In the west of the city, outside the long fence, most of the burned west camp is being rebuilt, a large number of soldiers are on guard on the dirt slope, and in the temporary tents set up on the side, many wounded soldiers are moaning and wailing.

When you go to war, you will die if you are not careful, and those who are injured but survive are not all lucky ones, because some people are struggling, and their injuries show no signs of improvement, and they are just struggling for the faint hope of survival.

The battlefield is full of stray arrows, and if you are shot carelessly, you will die on the spot, and those who are shot but do not die will have to survive, because arrow wounds are not a joke.

shot in the chest and injured his lungs, gasped for breath and vomited a mouthful of blood, and died after not staying up long; If the internal organs are injured, people seem to be fine, but it just hurts, and it will pass overnight soon, and it will be a few days later.

This process is very painful for the injured, the wound hurts for a while, and then there is a fever, burning unconscious, shivering, life is worse than death.

Even if you are not hit by a stray arrow, if you are shot in your limbs, if the arrow wound is not treated well, you will die, and most of the arrows are rusty or stained with dirt, and being shot by such an arrow can easily trigger tetanus.

In order to avoid the deterioration of the arrow wound, it is necessary to pull out the arrow as soon as possible, stop the bleeding, and remove the dirt from the wound.

Wounded on the battlefield, there are common knife and axe wounds, and the general flesh wounds are fine, but if the hands and feet are cut off, even if they do not die due to excessive blood loss, they will make the wounded painful and unbearable, and if the wound is not properly treated, it will suppurate and cause ulceration, making life worse than death.

In addition to knife and axe wounds, there are also gun and spear wounds, although they will not break their hands and feet, but if they are stabbed in their internal organs, they will not live long, and they will not be able to be hit by blunt objects such as shovels and hammers compared to being injured by sharp weapons.

Even if you are wearing armor and a scarf on your head, and you are struck by a blunt object, you look good, but in fact you have suffered internal injuries, and you may have a headache and chest tightness, and you will die within a few days.

In addition, there are burns, which are also painful injuries, if a person is burned by fire and the skin on his body is ulcerated in a large area, it is an injury that may not be cured even if the divine doctor Hua Tuo is alive.

Most of the skin on the body was burned, no different from being skinned, and the pain was uncomfortable just to think about, and many of the wounded were burned by the canisters of fire oil thrown by the enemy, and the whole body was burned extensively, and it was painful to live.

There is another kind of injury, which is rare in the past, that is, it is burned by quicklime, this kind of wound and burn are touched, but the wounds are basically in the mouth, nose and eyes.

Quicklime gets hot when exposed to water, and there are many wounded soldiers who burn their throats due to inhalation of quicklime, or who lose their sight or have severe vision loss due to quicklime staining their eyes.

Last night, the enemy attacked the camp and threw a large amount of quicklime, which caused many officers and soldiers to be injured, and they were burned by quicklime in their eyes or in their mouths.

At this moment, the people who are groaning in the barracks are the wounded who are lucky enough to not die on the battlefield but are not as alive as they are dead, although there are many military doctors who come to treat the wounded, but the piercing pain in the heart makes many people feel painful.

Comparatively speaking, the captured soldiers and young men were much luckier, at first they were afraid of being killed by the other party, but after a long speech, the enemy let everyone go.

Those who bravely kill the enemy are either dead or wounded, and among the wounded, there are still those who are worse than death, and those who surrender when they see that the situation is not good, nothing happens.

Such a strong contrast made everyone a little stunned, and they didn't know who was right and who was wrong, those soldiers and young men who were busy building the camp listened to the moans of the wounded not far away, and their hearts were not good.

Is it worth it to kill the enemy?

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In a corner of the city, in a courtyard, a wounded soldier was undergoing "surgery", his right palm was gone, it was cut off by enemy soldiers during the battle last night, and the doctor who was operating on it was bandaging his wound at this time.

It is very common to have broken hands and feet on the battlefield, and whether the wounded can survive can only rely on their own hardship, but this wounded soldier is decisive, and after being cut off his hand, he took out a "first-aid bandage" to strangle his wrist to stop the bleeding.

Then burn the wound with a torch and scorch it.

Burning himself is not something anyone can do, and it is this seemingly cruel act that keeps him from dying on the spot due to excessive blood loss, and after retreating to the city, he will be treated and wait for the military doctor to arrange an "operation".

At this moment, the wounded soldier was lying on his back on the "operating table", his eyes were covered with gauze, his mouth was biting on the cloth, his arms and legs were fixed, and several military doctors in white robes were busy around him.

The "scalpels", "surgical scissors", "surgical forceps", threads, and bandages that have been steamed and sterilized at high temperatures are neatly arranged, and there are bottles and jars containing medicine next to them, although they exude the smell of medicine, but they are diluted by the stronger smell of alcohol.

The "alcohol" used by military doctors is not alcohol, but "alcohol" obtained by repeated distillation with a special "still", which is naturally not used for drinking, but for "disinfection".

First wipe the wound of the wounded soldier with alcohol, then find the blood vessel that has crusted over the wound, and carefully tie it up with a sterilized thread to avoid accidentally scabbing and rupturing and causing heavy bleeding.

The operation is completed by removing the black carrion with a sharp scalpel, rubbing it with alcohol, applying a special healing medicine, and finally bandaging the wound with disinfected gauze.

During the whole process, there were military doctors guarding several shelves, always paying attention to adjusting the glass mirrors on them, so as to reflect sunlight to the wound and facilitate the operation of the military doctors, and several military doctors served as assistants to help the military doctors.

He also wiped the sweat of the military doctors and the wounded soldiers who underwent surgery.

Because there was no anesthetic, the wounded soldier directly suffered the pain caused by each knife, but he bit the cloth in his mouth, even if he was sweating profusely, he did not say a word, and when the operation was completed, several handkerchiefs had been used to wipe his sweat.

The wounded soldiers were helped to get up and slowly walked out, several military doctors took off their masks and small hats, and sat in the pergola to drink water and rest.

Yu Wenwen, who was watching from the sidelines, did not disturb these doctors, who had performed many surgeries one after another, and quietly left with his entourage.

Battlefield medicine is a necessary technology to reduce the casualty rate of soldiers, and surgery is an indispensable medical technology, but in this era when there are no antibiotics and blood transfusion technology, if you want to save soldiers who have suffered arrow wounds, burns, and knife wounds, even if there is more scientific surgery, the success rate of surgery is still not high.

Without antibiotics, there is no way to fight bacterial infection of the wound; Without reliable anesthetics, it is not even possible to perform effective surgical procedures: if the injured person undergoing the operation cannot endure severe pain, the operation will fail.

But this is not a reason for Yu Wenwen to give up, there are no antibiotics, at least to find a way to reduce the chance of bacterial contamination of the wound; If there is no ready-made anesthetic, then keep trying various formulas, not general anesthesia, so as to reduce the pain a little.

Hua Tuo during the Three Kingdoms period is said to have developed the anesthetic "Ma Boiling Powder", and he didn't believe that he couldn't try a similar formula even if he burned money desperately.

In order to exercise the surgical ability of military doctors, Yu Wenwen even carried out a taboo medical experiment of live surgery, and if there were not enough death row prisoners, the slaves bought from the slave capture team were used as experimental subjects.

From the perspective of modern ethics and morality, is such an act of exterminating humanity worth it?

It's worth it, as long as he can promote the development of surgery and promote the progress of battlefield medicine, with a little notoriety on his back, he doesn't care, killing one person to save a hundred people, it's worth it.

And he is not needlessly sacrificing human life, he has the basic medical equipment that he should have.

With the microscope, the concept of bacterial infection was gradually accepted by military doctors, and the concept of "disinfection" was also accepted, and how to prevent bacterial infection, because there are no antibiotics, in fact, there is no very good way, you can only rely on alcohol and boiling to disinfect instruments and supplies,

After countless "internships", military doctors in Huangzhou have been able to carry out very terrifying surgical operations, and the success rate of the treatment of arrow wounds, burns, and knife wounds has improved significantly.

Even amputation has a good success rate.

Although compared with the medical level of later generations, the success rate of this copycat version of surgery in Huangzhou is still very low, but it has clearly surpassed the medical level of other places in the same era.

The price is that it costs a lot of money, and the military doctors who have been trained cannot collect "training fees" from others, and most of the expenses are borne by Yu Wenwen himself.

In the army, surgery for wounded soldiers is free, Yu Wenwen has no way to make money, everything is to ensure combat effectiveness and survive.

While thinking, while climbing the steps, Yu Wenwen came to the head of the city, looked at the gradually rising water level outside the city, and then looked at the circle outside the city that was like the Great Wall, and sighed.

After yesterday's two major defeats, the enemy seems to understand that a rapid attack is unrealistic, and instead uses the method of long-term siege to consume, at this time the downstream weir dam should have closed the water gate, so the water level of Rushui rises, and if it goes on like this, it will turn into an ocean outside the city in a day or two.

There was water outside the city, and he and his soldiers and horses were really trapped in the city, unable to do anything but consume food every day.

Such a situation was already expected when Shannan and his brother Yu Wenming were making strategic plans, and he was also mentally prepared for the enemy army to besiege the city and send reinforcements, so there would be no reinforcements in the hanging gourd, not in the short term.

The ultimate strategic goal to be achieved by the sneak attack on the Hanging Gourd is that Yu Wenwen uses himself and the Hanging Gourd as bait to attract the enemy's main force to nail it near the Hanging Gourd, buy time for Shannan, and concentrate his forces in a certain direction to make an all-out breakthrough.

For this reason, he was prepared to be trapped in the hanging gourd for a long time, and in terms of food preparation alone, it was enough for the needs of the soldiers and civilians in the city for a year.

If the situation is not opened for a long time, he will be like Wang Sizheng, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty who guarded Yingchuan, who stayed up for a year and could not wait for reinforcements, and surrendered when he ran out of food.

Wang Sizheng surrendered to the Eastern Wei Dynasty and could still be reused, but he had only a dead end.

Is it worth it?

When he was in Shannan, Yu Wenwen asked himself this question from time to time, but until now, he has no regrets.

With a long sigh of relief, he looked to the southwest, looked at the distant Shannan region, and muttered to himself: "I have done my best, and next, it is up to you." ”