Later he was promoted to Colonel and in the Battle of Teruel, he led the XXth Army Corps.

[2] In 1938, he led the Army of Levante in the battle of the XYZ Line.

On February 16, 1939, he was one of the officers who said to the prime minister Juan Negrin that was impossible to continue the resistance[4] and in March 1939 he supported Casado's coup.

[5] At the end of the war, he fled Spain to France and later he went to exiled in Mexico and died there.

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