Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

Manuel Azanilla dispatched the National Defense Force, which had been redressed, to assemble in the Madrid area, and Franco also saw clearly what the other party was thinking.

Now Franco, due to the strong combat effectiveness of the two newly reorganized infantry divisions, his self-confidence has been somewhat inflated.

Therefore, he rejected the officer corps' proposal to attack surrounding cities first, isolate Madrid, and then besiege Madrid, and instead devoted most of his troops to the Battle of Madrid.

This time in the Battle of Madrid, both sides invested a total of more than 200,000 troops.

Perhaps this small amount of troops may not be a big deal in a world war, but in the Iliban Kingdom, this is already more than half of the Iliban Kingdom's army.

Franco placed his two precious soldiers in front of Madrid, preparing to rely on the powerful attack power of these two new divisions to break through the defense line of the National Defense Force from the front.

But Manuel Azanilla saw Franco's thoughts, and he also made targeted arrangements.

The most powerful team under his command was placed opposite Franco's new division in an attempt to block the opponent's attack. At the same time, he also deployed heavy troops on both sides of Madrid.

As long as Madrid can hold on, the armies on both sides will encircle Franco and surround Franco's two ace divisions under the city of Madrid.

As the capital of the Iliban Kingdom, the city's defense facilities are still very complete. So Manuel Azanilla is not worried. Franco can break through Madrid City's defense in a short time.

This is why he dared to lay out a plan to encircle and annihilate Franco under the city of Madrid.

However, the John Empire was also not optimistic about his plan.

As opponents, the people of John's Empire knew the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire too well. As for the combat effectiveness of the two divisions trained by them, the people of the John Empire knew better than the people of the Iliban Kingdom.

Therefore, the John Empire was not optimistic that the Iliban Kingdom could win the Battle of Madrid. But they also knew that they could not lose in this confrontation with the Iliban Kingdom.

If they lost, they would lose their way to attack the Gallic Empire from Iliba.

At the same time, their early investment was in vain.

Therefore, while Manuel Azanilla was preparing for the Battle of Madrid, John's Empire and Millican were also preparing further aid plans.

Of course, this assistance is not free. The Ilibians need to pay, and the shrewd Johns will never do business at a loss.

Similarly, the Gallic Empire and the Hans Empire also heard some rumors, knowing that the John Empire was preparing to personally intervene in Iliba, and they even heard that Franco was unwilling to listen to the opinions of the officer corps.

Souyi Millerand discussed with Adolf and began to prepare for the second wave of assistance.

In this wave of assistance, in addition to some commonly used weapons, there are also some volunteers.

These volunteers were all active soldiers in the armies of the Gaul and Hans Empires. It was only in order to avoid provoking greater disputes and exacerbating the international situation that Millerand and Adolf came up with this method.

Although this kind of behavior, in everyone's eyes, feels a bit like taking off your pants and farting. But in name, this is still a private behavior.

It can be regarded as putting on the last layer of fig leaf for both parties.

Seeing the shamelessness of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire, the John Empire was able to come up with such a method. While scolding each other for being shameless, the John Empire and Milician also formed their own volunteers.

Before the men reached Madrid, however, Franco and Manuel Azanilla could no longer hold back. On November 1926, 11, the two sides started a fierce battle under the city of Madrid in the Kingdom of Iberia.

In this battle, both sides used more than 500 artillery pieces, turning the entire outside of Madrid into ruins.

The artillery battle lasted for a full day, and then Franco sent his own troops to attack the city of Madrid.

Manuel Azanilla ordered a resolute counterattack.

However, he still underestimated Franco's offensive ability. In just five days, Franco had already cleared more than half of the defense line outside Madrid.

At this time, Manuel Azania finally knew how powerful Franco was. The two divisions under him that were trained by the Hans Empire completely inherited the skills of the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire. combat capability.

Therefore, Manuel Azanilla's soldiers alone could not stop him at all.

If there is no way to change the current situation on the battlefield, this Battle of Madrid will definitely end with his failure.

At this time, Manuel Azania still wanted to struggle, but the envoy from the John Empire found Manuel Azania and told Manuel Azania straightforwardly .

With the current strength of Ilibia, it is impossible to stop Franco, so I hope that Manuel Azania will not care about the gains and losses of one city or one place, and should retreat to the north to wait for the rescue of the John Empire.

If Madrid continues to be lost, the result will be that Madrid will be surrounded by Franco. Even if Manuel Azanilla wants to leave by then, it will be too late.

To put it simply, it is to tell Manuel Azanilla that Madrid cannot be defended in the current situation, so if you don't want to die, run away.

Although Manuel Azanilla was very reluctant to give up Madrid, he had nothing to hesitate when he heard the other party say that if he didn't run, he would have to wait for death.

Manuel Azania quickly ordered the frontline troops to block Franco's army, and he fled north with important figures in the Iliban Kingdom.

Knowing that Manuel Azanilla had escaped, Franco felt that Madrid was already in his possession, so he did not want to turn Madrid into ruins, so he asked the soldiers to slow down the attack.

Slowly clean up the defenders in Madrid, and take Madrid completely.

But it was his order that added a few changes to the originally smooth battle situation.

It was precisely because Franco ordered to capture Madrid first that Manuel Azania escaped from the encirclement and came to Galicia, an important city in the north of the Kingdom of Iberia.

In ten days, about 30,000 volunteers from John's Empire will land here and start a counterattack toward Madrid.

And Franco didn't know all this. After he finally cleared the city of Madrid, more than 30,000 volunteers from the John Empire had landed and began to cooperate with Manuel Azanilla's remaining soldiers to counterattack Madrid again.

At that time, Franco wanted to stop him, but he was attacked head-on by soldiers from the John Empire, including the two divisions that the Hans Empire and the Gallic Empire helped Franco train, and they were also defeated.

From the beginning of the counterattack, these two divisions took the lead this time. The fatigue of the soldiers and the lack of weapons and ammunition caused their combat effectiveness to drop sharply.