Chapter 114: Non-combat attrition

Zhou Dalei's arrival, I am equivalent to an additional effective helper, I can rest assured that many things can be handed over to him to deal with, Zhou Dalei's personality and experience in leading troops are easy in the middle of Qiu Ba, he is actually more suitable than me to be the battalion commander.

During this period, the Army General Headquarters began to restructure the complicated and chaotic organization of the army throughout the army, the brigade-level structure was abolished, and most of the brigade-level structures were downgraded to regiment-level structures.

Geng Huaiqi's 7th Brigade, which was fighting guerrillas on the west bank, was one of the few troops that was promoted, and they were incorporated into the expeditionary force sequence and changed their number to the 17th Division.

"Master Geng Huaiqi is a man of great wisdom!" I couldn't help but sigh when I heard about it.

"Of course. Without great wisdom, how can you go behind enemy lines alone and hold out for so long under the noses of the Japanese! Zhou Dalei also admired.

But that's not what I'm talking about when I talk about great wisdom.

"Master Geng can fight well, naturally he doesn't say it, but he insists on not being a general again and again, this is great wisdom!"

"Anzi, what do you mean by that?"

"Lao Zhou, do you think, there are no less than a dozen generals in the whole army, but only Geng Huaiqi refuses to accept the rank of general! This is where he attracts the attention of Chongqing's high-level executives! I bet that as long as the 17th Division does not make a big mistake on the west bank, Geng Huaiqi will be directly promoted to the rank of lieutenant general in a short time! ”

Zhou Dalei: "Anzi, your head has been pondering this all day long?" You call him a major general and lieutenant general, as long as he can fight devils, let him be the chairman of the committee! ”

I smiled and said, "Don't say this sentence casually, it's a big taboo!" ”

Zhou Dalei picked up the Thompson submachine gun from the table and said, "The battle is like this, and it's fucking shameless to pay attention to this taboo and that taboo!" ”

He carried a gun out to make rounds, and the battalion lieutenants were all equipped with pistols, but for poor and frightened officers like us, we were reluctant to put down a good gun, and I felt that only with such a weapon could I feel more comfortable in my heart.

I picked up the thermos and felt empty, and I shouted out the door, "Orderly!" Xiao Tao! ”

Orderly Xiao Tao is a half-grown child, and the roster is written as seventeen years old, and I don't even look like he is fourteen years old. It is also for this reason that I let me be my orderly, and send such a scout to the battlefield, which is purely to give the devil ready-made human flesh props to practice stabbing skills.

I called a few times, but no one answered outside the camp headquarters, so I walked out of the camp headquarters with a thermos and looked around for Xiao Tao.

I asked the guard at the door, "Did you see Xiao Tao?" ”

The guard said: "Battalion commander, if not, I'll go and boil water for you, Xiao Tao is making trouble with malaria, and he is playing in the barracks at this time." ”

As soon as the guards said this, I also remembered that Xiao Tao always looked listless in the past two days, and I thought he was tired from work, but it turned out to be malaria.

I handed the thermos to the guards and ordered, "Go and call me the medics." ”

The person in charge of the first battalion was a second lieutenant medical officer, who thought that I was sick, carried a medical kit and brought an ambulance, hurried to the battalion headquarters, and saw that I was safe and sound, he was a little inexplicable, and said: "Battalion commander, you called me?" ”

"How many cases of malaria and typhoid fever are there in our camp now?"

"Probably...... A dozen cases. ”

"I want accurate numbers!"

The medical officer and the ambulance exchanged words in a low voice and said, "Battalion commander, it's fourteen cases. ”

"Quarantined?"

"That's not yet, they're not particularly serious, and they don't need to be quarantined for the time being......"

"No! It's too late to quarantine if it's serious, do you want my battalion to fall into a big piece! Isolate all these sick soldiers immediately! ”

"Yes!"

"In addition, you go to Longwan to consult Doctor Shangguan, ask him if there is any good way, and come back with some medicine by the way."

Not a night after my order, the news came that a soldier had died of malaria, and the ambulance soldier said that he was in good spirits during the day, but at night his body temperature suddenly rose, he shivered, covered several quilts and still shivered with cold, and died after a few convulsions in the early hours of the morning.

I immediately sent someone to burn the dead soldier and bury it again to prevent contagion. Under my orders, more than a dozen people infected with malaria and typhoid fever set up separate barracks a few hundred meters away from the barracks, and no one except medical officers and ambulance soldiers were allowed to approach them.

The reason why I am so nervous is because I have seen too many colleagues who died of malaria and typhoid fever in my past few years of riding in my career. The lack of medical treatment and medicine is one thing, and the lack of attention to isolation is also an important reason.

Malaria typhoid fever is a contagious disease, if you are not careful, a patient will infect a squad or even a platoon, and the disease develops rapidly.

Shangguan Yusi followed the medical officer of the first battalion to our camp the next day, and when he arrived at the camp, he didn't even bother to drink a sip of water, and immediately threw bags of insecticidal powder around the barracks.

Then he commanded several soldiers to pour gasoline on the garbage heap produced by the military barracks, set it on fire, and then bury it deep underground. After doing all this, Shangguan Yusi went to the patient's barracks to diagnose and treat medicine, and he was busy all morning before he had to return to the camp headquarters to rest.

Zhou Dalei saw Shangguan Yusi for the first time, and he gave a thumbs up in front of him and praised: "This Shangguan doctor is definitely the most responsible military medical officer I have ever seen!" ”

Shangguan Yusi waved his hand and said, "Deputy Zhou Ying, don't say that, don't be ashamed, don't dare to be ashamed." Recently, there has been an outbreak of malaria and typhoid fever, and more than 30 friendly troops who are scolding the West Bank with loudspeakers all day last month have been buried! For this reason, the military department transferred a large amount of insecticide powder and asked us, the military medical officers, to reduce the number of non-combat attrition as much as possible. ”

I was surprised: "More than thirty? All died of malaria typhoid? ”

"yes. Therefore, Commander An, the garbage generated by the barracks in the future must not only be burned, but also buried, so as to prevent problems before they occur! ”

Me: "Doctor Shangguan, can we prevent malaria and typhoid fever in this way?" If it's that simple, why not use it sooner? ”

"This is just prevention, and it is necessary to achieve a complete cure...... There is a way, but Shangfeng does not recommend using it, because it is not sure if it is harmful to people. ”

Zhou Dalei: "Since it's a method, someone must have tried it, Doctor Shangguan, you can talk about it, Shangfeng doesn't recommend using it, it doesn't necessarily mean that it can't be used, they are not doctors after all." ”

"This method was said by a veteran, he said that he soaked himself in water with insecticidal powder, soaked himself in a bath, and from then on, there were no insects on his body for a year or two!"

Zhou Dalei and I looked at each other, insecticide powder can kill insects, which means that it is very toxic, and bathing in this method is equivalent to testing poison with oneself.

Shangguan Yu Si also said: "I have seen that veteran, his body is as strong as a wall, and few of our soldiers are as strong as a wall. If the physique is not good, it is easy to be dangerous to treat insect diseases with this method, so I have not tried this method in our group. Unless you can find a few people to give it a try......"

Zhou Dalei pondered for a while, and patted his thigh: "Damn, Lao Tzu is out of the way, do this experiment!" ”