So on the next day, the Red Lotus Cult Army dispatched 10 small troops, each with only more than 300 people, and broke through from Yingzhou Prefecture to test the reaction of the People's Army.

The capital of Yingzhou Prefecture is located in Fuyang, located south of the intersection of Yinghe and Quanhe River. Among them, Quanhe flows from the north to Fuyang City and flows into the Yinghe River in the northwest-southeast direction. Usually, the water volume of Yinghe and Quanhe River is not large, and the river surface is only 2,300 meters wide. Not only are bridges built on the river surface, but in the shallow and gentle river sections, you can walk across the river. However, now the flood in Anhui Province is not flooded, but the water levels of all rivers in the territory have risen sharply, the river surface is widened, and the water flows are deep and rapid. Not only is it impossible to cross the river, but many bridges on the river surface have been washed away by the flood. Crossing the Yinghe River is the boundary of Fengyang Prefecture. Therefore, the Yinghe and Quanhe can only avoid the Yinghe and Quanhe, mainly to the west and south directions.

The breakout started in the morning, but at noon and lunch, five troops retreated to Fuyang City one after another, and at least half of them were lost. Two troops left less than 100 people, all of which were intercepted by the People's Army and could not kill them, so they had to retreat.

In the afternoon, two more troops retreated to Fuyang City, and only dozens of people came back. It turned out that these two troops were intercepted by the People's Army during the breakout. Although they were blocked, the main generals of these two troops were unwilling to break out like this, so they tried other directions. As a result, they tried several directions, and were intercepted and blocked by the People's Army. In the end, they had to retreat back to the city. However, these two troops also accommodated several scattered soldiers from other scattered soldiers. According to the scattered soldiers, at least two troops were annihilated by the People's Army during the breakout.

By this time, 9 of the 10 breakout troops had been declared defeat, and the last remaining troops were probably in danger. This also shows that the People's Army had surrounded Fuyang City and laid a net of heaven and earth. At dinner, the last breakout army also retreated back to the city. Of course, the personnel also suffered heavy losses and brought another bad news to the city. The People's Army not only surrounded Fuyang City, but also blocked the waterways.

It turned out that this army had broken through several directions in a row, but they were blocked by the People's Army and could not break through. The leader of the team was unwilling to retreat to the city, so he decided to go to the river to try his luck, and maybe he could find several boats to cross it. Anyway, there are only more than a hundred people left in the team. As long as 5 or 6 boats can be found, all the troops can be crossed. Although after crossing the river, they can only enter the boundary of Fengyang Prefecture, and there are also resettlement sites in East China, at least they can stick out the encirclement of Yingzhou Prefecture. After arriving at Fengyang Prefecture, they can slowly find a way. But when they arrived by the river, they found that there were several iron ships patrolling back and forth on the river. Not to mention that there were no boats, it was impossible to cross the river, so they could only retreat to the city.

The plan to break through was also failed, so the senior members of the Red Lotus Sect had to order the army to close the city gates, strictly guard the city, strengthen vigilance, and at the same time discuss how to surrender decently.

In fact, the People's Army had just arrived at the surrounding areas outside Fuyang City, and had not arranged any position fortifications and sentinels, so it did not complete the encirclement of Fuyang City. It was only discovered that the Red Lotus Cult Army broke through, so it dispersed its forces and blocked the outskirts of Fuyang City in companies. Although it was not strong enough to block the Red Lotus Cult Army's breakthrough troops, a large part of the reason was that the breakthrough troops were not large, with only more than 300 people. As long as they were intercepted by a company, they could basically stop them. However, if the Red Lotus Cult Army could disperse the army at this time, thousands or tens of thousands of people per route, instead of only hundreds, there are still 123,000 Red Lotus Cult Army in Fuyang City, which is completely possible. In this way, it would be difficult for the People's Army to break through separately, and only one company would be able to intercept them all, so that some of the personnel could successfully break through the siege.

But after continuous failures, the Red Lotus Cult now feels a bit afraid of the People's Army like a tiger. Therefore, after knowing that the People's Army has surrounded Fuyang City, it has lost the courage to break through again. Moreover, the food in Fuyang City can now last for 3 or 4 months, and there is no worries about food being cut off for the time being. As a result, a great opportunity to break through was wasted.

The People's Army seized this rare time, arranged positions, built fortifications outside Fuyang City, and set up a large number of sentinels, with beacon towers, etc. In fact, the total strength of the People's Army is only about 15,600, which is still a huge gap compared with the strength of the Red Lotus Army. However, Fuyang is not a big city, and 15,000 troops is enough. It took only 3 days to complete the construction of the positions and fortifications, forming a comprehensive encirclement of Fuyang City. Therefore, even if the entire Red Lotus Army dispatched to break through, it would be difficult to break through the interception of the People's Army.

Finally, the full encirclement of the Red Lotus Cult Army was completed, and Luo Yue breathed a sigh of relief. The entire war was basically following the steps he expected, and now he was one last step away. However, Luo Yue did not immediately order the siege of the city, but chose several small leaders of the Red Lotus Cult from the captives, asking them to bring their letters into the city to persuade the Red Lotus Cult to surrender. Whether it is possible or not, they always have to try it. What if it succeeds? After all, it is best to be able to end the battle without bloodshed and avoid causing more killing pokes.

After the person who brought the letter to the city, he was immediately welcomed by the senior members of the Red Lotus Cult, because the Red Lotus Cult now wants to surrender, but he can't find a channel to communicate with the People's Army for a while. Moreover, the senior members of the Red Lotus Cult were also worried that they would not be able to obtain the ideal conditions for surrender if they took the initiative to ask for surrender to the People's Army. However, the People's Army now actively persuaded surrender, of course, it was the thought of the senior members of the Red Lotus Cult. Some even felt optimistic that although the People's Army's firepower is strong and its combat power is strong, it was in field battles, and siege battles have always been the most difficult battle. If the People's Army wants to capture Fuyang City, it will inevitably cause significant losses. Then they can take the opportunity to raise the asking price, not only can it meet an ideal conditions for surrender, but it can even reach a relatively balanced armistice agreement with the People's Army.

This is because no one has participated in the city defense battle in Huoqiu County in Fuyang City. If he participated in that battle, he would understand the People's Army's ability to attack and would not have such optimistic ideas.

Under such optimism, the senior officials of the Red Lotus Sect offered two conditions for surrender. First, the Red Lotus Sect surrendered to the East China ** as a whole, but maintained their independence and independent army. The East China ** designated the stationing location and guaranteed the provision of food, grass, materials and supplies, etc. At the same time, the East China ** shall not prohibit the Red Lotus Sect from preaching activities within the East China ** ruling region; second, the Red Lotus Sect can give up Yingzhou Prefecture, but the East China ** allows the Red Lotus Sect to lead the army, supplies, etc. to leave Anhui Province, and live in other provinces before moving to activities. The People's Army will choose one of these two conditions, and then the two sides will conduct further detailed negotiations and negotiations. The original person who brought the letter will also order the person who brought the letter to bring the conditions of the Red Lotus Sect to Luo Yue.

Luo Yue couldn't help but feel angry and funny after seeing the conditions of the Red Lotus Sect. Unexpectedly, the Red Lotus Sect felt so good. It seems that if the Red Lotus Sect didn't give the Red Lotus Sect a little color, the Red Lotus Sect would not be honest. So Luo Yue replied to the Red Lotus Sect that the People's Army only accepted the unconditional surrender of the Red Lotus Sect. East China ** will determine the punishment for them based on the behavior of the senior leaders of the Red Lotus Sect, and will not accept any other conditions, nor will they negotiate with the Red Lotus Sect. At the same time, the Red Lotus Sect was given two days to consider. Two days later, if the Red Lotus Sect cannot accept the conditions of the People's Army, the People's Army will start attacking and bear the consequences at that time.

After receiving Luo Yue's reply, the senior leaders of the Red Lotus Sect were immediately furious. Because unconditional surrender means giving all life and death to the People's Army, they certainly did not do this. The senior members of the Red Lotus Sect knew in their hearts that if they used their past actions, once they handed over life and death to others, they would of course have a way out. Since surrendering is inevitable, they would die. Then it would be better to fight to the death and defend the city to the death. Perhaps they could still find a glimmer of hope. Moreover, many people were optimistic, believing that if they could cause a large amount of damage to the People's Army in the battle to defend the city, the People's Army would change their attitude and return to the conditions proposed by the Red Lotus Sect again.

So two days later, the People's Army launched a full-scale attack on Fuyang City from all directions. Although the 6th Division, which came to reinforce this time, did not carry artillery, all the mortars were brought, so the firepower was still very fierce.

However, Fuyang City is a mansion after all. Although China is not a big city in this era, it is much stronger than a small city like Huoqiu County. Moreover, after the Red Lotus Sect entered Fuyang City, it repaired and strengthened the walls of Fuyang City. The power of the mortar is indeed worse than that of the cannons. Therefore, if you want to use a mortar to bombard the walls of Fuyang City, it is indeed somewhat bullet-free.

However, the People's Army does not only have mortars, but also another way to destroy the city walls of Fuyang City, which is blasting. Therefore, the mortar strike is only to suppress the Red Lotus Cult Army with powerful firepower. Under the cover of the firepower of mortars and various rifles and machine guns, a blasting team was sent to approach the city walls of Fuyang City, set up a bag to blast.

After several earth-shaking loud noises, the four walls of Fuyang City were indeed blown up with several large gaps. The People's Army took advantage of the opportunity to enter the city of Fuyang City from the gap.
Chapter completed!