After the Canadians pressed it violently, the Americans also knew that it was better not to rely on the city to fight, otherwise, God knows if those barbaric British would repeat their old tricks and burn the whole of Pittsburgh with incendiary bombs, you must know that most of the American cities in this era were barbaric and were full of cheap wooden houses, and if they were really attacked with incendiary bombs, it would really be like an advertisement for a Vulcan (Roman Vulcan) lighter at Bonaparte's Arsenal: "One dozen, every hit must be hit." ”

Therefore, with the advice of French advisers, the American army had already repaired the fortifications on the road to Cleveland from the north of Pittsburgh and relied on the fortifications for defense. At this time, the number of American soldiers was almost 40,000, and the British army who came towards them was only 25,000, and most of them were just militiamen.

But those French advisers just looked down on the Americans, they just decided that if the Americans left the fortifications and went to fight the British in the field, even if there were more of them, the British could easily beat them, because although the British side was also dominated by militia, most of the officers on the British side had experience in fighting on the European continent or in Ireland.

On the contrary, those militias in the United States have at most a bit of experience in bullying the Indians, and they are just a little bloody and brave. In the words of a French adviser: "Not a real soldier, who does not understand even the most basic tactics." "And the grassroots officer corps is often the guarantee of combat effectiveness. So the French advisers insisted that the American army should honestly squat in the trenches and not go out to sell cuteness.

As for the French people's evaluation of themselves, the Americans are actually quite unconvinced. Many of them felt that the French were completely alarmist. The British had taken advantage of it before, but that was mainly because they were facing the Northerners. Although there were only thirteen states in the United States at this time, geographical discrimination between the thirteen states still existed. In fact, most countries will have this kind of thing. For example, the Kanto and Kansai countries of Niko, and the south and north of the United States.

This time, the members of the U.S. military were mainly state soldiers who had been reinforced from the southern states. Those guys in the South of the United States have always looked down on the Northerners, and in their eyes, the Northerners are cowards and fools who can't fight. Therefore, although Britain had easily defeated the US military in two battles before, because they defeated the "Northern Yankees", those guys from the south were not too surprised, and even had the idea that "the Northern Yankees are really sissies who can't fight".

These Southerners didn't even pay much attention to the French advisers. Although everyone says that the French Army is invincible, many arrogant Southerners feel that it is not a big deal. Because of the French Army back then, everyone has not seen it.

Of course, at the age of these people, it is certainly impossible for them to have fought in the War of Independence, and they could not have fought alongside the French army under Lafayette. They knew about the French army from the mouths of their fathers, those who had actually fought in the War of Independence.

But there is a serious problem here, and that is that veterans all over the world have a common hobby, which is bragging. As the saying goes, "the mouth of the veteran, the water of the sea". As soon as they blew it, the foam was much more delicate and rich than the best beer in the world.

So in their description, the French, of course, did a little help, played a little uncritical role. But the war of independence was mainly won by ourselves. Well, the French? They are very brave when they fight, but they are a little self-righteous, in fact, they are not as good as your father and me, well, of course, they are still a lot better than those northern Yankees. I'm telling you, those Northerners......

This is actually normal, old-timers, if you don't blow in front of the next generation, how can you be an old-timer? But the problem is that the next generation of young people don't know that most of the old-timers are bragging, and they think it's true. Now on the battlefield, all they think about is launching a brave attack on the British, just like the heroic and fearless Lion King rushing to a group of despicable, ugly, and shameful spotted hyenas, and the result, of course, is that the Lion King killed the spotted hyena in seconds, once again confirming that the American Southerners are born warriors.

The hateful French, however, looked down on them, believing that they were not British, no, no match for the Canadians. This is too much deception. This is completely treating them as vulnerable Northerners!

Of course, if that's all there is to it, that's fine. Anyway, when the time comes, on the battlefield, everyone will charge bravely and completely defeat those Canadians, and then see what those hateful French can say. Thinking about it this way, those little slave owners still think it's pretty cool.

However, what happened next almost made these proud little southern slave owners explode. The French actually demanded that they dig 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 they were fighting. And their reason is that this can greatly reduce the chance of the enemy's bullets hitting them.

This statement is of course mathematically fine. But it's very, very timid, very, very unprofessional, and unreligious. First of all, it is known that on the battlefield, bullets also have eyes, and they will specifically hit those cowards; And for those fearless heroes, bullets will avoid them. So on the battlefield, in the face of a rain of bullets, it is useless to dodge, only to rush forward bravely, so as not to be knocked down by bullets.

Secondly, what does the fate of a person on the battlefield depend on? Of course, there is a personal effort in this, but more importantly, is it not God's will? If God thinks that someone should not die, can any bullet be able to hit him against God's will? If God feels that he needs someone to come to heaven to chat with him, is he just burying his head in the sand and the bullet won't hit him? So all those who try to dodge bullets by means of trenches and stuff are ungodly people who don't want to trust God. It's like in the afterlife, a person who believes in God will never wear a mask when a plague appears. And we will never stop gathering to listen to sermons because of the nonsense of ungodly scientists. They will only press the Bible with their hands and drink it to disperse the virus, just as they drink it to disperse evil spirits.

So although under the pressure of the military order, those small southern slave owners barely dug trenches, but the quality of the trenches was a mess. All sorts of cutting corners. Neither the depth nor the number of turns is up to par. Angry, the French advisers urged them to rework. But the French were only advisers and had no right to give direct orders, and the commander of the American army, General Andrew, feared that forcing the soldiers to return to work would cause a mutiny, so the fortifications had to be left to this way.

Because they do not understand military development, the US military also has problems in material allocation. The US army has rifled guns, rifled guns. But there is a lack of something that looks inconspicuous, but is very important, such as barbed wire, such as landmines.

Although the French advisers strongly demanded that there should be barbed wire, there would be mines. Americans are asked to immediately search for or order these things, but these things are really difficult to buy in a short period of time. Even in Louisiana, there are no goods. The barbed wire fence was bought by the French, who usually spoke more German than French, to protect their roots from bison. As for the mines, they were all sold to the Mexicans. So at this time, these two key things are really unavailable.

It was under such conditions, with the help of French advisers, that the US military put forward a "Josephian defense" that lacked two pounds and two pounds. However, even so, the French advisory group still felt that with the superiority in numbers, coupled with the fact that the morale of the American army was still very high anyway, the American army should be able to hold off the British army here.

But the course of the battle left the French advisers completely dumbfounded.

At the beginning, when the British attacked, those American troops were still able to honestly crouch in the trenches and shoot; But because there were no mines, no barbed wire, and of course no broadswords. With artillery alone (the Americans did not have many shrapnels) and rifles, it was still difficult to stop the enemy from approaching. The Canadians, after paying a certain number of casualties, approached the trenches of the American army.

By this time, if there was barbed wire, they should have been stopped by barbed wire and turned into live targets; If there is a broadsword, it is a steel ball that can directly paste their faces. But in the absence of these things, what if the enemy forces are already pressing? That is, of course, to immediately charge with bayonets to knock the enemy down.

This proposal was also endorsed by the French Advisory Group. So the little slave owners got on their bayonets and rushed out of the trenches where they had long been reluctant to crouch.

Relying on the superiority in numbers, the Americans gained the upper hand in the bayonet battle, and the Canadians began to retreat. According to the original arrangement, if the Canadians retreated, the American troops should return to their positions and continue to hold on. But where are 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 that it would also give the timid, ungodly French a glimpse of how the real world's best army fought. And so these guys caught up with him.

If only these guys caught up, because there were other troops behind, there were a lot of U.S. troops anyway. But to the surprise of the French, the southerners who were guarding the trenches behind actually jumped out of the trenches and launched a charge without waiting for orders after seeing their comrades in front of them catching up.

And then...... Then, after rushing out for some distance, they were covered by the shrapnel of the British artillery, suffering heavy casualties. But these little slave owners were the first iron, and they continued to rush forward in the face of such casualties, and then they were brutally struck by the insidious British with copycat broadswords. Then their assault formation was in disarray. And the British, naturally, would not let go of this opportunity, and they immediately threw more than a thousand cavalry in their hands. And then the U.S. military was crushed. They ran to their positions again, and the British followed them and killed them.

The tactical level of the little slave owners was actually a mess, and at this time they just ran to their own positions, and instead became the cover of the British army behind. So angry that the French advisers suggested that they fire directly at them. Of course, the advice of the French was not adopted. And the consequence that this proposal was not adopted was that the entire defense of the American army was disrupted by its own rout. The British army took the opportunity to plunge into the main attack, and one guy broke the American army again.

Pittsburgh was naturally defenseless, and in the end General Andrew fled back to Washington with just over a thousand men. Of these more than 1,000 people, more than 100 are members of the French advisory group. (The French have horses and can run faster than most Americans)

Today, from Pittsburgh to Washington, there are no more formed American troops. No one could stop the British anymore. The French advisory group also believes that in the current situation, there is no longer any possibility of holding Washington. President Jefferson had to urgently move to Richmond in the south with his administration. And as soon as they left on the front foot, the cavalry of the British appeared on the outskirts of Washington.

The presence of the British cavalry caused chaos in Washington, D.C., and the citizens fled from Washington, so that a few days later, when the main British army arrived in Washington, it was an empty city.

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

But in that time and space, the British or Canadians burned down the White House because the Americans set a fire in Toronto first. And in this time and space, the Americans simply did not get the opportunity to burn Toronto. So, the Canadians didn't burn down the U.S. presidential palace.

But Canadians don't do nothing, either. They launched a graffiti contest at the U.S. presidential palace. They felt that the decoration of the U.S. Presidential Palace was too tasteful, so they helped them renovate the presidential palace in a postmodern style. On the wall of the president's office, for example, there is an extra phrase: "Dear Yankees, we will come back often to check your academic performance in the 'Art of War'." ”