Bai Wenwei, the leader of the Yue Wang Society, is not a person who does not know how to take it seriously, and the reason why he ran to Chen Ke to ask for weapons and equipment and loot was also forced to helpless. During the campaign against Anqing, the People's Party troops immediately took away all the guns and ammunition wherever they went, and all that was left were broken guns that were seriously damaged. Not only that, but the People's Party was extremely heavy in this battle, and the Anhui New Army suffered heavy casualties. Originally, the Yue Wanghui was already very powerful in the new army, and they always thought that they could borrow the pressure of the People's Party to win over the Anhui New Army in the battle against Anqing, and completely mastered the Anhui New Army after the war. But along the way, the Anhui New Army suffered nearly half of the casualties. The original wishful thinking was immediately distorted. Some comrades of the Yue Wanghui in the new army in the city were killed and wounded in the battle, which made the people of the Yue Wanghui even more angry, and some people had already shouted that they would never give up with the People's Party.

As a last resort, Bai Wenwei had no choice but to play the role of this "asking price". He is an acquaintance with Yan Fu, and he has enough qualifications, no matter what, Chen Ke will give him some face. If King Yue and other comrades came to do this, I was afraid that he would immediately fall out with the People's Party.

However, the People's Party acted in an extremely strange way, and after breaking through the New Army camp and completely occupying Anqing, the People's Party began to prepare for withdrawal on the same day, and the speed with which was alarming. Bai Wenwei was leading the people to receive prisoners from the Anhui New Army, waiting for him to learn that the People's Party had begun to retreat. The lightly wounded of the People's Party, as well as some of the booty, were sent to the ship at the Anqing wharf.

"Where is Mr. Chen Ke?" Bai Wenwei didn't know how many times he dragged the person wearing the People's Party uniform to ask. The answer was "I don't know." "Three words. The People's Party has set up roadblocks, and except for the west of the city, the people of the Yue Wanghui cannot enter other areas at all.

"That's right! Domain! When Bai Wenwei remembered this important goal, he was helpless. But he also noticed something strange, only to see the BJP fighters lined up in a neat line, searching for bullet casings all over the streets. After many neighborhoods were searched, the barricades were removed. God knows what the BJP is going to do with bullet casings.

"Bullet casings, metal objects, collect as much as you can. Hurry up and get it away. By the way, the Catholic church is focused on demolishing for me. Don't be afraid of people saying that we rob it, the property of foreign religions is illegal. Whoever dares to stop it can be shot on the spot as a counter-revolutionary. Chen Ke hurriedly assigned the task.

As soon as he heard about the demolition of the church, Chai Qingguo immediately happily volunteered, "I'll go, I'll go, I'll take people there." ”

"Brigade Commander Chai, you remember to me that we are asking for things, not for you to kill people. If you can, don't kill. Chen Ke admonished.

"Don't worry, watching the foreign devils cry and wipe their tears, they will kill them and be much happier." Chai Qingguo couldn't help laughing, "But if the foreign devils don't know each other, Chairman Chen, I'm welcome." ”

"Okay, you can do it yourself." Chen Ke said.

When Chai Qingguo went out happily, Chen Ke turned his head and gave an order to Zhang Yu and Pu Guanshui, who had just returned, "Comrade Zhang Yu, Comrade Pu Guanshui, the wounded must be transported away, and it is very inconvenient for the large army to return to the base area by land. Be quick! Be sure to be fast! After we transport the wounded and supplies out of Anqing, the land of right and wrong, we can plan calmly. But if the fleet does not go now, it will not be able to go when it is too late. The affairs of the fleet are left to you. ”

"Yes!" Zhang Yu and Pu Guanshui replied with red eyes.

"Do it right away!" Chen Ke ordered. His eyes were still clear. But no one will blame Chen Ke, everyone knows that Chen Ke actually sleeps much less than others.

As soon as Zhang Yu and Pu Guanshui went out, Chen Ke immediately turned his head and said to Yan Fu: "Mr. Yan Fu, let's go to the Anqing Armory Institute to see, what can be transported away immediately, it will be transported immediately." Besides, the workers and technicians of the ordnance station, we have to find a way to get rid of them. ”

Seeing Chen Ke so excited, Yan Fu couldn't help but sigh. The smoothness of the Battle of Anqing was also far beyond Yan Fu's imagination. He suddenly asked, "Chairman Chen, what are you going to do with Anqing?" ”

"Mr. Yan Fu, let the Yue Wang Society and the Guangfu Society take care of it themselves. Anyway, the Restoration Society got Chizhou, and they didn't suffer. ”

"Chairman Chen, didn't you tell them to jump into the fire pit?" Yan Fu was not a revolutionary party in the first place, and he didn't have much affection for Yue Wanghui and Guangfuhui, who were revolutionary parties. So his tone was very calm.

Chen Ke smiled: "They are willing, and I don't force them to do it." If they want to run, they can run now. ”

Yan Fu actually admired Chen Ke's strategic outlook very much, before fighting Anqing, he didn't expect that such a dangerous thousand-mile raid could be realized. So I'm in a great mood right now. "Leave these things to the court to worry about. It is important that we hurry back to the base area. But Wen Qing, have you ever worked in machinery? I see you're quite knowledgeable. ”

"I grew up in a machine shop. Later, I also learned a little bit of mechanical manufacturing or something. Chen Ke couldn't help but say that he leaked.

Yan Fu is not the kind of person who likes gossip, but he was very happy to hear this. "That's right, let's discuss what to transport back."

It is unrealistic to give Anqing a big move, and the People's Party does not have much time, so there is even less room for choice. Complete sets of equipment can only be selected for easy transportation, but fortunately, there is no shortage of labor in Anqing. At the same time as the People's Party moved itself, it also requisitioned the people. By the evening of 2 February, the flotilla was carrying the wounded and supplies down the river.

And on the evening of February 2, the People's Party made a major arrest of Anqingcheng. The target of the arrest was all the personnel of the Anqing Armory Institute. That night the dogs were barking, the men were wailing, and the women were crying. The BJP soldiers broke into the door and forced at gunpoint the technicians of the Anqingnei Ordnance Institute to sign a "labor contract" that they had to work for the BJP for a year. Unwillingly or unwillingly, after forcibly pressing their fingerprints, the families of these people were given a year's salary advance. After capturing the Anqing Domain, the People's Party was not short of money at all.

Another target for grabbing people is Qiu Jin's Anqing Girls' School. Anqing is a place where the literary style is very prosperous, and it is not only the people in the city who go to school in the girls' school, but also the girls of the enlightened scholar families outside the city who study here. The women's academic style is very good, and Enming vigorously promotes it in order to implement the new policy. There are also more than 100 female students living in the dormitory of the school. Teachers are needed in the base areas, and in order to popularize compulsory education, female dolls also have to go to school, so there is a shortage of female teachers. Chen Ke specially formulated a battle plan for this purpose.

The principal of the women's school is Qiu Jin, and with Qiu Jin's temperament, robbing people in front of her is going to kill people. For this reason, Chen Ke deliberately played a little trick, he invited Qiu Jin to the command headquarters, and pretended to arrange guards to guard the girls' middle school. As soon as Qiu Jin left, the guards immediately went in to arrest people. In order to prevent the schoolgirls from screaming, the soldiers gagged the schoolgirls, tied their hands, and put them in sacks. Chai Qingguo's horse team was already waiting outside the door, and the schoolgirls were thrown on horseback. Together with the workers and technicians of the Anqing Machinery Institute who were captured, the large army withdrew from Anqing City.

Chen Ke was the last to leave, and he looked back at this important city on the Yangtze River, and suddenly couldn't help but laugh. The guard asked curiously, "Why is the chairman laughing?" ”

"It's nothing, it's just a smile." Chen Ke said perfunctorily, in fact, the reason why he laughed was very simple, Chen Ke never expected that he would actually do a business of robbing men and women.

The people of the Yue Wang Society did not dare to play a night battle with the People's Party, and they were quite afraid of the strong fighting power shown by the People's Party in the siege battle last night. Although they were very indignant at the People's Party's actions to harm Anqing, they were indignant and indignant, and when they were about to go to the People's Party at dawn to comment, they found that the People's Party had gone cleanly. After searching Anqing City with extreme doubts, the people of Yue Wanghui were really convinced that Anqing City had fallen into their hands.

If you have to say it, Chen Ke is already very kind. At least a quarter of the treasury was left in the treasury for King Yue. Half of the cannon is also left. Even two machine guns were left. A quarter of the arsenal was also kept. Bai Wenwei originally thought that the People's Party would move everything away, but he couldn't believe it when he saw that the People's Party had left so many things.

He also sent people to investigate the "evil deeds" of the People's Party last night, and the number of "victims" was less than 200, and the families of the abducted technicians also admitted that the People's Party had paid their wages first. The families of these "victims" thought that the People's Party and the members of the Yue Wang Association were in the same group, and they begged the people of the Yue Wang Association to let the family go home first. They will definitely work for the people of the Yue Wang Society, but they can't get to the point of arresting people, right?

The results of the investigation made the people of the Yue Wang Association feel incredible. And the great victory of completely capturing Anqing City immediately occupied the main attention of the Yue Wang Society. Once the power is in hand, the order will be carried out. The principal cadres of the Yue Wang Hui immediately convened a meeting to discuss how to establish a revolutionary regime, further overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and embark on the grand cause of establishing New China. As for the loss of less than two hundred people, it seemed to these people to be a trivial matter.

The only person who was out of anger was Qiu Jin, who drugged her when Chen Ke invited her to dinner. Qiu Jin didn't wake up until the afternoon of the next day, and when she found out that all the students of the girls' school were missing, she thought it was a bad thing done by some other force. It wasn't until February 4 that she was sure that the person who did this bad thing was actually Chen Ke, whom she favored very much. This feeling of betrayal made this strong and emotional female revolutionary cry like rain down her face.

News spread that Anqing and Chizhou had been taken away by the revolutionary party Yue Wanghui and Guangfuhui, and by February 5, 1907, Wuhan and Nanjing had received the news. On February 6, Beijing and Shanghai got the news. On February 8, the news had spread to cities along the Yangtze River. By February 10, the news had reached Japan. The alliance in Japan was immediately thunderous. The Yue Wanghui had joined the League, and these comrades had occupied such a large city as Anqing, and it seemed that the success of the revolution was just around the corner. The League immediately sent telegrams and news to various places, and organized a team to return to China, preparing to participate in the revolution centered on Anqing.

For a time, all kinds of strange news in the Yangtze River basin flowed around, and all kinds of irresponsible rumors became the main topic after dinner. The cities occupied by the revolutionary army expanded from Anqing and Chizhou to Wuhan and Nanjing, and some people swore that they saw the revolutionary army waving white flags, wearing white helmets and white armor, holding maces, and wearing the filial piety of Chongzhenye, killing towards Shanghai, Hangzhou, Zhenjiang, and Shaoxing. In short, the Qing Dynasty is about to be destroyed.

But this is all just a rumor, and nothing has changed in various places, except for the closed gates and strict guards. The revolutionaries in Anqing and Chizhou were in the dilemma of forming a new government, no matter how they gave their comrades all sorts of very revolutionary and mighty titles, or talked about the plans they had drawn up before the success of the revolution. None of them can afford to face the dilemma of insufficient manpower and poor organization.

In the face of the "successful rebellion" of the Anqing Revolutionary Party, the first thing the Manchu forces thought of was to stabilize their own territory and maintain their own order. Arrest the local revolutionary party. There is no intention of retaking Anqing at all.

As a result, the situation in which the revolutionaries expected a hundred responses did not happen, whether it was the revolutionary party or the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the two sides just stared at each other, and as the New Year approached, everyone's attention was on the Spring Festival. The imaginary fierce revolutionary war did not break out. The situation calmed down like this.

February 12, 1907 was Chinese New Year's Eve, and it was on this day that the People's Party finally arrived at Wabu Lake. Got on board the fleet that came to greet them. On the second day of the Lunar New Year, the troops successfully returned to the base area. This Anqing campaign ended.