In recent months, order has gradually returned to society, but the Carlos and Republicans are still fighting guerrilla warfare in the mountains of the north.

Although their space for movement is being reduced step by step, the threat is always present.

In particular, the proximity of their area of activity to the Basque Country could have an impact on mining, and it is precisely because of this concern that the French have so far maintained inefficient mining.

It's also time to get rid of them.

It is not impossible to fight on two fronts, it is always a bit of energy, and it is better to deal with the Carlos faction first, and then send the reorganized army to Cuba.

On 5 March, the 2 corps in the north and the French volunteer army began to assemble, instead of being distributed throughout the north as before.

Naturally, the large-scale troop movement could not hide from Carlos's eyes, but the government did not intend to hide it from anyone, and they even informed France in advance that they were going to start a "decisive battle".

However, France does not have the time to deal with this matter now, and only said that it "knows", and did not even send an observation mission.

Compared to this one-size-fits-all security war, another upheaval in France is clearly more important:

In January, a relative of Bonaparte's royal family publicly killed a journalist who had angered him!

After nearly two months of pressure and discussion, the outcome of the handling of this incident is imminent, and if nothing else, the royal family will further compromise with the left.

It is said that the new prime minister is likely to be the liberal Olivier, who is not a leftist, but not a rightist either, which is a rather rare concession for Nasan.

Therefore, the French, who are busy with political struggles, have no time to take care of the small things in Spain.

In Alfonso's view, this is a preview of the closer step of the Franco-Prussian War, and if there is a progress bar for the Franco-Prussian War, this event undoubtedly fills in a large square.

In this timeline, the Liberal Government did not publicly announce that it was going to welcome Prince Leopold, avoiding an important fuse.

However, the time of the war may change, but the outbreak of war is undoubted, and the progress bar vacated by the Spanish Throne event will inevitably be made up for by other events.

Even, when the atmosphere arrived, France could directly start a war if it demanded the dissolution of the North German Confederation, and there was no need for a fuse.

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The French were indifferent to this small battle, but for His Majesty Carlos it was a matter of life and death.

Obviously, they had no chance of winning a head-to-head battle, and as the official definition of Spain and France put it, the war between the two had turned from a war for Spanish dominance to a local war of banditry.

Carlos was saddened by this change, but the reality did not allow him to be sad, and he was leading his men to a stronghold at the foot of a mountain.

As the saying goes, there are three holes in the cunning rabbit, and the strongholds of the Carlos faction are far more than that.

The entire Carlos faction had an army of nearly thirty thousand men, spread in many different places in the north, not too far from each other, but not too close to each other.

Carlos himself led the largest of them, nearly 9,000 men, and was the most elite of them, and if they were destroyed, the other troops would collapse without a fight.

They are also the main targets of this military operation.

"Are you sure there's no one behind?" Carlos, riding on a tall Andalusian horse, asked his lieutenant, José Cahuaerlo.

"I've been sure again, no one." José rode slightly further back, assured.

They are not only defending against government forces, but also against the Republican army.

Since the convergence of the Carlos faction and the IRA, they have been attacked quite more often, many times as soon as they have landed.

Many of their itineraries were decided on an ad hoc basis, and it was impossible for ordinary soldiers to report in advance, and there was a high probability that there was an internal response from the upper echelons.

Carlos is clearly more skeptical of republicans than suspicious of his own people.

If it weren't for the republicans, who defected to the monarchy everywhere and grew to more than 10,000 people, he would have been tempted to talk about it.

It will not be like now, it is difficult to meddle if you want to manage, and you want to part ways but are reluctant to accept the power of the republicans.

Carlos could only silently bury his suspicions in his heart, hypnotizing himself as a diversion from the attention of the government army, a lot of spies, and the reason for the residents along the road to report the news.

However, after this investigation of the military movement of the government army, they quickly separated from Ruben and others, for fear that they would really be killed.

"This build-up of rebels will definitely create a defensive hole in other areas." Carlos took out the map on horseback and scratched it to José,

"We take this road, then cross the river, take the path, and when we get to the fork in the road, we will tell the people below that everything must be guaranteed!"

Jose nodded, and then patrolled the whole army, occasionally checking for spies behind him.

No one saw it, so he took advantage of the time to investigate and secretly threw some notes on the road.

Carlos never expected that the adjutant who grew up with him would be Neiying......

In fact, Jose didn't have a long time to respond, just more than a month before and after.

The main reason is that he saw the restoration of stability in Spain, and knew that the Carlos faction had no hope of victory at all, and that continuing to fight would only be death or exile, and it would leave an infamy for future generations.

He persuaded Carlos to flee Spain while he still had some capital, but the other party didn't listen, so it's no wonder that he couldn't compare to his family and interests after all.

He was not yet 30 years old, and he did not want to welcome a life with no future in sight.

So when the Progressive Guard came to the door, he agreed without thinking about it.

The Progressive Guard member disguised himself as a member of the Republican Army, and although he didn't say it directly, José estimated that the Republican Army had a big problem, which also confirmed that he made the right choice.

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On the other side, on the Republican side, the situation is much worse than that of the Carlos.

Because their most glorious leader, the most tenacious republican fighter, Lieutenant Reuben, is an internal response.

Naturally, he led tens of thousands of his men into the pre-agreed ambush site.

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The result was not surprising, the two armies that had lost their concealment were quickly defeated, and after several battles, the prepared government forces did not even have a few casualties.

In the face of opponents who were superior to themselves in equipment and numbers, they were still attacked by surprise, and many people threw down their guns and surrendered as soon as they saw them, completely unable to organize a decent counterattack.

Eventually, the two factions were disintegrated, and Ruben was appointed Adolf's deputy.

The betrayed IRA soldier had no mention of his resentment at Reuben, but he paid no attention to the invective of future unpaid railroad workers.

As for Carlos, he was allowed to flee abroad at the behest of Alfonso, after all, if he stayed in the country, he couldn't do anything to him, at most he would be imprisoned, and just let some conservatives mumble and just let it go.

Carlos's political philosophy is hateful, and he has no power of his own, and even the United States, which accommodates all rivers, does not want to help him.

But in the end, he went to the United States, because no one wanted to take him in, and he could at least be a rich man in the United States.

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At this point, Spain was completely calm, and the government had more than 30,000 free workers in its hands (part of the arrest process ran away).

Alfonso has no sympathy for these extreme rightists and leftists, who will most likely die on the way to the railroad tracks.

Having completed their mission in Spain, the French volunteers all returned to their homeland.

The Spanish Civil War helped them train two groups of 40,000 young troops, which was unprecedented in history, and maybe the Second French Empire would last one more day.