At the beginning, there were still two, ten or eight surrenders to the People's Army, but soon there were groups of hundreds of people surrendering to the People's Army, and as a result, every time the People's Army attacked a street, the Red Lotus Sect troops guarding almost collectively put down their swords and guns, knelt on the ground, and surrendered to the People's Army.

Originally, because the streets in the city were narrow, the KPA was generally dispersed into companies to fight in the city, which was conducive to the deployment of combat units. However, due to the large number of people who surrendered, hundreds or even thousands of people surrendered at once, and as a result, the entire street, or even the entire block, was blocked, and the KPA attack was blocked.

However, the People's Army's military discipline was strict, and it could neither kill or ignore those who surrendered at will, and it was impossible to send only a few people to watch them or escort them out of the city to be imprisoned when so many people surrendered, so for a time almost all the marches were stopped by the surrendering army.

At this time, Luo Yue had moved his headquarters from outside the city to the tower of Fuyang West City, so as to better command the battle, and when he learned that there were too many troops in the city, which had hindered the advance of the People's Army, Luo Yue also ordered the People's Army of all walks of life to suspend the attack, first send the surrendered Red Lotus Sect soldiers out of the city, concentrate on prison, and then slowly advance to the city. At the same time, it was also ordered that the attacking KPA should keep a battalion outside the city to supervise the prisoners, and if any of the prisoners were found to be disobedient and caused trouble, they could be killed on the spot.

As a result, the pace of the KPA march slowed down, and groups of prisoners were constantly being taken out of the city and concentrated around the outer city walls, while several machine guns were set up at the head of the city, ready to be used to suppress the riots of the captives.

However, Fuyang City is not a big city, the scale is limited, even if the speed of the People's Army's advancement slows down, but it is still advancing slowly, and with the surrender of more and more Red Lotus Sect soldiers, the People's Army's space for display is gradually expanding, so in the afternoon, the People's Army has surrendered more than 100,000 Red Lotus Sect soldiers, and most of the city is also controlled by the People's Army.

These soldiers are all loyal believers of the Red Lotus Sect, they are very loyal, and they are also the backbone of the Red Lotus Sect army, and they also know that even if they surrender, they may not be able to escape for their lives, so they can only fight to the death. Moreover, this group of soldiers was equipped with nearly a thousand muskets, which was also the confidence they thought could fight to the death.

But now there is no obstacle, the People's Army can also attack without scruples, as a result, the Red Lotus Army found that even if it has its own musket, but the actual battle situation is not much stronger, it is still pressed by the People's Army, there is no resistance at all, first, the quality of the musket assembled by the Red Lotus Army is uneven, from Hanyang Type 88 rifle to the old is a front-loading arquebus, and the People's Army's rifles are not only unified configuration, and are currently world-class level, but also equipped with a large number of machine guns, hand **, mortars, Grenadiers and other weapons, so the firepower of the two sides is not at the same level at all; second, the KPA is well-trained, even if it only uses rifles, it knows how to exert firepower, cooperate with each other, and fully limit the firepower of the other side.

As a result, after a fierce exchange of fire, the Red Lotus Sect army suffered heavy casualties, corpses were scattered all over the field, and most of the area under control was lost, even the high-level personnel were also killed and wounded, and the rest of the people could only stay in a few houses in the state government to make a 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 make more efforts with them, so they set up dozens of grenadiers and launched a fierce bombardment on these houses, only to make a thousand holes in these houses, and the doors were cracked and the houses were opened, even after the shelling stopped, the whole room was still filled with gunsmoke, and nothing could be seen clearly.

After waiting for more than ten minutes, the smoke gradually faded, and there was no movement in the house, so the soldiers were sent in to investigate, only to see that the house was full of bloody corpses, and there was no living person.

At this time, the battle was all over, the People's Army occupied Fuyang City, and the rebellion of the Red Lotus Sect was quelled by the People's Army.

After the battle, the total number of surrenderers reached 112538, 7,892 people were captured on the battlefield, a total of 6,154 were killed, and more than 5,000 people were killed and wounded in the battle. According to the identification of the captives, most of the bodies of the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect have been identified, and a few corpses can only be judged from their clothes because their faces are blurred and unrecognizable, which is considered suspicious, and several high-level people who have been mixed into the army have also been found, plus the people killed or captured in the previous battles, it can basically be determined that the high-ranking personnel of the Red Lotus Sect, including the sect leader and elders, have been killed or captured by the People's Army, and only a few people have escaped the net, but it will not affect the overall situation.

At the same time, a large amount of grain, silver, cloth, utensils and other goods were seized, and the harvest was abundant. But the surrender plus prisoners, a total of about 120,000 people, is also a huge burden, because now the People's Army has a total of more than 16,000 people, and the composition of the Red Lotus Sect is also uneven. The rogue vagrants, and even some outlaws, Jiangyang thieves, joined the Red Lotus Sect out of speculation, using the power of the Red Lotus Sect to elevate their status, and after the Red Lotus Sect lost power, they naturally would not accompany the Red Lotus Sect to the funeral.

However, although they were forced by the strong combat effectiveness of the People's Army, they had to surrender with the masses, but after the end of the war, some of the old ways recurred, and the People's Army treated the prisoners more politely, although the tone was severe, but generally did not beat and scold the prisoners, and as a result, the ruffians and hooligans and rogue vagrants thought that the People's Army was weak and could be bullied, so they deliberately found fault and made trouble, yin and yang were weird, told to leave, asked not to sit, picked their noses and eyes, and even incited other prisoners to make trouble together.

Although most of the captives were from poor civilian backgrounds, they had been mixed in the Red Lotus Sect army for several months, and they were all infected with some bad habits, so they were instigated by the ruffians and hooligans, and some people went crazy, so many people also followed suit, and the noise was not small for a while.

However, the People's Army is not really weak and can be bullied, and its attitude towards the captives is because of the requirements of military discipline, but if someone dares to make trouble, it is not polite, and a group of people who made the most trouble and jumped the highest were killed on the spot, killing more than 300 people in one breath, and the corpses that fell to the ground were bleeding all over the ground. More than 500 people were caught. This time he really suppressed the other prisoners, and then he knew that the People's Army was a person who didn't talk much, but he killed when he said he wouldn't even blink an eye, so he became honest and didn't dare to disobey the orders of the People's Army.

But after Luo Yue learned about it, he was also relieved, but although the commotion of the captives was suppressed, but after a long time, it was inevitable that there would be something again, after all, there were too few soldiers available in his hands now, you must know that there were nearly 20,000 prisoners in Lu'an Prefecture, it seems that only one division from Henan is indeed a little less, and another division should be transferred, or a few regiments of the escort army should be transferred over.

Of course, the captives are only a problem that Luo Yue has encountered at present, and in fact, 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 captives to eat for 3 or 4 months, as long as some people were transferred from Henan to help manage it, there would be no major problems. But another problem is that Luo Yue can't solve it, that is, how to deal with Lu'an Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture.

In principle, this disaster relief operation did not occupy the prefecture and county, so although East China ** set up 12 resettlement camps for disaster victims in various places, they did not conflict with the local Qing court officials, of course, these local officials were also more knowledgeable and did not set up obstacles to the activities of East China **. In some places, the camps and local officials are getting along well.

But this time, in order to quell the rebellion of the Red Lotus Sect, the People's Army occupied several state cities in Lu'an Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture, although it did not pay any loss to occupy these state cities, but after all, it was also the efforts of the army, so it was unwilling, and the local officials in these state cities were also killed by the Red Lotus Sect army, and even if they wanted to, they couldn't find anyone to take over. Therefore, how to deal with these places still needs to be decided by Qingdao.

So Luo Yue ordered that all the prisoners of Lu'an Prefecture be taken to Yingzhou Mansion and imprisoned with the prisoners here, and at the same time ordered the Southwest Military Region to transfer some troops to help manage the land deficit, and on the other hand, he wrote a report and sent it back to Qingdao.

And just three days later, Luo Yue received a reply from the Qingdao Military Commission, it turned out that the Executive Yuan had decided to put Anhui Province under the jurisdiction of East China, so the Military Commission decided to hand over the defense of Anhui Province to the jurisdiction of the Central Military Region, after all, the Southwest Military Region has fewer troops, only two armies, and it is guarding the place of four wars like Henan, so it is better to let the Central Military Region, which has three armies and has less defense pressure, take over the defense of Anhui Province.

In the near future, the Central Military Region will send troops over to take over the military management of the jurisdiction, which is still under the command of Luo Yue, first capturing other areas of Lu'an Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture, and then expanding to Luzhou Prefecture and Fengyang Prefecture, and finally attacking Anqing Prefecture to fully occupy the entire Anhui Province.

At the same time, the Executive Yuan will also send administrators to take over the local administration of Lu'an Prefecture and Yingzhou Prefecture, and require Luo Yue to cooperate with the administrators to investigate the prisoners, release them if they are ordinary civilians, and organize them to establish villages and reclaim wasteland. Because at this time, the peak period of the flood has also passed, and the flood will gradually recede, and the tasks of the resettlement camps in various places will gradually change from disaster relief and sheltering the victims to resettle the victims, establish villages, reclaim wasteland, produce self-help, and be self-sufficient, etc., and establish a local ruling system in East China, so it starts with this group of prisoners.