The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 384: A Cannon Fires, a Million Pounds of Gold
"Brother Wei, there are three infantry regiments coming towards us from Aurora! Just as you guessed, they are the 16th Infantry Regiment, the 18th Infantry Regiment, and the 19th Infantry Regiment." Green now has unparalleled admiration for Chen Zhengwei.

Starting from the press conference held by President Rutherford B. Hayes, Chen Zhengwei's guesses about the Army's every move were extremely accurate.

The precision is terrifying.

Whether it was the numbers of the mobilized cavalry and infantry regiments, or their routes and departure times, they were exactly the same as Chen Zhengwei said.

You have to know that all the telegrams sent back by the detectives passed through his hands.

In other words, Chen Zhengwei could reach these conclusions without any other sources of information.

He now began to believe what Chen Zhengwei often said.

He is God's favorite.

Green had the illusion that God was whispering in his ear every day.

"They won't arrive until two days later!" Chen Zhengwei felt that he could take this opportunity to hold a banquet.

So what if we know that three army regiments are coming this way?

But if the enemy commander Nelson A. Miles knew that he was holding a banquet, would he advance rashly with light troops?

How would he react when he, a "gang leader" in their eyes, was still holding a banquet when the troops were approaching the city, completely ignoring them?
Judging from the information...he can't do anything!
We will still march according to the original plan.

"Go prepare some invitations to send to the wealthy people in Chicago. We will hold a banquet at the hotel tomorrow night! Tell them that they can continue to sing and dance!" Chen Zhengwei turned his head and instructed his men.

"Let Anna change her clothes and come down!"

After a while, Anna came down and snuggled in Chen Zhengwei's arms, hugging his neck with her hands.

"I think you need a dress! There's a party tomorrow night and you'd love it!"

"This is not a good time! You have important things to do!" Anna thought for a moment and advised. She knew it was very dangerous now.

"No, this time is the most suitable!" Chen Zhengwei waved his hand. He wanted to show his relaxed attitude and go fishing at the same time.

And it gave them the arrogant impression that he liked to hold banquets before the war. It didn't come in handy this time, but it might come in handy next time.

In addition, I guess many people don’t dare to come.

Then I have something to say.

They didn't even come to my party. Did they not give me face? Or did they have some opinion about me?
Chen Zhengwei never bullies others or makes trouble unreasonably.

He targets everyone for a reason.

"Let's go! I'll take you out for a walk and show you my new city!" Chen Zhengwei stood up with a laugh.

There was an important person in this city whom he had never met, the steel tycoon Carnegie, a supporter of the Democratic Party.

The day after I arrived in Chicago, this guy went to New York.

He had no intention of meeting me at all and ran away very quickly.

When Chen Zhengwei was strolling around Chicago with Anna, Chen Zhengwei's henchmen also delivered invitations to some wealthy people in Chicago.

"The army will be here soon, and that Chinese man still wants to hold a party? Indulging in extravagance and decadence before death?" Many wealthy people sneered after receiving the invitation.

They thought that Chen Zhengwei was either crazy or knew that he was going to die and wanted to live a life of luxury for a few more days.

But I dare not express this thought out loud.

Who knows what the Chinese man can do now that he is at the end of his rope.

"Tell Mr. Chen that we will definitely be there!" the boss of a machinery manufacturing company vowed.

However, as soon as Chen Zhengwei's henchmen left, his expression changed, and his face became uncertain.

This Chinese man is crazy. Holding a banquet at this time, he is not going to arrest all these people and use them as hostages to negotiate with the army, right?
It was really too unusual for Chen Zhengwei to hold a banquet at this time. The more he thought about it, the more he dared not go.

After returning home, he finally made up his mind.

can not go.

First take your family to the countryside to hide for two days, and then come back after the Chinese man dies.

That night, he quietly left Chicago with his family.

As a result, he met several other carriages on the road and was startled, thinking they were Chen Zhengwei's men.

After some testing, I found out that he was the owner of a textile factory.

At the same time, someone sent the news by telegram outside Chicago, and then it fell into the hands of Nelson A. Miles.

At this time, the Army infantry were checking along the railway line, while the train was moving slowly.

Nelson A. Miles was sitting in a carriage, holding a telegram in his hand and frowning slightly: "Holding a banquet at this time?"

"That Chinese man probably knows what will happen to him, so he wants to go crazy before he dies! Should we send out an army to speed up and catch him off guard?" Miles's operations staff suggested.

Nelson A. Miles frowned and thought for a long time, then shook his head: "No need!"

"As long as we can get to Chicago safely, the battle will be over soon!"

"This Chinese is smarter than we thought. He wants to play the same trick as last time. He is holding a banquet just to make us advance lightly and then ambush us halfway!"

"Still proceeding according to the original plan, we will arrive at the Chicago train station the day after tomorrow morning!"

……

The next night, the hotel was brightly lit, and some wealthy people came to the hotel with invitations in hand, feeling nervous.

"Good evening, Mr. Wells. You look in good spirits today!"

"Senator Bryan, I haven't seen you for a long time, and you didn't come to have coffee with me!" Chen Zhengwei greeted the invited guests in the hotel as if nothing had happened.

"Thompson, how did you sleep these two days?" When Chen Zhengwei saw the mayor come in, he walked up to him and chatted with him, laughing.

"I didn't sleep well and was always woken up!" Thompson sighed.

He now felt that it was not so easy to get Chen Zhengwei's money.

He had received a lot of money, but no one was as troublesome as Chen Zhengwei.

Of course, if he were given another chance, he would still accept it, otherwise he doubted whether he could still stand here.

"Poor sleep has a great impact on health! In fact, I have a way to improve sleep!" Chen Zhengwei said with a smile.

"What method?" Thompson suddenly became interested.

"But you'll be able to sleep well soon!" Chen Zhengwei raised his eyebrows at Thompson and skipped the previous topic.

Of course he has a way to improve his sleep, which is to fall asleep easily, and sleep peacefully and serenely.

Waking up is impossible.

"Any news?" Thompson could hear something behind Chen Zhengwei's words.

"The army will be here tomorrow morning!" Chen Zhengwei said meaningfully.

"You look very confident!" Thompson looked at him and said, "By the way, let me introduce you, this is Anna! This is Mr. Thompson, the mayor of Chicago!"

"What a beautiful girl!" Thompson praised with a smile.

After a while, Chen Zhengwei separated from Thompson and swept around the banquet hall with his eyes flashing.

"It looks like a lot of people don't give me face tonight!"

So far, at most two-thirds of the people I sent out have come.

As for the rest of the people, they all hold deep racial discrimination and have strong opinions about themselves.

After everyone arrived, Chen Zhengwei walked to the front with a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Everyone, the army will not arrive until tomorrow morning, so this will not affect our enjoyment of the banquet tonight!"

When everyone heard this, their eyelids twitched.

"Chicago's prosperity has been affected a little recently because of our dictator president, but this will soon be over!"

"Keep singing and dancing, nothing can affect you!" Chen Zhengwei raised his wine glass, looked at the well-dressed gentlemen around him, and laughed.

After a while, when the banquet started, Chen Zhengwei called his men and asked, "Have you compiled the list of those who didn't come?"

"The statistics are done!"

"Take inventory of their industries as well!"

"There is a saying among the old people that a cannon shot is worth a ton of gold! Now I think this saying makes a lot of sense! The words of the ancients are all very reasonable!"

Once the cannon fires, a fortune of gold will come.

A few hundred thousand dollars can at least buy assets worth several million dollars.

At this time, in a corner of the banquet, several men were holding wine glasses and talking in low voices, glancing in the direction of Chen Zhengwei from time to time.

They were elite troops sent to Chicago by the Ministry of Justice. They had been lurking in Chicago for a long time and finally got an opportunity.

This banquet.

Therefore, after getting the news, they found a way to contact some wealthy people, get their invitation letters, and then pretend to be their children or nephews to sneak in.

As long as we can catch that Chinese man, everything will be over.

"Find an opportunity and prepare for action!" one of the agents whispered to the others.

Several people turned their heads and looked over. Chen Zhengwei was talking to someone at the moment, and there was no one around him.

Chen Zhengwei's men were guarding the door and the periphery.

This is the best opportunity.

After a few people nodded slightly, they dispersed and walked towards Chen Zhengwei with wine glasses, as if they wanted to talk to Chen Zhengwei.

When passing by the dining table, he held the knife upside down in his hand.

They had no chance to bring weapons to this banquet, but table knives were enough.

When they were two meters away from Chen Zhengwei, one of them threw the glass of wine at Chen Zhengwei, but Chen Zhengwei suddenly took a step to the side, and the glass of wine fell into the air.

This made the agent pause in his next action. He looked up at Chen Zhengwei, only to see Chen Zhengwei looking at him sarcastically.

"My clothes are very expensive! You can't afford it!"

"Exposed!" This thought immediately popped up in the agent's mind, and then he pounced towards Chen Zhengwei.

Chen Zhengwei kicked the agent on the chest with incredible speed. The agent suddenly felt as if he was hit by a cannonball. The bones in his chest broke and he was kicked more than four meters away.

The other agents' faces changed drastically, and they accelerated towards Chen Zhengwei at the same time.

This scene made many people who were paying attention to this side pause.

"A few little bugs sneaked in!" Chen Zhengwei raised the wine glass in his hand and gestured to everyone. When he kicked out just now, the wine in his hand did not spill.

Suddenly a pistol appeared in his left hand, with the muzzle slightly lowered, and he shot two shots at the knee of another agent who rushed over.

Boom!

The agent fell to his knees on the spot.

Chen Zhengwei turned around and made way for another agent who was rushing towards him and the knife in his hand, while the last agent had already rushed to Chen Zhengwei's side, the dinner knife in his hand flashing with a cold light.

There was already joy in the agent's eyes; he had caught Chen Zhengwei.

Then a gun barrel was seen extending from under Chen Zhengwei's arm.

Bang bang bang!
After being shot three times in the chest, the agent's strength was rapidly draining away. Before he fell, he saw Chen Zhengwei glanced at him. There was no fluctuation in his eyes, as if he was looking at an insignificant insect.

When the agent who had been dodged by Chen Zhengwei turned around, he saw that the other agent had been shot three times and was slowly falling to the ground, while Chen Zhengwei was looking at him with the muzzle of the gun pointed at his forehead.

The thugs in the distance also rushed over at this time.

Bang!

The agent's knife fell to the ground and he was pinned to the ground by his thugs.

"Drag them away and interrogate them thoroughly to find out where the others are! Also, whose invitation did they use to get in?" Chen Zhengwei said to his men, putting the wine glass aside.

Then he smiled and clapped his hands: "Okay, the little bug has been dealt with! We can continue to enjoy this evening!"

After saying that, he walked up to Anna, took her hand and led them to the dance floor, and the band started playing again.

What just happened did not cause any ripples for him. He had encountered too many attacks and shootings.

And this time it was exactly what he expected.

However, to the others, Chen Zhengwei's sudden and sudden move just now brought them a great shock.

In particular, Chen Zhengwei dealt with the four attackers without even putting down the wine glass in his hand.

The eyes of some ladies who came to the banquet with their families were shining.

……

As the dance in Chicago played in the distance, Nelson A. Miles stepped off the train and looked out at Chicago in the distance.

This place is still ten kilometers away from Chicago, and the soldiers have just begun to rest.

Tomorrow morning, they will arrive at the Chicago train station.

As daylight rose, most of the soldiers sat near the train and ate breakfast.

At the same time, a group of soldiers had begun to advance towards Chicago, their mission being to seize the train station.

Nelson A. Miles expected that they would encounter fierce resistance at the train station.

……

At the same time, in faraway California, a cavalry regiment was approaching Sacramento!

(End of this chapter)