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193 Sack of Madrid

Li Wei truly understood the saying "Those who have attained enlightenment will help more and those who have lost their power" during this international armistice negotiation.

Just because the anti-French alliance supported Carlos IV, the conditions proposed by Levi as the victorious party were completely rejected. On the contrary, the conditions for Carlos IV to withdraw the troops unconditionally were recognized by the anti-French alliance, including the London government, which had just resumed diplomatic relations!

In order to the anti-French alliance, Li Wei once again was abandoned by the London government without hesitation...

Faced with such a situation, Li Wei was not even in a good desire to complain. He directly ordered Carl on the front line to plunder the Spanish-occupied area as much as possible when withdrawing troops, and support the Catalonian Kingdom in Aragon, occupy the Madrid province in full swing, and even use this opportunity to upgrade the Catalonian Kingdom to the Aragon Kingdom!

Li Wei had no way to occupy the Spanish Kingdom for a long time, and even Madrid's troops had to evacuate as soon as possible. Robert Spear of the French Revolutionary Government was like an epilepsy and kept going to the front to reinforce the troops and urged to step up the offensive!

The long front line made Li Wei’s four training camps run enough. Some positions with severely lack of troops, and even the garrison corps with insufficient combat power were dispatched!

Naturally, the myth of the invincible Li Wei regime began with these garrison corps...

There is no way, sending a garrison corps to the top is much better than sending no soldiers. At least the garrison corps also shot and killed many soldiers from the revolutionary army who saved the country...

The Li Wei regime is in a defensive state, and the garrison corps still have certain combat power.

As for Niza's standing army, it had expanded and expanded long ago, filling it with various fronts, and fighting positions with the revolutionary army in the country-salvation.

Therefore, Li Wei urgently needed the main force of the Black Dragon Legion led by Carl to return to the rescue and withstand the continuous attack of the revolutionary army in saving the country.

Li Wei is no longer lacking glory value, all he lacks is time. After all, four training camps can only produce 4,000 soldiers in a month.

Levi's instructions quickly cheered the top leaders of the Kingdom of Catalonia.

This was a huge cake that hit the face. The area handed over to the Kingdom of Catalonia was not just a Madrid, but also all the cities and villages captured along the way!

Occupy Madrid is equivalent to occupying the political center of the Spanish Kingdom at this time and has a huge political influence.

This influence naturally has no use in Li Wei. The identity of the French invader was destined to make it impossible for the Spanish nobles and people to recognize the Li Wei regime that occupied Madrid.

But the Kingdom of Catalonia is different. Aragon can completely rely on the name of occupying Madrid to restore the ancient Aragon dynasty within the Kingdom of Spain!

The Aragonic Dynasty still had a political foundation in the north of the Spanish Kingdom. This political foundation was not only the people, but also a large number of nobles inherited from the Aragonic Dynasty!

However, Levi and Carl gave the Catalan Legion a relaxed but not very glorious mission.

Robbing the entire Madrid province!

Yes, Li Wei did not let the Black Dragon Legion do it himself, but let the Catalan Legion do it.

There are two reasons.

Li Wei's Black Dragon Legion was in a hurry to evacuate, and his troops were not too much, so he didn't have so much time to waste on the glorious avenue of "looting".

The second point is that Livi wants to create a conflict between the Catalans and the Spanish.

The Catalan Legion does not think that the people in the Madrid province are their own compatriots, and they even have no language understanding between them!

Therefore, this order will not alienate Livi from the Kingdom of Catalonia, not to mention that there are Aragon and a group of administratively enlightened Catalonian cabinet officials to lubricate.

The ransacking mission announced within the Kingdom of Catalonia is to subsidize the military expenditure of the Black Dragon Legion and 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 many benefits, which will naturally be used by Aragon in the Catalonian region that supports it.

However, after Aragorn knew that Levi wanted to retaliately destroy and loot the Madrid province, he politely refused to upgrade to the Aragon dynasty.

Aragon was just enlightened by administration, not being washed into a military deranged by training camp, and his political wisdom did not decline.

Aragon knew very well that after the destructive robbery of Madrid, the Kingdom of Catalonia would no longer support the central part of the Kingdom of Spain. The brutal robbery would also reduce the people and nobles of the non-Catalonian region in northern Spain's northern view of the Kingdom of Catalonia.

This is actually equivalent to eliminating the political bonus brought by the occupation of Madrid. It is not impossible to force the Aragon dynasty at this time, but it does not receive much support. It is nothing more than getting a flashy title.

It is better to continue to retain the name of the Kingdom of Catalonia, strive to manage the Catalonian region, win over the hearts of the Catalan people, and give the Kingdom of Catalonia a stable basic foundation.

This is the basis for splitting the Spanish Kingdom!

Otherwise, the Aragon dynasty, which had the Black Dragon Legion, had a huge territory, would be an attic in the air. After the Black Dragon Legion withdrew, the Catalan Legion could not defend so many territory that had lost the hearts of the people.

Even though the Kingdom of Catalonia has received the support of most of the nobles in the Catalonian region, there is still an insurmountable gap between them and the entire Spanish Kingdom.

Whether in terms of weapons and equipment or the scale of troops, the Kingdom of Catalonia lags completely behind the Kingdom of Spain, which was just beaten by the Black Dragon Legion.

The only legions in the Kingdom of Catalonia are probably the only ones who can take action.

And it is based on guarding the hometown.

The Catalan Legion's enthusiasm for foreign aggression was very average.

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

This is like a province-born person, which is generally unrealistic to conquer the whole country.

It was precisely because of this that Aragon, the king of the Kingdom of Catalonia, did not dare to expect to occupy the Madrid region and even the entire northern part of the Kingdom of Spain.

If Aragon had not been enlightened by Levi's administration, he would not have even agreed to let the Catalan Legion be the knife of the Black Dragon Legion and go to harvest and loot the Madrid region.
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