The Corona Highway Battle

The final decision was that there would be an attack launched to the north which would attempt to first capture the areas around the Corona highway to the northwest of Madrid. This area had several geographical obstacles and was largely made up of all of groves and orchards, quite a bit different than the more populated areas around Madrid. They were facing a much larger group of Republican units which had been combined into the central army near the end of October. The resulting second battle of the Corona highway would be a lengthy ordeal which would span into the early weeks of January. It will come back to that southern route across the Hirama River in a few episodes.