"Your Majesty, don't worry, we have mobilized more than 40,000 troops to defend the Madrid province. Our Madrid is located in the basin and has many mountainous areas everywhere, which is not suitable for large-scale military mobility. We only need to establish complete fortifications at a few key points of the valley entrance level road, and leave heavy troops to guard it, which will surely be able to defend the capital of Madrid!

We have issued military orders to all provinces and regions. In just one month, more than 60,000 troops will flow into Madrid one after another. With our original defenders, we will have 100,000 troops to resist the invading enemy!

In addition, various provincial cities have begun to recruit soldiers, and a large number of recruit camps have been officially put into use. The Spanish people are fully armed and vow to defend His Majesty, the King who leads them to the death!"

Lord Godoy comforted Carlos IV with anxiety on his face.

Although Godoy relied on nepotism to gain power, he was also a smart person and still had a gap with mediocre talent. Otherwise, he would not have joined forces with a Spanish queen who was ignorant of politics and had a background to defeat Carlos IV.

After all, Carlos IV was a Spanish king with normal intelligence (this is already rare in the history of the Spanish Kingdom. After all, the Spanish royal family has a wealth of mentally retarded children and disabled people, and they are all caused by close relatives' marriages). He is not something that can be wiped out by any casual person.

Of course, this may also be that Carlos IV has true love for his queen. After all, the two have given birth to more than ten children. Even in the 21st century, this fertility is enough to make the couples in a harmonious society ashamed...

However, due to the ignorant beliefs of this era (such as not having a bath) and exaggerated medical treatment (such as bloodletting therapy that has not been banned), most of the children born by Carlos IV and his queen died...

This is not an exception. The medical conditions in Europe at this time were not as good as those in the Eastern World at the same time. European countries that experienced the Age of Discovery were like nouveau riche. Except for the strong army, there was a big gap with the Eastern World in other aspects. This gap did not surpass the Eastern World completely until the end of the first industrial revolution.

As for Europe's military level that is ahead of other continents in the world, it is not just a matter of firearms. After all, it is not difficult to imitate firearms in the era of queuing to shoot them. The most important thing is the war environment on the European continent.

Since the beginning of the Age of Discovery, the peace era on the European continent has been far from the war era. It has been a war of wars. It is always the whole country war begins. In the long run, it will be difficult for the army to not be strong...

Even the Spanish Kingdom, which is not effective in combat, is still easy to bully the colonial natives, and the military strength of the Spanish Kingdom was crippled in the Spanish throne war decades ago.

In fact, the defeat of the Spanish Army to Levi’s Black Dragon Legion does not mean that the Spanish Army is at the bottom of the world today, but Levi’s Black Dragon Legion is too perverted!

Even in the European continent, the Spanish Army can be ranked second-rate, and is quite strong compared to the Kingdom of Sardinia, the Pope, the Kingdom of Naples and other countries.

Among them, the navy of the Kingdom of Spain has been recognized as world-class level so far.

As for the Spanish Army's decline every year, it was not because of the Spanish ethnicity problem, but because of the corruption of the royal family and aristocratic bureaucrats, as well as the financial difficulties of the country.

The regular army even has a shortage of military pay, so how can the combat effectiveness not decrease?

However, before confronting the Black Dragon Legion, Carlos IV, the cuckold king, obviously did not realize that the combat effectiveness of the Spanish army was far inferior to that of the past. In addition, he looked down on Li Wei's identity and believed that an army trained by a rebel little noble was stronger than the militia...

Of course, Carlos IV looked down on the French revolutionary regime that fought against Levi.

This led to the Madrid government making wrong strategic decisions and trying to seize the fruits of victory from Levi.

Now that he understands the power of the Black Dragon Legion, Li Wei is unwilling to let go and insists on letting the Spanish Kingdom admit defeat and paying a large amount of war reparations!

This is to kill Carlos IV!

The finances of the Kingdom of Spain have not recovered. Until now, there are still pirates robbing the treasure ships transported by the Kingdom of Spain from America. With the banner of success in American independence, the oppressed people of the Spanish colonies in Central and South America all want to learn from the example of the Americans!

Although the indigenous forces of the Central and North American, North American and South American colonies controlled by the Spanish could not even defeat the second and third-rate colonial forces in the Spanish Kingdom, it ultimately increased the Spanish Kingdom's colonial costs in the Americas, and had to invest the gold, silver and treasures that should have been transported back into the local military expenditure to suppress the rebellion.

This further hit the bad finances of the Spanish Kingdom.

After Prime Minister Godoy finished his report, Carlos IV's cousin, his queen Maria Louisa, a noble princess Parma suddenly asked:

"There are only more than 20,000 rebels in Levi attacking the Madrid province, and we have more than 40,000 people, and we also have the advantage of cavalry. Why do we have to defend and not take the initiative to attack and encircle and annihilate Levi's rebels?

Is there no chance of winning if I fight for 40,000 or 20,000?

Prime Minister Godoy, I need an explanation.”

After hearing the question from his cousin's part-time wife, Carlos IV suddenly realized and looked over with a questioning look.

Although Godoy went to Carlos IV's cousin's bed and put a square hat on Carlos IV, this does not mean that the Spanish queen would follow Godoy.

Queen Louisa, the princess of Parma, is a proud and arrogant Lord.

They have both the identity of a princess and the temper of a princess!

Queen Louisa can obey Prime Minister Godoy's affairs, but after getting out of bed, the identities of both must be reversed.

Of course, this questioning was not because Queen Louisa was making things difficult for Prime Minister Godoy, but because she truly believed that forty thousand people should be able to beat more than twenty thousand people!

After all, 40,000 and 20,000 are completely different from 4 people fighting two people!

This is not a simple math problem!

Prime Minister Godoy, who knew Queen Louisa's temperament, was naturally prepared and replied in a steady and respectful tone:

"In our defenders, there are many city guards with weak combat power. These city guards have no problem fighting defensive wars with strong fortifications, and it is difficult to ensure combat effectiveness if they fight in field battles.

But what Li Wei’s rebels are best at is encounters in the wild!”

Thank you to Jing Ji for rewarding 100 starting coins.

Thanks to Fei Tianxiong for rewarding 100 starting points coins.
Chapter completed!