The Red Lotus Sect army was defeated on all fronts, and countless were killed by the People's Army, plus those who trampled on each other and lost their lives in the retreat. However, at this moment, Luo Yue ordered all the troops of the People's Army to stop the pursuit and attack, so that the Red Lotus Sect army could escape from the battlefield more easily.

Luo Yue ordered the People's Army to stop pursuing the Red Lotus Sect Army, which was also the same consideration as the last time, now that his strength was limited, he didn't want to capture more prisoners, anyway, this defeat of the Red Lotus Sect Army would be enough, and the final encirclement and annihilation of the Red Lotus Sect Army would have to wait until the southwest garrison of Henan arrived and converged in Yingzhou.

However, although the People's Army did not pursue, after the Red Lotus Army retreated, it still left corpses everywhere, as well as many wounded soldiers who were seriously injured and fell to the ground and could not move. The matter of cleaning up the battlefield, of course, was done by the People's Army itself, and finally counted more than 5,000 corpses, including more than 600 wounded soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect who were too seriously injured, because the injuries were too serious, there was basically no hope of cure, or the possibility of cure was extremely low, to be honest, these people could not support a few days even if they were saved, after all, there were no good medical conditions in the People's Army now, so they could only improve and end their lives, and let them suffer less. In addition, more than 300 soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect who were slightly injured but had difficulty moving were also arrested.

After the victory, the People's Army took advantage of the victory to attack and marched along Yingshui, and Shangying County bore the brunt of the attack.

Although Shangying County is only a county seat, it is the southeast gateway of Yingzhou Prefecture, with a distance of less than 50 kilometers, which is a very important place, so when the Red Lotus Sect army retreated, it left more than 20,000 troops in Shangying County to garrison. However, when the People's Army approached Shangying County, the defenders of the Red Lotus Sect Army who remained in Shangying County immediately abandoned the city and fled, mainly abandoning Shangying County.

After all, everyone knows that with such a terrible combat effectiveness of the People's Army, staying in Shangying County is completely waiting for death, but why should they stay in Shangying County and wait for death, while others fled back to Yingzhou Mansion, so when the People's Army entered Shangying County, the Red Lotus Sect guard in Shangying County decisively gave up Shangying County and led the army to withdraw to Yingzhou Mansion. Of course, it is impossible to escape the attack of the People's Army when you retreat to Yingzhou Mansion, but at that time, everyone was together, facing the attack of the People's Army together, no one could escape, and everyone would die together if they wanted to die.

As a result, the People's Army occupied Shangying County without bloodshed, and at this time, Luo Yue also received a report that the 6th Division of the 6th Field Army of the Southwest Military Region had entered the territory of Yingzhou Prefecture, although the army did not bring artillery troops, but equipped with 2 cavalry battalions, so the total strength also had more than 12,000 people, and now it has captured Taihe County, which is only more than 40 kilometers away from Yingzhou Prefecture.

Luo Yue was also very happy, so he immediately ordered the 6th Division to march to Yingzhou Mansion, and divided troops to surround the north, west, and south of Yingzhou Mansion. Then Luo Yue ordered the whole army to march to Yingzhou Mansion.

At this time, the high-level leaders of the Red Lotus Sect in the Yingzhou Mansion had already been anxious, because more than 80,000 troops were defeated by about 3,000 people's troops on the banks of the Huai River, losing more than 6,000 people and more than 8,000 wounded soldiers, which can be said to be a big defeat, which is still the result of the People's Army not taking advantage of the victory to pursue after the victory, otherwise the losses of the Red Lotus Sect army would be even greater.

Moreover, this time, the leading leaders of the Red Lotus Sect army had no losses, so they could give a detailed introduction to the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect who stayed in Yingzhou Mansion, and the credibility of their words was of course very high.

But after learning about the war situation, the top brass of the Red Lotus Sect was even more frustrated, because this was simply incomprehensible, the firepower of the People's Army was strong, the artillery fire was huge, and the firing range was extremely long, the firepower of the muskets was dense, and the rate of fire was extremely fast, and it was far from being comparable to the muskets obtained by the Red Lotus Sect Army, plus the soldiers of the People's Army were well-trained, so although the number of the Red Lotus Sect Army was not able to compete with the People's Army at all.

However, now that the People's Army is approaching the Yingzhou Mansion step by step, how can we deal with the attack of the People's Army? Some people advocate recruiting all the troops of the Red Lotus Sect Army and letting the soldiers use up the ammunition of the People's Army, even if it consumes 50,000 troops or even 100,000 troops for this purpose, and the number of the Red Lotus Sect Army is far greater than that of the People's Army, and when the ammunition is exhausted, the People's Army will be impossible, and then the Red Lotus Sect Army will be able to defeat the People's Army in one fell swoop if it gets close to the People's Army and fights with the People's Army at close range.

However, this suggestion was also opposed by many people, because this method may be useful in the first battle with the People's Army, but now it is not useful, the Red Lotus Sect army has lost to the People's Army in a row, not only to the Red Lotus Army's morale caused a serious blow, but also the Red Lotus Army's soldiers' confidence in the high-level, because of their confidence in the Red Lotus Sect's so-called supernatural powers, has also been greatly shaken, so even if the Red Lotus Sect Army gathers a large army to fight against the People's Army, as long as it suffers a slight setback, it will be a rout on the whole front, and it is impossible for the soldiers to ignore the loss of casualties and launch continuous attacks。

Some people also suggested that they should simply break it into parts, each of them should lead an army, break through the siege separately, leave Anhui Province, and go to other provinces to develop and avoid the People's Army. But this suggestion has also been opposed by most people, because now the Red Lotus Sect is also a first achievement, and the high-level people no longer have to live a low-key life of hiding and hiding, at least in the Yingzhou Mansion, it is said that it is the same, not to mention the brocade clothes and food, but the life is indeed much better than before, and once it is reduced to zero, it will return to the original kind of displacement, Life is precarious, but at this time, the People's Army has not reached the city of Yingzhou Mansion, and the situation of the Red Lotus Sect has not reached the point of critical survival, and it still controls most of the Yingzhou Mansion on the surface, so most of the high-level personnel are unwilling to give up the life of Yingzhou Mansion at this time.

In addition, even if you flee Anhui Province, it does not mean that you have escaped the People's Army, because the resettlement camps for disaster victims set up in East China are all over Anhui, Jiangxi, Hubei, Jiangsu, and Zhejiang provinces, so no matter where you flee, you will encounter the People's Army.

Others advocate simply surrendering to the People's Army, as long as they can spare their lives, they will wash their hands and do nothing, anyway, the Red Lotus Sect has looted and plundered a lot of wealth in Yingzhou Mansion, Lu'an Prefecture and other places, and give these wealth to high-level personnel, each of whom can get tens of thousands of taels of silver, which is enough for everyone to be a rich man in peace and stability, and live the rest of their lives, or wait until the favorable time to do things.

But will the KPA accept surrender? What if it ostensibly agrees, but after the high-level personnel leave or the army is disbanded, they turn around and deny the people?

And just when the high-level of the Red Lotus Sect was discussing, the army stationed in Shangying County withdrew to Yingzhou Mansion, although the main general claimed that after a fierce battle to defend the city, the army suffered heavy losses, so he had to give up Shangying County, but looking at the appearance of the army, it didn't look like a fierce battle at all, because there were basically not many wounded soldiers in the withdrawn army, and the soldiers' clothes were also neat, and there was a little bit of a battle, it was clear that they retreated without a fight, and took the initiative to give up Shangying County.

As a result, serious differences broke out among the top echelons of the Red Lotus Sect, with some people advocating that the chief generals stationed in Shangying County should be severely punished in order to set an example; while others held that now was a critical moment, and that it was the time to employ people, and that it was not appropriate to make internal disturbances at this time, but should unite as one and work together with the outside world.

Just when the two sides were arguing, news came that a people's army had been killed from Henan Province and had entered the Yingzhou capital, and there were many of them, numbering tens of thousands, and at this time they had captured Taihe County. Of course, due to the lack of experience of the Red Lotus Sect's reconnaissance people, the number of people's troops killed in Henan was greatly overestimated.

But after receiving this news, the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect were shocked again, it was really too unexpected, no one thought that the People's Army would come from the direction of Huihenan, and now the Yingzhou Mansion had fallen into a north-south attack; moreover, this People's Army from Henan actually had tens of thousands of people, you must know that the Red Lotus Sect army could not even defeat the more than 3,000 people's troops led by Luo Yue, how to deal with these tens of thousands of people's army, so the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect no longer quarreled and severely punished the chief general of Shangying County, but negotiated how to deal with the people's army's attack on the north and south fronts。

Obviously, it is impossible to fight, because it can't be fought at all, and it can only be one of the two roads of breaking into parts, dispersing and breaking through and surrendering, but now it is broken into parts, and the danger and difficulty of dispersing and breaking through have also increased, first of all, the people's army on the north and south lines has approached Yingzhou Mansion, leaving room for the Red Lotus Sect to move has been greatly reduced; secondly, the People's Army in Henan did not act before, and the People's Army only had more than 3,000 people, and the strength was limited, the KPA also had enough troops to disperse the pursuit. As a result, I am afraid that most of the high-level personnel will not be able to escape.

In fact, surrender is the best choice for the Red Lotus Sect at present, but the problem is the same as before, I don't know what the attitude and credibility of the People's Army are, so after a few days of negotiation, there is still no result, and I can't make up my mind to break through. It's just that during this period, the Red Lotus Sect ordered other troops stationed in various places to withdraw to Yingzhou Mansion to strengthen the garrison of Yingzhou Mansion. Although at this time, the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect also understood that it was not of much significance to have a large number of people against the People's Army, but after all, there were many troops guarding the Yingzhou Mansion, and they would feel safer in their hearts. And even if it is finally decided to break out, there are more troops, then the probability of breaking through is naturally greater.

Of course, the decision to choose to disperse and break through has always had considerable support in the Red Lotus Sect army, so in the end of repeated discussions, the top management of the Red Lotus Sect also decided that it is better to let the people who decide to disperse and break through try, in case they can succeed, others can also follow suit, if it fails, it means that this road is not working, and they can only die this heart, and then think of other ways.