Kammala jumla mai zuwa: Franco da kansa ya jagoranci ayyukan soja daga wannan lokacin har zuwa karshen yakin. Franco da kansa ba gwanin dabarun bane amma ya kasance mai tasiri sosai a cikin kungiya, gudanarwa, kayan aiki da diflomasiyya. Bayan da
Ba a yi nasarar kai hari kan Madrid a watan Nuwamba na shekara ta 1936, Franco ya yanke shawara a kan hanyar da za ta ci nasara a yakin, maimakon yin ƙarfin hali. Kamar yadda yake tare da yanke shawarar sauƙaƙe garuruwan a Toledo, wannan tsarin ya kasance batun wasu muhawara: wasu shawarwarinsa, kamar a watan Yunin 1938 lokacin da ya fi son zuwa Valencia maimakon Catalonia, ya kasance mai rikitarwa musamman daga mahangar soja. Valencia, Castellon da Alicante sun ga sojojin jamhuriya na karshe da Franco ya ci.