Ogero was the first to jump over enemy trenches and breastprints, and slashed a frightened rebel with a single sword. At this time, more cavalry also rushed in, and the enemy army was in disarray and fled everywhere.

Ogereau knew that he had to hurry up, attack continuously, and never give the enemy any time to regroup. Napoleon's order to him at that time was: "Watch on the battlefield, and if you find any enemy who might be able to regroup, attack them at once, and disperse them before they are organized!" ”

Augero looked around on his horse, and through the smoke he saw in the distance a man in a general's uniform fleeing on horseback. Augero chased after his horse and shouted, "It's Dracotri with a tassel hat in front!" ”

When the horsemen who followed him heard this, they all mounted and chased after the man in his general's uniform. Regardless of the distance, he used the pistol in his hand to shoot that side.

Dracotri heard a shout from behind, "It's Dracotri with a tasseled hat, don't let him run", "Dead or alive, you must not let him run". Turning his head to look back, he saw a group of cavalry chasing after him.

Dracotri knew that the red tassel on his hat was too conspicuous in the crowd. So he urged his horse to gallop, and as he tore off his hat and threw it on the ground.

Ogereau, who was chasing after him, saw it so well that he wanted to shout, "The one without the hat is Dracotri." But he immediately noticed that among the people who fled in front of him, most of them had lost their hats, and there was really no distinction at all in shouting like this. Fortunately, Dracotri also wore a red cloak in order to pretend to be decent, so Augero then shouted, "It's Dracotri who wears the red cloak!" ”

Dracotri listened, and quickly threw away his cloak again...... In the following period, he threw away his wig, his saber, and his ...... one after another. and the few remaining temperances, he finally got rid of Ogereau's pursuit, but, because he had been tightly bitten by Ogereau, he naturally had no chance to do anything to gather his army and regroup. So the rebels collapsed entirely. All the men, from General Dracotri to the grooms, scattered in all directions.

After many years, those armies armed with ideals and beliefs can have a very remarkable characteristic, that is, even if the ranks are completely dispersed, each soldier knows his own goal, and can consciously and voluntarily continue to fight independently. If you are scattered by the enemy's torrent of steel on the front line and fall behind the line, you will automatically become a guerrilla force and continue to fight. But in this era, there is no such army, most of the army, as long as they lose their formation, they immediately lose any willpower to take the initiative to fight, at this time, even a child wearing the opponent's military uniform, holding a flat pole, can capture a few acres of the enemy in one breath (after the battle of crossing the river, the little soldier of a certain children's regiment in the Dongda Eating Country created such a record). At this time, the rebels fell into such a state.

For example, Ogereau, after losing to General Dracotri in a long-distance equestrian competition, (no way, one of General Dracotri's biggest hobbies was horseback hunting.) His horsemanship is better than most cavalry. On the way back to the army alone, (his comrades were also left behind) he encountered at least two hundred of the routs alone, and then he relied on a horsewhip, (weapons and other weapons were thrown away by Augero in order to lighten the load when chasing General Dracotri, and of course the targets of his pursuit had already lost these things before that) and captured all of them.

Bringing back these two hundred or so captives did not make much effort on the part of Ogerofe. In general, it is much easier to drive a group of people than a group of sheep, let alone a group of pigs. If there were not more than 200 people here, but more than 200 pigs, Ogereo would have had three heads and six arms, and there would be absolutely no way to escort them all back.

But Ogereau had pursued too far, and had returned with so many prisoners, and had been delayed a little longer on the way, so that by the time he rushed back, it was already evening.

Napoleon was so shocked that he almost broke his jaw when he saw Augero returning alone with so many captives. Then he immediately gave Augereau the nickname "Shepherd Dog".

After defeating the rebels, Napoleon had his troops pursue as much as possible, only to disperse his own troops, so Napoleon had to wait another whole day on the battlefield to regroup. Although the troops that came back did not bring back more than 200 prisoners alone, as Ogereau did, they still brought back a total of almost 3,000 prisoners. Napoleon believed that there were many more broken armies not far from the vicinity. It's just that he doesn't have time to do this kind of thing of catching piglets all over the mountains anymore.

The news of victory is always dressed quickly, and I believe that at this time, the French troops in other nearby cities are also about to know the news of victory. If their brains were a little smarter, they would definitely be able to judge that the rebels who remained in Angers now must have fled to the Vendée. And he only needs to be thick-skinned and move faster, maybe he can "liberate Angers" ahead of Napoleon. So, Napoleon felt that he could no longer waste his time catching piglets.

So he threw all the three thousand captives to Fouché, and he took the army around him and hurried towards Ange.

Halfway through, Napoleon ran into Davout, who had been sent out on a mission to harass him. At this time, Davout was walking back with the captured horses and a large pile of Page, George, and Banner. Napoleon did not hesitate to hand over the large army to Davout to lead, but he himself mounted his war horse and rushed to Angers with Davout's cavalry.

Napoleon traveled day and night, almost killing all his horses, and finally arrived at Angers. By this time, Angers was a completely empty city - there were no enemy troops or citizens in it, only ruins and unburied corpses.

Early in the morning of the day after Napoleon's "liberation" of Angers, another detachment of French cavalry appeared in Napoleon's telescope. Napoleon had the prepared tricolor flag hoisted over the top of the town hall, and then used the astronomical telescope on the windowsill on the third floor of the town hall to triumphantly admire the expressions of his comrades who had slowed down.

"Commander, why are you twisting your neck like this?" Orderly Eto'o asked.

"Ah, of course it's because this damn telescope is inverted!" Napoleon replied with a squint in one eye and a twisting neck.

Although the commander of the cavalry was indeed surprised and disappointed at the sight of the tricolor, he went to the town hall and graciously congratulated Napoleon on his remarkable achievements.

At noon the day after the departure of this officer, Davout arrived at Angers with the main force. He was accompanied by Joseph Fouché, a commissioner sent from Paris.

"Commissioner Foucher, I didn't expect you to come so quickly." Napoleon looked at Fouché and thought, "He came so quickly, and he took so many prisoners?" He's not going to snap all the captives, right? ”

Fouché seemed to see Napoleon's thoughts, and replied with a smile: "I think there will be a lot of things to deal with in the newly recovered city here, so I quickly dealt with the things over there, and rushed over." ”

Napoleon did not ask how Fouché handled it quickly. That was within Foucher's purview, and it wasn't his turn.

"I sent all the peasants from the rebel army to the mines, so that they could use their labor to atone for their crimes. As for those nobles, these traitors naturally do not deserve to live in the world. So after being tried by the Revolutionary Court, they were all guillotined. Foucher explained. (Although the Revolutionary Court is called a court, its procedures are much more concise than ordinary courts, it can have no defenders, it can prevent the defendant from speaking, and it can be tried in groups, so it is particularly efficient to issue death sentences in batches.) It was no slower than Lincoln's court later sentencing the Indians to death. ）

"They deserve it." Napoleon said that after seeing the broken Angers, Napoleon felt that these fellows were not wronged at all when their heads were cut off, "but how do you quickly tell whether a man is a peasant or a nobleman?" ”

"It's easy, just look at their hands." Foucher replied.

Farmers who often do heavy manual labor have calluses on their hands. Still, Napoleon asked, "What if he was a merchant or some other decent man of the third estate?" ”

"Then he is a traitor of the third rank, so he deserves to be killed as a nobleman." Foucher replied.

"And how many nobles are there among the captives?"

"After you left, we took more than 5,000 captives, and in addition to the ones we had previously captured, we found a total of more than 100 nobles from them - those guys had horses, so they ran faster. Well, by the way, Commander Bonaparte, you know what? There's a big fish that almost slipped out of your fingers. ”

"Who?"

"Dracotri, the leader of the rebels." Foucher replied, "He was captured by Lieutenant Colonel Davout. Only at that time he wore a soldier's suit that had been ripped from the corpse, and he lost his war horse, which was so tired from running away that he died on the road. As a result, when Davout caught him, he only treated him as an ordinary soldier. But he couldn't escape my eyes. ”

Speaking of which, Fouché seemed a little smug.

"And what about the rebel leader? Also on the guillotine? ”

"Not yet, he knows a lot, so we sent him to Paris. But his guillotine is decided. Commander Bonaparte, what's next for you? ”

"The first thing is definitely to give the troops a break for a while. After all, the battle consumes a lot. Napoleon replied, "As for what follows, it will depend on the needs of the Republic." ”

……

By this time, the news of the victory had also reached Paris. At the War Department, after seeing the good news, Joseph immediately went to Cano to call Napoleon back for the time being. lest he plunge headlong into the quagmire of the Vendée. Because Joseph knew very well that Napoleon had just won a great victory, killing the nobles who had participated in the Vendée rebellion. But this was only a tactical victory, the basic contradictions in the Vendée region were not resolved, not even the contradictions were not resolved, nor were the people who constituted them.

So if Napoleon had marched into the Vendée, he would probably have been able to occupy the Vendée towns very smoothly by now. But then he is likely, if not certainly, caught up in an endless war of law and order. Since ancient times, law and order warfare has been the most difficult thing to fight. If he really fell into such a state, then Napoleon's newly acquired fame for his victories would be doomed. That's not a good thing. So Joseph now plans to help Napoleon take it as soon as he sees it, and quickly transfer Napoleon from the Vendée.

So where is the best transfer? In Joseph's opinion, the first choice was naturally the Italian direction. Although the history of his previous life was not very good, Joseph still knew that Napoleon started in Italy, (because he had seen the painting called "Napoleon Crossing the Alps".) Besides, as a person who often mingled in the forum, Joseph also knew that in later generations, the two nicknames of the Italians (pasta and itali) knew that in a certain war in later generations, unlike the prisoners of other countries, the Italian prisoners were counted in acres, not in individuals.

So you see, on a frontal battlefield, the opponent is still sluggish, and this is simply - is there a better place than that?

As for the secondly, it would not be bad to return to the north against Austria and Prussia. They are naturally stronger than Yili, but their combat effectiveness Joseph has also seen it with his own eyes, basically "so-so is just like that", and fighting them is at least better than fighting a law and order war.

With that in mind, Joseph knocked on the door of Kano's office.

"Come in." Kano's voice came from inside. Joseph himself went in and saw Cano put on his general's uniform again—because of Napoleon's victory, Cano had risen back in rank.

"General, congratulations." Joseph said, "It's better to look at the general's uniform." ”

"Hahahaha...... "Joseph, if you are willing to take your troops out to fight, you can also wear the general's uniform." Well, speaking of which, Napoleon should soon be promoted to brigadier general because of this merit. The next time you see him, you'll need to salute him first, hahaha......"

"It's nothing." Joseph made a nonchalant gesture and said, "Even if he is a brigadier general, what does it matter?" I'm a full member of the French Academy of Sciences. ”

"Ah, that's an enviable honor indeed." "Until now, I'm only a Preparatory Fellow...... However, you are better than all of us in this regard. Ah, Joseph, you came to me, is there something you are doing? ”

"Lazar, I think we should perhaps transfer Napoleon to where he is needed more." Joseph replied.