Murat led his cavalry and pursued the Austrian cavalry until the Austrians' forts were closed until the cannons on the forts opened fire on them.

Murat and the cavalry withdrew from the range of the fortress cannons and stopped to show off their might before turning their heads to pursue Napoleon's main force.

After catching up with Napoleon, Murat told Napoleon in detail about the process of the battle just now with Napoleon with a show-off spirit.

"Ah, Murat, why are you still so brainless!" Napoleon said, "Why don't you run away first, and lure them into pursuit?" This makes it easier to control the distance and then shoot with it. And in the pursuit, they are also more likely to get into the blood, not noticing how big their losses are. And by the time they noticed, their casualties were already very large, and then they turned around and fled, because they turned around and fled, instead of running away as they are now, so it was a lot slower, although you also need to turn around in pursuit, but you still have a chance to catch up and kill some more, and then chase all the way back, so that their losses are smaller, and their losses are greater - isn't it better? You're ......."

Napoleon wanted to learn from Joseph and comment on Murat as "too young, too naïve", but he shut up when he thought that Murat seemed to be a few years older than himself.

Although Murat's battle was not as perfect as Napoleon had hoped, the performance of two hundred French cavalry to defeat five times their Austrian cavalry still made the Austrians nervous.

The Austrian cavalry then set out again on the orders of Archduke Karl to search for Napoleon's main force, but this time they completely scattered the cavalry, usually in groups of ten. And they were ordered not to attack on their own initiative unless they encountered a strictly lone (only one) French cavalry. Once the French cavalry showed intent to attack, they could retreat on their own.

The Austrian cavalry received information that Napoleon's army did not enter any of the cities, but that they quickly took control of large areas of the countryside, where they received a lot of supplies, and gathered the villagers every day to learn the revolutionary truth.

Archduke Karl naturally knew that the French could not be allowed to make such trouble, otherwise, wherever the French went, would become a den of bandits in the future.

But in a head-on battle with the French army, Archduke Karl did not dare. Fortunately, the Austrian cavalry still had at least a clear numerical superiority. In order for the French army to stir up the vast countryside, it was also necessary to disperse the army, so Archduke Karl decided to use his numerical superiority in cavalry to attack the scattered French army and the traitors who served the French army.

So the two sides began to engage in various skirmishes, and the result of the battles was that everyone declared themselves victorious.

According to the French, they repelled the Austrian army in the vast majority of engagements and achieved a good exchange ratio. According to the Austrians, their cavalry was able to quickly concentrate and besiege the inferior French army with superior forces, so they won more victories.

Both of these statements make sense, the French army has a clear advantage in weapons, and the exchange ratio is definitely superior; But tactically, the Austrians, who had more cavalry, did have the advantage of being able to concentrate their superior forces quickly. In fact, in this series of skirmishes, both sides suffered certain losses. This can also be seen in some of the performances of both sides since then.

The French began to build a kind of relatively simple fortress on the estates they occupied. They demolished the houses of the noble lords and built circular fortresses about two to three stories high with the demolished building materials. And on the top of the fortress prepared a beacon of news - if it had not been for the loss under the siege of superior forces, it would probably not have been.

And what about the Austrians? They began to emphasize that the elimination of traitors is also a fight against the aggressor. If it weren't for the fact that they found that they could not defeat the aggressors, how could they attack these so-called "traitors" first?

After a while, the pattern of warfare became that the French and some "traitors" set up observation posts at the commanding heights in certain areas, and at the event of a disturbance, they immediately issued a warning, and then small groups of French, as well as local peasants, whether "traitors" or not, ran into forts or other similar places to hide, (because when the Austrian cavalry came, they did not seriously distinguish between good citizens and traitors). In order to complete the mission as soon as possible, they will only kill people and kill more people) At the same time, the French cavalry also began to enter the alert, ready to support the battle at any time.

At first, the alarm that the lookout post could give was very brief, only informing the Austrians of approaching, and not indicating the direction and number of enemies coming from; But soon, the alarm system continued to improve. More "traitors" joined in, and they rode horses to deliver news to the estates, and the Austrian raids became more difficult and more prone to overturning.

Of course, in these series of battles, the Austrians did not gain nothing. At least they now know the secrets of the French army's weapons. In previous skirmishes, they also captured a number of Mini rifles and revolvers.

These two weapons, which are not too technically difficult, belong to the kind that can get pregnant at a glance. However, it is not a matter of time to produce these things that can equip a large number of troops.

At the same time that Napoleon had turned the Austrian countryside upside down, the Northern Army led by Rubert also launched a new offensive against the Austrians and Prussians. With the support of new rifles and new tactics, Joubert successfully defeated the Austrians, who had already repatriated their main forces, and the Prussians, who were unable to support independence. occupies the entire Rhine region.

The Austrians were trying to produce new weapons as quickly as possible, but with the rout of the Rhine and concerns about the expansion of Napoleon's territory, the Austrians once again appealed to France for peace.

Of course, this time the Austrians could not have Lombardy in their conditions, and they recognized the French control of the Lombardy, as well as the French control of the Rhine, and they only demanded that Napoleon withdraw from the Austrian land as soon as possible.

But Napoleon once again opened his mouth, saying: "The peasants of Austria are my brothers, how can I abandon my brothers?" So...... To add money. ”

Everyone argued about how much money to add, and in the end, the two sides finally reached an agreement. The Austrians, in addition to the two plots of land that had been lost, paid France ten million francs in compensation. Napoleon was dissatisfied with this figure: "Such a huge Austria has only made such a small amount of money, and the emperor is too stingy compared to the crown of the pope." ”

For such a price, Napoleon wanted to sell his brother, so how could it be? But...... But...... Now that the Directory had agreed to this agreement, Napoleon, as a soldier, was of course subject to orders. As a result, Napoleon could only reluctantly prepare to leave Austria.

During this time, Napoleon constantly met with representatives of the peasants in the areas under his control. He told them that he would leave some of his weapons for them when his army left. And before that, he had already 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 reclaim everything from the past, and they may even want to do it even further. But as long as you hold the gun tightly in your hands and hold the weapon, they can no longer bully you as they did before.

Remember what we have taught you, my brothers, and hold on to the weapons we have left you.

In the future, when the nobles find out that you have weapons in their hands, they will smile at you, they will reduce your taxes, they will act like good friends with you, but, my brothers, remember, they do not do it because they have become kind, nor because they really like you, but because they see you with weapons in their hands. As long as you have a weapon in your hand, even a black bear will behave meekly.

They may pretend to care about you and say, 'Friend, how tired you are from holding this weapon, put it down, it's safe here, we're all friends, why do you still carry this heavy weapon?' ’

But remember, my brothers, that at no time do you lay down your arms, for as soon as you lay them down, they will lose their sheepskins and become man-eating jackals again! They're going to eat you down to the bones!

My brothers, be wary of those who tell you to lay down your arms, they are all poisonous snakes, they are all cannibalistic wolves in sheep's clothing. When they say these things to you, not only do they have human oil on their lips, but they also have cannibalism in their hearts.

What do we do with those jackals, our brothers? - When a friend comes, there is wine, but if the jackal comes, it will only be greeted with a shotgun! So, my brothers, hold on to your weapons, for – weapons are freedom, weapons are destiny. ”

Napoleon's army began to retreat, but when he retreated, he left a large number of weapons to the peasants, and even helped them establish their own guilds, which Napoleon believed would be a headache for the Austrians for a long time.