After Canadians came over with great momentum, Americans also knew that it would be better not to rely on cities to fight. Otherwise, God would know if the savage British men would use the same trick again, burning the entire Pittsburgh with a torch. You should know that most American cities in this era grew wildly, with cheap wooden houses everywhere. If they were attacked with incendiary bombs, it would be like the advertisement of the Vulcan (Roman Vulcan) lighter in Bonaparte Arsenal: "It's time to hit, every time you hit it."

So at the suggestion of French advisers, the US military had already repaired fortifications on the road leading to Cleveland in Pittsburgh in the north and relied on the fortifications to defend. At this time, the number of US soldiers was almost 40,000, while the British troops who were killing them were only 25,000, and most of them were militias, just like them.

But those French advisers looked down on the Americans. They just believed that if the Americans left the fortifications and went to fight with the British army, even if there were more people, the British could easily blow them up, because although the British were mainly militias, most of the British officers in the first-class platoon had experience in fighting on the European continent or in Ireland.

On the contrary, the American militias were at most a bit of experience bullying the Indians, and they were just a little passionate and brave. To use the French consultant's words to evaluate it, "I am not a real soldier, I don't even understand the most basic tactics." The grassroots officer team is often a guarantee of combat effectiveness. Therefore, French consultants insist that the US military should just squat in the trenches honestly, and don't go out and act cute.

Americans are actually quite dissatisfied with the French's evaluation of themselves. Many of them think that the French are completely alarmist. The British used to take a little advantage, but that was mainly because they were all facing Yankees. Although there were only thirteen states in the United States in this era, regional discrimination between the thirteen states still exists. In fact, most countries will have such things. For example, Kanto and Kansai in Nikko, and the south and north of the United States.

This time, the members of the US military were mainly state soldiers who came from the southern states. The guys in the southern United States have never looked down on Yankees very much. In their opinion, Yankees are cowards and idiots who can't fight. Therefore, although Britain had easily defeated the US military in two battles before, because they defeated them, they were all "Yinists", so the guys from the south were not too surprised, and even had the idea that "Yinists are indeed sissy who can't fight."

Even French consultants didn't take these southerners seriously. Although everyone said that the French army was invincible, many arrogant southerners felt that there was nothing great about it. Because everyone had never seen the French army back then.

Of course, at the age of these people, of course, they could not have participated in the War of Independence, and they could not have fought side by side with the French army under Lafayette. The French army they knew were heard from the mouths of their fathers and those who had actually participated in the War of Independence.

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

So in their description, the French were of course helping a little bit, playing a little bit of uncritical role. But in the War of Independence, we mainly won by ourselves. Well, the French? They were very brave when fighting, but they were a little bit self-deprecating. In fact, they were not as good as your father and me. Well, of course, they were still much better than those yinkees. Let me tell you, those yinkees...

This is actually normal. Seniors, if you don’t brag in front of the next generation, how can you be an old senior? But the problem is that the young people in the next generation don’t know that most of the seniors are bragging and think it’s true. Now on the battlefield, they are thinking about launching a brave attack on the British, just like the brave and fearless Lion King rushing towards a group of despicable, ugly, and shameful spotted hyenas. As a result, of course, the Lion King killed the spotted hyenas in seconds, once again confirming that the American southerners are born warriors.

However, those hateful Frenchmen looked down on them, believing that even if they were two-for-one, they were not British, and no, they were not opponents of Canadians. This was really too much. This was just treating them as vulnerable Yankees!

Of course, if it's just like this, that's fine. Anyway, on the battlefield, everyone will charge bravely and completely defeat the Canadians, and then see what the hateful French guys can say. Thinking about this, the little slave owners will feel very happy.

However, what happened later almost caused these proud slave owners to explode. The French actually asked them to dig soil in the ground like a lowly slave - is this what a noble warrior should do? Then they also asked everyone to hide in the trenches when fighting. Their reason was that doing so could greatly reduce the chances of enemy bullets hitting them.

This statement is of course fine in mathematics. However, this statement is very, very timid, very unprofessional, and undevoted. First of all, it is well known that on the battlefield, bullets also have eyes, and they can specifically attack cowards; and for those fearless heroes, bullets will hide from them. Therefore, on the battlefield, it is useless to hide in the face of a rain of bullets. Only by rushing forward bravely can you not be knocked down by bullets.

Secondly, what does a person's fate depend on on the battlefield? Of course, there is personal efforts, but more importantly, isn't it God's will? God feels that someone should not die, and there will be any bullet that can hit him against God's will? If God feels that he needs to let someone go to heaven to chat with him, then he will just bury his head in the sand and the bullet will not hit him? So all those who try to avoid bullets by relying on trenches and other things are undevoted guys who are unwilling to trust God. This is like in later generations, those who believe in God will never wear masks when the plague occurs. They will never gather together to listen to preach because of nonsense. They can only press the Bible with their hands and make the virus disappear, just like they can make the evil spirits disappear.

So although under the pressure of military orders, the small slave owners in the south barely dug the trenches, the quality of the trenches was dug in a mess. All kinds of corners were cut, both in depth and in the number of turns. The French advisers were so angry that they strongly asked them to return to work. However, the French were only consultants and had no right to directly order. The US commander General Andrew was worried that forcing soldiers to return to work would cause a mutiny, so the fortifications had to do so.

Because they do not understand military development, there are also problems with the US military in material equipment. The US military has rifled rifled guns and rifled guns. However, they lack some things that seem inconspicuous but very critical, such as barbed wire and landmines.

Although French consultants strongly demanded that there be barbed wire and mines be needed. Americans should search or order these things immediately, it is really difficult to buy these things in a short period of time. Even in Louisiana, there is no goods. Barbed wire is bought by French people who usually speak more German than French to protect their foundation from the damage of bison. Land mines are sold to Mexicans. So at this time, these two key things are really not available.

Under such conditions, the US military has set up a "Joseph-style defense" with the help of French advisers. However, even so, the French advisory group still feels that with the advantage of numbers and the US military is still very high in morale, the US military should be able to stop the British army here.

However, the battle process made the French advisory group completely stunned.

When the British army launched an attack, the US troops were able to squat in the trenches and shoot; (The result of not digging the trenches deep enough) but because there were no mines, no barbed wire, and of course there was no broadsword. It was still difficult to stop the enemy from approaching by artillery alone (the Americans did not have many shrapnel bullets) and rifles. After paying a certain amount of casualties, the Canadians still approached the US trenches.

At this time, if there is a barbed wire, they should be stopped by the barbed wire and then become a living target; if there is a broad sword, they can directly cover their faces with steel balls. But in the absence of these things, what if the enemy has already forced them up? Of course, they will charge immediately with a bayonet to defeat the enemy.

This plan was also recognized by the French advisory group. So the little slave owners also got bayonets and couldn't wait to rush out of the trenches that they had long been reluctant to squat.

Relying on the advantage of numerical numbers, the US military gained the upper hand in the bayonet battle, and the Canadians began to retreat. According to the original arrangement, if the Canadians retreated, the US military should return to their positions and continue to defend. But where were those little slave owners willing to squat in the trenches at this time? They felt that this was a complete defeat of the British and allowed those timid and undevoted Frenchmen to see how the real world-leading army fought. So these guys caught up with them.

It would be fine if these guys just chased after him, because there were other troops behind him, and there were many American soldiers anyway. But beyond the French expectations, the southerners behind who were guarding the trench actually spontaneously jumped out of the trench without waiting for orders after seeing the comrades in front of him chasing him.

Then...and then...they were covered with shrapnel bullets from British artillery after rushing out for a while, and the casualties were heavy. But these little slave owners were so hard that they continued to rush forward with such casualties. Then, the insidious British people used a copycat broadsword to make many violent moves. Then their assault formations became a mess. The British naturally would not miss this opportunity. They immediately threw more than a thousand cavalrymen in their hands. Then the US army was defeated. They ran to their positions again, and the British came with them.

The tactical level of those little slave owners was actually a mess. At this time, they just ran to their positions, and it turned out to be the cover of the British army behind. They were so angry that the French advisers suggested firing directly at them. Of course, the French suggestion was not adopted. The consequence of this suggestion not being adopted was that the entire defense of the US military was disrupted by its own defeated army. The British army took the opportunity to join the main force's attack, and the whole group destroyed the US military again.

Pittsburgh naturally had no defense. In the end, General Andrew fled back to Washington with only more than a thousand people. Among these thousand people, more than a hundred were from the French advisory group. (The French have horses, and they run faster than most Americans)

Now from Pittsburgh to Washington, there is no longer any established American army. No one can stop the British army. The French advisory group also believes that under the current circumstances, there is no possibility of defending Washington. President Jefferson had to take the government to urgently move to Richmond in the south. As soon as they left, the British cavalry appeared in the suburbs of Washington.

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

In the original history, the British set fire at the US Presidential Palace, burning the entire Presidential Palace blackened. Later, after the Americans returned to Washington, in order to cover up the traces of burning, they painted the entire Presidential Palace white, so the US Presidential Palace became the "White House". So the White House looks white, but the white is all black. It is indeed very American.

But in that time and space, the British or Canadians burned the White House because the Americans first set a fire in Toronto. In this time and space, the Americans did not get the chance to burn Toronto at all. Therefore, the Canadians did not burn the US Presidential Palace.
Chapter completed!