It's nothing, I just remembered a little bit of something." Zhang Rui replied calmly.

Chen Deyun was confused, but he couldn't continue asking questions. At this time, he only heard Zhang Rui say, "Let's go and patrol the battlefield with me."

"Yes, King of Han."

Chen Deyun was about to follow him, but at this time he heard Liu Shitou's low voice coming from his ears.

"If you dare to question the King of Han again, no matter whether you are a teacher or not, I will still beat you up."

"Liu Shitou, are you brave? You actually want to beat me up. Besides, when did I question the King of Han? Don't talk nonsense to me?" Chen Deyun also said in a low voice and replied in discontently.

"You said you didn't, then what did you mean just now? I don't study much, but I'm not stupid." Liu Shitou was only heard saying viciously.

"Do you think the King of Han is easy? That's because you have never been with the King of Han. After the King of Han handles all kinds of things during the day, he has to deal with documents sent from various places at night. He often gets from night until 30:00 to 1 in the morning, and then after five or six o'clock, he has to get up and do what he needs to do during the day."

"Sometimes I go to bed, and he hasn't fallen asleep yet. He has only half a cup of tea to sleep, so he has to get up and continue processing the documents. It's just to avoid the incidents accumulated everywhere. Do you think it's easy for him?"

"Although the King of Han said that when the court becomes stable in the future, most of these things will have to be handled by the ministers in the court. But as our territory grows bigger, how can there be fewer things? This is just the words of the King of Han to comfort me."

"So, let's not say anything else, I only know that King Han is a good emperor, and I don't allow others to question him."

Chen Deyun was very moved after listening to Liu Shitou's words. Although he felt that he was very busy, he was much more relaxed than the King of Han.

"I never thought about questioning King Han. I just couldn't figure it out. We couldn't beat them. Why did my brothers suffer a lot by those dog thieves, but they had to turn it into the wounded people they abandoned?" Chen Deyun defended with guilt.

"You can't figure it out? I can't figure out more things. I just know that I was just a wild boy in the countryside two years ago, but now I am the popular guard commander." Liu Shitou said bluntly.

"Besides, it's right for us to not understand what the King of Han did. Otherwise, he would not be the one who could lead you and me to break out into a world. So, if the King of Han can't figure it out in the future, think slowly, but don't question him."

"He has already had enough troubles, and we old brothers should not make him feel upset. Even if he is really wrong, we have to bear it together with him."

"I understand, thank you, Shitou!" After Liu Shitou said this, Li Deyun suddenly understood that compared to Liu Shitou's sincerity and Li Mugen's prudence, he seemed to be a little arrogant because of his favor.

Chen Deyun looked at the King of Han who was slowly moving away, and followed Liu Shitou.

...

On Ma'anshan

Position of the bandit suppression army

At this moment, most of the prisoners who were surrounded here were the Qing army who were not physically ill or had only a few wounds but did not affect their actions.

Looking around, there were many Qing soldiers captured here. After a rough calculation, there were more than 500 people.

Ma Wu and Hong Zhen are also among the captives at this moment.

"Brother Ma, I heard that these thieves are all extremely cruel people who kill without blinking. If they put us prisoners here, would they want to drag us out and kill us?" Hong Zhen, who was extremely nervous and even completely at a loss, asked Ma Wu.

"No, probably not. If they want to kill us, there is no need to be such trouble. Isn't it easier to slash us with one knife on that battlefield just now? So, don't think about it anymore, just wait for their arrangements quietly." Ma Wu said comfortingly.

"Brother Ma said that generally speaking, our captives either cut off their heads and took their rewards or kept them for the purpose of offering prisoners. I guess they kept them for the purpose of offering prisoners!" Hong Zhen, who had figured it out, couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Well, you're right, there's indeed such a possibility." Ma Wu thought for a while, nodded in recognition of Hong Zhen's words.

"Bang...bang..."

At this time, a brief and rapid sound of gongs came from the captive position.

"It's time to eat, hurry up and come and share the meal..."

...

The prisoner, who was already a little frightened, was stunned when he heard this.

"When is Hong Zhen now? Did the thief have dinner so early?" Ma Wu asked in confusion.

At this time, Hong Zhen looked at the sun in the sky, then looked at his shadow on the ground, and then guessed: "I don't know what time it is, but I guess it should be Shen Shi's meaning."

"Yes, it's Shen Shi. If I were farming at home, I could understand that I had such early supper, but now I'm fighting a war. Now that I'm finished eating, how can I get through when I'm hungry at night?" Ma Wu said.

"I don't understand this anymore, but look at that side?" Hong Zhen said, pointing to the direction of the guide.

Ma Wu looked in the direction of Hong Zhen's finger, but saw dozens of people wearing the same green camp soldiers' clothes as them, carrying buckets of rice, buckets of steamed buns, buckets of soup, and some vegetables slowly coming.

Before they got closer, they could smell the strong aroma of the dish, which seemed to be filled with meat.

The aroma of the food in front of me made Ma Wu, who had never eaten anything oily, immediately screamed in his stomach.

"Brother Ma Wu, this is not our last meal, right?" At this moment, tears flowed out from Hong Zhen's eyes.

"No...no! Why do you have to waste such good food if you want to kill us?" Ma Wu swallowed the saliva in his mouth hard and analyzed "rationally".

"But when we were going to chop off the prisoners' heads, we usually gave them a good meal so that they could get full and go on the road without so much resentment." Hong Zhen said.

"That's true, but that's when it comes to normal times, there is no shortage of food. Now on the battlefield, sometimes a pound of food is more precious than a life. Even if the thief is stupid, there is no need to waste so much food for a group of dying people!" Ma Wu replied.

Note 1: Because of Zhang Rui, the time view of the bandit suppression army was changed to a twenty-four-hour system. For this reason, he even bought a clock from Portugal and ordered craftsmen to imitate it.
Chapter completed!