An hour later, Qin Shuhuai's army arrived in Zunhua.

Yuan Chonghuan took a group of henchmen and a thousand guards to personally go out of the city for three miles to greet Qin Shuhuai. After entering the city, the soldiers in the city lined up on both sides of the road, and lined up from the city gate to the gate of the Zunhua governor's yamen.

After entering the city, the people in Zunhua City ran out one after another, standing on both sides of the road to see the style of the legendary Marquis Qin. Speaking of which, Qin Shuhuai not only saved the 50,000 troops in Zunhua City, but also saved the 30,000 or 40,000 people in the city. Just before that, many poor people in the city had starved to death, and if he did not come again, the tragedy of changing children and eating would probably be repeated again.

"Hou Ye is mighty! Hou Ye is mighty!"

"Greetings to the Hou Ye!

The shouts of elation came and went.

After Qin Shuhuai entered the governor's yamen, the baggage team of the army also arrived.

On the wheelbarrow, on the carriage, one sack after another, each sack is bulging, and some white and yellow ones are exposed from the cracks of the sacks, and at a glance it is grain!

And such a convoy, at a glance, you can't see the edge, and you can line up for a mile or two!

The hungry soldiers with yellow faces and thin muscles, and the people in the city who were also dizzy and dizzy, never took their eyes off after seeing the food, and they all stared straight at each other, their eyes were a little scary.

The coalition forces did bring a lot of food this time.

One is because when he set out, he knew that Zunhua was besieged and there would be a shortage of food in the city, so Qin Shuhuai asked Qiu to vigorously take out all the grain stored by the Jianghe Gang, which was 25,000 stones. In addition, Chongzhen was also embarrassed to pull out a dime, after all, Qin Shuhuai went to save the army of the imperial court, so he gritted his teeth and gathered 20,000 stone of food for him.

The icing on the cake is that Qin Shuhuai also captured Qian'an and Yongping when he came, and the defenders of these two cities were specially "collecting grain" for Huang Taiji, so they also stored a lot of grain in Qian'an and Yongping that had not yet had time to be transported.

The defenders of Qian'an were completely annihilated by Qin Shuhuai outside the city, so about 15,000 stone of grain were all captured. Although Yongping's defenders set fire to the grain before they were about to be annihilated, only a third of it was burned in too short a time, and the rest were all brought in by Qin Shuhuai.

Leaving aside the food consumed by the army on the road, there are at least 50,000 or 60,000 stone of grain transported to Zunhua, which can be fed by at least 170,000 soldiers and civilians inside and outside the city for at least two months according to the standard of one pound a day for one person.

The people of the city seemed to be pulled by some kind of magic and followed the baggage caravan.

The baggage team came to a stop at a square half a mile away from the yamen.

Later, part of it was pulled directly into the granary next to the yamen, which was for the army in the city, while the other part was left in the square to be distributed to the people in the city on the spot.

At this time, the square was already overcrowded, and the hungry people surrounded the place, and pushed each other indiscriminately, shouting, crying, and screaming everywhere for a while, and some of the poor physical strength could not even stand firmly, if it were not for the large group of coalition soldiers gathered around the grain cart to maintain order, there would have been a stampede.

Lai San'er jumped into a grain truck and shouted at the top of his voice, "Stand up for Lao Tzu, don't squeeze it! If you squeeze out people's lives, you know?

He roared, and the crowd finally quieted down.

Lai San'er said again, "Listen, everyone who wants food will line up for me, and someone from the yamen will bring the roster after a while, and no one will have to put their handprints on their names after getting the food, you know?"

At this time, a skinny old man asked, "This official, is this grain borrowed or bought?"

Lai San'er smiled at the old man and said, "You old man is really interesting, you are going to starve to death, and you don't care if you don't pay it back?" After a pause, he said, "Okay, you don't have to pay it back!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone rejoiced.

At this time, people from the government came with a list of people.

Lai San'er said again, "Listen, each family receives ten catties of rations, and the women and children of non-Ding receive six catties. There is white flour and rice, white flour is worth two catties, how to divide you don't choose, by us, in short, it will not add up to half a tael of you! Remember to press the handprint after receiving it, don't play tricks, be a bright person!"

No one would have thought that they would be able to receive so much grain at one time! According to this method, wouldn't a family of six with three dings be able to receive nearly 50 catties of grain? At least 10 days of food!

But I heard Lai San'er say again, "Our Hou Ye also said, take care of everyone's grain for a month and a half until the autumn harvest! No matter if you are poor or rich, as long as you are the people of our Ming Dynasty, everyone has a share! You guard the border for the court, and the court will not forget you!"

According to the rules, there was no famine in Zunhua City, but the people in the besieged city couldn't buy food, and now that the siege has been lifted, the official can take care of everyone's food for a few days at most, and then what should everyone do.

The crowd suddenly boiled, and many people cried happily. This policy did not have such a big impact on the wealthy in the family, but it was a life-saving policy for those who had exhausted their wealth in order to raise food and sell iron during the siege.

Outside the food distribution is in full swing, and in the Zunhua Governor's Yamen, the generals are also gathered together, and they are happy.

As the main general of the city guard, Yuan Chonghuan naturally wanted to say a word of thanks to Qin Shuhuai for coming to help. There are some words that Qin Shuhuai can't understand, but he knows that they must be good words, and they are comfortable to listen to.

After the guests and hosts exchanged pleasantries, they got to the point, that is, how to recover Santunying and the surrounding areas next.

Yuan Chonghuan's confidence was greatly increased at this time, and he thought that he should first send a part of the army to Qian'an and Yongping to station, so as to cut off the eastward advance of the Tartars and trap them near the Santun camp.

Qin Shuhuai felt that it made sense. At this time, Huang Taiji definitely did not dare to divide his troops to Qian'an and Yongping to garrison, because he was afraid that the Ming army on Zunhua's side would kill him and fight him in a decisive battle.

But he didn't want to go back to Qian'an with the army anymore, and it was tiring to go back and forth like this, okay?

Yuan Chonghuan was also very interested, and offered to let Zhao of Jizhou lead the teaching, take 5,000 Xuanfu troops and 20,000 guards to Qian'an, and then he sent 5,000 Guanning troops and 20,000 guards to Yongping.

Qin Shuhuai thought about it and felt that it was unreliable to divide troops to guard. He was very skeptical about the combat effectiveness of the guards, if the troops were divided and stationed, then it was likely that after the Xuanfu army or the Guanning army were finished, these guards would surrender, and no matter how much it was, it would be useless.

So he proposed that all the 50,000 troops be stationed in Qian'an, and they would defend a city in Qian'an. In this case, there are 10,000 elites in Qian'an City, and if these elites are there, the guards can still fight a dozen.