Chapter 139: After the War
By the afternoon, the last resistance on the battlefield had also disappeared, and bursts of cheers could be heard from the blood-stained battlefield. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In the battle, the Xia infantry relied on good mobility, and after crushing the Suyue Central Army and the left flank, they abandoned the enemy army that had broken on the left flank and quickly detoured back to the back of the right flank of the Suyue Army in the form of a column march.
The left flank of the Xia army attacked head-on, and Chen Jian led the Chinese army to the flank of the right flank of the Suyue army, surrounded on three sides, and fought a field battle of annihilation by relying on the infantry.
The eighty chariots of the Suyue coalition army were completely destroyed, and the leaders, priests, and relatives of the core alliance cities of Suyue were swept away and all killed. Among them were twelve young men who used to call Chen Jian Mr. in Yucheng.
Of the 12,000-strong army, 3,000 were killed, 5,000 captured, and the remaining 3,000 or so were completely scattered and fled without knowing where to go.
The Xia army also lost more than 800 men, most of them in the melee on the left flank. The black-clothed guards lost a third, a company of spears on the left flank was completely dispersed, and Yulinwei lost one hundred and twenty men.
The number of dead and wounded does not seem to be much, but most of them are the most elite group of people in the Xia Kingdom, and Chen Jian did not use the elite two guards as the main force to break through, but used them as bait and relied on the infantry to complete the outflanking.
A group of people who have followed Chen Jian for more than ten years have died, and these more than 20 people can be regarded as Chen Jian's partners, who have followed him since the beginning of the construction of Xia City, and only by relying on them as the backbone can they use less than half of the strength of the right wing of Su Yue's army to make Su Yue make up his mind to finally attack Chen Jian's army.
In general, this was a hearty victory, which allowed Chen Jian to establish confidence in the field, and even more so that the era of a boom was just born and announced his old age.
The field forces of several cities near Sucheng were swept away, and they could be regarded as bloodshed and drifting, and the sacrifice was cut off.
At this point, near Sucheng, there was no field force that could resist the Xia army, and the victory of destroying the enemy by 800 made the Xia army clothed in a touch of mythology.
The chariot has only been born for more than ten years, and it is already old; The infantry, who was originally regarded as cannon fodder, used seven years of training to tell the world that infantry can also dominate the battlefield; The musketeers were fruitless in the attack, but that fierce salvo heralded the beginning of defensive counter-attack tactics in the arquebus era, and also exposed the weakness of the arquebusiers who were over-defended and under-attacked.
It seems that the Xia army is the first to attack, but in fact it is still a defensive counterattack, if Su Yue endures a little longer, Chen Jian will order the whole line to go on the defensive, deploy the artillery, mobilize the black-clothed guard and Yu Linwei to maneuver to the right flank, and rely on their own mobility to attack from the right flank.
Even if they could win that way, the results would never be so great, and it would only be a tragic crushing battle, and a large number of Sugaku troops on the left flank would flee.
These battlefield summaries will be written into pamphlets and used as teaching materials for future military classes, so that those people can first learn to talk on paper and then practice slowly.
After thousands of people on the battlefield cheered, they began to treat their own wounded. The various logistics units left behind in the rear phalanx and the students of the medical class also arrived at the battlefield after the messengers sent the order.
The casualties were heavy, but the slightly formidable regulations for battlefield assistance and the treatment of wounded soldiers could still save many lives.
The soldiers who had been seriously wounded and bloodied were carried to the rear, and wooden plaques with the words A, B, C, and D were pulled out from their necks, and three or five of the same blood type of the same company came out.
Blood type may seem magical and post-modern, but it can be used in this day and age. The exclusion of some rare blood types and the exclusion of first-degree family transfusions can cause violent reactions, and simple coagulation reactions can be observed with simple glassware and the naked eye.
Since Chen Jian started firing glass ten years ago, he did not use it on doors and windows first, but made some utensils with excellence, at least they can be used improvised.
Four years ago, relying on one person to test one by one, I finally completed the blood type card of everyone in the army, which is nothing more than one person directly set as A, and then start from him to find out that the second person has a condensation reaction with his blood, set it to B, and then find out the next one little by little.
In short, it can be used improvised, and there are also disadvantages of inaccurate observation with the naked eye, but if one of the twenty can be wrong, the whole is a huge improvement compared to before.
Sterilizing with sharpened goose feather tubes and piercing directly into the veins of blood transfusions, and strictly controlling the amount of blood transfusion, can save some lives that should have died in this era due to excessive blood loss.
Simple methods such as steaming and disinfection and high-steaming wine disinfection can also prevent the occurrence of ulceration, and some herbs circulated in various clans are also the main means of treatment in this era.
Most of the injuries of the Xia soldiers were arrow wounds, and those who were stabbed and hit by blunt objects were basically killed, and there was no lead bullet musket on the opposite side, so as long as the arrow wounds were not critical, they could always be saved.
The officers of the Department of Medicine set up simple tents in the camp at the rear of the battlefield, threw lime, set up campfires to cook bandages, and applied all kinds of strange herbs using the bandaging techniques they had learned in the Department of Medicine.
The death rate of wounded soldiers was more than 60% before the advent of the formal system of treating wounded soldiers, and a little more formal, even if they only knew how to disinfect and cook, could improve a lot: compared to throwing the wounded soldiers on the ground, a dozen people squatting in a filthy and foul-smelling hut and watching the wounds suppurate and maggots expose their bones, this is an improvement.
If you can't do it perfectly, you won't do it, and you will never be able to do it.
It was also after the successful attempt at blood transfusion in the Xia Kingdom that many people in the medical class completely destroyed the idea of the sacredness of blood, because there was nothing more intuitive and more intuitive than blood transfusion, and what kind of thing bloodline really was.
This is the same as the origin of the ideological trend that appeared in the Xia Guoxue Palace a few years ago: because of the pea planting incident and the emergence of simple breeding, the bloodline theory also went straight to the forefront for a while, and the two sides also had a fierce debate, and finally used a compromise method: Yang is the flesh and Yin is the soul, and the bloodline only determines the body, not the soul.
It's just that this is only temporarily suppressed, and this quarrel is still not over, for example, some people learn things quickly, and some people learn things slowly, but Ji Xia said that the soul is born with the same blank, so is there a connection between the soul and the body? Is it the complete opposite? Or are they interconnected?
These are not science, or even pseudoscience, but it is from this dispute that the younger generation of the new generation of Xia Kingdom who have entered the higher school after receiving a complete enlightened education began to think, and even Chen Jian deliberately put forward several obvious mistakes for the other party to refute, guiding the thinking of the clansmen, and losing the possibility of becoming an almighty god or a son of God.
The victory on the battlefield is certainly worth rejoicing, but the treatment after the battlefield makes Chen Jian even more excited, and now that Chen Jian has destroyed Su Yue, this ideology of the Xia people's pursuit of knowledge will also completely replace those witch doctors and priests and become a new way of thinking about the world.
If the battle is defeated, all the sprouts of the Xia Kingdom will be destroyed, especially the blood transfusion treatment, which can threaten the sacredness of the bloodline, will be destroyed, and there will be no scum left.
Therefore, Chen Jian did not patrol the battlefield, enjoying the joy that the victor should have or the voice of being called victorious.
Instead, he took a few guards and heralds, rode to the rear camp, turned his back to the sun, and looked at everything in the camp with a smile and a groan, and looked stupidly for a long time.
The surrounding guards didn't understand what Jian Chen was looking at, they were accustomed to things like treating wounded soldiers and women bandaging and dressing, and even took it for granted.
And what Jian Chen laughed at was this kind of naturalness, and it was just this kind of naturalness. It is natural that you are born inferior, and it is natural to say too much. Of course, the wounded soldier threw it and loved to die, and it was natural for a long time.
It is a lot of what is taken for granted, that is terrible, terrible, full of the darkest and bloody.
After watching this kind of busyness that the Xia people were already familiar with for a long time under the warmth of the sun, Chen Jian jumped off the horse, reached out to pick a few delicate flowers on the ground, weaved a wreath with straw rope, came to the door of the camp, and reached out to hang the wreath on a willow branch that had just been cut down.
Everyone was puzzled and didn't ask much, so Jian Chen didn't say anything, rode around silently, and led people away.
By evening, the pursuers had returned, and several backbone soldiers surrounded Chen Jian, listening to the results of the people who counted the battlefield.
"Ji Xia, what should I do with these more than 5,000 captives? Sent back to Yucheng? ”
"Did the Dongyi people inside pick it out?"
"Singled out."
"I'll ask for the rest. You continue to arrange vigils and vigils and things like that. Let the herald come over. ”
Several heralds hurried to their bosoms and took out paper and a piece of charcoal to memorize.
"Immediately return to Yucheng and declare a complete victory. All the men in Yucheng marched along the river with three men with a spear or a simple fire cannon or the like, carrying their own food. He sent people along the north to spread the news of the great victory, and took with them the heads of Suyue, lest they not believe it. ”
The carrier pigeon delivered the news, telling Xia County that there was a big victory, and that all the deputy officials and trainee officials should be mobilized to come to Yucheng by boat within a month. Then let those who have been on the pre-determined list come over and prepare to take over these cities. ”
"Then let Si Xiangji write something and tell Wei He'e Yue that he is not in a hurry to fight south, defend in the area of Caohe, and wait for the news of Suyue being beheaded, and the cities of the Dahe tribes will retreat, and once they retreat, they must prepare to the east. Let them send scouts to pick out some of the captured Beidi people who are familiar with the terrain and terroir. ”
"Hmm...... Let's just say that when the time comes, the Caohe tribes will go east from Echeng, and I will go east along the big river, one south and one north to sandwich Dongyi. If you can win quickly, it is best, if you can't win quickly, divide the meritorious people to build cities and defend themselves or migrate the great river tribes. ”
"From Echeng to the East China Sea, from Sucheng to the end of the river, two lines are sandwiched, even if they can't be completely destroyed, there will be no Dongyi after hundreds of years, unless they grow wings and fish scales to cross the sea east."
The herald repeated it, and Chen Jian drew a simple diagram on the paper to avoid misunderstanding.