Due to the poor military discipline of the militia, the word militia gradually took on a derogatory connotation, and Huang Qiu was not angry because the other party ridiculed that he was leading a militia, because he was indeed leading a group of militia.

The military service system in the Americas is similar to that in China, with three levels: soldiers, auxiliaries and township soldiers, and the American military service system was almost created by Huang Qiuhuan, and he knows the level of township soldiers very well. With the American militia, so after he found that the combat effectiveness of the army led by Scott was equivalent to that of the regular army, he gave up the head-on battle with the other side, and finally surrounded the other side with many small tricks, and forced the other side to surrender by besiegement.

If he had a strong army capable of fighting, Huang Qiu would not have done this, and if he had been ten years ago, Huang Qiu would not have done so. But he didn't have a strong army in his hands, and at the same time he was already an old man in his fifties, with a little less fire, more patience, and the city that had been precipitated by time, and his heart was filled with a large number of intrigues and intrigues left over from ancient China.

European military doctrine was born for a relatively short time, and it was too closely integrated with aristocratic culture, with a lot of gentle aristocratic habits, so that they retained some seemingly touching elements of civilization on the battlefield, but in fact this is an immaturity. The battlefield is a place where there are no rules, and the only goal is victory.

Like many cultural phenomena, some of the war cultures left behind on the battlefields of Europe were admired by Chinese intellectuals, such as not advocating murder, treating prisoners, especially aristocratic prisoners, preferentially, in the Middle Ages in exchange for ransom, and later gradually became a mutually acceptable way of civilization. On the battlefield, they do not deliberately attack the opponent's commander, which is considered an act of dishonorable assassination, while China pays attention to capturing the thief and capturing the king first.

In fact, these things can be recognized, but you don't have to be too superstitious, because of cultural inferiority. These things have not appeared without appearance in Chinese history. When the era of Chinese aristocracy had not yet ended, on the battlefields of the Spring and Autumn Period, a lot of attention was paid to these rules. For example, Song Xianggong participated in the war for hegemony and fought a battle of Hongshui with the Chu State.

When the Chu army crossed the river, Song Xianggong's strategist Ziyu suggested attacking the Chu army half-crossing, Song Xianggong refused, thinking that it was not in line with etiquette, and when the Chu army crossed the river, the foothold was not stable, and the strategist suggested attacking, but Song Xianggong still refused, saying that he would wait for the other party to line up the formation.

In this war, the dialogue between Song Xianggong and his subordinate strategist Ziyu left many etiquettes of fighting in the Spring and Autumn Period, such as "not to obstruct the pass" means not to rely on dangerous passes to kill and injure the enemy, "not to drum and not to form a column" not to attack the enemy army who is not lined up in a good formation, "not to capture the gray-haired old man", and "not to be seriously injured" not to hurt the already wounded.

Song Xianggong's gentlemanly style of not taking advantage of people's danger has been criticized for thousands of years by military strategists who have "lost morality" after the Warring States period, and have become a typical example of not knowing soldiers.

In addition to Song Xianggong, before the Warring States, there were many elements of civilization in the wars of the Chinese. The war between the Chu and Jin states recorded in the historical books. Later generations mostly described the retreat of Duke Wen of Jin as a ploy, but since he was able to make this kind of behavior at that time, it shows that this kind of behavior is normal and a gentleman's demeanor, because the state of Chu is kind to Duke Wen of Jin, so he is willing to take a step back; According to historical records, the Chu State won the Jin State, the Jin army retreated, and the Chu people did not pursue it, because not attacking the back of the fleeing enemy was also a gentleman's style, and what was even more surprising was that seeing the Jin army's chariot stuck in the mud and unable to pull it out, the Chu soldiers also took the initiative to go up to help, where is this like a battlefield? Not only was the Jin army not afraid of the soldiers of the Chu State who came up to help, but they mocked and said, "Our Jin State does not have as rich escape experience as your Chu State to fall into."

However, Chinese intellectuals do not respect the warmth and affection of the ancient Chinese on the battlefield, but rather relish the war culture left over from Europe, which has to be said to be a problem of psychological standpoint.

The long-term melee of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States period caused the rapid decline of war morality, the warmth of the pulse on the battlefield began to disappear, and the war culture promoted by the corporal and doctor class began to spread, which shows that the scale of war at that time expanded, and war was finally no longer just a military game between nobles, but began to become a kind of national war. Representatives of the scholar class such as Ziyu and Cao Di began to stand on the stage of history, replacing their moral concepts with those of great nobles such as kings, and becoming the mainstream on the battlefield.

In the middle and late Warring States period, the Qin army killed prisoners at every turn, and there was no warmth at all, but at that time, the actions of the Qin army were also unacceptable, so they left a notoriety and made the eastern countries think that the Qin State was a barbarian country.

After the Qin and Han dynasties, China's war form began to change from the hegemony and annexation wars of the Central Plains princes to the conquest and resistance of the northern steppe nomads.

The same is true in the West, but much later, by the time of World War I and World War II, the atmosphere of the aristocratic era was basically extinct, and sniper tactics became a grandiose tactic, and in the 21st century, decapitation operations began to be admired by military circles.

But this ethos persisted during the American Revolution, with a British sniper, Patrick Ferguson, who once aimed at Washington in the back, but did not pull the trigger because Washington was leaving and he was unwilling to shoot an unsuspecting enemy from behind. Otherwise, history could be rewritten, in contrast to the British commanders, who were sniped by the American army, resulting in the defeat of many battles. In the famous Battle of Saratoga, American soldier Moxie Murphy sniped British General Simon Fraser with a rifled rifle 500 meters away, and the British surrendered 10 days later. This war is known as the turning point of the North American Revolutionary War, and this shot is the turning point of the turning point.

The American militia of civilian origin during the Revolutionary War did not have a higher war ethic than the British army led by aristocratic officers, which was also one reason why Europeans looked down on the American militia.

The Chinese army did not pay much attention to these, and their use of chasseurs was basically to capture the thief and capture the king first, and they did not force the enemy officers to shoot the enemy officers head-on on the battlefield, but to ambush, hide, sneak attack, and assassinate the opposing officer. When Scotter sent troops to break through, the sharpshooters hiding behind the earthen fort focused on attacking various American officers who commanded the battle, so that the officers suffered many casualties than ordinary soldiers, so they failed to break through many times, and finally had to surrender.

The question is not what tactics Huang Qiu used, but where did Huang Qiu's soldiers go? As a result, he, who was extremely radical in his youth, had to hide behind the fortifications and fight the enemy.

There were 30,000 American soldiers, plus standing auxiliaries, for a total of 100,000 main forces. Huang Qiu only had 10,000 auxiliaries in his hands, and the rest were a group of improvised township soldiers, who had to be trained or not, disciplined or undisciplined, and tens of thousands of Indians, so it was even more lawless.

Most of the armies in the Americas were actually taken by the crown prince and taken south to attack the Spanish colonies. Therefore, Huang Qiuhuan had to rely on 10,000 relatively regular auxiliaries, plus 20,000 township soldiers, to deal with the American army.

Let the crown prince take away the main force, which is supported by Huang Qiu, this is a very risky decision, because as the foundation of China and North America, at this time is very empty, but to face the United States, the most powerful industrial force on the American road, and the naval power Britain, once Britain goes south from Canada, the United States moves west from the east, and goes north from the south, the entire Chinese territory east of the Rocky Mountains is in danger of capsizing.

But Huang Qiu still let the crown prince who went south take most of the army, because he knew very well that if he was defeated, the crown prince could not afford to lose!

He Huang Qiu can also smear his face, but the crown prince must constantly smear the brilliance on his face, all the dirty work is tiring, Huang Qiu still comes to do it, and all the glamorous things, the crown prince enjoys.

This is not a struggle for the official level to crush people, but Huang Qiu is willing, he wants to let the crown prince smoothly ascend to the emperor's throne, for which he does not hesitate to bear all the responsibility, and even the risk of losing his position. Because whether the crown prince can ascend to the throne of the emperor is related to the ideals of their generation and the future trend of China.

Huang Qiu is still rare, he did not go to France to study, but is a high-ranking general. He bears a deep local imprint, he admires the art of deceit, but today's army is all formed according to the ideas of the French Revolution, with strong Napoleonic characteristics.

Huang Qiu is also incompatible with those French officers, he likes to fight whimsically, likes to maneuver in a wide range of roundabouts, while the other party likes dignified ground decisive battles, this kind of tactics of who has strong firepower, who has more horses, who wins, is like a fool, so Huang Qiu has never liked it.

But this is just his personal preference, at his age, he no longer quarrels with those people, because he has long seen through the war, as long as he can win, it doesn't matter how he fights.

He began to look more at politics, and once a soldier began to think about politics, it was very dangerous. So he knew that he would never be able to get involved in politics personally, at least not in a country like China, where civilian officials see military generals as a scourge. He needs to do this through the crown prince, and what he is most dissatisfied with politically is that those civil officials who have been contaminated with European culture are always negotiating and negotiating, and in the end, the result of the bloody battle of the soldiers has become a card on their negotiating table, and the blood of the soldiers is just a tool.

He hated these phenomena, and with his worldview, he was reluctant to engage in a diplomatic secret war with Britain and other countries, and he should have annexed India through a war ten years ago, and there was no such thing as now.

He couldn't do these ideas as a soldier, because everyone from the emperor to the bureaucracy didn't accept it.

Fortunately, he approached the crown prince, he found that the crown prince was the same person as him, and he found that the crown prince was more ambitious than him, Huang Qiu only hoped to use military domination to dominate the world, and the crown prince was eager to establish a unified world.