18th century total war

Chapter 194 Looting Madrid

Li Wei really understood the phrase "those who attain the Dao give more help to those who lose the Dao" during this international truce negotiation.

Just because the anti-French alliance supported Carlos IV, Livy's conditions as the victor were completely rejected. On the contrary, Carlos IV asked Livy to withdraw his troops unconditionally, which was recognized by all the anti-French alliance, including the newly restored The London Government of Foreign Relations!

For the anti-French alliance, Levi was once again abandoned by the London government like a smelly rag...

Faced with such a situation, Li Wei didn't even have the desire to complain. He directly ordered Karl on the front line to search for the Spanish-occupied area as much as possible when withdrawing troops, and to support the Kingdom of Catalonia in Aragon to fully occupy the province of Madrid. You can even use this opportunity to upgrade the Kingdom of Catalonia to the Kingdom of Aragon!

Li Wei has no way to occupy the Kingdom of Spain for a long time, and even the troops in Madrid have to withdraw as soon as possible. Robespierre of the French Revolutionary Government is like a maniac, constantly sending reinforcements to the front line, urging to step up the offensive!
The too-long front line made it impossible for Li Wei's four training camps to operate at full capacity. In some locations where there was a serious shortage of troops, even garrison regiments with insufficient combat power were dispatched!
Naturally, the undefeated myth of the Li Wei regime also started from these garrison regiments...

There is no other way. It is better to send the garrison corps to attack than to send no troops. At least the garrison corps shot and killed many soldiers of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army...

Li Wei's regime is on the defensive, and the garrison still has a certain combat power.

As for Niza's standing army, it has long since expanded and expanded, filled all fronts, and fought positional warfare with the National Salvation Revolutionary Army.

Therefore, Li Wei urgently needs the main force of the black dragon army led by Karl to come back to withstand the continuous attacks of the National Salvation Revolutionary Army.

Li Wei now has no shortage of glory points, what he lacks is time. After all, the four training camps can only produce [-] soldiers a month.

Levi's instructions soon cheered the senior leaders of the Kingdom of Catalonia.

This is a huge piece of cake smashed in the face. The area that the Black Dragon Legion handed over to the Kingdom of Catalonia was not just Madrid, but also all the cities and villages captured along the way!

Occupying Madrid is equivalent to occupying the political center of the Kingdom of Spain at this time, and has huge political influence.

Naturally, this influence was of no use to Livy. The identity of the French invaders meant that the Spanish nobles and people would not be able to recognize the Livy regime that occupied Madrid.

But the Kingdom of Catalonia is different. Aragon can completely rely on the righteousness of occupying Madrid to restore the ancient Aragonese dynasty in the Kingdom of Spain!
The Aragonese Dynasty still has a political foundation in the northern part of the Kingdom of Spain. This political foundation is not only the people, but also includes a large number of nobles inherited from the Aragonese Dynasty!
However, Levi and Karl gave the Catalan Legion an easy but less honorable task.

Loot the entire province of Madrid!
Yes, Levi did not let the Black Dragon Legion do it himself, but asked the Catalan Legion to do it.

There are two reasons.

Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion was in a hurry to evacuate, and they didn't have too many troops. They didn't have much time to waste on 'looting' this glorious road.

The second point is that Li Wei wants to create conflicts between the Catalans and the Spaniards.

The Catalan Legion does not consider the people of the province of Madrid to be their compatriots, and even they do not understand the language!
Therefore, this order will not alienate Li Wei from the Kingdom of Catalonia, not to mention that there are Aragon and a group of cabinet ministers of the Kingdom of Catalonia who have been enlightened by the administration as lubricating oil.

The looting mission announced within the Kingdom of Catalonia is to subsidize the military expenses of the Black Dragon Legion, as well as to build and develop the hometown of the Catalan people!
The province of Madrid is the core hinterland of the Kingdom of Spain. This looting of the Kingdom of Catalonia will also gain a lot of benefits, and these benefits will naturally be used by Aragon to support its own Catalonia region.

However, after Aragon learned that Livy wanted to destroy and sack the province of Madrid in revenge, he politely refused to upgrade the Aragonese dynasty.

Aragon was only enlightened by the administration, not washed into a military brain by the training camp, and his political wisdom has not declined.

Aragon knew very well that after the destructive sacking of the Province of Madrid, the Kingdom of Catalonia would no longer have support in the central region of the Kingdom of Spain. The brutal looting would also make people in the non-Catalan regions of northern Spain and Nobles, their opinion of the Kingdom of Catalonia has declined.

This is actually equivalent to eliminating the political points brought about by occupying Madrid. At this time, it is not impossible to forcibly upgrade the Aragonese Dynasty, but it does not get much support. It is nothing more than a flashy title.

It is better to continue to retain the name of the Kingdom of Catalonia, work hard to manage the Catalan region, win the hearts of the Catalan people, and let the Kingdom of Catalonia have a stable foundation.

This is the basis for dividing the Kingdom of Spain!
Otherwise, the Aragonese dynasty, with its huge territory occupied by the Black Dragon Legion, would be a loft in the air. After the Black Dragon Legion withdrew, it would be impossible to rely on the Catalan Legion to hold so many lost territories.

Even though the Kingdom of Catalonia has received the support of most of the nobles in the Catalonia region, there is still an insurmountable gap between their military strength and the entire Kingdom of Spain.

Whether it is weapons and equipment or the size of its troops, the Kingdom of Catalonia lags behind the Kingdom of Spain, which has just been defeated by the Black Dragon Legion.

The only thing that the Kingdom of Catalonia's legions can do is probably their morale.

And it is still built on the basis of guarding the hometown.

The enthusiasm of the Catalan Legion for foreign aggression is very average.

To put it bluntly, the Catalans only want to be independent from Spanish oppression, and do not really want to conquer Spain. The Spanish Kingdom is too big for the Catalans.

This is like a provincial person trying to conquer the whole country, which is generally unrealistic.

King Aragon of the Kingdom of Catalonia saw this clearly, so he did not dare to hope to occupy the Madrid area and even the entire northern part of the Kingdom of Spain.

If Aragon hadn't been enlightened by Livy's administration, he wouldn't have even agreed to let the Catalan Legion be the knife of the Black Dragon Legion to harvest the plan to sack the Madrid area.

The main force of the Black Dragon Legion led by Karl stayed in Madrid for only three days before evacuating. As soon as they evacuated, the Catalan Legion, which had completed the handover, created a tragic sweep of the city in Madrid.

(End of this chapter)