Spanish Civil War

On July 14, 1936, in Morocco, Spain, a slightly fat man gave a famous speech calling on the Spanish colonial troops stationed in Morocco and the Canary Islands to stand up and fight against Madrid.

The man's name is Jose Sanjuho.

His call was quickly answered by the colonial army. The Spanish colonial army stationed in Morocco and the Canary Islands launched a rebellion under the instigation of generals such as Francisco Franco and Emilio Mora. They quickly occupied and Controlled Morocco and a small part of the Canary Islands, and began to spread to Spain.

Ten days later, the rebellion quickly spread to large and medium-sized cities such as Cadiz, Seville, Zaragoza, Burgos, and most of the Spanish Army and Air Force (about 120,000 troops) announced their support for Jose Sanju. Huo, joined the rebel Spanish colonial army, in addition to this, the "Foreign Legion" composed of Moroccans also participated in the rebellion.

The rebels moved quickly. They took advantage of the government's hesitation and quickly occupied Spanish Morocco, the entire Canary Islands, the Balearic Islands, and the provinces of northern and southwestern Spain. The National Defense Ruling Committee", in an attempt to attack Madrid from the north and the south.

But they failed to do so. In just two days after the rebellion, 300,000 people joined Spain's militia, the People's Guard.

Under the joint operations of the National Guard and the Spanish Republican Army, rebellions in large and medium-sized cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Valencia, Cartagena, Malaga, and Bilbao were quickly quelled. The Spanish National Army (rebels) only controlled the economically backward provinces of Andalusia in the south and Galicia, Navarra, and Old Castile in the north. The Republican Army controlled all industrial and political centers, major ports, major transportation routes, and important agricultural areas?

Just as the two sides were fighting the intractable battle, bad news came from the National Army side - the plane of the National Army leader Jose Sanjuho crashed due to overloading, and Jose Sanjuho died on the spot.

Hearing this news, the national army's morale plummeted and lost several grounds. Although it stabilized its position under the efforts of the new leader Francisco Franco and the No. 2 figure in the National Defense Forces, Emilio Mora, it was not. No offensive power.

Franco saw that the situation was critical and the National Army was unable to fight any more, so he had to look abroad. Britain and France were unreliable, and the best choice was Germany and Italy, which were equally ambitious.

On July 25, Franco secretly flew to Berlin by plane to meet with the Czechoslovakia (actually not much different from annexation), and won its seventh largest industrial output in the world and the second largest in Europe. Lyon, who was proud of the third largest arms factory, Mussolini, who annexed Russia not long ago, and Hacha, who was thinking about making Britain and France pay the price for selling Czechoslovakia.

"Lyon, Mussolini, Mr. Hacha, I need your support!" As soon as Franco came up, he got straight to the point, showing how critical the situation in Spain was.

After listening to Franco's words, the three of Leon looked at each other and understood each other - the big fish is here!

Leon knew very well that Zai Dahu himself couldn't be in a hurry.

He hung his appetite in a hurry and said to Franco: "Mr. Franco, why are you in a hurry. We all know the strength of the Spanish National Army, and the decline is definitely temporary. After all, you are composed of professional soldiers. It's impossible to beat a group of civilians who haven't even experienced military training, right?"

When Franco heard the words, he was really anxious. He thought, Lao Tzu will be thrown into the sea and be driven back to Morocco and the Canary Islands. He was forced to ask for help. Do you still say that the decline is temporary?

"Mr. Lyon!" Franco said with tears in his eyes, "The situation is really bad, our last position in Spain will soon be lost, you should stop talking nasty words, I don't think you want to watch it either. Spain is controlled by the Soviet Union, right?"

"Okay, what kind of support do you want from us?" Leon saw that his appetite was almost over, and he began to return to the topic, "Rifle? Tank? Or plane? Even if you want to lease our warships, you can negotiate. "

"I don't want arms." Franco shook his head and said, "I want your direct support!"

"Direct support? Do you want us to send troops directly to fight for you?" Leon asked knowingly.

"Yes, as long as you can directly send troops to support us, everything is negotiable!" Franco said anxiously.

"Let us intervene in other countries directly? The price is a bit high." Leon said playfully.

"We've been very dissatisfied with the UK and France recently, why don't we just forget it?" Hacha said along with Leon.

"Yes, yes, there are volunteers from the Soviet Union and Mexico on the Spanish Republican Army's side. It's not worth it to break up with these two countries for this matter." Mussolini also "persuaded".

When Franco heard this, a look of disappointment appeared on his face.

"Mr. Franco came all the way to seek support in person, how could we just refuse it." Leon's face was "righteous", "Don't worry, Mr. Franco, we will definitely try our best to help you! "

"Thanks to our friends from Deutsche Welle for your help." Franco rekindled hope.

"However, as we said earlier, direct armed intervention against you will cost us a lot." Leon said with a wicked smile, "How do you think Mr. Franco will solve this cost?"

"500 million Deutsche Marks!" Franco said through gritted teeth.

Leon shook his head after hearing the offer.

"Mr. Lyon, 500 million German marks is a lot!" Franco said eagerly, "The cost of a battleship is only about 100 million marks, right?"

"No, no, Mr. Franco, I'm not too little." Lyon said very generously, "500 million marks is too much. We are friends, and friends shouldn't ask for so much."

"What does Mr. Ang mean?" Franco asked strangely, not believing that Leon would be so generous.

"You only need to sign these two agreements, and we will send troops to help you free of charge. You don't even need to pay for weapons and ammunition. You only need to pay for the living expenses of our soldiers!" Leon said sincerely, Then he took two contracts from the secretary at the meeting and put them in front of Franco.

Franco looked at the two treaties suspiciously, and read out the name of the treaty to himself: "The Treaty of Military Alliance? The Strait of Gibraltar Agreement?"