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After the outbreak of the American War, the timeline has come to May of the 37th year of the Han Dynasty, almost a year, the war in South America has gone through the initial high-intensity attrition, the two sides have entered the confrontation stage, and the British military deployment in the North American colonies has also been completed, officially stepping into the Louisiana region under the Han Empire!

As the emperor of the empire, Zhao Dutian naturally wants to return to the palace to preside over the battle of the entire North America!

However, after the British attacked, the news from Louisiana was not ideal.

"Your Majesty, in the past two weeks, the first, third, and fourth regiments of our army's Louisiana garrison have been defeated by the superior British forces, and the second and fifth regiments have been completely annihilated......

An Imperial staff officer reported respectfully.

After hearing this, Zhao Dutian frowned slightly, his tactics of using cannon fodder to weaken the enemy's main force layer by layer since he made his fortune were completely bankrupt in front of the British......

In just two weeks, the entire five garrison infantry regiments deployed on the Louisiana border were wiped out by the British, although most of them were composed of local Indians, but the loss of so many flintlock muskets was also a lot of expense......

Of course, this kind of local garrison infantry regiment basically uses old-fashioned flintlock pistols and captured trophies, and its performance is far inferior to the brand-new flintlock pistols attached to the Han Guard!

At the very least, there is not a small gap between the rate of mute fire and the aging of the gun chamber!

Nowadays, European countries are equipped with army flintlock pistols on a large scale, resulting in a completely rotten weapon on the street, and any adventurer can get one for a little money, but in Europe, almost more than eighty percent of flintlock pistols belong to the kind of shoddy and inferior products, and the inner wall of the gun chamber is as rough as it is!

One can imagine how pitted the hit rate of these flintlock pistols was when aiming......

Moreover, the unqualified inside of the flintlock rifle chamber will also cause the kinetic energy of the bullet to be useless and excessive, resulting in the shortening of the range of the flintlock pistol!

That's why flintlock pistols can hit up to 100 meters away, but in reality, most flintlock pistols can't aim at 50 meters away!

Of course, there are inferior products with hardcover goods, and the skirmishers of some European countries use the same flintlock pistol, but the range and accuracy are as good as the flintlock pistol used by the line infantry, and can even hit a human target 150 yards away!

That's the difference between hardcover and inferior goods!

However, the flintlock pistol is a consumable, and even the richest country will not build a large number of hardcover flintlock pistols at any cost in order to keep improving!

Zhao Dutian naturally wouldn't do this......

Thanks to the reckless military force of the Han Empire, Zhao Dutian didn't even have a single unit equipped with a hardcover flintlock pistol!

The flintlock pistols of the Han Guards are just new products, not delicately polished 'expensive products', and with that money, he might as well recruit more soldiers!

Since the main elite of the British rushed over, Zhao Dutian naturally couldn't continue to sit still, after listening to the report of the imperial staff officer, he immediately issued the latest order, and the two main forces of the Han Guards drove into the Louisiana region in a mighty way!

According to the intelligence of the secret service, the main force of the British attack was very complex, with a total of nearly 100,000 main troops, including the infantry regiment composed of experienced militia in the colony, the Hessian foreign infantry regiment, the Bavarian infantry regiment, the German flintlock regiment, the French mercenary regiment, the Scottish Highland regiment, the Irish Volunteer regiment, the English Native Guard (commonly known as the Red Shirts), the Indian colonial mercenaries and so on......

The corps here does not refer to the strength of a regiment, but the British are used to calling different armies such and such a regiment, which is the name of the military system!

Here, of course, the majority of the number is the militia regiments of the North American colonies, which have reached more than half of the 100,000 people!

But the most combat-ready units are the ones from the British mainland, such as the Red Shirts and the Scottish Highland Infantry!

Needless to say, these are the advantages of the British army, training ideas, etc., and most importantly, they are a standing army with military salaries!

After hearing about this for the first time, Zhao Dutian was also surprised -- most of the armies of European countries were not paid!

For the first time, Zhao Dutian felt that his approach was too benevolent......

Although he has not paid the National Guard of the Americas, which accounts for the majority of the numbers, the allocated fields are equivalent to military salaries!

The European powers practiced compulsory military service, and only food and lodging, and no additional military pay, but in times of war, army soldiers could rely on plundering occupied areas to supplement their families.

There is no so-called benevolent and righteous army in the European army, and the so-called gentlemanly spirit preached in later generations is only aimed at European nobles, not commoners and merchants!

The most thorough implementation of the compulsory military service system is France and Prussia, Frederick the Great of Prussia is considered a king who is better for soldiers, and will still pay subsidies to soldiers on a regular basis......

In France, it is the duty of the people to be a soldier, and it is not okay to be inappropriate!

As for the soldiers of the Russian Empire, it was even more synonymous with cheapness - gray cattle......

Compared with the countries of the European continent, which regulate the form of law as an obligation, the British approach is relatively benevolent, at least, they pay soldiers!

Even if those military salaries are only a minimum of living expenses in the eyes of local British civilians!

Therefore, being a soldier in European countries may be able to feed and clothe the soldiers, but being a soldier's family is hard-working......

The government only distributes free food and clothing to the soldiers, and the government that picks the door will not care about how the soldiers' families are doing!

This is also the reason why European soldiers are very enthusiastic about post-war plunder, and it is also a great source of morale for soldiers!

After each European war, it was full of devastation, and this situation was not caused by the accidental injuries of those armies during the war, but by the looting of the soldiers after the war!

It's just that the soldiers of European countries only seek money and goods, and rarely kill innocent civilians, unless there are civilians who are not bright-minded, and they have to fight with these big-headed soldiers who don't even have military salaries!

With the frequent foreign wars of European powers, many small tyrants and tycoons were created, especially in the later wars against the Manchu Qing Dynasty, most of the white soldiers who had sacked the city of Beijing, after retiring, became local tyrants!