Chapter one hundred and sixty-two, peace talks
Mura, with his cavalry, pursued the Austrian cavalry and chased them to the vicinity of the Austrian bastion until the cannons on the bastion opened fire at them, and the pursuit ended.
Murah and the cavalry retreated from the range of the bastion cannon, stopped to show off their power, and then turned to chase Napoleon's main force.
After catching up with Napoleon, Murah explained the battle process to Napoleon in detail with his showing off.
"Ah, Murah, why are you still not using your brain!" Napoleon said, "Why don't you run away first and lure them to chase? It's easier to control the distance and shoot. And in pursuit, they are more likely to be passionate and not notice how much their losses are. When they notice, their casualties are already very large, and then they turn around and run away because they turn around and run like now, which is much slower. Although you need to turn around and turn around, you still have the opportunity to chase and kill some, and then chase them all the way back, so that you lose less and they lose more. Isn't that better? You, really..."
Napoleon originally wanted to learn Joseph and commented on Murah as "too young and too childish", but when he thought about how many years older than him, he shut up.
Although Murah's battle was not as perfect as Napoleon expected, the performance of two hundred French cavalry defeating Austrian cavalry five times theirs still made the Austrians extremely nervous.
The Austrian cavalry then set out again under the order of Grand Duke Carl to search for Napoleon's main force, but this time, they completely dispersed the cavalry, usually in a team of ten people, and went to search. And they received the order that unless they encountered French cavalry who were strictly alone (only one person), they were not allowed to launch an active attack. Once the French cavalry showed their intention to attack, they could retreat on their own.
The news obtained by the Austrian cavalry showed that Napoleon's army did not enter any city, but quickly controlled the large areas of the countryside, where they received a lot of supplies, and they also gathered the villagers to learn the truth of the revolution every day.
Grand Duke Carl naturally knew that the French could not let the French make trouble like this, otherwise, wherever the French went, they would become a nest of bandits in the future.
However, Grand Duke Carl did not dare to fight head-on with the French army. Fortunately, Austrian cavalry still had a clear numerical advantage. The French army needed to stir up the vast rural areas and disperse the army. Grand Duke Carl decided to use his cavalry's advantage to attack the scattered French troops and traitors who served the French army.
So the two sides began to engage in various small-scale wars, and the result of the war was naturally that everyone claimed to have won.
According to the French, they repelled the Austrian army in most battles and achieved a good exchange ratio. According to the Austrians, their cavalry could quickly concentrate and besiege the French army with superior forces, so they won more victories.
Both statements make sense. The French army has obvious advantages in weapons, so the exchange ratio is definitely superior; but in terms of tactics, the Austrians with more cavalry do have the advantage of quickly concentrating their superior forces. In fact, in this series of small-scale wars, both sides suffered certain losses. This can also be seen from some of the subsequent performances of both sides.
The French began to build a relatively simple fortress in the manor they occupied. They demolished the houses of the nobles and built a circular fortress about two to three stories high with the demolished building materials. And prepared a beacon of news on the top of the fortress. If they had not suffered a loss under the siege of superior troops, they would have probably not been like this.
What about the Austrians? They began to emphasize that eliminating treasons is also a fight against invaders. If it weren’t for discovering that they could not defeat the invaders, how could they attack these so-called “traitors” first?
So after a period of time, the combat mode became that the French and some "traitors" set up observation posts at the commanding heights of some areas. Once a disturbance occurred, they immediately issued a warning. Then a small group of French people and local farmers, whether they were "traitors" or not, would run into fortresses or other similar places to hide (because after the Austrian cavalry came, they would not seriously distinguish who was a good citizen and who was a traitor. For many times, in order to complete the task as soon as possible, they would just kill people and kill more people). At the same time, the French cavalry also began to be on guard and ready to support the battle at any time.
At the beginning, the alarms that the lookout post could be issued were very simple, and it could only inform the Austrians to approach, which did not indicate the direction and number of enemies; but soon, the alarm system continued to improve. More "traitors" joined in, and they rode their horses to convey messages to various estates. As a result, the attacks of the Austrians became increasingly difficult and easier to overturn.
Of course, the Austrians did not find nothing in these battles. At least they now know the secrets of the French weapons. In previous small-scale operations, they also seized some Minnis and revolvers.
These two weapons are not technically difficult, and they are both the kind that can get pregnant by taking a glance. However, it is not a short time to produce these things that can be equipped with a large number of troops.
While Napoleon was disrupting the Austrian countryside, the northern legion led by Juber also launched a new round of offensives against the Austrians and the Prussians. With the support of new rifles and new tactics, Juber successfully defeated the Austrians who had already transferred their main force back to China and the Prussians who were unable to support themselves. They occupied the entire Rhine region.
Although the Austrians wanted to produce new weapons as quickly as possible, with the collapse of the Rhine region and the growing concerns about the Napoleon-controlled area, the Austrians once again made peace demands to France.
Of course, there was no longer Lombardy in the conditions of the Austrians this time. They recognized France's control over Lombardy and France's control over the Rhine region. At this time, they only asked Napoleon to withdraw from Austrian land immediately.
But Napoleon spoke up again, saying: "Austrian farmers are my brothers, how can I abandon my brother? So... I need to increase the money."
Everyone argued endlessly about how much money they had to add. Finally, the two sides finally reached an agreement. In addition to giving up the two pieces of land they had lost, the Austrians also paid France 10 million francs in compensation. This figure made Napoleon very dissatisfied: "Austria, such a huge amount of money, was so stingy than the Pope's crown."
At such a price, Napoleon wanted to sell his brother, how could it be possible? But... but... since the governor's government has agreed to this agreement, as a soldier, Napoleon certainly had to obey the order. So Napoleon could only reluctantly prepare to leave Austria.
During this time, Napoleon kept receiving peasant representatives from his control area. He told them that when his army left, he would leave some of the weapons to them. Before that, he had helped them master the skills of using various weapons.
"My brothers, I have to leave you. After we leave, the nobles will definitely want to come back. They must want to take back everything from the past, and may even want to become more severe. But as long as you hold the gun and the weapon in your hands, they can no longer bully you as they used to.
My brothers, remember the things we have taught you, and hold the weapons we have left for you.
In the future, when those nobles find that you have weapons in their hands, they will smile at you, they will reduce your taxes, and they will act like they are good friends with you, but, my brothers, remember that they do this not because they have become kind, nor because they really like you, but because they see you have weapons in your hands. As long as you have weapons in your hands, even the black bear will be very docile.
They might even pretend to care about you and say to you: 'Friends, how tired you are to hold this weapon, put it down. It's safe now. We are all friends. Why do you still have this heavy weapon?'
But my brothers, please remember, don't put down your weapons at any time, because once you put down your weapons, they will throw away the sheepskin she draped on them and become a man-eating wolf again! They will eat you so much that they don't even have bones left!
My brothers, beware of the people who have let you put down your weapons, they are all poisonous snakes, and they are all man-eating wolves in sheep's clothing. When they say these words to you, not only are they smeared on their lips, but their hearts are full of the meaning of man-eating.
Our brothers, how do we treat those jackals? When my friends come, there is good wine. If the jackal comes, the only thing that greets it is a hunting rifle! So, my brothers, hold your weapons tightly, because weapons are freedom, and weapons are destiny."
Chapter completed!