Chapter 954: The Role of the Military Medical Corps
Dahua's iron cavalry and infantry phalanx clashed with the Turkic cavalry regiments, fighting from morning to noon, rotating the soldiers who had eaten some dry food and water in the back, and continued to fight.
Pei Yuanqing used his spear, led the troops to fight, bravely crowned the three armies, and with 15,000 iron cavalry, he flanked the 10,000 Turkic cavalry attacking the formation.
On the other side, Xue Wanqian is also between tigers and tigers, one person can kill a hundred people, and he is naturally brave and fierce with his cavalry, defeating a team of 10,000 people.
The two wings were victorious, losing three or four thousand men and horses, but each defeated seven or eight thousand enemy troops, so that the left and right flanks of the infantry phalanx were preserved, and the Turkic cavalry was not allowed to stick their swords from the two ribs, and the Turks were not allowed to bypass the flanks and sneak attack the commander's command in the rear, otherwise it would cause chaos in the rear and have an impact on the morale of the army.
On the front, Shi Danai led a chain of horse army formations on a rampage, and this cavalry formation made its debut and indeed caused a certain amount of lethality to the Turkic cavalry.
If we talk about the knight's personal horsemanship, then the Turks will naturally be skilled, but the Turkic herdsmen are irregulars, most of them gather as soldiers, scatter and serve the people, lack of formation drills in peacetime, effective military training, when charging, they all rely on the speed of war horses, personal cavalry, rush to the enemy ranks, rely on bravery, courage, and kill the enemy.
This is also the regular way of playing for nomadic cavalry, but when they encounter a chain of horse formations, ten are a team, rushing over, even if they kill a few Dahua knights above, they still can't break through this defense line, and even the Turkic knights will be swept off their horses and knocked down.
"Rush through!"
"What kind of thing is this, it's still in chains, and you can't rush through it at all."
"Cunning Central Plains people, tricks to use!"
The Turkic knights were shouting and swearing, but the team had to stop, forced back by a chain of horses.
The cavalry in the rear did not know the situation in front of them and continued to rush forward, causing the team to become more and more blocked, like a canal, blocked by silt, which would accumulate more and more, and the water flow would be seriously unsmooth.
However, this is still a bloody battlefield, the Turks tried to break through the past, knocking into a chain of horses, suddenly, people turned over on their backs, once the chain of horses and three horses to the end, it was basically invalid, but the Turkic cavalry wanted to rush over, they would definitely be tripped and rolled.
The confrontation was fierce, and the corpse of the partner was ruthlessly trampled like a rag, and people kept falling, becoming a dead body being trampled on.
This great battle was fought until dusk, and the remnant sun was like blood, burning half of the sunset.
On this piece of yellow earth where the wind and sand have been beating all year round, there have been rivers of blood, and there are corpses everywhere, horizontal and vertical, there are the bones of war horses, and there are also the dead corpses of soldiers.
The smoke of gunpowder filled the four fields, the bloody breath was in the nose, many Mo knives and spears were nailed to the ground, pierced through the corpses, and inserted diagonally there, Teng shields, iron hooks, and arrows were everywhere, a messy scene after the war, like a Shura hell, extremely tragic.
The Turkic army and the Central Plains army fought hard for a day, and both sides suffered casualties, and finally had to withdraw their troops and prepare to fight again in the coming day.
The Dahua army counted more than 20,000 dead and wounded, and used countless firearms and arrows, and it was precisely because of the superiority of weapons and equipment that it was able to stop the fierce iron cavalry of the steppe nomads, and it was roughly estimated that the Turkic side had no less than 50,000 dead and wounded.
With the current level of medical care, there are very few in the steppe Langzhong, and even fewer go south with the army, and those injured Turkic knights, especially those who were injured by the explosion, have no anti-inflammatory and sterilization, and are easily infected and inflamed, and the survival rate is very low.
The Dahua army has a special military medical team, which can treat the wounded in a timely manner in the wounded barracks, and a series of large and small medical methods such as bone grafting, bandaging, and sewing the belly can save many seriously wounded.
With Luo Zhaoyun's thinking, as early as in the northwest, he paid attention to the support of the military medical army, and took advantage of the troubled times to open, and summoned many doctors and Langzhong to come to the northwest and began to recruit apprentices to learn medical skills, which expanded the medical team in the army.
Luo Zhaoyun once told some young Langzhong that he had seen surgery in his 21st life, and asked them to experiment on mice, rabbits, dead corpses, etc., accept the concept of surgery, master the basic surgical principles such as dissection and suture, and practice makes perfect.
On the battlefield, these simple surgeries can often save the lives of the wounded, because they are all weapons that cut the stomach, pierce the internal organs, break the ribs, etc., all belong to the scope of surgery.
Now the situation is different, many military doctors are stitches, some seriously wounded, centurions and above, will be given priority to be sent to the temporary sterilization shed for emergency surgery, rescue centurions, captains, captains, generals, etc., their lives are much more important than ordinary soldiers, of course, if conditions permit, other sterilization sheds will also be arranged for ordinary soldiers to emergency rescue surgery.
Many of the wounded saw those seriously injured being carried in, thinking that there was no cure, and there was only one way to die, but often after being carried out, it seemed that there was still a breath of air, and it was said that there was still a possibility of survival. Having such a military medical corps, which is much more advanced than this era, has increased a lot of confidence for the Dahua soldiers, and they feel that they can be rescued if they are injured.
"Listen up, our Dahua army, there is the best military medical team, they are all from the medical school set up by His Majesty to study the arts, become military doctors, will operate on the knife, very mysterious, even if everyone is injured, as long as there is no breath, there is a possibility of healing, so, don't be afraid, Ming'er will go to the battlefield alone, and continue to fight boldly with the Turks." A lieutenant walked over and lectured at the 1,000-strong soldiers under his jurisdiction.
"Fight! Fight! The surviving soldiers shouted loudly, and the little nervousness and fear accumulated from today's battle have been cleared a lot.
Compared with the wounded in the barracks here, the Turkic side is much more miserable.
There were not many military doctors, and there were not so many medicines, thousands of wounded people were lying on the grass, wailing and screaming, and some warriors of the same tribe helped each other to wrap the wounds with cloth strips, but the broken limbs, or the blood holes in the abdomen, etc., were considered serious injuries, and there were no medicine stones to reduce inflammation and relieve pain, and it was too painful for these steppe warriors.
But there is no way, the steppe team has always encountered this scene when they invade the Central Plains, and the Turkic Khan has long been accustomed to it, ignoring it, and still fighting with the leaders of various tribes, drinking and eating meat, while discussing how to fight again tomorrow.