Chapter 442: , Defeated

To say that the British do not have many regular troops in Canada, the main force of the Canadian Army is actually the Canadian militia. Of course, the US Army, in the eyes of Europeans, is basically just a militia. In terms of the number of people, the number of the U.S. Army is a bit more. According to reason, even if the U.S. Army is low-level, it is a rookie, but it is not easy to be given that by the Canadian Army. Even in the original history, the US Army had a clear upper hand before the arrival of British reinforcements.
"Why are these Yankees so stupid!" In a luxuriously decorated office of the Louisiana Development Bank, the most luxurious and majestic building in New Orleans, Louis Bonaparte, the new chairman of the Louisiana Development Bank, was swearing. "Are we going to provide the weapons and mercenaries we prepared for Canadians to those American idiots now?"
"Chairman, it's okay to sell weapons and mercenaries to Americans, isn't it the same?" said a man dressed as a somewhat flattened manager.
"Sergey, you are right, but things are beyond our expectations and are always unpleasant." Louis replied, "In addition, mercenaries should not be considered now. The United States still has a population and has not yet arrived. At this point. Besides, the main problem with the US military is not morale, but that they don’t even know that the times have changed. However, some of the atrocities committed by the British can just give us an excuse to intervene."
Yes, the reason why the US military failed is because they are really too far behind the times. Unlike the navy, the navy has been educated by the French somehow and has seen what the world’s advanced level is. But the army, it is really a bun.
The US Army has not fought much since the War of Independence. During the War of Independence, they actually didn't fight well. If it hadn't been for His Majesty Louis XVI to sell his head to aid the United States, it would be hard to say what this battle would end up. In this battle and after this battle, the US Army has only one example to learn from, and that is the French Army. However, that was the French army in the era of queuing to be shot.
Therefore, the U.S. Army still uses the old-fashioned line-up shooting tactics to this day, because they can do nothing but this set of things. Even queuing to shoot them is not particularly proficient, because the United States has always been very small in order to save money, and the state soldiers in each state, later the National Guard, are essentially militiamen. , Their training is less, but the weapons in their hands are much better than the federal army.
On the British side, the situation is completely different. On the European continent, the British were beaten by the Bonaparte brothers. Although he was beaten so much that he would only lie on the ground and call his mother, but at any rate he knew what the most advanced war mode was like today. So they put out a set of Joseph defense very quickly. and then? Then, the American buns did not understand how dangerous Joseph's defense was.
The American troops commanded by General William Hull lined up, beat the drums, and launched a brave attack on Amherstburg where the British troops were stationed, and then there was no more.
In short, the stupid Yankee was overtaken by the insidious British with landmines, grenade shells, barbed wire, and anti-infantry directional mines, and then collapsed.
In fact, it was only the failure of this attack. Although the failure was a bit miserable, but seriously, not many people died. Because the total number of people involved in the first wave of shocks is around two thousand people. Although the two thousand people were beaten up by the British, at least half of them died, but compared with the total number of troops on both sides, more than one thousand people died, which is not too many.
But these people were in front of everyone, and they were killed almost instantly. The efficiency of the British killing these people was so high that the American soldiers who saw this scene were frightened.
The U.S. Army, dominated by state soldiers, has a flaw very similar to that of the Vendée rebels. That is, if they are fighting in their hometown, their morale is high. If they are fighting in other places, once they are frustrated, their morale is high. The rate of morale decline is comparable to that of Niagara Falls. To put it more simply, that is, after the U.S. Army received this heavy blow, the entire army fell into self-doubt, and its morale was almost on the verge of collapse.
So General Isaac Bullock, who commanded the British army and was actually Canadian-based, took the opportunity to launch a counterattack, using grenade shells that the Americans were not familiar with to cooperate with the tactics of the skirmish attack, and directly defeated the sluggish and chaotic American army. General William Hull fled to Detroit with the remnants, and was pursued by the British troops along the way. There were heavy casualties and all the troops escaped. Finally, when they entered Detroit, there were not even a thousand people with the army next to General William Hull.
The British army continued to advance, heading towards Detroit. The citizens of Detroit took up arms and prepared to defend their city. Detroit is close to Canada and Louisiana. Here, Canadians, Americans, and those French who speak German, as well as all kinds of Indians, will fight back and forth when there is nothing to do. Therefore, the residents of Detroit in this era are dominated by whites with strong military virtues. Almost everyone who lives here has more than one gun.
Therefore, under the call to "defend the city", more than four thousand Detroit citizens armed with weapons joined the ranks of "resisting British aggression" in just one day.
However, the evil British went on their way again. Instead of directly attacking Detroit, they used white phosphorus incendiary bombs to shell Detroit.
I don't know if it was because of the butterfly effect, the fire that should have swept the entire Detroit last year, UU看书www.uukanshu.com did not happen. So Detroit at this time is still the Detroit that has not experienced reconstruction after the disaster. In other words, Detroit is the one that grew out of the natural fur market, without artificial urban planning, narrow streets, and chaotically built wooden houses everywhere, and there is a huge fire hazard.
Such a city is really suitable for arson. So the British and Canadian arson bombs, and Detroit burst into flames. And it's different from the original Detroit fire in history. Although the fire eventually swept through Detroit, because there was only one fire site, the rate of expansion of the fire was limited, so most people still had time to escape. Although in the historical fire, the entire Detroit was burned to the point where only a warehouse and a brick chimney were left. This is the last remaining part of the city that was first established by the French. The people of Detroit also painted them in the flag of Detroit. But not many people burned to death.
But this time the situation is different. The British army dropped tens of thousands of fires in the shelling, covering the entire city. The entire city burned almost in the blink of an eye, so the people in the city had no time to evacuate. How much casualties this fire caused has been controversial, but even the lowest estimate is that the number of casualties is not less than 9,000, and the largest number is more than 20,000. Of course, the British think this figure is too exaggerated, because Detroit does not have such a large population.