Fox of France

After the Canadians overwhelmed aggressively, the Americans also knew that it was best not to rely on the city to fight, otherwise, God knows if those barbaric British guys will repeat their tricks and burn the entire Pittsburgh with a fire bomb , You must know that most of the American cities in this era grew out of barbarism, and there are cheap wooden houses everywhere. If they were attacked with incendiary bombs, they would really be like Vulcan in the Bonaparte Arsenal (Rome Vulcan) lighter advertisement: "One shot will light up, and every shot will light up."

Therefore, under the advice of the French advisers, the US military had already repaired fortifications on the road leading to Cleveland from the north of Pittsburgh, and relied on the fortifications for defense. At this time, the number of U.S. soldiers was almost 40,000, while the British soldiers who came to kill them were only 25,000, and most of them were militiamen just like them.

But those French advisers just looked down on the Americans. They just believed that if the Americans left the fortifications and went to fight the British army, even if there were more of them, the British could easily blow them up, because although the British were also Most of them are militiamen, but most of the officers at the first level of the British platoon have combat experience in mainland Europe or in Ireland.

On the contrary, those militiamen in the United States have at most a little experience in bullying Indians, and they have a little blood and bravery to say the least. In the words of a French consultant, it is: "I am not a real soldier, and I don't even understand the most basic tactics." The ranks of grassroots officers are often the guarantee of combat effectiveness. Therefore, the French advisers insisted that the American army should just stay in the trenches honestly and not go out to be cute.

Americans are actually quite unconvinced about the French's evaluation of themselves. Many of them felt that the French were completely alarmist. The British had taken advantage a little before, but that was mainly because they were all facing the Yankees. Although there were only thirteen states in the United States in this era, regional discrimination among the thirteen states still existed. In fact, most countries will have such things. For example, Kanto and Kansai in Nepal, or South and North in the United States.

The members of the US military this time are mainly state soldiers who have been reinforced from the southern states. Those guys in the American South never thought very highly of the Yankees. In their view, the Yankees were cowards and fools who couldn't fight. Therefore, although the United Kingdom has easily defeated the US military in two battles before, but because they defeated all the "Yankees", those guys from the south were not too surprised, and even produced "Northern men". You really are all sissies who don't know how to fight."

These southerners didn't even pay much attention to the French advisers. Although everyone said that the French army was invincible, many arrogant southerners felt that it was nothing special. Because it is not uncommon for everyone to see the French Army back then.

Of course, at the age of these people, it is certainly impossible for them to have participated in the War of Independence, and it is impossible for them to have fought side by side with the French army under Lafayette. What they know about the French army is what they heard from their fathers, those who really participated in the War of Independence.

But there is a serious problem here, that is, veterans all over the world have a common hobby, and that is bragging. As the saying goes, "the mouth of a veteran, the water of the sea". Once they blow, the foam is much finer and richer than the best beer in the world.

So in their description, the French certainly helped a little bit, playing a little but not critical role. But the War of Independence was mainly won by ourselves. Hmm, French? They were brave when they fought, but they were a little bit self-important, but in fact, they were not as good as your father and me, well, of course, they were still much better than those Yankees. I'm telling you, those Yankees...

This is actually normal, old seniors, how can you be an old senior if you don't brag in front of the next generation? But the problem is that the young people of the next generation don't know that most of the older generations are bragging, and they think it's true. Now on the battlefield, all they want is to launch a brave attack on the British, just like the brave and fearless Lion King rushing to a group of despicable, ugly, and shameful spotted hyenas. The result, of course, is that the Lion King instantly kills The spotted hyena, once again proving that southerners are born warriors.

However, those nasty French people look down on them, thinking that even if they play two against one, they are not British, no, they are not opponents of Canadians. This is really deceptive. This is completely treating them as vulnerable Yankees!

Of course, if that's all it is, that's fine. Anyway, on the battlefield at that time, everyone will charge bravely to completely defeat those Canadians, and then see what those nasty Frenchmen can say. Thinking about it this way, those little slave owners still feel quite cool.

However, what happened later almost made these proud little southern slave owners explode. The French actually asked them to dig in the ground like a lowly slave - is this what a noble warrior should do? Then everyone was asked to hide in trenches when fighting. And their reason is that doing so can greatly reduce the chance of the enemy's bullets hitting themselves.

This statement is of course mathematically correct. But that statement is very, very cowardly, very, very unprofessional, and irreverent. First of all, as we all know, on the battlefield, bullets also have eyes, and they are specially designed to hit those cowards; and for those fearless heroes, bullets will avoid them. Therefore, on the battlefield, it is useless to hide in the face of a hail of bullets. Only by bravely rushing forward can you not be knocked down by bullets.

Second, on what does a person's fate depend on on the battlefield? Of course there are personal efforts in this, but what is more critical, isn't it God's will? God thinks that a certain person should not die, so is there any bullet that can hit him against God's will? If God thinks he needs to send someone to heaven to chat with him for a while, does he just bury his head in the sand and the bullets miss him? So anyone who tries to dodge bullets with ditches or something is an ungodly guy who doesn't want to trust God. It's like in later generations, people who devoutly believe in God will never wear masks when the plague appears. And it will never stop gathering to listen to sermons just because those impious scientists are talking nonsense. They only press the "Bible" and drink to order the virus to disperse, just like ordering evil spirits to disperse.

So although under the strong pressure of the military order, the small southern slave owners barely dug trenches, but the quality of the trenches was a mess. All kinds of cutting corners. Neither the depth nor the number of turns met the requirements. The French consultants were so angry that they strongly urged them to rework. But the French were only advisers and had no right to give direct orders, while the US commander, General Andrew, was worried that forcing the soldiers to rework would cause mutiny, so the fortifications had to be done like this.

Because they don't understand military development, the US military also has problems with material allocation. The U.S. Army has rifled guns and rifled guns. But it lacks some seemingly inconspicuous but very critical things, such as barbed wire, such as landmines.

Although the French advisers strongly demanded that there be barbed wire and landmines. Americans are required to search or order these things immediately, but these things are really hard to buy in a short time. Even in Louisiana there isn't much stock. The barbed wire was bought by the French who usually spoke more German than French to protect their foundations from the destruction of bison. As for the mines, they were all sold to the Mexicans. So at this time, these two key things are really impossible to buy.

Under such conditions, with the help of French advisers, the U.S. military put up a "Joseph-style defense" that lacked weight and strength. But even so, the French advisory group still felt that, relying on the superiority in numbers and the high morale of the U.S. military anyway, the U.S. military should be able to block the British army here.

But the process of the battle made the French advisory group completely dumbfounded.

When the British army launched an offensive at the beginning, those American troops were able to squat in the trenches and shoot honestly; (the result of the trenches not being dug deep enough) but because there were no mines, no barbed wire, and of course no broadswords. It is still difficult to prevent the enemy from approaching with artillery (the Americans don't have many shrapnel shells) and rifles alone. After the Canadians paid a certain amount of casualties, they still approached the trenches of the US military.

At this time, if there is barbed wire, they should be stopped by the barbed wire and become living targets; if there is a broad sword, it will be a steel ball that can directly paste their faces. But in the absence of these things, what if the enemy has already pushed up? That, of course, is to charge the enemy immediately with a bayonet.

This plan was also approved by the French advisory group. So those little slave owners also put on bayonets, and then rushed out of the trenches they had long been unwilling to squat in.

Relying on the superiority in numbers, the U.S. army gained the upper hand in the bayonet battle, and the Canadians began to retreat. According to the original arrangement, if the Canadians retreated, the U.S. military should return to their positions and continue to stand firm. But why are those little slave owners willing to sit in the trenches at this time? They think this is a complete defeat of the British, and let those timid and irreverent Frenchmen see how the real number one army in the world fights. So these guys just chased after them.

If it's just that these guys catch up, it's fine, because there are other troops behind, anyway, there are many American soldiers. But to the surprise of the French, the southerners guarding the trenches at the back jumped out of the trenches spontaneously without waiting for orders after seeing their comrades in front chasing them up, and launched a charge.

Then...then after rushing out for a certain distance, they were covered by shrapnel shells from British artillery, causing heavy casualties. However, these little slave owners were the top irons, and they continued to rush forward despite such casualties, and then they were severely beaten by the insidious British with a copycat version of the broadsword. Then their assault formation became a mess. Naturally, the British would not let go of this opportunity, and they immediately invested more than a thousand cavalry in their hands. Then the U.S. military was defeated. They ran to their positions again, and the British followed them and killed them.

The tactical level of the gang of small slave owners is actually a mess. At this time, they just ran to their own positions, but instead became a cover for the British army behind. Those French advisers were so angry that they suggested firing directly at them. Of course, the French proposal was not adopted. The consequence of not adopting this suggestion was that the entire defense of the US military was disrupted by its own defeated army. The British army took the opportunity to invest in the main force to attack, and one guy defeated the American army again.

Pittsburgh was naturally defenseless, and in the end General Andrew fled back to Washington with only a thousand people. Among the more than a thousand people, there are more than a hundred people who are members of the French advisory group. (The French have horses and run faster than most Americans)

Today, from Pittsburgh to Washington, there is no longer any organized U.S. military. No one can stop the British army anymore. The French advisory group also believes that under the current circumstances, it is no longer possible to hold Washington. President Jefferson had to take the government to make an emergency transfer to Richmond in the south. And as soon as they left, the British cavalry appeared in the suburbs of Washington.

The appearance of the British cavalry made Washington into chaos, and the citizens fled from Washington one after another. So a few days later, when the main force of the British army arrived in Washington, it had become an empty city.

In the original history, the British set a fire in the presidential palace of the United States and burned the entire presidential palace to black. Later, after the Americans returned to Washington, in order to cover up the traces of being burned, they painted the entire presidential palace white, so the presidential palace of the United States became the "White House". So the White House looks white on the outside, but it is all black underneath the white. It's very American indeed, to say the least.

But in that time and space, the reason why the British or Canadians burned down the White House was because the Americans first set a fire in Toronto. And in this time and space, the Americans never got the chance to burn Toronto. Therefore, the Canadians did not burn down the US presidential palace.

But Canadians are not doing nothing. They launched a graffiti contest at the US Presidential Palace. They felt that the decoration of the presidential palace of the United States was too tasteless, so they helped them redecorate the presidential palace in a post-modern style. For example, on the wall of the President's Office, there is such a sentence: "Dear Yankee, we will come back often to check your academic performance of 'The Art of War'."