After a brief stop in Chizhou, the team that set out from Anqing to find the schoolgirls continued on their way to Fengtai County. Qiu Jin volunteered to join the team with two other members of the Liberation Society. The families of the female students originally did not dare to make this request to Qiu Jin, but when Qiu Jin took the initiative to ask to go with everyone, the sad faces of the family members finally showed some signs of improvement.

When the team left Chizhou, there were very few people to see them off, and the specifications were very high. The leaders of the Liberation Society in Chizhou basically came. Tao Chengzhang and Xu Xilin came to see off Qiu Jin in person. In a place far away from others, Tao Chengzhang said solemnly: "Xuanqing, I agree that you will not go to Fengtai County to fight Chen Ke in the ring. Although Chen Ke is young, he is much stronger than us in the revolution. I hope you can learn something from Fengtai County anyway and see how Chen Ke and the People's Party run local affairs. Although Chen Ke did not do the right thing in the matter of female students, it was all a trivial matter. The success of the revolution is the big thing. Now that we have some misunderstandings between the Guangfu Society and the Yue Wang Society, if we can no longer cooperate sincerely with the People's Party, we will be too alone in Anhui. ”

Qiu Jin was not a reckless person, and when she personally participated in the management of Chizhou as a "revolutionary victor", Qiu Jin realized that the revolution was far from what she imagined. The Liberation Society is not a native of Anhui, and as the "manager" of the airborne, the situation faced by the Liberation Society is even worse than that of the local Yue Wang Society in Anhui. In addition to the party members brought from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, there are very few local parties who defect to the Yue Wang Society. Without the cooperation of the locals, the Liberation Society could only maintain its local existence, and Tao Chengzhang and others could not get the support of local financial and material resources no matter how they operated. If it weren't for Chen Ke, who handed over the complete treasury and military equipment of the Chizhou Mansion to the Restoration Society, and also gave the Liberation Society some arms captured from Anqing, the Liberation Society would almost not be able to hold out in Chizhou.

Because of the busy affairs during this time, even Tao Chengzhang, who has always been energetic, looked a little haggard. Qiu Jin no longer had any intentions, she nodded, and said to Tao Chengzhang: "Brother Huanqing, I will never delay the major events of the revolution because of myself." ”

Xu Xilin and Tao Chengzhang also had the same idea, since Tao Chengzhang said it first, he didn't say more, "Xuanqing, be careful on the road." Xu Xilin just said simply.

"Bosun, you and Huanqing should also pay attention to their bodies. You're tired of this. Qiu Jin also advised.

The team did not choose the waterway when they set off, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty has been checking the waterway quite strictly recently. Everyone chose the land route, starting from Chizhou, and the small team crossed the Yangtze River again and advanced to the north.

The further north you go, the more frightening the tragedy becomes. Chizhou is a small area, and the number of victims in northern Anhui who fled for their lives is limited. Unlike the Yue Wang Society, the Restoration Society did not have the support of the local gentry. So they had to make the most of the victims. Although the victims from Anhui did not believe in the people from other provinces, when it came time to starve to death, the victims could not care about the prejudices between the provinces that had formed on weekdays, so they also recruited seven or eight hundred local victims from Anhui. Coupled with the seven or eight hundred people brought by the Restoration Society, these more than 1,000 people were able to control Chizhou City.

Even so, the issue of the victims has caused a headache for the Liberation Society. But really walking in the affected areas, everyone understands that the problem of disaster victims faced by Chizhou is nothing at all.

There are dead people everywhere in the disaster area, and they are all newly deceased. Scrawny corpses can be found everywhere, on the roadside, under trees, in all kinds of corners. In every market town, victims of the sale of their sons and daughters can be seen everywhere. The team was very clever enough to change into the short clothes of ordinary people, which did not attract the attention of the victims. Moreover, the people who were sold, as well as the victims who sold their sons and daughters, were skinny and skinny, and they were powerless to drag the people of the squad to harass.

The horror of the aftermath is not only the starving victims, this is about to be the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and it stands to reason that spring planting should also begin. However, in the post-disaster areas, the spring ploughing of various large enclosures and large towns is not on the scale of previous years. Because of the fear of looting by the victims, all places that can protect themselves are the primary purpose of self-protection. On the contrary, there is no way to protect themselves, so they have to start farming. Even so, there is no spring ploughing in areas with easy access to the area.

After the floods, the land was already barren and no one was left to cultivate, and the affected area looked even more bleak. Anqing is located in a mountainous area, and there is not much land that can be used for farming, and the landlords and gentry near Anqing feel incredible to see that there is no cultivation in such a vast field. However, this is indeed the case, and the people who have nothing are unable to farm, and the forces that can still survive do not dare to farm. There are only a handful of yeoman farmers who can maintain basic farming in the face of natural disasters. The number of these people simply does not make the disaster area look alive.

The members of the small team were not born in hardship and farming, and when they saw the tragic situation in the local area, everyone became even more uneasy. Fengtai County is the hardest-hit area, and God knows how miserable it will be. The families of the female students originally thought that Chen Ke was taking the population for ulterior purposes, but seeing the appearance of the disaster area, they had begun to pray that Chen Ke really wanted to take the population and not rob the female students and then sell them. Under such worries, the family members kept asking the team to increase the speed of action, even if it was a seller, it would not be long before Chen Ke grabbed someone, and maybe Chen Ke had not yet contacted the buyer. These people don't have much money with them, and they decide that no matter how Chen Ke extorts, they will save their daughter from this hellish disaster area.

When they arrived in Hefei, there were more victims, and more news about the People's Party increased. Many people know that there is an armed force called the Insurance Regiment in Fengyang Mansion. Legend has it that under the rule of the insurance group, as long as you are willing to work, you can survive. The team inquired whether the insurance regiment in the northern Fengyang Mansion had rebelled. The victims didn't care about this at all, they just wanted to be able to eat and live. Whether to rebel or not is not at all in the minds of the people.

The further north you go, the more people will be on the road to Fengyang Province. The team looking for the female students hurried to the road, and on a fence wall more than 100 miles away from Shouzhou, they finally saw the red banner of the People's Party and the soldiers of the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army wearing dark blue military uniforms. It was from here that the situation in the countryside began to change dramatically. Someone has started to plough the land on a large scale.

The BJP's armed forces assisted in farming and defended the farmland. On the land that began to be cultivated on a large scale, the soldiers and farmers had to form close mutual aid groups in the face of the disaster. There are always people with broadswords and spears guarding the farmland. When the victims came to plead, the guards persuaded them not to disturb their farming and guided them to the nearby refugee camp. For the people, there is nothing more attractive than the land that is cultivated. But the victims lacked food rations, let alone tools and seeds to cultivate. Looking at the land that had been ploughed, the eyes of these people almost burst into flames. But the defenders' stance and the weapons in their hands forced the victims to temporarily obey the BJP's commands.

After walking forward for another half day, a small force came on the road. One by one, they walked as fast as they could, and when they encountered someone blocking the road, they let the person in the way get out of the way. "Folks, our troops are on their way. Please don't block your way. "Although these people are also heavily armed, they speak quite politely. The attitude is also not the arrogance and ferocity peculiar to officers and soldiers. When the people on the road saw that these people were armed, they didn't dare to provoke them. Under persuasion, he obediently gave up part of the road surface. It didn't take long to see a long line of troops coming down the road.

The number of this large force turned out to be about 1,000 people. The soldiers in the unit were carrying guns and marching quite fast. Looking at the direction of this team, it seems to be going to Hefei. I don't know how long the team has been marching, but anyway, the soldiers are all blushing. There was sweat on his forehead.

"This People's Party is going to war again?" Huang Chengxun's voice trembled a little when he asked.

No one answered Huang Chengxun's words. Everyone's eyes were attracted by this unit in dark blue uniforms, and they couldn't take their eyes off it. This is the armed force that broke through Anqing not long ago. Along the way, the people in the team also discussed the siege of Anqing, although Shi Dekuan refused to say anything for the sake of Yue Wanghui's face. But Qiu Jin has no obligation to save face for the Yue Wang Society, she told everyone that this time it was neither the Yue Wang Hui nor the Guangfu Society that defeated Anqing, but the People's Party in Fengtai County. The People's Party not only broke Anqing City in one night, but also left after the fight. Kidnapping and plundering of the students of the girls' school.

The families of the female students were also skeptical of this, and they couldn't figure out why the People's Party had gone all the way to attack Anqing, let alone why it had to withdraw so easily after beating Anqing. It wasn't until they saw the troops of the People's Party with their own eyes that these gentry finally believed that what Qiu Jin said had some truth. The ranks of the People's Party do have the strength to conquer Anqing.

The army in front of him was completely different from any team that Huang Chengxun and the others had ever seen. The heartfelt attitude of concentration, the kind of pace of striving forward, all silently reveal the firm determination of these people. Just by looking at the march of these people, the people in the squad could feel that these people were really going to fight. Whoever stands in front of this team will be completely crushed by this team.

Seeing this momentum, both Qiu Jin and Shi Dekuan began to compare their own forces with them in their hearts. Neither of them spoke, neither of them had seen with their own eyes how the BJP had broken the city, but seeing this army marching with their own eyes, both of them knew that the forces they belonged to were simply not able to compete with it.

The team walked forward a little further, but saw a small group of soldiers standing on the side of the road, they had no weapons, but they were holding allegro, and they were singing. The content of the song is very short, "Survive in the morning, survive in the twilight, and it is difficult for the people to survive recently." Without eating, drinking, and without farm tools, how to plow on the day of spring? We, the People's Party, are all supported by the people. Comrades, take a big step forward, and after laying Hefei, release grain and farm tools, and the people have land to plant. ”

The song is vulgar, but the content is understandable as soon as you hear it. The gentry in the squad looked at each other when they heard this, and they could never have imagined that the People's Party would agitate their troops to such an extent. But as far as they saw along the way, the life of the people was indeed like hell, and if the People's Party could really take Hefei and then start organizing production again, as the song says, it would not only be the People's Party expanding its territory, but the people would really be able to survive.

But everyone couldn't figure out so many things, anyway, it wasn't too far away from Fengtai County. The crowd simply quickened their pace and hurried in the opposite direction of the BJP troops' march.