18th century total war

Chapter 191 Strategic Transfer
The lack of information undoubtedly increased the fear in Queen Louisa's heart, and even doubted whether her husband's Spanish throne would be overthrown by Li Wei's rebels...

Fortunately, Prime Minister Godoy knew more detailed information. After the defeat, he also conducted a thorough investigation and found out that the captured soldiers in the frontline rout were all temporary soldiers and militiamen, and there was no regular army unit.

The reasons given by the following Spanish noble generals are also very sufficient. His Majesty the King and his family are staying in the Royal Palace of Madrid. Naturally, everyone wants to keep the most capable regular troops in the city of Madrid to garrison, so they can only send out those 'militia' to guard. perimeter defense.

The political position is very clear, and Prime Minister Godoy cannot refute it. Who said that the Spanish Army is rotten to the core?
The current Spanish Army can be described in one word - no fighting spirit!
Since the victory of [-] Spanish regular troops against [-], the pressure brought by Levi's Black Dragon Legion on the Spanish Army soldiers has completely exceeded the pressure on the French revolutionary government troops!

In the past few years, the French revolutionary regime has used the extreme revolutionary court system and spared no effort to plagiarize Li Wei's revolutionary propaganda methods. The fighting spirit of the Revolutionary Army for National Salvation has long since disappeared, and the fear of facing the Black Dragon Army has basically been eliminated.

However, the Spanish Army, which was rotten internally and took the initiative to confront Li Wei's Black Dragon Army head-on, was like an inflated balloon being pierced by a sharp thorn, and the air was quickly vented.

After hearing his wife's question, Carlos IV seemed to realize that what he should be concerned about now is not whether this war can be won, but whether they need to run away!

Prime Minister Godoy naturally understood how bad the royal family's escape at this time would have a negative impact on the already weak Madrid defenders.

The current Madrid garrison is still capable of fighting a war, and the Spanish aristocratic generals have rarely taken a wiser military measure. They have been stationing temporary soldiers and militia separately from the regular standing army to prevent contact between the two.

Therefore, the vast majority of the troops in Madrid are regular troops, while a small number are the city defense troops and palace guards who stayed behind.

Madrid is also the capital after all. Not to mention the combat effectiveness of the city defense army and palace guards, at least the morale is still good. The morale here refers to their willingness to fight for the king!

They are sincerely willing to fight for Carlos IV, who told them to eat the 'imperial food' for generations?

Moreover, the vast majority of Madrid's city defense troops are soldiers of the Spanish palace nobles. Even a small soldier in the palace guard has aristocratic blood. However, many of them are from collateral families, and those directly from the royal family can generally serve as junior officers.

These people are all die-hard supporters of the Spanish royal family.

They have a certain level of education and know who they should be loyal to, rather than just shouting slogans.

These people, together with the regular army units that represent the ceiling of the current Spanish Army's combat effectiveness, can even fight the Black Dragon Legion in Madrid, the most morale-testing street battle of this era.

Of course, victory or defeat is difficult to guarantee. Who said that the Madrid defenders did not have a strength advantage?

The Black Dragon Legion's record against the Spaniards was so brilliant that even Godoy, the Prime Minister, had no confidence...

"Your Majesty, Queen.

The defenders of the Madrid city defense are different from the defenders of the outer defense line. The defenders inside and outside the city of Madrid are more elite, and there are also palace guards who are willing to sacrifice their lives for His Majesty and Queen.

In the city of Madrid, all the people support us, and the Livy rebels may not be able to break through Madrid. "

"It's just not necessarily but not necessarily!"

Queen Louisa quickly found the unconfidence in Prime Minister Godoy's tone.

Prime Minister Godoy is really not confident, but he does not want to continue to deceive his king. The reason is very simple, he does not want to be buried with Madrid!
If Madrid is breached, the king and queen will be captured, and he, the prime minister of the cabinet, will not be able to escape!
If Carlos IV escapes, the cabinet government must be taken away, otherwise how can Carlos IV continue to lead the Kingdom of Spain?
Therefore, Prime Minister Godoy still hopes to run with the king and queen.

It's safer that way.

After being in a high position for a long time, this person becomes greedy for life and afraid of death. After all, the scenery they see is completely different from ordinary people, and they have too much nostalgia for this world.

However, Prime Minister Godoy knew that he could not make the request to run away by himself, otherwise he would be a criminal of the country. He was not the Spanish royal family. Once he became a criminal, Queen Louisa would not be able to protect him!

Therefore, this order can only be issued by Carlos IV. He is the king, and legally the entire Kingdom of Spain is his property. The series of political consequences brought about by the order to run away cannot kill Carlos IV. It is even less possible for him to step down.

A king can only die on the throne, but there is no such thing as a king retiring...

Carlos IV lost his personal prestige at most, and Prime Minister Godoy felt that the green hat king could still bear it!
European legal system is his solid backing!

The conservative Kingdom of Spain does not have the messy revolutionary ideas in France. Even though the revolutionary ideas of the French Revolution have begun to spread around, under the control of the monarchy, it has only penetrated into a few cities outside the French border.

After all, there is no Internet in this era, and it is not difficult for the government to block paper channels such as newspapers and books.

It is precisely because of this that even if Europe enters the industrial revolution, there are still a large number of illiterate civilians in society.

Prussia set up the cheapest universal compulsory education (mainly literacy and simple mathematics), which almost bankrupted the country...

"If Madrid can't hold it, let's move the capital quickly while the Li Wei rebels are dealing with prisoners of war."

Queen Louisa suggested anxiously, and then looked at Carlos IV beside her.

After receiving his wife's "eye gesture", Carlos IV quickly nodded in response.

It’s not that Carlos IV is afraid of his wife, but he thinks his wife is right!
Prime Minister Godoy breathed a sigh of relief, feeling for the first time that it might not be a good thing that the peripheral defense line was so completely defeated.

There are more than 8000 prisoners, enough to keep Levi's rebels busy for a while!
The Kingdom of Spain has successfully used the "Captive Tactic" to win valuable strategic transfer time for Madrid's capital relocation plan!

Obviously, such a great 'victory' will definitely be recorded in the history of the Kingdom of Spain!

Carlos IV's move to the capital was not the hasty flight of Louis XVI. Not only did the entire capital government team follow him, but there were also a large number of royal guards and even regular troops accompanying him for protection!
(End of this chapter)