and the army loyal to the monarchy in central Europe, had no resistance at all......

However, when the French Directory declared the Kingdom of Spain and Portugal to be the 'protectorates' of France (in effect they amounted to a buffer before annexation, worse than vassals, and the protectorates could not even control their own armies). After that, the Spanish people were furious!

In Madrid, the capital of the Kingdom of Spain, a large number of Spanish civilians took to the streets in anger and spontaneously organized a riot against the French. Angry Madridians gathered on the Puerta del Sol and came into direct clash with the French Revolutionary Army!

These Spanish civilians were not soldiers, and the weak Spanish Revolutionary Army had long since been disarmed and guarded by the French, and in the eyes of the French, as long as these soldiers were controlled, it was only a matter of time before Spain was annexed to France!

However, it was these Spanish civilians who were not seen by the French Revolutionary Army, armed with daggers, iron rods and even stones and other rudimentary weapons, that launched an attack on the French soldiers!

The disparity in strength between the two sides, the French did not care about the lives of the Spaniards, under a round of musket volleys, hundreds of Spanish civilians who participated in the riot died, others were completely scattered, and the Spanish civilian riot in the capital of Madrid was a joke in the eyes of the French Revolutionary Army!

However, things developed beyond the estimates of the French. Although the uprising in Madrid was quickly suppressed, the rest of Spain began to act. Municipal councils were organized everywhere to declare war on the invaders, the French Directory!

It's just that neither the French Directory nor the French generals who led the revolutionary army took the Spaniards seriously, and in their opinion, the Spaniards began to rebel, and things were a little more difficult than expected, but it was still just a piece of cake. The proud French are going to make their hands official against the Spaniards, and they can't yet understand that the Spaniards are more proud than they are.

The Spanish resistance was in full swing and was scattered everywhere, which forced the French army to disperse its forces as well. This was advantageous to Spain, which had limited troops, but it was a different matter for France, which wanted to end the war quickly.

The Spanish city halls quickly gathered the remnants of the soldiers who had been loyal to the royal family and the soldiers of the revolutionary army to establish a regular army of the Spanish Republic, the Spanish royal family has disappeared, and at this moment, the Spaniards are no longer fighting for the incompetent king, but for the freedom of the nation!

Initially, the Spaniards took advantage of the carelessness of the French Revolutionary Army and really won several battles, annihilating nearly 100,000 French Revolutionary Army!

Those who were annihilated were all the old No. 1 revolutionary fighters who had experienced the world revolution!

After many years of world revolution, the 5 million French revolutionary army that had been driven out of the country at the beginning was finally left intact and only a million remained, and the rest were either disabled or lying in a foreign land forever!

The large number of wounded further increased the financial pressure on the French Directory, which is why the French Directory urgently needs to expand its territory and make up for the losses of France by exploiting and oppressing foreign peoples!

From the moment the world revolution was desperately blocked by the Russians, the nature of the revolutionary army was completely changed, and without the leadership of the party and government and other strict organizations, the inflated revolutionary army became a tool used by imperialism to invade foreign countries!

The high national consciousness has also degenerated into the arrogance of the nation above all else!

The world revolution led by the French has achieved so much that the French have become proud and complacent, and many French people even think that France is the noblest and warlike nation in the world!

Therefore, what was once freedom, equality and fraternity has become an empty slogan, and interests and aggression have become the driving force of war!

The eternal inferiority of human beings has once again returned to the European continent!

It is inevitable that the Spanish army, which is regarded as a weak man by the French, has achieved such a big result, which is simply slapping the face of the French nation, so the French Revolutionary Army once again increased its troops on Spanish territory, and these troops who have experienced the battle of the European Army have reached a crushing trend against the so-called regular army of the Spaniards......