readx; Chapter 254: Talent Robbery

In the dark of night, Chicago was completely silent in the endless darkness at a time when electric lights and cheap alternating current were not yet commonplace. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThere is only a flickering fire in the larger and larger train station, lighting up the surrounding space, revealing a hint of popularity!

Old Charlie picked the wick, which was already a little sagging, to make the fire brighter!

He has worked here since the Chicago train station was built and opened in the fifties. From a young man with four years of vitality, to a middle-aged man who lives in peace, and then to an old age that is like an oil lamp that will go out at any time, just like the one in his hand. In more than 40 years of life, Charlie Sr. has witnessed Chicago grow from a wilderness town on the shores of Lake Michigan to the second largest metropolis in the United States!

Today, Chicago is moving forward at a faster pace, but old Charlie doesn't know how long he can stay with it!

"Alas, when people get old, they always become sentimental!" Old Charlie shook his head helplessly, grabbed the shabby overalls that had been stained with oil and put them next to him, and slowly put them on himself!

Although it is the end of May, it is almost June! but the weather in Chicago, which is located in the north of the United States, is still a little cool at night. And when he is old, his body is no longer as energetic as that of young people! So every time old Charlie goes out at night to pick up the train and enter the station, he has to put on a thick suit! Otherwise, if he really gets sick, it is likely to kill him!

Old Charlie, with a dim oil lamp in his hand, staggered down the concrete-paved platform of the railway station. No one likes to be after pitch black after midnight. I have to come out to work, or this job won't fall to him as an old man!

"Didn't I hear that there was a war with the Chinese in the west? How could there be a train coming from that direction?" Old Charlie had a trace of doubt in his heart, but it quickly disappeared! After all, Chicago is nearly 2,000 kilometers away from San Francisco on the west coast of the United States. No one would have thought that Huo Jiajun would be able to fight here!

Listening to the roar of the train in the distance, old Charlie immediately raised the oil lamp in his hand and kept reminding the train that it was time to enter the station! As a station attendant, this is his responsibility, and he has been doing this job for decades, and he is already familiar with it!

But as the thunderous sound of the train got closer and closer, old Charles began to realize that something was wrong! After many years of work experience, the number of trains behind him would definitely not be less than twenty!

As time passed, train after train began to slowly enter the station. Before old Charlie could understand why so many trains were coming from the West at night.

He was hit on the head with a rifle finger by a few Huo family soldiers who jumped out of the open carriage!

Although the oil lamp in his hand was very dim, old Charlie still saw clearly through the dim light of the fire, and the military uniforms on these people were very different from those of the US Army! Subsequently, the Chinese language that sounded like a book in heaven to him, as well as the yellow skin of these people, made old Charlie understand the identity of these people!

Watch as more and more soldiers jump out of the train. After that, they quickly lined up in a neat phalanx under the organization of their respective commanders, and then quickly rushed out of the train station with the combat orders they had already received, and then rushed towards the city of Chicago not far away under the cover of darkness!

Seeing this scene, old Charlie secretly said in his heart: "Chicago is over!"

To be prepared for the unprepared, plus the combat power of the US National Guard is too low. Moreover, the equipment is even more outdated, and the number of people is only about 3,000.

In addition, half of it was quietly touched off by the sea lion special forces and the soldiers of a regiment taking advantage of the dark night! If it weren't for a soldier who got up at night to urinate and found the Huo family army that had already entered the barracks, I am afraid that this regiment of the National Guard would have been quietly taken down a long time ago! But even if it was discovered, it would only take a lot of effort. In less than two hours, the entire army was in addition to more than two thousand eight hundred prisoners. There is no more soldier who resists!

The attack on Chicago went surprisingly well! The casualties of the army were lower than in the last battle to capture San Francisco! Of course, this was also a good start to the military operation to occupy Chicago!

After all, the occupation of Chicago is only the beginning, and the core of this operation is to block the military counterattack of the Americans and smoothly transport the spoils of this military operation back to the South Seas!

From the time the attack was launched at 12:45 on 31 May to the dawn of 5 o'clock in the morning, the whole of Chicago had already fallen into the hands of the Eighth Marine Division of the Huo Jiajun! All the factories and banks had already been sealed by the Huo Jiajun!

As the sky gradually brightens, the bustling and noisy Chicago no longer has the prosperity of a metropolis except for the running sound of the army!

The dense burst of gunfire that rang out last night and the noise in the streets had already awakened most of the residents of Chicago! Then, in the morning, when I looked through the crack in the door, the yellow soldiers standing on the street had already understood the identity of these people by comparing it with the news that the squadron had landed on the western coast of the United States as mentioned in the newspaper a few days ago! Not to mention that Chicago is also connected to the western part of the United States by the Zhongyāng Great Railway!

"All the Americans in Chicago, listen, we are the Chinese People's Army! We have taken the whole city of Chicago last night! So from now on, no one is allowed to step out of the house unless we allow it, and anyone who keeps advising will be shot immediately! As for the food you need, we will deliver it to you on time! Now again......!" Early in the morning, Huo Jiajun found thousands of Americans, and then asked a limited number of officers in the Eighth Division who knew English to translate Huo Jiajun's decree to these Americans, and then let them walk the streets and alleys to publicize Huo Jiajun's policy to all the people in Chicago!

"Knock knock, open the door, open the door!"

Listening to the violent knock on the door, John Turner's heart went up and down, and the look on his face was full of uneasiness. But now that these Chinese occupy Chicago, he has no choice but to resign himself to fate!

With trembling hands, he opened the door and appeared in front of Turner's eyes. It was a lieutenant ** officer in a straight military uniform, although he didn't know what rank this officer was. But Turner, who is now almost useless to his subordinates, does not dare to have the slightest contempt!

"You're John Turner, a professor at Concordia University?" Concordia University Chicago, also known as Concordia University of Chicago, was founded in 1864. It is one of the oldest universities in Chicago and the first aristocratic school in the Midwest of the United States. Since its founding, Concordia University has produced a large number of teachers and musicians for the Midwest of the United States! So Concordia faculty are some of the best in the whole of America!

"Yes, I am!" replied Turner cautiously.

"Yes, I am Qin Liang, the battalion commander of the 8th Marine Division of the Chinese People's Army, and I am now informing you that because we and the US ** team will soon start a war in Chicago, in order to reduce civilian casualties, I want you to leave here immediately." Move to a safe place!"

"What? Go to war! Do you want to fight a war in downtown Chicago? My God, there are millions of people here! You're sinning!"

Qin Liang looked at this middle-aged man with an excited expression and his hair had begun to turn gray, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart: "If you don't say that, how can you obediently follow us and leave!" In fact, this is also a strategy that the staff of the expeditionary force came up with, if there is no reason, start to relocate these talents that the Huo family army needs. After all, at this time, the yellow people in the East gave people the impression that they were backward, and that they were about the same as the blacks in terms of international status, and in the eyes of these whites, they were barbarian natives! And what impressed the barbarian natives was destruction, massacre, and barbaric and backward civilization!

Other than that. These people are the most valuable talents, and Huo Jiajun is not easy to use. So they had no choice but to threaten them with war and let them leave their homes by themselves! When they got on the train and were dragged down by their families, it was too late for them to escape! They could only obey Huo Jiajun's arrangement and drift across the ocean to the East!

"John Turner's war is not something you should care about, we will evacuate the people here, and now your task is to pack your luggage in half an hour, and then take your family and move to a safe place with our soldiers!"

"May I ask, do you want to get us there?" asked Turner, with some appeasement.

"Omaha! We've taken it! You're going to be transferred there!"

"Okay!"

Beginning at six o'clock in the morning after the Huo Jiajun occupied Chicago, this scene appeared in various universities and colleges in Chicago, and these teachers were the first batch of talents plundered by the Huo Jiajun! Then there were gold, silver, and a large amount of dollars from various banks! As for those skilled workers, they also needed to help the people of the Huo Jiajun Baggage Regiment dismantle the machinery and equipment, and they would not leave until all the equipment in the factory where they were located had been dismantled!

The train that had just been stopped yesterday was billowed with smoke after dawn, and after occupying the transportation hub of Chicago, the expeditionary force captured a large number of locomotives and carriages!

"Has the telegram been sent?" Wu Guangzong asked after stepping into the Zhèngfu building in Chicago, which had become the headquarters of the expeditionary force, and after finding a spacious room to sit down.

"Don't worry! Commander! The news of our occupation of Chicago has already been sent out through the Chicago Telegraph Office! In addition, we have deliberately let go of a few Americans who have seen our occupation of Chicago with their own eyes! I believe that the news of our eastward advance will spread throughout the United States within two days today and tomorrow!" Xi Yong, political commissar of the Eighth Division, immediately replied, but the incomprehension in his tone, as well as the hesitation in his eyes, made people understand that he had many doubts hidden in his heart.

"Do you think that revealing the news of our occupation of Chicago in this way will lead to an attack by the US ** team early, which is not conducive to our next military operations?"

"Yes, Commander! The later the news of our occupation of Chicago comes out, the safer it will be for our troops! When the time comes, we will be able to launch a new offensive when the troops of the 25th Division come up from behind! But ...... now!"

After listening to his words, Wu Guangzong did not refute, he also had the same question in his heart!

"This order was given by the young master himself!" Standing in front of the window and looking at the Marine Corps soldiers standing on duty on the street, Wu Guangzong was silent for a while before he said slowly.

"Young Master......!"