The Italians dropped thousands of corpses and retreated to their camp in disarray, and they could face a major internal reorganization that would make it difficult for them to organize another attack in the short term.

After the battle, the Italian envoys asked the Spanish to recover the bodies, and Prim agreed and sent someone to help, taking the opportunity to count the heads, plus the soldiers who died in the mutiny outside the city walls, a full 3,200 Italians died in the battle.

And that's not even counting the fact that some people were blown up by artillery fire and couldn't tell the difference, but the real death toll was only a lot more.

Italy had a roster of soldiers, but they did not release the exact number to the public, but acquiesced to the term 3,200.

As a result, the battle loss ratio in the first battle of Rome was set at 19:3200.

Of the 19 Spanish soldiers killed, three were killed by the stones that burst from the shattering walls, and the rest were killed by howitzer attacks that ventured forward later.

In fact, if Italy had been willing to continue fighting for a while, the Spanish casualties would have increased further, but the situation was already out of control when the Italian howitzers arrived, and they had to fire a few symbolic shots before firing their troops.

The results of this battle quickly spread across Europe, and all those in the know were shocked, what is the concept of 19: 3200? At the end of this year, the machine gun appeared not long ago, and this battle damage ratio has never been hit!

A series of future British wars in Zulu would be fairly close to this number, but only by using thermal weapons against natives with spears, and being careful not to be surrounded.

However, Italy is an advanced European country, and it still fights on its own soil, and Spain has a lot of weapons. (Italy also has machine guns, which did not come in handy during the charge)

To be able to play like this really makes people worry about the future of Italy as a country.

When the news came back, even Alfonso was stunned, he felt that he had already underestimated Italy's combat effectiveness, but he didn't expect the other party to be rotten to such an extent.

If you knew this, what else did you do with the retreat plan and blockade plan? Directly the landing of the army and the blossoming on all sides, Italy is not just kneading at will?

However, after reading the battle report, he was relieved, and he could only say that this time he put on a stupid commander and touched the bullet with his body, and the battle completely ended the crowd tactics.

The "Picket Charge" at the Battle of Gettysburg in the Civil War has proven that it is best not to take the initiative to rush the firepower network, and this "Roman Charge" is just another repetition of history.

In any case, a complete victory is a good thing, and in the next war, I am afraid that the Italians will naturally be a head shorter when they see the Spaniards, and as long as they win one or two more battles, Italy will probably lose the courage to take the initiative to attack.

The impact of this battle did not stop at the warring three countries, but also caused the whole of Europe to shift the thinking of war towards the defensive.

The most obvious is that the French immediately increased the supply of machine-gun ammunition in an attempt to hinder the Prussian offensive with the same tactics - and the results may not be very good.

The French infantry was already stronger than the Prussian infantry, and it always had the upper hand in hand-to-hand combat, and even the widespread use of machine guns only reinforced this advantage.

They could not defeat Prussia's most serious weakness, one was the small number of men, and the other was that they could not deal with the Krupp guns that were too long and too fast.

In addition to France, Britain also paid close attention to the war, and as soon as the results were known, the British Army submitted a bill to Parliament to increase military spending, purchase Gatling, and introduce production lines.

There is no doubt that this bill will be passed, and no matter how much the army's money is spent, it will be a small amount of money for Britain.

And according to the Times, the British Army General Command intends to invite external tenders for the research and development of advanced machine guns.

In addition to the change in armaments, many people in Britain began to fear that the battle would make Spain's ambitions uncontrollable, so they first proposed their ideas to Spain before Italy could send anyone to contact them.

He said, "I don't want an unpleasant territorial change between Spain and Italy." ”

Rather a blatant warning, but also in line with Britain's strength and diplomatic style.

In particular, the relationship between Britain and Spain has not been good, one is a Catholic country and the other is a Protestant country, Britain still occupies Gibraltar in Spain, and there are many conflicts between the two sides on the colonial issue, so there is really no need to be too polite.

Alfonso naturally felt humiliated, but what could he do was to make a strong statement that "Spain will adopt the most advantageous strategy as needed" on the one hand, and on the other hand, secretly suppress the turbulent storm of public opinion in the country.

This great victory made the Spanish militants suddenly multiply, and the call for the annexation of South Italy overshadowed all other voices.

The most exaggerated thing is that even the annexation of the whole of Italy has been shouted out, 16 million people swallow 28 million people are not afraid of choking to death, except for the mustache of later generations, who dares to swallow like this.

Obviously, this victory came too easily, and the people saw Italy as a soft persimmon to be slaughtered.

However, in the real fight, it is impossible for West Fao to beat the British and Prussians, and it is difficult to say whether France is interested in carving up Italy.

The government could only try to shift the blame to Chartini, trying to tell everyone that although we won the battle and the Spanish soldiers were indeed brave, this victory could not be replicated.

Fortunately, the newspapers in Spain are basically controlled by the government, and the public opinion of the newspapers is one-sided, so that the mushroomism in the country has stopped the car in just two days.

And on the other side, the ironclad ships of the Atlantic Fleet have already converged with the Mediterranean Fleet.

With the exception of one in the Philippine town, Rome was stationed at this time with all of the Spanish ironclads and some high-speed cruisers.

Among them, the Numancia and the Victoria were included in the harassment fleet, also known as the decoy fleet.

The Numancia was one of the first ironclad ships ordered from France, with a speed of 14 knots, a displacement of 7,350 tons, a crew of 560 people, and 34 68-pound guns.

The Victoria is a British-made ironclad ship, with a speed of 13 knots, a displacement of 7,250 tons, a crew of 560 people, and 21 guns of different calibers.

The two ships had one broadside gun and the other a waist gun room, but they had one thing in common, and that was that they were both very fast.

The speed of 14 and 13 knots can be regarded as the best in this era, you must know that the Roman fleet also has an iron turtle with a speed of 8 knots.

Two days after the end of the Battle of Rome, the harassment fleet finally completed the development of plans and the preparation of voyages, and their first stop was the port of Palermo in southern Italy.

The port of Palermo is located on the island of Sicily, with relatively weak defenses, developed commerce and many warships, which is the best choice for training.