At the beginning, one or two, ten or eight surrendered to the People's Army, but soon they surrendered to the People's Army in groups and hundreds of thousands. As a result, whenever the People's Army attacked a street, the Red Lotus Cult Army guarding almost put down their swords and guns, knelt down on the ground, and surrendered to the People's Army.

Originally, because the streets in the city were narrow, the People's Army was generally dispersed into units of companies, which was conducive to the development of combat troops. However, due to the large number of surrenders, hundreds of people suddenly surrendered, and thousands of people surrendered together, the entire street and the entire neighborhood blocked, which instead blocked the People's Army's attack.

The People's Army's military discipline is strict and cannot be killed or ignored by surrendered people. Moreover, so many people surrendered, they cannot just send a few people to watch or take them out of the city to imprison them. Therefore, all the marchs of various routes were almost stopped by the surrendered troops.

At this time, Luo Yueji moved his command from outside the city to the city tower of Fuyang West City to better command the battle. When he learned that there were too many surrendered troops in the city, he had hindered the advance of the People's Army, Luo Yue also ordered all the People's Army to suspend the attack, first send all the surrendered Red Lotus Cult soldiers out of the city, concentrate on custody, and then slowly advance into the city. At the same time, he ordered that all the people's army attacking would retain the strength of a battalion outside the city to supervise the prisoners. If someone found that the prisoners were disobedient and caused trouble, they could kill them on the spot.

As a result, the People's Army's advance slowed down suddenly, and groups of prisoners were constantly being taken out of the city, gathered by the city walls outside the city, and at the same time, several machine guns were installed on the top of the city, ready to suppress the prisoners' disturbances.

However, Fuyang City is not a big city, with a limited scale. Even though the People's Army's advancement slowed down, it was still advancing slowly. Moreover, with more and more Red Lotus Cult soldiers surrendering, the space for the People's Army was gradually expanding. Therefore, in the afternoon, the People's Army had surrendered more than 100,000 Red Lotus Cultivator soldiers, and most of the areas in the city were also controlled by the People's Army. The Red Lotus Cultivator's remaining troops were hiding in a city centered on the prefecture.

These soldiers are all loyal believers of the Red Lotus Sect, with high loyalty and a backbone force of the Red Lotus Sect Army. They also know that even if they surrender, they may not be able to escape, so they can only fight to the death. Moreover, these soldiers were equipped with nearly a thousand muskets, which was also their confidence that they believed they could fight to the death.

But now there is no obstacle, and the People's Army can also let go of the attack without any scruples. As a result, the Red Lotus Army discovered that even if they had muskets, the actual situation was not much stronger. They were still suppressed by the People's Army and had no resistance at all. First, the quality of the muskets equipped by the Red Lotus Army was uneven, from the 88-type rifle made in Hanyang to the old-fashioned front-mounted muskets. The People's Army's rifles are not only equipped with unified configurations, but are currently world-class. They are also equipped with a large number of machine guns, handbags, mortars, grenade launchers and other weapons. Therefore, the firepower of both sides is not at the same level at all; second, the People's Army is well-trained, even if they only use rifles, they know how to exert firepower, cooperate with each other, and fully limit the firepower of the other party.

As a result, after a fierce firefight, the Red Lotus Cult Army suffered heavy casualties, with corpses everywhere, and most of the controlled areas were lost. Even the senior staff were injured and half of them were killed and half. The remaining people could only guard a few houses in the state yamen and carry out the final resistance.

However, at this time, the general trend of the Red Lotus Sect had gone, and the People's Army did not want to work hard with them. They set up dozens of grenade launchers and launched violent bombardment on these houses, only making these houses a thousand holes, and the doors were cracked and the houses were opened. Even after the shelling was stopped, the whole room was still filled with smoke and could not see anything clearly.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the smoke gradually faded, and there was no movement in the house. Then the soldiers were sent in to investigate, and they saw that the house was covered with bloody corpses, and there was no living person.

At this time, the battle was over. The People's Army occupied Fuyang City. The Red Lotus Sect's rebellion was even calmed down by the People's Army.

After the war, the total number of surrenders reached 112,538, 7,892 were captured on the battlefield, killing 6,154 people. In addition, in the battle, more than 5,000 people were killed. According to the identification of the prisoners, the bodies of most of the senior Red Lotus Sect's senior members were determined, and because of their blurred faces and unclear identification, they could only judge their identity from their clothing. It is suspected that several senior members who were involved in the army were also found. In addition, those who were killed or captured in the previous battles can basically be determined. Eight out of ten of the senior Red Lotus Sect's members, including the leader, elders, etc., were shot or captured by the People's Army, and only a few people escaped, but they could not affect the overall situation.

At the same time, a large amount of food, silver, cloth, utensils and other things were seized, and the harvest was quite abundant. However, the surrender and captives totaled about 120,000 people, which was also a huge burden, because the People's Army now has only more than 16,000 people, and the components of the Red Lotus Army are also uneven, including three religions and nine ranks, five elements and eight works. Although most of them are poor civilians, there are also many gangsters, scoundrels, and even some outlaws, thieves. They joined the Red Lotus Sect for speculation and used the power of the Red Lotus Sect to raise their status. After the Red Lotus Sect lost power, they naturally would not accompany the Red Lotus Sect to bury themselves.

However, although they were forced to surrender with the public due to the strong combat effectiveness of the People's Army, some old conditions recurred after the war. Moreover, the People's Army was relatively polite to the prisoners. Although the tone was severe, they generally did not beat and scold the prisoners. As a result, the gangsters and rogues thought that the People's Army was weak and could be bullied, so they deliberately made trouble, and they were sarcastic, calling them not to leave, not to sit, and even inciting other prisoners to cause trouble together.

Although most of the prisoners were poor civilians, they had been in the Red Lotus Army for several months and had developed some bad habits. Therefore, when they were incited by local gangsters, some people would come crazy, so many people followed suit and made a big noise for a while.

However, the People's Army is not really weak or bullied. Its attitude towards prisoners is due to military discipline requirements. But if someone dares to make trouble, he will be rude. At that time, the scene killed a group of people who made the most fun and jumped the highest. More than 300 people were killed in one breath, and the bodies that fell to the ground were bleeding. More than 500 people were caught. This time, the other prisoners were indeed suppressed. Only then did they realize that the People's Army was ruthless and didn't talk much, but they killed them when they said they could kill them, without even blinking. So they became honest and did not dare to disobey the orders of the People's Army.

But Luo Yue was relieved after learning about it. However, although he suppressed the riots of the prisoners, over time, it is inevitable that something will happen again. After all, there are too few soldiers available in his hands now. You should know that there are nearly 20,000 prisoners in Lu'an Prefecture. It seems that there are indeed a little less transfer of only one division from Henan. One division or a few guards should be transferred over.

Of course, the prisoners are just a problem Luo Yue has encountered at present, and it is not too serious, because this time, a large amount of food was seized from the Red Lotus Sect, which was enough for the prisoners to eat for 3 or 4 months. As long as some people were transferred from Henan to help manage, there would be no major problems. But another problem is that Luo Yue could not solve it, which is how to deal with Lu'an Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture.

In principle, this disaster relief operation did not occupy prefectures and counties. Therefore, although East China has set up 12 disaster victim resettlement camps in various places, it has not conflicted with local Qing government officials. Of course, these local officials are relatively knowledgeable and have not set up obstacles to the activities of East China. In some places, the disaster victim resettlement camps and local officials get along well.

However, in order to pacify the Red Lotus Cult rebellion, the People's Army occupied several prefectures and cities in Yingzhou Prefecture. Although it did not cost any losses to occupy these prefectures and cities, it was the army's efforts. It was unwilling to give them back to the Qing court. In addition, the local officials in these prefectures and cities were also killed by the Red Lotus Cult Army, and even if they wanted to, they could not find the ones to take over. Therefore, Qingdao still needs to decide how to deal with these places.

So Luo Yue ordered that all the prisoners from Lu'an Prefecture be taken to Yingzhou Prefecture and custody them together with the prisoners here. At the same time, he ordered to the Southwest Military Region to mobilize some troops to assist in managing land losses. At the same time, he wrote a report and sent it back to Qingdao.

Just three days later, Luo Yue received a reply from the Qingdao Military Commission. It turned out that the Executive Yuan had decided to subscribe Anhui Province to the jurisdiction of East China **. So the Military Commission decided to hand over Anhui Province's defense to the Central Military Region. After all, the Southwest Military Region has fewer troops, only two armies, and guards four battles like Henan. Therefore, it would be better for the Central Military Region, which had three armies and had relatively low defense pressure to take over Anhui Province's defense.

Soon the Central Military Region will send troops to the military management in its jurisdiction. It is still under the command of Luo Yue. It will first capture other areas of Lu'an Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture, and then expand to Luzhou Prefecture, Fengyang Prefecture and other places. Finally, it will attack Anqing Prefecture and occupy the entire Anhui Province in an all-round way.
Chapter completed!