"Twelve of the villagers went, twenty-six were wounded, seven of them were hanging, and five were estimated to be ...... disabled."

"Three of your boys went, three of them were hanging, and the other six were all small wounds."

After dealing with the bandits, Li rushed back to the small building in the center of Zhuangzi, the large room on the first floor, which was originally used as a planned company meeting room, has now become an emergency center.

Hearing the figures reported by Cai Langzhong and Pan Jinling, Li Xian's heart was extremely complicated. The casualties were not heavy at all, and it was a brilliant victory in all seriousness. But the villagers didn't say that those boys were his seeds, and they fell just after germinating, and he was really unwilling.

Can you save one is one, hearing that there are still people hanging for their lives, Li Xi went over to check, but found that among the ten injured who were hanging for their lives, eight were gunshot wounds, and none of them were serious.

"Fourth brother, bury me and Xia Tangyong together, he is afraid of being lonely......"

Wang Tanghe said in a daze, he was hit in the right chest, but the lead first broke the flesh of the strap, and he said normally, it shouldn't hurt his lungs.

Not only Wang Tanghe, but the other two teenagers were injured in the thigh and the other in the shoulder blade, which were not serious injuries. It seems that the bandit shotgunner is not fully loaded, and the distance of twenty paces can keep them alive.

Just why are they listed as critically wounded?

Li Xi asked Cai Langzhong and Pan Jinling to ask, Cai Langzhong pulled his Shandong tune and said: "The lead is taken, but the lead sores are difficult to eliminate, so they can only rely on themselves to get through." I'm really not sure how much they can live, so their lives are still hanging. ”

Although Pan Jinling is not a surgical officer, he knows a lot about medical science: "Lead is easy to take, lead poison is difficult to eliminate, abscess is formed, and there is a dead end." If you are hit by this shotgun, you will only survive two or three times out of ten......"

Li Xi didn't know if the lead poisoning they were talking about was the same as the lead poisoning of later generations, but he was sure that Cai Langzhong and Pan Jinling's conclusion was wrong, and they died when they were hit by a shotgun? Unless the buckshot is coated with cyanide......

It is no wonder that in this era, when a shotgun goes off, most people have to hug their heads and run away, which seems to be a deeply rooted concept: even if you are only injured by the lead of the shotgun, this life will not be saved.

What's the problem?

Lead sores...... Tetanus......

Li Xi understood that although the doctors of this era understood the phenomenon of infection and inflammation, they did not understand the basic principles and did not know the existence of germs. There is a lack of knowledge in surgery, such as debridement of gunshot wounds. When shotgun lead enters the body, it will basically shatter, and the chance of infection and pus is higher than that of ordinary trauma. And once the pus is formed, Li Xi vaguely remembers that the doctors of the Ming and Qing dynasties seem to be opposed to pus breaking and drainage, advocating the so-called "conditioning", waiting for it to dissipate by itself. Abscesses from gunshot wounds penetrate deep into the body, tetanus and gangrene infection rates are alarmingly high, and the mortality rate is naturally terrifyingly high.

The same is true for foreigners of the same era, even in the era of the Civil War in the United States, doctors treated many gunshot wounds directly by amputation, the reason is that the infection cannot be controlled. At this time, Li Xi remembered a post he had read on the Internet before, saying that before the invention of penicillin, the mortality rate was as high as 20% just for gunshot wounds to the limbs, and more than 80% of the remaining 80% were amputated.

This gun is really not so delicious in literary and artistic works.

In contrast, the surgeons in ancient China knew a lot, at least knew boiling water purifiers and using fire to remove poison, and had at least common sense of disinfection. The debridement of the eight gunshot wounded was fine, the trouble was the lack of effective anti-inflammatory drugs.

Cai Langzhong sighed: "If there is a good medicine such as Sanhuangbao wax pills, maybe I can have a few more chances of survival, but I only have some Sanqi paste on hand, I heard that there is a divine doctor who can scrape the bones and clear the poison, I don't have that blessing to learn." ”

Li Xian was unwilling, thought about it, and decided to be a dead horse doctor, it would be good to help these wounded people improve the survival rate a little, not to mention that the three teenagers were not injured to the point of death.

"I have medicine."

Li Xi looked at the three teenagers.

"It's just that you have to endure the pain."

Although the teenagers are weak and powerless, when they hear Li Xi say this, their spirits are better, compared to death, what is the pain?

Pan Jinling and Cai Langzhong were very curious, what other medicine is there?

"Gunpowder?"

Then they heard Li Xi say these two words, and the two froze.

Summoning someone to take back the powder from the bandit shotgunner's body, Li Xian held Wang Tanghe down, and in a circle of frightened eyes, poured a small pinch of gunpowder powder into the wound.

"I think it's better for you not to look at it."

With a fire fold, Li Xi said this to Wang Tanghe.

As soon as the fire folded on Wang Tanghe's chest, with a snort, the smoke rose, and Wang Tanghe roared, and the three people who held him down were all overturned, not that Li Xian's head shrank quickly, and his chin was estimated to be on a knee.

"This ...... What is this for? ”

Waving away the white smoke with the smell of meat, Pan Jinling asked in a trembling voice.

"Fierce fire to strong poison."

Li Shi now has no time to explain the principles of medicine to the people of 300 years ago, and the burning of wounds with gun-medicine can not only stop bleeding, but also effectively prevent infection, and the side effects are much lighter than that of burning wounds with a soldering iron. Although it is only an informal temporary battlefield measure, it can be used for the time being, but it is most effective. He casually said such a reason, but Pan Cai and the others were stunned, and they nodded in unison for a long time, which sounded like this was true. It is common sense in surgery to use fire to remove poison, while gunpowder is fierce fire, which should be able to remove more violent poison, which is very in line with their medical knowledge.

"The most important thing in the treatment of gunshot wounds is disinfection and debridement, do these two things, and then pay attention to the subsequent care, as long as the wound is not big or deep, there is still a great chance to save it."

Li Xi said, Pan Jinling and Cai Langzhong also listened carefully, and wanted to take out a pen and paper to remember it.

"It's not just gunpowder, the next step is to debride a second time, and gunpowder residue is also harmful, but this requires alcohol, by the way, is there alcohol now?"

Li Xi asked, Pan Cai and the others shook their heads, they had never heard of this word.

"You're talking about...... Got gray wine? ”【1】

Pan Jinling heard the literal meaning and asked rhetorically.

"Yes, there is, there is!"

Cai Langzhong ran away in a hurry, and came back with a porcelain bottle after a while, Li Yan pulled out the stopper and smelled it, well, there are some degrees. Although it certainly didn't reach 75 degrees, it should be forty or fifty degrees, just right.

The ash wine was used to wash away the fire-medicine residue in the wound, and then smeared with Panax notoginseng ointment, and wrapped the gauze boiled in boiling water, and the preliminary work was completed.

"See?"

Li Shi asked, Pan Cai and the others nodded, and their mouths were full of fierce fire to poison, a You Fang Langzhong and an internal medicine doctor were all excited that they had learned such a trick.

After explaining in detail the dosage of gunpowder, the key points of disinfection and debridement, and the time to change dressings, Li Shi handed over the remaining wounded to Pan Jinling and Cai Langzhong, who specialized in surgery, and he just showed this skill, but he didn't really want to replace the doctor.

After tossing the wounded, the time was almost over, and the head hung high in the sky. Li Shi came to the next room, and at this time, the villagers were cleaning the battlefield, and Jia Hao and other young guards were sorting out the spoils here.

The bandits were just a few bits of silver and a mess of long and short blades, and the only thing that could make the teenagers get together and talk about it was the dozen or so shotguns. These shotguns have a mixed history, some are taken from the green battalion soldiers, some are made by themselves, and the styles are also chaotic, some are rod supports, some are long supports, and even there are those that kind of bird supports, all kinds of things.

"It would be nice if we had this thing......

"It's better to bow it, the bandits need to have a dozen archers, we will all be finished, and the village will be ruined long ago."

"It's hard to practice a bow, otherwise the bandits wouldn't be just one archer."

"The bow is also very delicate, and the archer has three bowstrings on him, and there are few arrows that can be used."

"So it's better to use this shotgun, just put the gun flat."

"Didn't that still stop us from the charge? What's the use? ”

The teenagers were discussing hotly, and Li Shi interjected.

"Useless? Three people died in battle, and the lives of three people still hang, just that array of guns! ”

The boys hurriedly stood up and saluted, and the room was suddenly covered by a heavy and gloomy atmosphere.

Taking a shotgun handed over by Jia Hao, Li Xian stroked the gray-black and cold barrel, and a voice shouted in his heart, I should have made this thing a long time ago! Flintlock pistols, mini rounds, breech-loading guns and even artillery, it should be me who uses firearms to abuse others, not to be used by others to bombard myself!

Pity...... This is the Kangxi Dynasty, and it took a lot of effort to make short swords and spears before. At present, it is not a turbulent situation, and the Qing court's control of civil firearms is in the stage of changing from loose to strict [2]. In northern Guangdong, where bandits are frequent, people can hold shotguns, but each shotgun must be reported to the government through armor protection, and even registered with a number. With the scale of Fengtian Village, a few branches should still be able to explain the past, but if he wants to turn all the teenagers into shotgunners, this scale will make Li Zhushou's scalp tingle, and the original favorability towards him will suddenly turn into full hatred......

What if you don't let Li Zhushou know? There are many things that the official master doesn't know, and the situation he learned from Niu Shiyi's mouth before is also favorable to his idea, but to realize this idea, someone needs to cooperate.

As soon as the name popped up in Li Xian's mind, he appeared on his own.

"Fourth brother...... I'm completely convinced of you, I think you can catch up with Qi Dashuai......"

Xiao Sheng arrived in a hurry, but what he saw was that the villagers were cleaning the battlefield, and after a rough understanding of the situation, he immediately admired it and threw himself to the ground. was raided by the No. 200 bandits in the middle of the night, without guns or cannons, Li Shi relied on his spear to solve the bandits, not only wiped out all the bandits, but also killed and wounded no more than fifty or sixty people. What a feat!? The two or three hundred pacesetters he brought, although they dared to pat their chests and say that they would win against these bandits, at most they would defeat the bandits, and they would never dare to think of getting the results of total annihilation.

"But...... I think you're more like Bai Qi. ”

Then he put on the familiar face of dried oranges, and talked about the heads of thieves and bandits piled up outside Zhuangzi. Li Xian is a villager and is not qualified to dispose of the bandits caught alive at will. If there were some "clean officials", this would be more than 100 homicides......

"It's all for you, you came to Zhuangzi's aid to kill these bandits."

Li Shi said casually that he had several intentions in killing the captives before, one was to let the young Siwei and the villagers practice knives, the second was to coerce the villagers and let them hand in a small "letter of surrender" first, and the third was that they were afraid of trouble in the future, so they simply cut them all to save their worries. It's useless for him to ask for these heads, so it's better to give them to Xiao Sheng.

"This ...... These are peaceful years, and I have so many bandit heads, which is not a great achievement. At the beginning, Lan Li, the governor of Fujian, killed and repelled the troubled people, and only reported eighty beheadings, and he was almost cut off his head......"

Xiao Sheng smiled awkwardly, and his heart was quite depressed.

"Then take less, at least take that Niu Shiyi's head, he is Yang Chun's number one subordinate."

Li Xian's words came out, Xiao Sheng's eyes lit up, this head is valuable!

"But...... It also comes at a price. ”

Li Xian smiled, Xiao Sheng's ecstasy that had just risen was frozen again, how could this face and this look be so familiar...... Just like the last time I took him to the walled fort to test the gun.

[1: There are two theories about the presence of ash wine. One is that there is a procedure of adding lime to mix wine and sour in the production process, and what comes out is gray wine, and the best rice wine in fermented wine does not have this process, which is ashless wine. In medical books, ashless wine is a medicinal wine for internal use. There is gray wine seems to be taken into wine and then added quicklime, and the degree of gray wine that comes out is higher, which is used for disinfection, and doctors in the Ming and Qing dynasties have already understood alcohol disinfection. 】

[2: After the pacification of the three feudatories and Taiwan, the Qing court's control over civilian firearms gradually became stricter. However, in the south, due to the lack of government enforcement and practical needs, it is not too taboo for the people to own shotguns. From Yongzheng to Qianlong, there was a turning point when shotguns were banned. Some officials even applied for the opening of civil gun bans in Taiwan and other places, and during the Qianlong period, some officials asked for the bow and arrow project of Wuju to be changed to a bird gun. The Qing court suppressed all these tendencies of firearms and strengthened gun bans. 】