"Boom, boom, boom!"

The position of the Red Lotus Sect was immediately covered by an explosion, and the People's Army artillery on both flanks fired at least 15 rounds in just one or two minutes at the fastest firing speed, and some skilled mortars even reached 20 rounds, and under such a rapid and dense firepower, a total of more than 300 shells were tilted, and within the scope covered by the explosion, almost every inch of land was turned over by the explosion, and there was not one in ten.

After this round of shelling was over, the entire command center of the Red Lotus Sect Army, along with those who pretended to be gods and ghosts, were almost all killed and wounded, leaving corpses all over the field.

The destruction of the command center greatly shook the morale of the Red Lotus Sect army, except for a few people who had firm beliefs, or who were brainwashed more thoroughly by the Red Lotus Sect, everyone else basically began to waver, after all, those mages could not withstand the bombardment of artillery fire, who would believe that the so-called divine skills could protect themselves from guns.

As a result, the military spirit of the Red Lotus Sect army quickly collapsed, although the attack of the Red Lotus Sect army was not like a rainbow, but it was also an offensive tide, but almost in an instant, most of the attacking Red Lotus Sect soldiers stopped, at a loss, and quickly retreated, only a few soldiers were still attacking, but under the intensive fire of the People's Army, they soon fell on the way to charge.

After a short time, the Red Lotus Sect army retreated on all fronts, and the defeat was extremely chaotic, people rushed and trampled on each other, and some soldiers who were injured and fell to the ground were wantonly trampled by the retreating defeated army, causing many casualties.

If at this time, the People's Army launched a pursuit, it was enough to deal a heavy blow to the Red Lotus Sect army, at least half of the casualties, and it could capture a large number of prisoners, but Luo Yue did not order the pursuit, firstly, Luo Yue did not want to cause more killing, and secondly, the number of the People's Army is not large now, although with a strong fire, it can defeat the Red Lotus Sect's army, but if too many prisoners are captured, it is not easy to manage now, and once it is pursued, the Red Lotus Sect army will be completely scattered, and the remnants of the defeated army will scatter and flee, scattered all over the place, harming the Quartet, so it is better not to pursue, let the Red Lotus Sect army flee back to Lu'an City, so that after the reinforcements of the People's Army arrive, which can be concentrated and annihilated in Lu'an City.

In addition, the victory of this battle can pierce the myth of the Red Lotus Sect's exercises, and greatly deal a blow to the soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect's army, and the goal of the battle has been achieved, so there is no need to make any more extraneous branches.

After the Red Lotus Sect army retreated to Lu'an City, the number of people was counted, and the losses amounted to more than 3,000 people, and nearly 4,000 people were wounded, and the combat attrition exceeded 6,000 people, reaching more than 20% of the army. And the most important thing is that in this battle, almost all the high-level leaders of the Red Lotus Sect Army died, and only a few altar masters and incense masters remained in Lu'an City to preside over the overall situation, and the prestige and power were not enough to obey, and the soldiers who fled back to the city were also frightened by the powerful firepower of the People's Army, and they did not dare to fight with the People's Army anymore.

As a result, after several incense lords discussed, they finally decided to abandon Lu'an Prefecture and withdraw to Yingzhou Mansion to join the headquarters of the Red Lotus Sect Army, so on the next day, several incense lords led the army to withdraw from Lu'an Prefecture City and march towards Yingzhou Mansion.

The Red Lotus Sect's movements were quickly discovered by the KPA scouts, who immediately reported it back to Luo Yue. This news also made Luo Yue a little surprised, he didn't expect the Red Lotus Sect army to retreat in this battle, although yesterday's battle, the Red Lotus Sect's losses were not small, but there were at least more than 20,000 troops in the city, and there was a city wall to rely on, so if the Red Lotus Sect army wanted to hold Lu'an Prefecture, it could still hold on for a few days.

Although in the last battle, the People's Army achieved a rare victory with zero casualties, but only captured less than 200 soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect, but Luo Yue still planned to wait for the reinforcements from Shanghai to arrive, and then launch an attack on Lu'an Prefecture, after all, he now has too few troops on hand to fight a tough battle. But now that the Red Lotus Sect army has mainly withdrawn from Lu'an Prefecture City, Luo Yue, of course, will not be polite, and immediately ordered to be stationed in Lu'an Prefecture and stationed in the city. At the same time, he also sent people to inform the resettlement camp and sent a group of personnel to Lu'an Prefecture to assist the People's Army in managing it.

Three days later, a regiment of KPA troops arrived in Lu'an Prefecture with more than 1,600 victims, bringing with them a large amount of supplies. The regiment commander is Jiang Haidong, who is also the ace of the Marine Corps, who was originally left in Shanghai and used as a mobile force, but now he is sent to reinforce Luo Yue, and the disaster victims are composed of 2 camps and 3 security teams, not only responsible for the order of Weilu'an Prefecture, but also responsible for the task of transporting supplies for the People's Army.

Of course, while waiting, Luo Yue was not idle, and issued an order to the Northwest Military Region stationed in Henan, asking the Northwest Military Region to send a division of troops from Henan to Yingzhou Mansion, ready to assist himself and encircle and suppress the Red Lotus Sect's army. Luo Yue's plan was to wait for the reinforcements to arrive, march from Lu'an Prefecture, march all the way north, drive all the Red Lotus Sect troops back to Yingzhou Prefecture, and then join up with the reinforcements of the Northwest Military Region to encircle and annihilate the Red Lotus Sect's army. At the same time, he ordered the Fengyang resettlement battalion to transfer several warships over to participate in the battle. Because Yingzhou is located on the west bank of Yingshui, which is a tributary of the Huai River, the patrol boats used in this disaster relief can directly reach Yingzhou.

When the reinforcements arrived, Luo Yue was also very happy, arranged the city of Lu'anzhou, and left a battalion of troops to garrison, and then together with Jiang Haidong, led a total of 4 battalions of troops to leave Lu'an Prefecture and march towards Yingzhou Mansion.

The Red Lotus Sect army withdrawn from Lu'an Prefecture was stationed in Huoqiu County on the bank of the Huai River at this time, and when the Red Lotus Sect army attacked Lu'an Prefecture, a pontoon bridge was built over the Huai River, but when the Red Lotus Sect army withdrew from Lu'an Prefecture, it carried a large number of materials plundered from Lu'an Prefecture, and it was necessary to ensure that these materials were transported across the Huai River first, but the carrying capacity of the pontoon bridge was limited, and the speed of material delivery was very slow, and many materials had to be unloaded from the carriage and transported by manpower first, so it naturally delayed the time, so the army could only wait here first.

Seeing that the People's Army had arrived, the Red Lotus Sect Army could only stick to Huoqiu County, preparing to resist the attack of the People's Army and buy time for the delivery of supplies.

However, last time, Luo Yue let go of the Red Lotus Sect Army because of his lack of troops, and now he has twice as many troops at hand, and at the same time, there is Lu'an Prefecture City behind him, of course, he will not let go of this Red Lotus Sect Army, and at the same time, Luo Yue also received a report that the two large patrol boats and two medium-sized patrol boats sent from the Fengyang Mansion Disaster Resettlement Camp have arrived in Shouzhou, which is only less than 15 kilometers away from Huoqiu County.

After receiving the report, Luo Yue immediately ordered the fleet to march towards the river section of Huoqiu County, destroy the pontoon bridge erected on the Huai River, and then line up along the river, preparing to intercept the defeated army of the Red Lotus Sect.

Then Luo Yue ordered Jiang Haidong to bring two battalions to bypass Huoqiu County and arrange positions on the east and west sides, so as to prevent the Red Lotus Sect army from escaping from Huoqiu County and then scattering to the east and west, so as to force the Red Lotus Sect army to flee in the direction of the Huai River, and the People's Army could take advantage of the Huai River to annihilate this Red Lotus Sect army.

After the arrangement, Luo Yue led the two battalions of troops he brought under him to launch an attack on Huoqiu County.

In the regiment brought by Jiang Haidong, there was a 100 mortar battalion, with a total of 12 100 mortars, which were also the most powerful mortars, which were set up in front of the formation and launched a bombardment on the city wall of Huoqiu County.

Huoqiu is just a small county town, in addition to the city tower section, the other parts of the city wall are adobe, and because of disrepair, there are many sections of the city wall have been damaged, so it can not bear the bombardment of 100 mortars, after a few rounds of shelling, the city wall was bombed open 3 gaps, the city tower was also blown up by shelling, the city gate was blown open, the soldiers defending the city were injured and killed, the other Red Lotus Sect soldiers saw it, there dared to stay on the city wall to guard, and immediately escaped from the city wall, and the People's Army also quickly followed, from the gap opened by the artillery fire, into the city.

At this time, there were still more than 20,000 Red Lotus Sect troops in Huoqiu City, although they had been broken into the city by the People's Army, but at this time, the two sides were close to each other, and they could engage in hand-to-hand combat, and this was originally the most desired combat mode of the Red Lotus Sect Army.

The prestige and achievements of the People's Army, the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect also know a thing or two, but in their opinion, although the People's Army has sharp firearms, in their concepts, firearms are not conducive to close combat, so as long as they can withstand the first few rounds of firepower attacks of the People's Army, break into the front of the People's Army, and engage in close combat with the People's Army, they can defeat the People's Army.

But now the opportunity that the Red Lotus Sect Army had been looking forward to had really appeared, so many soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect Army were also in high spirits, raising their swords and guns one after another, and rushed towards the People's Army.

As soon as the two sides fought, the Red Lotus Sect Army knew that even if it was a close combat, they had no chance, first, the tactical literacy of the People's Army was much higher than that of the Red Lotus Army, and they quickly formed a squad as a combat unit, cooperated with each other, and made full use of the characteristics of the small environment in the city, forming a local equality between the two sides, and even the advantage of fighting more and less, and although the Red Lotus Sect Army was large in number, it was a rabble, and there was no way to do it, but it could not give full play to its own numerical advantage.

Second, even in close combat, the KPA still has a lot of useful weapons, such as Type 96 repeating pistols and hand** and so on, all play an important role in close combat; and even if it is a white-knuckle battle, the soldiers of the People's Army are not inferior to the soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect Army, so after the battle was launched in Huoqiu County, the Red Lotus Sect Army was still defeated by the People's Army, and was killed by the People's Army to retreat one after another, corpses were all over the ground, blood flowed into a canal, and finally the People's Army was killed and withdrew from Huoqiu County, and there were positions arranged by the People's Army on the east and west sides of the city to intercept it, and it could not be killed at all, and the Red Lotus Sect Army could only retreat in the direction of the Huai River.