 The Nationalist had also 200 guns, 120 aircraft, the battleship "España", the cruisers "Canarias" and "Almirante Cervera" and the destroyer "Velasco".Opposing them, the Republicans had General Francisco Llano de la Encomienda's Army of the North, theoretically numbered 150,000, but there were no unity between the Basque Nationalists, the Asturians and the Santaderinos.The Basque Army in Biscay had 30,000 men (most of them Basque Nationalists and also Asturians).