After the special division occupied the city of Chicago, it took over all the streets and alleys of the entire Chicago metropolitan area. Many militiamen who tried to resist were shot by special soldiers before they could assemble and attack. The rest of the militia were all found and taken prisoner to a cathedral in the northeast corner of the city.

After that, the division commander Li Xiucheng directly sent a sergeant to accompany the staff officers and guides, and issued a notice to the residents of the city, asking all militiamen to lay down their arms and all ordinary residents to leave the city. At the same time, the special division conducted a comprehensive search of occupied Chicago, focusing on the major banks, shops, factories, stations, docks, and wealthy residential areas in the city, and used dozens of stolen wagons and hundreds of war horses to deliver the captured booty.

Li Xiucheng smiled so happily that he didn't even care about other matters, and handed over the security and vigilance of Chicago to the division staff officers for arrangement, and he led the division headquarters and the guard battalion to personally count the seizures.

At this time, Li Jin, the deputy division commander, led 2,000 soldiers to smash the door from house to house, shouting the English he had just learned: "get... out... of ... ton！ "And let the soldiers escort hundreds of locals, shouting at all Chicago residents, to leave downtown Chicago within two hours.

For a time, downtown Chicago turned into a sea of weeping. Tens of thousands of residents, forcibly evicted from their homes, flocked to the south of the city, preparing to cross a bridge over the Chicago Canal and head south.

The residents crowded at the train station were even more numerous, and thousands of soldiers were escorted out of the train station at gunpoint by the vicious Li Jin. Many angry residents were still reluctant and crowded to approach the soldiers, but they were immediately ordered to shoot by the ruthless Li Jin, and after thousands of dead and wounded, these residents completely collapsed and completely lost control. The crowd exploded, and the frightened and uncontrollable people were crushed and stampeded severely, hundreds of people were trampled to death in the passage outside the train station, and thousands were injured.

The same goes for the canal docks. The empty canal was completely devoid of boats. The desperate inhabitants turned their fury at the Chinese Imperial soldiers who were trying to drive them away, and after being killed and wounded hundreds, they scattered in all directions, except for the hundreds who fell into the canal and river, the rest fled outside the city.

Still, nearly 8,000 elderly people and women, and even some factory owners, just don't want to leave the city. Li Jin's guides shouted: "Everyone must leave in the last half hour!" Half an hour later, the soldiers will set fire to the entire city of Chicago! ”

But in order to prevent the soldiers of the special division of the Chinese Empire from setting fire to the city, these old men and women insisted on staying in the city, staying at home, and even claiming that even if they died, they would die at home. They probably thought that as long as they were still in the city, these soldiers would not dare to harm the lives of so many people and set fire to the city, no matter what.

I have to say that they are too naïve and beautiful in their thinking!

Li Jin waited for half an hour, and immediately ordered: "Light the city and burn it!" ”

Li Xiucheng raised his hand to stop this order, and ordered the remaining residents to be given another 15 minutes, and at the same time ordered the soldiers of a regiment to check for any children under the age of 12 in the city one last time, and if there were children or young children, they were immediately sent out of the city. In fact, it was the officers and men of the special division who had not yet completed the search for the rich residential areas in the city, so Li Xiucheng had to extend the time a little.

The search was too hasty, and many belongings were too late to be searched, but even so, the wealth seized now has already frightened Li Xiucheng. The wagons had already carried a shipment of goods to the western suburbs of Chicago, and hurried back to load a second shipment.

Just now, the chief of staff of the division headquarters came to report that the wealth sent to the western suburbs amounted to as much as $14 million in cash alone, and the rest of the property was also worth millions of dollars, totaling more than $20 million. Unfortunately, the deeds of the shops and houses will all be reduced to ashes with the destruction of Chicago.

Li Xiucheng didn't expect this Chicago city to be so rich. Judging from the information inquired, its development is only about ten years, if it is given some more time, it will definitely become a big city like Guangzhou and Shanghai, but unfortunately, when it meets itself, all this is impossible.

Time flies.

Nearly 1,000 more women were frightened and left downtown Chicago, while dozens of children were searched and sent out of the city by a special forces company.

And the time limit has finally arrived. Li Xiucheng looked at the old people and women who were still struggling to persevere, shook his head and said no more, and directly led the troops out of the city and came to the military camp in the northwest suburbs to lead the troops to rest.

And Li Jin ordered again: "Ignite!" ”

In the northeast corner of the city, dozens of soldiers threw torches at houses, almost all made of wood, a few meters away, and soon a raging fire spread towards the city center, driven by the northeast wind.

At this time, the downtown area of Chicago was not large, and it was all accumulated on a small plot of land close to the canal within a radius of several miles, but it was inhabited by 110,000 people, and the wooden houses built were densely packed together. When a wooden house was set on fire, all the wooden houses next to it were set on fire, and then the boats and wooden sheds of the nearby church and pier all began to burn.

Seeing that the officers and soldiers of the Chinese Empire really set fire, these old people and women left behind in downtown Chicago were stunned! Only then did they realize that two of the old men and three women knelt on the ground, hugged Li Jin's thighs, and cried loudly, begging Li Jin in English to spare their city and home for God's sake, but unfortunately, at this time, Li Jin had already let those guides and staff officers leave, and he couldn't understand what these old men and women were crying about, and thought that these foreigners were unrepentant, and they were actually setting fire to their houses, and they were already dying, and scolded him.

Li Jin couldn't help but be furious, he was already a little angry, and he hated foreigners, so he kicked away these old men and women holding his thighs twice, and directly ordered his subordinates to light a full fire.

So, the soldiers of a main special regiment set fire to the streets of the city of Chicago at the same time.

The wind took advantage of the fire, and the reason for the fire spread everywhere, and the fire quickly spread throughout the city of Chicago in less than an hour. Chicago's dense population caused dense houses, and they were all wooden houses made of wooden planks, and the burned areas were quickly connected, and the whole city was plunged into a sea of fire, especially in the most densely populated places in the city center, where the flames soared to the sky as high as twenty or thirty feet, and even if they were more than ten miles away, they could see and feel the power of the fire.

At this time, no force could withstand the onslaught of fire. The soldiers of the Special Division of the Chinese Empire had already evacuated the city safely on their own, and at this time, even if they wanted to save the women and old people in Chicago, it was difficult to do so.

Nearly 1,000 women who saw the opportunity and fled with the soldiers of the special division escaped the catastrophe and escaped from the city, but nearly 7,000 residents still perished in the fire. The poor old men and women, besieged by the flames, ran in panic and tried to escape, but it was too late, many were trampled to death, many more were scorched to death by the flames and smoke, and a small number jumped into the Chicago canals and drowned, and even hundreds of people who had been lucky enough to run to the edge of the city of Chicago, but were still unfortunately suffocated by the smoke and fell to the ground.

Citizens who fled Chicago ahead of time wept and wailed in grief as they watched their burned homes on the outskirts of the city. But under the threat of rows of soldiers of the special forces division armed with rifles, they could only lament in their hearts and did not dare to resist.

Lee Kim sent an order that any Chicago resident who tried to put out the fire should be shot. In fact, the fire is so high that no amount of people can extinguish it.