The first Battle of Detroit ended in a crushing defeat for the Northern Army, with 28,600 casualties and more than 1,000 missing among the 86,000 officers and soldiers who participated in the battle, and only more than 56,000 returned to Detroit in shock.

However, the total number of various old-fashioned smoothbore guns captured after the war was only more than 8,700.

The more than 20,000 black soldiers in the first array, except for the more than 5,000 soldiers in the first row, are all equipped with guns, a small number of black soldiers in the second row are equipped with guns, and the black soldiers in the third and fourth rows are all empty-handed on the battlefield, waiting to pick up the guns of the black soldiers who were killed and wounded in the front row to fight back, which is simply incredible.

has been repeatedly fought in annihilation wars, and the Northern Army is indeed seriously short of firearms, but it is not so lacking?

At the end of the day, that's really using blacks as cannon fodder.

Under the influence of various factors, the first Battle of Detroit suffered only more than 870 casualties of the Tang Kingdom army, of which 339 were killed, most of which were wounded by artillery fire, and once again played a very high casualty exchange ratio.

The black soldiers who fled back to Detroit in panic quickly fell silent under the suppression of the army, and these black soldiers had no weapons in their hands, no ammunition, and could not make a fuss in Detroit, where the soldiers were gathered.

But this complete fiasco made Lieutenant General Samuel Brown, the commander of the US Northern Army in Detroit, unable to sit still.

This forced the command of the Northern Army to re-examine this failed policy, and quickly summarized several opinions;

Battle of Chicago

Although the old smoothbore guns equipped by the coalition forces for the white assault regiments were backward, in the urban street battles, due to the close distance of the battles and the fact that a considerable part of the northern defenders were also equipped with old-fashioned smoothbore rifles, there was no obvious difference in the weapons and equipment of the two sides.

In the battle, you fought back and forth fiercely, and the difference was only in combat experience, reaction and physical strength, so a situation of defeating 1,000 enemies and losing 800 losses was achieved.

The same situation is not practical in the Battle of Detroit, whether the old smoothbore gun is against the "Colt Thirteen" or the "King's Rifle", the range, fire intensity, accuracy and power are the result of being completely crushed.

The only solution to the only solution that makes sense for cannon fodder troops to use is to fully equip them with new mini rifles.

"Let's do it, immediately assign the batch of Minnie rifles that have just arrived to the black troops, organize shooting training, and leave us with little time." Lieutenant General Samuel Brown has finally made up his mind and made the final decision. His gaze scanned the slightly dull group of senior officers in the command and explained;

"In any case, we must prevent the coalition from transporting coastal heavy artillery under the city of Detroit, the M1860 mortar has a range of 4 kilometers, and it is also nicknamed the "City Smasher" in the Tang Kingdom.

If we are allowed to use their firepower, our existing fortifications will be blown into ruins one by one, and no one will want to see such a situation.

The only thing that is the first priority of the current defense is to organize a battle and constantly carry out counterattacks against the enemy's heavy army groups, forcing them to be unable to gain a foothold on the outskirts of the city, and unable to organize heavy artillery sieges.

It's not that black troops can't be sacrificed, but they must be sacrificed worthwhile.

The military department will again report to Washington with a request for the rapid mobilization of no less than 50,000 Mini rifles to urgently support the front.

As long as they had enough Mini rifles, all the soldiers fighting on the 1st line of Detroit were confident that they would fight the Tang invaders to the end until they won the final victory. ”

The threat of siege artillery made the defenders of Detroit panic, so they had to abandon the strategy of defending the city and adopt an active offensive defensive operation.

"God willing, America will win!" A group of high-ranking officers replied in unison with moving expressions, and an atmosphere called tragedy spread invisibly.

The Yankees of this era are not lacking in the spirit of sacrifice, and under the pressure of the army, they have aroused the courage to fight to the death, and they have a mentality of mourning soldiers.

After winning the first Battle of Detroit, the Northern Corps pressed the border, pressing up from the north, west, and south, trying to advance the battle line under the fortress of Detroit.

The U.S. Northern Army made every effort to counterattack, constantly organizing divisional and regimental troops to go out of the city to fight, and more than a dozen battles broke out outside Detroit in one day, and fierce gunfire rang out from morning to night.

The U.S. Northern Army learned a lesson, and the counterattack troops were all equipped with cutting-edge Mini rifles, and although they were repeatedly hit hard in the counterattack operations out of the city, the scene was not a one-sided massacre, which also caused a certain amount of damage to the Northern Corps.

The scuffle lasted for more than ten days

The Allied Northern Army achieved the result of killing and wounding 12,300 American troops, and its own casualties also reached 4,177, playing a battle loss ratio of 3:1.

In the case that there is no obvious generation difference in the weapons and equipment of the two sides, this is a relatively normal battle loss, and it was nothing originally.

But the commanders of the Northern Corps, who were accustomed to complete victories, were not satisfied, and what could they be proud of when the Chinese-American Corps, armed to the teeth and trained for a long time, fought like this with the American militia?

To this end, the Northern Corps Department planned a battle with two M1861 mortars as bait, which led to the gathering of large soldiers on both sides and the outbreak of the Second Battle of Detroit.

this day

A force of nearly 10,000 U.S. troops composed of the 13th Regiment, 25th Regiment, 26th Regiment and 59th Regiment of the New York Volunteer Corps found that the troops of the Tang Kingdom were building bridges on the side of the river in the Dale Hills, about 12.5 kilometers south of Detroit.

In the camp on the other side of the river, there are two M1861 cannons, and their high black hole cannon muzzles are terrifying.

After hearing the news

The Detroit command of the U.S. Northern Army immediately became agitated, and the two coastal cannons that terrified the entire Detroit defense line showed their traces, and Lieutenant General Samuel Brown immediately decided to destroy or capture these two coastal cannons at all costs.

Day 2: Early in the morning of February 4th

The black-pressed troops of the U.S. Northern Army poured out of the Detroit fortress in several ways, and spread violently in the direction of the Dale Hills in the south, and the white and black troops were clearly distinguished.

The movement of the US troops immediately aroused great attention from the coalition forces, and several units stationed south of Detroit came into contact with each other one after another, and when they saw that the situation was not good, they fought and withdrew.

Seeing that the other party had taken the bait, several large armies of the Northern Corps quickly approached in the direction of the Dale Hills, and a general battle began.

About 9:40 a.m

More than 46,000 men of the Fourth Army of the Northern Corps and about 50,000 men of the New York Corps of the US Army marching south encountered each other head-on in the wilderness, and the two sides hurriedly started a fierce battle.

The well-trained Fourth Army quickly deployed, and immediately launched an overwhelming attack under the cover of artillery fire.

The U.S. New York Corps turned from a marching to a battle queue in a chaotic manner, and could only rush to respond to the battle, while the enemy's artillery fire and platoon gun fire exacerbated the confusion, leaving behind a large number of corpses under the ferocious attack of the Fourth Army.

The hastily retreating American soldiers rushed to the rear array, causing even greater confusion, and the Fourth Army took advantage of the situation to pursue and expand the results of the battle.

Seeing that this force of American troops was about to collapse, who knew that a large group of American troops were killed from the northwest obliquely, and quickly approached the battlefield, and the vanguard was all black troops, with a total of about 3~35,000 people.

The 117th Division quickly set up a heavy machine-gun fire position on the west flank of the Fourth Army's offensive line, and more than 10,000 people in the division took the regiment as the combat unit to form five infantry clusters, relying on heavy machine-gun positions to defend.

Their task was to prevent this group of American troops from joining up with the New York Volunteer Corps and to influence the Fourth Army's plan to annihilate the enemy.

Seeing that strong reinforcements were coming, the New York Volunteer Corps, which had been beaten and retreated step by step and faced collapse, gradually stabilized its footing after rising up to block the fierce attack of the Fourth Army.

More than three hours later

Towards one o'clock in the afternoon, the black units reinforced by the United States suffered heavy losses under heavy machine-gun fire and platoon guns, and were never able to cross the defensive line set up by the 117th Division.

At this time, the main force of the American army led by Lieutenant General Samuel Brown arrived and launched a counterattack against the Fourth Army from the left and right directions.

Under the heavy pressure of the enemy, the Fourth Army could only alternately cover and retreat while fighting, which attracted the American army to fight like a crazy attack, and the battle tended to be white-hot.

It was past two o'clock in the afternoon

The Fourth Army had retreated to the edge of the Dale Hills while fighting and retreating, with more than 17,000 casualties and less than 30,000 remaining troops.

The heaviest casualties were the 506th Division (White Servant Division) of the Fourth Army, which carried out several broken tail missions, resulting in the annihilation of the entire regiment by the American army, with a total of about 7,130 casualties.

However, under the heavy siege of the US army, the officers and men of the Fourth Army also caused more than 38,500 casualties to the US troops, which can be called tenacious combat effectiveness.

In order to destroy the two coastal cannons, Lieutenant General Samuel Brown made a bloody effort to mobilize about 170,000 troops out of the city, and although he lost 38,500 men, he still had 135,000 troops in his hands.

Dale Hill is about 12.5 kilometers south of Detroit, a small distance for the GI-heavy U.S. military.

With the Detroit Fortress in its back, there were still 150,000 or 60,000 troops in the fortress, and all the senior American generals, including Lieutenant General Samuel Brown, were full of confidence and did not think that the Northern Corps had such a good appetite and could swallow it in one gulp.

It's not nice to say

If the army of more than 100,000 marches and the vanguard reaches the Dale Hills, there are still many troops in the rear that have not left the city.

General Samuel Brown stood high on the hill and used his binoculars to carefully observe the Fourth Army, which was besieged on three sides by his own army, behind which was a river about 30 meters wide, and in the barracks south of the river, two conspicuous cannons stood prominently.

See here

General Senal-Brown couldn't help but smile and said to the officers beside him with great ambition; "Guys, no matter what the cost is today, I will cut off a leg of the Northern Army, annihilate its Fourth Army, and order all the legions to step up their attacks and not slack off."

"Yes, Your Excellency, Commander."

The situation in front of us is already very clear, although the back of the Fourth Army is only a small river more than 30 meters wide, but in this cold winter it is an insurmountable natural danger.

Even if the soldiers took the risk of swimming across the river, the severe cold combined with the rapid loss of body temperature would turn the soldiers who swam to the opposite side into stiff stakes, and even the ability to resist would be lost.

It is still a distance of more than 30 meters, which is simpler than shooting targets for Mini rifles, and under heavy siege, the Fourth Army is simply a dead end.

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