"Boom boom boom boom boom!"

The positions of the Red Lotus Cult Army were immediately covered by an explosion. The People's Army artillery on both wings fired at least 15 rounds in just 1 or 2 minutes at the fastest firing speed. Some of them were skilled in mortars, even reaching 20 rounds. Under such rapid and dense firepower strikes, a total of more than 300 rounds of tilted shells were overturned. Within the range covered by the explosion, almost every inch of land was overturned by the explosion, and no one in ten people survived.

After this round of artillery was over, the entire command center of the Red Lotus Army, together with those who pretended to be gods and ghosts, were almost all injured and left with 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 with firm beliefs or who were brainwashed by the Red Lotus Sect more thoroughly, everyone else began to shake. After all, those mages could not withstand the bombardment of artillery fire. Who would still believe that the so-called magical power can protect themselves from guns and cannons?

As a result, the morale of the Red Lotus Cult Army collapsed rapidly. Although the attack of the Red Lotus Cult Army was not as powerful as a rainbow, it was also considered an offensive. However, almost in a moment, most of the soldiers attacking the Red Lotus Cult Army stopped, were at a loss, and quickly retreated. Only a few soldiers were still attacking, but under the intensive firepower of the People's Army, they quickly fell on the way to charge.

Not long after, the Red Lotus Cult Army retreated across the board, and the retreat was extremely chaotic. People collided and trampled on each other. Some injured soldiers fell to the ground were trampled on by the retreating defeated soldiers, causing many casualties.

If the People's Army launches a pursuit at this time, it can cause a heavy blow to the Red Lotus Army, with at least half of the casualties and a large number of prisoners being captured. However, Luo Yue did not order a pursuit. First, Luo Yue did not want to cause more damage. Second, the People's Army is not large at present. Although the Red Lotus Army can defeat the Red Lotus Army with powerful fire, if there are too many prisoners captured, it is difficult to manage now. Once the pursuit is carried out, the Red Lotus Army will be completely dispersed. The remaining defeated generals flee in all places and harm all directions. Therefore, it is better not to pursue and let the Red Lotus Army escape back to Lu'an City. In this way, after the People's Army's reinforcements arrive, they can be concentrated and annihilated in Lu'an City.

In addition, the victory of this battle can expose the martial arts myth of the Red Lotus Sect and greatly attack the morale soldiers of the Red Lotus Sect Army. The purpose of the battle has been achieved, so there is no need to cause trouble.

After the Red Lotus Cultivator retreated to Lu'an City, the number of people checked was more than 3,000. In addition, nearly 4,000 were injured. The combat personnel were reduced by more than 6,000, reaching more than 20% of the army. This was the result of the failure of the People's Army to pursue the victory. And most importantly, in this battle, almost all the senior leaders of the Red Lotus Cultivator Army died. Only a few altar masters, fragrant masters, and their prestige and power were not enough to obey. Moreover, the soldiers who fled back to the city were scared by the powerful firepower of the People's Army and did not dare to fight with the People's Army any longer.

As a result, after several incense masters discussed, they finally decided to give up Lu'an Prefecture and withdraw back to Yingzhou Prefecture to join the headquarters of the Red Lotus Cult Army. So on the next day, several incense masters led their troops to withdraw from Lu'an Prefecture and headed towards Yingzhou Prefecture.

The Red Lotus Cult Army's actions were soon discovered by the scouts of the People's Army and immediately returned to Luo Yue. This news also surprised Luo Yue a little. Unexpectedly, the Red Lotus Cult Army retreated in this battle. Although the Red Lotus Cult Army suffered a considerable loss in the battle yesterday, there were at least 20,000 troops in the city, and there were city walls as a support. Therefore, if the Red Lotus Cult Army wanted to defend Lu'anzhou, it could still hold on for a few days.

Although the People's Army achieved a rare victory of zero casualties in the last battle, it only captured less than 200 soldiers from the Red Lotus Army. However, Luo Yue still planned to wait for the reinforcements from Shanghai to arrive before launching an attack on Lu'anzhou. After all, he now has too few troops and is not suitable for fighting a tough battle. But now the Red Lotus Army is mainly withdrawing from Lu'anzhou City, Luo Yue will certainly not be polite and immediately ordered to enter Lu'anzhou and station in the city. At the same time, he sent people to notify the resettlement camp and dispatched a group of people to Lu'anzhou to assist the management of the People's Army.

Three days later, a regiment's People's Army unit brought more than 1,600 disaster victims to Lu'an Prefecture, and also brought a large amount of supplies. The regiment commander was Jiang Haidong, and the ace force in the Marine Corps. He was originally stayed in Shanghai and used as a mobile force, but is now sent to reinforce Luo Yue. The victims were composed of two battalions and three security teams. They are not only responsible for maintaining order in Lu'an Prefecture, but also responsible for transporting supplies to the People's Army.

Of course, while waiting, Luo Yue was not idle. He issued a transfer order to the Northwest Military Region stationed in Henan, requiring the Northwest Military Region to send a division of troops from Henan to Yingzhou Prefecture, and prepare to assist him in encircling and suppressing the Red Lotus Cult. Luo Yue formulated a plan to march from Lu'anzhou after the reinforcements arrived, and advance all the Red Lotus Cult Army back to Yingzhou Prefecture, and then join with the reinforcements of the Northwest Military Region to encircle and annihilate the Red Lotus Cult army. At the same time, he ordered the Fengyang resettlement battalion to transfer several warships to the war. Because Yingzhou Prefecture is located on the west bank of Yingshui, and Yingshui is a tributary of the Huaihe River, the patrol boats used for this disaster relief can directly reach Yingzhou.

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

The Red Lotus Cult Army withdrew from Lu'an Prefecture was stationed in Huoqiu County on the bank of the Huai River. When the Red Lotus Cult Army attacked Lu'an Prefecture, it built a floating bridge on the Huai River. However, when the Red Lotus Cult Army withdrew from Lu'an Prefecture, it carried a large amount of materials plundered from Lu'an Prefecture. It was necessary to ensure that these materials were transported across the Huai River first. However, the carrying capacity of the floating bridge was limited and the speed of material transportation was very slow. Many materials had to be unloaded from the carriage and transported by manpower first. This naturally caused the time to be delayed, so the army could only wait here first.

Seeing that the People's Army arrived, the Red Lotus Cultivate could only stand in Huoqiu County, preparing to resist the People's Army's attack and buy time for material transportation.

However, Luo Yue let the Red Lotus Cult Army go because of his insufficient troops. Now he has doubled his troops and is also under the control of Lu'anzhou City, so of course he will not let the Red Lotus Cult Army go. At the same time, Luo Yue also received a report that two large patrol boats and two medium-sized patrol boats sent from the Fengyang Prefecture Disaster Resettlement Camp have arrived in Shouzhou, which is less than 15 kilometers away from Huoqiu County.

After receiving the report, Luo Yue immediately ordered the fleet to march towards the Huoqiu County river section, destroy the floating bridge set up on the Huaihe River, and then line up along the river to prepare to intercept the defeated army of the Red Lotus Cult Army.

Then Luo Yue ordered Jiang Haidong to bring two battalions around Huoqiu County and arrange positions on the east and west sides to prevent the Red Lotus Cult Army from escaping from Huoqiu County, and then fleeing to the east and west sides. This forced the Red Lotus Army to have to flee in the direction of the Huaihe River, and the People's Army could use the Huaihe River to annihilate the Red Lotus Army.

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

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

Huoqiu is just a small county town. Except for the city wall, the other parts of the city wall are all adobe. Due to years of disrepair, many of the city wall sections have been damaged, so they cannot withstand the bombardment of 100 mortars. After several rounds of artillery, three gaps were opened. The city wall was also bombarded by artillery and bombarded. The city gate was blown open. Countless soldiers guarding the city were injured and killed. When the other Red Lotus Cult soldiers saw it, they dared to stay on the city wall to guard them again. They immediately fled from the city wall. The People's Army also quickly followed up and entered the city through the gap opened by the artillery fire.

At this time, there were more than 20,000 Red Lotus Cultivators in Huoqiu City. Although they were broken into the city by the People's Army, the two sides were close forces at this time and could conduct close combat. This was originally the combat mode that the Red Lotus Cultivators hoped most.

The top officials of the Red Lotus Sect also know about the reputation and achievements of the People's Army. However, in their opinion, although the People's Army's firearms are sharp, in their concept, firearms are not conducive to close combat. Therefore, as long as they can withstand the People's Army's previous rounds of firepower strikes, advance to the People's Army, and engage in close combat with the People's Army, you can defeat the People's Army. In the last battle of the Great Headquarters, the Red Lotus Sect Army had this combat idea. But I didn't expect that the People's Army's firepower was too strong and too strong, and it did not give the Red Lotus Sect Army a chance to break into the front.

But now the opportunity that the Red Lotus Cult Army has been looking forward to has actually appeared, so many soldiers of the Red Lotus Cult Army were also very energetic, and raised their swords and guns and rushed towards the People's Army.

When the two sides fought, the Red Lotus Cult Army realized that even if they were close combat, they had no chance. First, the tactical qualities of the People's Army were far higher than those of the Red Lotus Cult Army. They quickly formed a squad as combat unit, cooperated with each other, and made full use of the small environmental characteristics of the city's air and small air in the city, forming an advantage of equality between the two sides in local areas, even with the advantage of more fighting less. Although the Red Lotus Cult Army had a large number of people, they were a mob and had no rules, and they could not exert their own numerical advantages.
Chapter completed!