Fox of France

The safety and security of New York is, in a sense, even more important than Washington. This city is the true essence of the American North. So when the British army, led by General Arthur Wellesley, surrounded New York, the United States really felt a lot of pressure. Even when state soldiers from several southern states tried to rescue New York, but were beaten up by the British, the revenge tone of some guys in the south dropped a lot.

But with France's entry into the war and the results of the North Atlantic naval battle, the entire United States suddenly relaxed. President Jefferson had already sent a special envoy to spy on the British. After receiving the news, he immediately sent someone to call back the special envoy who was about to leave.

At the same time, President Jefferson also prevented the US military from siege operations. In the war room, President Jefferson pointed to the map and said to his generals: "The British have surrounded New York, and New York looks very dangerous. However, because the enemy cannot blockade the port of New York, in a short time, the enemy is taking No less than New York. So, let's not rush to free New York, anyway, as long as the French attack, everything will be all right."

France does not have a large army in Louisiana, only a security force of about 10,000 people. This force is scattered across the huge Louisiana in battalion units, so that it has almost no sense of presence. (In fact, in the two gold mining areas, there is also a 20,000-strong gold troop directly affiliated to the Ministry of Truth. This troop has more people, better equipment, and of course it has less presence.) In the previous years The German-speaking French in Central Louisiana had a lot of friction with the Americans and Canadians, but those involved in the friction were basically tripartite militias, not real regular troops.

But it was fairly simple for the French in Louisiana to expand their army. First of all, the French already had a lot of weapons in Louisiana. Moreover, the residents of Louisiana also have a large number of weapons, many of which are far more advanced than the regular French army. For example, rifles and so on, the civilian rifles in the hands of ordinary people are better than the military rifles in the hands of the French army from various angles. After all, for ordinary people who buy guns, they want to use this thing to deal with deadly things ranging from brown bears to Americans and Canadians. They are responsible for their own lives, so their requirements for civilian rifles must be good performance . As for military rifles, this thing is purchased by the state. In national procurement, the most important thing is cost performance, or even, to put it more clearly, price. Therefore, French civilian rifles are obviously better than military rifles in terms of performance.

As for combatants, there is also no shortage in Louisiana. Many of the French who settled in Louisiana had records of service in the French army. Today, it is no longer possible for the French army to allocate land to veterans in the country as before. After all, there is not enough land in France. But in Louisiana, there is still enough land for those veterans, and some veterans chose to leave the army and go to Louisiana. Especially those reserve Frenchmen in the Foreign Legion, who joined the army in order to be able to become landlords in Louisiana in the future.

So now the French are recruiting troops in Louisiana, and there is no shortage of manpower. In addition, although the French regular army in Louisiana is small, the militia organizations are numerous. Most of these militia organizations are run by retired soldiers. According to French law, these militia organizations have the nature of reserve service. In the event of a war, the French government can recruit them into the army at a reasonable cost.

In this way, as long as there is time, the French can actually easily form an army of tens of thousands or even more than 100,000 in Louisiana.

So, the situation today is indeed that as long as the French attack, everything will be fine for the United States.

However, for the British, especially for General Arthur Wellesley's corps, there was no need for France to actually send troops, just the fact that France participated in the war immediately made him feel unstable.

A large part of the Canadian colonies were snatched from the French during the Seven Years War. The population composition of these areas is still dominated by French speakers. The loyalty of these people to the United Kingdom is quite questionable. In fact, after France returned to Louisiana, these people have flirted with the French in Louisiana. For a while, they are jumping for a high degree of autonomy, and for a while they are demanding the establishment of their own National Guard. (What the hell are you trying to do?)

After the war with the Americans, out of religious contradictions, they resolutely stood on the side of the United Kingdom and fought the Americans with extra vigor. But once France joins in, it's really hard to say which side these people will stand on.

Especially in the previous wars, although the two requirements of a high degree of autonomy and having its own National Guard that were once rejected by the United Kingdom were still untenable in law, they already existed in fact. It is really hard to say whether these "French-speaking Britons" will collude with those "German-speaking Frenchmen" and stab "English-speaking Britons" in the back.

What's more terrible is that General Arthur Wellesley's army, their logistics and supply lines, have to pass through the area of ​​​​the "French-speaking Englishmen". General Arthur Wellesley now faced a dilemma.

First of all, he can continue to besiege New York, and use the method of siege to fight aid to continue to eliminate the effective strength of the Americans. At least, until the French actually consolidated Louisiana's army, it still seemed quite safe to do so.

But this "security" is based on the fact that those "French-speaking Britons" are still loyal to the United Kingdom. If "those French-speaking Englishmen" are not loyal to the United Kingdom, then it will be troublesome, and at the most critical time, they will suddenly stab them in the back-it doesn't even need to be so troublesome, just cut off the regiment's supplies suddenly, then General Arthur Wellesley's army was at a loss, and most of them were about to be wiped out.

Of course, he can also retreat immediately. This is naturally relatively safe. But this is to publicly express to those "French-speaking Britons": "We don't trust you, we think you are the enemy." people" as preparations to purge them - for their withdrawal would pass near the area of ​​those "French-speaking Britons".

However, General Arthur Wellesley did not hesitate, and he immediately made a decision: "Withdraw."

Because in Canada, it is well known that the loyalty of those "French-speaking Brits" to the United Kingdom cannot be trusted in the first place. As for whether this move will stimulate them to rebel directly. General Arthur Wellesley felt that if they did not intend to rebel, this move would not have stimulated them to rebel; So how could he risk the fate of his army like this?