The peasant uprising army has 120,000 strong men and about 100,000 family members.
A total of 220,000 people.
The people at the city gate brought water and porridge, but it was not enough for everyone to drink.
So Zhan Chengyin said to Chen Kui: "Take them to drink water first, and then go to the river to wash..."
Chen Kui bowed: "Yes, General, my wife has prepared soap by the river."
"Song Duo is responsible for making porridge, and he must make enough porridge for 220,000 people."
"The rest of the soldiers will arrange accommodation. There are no vacant houses, so tents must be set up."
The rest of the soldiers took the order. "Yes, General!"
Wu Li was grateful to Zhan Chengyin for treating the uprising army so well.
Before coming, he heard Chen Wu say how good the town was.
At first, he remained skeptical and thought he was lying.
Later, Chen Wu took out rice, the rice grains were distinct, clean and without any stones or dirt.
He changed his mind about what Chen Wu said.
Later, Chen Wu took out compressed biscuits, instant noodles...
In order to feed those who were too hungry to walk, he even took out water and rice to boil a pot, and each person ate half a bowl.
There were more than 200,000 people, old, young, women and children, and this amount of food was not enough.
But Chen Wu actually asked his men to kill horses for everyone to eat.
He was moved by what Chen Wu did.
He did received invitations from the Yellow Flag Army and the Lu Ze Army, and the prices were very high.
But those were all false, and only Chen Wu treated them as his own brothers.
He took out all the dry food he brought.
Even the horses were killed for everyone to eat.
The medicine he brought with him saved dozens of people.
They also fought with other uprising teams, and were injured and infected without medicine.
His second brother almost died of a high fever.
It was Chen Wu who saved them.
So when Chen Wu proposed to come to Zhenguan, where there was food.
He didn't actually believe it!
Bringing people here is just because Daqi has no food, so we go from Zhenguan to Chu and Qi to rob...
Daqi was in uprising everywhere, and heroes were everywhere.
There were also the Yellow Flag Army and the Luze Army, which had more people and better equipment than his rebel army!
They were running out of food! They could only try their luck here.
When they saw rows of water tanks with faucets on them, constantly draining water...
everyone cried.
Water!
The water that they had been longing for half a year.
The brothers around Wu Li couldn't help it anymore, rushed to the water tank, picked up ladle and scooped a large spoonful, and poured it down their mouth.
It seemed that they wanted to drink all the water that they hadn't drunk for a whole year.
After drinking a whole ladle of water, they squatted on the ground and cried loudly, and the emotions that had been suppressed for a long time finally got vented.
Finally there is water!
More than 200,000 of them no longer have to go to Chu and Qi to risk their lives to grab food and water!
They can all survive.
On the way here, they all thought that even if they went to the foot of the snow-capped mountains, they would still survive with the elderly, women, and children.
Now there is no need to go to other countries to grab food, nor do they have to walk to the foot of the snow-capped mountains.
After crying,they immediately stood up and passed the water to the people behind them one by one.
Let everyone drink water.
Drink until they are full.
The first to come up were the elderly, children then the women...
The men were at the end.
Seeing this scene, the generals felt that this group of people, although they were all farmers, had higher quality than the soldiers under Xu Huai. There were enough large vats prepared, and they were many in number, so after drinking water, they were immediately led to the river to wash.
But as they walked, they suddenly stopped moving.
The soldiers followed their gaze.
The city was a sand dune wilderness a few months ago, but now it was green.
The fields were neatly cut into pieces, some were planted with potatoes, some were planted with corn.
Eggplant, cucumber, pepper..
This is the time when vegetables and fruits grow the most vigorously.
These people turned a blind eye to the water in the river and all ran to the fields.
They looked at the green seedlings and all cried.
Zhenguan not only has water and food... but also farming!
They walked from the Central Plains for more than a month and finally arrived at Zhenguan after a long journey.
Everywhere they saw was red soil, withered and yellow. In some places, even the dead grass and dead trees were gone, eaten by people.
Only in Zhenguan was there green.
They hadn't seen green for almost half a year. They knelt on the spot and kowtowed to the sky with tears.
"God, we finally see land that can be cultivated."
"We won't leave, we all want to stay and farm!"
"God has eyes, everyone has a way to live!"
Wu Li saw a large field of vegetable planting, which was endless, and he knelt down and kowtowed to Zhan Chengyin.
"Please take us in, General. If you want us to fight, we will go to fight. If you want us to farm, we will farm..."
"As long as you give us water to drink and rice porridge to eat, we will do whatever you want us to do!"
Zhan Chengyin and Chen Wu hurriedly helped Wu Li up.
Zhan Chengyin said: "You are a peasant uprising army with many young men. I hope they can join the army."
In fact, Wu Li hopes that everyone can farm.
Because everyone is a peasant, compared to the well-trained soldiers wearing armor under Zhan Chengyin.
The people under him were ragged and had no weapons. They all held kitchen knives and hoes.
Even most of the hoes were made of bronze.
They could not cause any harm to the enemy.
He encountered several disputes with other uprisings, and he also won by crushing them with numbers.
It can't be called a war at all, it's just a fight between two sides.
But since the general said so, as long as the old, young, women and children can have food to eat and stay to farm,
they will go to the battlefield to shed their blood, even if they die in battle!
"Okay, I agree to join the Zhan Family Army!"
Several soldiers around Zhan Chengyin cheered.
Chen Wu came over and patted him on the shoulder.
"You won't regret joining the Zhan Family Army. Each of our new recruits can get 20 kilograms of rice, 8 kilograms of flour, twelve kilograms of vegetables, and a bag of salt every month..."
Wu Li's eyes suddenly widened, "Really?"
"Yes, brother, when have I ever lied to you?"
"Every month?"
"Yes, you can pull a soldier over and ask!"
Wu Li laughed, hugged Chen Wu hard, and cheered loudly.
"No need to ask, I believe you, hahaha... Everyone has food to eat."
Then, he let go of Chen Wu, ran to several rebel generals, and shouted to everyone.
"All men, join the Zhan Family Army."
"From today on, anyone who joins the army can get 20 kilograms of rice, 8 kilograms of flour, twelve kilograms of vegetables and a bag of salt every month..."
When the others heard it, they all cheered.
They put down the hoes and sickles on their bodies and surrounded Wu Li.
"Brother, is this true? The Zhan Family Army will distribute food to us?"
"40 kilograms of food a month, as well as salt. The whole family will never starve to death!"
"Yes, look over there, there is a very wide and deep river! As long as we have food to survive the first two or three months, and then plant the land, we will never starve to death again!"
Wu Li laughed and said, "It's true, the general agreed!"
All the men in the rebel army turned around and knelt down to kowtow to Zhan Chengyin.
They said in unison: "Thank you, general, for taking us in and giving us a bite to eat!"
"We are willing to join the Zhan Family Army. From now on, this life belongs to the general, and we will not hesitate to go through mountains of swords and seas of fire!"
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Others saw a large group of peasant rebels and knelt down to kowtow to Zhan Chengyin.
That's it...
that simple?
The two major rebel factions, who desperately wanted to win over, were so easily taken in by the Zhan Family Army. It was so
smooth and incredible!