Nothing, just remembered a little something. "Zhang Rui replied calmly.
Chen Deyun looked confused, but he couldn't continue to ask further. At this time, he only heard Zhang Rui say: "Let's go with me to inspect the battlefield."
"Yes, King Han."
Chen Deyun saluted and was about to follow, when he heard Liu Shitou's deep 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."
"Liu Shitou, are you cowardly? You actually want to beat me up. Besides, when did I ever question the King of Han? Don't lie to me." Chen Deyun also replied in a low voice, unconvinced.
"You still said you didn't, so what did you mean by what you just said? I don't study much, but I'm not stupid." Liu Shitou said viciously.
"Do you think it's easy for the King of Han? That's because you've never been with the King of Han. After the King of Han has dealt with various things during the day, he still has to deal with documents sent from various places at night. He often does it from night to three or four in the morning①, and then at five After six o'clock, I have to get up again and do the things I have to do during the day."
"Sometimes I go to bed but he hasn't gone to bed yet. And it only lasts for half a cup of tea before he goes to bed and has to get up again to continue processing documents. Just so that incidents don't pile up everywhere. Do you think it's easy for him?"
"Although the King of Han always said that when the court is stable in the future, most of these matters will have to be handed over to the ministers. But as our territory becomes larger and larger, how can there be less things? This is just The King of Han only comforted me with words."
"So, if nothing else, I only know that King Han is a good emperor, and I don't allow others to dare to question him."
Chen Deyun was very moved after listening to Liu Shitou's words. Although he felt that he was also very busy, compared with Han Wang, he was much more relaxed.
"Well, I didn't think about questioning the King of Han. I just couldn't figure it out. It's not like we couldn't defeat them. Why did my brothers suffer a lot of casualties from those dog thieves, but in the end, they ended up being the wounded they abandoned?" Chen Deyun defended with a guilty conscience.
"You can't figure it out? There are so many things that I can't figure out. I just know that two years ago I was just a hungry wild boy in the countryside, but now I am a respected commander of the bodyguards." Liu Shitou said rudely said.
"Besides, it's only right that we can't figure out what King Han did. Otherwise, he is not the person who can lead you and me to a new world. So, in the future, if you can't figure out what King Han does, just think slowly, but don't question him. "
"He has enough things to worry about, and we old brothers shouldn't worry him. Even if he is really wrong, we have to bear it 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 caution, he seemed to be a little proud of his favor.
Chen Deyun glanced at the King of Han who was slowly walking away, and then followed Liu Shitou.
…
Ma'anshan
Suppressing bandit army prisoner position
At this moment, most of the prisoners trapped here were Qing troops who were in good health or had only a few wounds that did not affect their actions.
Looking around, we can see that there are quite a few Qing troops captured here. According to a rough calculation, there are more than 500 people.
Ma Wu and Hong Zhen are also among this group of prisoners at the moment.
"Brother Ma, I heard that these rebels are people who kill without blinking an eye and are extremely cruel. By putting us prisoners here, do they want to drag us out and kill us?" The whole body was extremely nervous, even Hong Zhen, who was completely at a loss, asked Ma Wu.
"No, probably not. If they want to kill us, they don't have to go to such trouble. Wouldn't it be easier to just chop us off on the battlefield? So, stop thinking about it and wait for them quietly. Just make the arrangements." Ma Wu said comfortingly.
"What Brother Ma is saying is that generally speaking, when we capture their prisoners, they either chop off their heads and use them to collect rewards, or they keep them to be used as captives. I guess they kept us for the purpose of sacrificing prisoners!" "Hong Zhen, who had figured it out, couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, you're right, it is indeed possible." Ma Wu thought for a moment and nodded in agreement with Hong Zhen's words.
"Bang...bang bang..."
At this time, a brief and rapid sound of gongs came from the prisoner's position.
"It's time to eat. Get in line quickly and come over to share the food..."
…
The captives who were still a little shocked at first were in a daze when they heard this.
"Hong Zhen, what time is it now? Do the rebels eat so early?" Ma Wu asked doubtfully.
At this time, Hong Zhen looked at the sun in the sky, then at his own shadow on the ground, and then guessed: "I don't know the specific time, but I guess it means Shen Shi."
"Yes, it's Shenshi time now. If I were farming at home, I would understand eating such an early dinner, but now we are in a war. Now that we have eaten, how will we survive the night when we are hungry?" Ma Wu said.
"I don't understand this either, but where are you looking?" Hong Zhen said, pointing in the direction of the surface.
Ma Wu looked in the direction of Hong Zhen's finger and saw dozens of people wearing the same green army uniforms as them, carrying several buckets of rice, several buckets of steamed buns, several buckets of soup and what seemed like several kinds of vegetables. Is coming slowly.
Before they even got close, they could already smell the strong aroma of the vegetables, and there seemed to be meat in the vegetables.
The aroma of the buckets of food in front of him made Ma Wu, who had never eaten anything, immediately growl with hunger.
"Brother Ma Wu, isn't this our last meal?" At this moment, tears actually flowed from Hong Zhen's eyes.
"No... no way! Why waste such good food if you want to kill us?" Ma Wu swallowed the saliva in his mouth hard and analyzed "rationally".
"However, when we want to behead prisoners over there, we usually give them a good meal so that they can go on the road full and without so much resentment." Hong Zhen said.
"That's what I said, but that was during normal times, when food was not in short supply. But now on the battlefield, sometimes a pound of food is more precious than a human life. Even if the rebels are stupid, there is no need to fight for a group of dying people. People waste so much food!" Ma Wu replied.
Note ①: Because of Zhang Rui, the time concept of the bandit suppressing army was also changed to a twenty-four-hour system. To this end, he even bought clocks from Portugal and ordered craftsmen to copy them.
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