Yang Lin packed up his good mood and took three steps and two steps to the field hospital, and the wailing in the distance was clearly audible, looking like hell on earth.

In order to accommodate the wounded, the volunteers temporarily requisitioned four or five courtyards in the west of the city, and now the courtyards are brightly lit, and everyone comes and goes, looking busy.

Due to the large number of wounded, the courtyard was full of wounded, and Chief Medical Officer Huang Xuemao, Deputy Chief Medical Officer He Xideng, and others were treating the wounded, and there was no time to receive them.

Ma Fengyu no longer has the heroic spirit of the past, and throws herself into her arms from afar, hugging the man and crying.

Gently patting him on the shoulder, Yang Lin comforted: "Fengyu, it's okay, everything will be fine, everything will be fine." ”

Looking up at the man, he said with tears on his face: "Ruzhen, it's too cruel, even today, two people died next to me." ”

The corners of his mouth grinned, and Yang Lin comforted: "But because of you, more people have been saved." On the way here, everyone said that the field hospital is good, and your nursing camp is good. ”

As if remembering something, he pointed to the three wounded people lying in the corner and said, "Ruzhen, there is a shortage of everything now, a shortage of hemostatic herbs, a shortage of disinfectant potions, and a shortage of nursing staff." ”

Yang Lin nodded, put it down, then walked over to look at a few injured soldiers, bent down and asked softly about the injury, and then comforted everyone, so that everyone could recuperate with peace of mind, and they would not sit idly by and ignore everyone.

In response to the shortage of beds, Yang Lin promised to send 300 carpenter-turned-soldiers to build simple wooden beds overnight.

He promised to send brothers to the surrounding areas to borrow wooden doors, and promised to do everything in his power to accommodate everyone.

Unlike the rest of the Ming army, the Volunteer Army had already established a regulation and had established nursing homes in the rear to house the seriously wounded.

For those who have recovered from their injuries, in addition to normal pensions, they will be placed in some public posts.

For those who have difficulty moving with leg injuries, such as hand injuries and physical injuries and do not have much strength, after recovering from the injuries, they should be placed to guard the city gate, or as a yamen gatehouse or prison cell.

Everyone had been mentally prepared for a long time, but now that the war had just ended, Yang Lin rushed to the rear field hospital to visit everyone and promise everyone, and they were moved one by one.

Looking at a nurse who was helping the wounded to bandage their wounds, Yang Lin said with a smile: "Who said that women are inferior to men, men go to war, and women do nursing."

When the brothers are injured, the most important thing is to stop the bleeding immediately, that is, to disinfect, and then to nurse. ”

Huang Xuemao, the chief medical officer who had just arrived, shook his head and said: "My lord, what I am most afraid of is that the wound is inflamed, stop the bleeding now, if it leaks pus tomorrow, it will be troublesome." ”

Thinking of Wu Yangxing, Yang Lin smiled and said, "The chief medical officer is right, but how to prevent pus?"

Of course, it is disinfection, when the plague occurred in the place, the medical officer Wu Yangxing diagnosed that the plague was a germ that could not be seen by the naked eye, and it was just inhaled and infected.

Soldiers are wounded on the battlefield, and there may be something unclean on the arrows of the iron bullets, although we can't see it with the naked eye, but we can clean the wounds with potions that can kill germs.

The alcohol that everyone has distilled many times can probably eliminate wound germs, don't be afraid of dirty, don't be afraid of tiredness, saving people's lives is better than creating a seventh-level floating slaughter. ”

When everyone heard this, they all said yes.

Considering that there were too many seriously injured on the front line, Yang Lin was worried about what kind of disease would be transmitted by a large number of patients together, and each seriously injured number needed to be taken care of, which seriously consumed manpower, material and financial resources.

According to Yang Lin's thoughts, all the seriously injured people were transferred to the rear in batches after their condition improved, and then dispersed to the local rescue and resettlement.

Although there is convenient water transportation, the transportation of grain for thousands of miles, coupled with the hoarding of grain in places where the war is unknown, the price of grain in Hanzhong is twice that of Sichuan Province.

On the Jialing River, through ship transportation, Nanzheng to Chaotian Town (Jialing Riverside Wharf), there are also two-wheeled carriages, two-wheeled rickshaws, when they come, they are full of grain and grass materials, and when they go back, they transport grain.

In the rear, it is possible to ensure that the seriously wounded soldiers are fed and clothed every day, and that the seriously wounded can eat one egg and one or two meats every day, but they dare not imagine it at the front.

Of course, everyone knew the pressure brought by the seriously injured number, and they were willing to throw the pot to the place, and immediately Yang Lin ordered Qian Bangxin, the capital supervisor, and Huang Xuemao, the chief medical officer, to coordinate and deal with it.

In addition to the seriously wounded, considering the heavy casualties of the 3rd Association of the Dragon Frame, coupled with the large increase in the number of front-line volunteers after the round with Liao Qifang's troops, Yang Lin decided to withdraw them to the rear to rest.

As soon as this idea of recuperation was proposed, it was opposed by Long Zhijiao and Liu Jinfu.

The two of them pouted and shouted: "My lord, although our association has suffered heavy casualties, it is not a defeated army, how can we rest in the back?"

Yang Lin smiled and said: "The two generals are too worried, who said that only the remnants of the defeated generals go back to rest?"

Brothers here, it takes a lot of time and energy,

Now we have a wheelbarrow, and we can reach it in three or four days more than 200 miles.

Generals, I arranged for the troops with considerable casualties to go back to rest and recuperate, and saving food was one thing, although it was transported by waterway, although it was transported by wheelbarrow, the cost of grain transportation was still very large, and the grain transported from CD and Shunqing to the front line was consumed in the middle.

In the past, the reconstruction of soldiers and horses was mainly carried out by captives, and in the future, prisoners are of course one of the ways, but on the other hand, they also need to be transported from the rear.

Have you thought about it, on the front line, everyone has no time to train in order to fight all day long, and you can train in the rear.

You retreat to the rear to rest, I only have one request, that is, to give you three months, you will definitely bring me a full army of soldiers and horses again, do you say?

After you go back, you can send some battle heroes to various places to tell the local gentry about your great achievements, and you can show everyone how our volunteers defeated the Tartar soldiers.

Otherwise, we play in the front, and the back doesn't know, how is this good?

In addition, we also need someone to watch the house in the rear, and you have a whole training and a housekeeper, killing two birds with one stone, why not?

As soon as they heard about the housekeeping, the two were overjoyed, this time the Northern Expedition of the Volunteer Army, the strongest battalion left in Sichuan to take care of the family, under Yang Lin's good words, Long Zhifang agreed to lead the 3rd Association to retreat and recuperate.

Unlike other armies, the Volunteers were heavily equipped with two-wheeled carriages and rickshaws, and if they were loaded with stuff when they marched in, many of them were empty when they returned.

In order to take care of the sick of the wounded, often one or two wounded people sit and lie on the rickshaw without walking, which was unheard of in the past and is also a pioneering achievement of Yang Lin.

Looking at the long queue and the soldiers sitting on the rickshaw and fighting with a happy face, Yang Lin smiled and said to Qian Bangxin and Ma Fengyu beside him: "The morale of the soldiers of the three armies is quite important when marching and fighting.

Now there are not only rickshaws, but also four-wheeled carriages in the future, and after the treatment of the seriously injured is basically out of danger, it can be transported to the rear for recuperation. ”

Qian Bangxin wiped his eyes and sighed: "Seriously injured soldiers often need to be cared for, and transporting them to the rear can reduce the pressure on the front.

But, if there are such multiple injuries in the rear at once, I am afraid that the people's hearts will be unstable.

Lang Zhong is always needed to treat the seriously injured in the rear, and there is a shortage of military medical officers and nurses, so if the medical officers and nurses are divided into two groups, I am afraid that it will be even more insufficient. ”

Yang Lin smiled, nodded and said, "We have to take precautions and find a way to solve it, of course the medical officers and nurses in the front can transfer two or three percent to the rear, there is no problem with this."

If there are not enough medical officers and nurses in the rear, doctors and women from good families can be recruited from the local government on the spot.

Although the Volunteers have not been recruited from the local government since their establishment, the medical officers are different, and the local officials can hire famous doctors from the local area to help treat them, and they can just pay for them after the treatment. ”

As soon as he heard that he had spent money to ask a famous doctor from the local area to help him, Qian Bangqi had no opinion, just like in his previous life, many big cottages had rough medical knowledge in Langzhong, if he could organize the treatment of the injured number, of course, it would be a good thing.

Early the next morning, when the various departments were digging trenches and building fortifications to prepare for the siege, the Qing army on the city wall was very annoyed, and everyone stood on the city wall or fired cannons to prevent the volunteers from building siege fortifications.

Seeing that the other party was like this, each standard relied on the small hillside outside the city wall to establish a Franco machine gun position to launch a counterattack, and at the same time, Wang Gao also rushed to the outside of the west gate with 20 mortar guns.

Mortar cannon is a kind of siege artillery, which was used when the soldiers surrounded the city, and it can shoot more than 30 catties of stones to the city tower 100 meters away to smash the loose city wall and achieve the purpose of siege.

After half a day of firing artillery, even if the city tower was blown up, the entire city tower was seriously damaged.

Seeing that the mortar was so powerful, Nikan panicked, and although he sent his elite soldiers out of the city to fight, he was defeated by the volunteers in the trenches.

In the next few days, Yang Lin concentrated these ten mortars to attack the West Gate continuously, and by the fourth day, the entire West Gate was crumbling.

Seeing that the city was about to be destroyed, Nikan stood on the street below the city tower with his whole body draped, and there were heavy troops gathered around him.

In order to block the siege of the city by the volunteers, following Li Guoying's advice, the Qing army requisitioned the people in the city, demolished the surrounding houses, and built fortifications day and night, and now has dug a trench about 200 meters long inside the west gate, and rebuilt a stone wall of 200 meters outside the trench.

With a loud bang, dust rose into the air, and the tower collapsed, and a large gap of ten meters appeared around it.

At this moment, time seemed to stop moving, I don't know how much time passed, there was a continuous explosion of Fran machine guns inside and outside the city, and rows of dense bird guns appeared, followed by shouts and killings one after another, from far and near, slowly appeared at the collapse of the city tower.

The soldiers of the Qing army on both sides of the city wall desperately shot arrows at the collapse in a vain attempt to forcibly occupy the collapse, and at the same time, the volunteers launched a siege of the city.

Several siege towers approached the walls on both sides, and hundreds of ladders appeared around the walls on both sides.

Gao Mingzhan gasped, he couldn't imagine that the other party was secretly building so many siege equipment while besieging the city, and now in the face of the attack of the volunteers, the soldiers of the green battalion of the Qing army guarding the city walls on both sides took care of one or the other, and everyone didn't know whether it was better to block the gap first, or to block the siege soldiers first.

After fighting like this for an hour, Wang Shuji led his troops to finally control the city wall, and a team of men and horses entered through the gap and launched an attack on the trench temporarily built by the Qing army.

Li Guoying led the soldiers and horses of the green battalion to hide behind the temporarily constructed one-person-high city wall to counterattack, and saw that the other party was about to be suppressed, and the whole person felt refreshed.

After seeing that the attack was blocked, Wang Shuji dragged more than ten tiger squatting cannons to the city wall, and then bombarded them condescendingly, so although the Tartars suffered great casualties, it was still difficult to break through the simple city wall temporarily built by the Qing army.

Now that night is falling, what is surprising is that the other party has no intention of stopping at all, and takes this opportunity to bring several shorter ladders to prepare for the overnight attack.

Nikanhero would be shocked and constantly draw troops to prepare for the Volunteers offensive.

And at this moment, there was a shout of killing behind him, everyone turned their heads to look, looking from afar, I don't know why the smoke was billowing from the east, and the sound of shouting and killing shook the sky.

Nikan was shocked and asked Li Guohan to visit, it turned out that Yang Linming repaired the plank road to secretly cross Chencang, ostensibly concentrated the main force to attack the West Gate, and attracted all the main forces of the Qing army to the West Gate, so Yang Cheng led the secret detour to the East Gate, took advantage of the night cover to attack under the city wall, and set up ladders to climb up the city gate one by one.

Because the volunteers have been attacking the west gate in the past few days, after the volunteers attacked the city wall, they sent many soldiers and horses to block it, so most of the people who stayed at the east gate were old, weak, sick and disabled.

Suddenly attacked like this, I saw the volunteers clinging to the ladder like ants, and then kept throwing the ignited earth-shattering thunder onto the city wall, and the soldiers defending the city were caught off guard, and the headquarters were quickly defeated.

Dusty took the opportunity to open the city gates, and the soldiers waiting outside the city swarmed into the city, and now they were killing from behind.

After hearing the news, everyone was shocked, and everyone fled one after another.

Bu Ning and Yao Chonglie led the cavalry brigade to kill, pursued the Qing army for more than 40 miles, and stopped at Heluo Ferry.

In this battle, Li Guoying and Gao Mingzhan were killed one after another, and Nikan and Li Guohan led 20,000 Qing troops to cross the Han River and flee to the north of the Han River.