Two hours after Garcia received the news of the attack on the railway, he was furious but had no choice but to quickly send troops to Lleida Province.

Gabriel hit the muzzle, but not everyone was as unlucky as he was.

In the end, 11 of the border railways in the three provinces suffered varying degrees of damage.

Although they are ordinary sections, at the current pace of construction, it will take at least a week to repair.

The enemy apparently did not leave this time, and at 7:30 a.m. on the 17th, just after dawn, 60,000 Carlos troops crossed the western hills and entered the plain of Lleida!

Barcelona Barracks Staff.

"General, in an hour at most, the 2nd Infantry Division will begin engagement." The operator reported nervously.

Carlos' army was filled with a large number of cavalry, and it was galloping through the plains, marching very fast.

"Damn, where are the 1st and 4th Divisions now?" Garcia asked, puffing on a cigarette.

He was a man who rarely smoked, but now he had to rely on cigarettes to numb himself, and he had not fought a war since he became a general 12 years ago, and this was the first time he had commanded a war on his own.

"According to the report, according to the communication along the line, the 1st Infantry Battalion, the 2nd Infantry Battalion, the 4th Cavalry Battalion and the 7th Artillery Battalion of the 1st Division are on the train, and it will take 4 hours to reach the battlefield, and the vanguard of the 4th Division will need 15 hours." The communications soldier said with a bitter face.

Due to the damage of the railway, the 4th Division could only advance along the road, and 15 hours was already the result of their emergency blockade of the road and the abandonment of a large amount of armament.

The first division, the one stationed in Barcelona, was undamaged by the railway from the center to Lleida, and was being transported to the border by rail with 2,500 men of the Progressive Guard.

Garcia was even more annoyed when he heard this, originally the army of 80,000 people was confronting the government army in the Aragon area, but he didn't expect them to turn around and strike a blow to destroy Catalonia first.

"What about Prim? Carlos has transferred all the troops to our side, the front line is very weak, as long as Prim attacks, everything will be fine! Garcia asked wistfully, the question he had asked every few moments since he received the news of the attack.

"This ......," the operator was a little embarrassed, "This is the specific information that has just been translated." As he spoke, he handed over the paper on which the code had been translated.

Chief of Staff Espatero took the report and looked at it, and anger gradually appeared on his face: "The sporadic exchanges have all stopped, and the two sides are sitting in a sit-in 20 kilometers outside Zaragoza. ”

Hearing the news, the hearts of those in the staff were filled with the anger of betrayal, even though Prim had no obligation to them.

"I'm trying to test our condition." Garcia took a deep breath and calmed down: "It seems that you can only rely on yourself next, there is no point in staying here any longer, pack your things, and we will transfer with the next train." ”

The reason why they didn't follow the first train to the border was to coordinate the overall situation, but now, it is still the most important thing to command this battle.

In fact, the situation is not as bad as they think, Garcia is a general who has not fought in 12 years, not to mention, Espartro and other members of the staff were also selected not long ago, although they all graduated from military schools, but the experience of war is really doubtful.

In this case, they do not have a clear estimate of the strength of both the enemy and the enemy, and naturally hope that the more cards in their hand, the better.

They didn't know that although they were caught off guard by the Carlos faction's careful planning in advance, these were small sections after all, and in the end, they still had to rely on strength to speak.

Unlike them, the soldiers of the 2nd Division had a lot of expectations for the future, and of course they had the fear before the war, but the civilian background made them more aware of what kind of troops the other side was.

Among Carlos's members were Catholic fanatics and reactionaries similar to Gabriel, but more often were beggars and gangsters who could not have enough to eat on the streets.

Don't expect these people to be well-trained and well-equipped.

The soldiers knew this, so they were ready to rely on advanced weapons to deliver a fatal blow.

Lleida, where the 2nd Division was stationed, was inside Spain, and the government naturally did not build a fortress here for no reason, and the previous Catalan government did not realize this.

Alfonso came to Catalan to consolidate his defenses, but in less than a year, it was clear that it was far from enough to build a well-established fortification.

Therefore, in a sense, the two sides can almost be counted as a field battle.

They discussed whether to retreat to Lleida and rely on the less sturdy defenses of the provincial capital, but after weighing it, they decided that it would be better to stay.

Once retreated, a large number of artillery pieces would inevitably be left behind for the Carlos army, and it would be even more difficult to fight in the back, the Armstrong cannons, which could collapse the walls of Lleida in just a few shots.

Gradually, as time passed, it seemed that the tremors of the earth could be felt.

"Boom."

It was a great horror caused by the collective action of Carlos's tens of thousands of cavalry.

Influenced by reactionary ideas and religion, the leaders of the Kalos faction indulged in chivalric culture and spent huge sums of money to expand their cavalry units.

Now, it's their best deal, and many people call it Carlos's whistling soldier.