Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Originally, the John Empire and Millican wanted to assist the Iliban Kingdom, just to finalize the matter before Gaul and the Hans Empire could react.

However, at that time, the Iliban Kingdom felt that it had an advantage, and coupled with some of the conditions proposed by the John Empire, the Iliban Kingdom found it difficult to accept, so it directly refused.

This allowed the Empire of Gaul and Hans to sign a treaty with Franco first.

After receiving the aid, Franco began to push back against the Wehrmacht. Only then did the Wehrmacht feel that things were getting serious.

At this time, if the National Defense Force wants to go to the John Empire again, it will be purely controlled by the John Empire.

It seemed that they knew that the Iliban Kingdom was very anxious, so the John Empire began to take advantage of the other party.

It was not until half a month later that the Ambassador of the John Empire to the Kingdom of Ilibia found time to meet with the people of Ilibia.

After the two parties met, the ambassador of the John Empire very unceremoniously placed a contract in front of the Iberian ambassador.

The Iliban ambassador just took one look and was stunned.

This treaty is even more excessive than what the John Empire gave them before.

The treaty stipulates that after the John Empire helps the Iliban Kingdom and quells the rebellion, the Iliban Kingdom needs to fully open its domestic market and allow the capital of the John Empire, Millenia and the Rhineland Republic to enter the Iliban Kingdom.

At the same time, the Kingdom of Iberia is required to be consistent with the John Empire when targeting third-party countries.

Furthermore, Morocco and Equatorial Guinea controlled by the Iliban Kingdom need to be transferred to the John Empire unconditionally.

Seeing this treaty, the ambassador of the Iliban Kingdom was completely stunned.

As mentioned before, the Iliban Kingdom was the first country to start the Age of Discovery, and its ancestors were once wealthy. Colonies spread all over the world, forming an empire on which the sun never sets.

However, with the decline of the Iliban Kingdom, these colonies were either snatched away by latecomers, such as the John Empire, Millican and other countries, or they had already become independent.

Currently, the two largest colonies in the hands of the Iliban Kingdom are Spanish Morocco and Equatorial Guinea.

But now, the John Empire opened its mouth and asked the Iliban Kingdom to give up these two colonies. This was simply worse than killing him.

The ambassador of the Kingdom of Iberia did not dare to make a decision at all. He could only say that the treaty needed to be left to the kingdom's senior officials for decision.

At this time, Ambassador John was not in a hurry at all.

He did not refuse the request of the Iliban ambassador and said it was okay.

When the ambassador returned to Manuel Azanilla's residence with John's request, he handed it over to him.

The head of the Iliban Kingdom also expressed difficulty in accepting it.

But if it's hard to accept, what can he do? The situation is now clear. If he does not take over, Franco's army will definitely be able to defeat his defense forces.

When the time comes and power changes hands, even if he retains these overseas colonies, what will be the use?

In fact, it is now a multiple-choice question for me. One is to choose to give it to the Iliban Kingdom and retain the last two colonies, but the price is that he may step down.

The other option is that he chooses to give up these two colonies and obtain assistance from the John Empire.

As for other contents in the treaty, such as opening the domestic market and joining the John Empire Alliance, in Manuel Azania's view, they are all trivial matters.

At this time, Manuel Azanilla stood at a crossroads, either becoming a sinner of the country or doing it for his own interests.

After thinking for two days, Manuel Azanilla finally chose for himself.

Therefore, he ordered the ambassador to sign a treaty with the John Empire on his behalf and cede Spanish Morocco and Equatorial Guinea to the John Empire.

This treaty was signed very quickly, as if the John Empire was afraid that Manuel Azanilla would regret it in the end.

Now the John Empire has changed its previous delay and wants to deliver the aid to the Iliban Kingdom as quickly as possible. Make this treaty a fait accompli.

With the signing of the treaty, a large amount of supplies were shipped from the John Empire and directly sent to the port of Bilbao in the northern part of the Iliban Kingdom.

However, with all this delay, a month has passed.

In addition, Manuel Azanilla also needs a period of adaptation after receiving assistance. It can be said that by the time the National Defense Forces have combat effectiveness, Franco's two divisions have just finished training.

A month actually passed very quickly. During this month, apart from pulling each other on the front line and firing a few rounds of artillery as a routine every day, the two sides did not launch a ground attack.

This situation no longer existed after Franco's two elite infantry divisions completed their training and joined the battlefield.

Moreover, as the training of these two infantry divisions was completed, Franco felt that it would not sound good to call himself a rebel army, so he changed his rebel army to the National Army.

Then Franco ordered the front line to begin a full-scale offensive against the Wehrmacht.

Because, at this time, people from the Hans Empire told Franco that Manuel Azania also received assistance from the John Empire and needed it before Manuel Azania's national defense force had not yet formed combat effectiveness. , and quickly broke through the defense line of the National Defense Forces.

Otherwise, this war will definitely be dragged into the quagmire.

Franco thought it was reasonable. He did not want this war to enter a very long stage.

Once it enters a protracted war, it won't be a problem for anyone.

So, under this premise, Franco secretly transferred the two divisions he had just trained to the front line.

But on this day, the National Defense Forces on the opposite side still thought that today would be the same as in the past. Everyone was just pretending and getting through the day.

But on this day, the National Army launched fierce artillery fire preparations against the National Defense Forces.

After the artillery fire continued for two hours, the two newly trained divisions, with the help of tanks assisted by the Gaul and Hans Empire, began to launch towards the Wehrmacht positions in a standard infantry-tank coordination method. attack.

It was not until this moment that the soldiers of the National Defense Force knew that the National Army opposite them today was really playing tricks on them.

Seeing the tanks belonging to the National Army gradually approaching the position, the fighting will of the National Defense Forces collapsed and they began to run towards the back regardless of the officers' obstruction.

In just half a day, Franco's army broke through the defense lines of the National Defense Forces and began to march towards Madrid, the royal capital of Iberia.

When Manuel Azanilla learned that Franco had begun to attack, he also transferred the National Defense Forces that had completed supplies and reloading to Madrid, preparing to fight Franco in a decisive battle under the city of Madrid.