The military doctor has done everything he can do, and whether Wu Jianying can survive this hurdle depends on his own vitality.

Bai Qiwen was very excited and strongly asked the war zone to apply for the National Medal of Honor for Wu Jianying, and Guan Zhuofan agreed.

The so-called field hospital is a few huge tents, Guan Zhuofan walked out of the tent, his heart was heavy, and the joy of victory was diluted by Wu Jianying's uncertainty about life and death.

Wu Jianying was seriously injured, and Guan Zhuofan was responsible. This unit set off relatively late, and the purpose was not to startle the snake, for fear of forcing the Yugoslav Army, which had already taken the bait, especially the main force, to change its arrangement. But because of this, he lost the opportunity to choose the battlefield, so he fell into the trap of Longstreet and fought a bitter battle.

Otherwise, Wu Jianying would not be so easily injured so severely.

Guan Zhuofan sighed heavily and raised his head, the sky was getting more and more gloomy, and a rainstorm was coming.

Heavy rains often followed the war. It's the rainy season in Chattanooga, the air is full of moisture, and the smoke and dust from the fierce fighting provide abundant condensation nuclei for precipitation.

The battle is almost over, Guan Zhuofan has to sum it up, and there are many lessons in it. Because Chickmoga's first battle was too smooth, although he repeatedly reminded himself, he still subconsciously involuntarily developed a desire to underestimate the enemy of the Southern Army, and these lessons, including the relevant arrangements for the battle of Lucourt Valley, which caused Wu Jianying to be seriously injured, may not have originated from this.

There were intermittent screams from several tents, which were amputations.

Almost all gunshot wounds in the Northern Army were lead bullet wounds. The bullets used by the Yugoslav army are 0.58 caliber low-velocity soft lead bullets, which have weak penetrating power, unlike copper-shelled fixed ammunition that can penetrate the body. It can only stay in the body. The kinetic energy of the bullet is absorbed by the body. into terrible wounds; Moreover, lead was toxic and could easily cause infection, and at that time penicillin was not available, and the means of fighting infection were limited, so the proportion of amputations in the war was quite high.

Guan Zhuofan led the troops to fight in the country, and the soldiers had more wounds from knives and arrows, and there were very few long-haired foreign guns. The lethality of the earthen guns and guns was incomparable to that of the front-loading rifled guns of the Southern Army, so it was the first time he had seen so many lead bullet wounds.

There was one scene that he will never forget. A large pit was dug outside each tent, and from the window of the tent that opened on top of the pit, almost every few minutes, an arm, a leg, or a bloody hand was thrown out. Some of the pits are almost filled.

Guan Zhuofan has long been accustomed to seeing blood and death, and he himself crawled out of the pile of dead people, but in the face of this scene, he still can't help but be moved.

The dull thunder rumbled through the low clouds, bean-sized raindrops fell, and the air was filled with the smell of blood and earth smashed up by the raindrops. Soon. The golden snake danced in the clouds, and thunder exploded one after another. Torrential rain poured down.

Blood and water spilled out of several large pits, and the ground of the field hospital turned out to be an endless river of blood.

The sky is misty, and the Alabachian Mountains to the northeast loom in a rain curtain.

Guanshan is thousands of miles, blood-colored rivers, and ten thousand bones will be successful.

The southern army of the northern front received the news of the loss of the main ridge and ordered a retreat, but the Sherman division received the news at the same time, and its morale was greatly boosted, and the retreat of this southern army was greatly delayed, so that the northern army sent to copy their rear road was successfully put in place, and under the east-west attack of the two northern armies, the southern army completely collapsed.

Longstreet led the remnants of 10,000 men to the Eastern Front, barely retreating with his whole body.

At this point, the Battle of Chattanooga came to an end. The Northern Army won a strategic victory, annihilating more than 70,000 enemies, although the Longstreet division escaped, which could not be regarded as a complete victory, but the Southern Army was no longer able to gather such a large force on the Western Front, and could only turn to strategic defense, and the offensive and defensive trend of the North and South of the Western Front was completely reversed.

The road from Chattanooga to Atlanta, the largest town in the Confederacy hinterland, was unguarded, and the door to the south of the Northern Army was opened.

The war report reached Washington, and the federal government appointed Ulysses? Grant was the commander-in-chief of the Union Army, succeeding the dissuaded Harleck, commanding the entire Union army, and transferred to the Eastern Front, where he directly commanded the troops on the Eastern Front.

At the same time, Grant was asked to recommend a candidate to take over as commander-in-chief of the Western Theater and report to Washington.

Grant found Guan Zhuofan: Yixuan, I'll entrust it to you in the Western Theater.

Guan Zhuofan said: How can it be, General Sherman has outstanding merits and is famous, and I would like to attach Ji Wei.

Guan Zhuofan is very sober on this issue, although he won the Battle of Chattanooga, he still has limited prestige and little seniority in the federal army, and it is no problem to be a local theater commander, but it is still reluctant to command half of the army of the whole federation.

What's more, he is a guest army after all.

And, don't forget, General Sherman is General Grant's best friend.

But let Kwan Zhuofan live under Sherman, and Grant can't make such an arrangement. Sherman and Guan Zhuofan were originally equal, and Guan Zhuofan was the commander-in-chief of the Battle of Chattanooga, and the Xuan army fought obviously better than Sherman's department.

So Zuihou compromised and came up with such a result: the establishment of the Joint General Command of the Western Theater of Operations, led by William? Sherman and Kwan Yat-hin co-serve as co-commanders-in-chief.

Washington agreed.

Commander-in-Chief Guan said that he would first discuss everything with Commander-in-Chief Xie and would not dare to be self-conscious.

The first thing the two commanders-in-chief discussed: Appoint George? Henry? Thomas was the commander of the Tennessee theater of operations.

After doing this, Sherman led his troops back to the Memphis theater to raise food and grass equipment for the south. Memphis is also in Tennessee, is an important town on the Mississippi River, and the federal government divides Tennessee into two parts, the western part belongs to the Memphis theater and the eastern part belongs to the Tennessee theater.

Guan Zhuofan has a lot to do, to compensate for the dead and wounded, to recuperate the troops, to sum up experience, to study tactics, to accumulate food and equipment, and to replenish the troops...... But first, bury the dead brother.

Guan Zhuofan asked Thomas for his opinion, and then ordered the construction of a "martyr's cemetery" on a small hillside called the "Orchard Ring", which was divided into two parts, one for American soldiers and one for Chinese soldiers.

The burial of American soldiers is a permanent burial, and the burial of Chinese soldiers is a temporary burial, and Guan Zhuofan's plan is to move the spirits of these brothers before returning to China, load them on a ship, and transport them back to China.

This is his promise to Xuan Jun.

After this arrangement was announced, it caused an unexpected sensation among the soldiers, and it can be regarded as an excitement for the three armies. The words of the marshal are really counted!

However, transporting corpses by ocean is a very troublesome matter, and the corpses are easy to decompose after two or three months of travel, so the corpses need to be disposed of before the removal of the spirits. Roughly speaking, the corpse is passed through the fire first, burning off the muscles, leaving only the bones; It can also be corroded with acid to achieve the same effect. No one in the Xuan army has ever done this kind of thing, and Guan Zhuofan asked Sandos to find professionals in the American funeral industry to study the plan, but it was still early to return to China, and it was a later story.

Many of the corpses of the soldiers of the Xuan Army have been mutilated, but fortunately, the "Tiger Brand" was hung around their necks, and the inside of their clothes was sewn with the same content as the "Tiger Brand", so the bodies of almost all the soldiers who died in the battle were found and buried in the ground.

Although it is a temporary tomb, it is not sloppy at all, and there is no difference from the American military tomb next door, and a stone tablet is erected in front of the tomb, engraved with the name, fan, position, military rank, date of birth and death. The so-called soul transfer is only the removal of bones, and the tomb cemetery is permanently reserved for future generations to remember.

Guan Zhuofan Jihua, every time he finishes a big battle, he builds one such cemetery.

While inspecting the project, the military priest asked the two commanders if the location of the graves of the American servicemen should be divided by states.

This question is not easy for the commander-in-chief to take a stand, and look at Thomas.

"No, no, scatter them and bury them," said Commander Thomas, "and we've heard enough of the word 'state power.'" ”

The cemetery was completed, the martyrs were buried in the ground, and the memorial ceremony was held in the war zone, because the cemetery was divided into two parts, and the ceremony was held twice. There is a slight difference between the two ceremonies, and a wine sacrifice procedure has been added to the Chinese military cemetery.

Guan Zhuofan raised the wine glass above his head, and then sprinkled it in front of the tomb, and he said loudly: "Brother Xuanjun, please rest here, a little later, Guan San will come to pick you up and return to China!" ”

Then, the whole Spencer battalion of the K-shaped regiment, all dressed in brand new uniforms, lined up neatly, raised their guns to the sky, and Ixan shouted: "Release! ”

A volley of five hundred Spencer guns shook the valley.

"Put!"

Seven shots in a row.

Heaven and earth echo, endlessly.

*(To be continued......)