Chapter 236: Treating the Wounded
Prince Xiao was in the big tent of the Chinese army, Lu Shikang and the privy envoy Qin Qiming, Ma Xiao was inspected in front of the palace, Ma Bujun was commanded by Shi He Shouxin, Ma Jun was commanded by Shi Gao Muyuan, and Shi Guo Haoming was commanded by Hanlin Bachelor Lin Taoyin waited for the news from the front.
Every half an hour, there was a battle report from the front.
Except for the initial battle report, which was not too optimistic, the subsequent news was good news every time.
In the middle of noon, another battle report came from a cavalry, saying that Zhou Jing's troops had stopped fighting and fled to the east, and their own troops were chasing after them.
At noon, another battle report came that after Zhou Jing's troops fled to the mountains behind Crescent Town, which was more than ten miles away from the battlefield, the troops scattered under Zhou Jing's orders, and it became extremely difficult to pursue and destroy the enemy.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to the cavalryman who came to report the news: "You go and tell Qin Wu that you don't have to continue to chase, the poor Kou Mo is too quick to chase, and this is the way to use troops." ”
If the chase is urgent, if the other party has the heart of breaking the net, it is very likely that the Jedi will fight back.
"Yes, His Royal Highness the Prince!" The cavalryman hurried to report it.
In the evening, the soldiers who went out to fight came back one after another, and after Qin Wu came back, he came to the big tent of the Chinese army to report today's achievements to His Royal Highness the Prince: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, in this battle, about 10,000 wounded and 10,000 dead on our own side. The death toll of the other side is at least three to forty thousand, according to a rough count on the battlefield.
In the course of the pursuit, we captured some of the other side's soldiers, including the soldiers who were left behind with limited mobility, the sick soldiers suffering from typhoid fever, and when we passed by the battlefield on the way back, we found some wounded soldiers of the other side who were still breathing, and the total number of soldiers captured by the other side was about 30,000.
Now the wounded and unable to move the enemy soldiers have been taken to the military medical camp by car with our wounded to treat the doctors, and the other wounded soldiers of the other side have been taken to the temporary training ground outside the camp tent, waiting for your Royal Highness the Crown Prince to deal with you.
Your Highness the Crown Prince, what are you going to do with them? ”
After Qin Wu finished speaking, he waited for Prince Xiao's decision.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince replied: "Those with good quality are recruited, and those with poor quality are dismissed, or as coolies." ”
"Yes, my subordinates will do this."
After Qin Wu left, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince said to everyone present: "Today's first battle is won, let's reward the three armies tonight, eat meat and drink wine, and don't get drunk!" ”
After Prince Xiao's order reached the room, the masters immediately began to get busy.
In the past few days, the army has not been so lively, because of the quarantine, the whole barracks are quiet, but today it is full of people, the soldiers who came back from the battlefield are full of happy smiles, after they return to the tent, they are not as whispered as before, but chatting in a high-pitched voice.
Seeing that the barracks had suddenly become noisy from the quiet at the beginning, Aoeda knew that it was the soldiers who had gone to the battlefield and had returned, and she hurriedly walked out of her tent, judging from their joyful expressions, she knew that Prince Xiao's troops had won.
She thought that there must be many wounded soldiers waiting to be treated.
She hurriedly came to the medical barracks, and saw that the outside of the medical camp tent was full of wounded soldiers, she had never seen so many wounded soldiers, lying on the ground dying and moaning, still able to sit, or I don't know whether they were dead or alive lying on the ground motionless, these wounded soldiers have been lining up in the aisles of the surrounding tents.
What puzzled her was that among these wounded were not only those who wore white helmets and tasseled iron helmets, but also those who wore red helmets and tasseled iron helmets.
She soon understood that those wearing red helmets and iron helmets should be enemy soldiers, and now that they were pulled here, they must have been brought here as prisoners.
She looked at the medical camp and saw that all the doctors in the medical camp were busy.
Everybody is doing something. These wounds were cleaned, sutured, dressed, bandaged.
Without saying a word, she joined the operation to treat the wounded.
But she understands that there are still too few of these doctors, and even if everyone treats these wounded soldiers non-stop, overnight, it will take several days to complete the treatment of all these people.
For these wounded soldiers, time is of the essence, if they do not wait for treatment, many wounded soldiers will inevitably die of excessive blood loss and bacterial invasion of wound infection while waiting.
Therefore, she approached Imperial Doctor Lin and said: "Imperial Doctor Lin, this is not a way, we must let other soldiers help us clean their wounds and bandage their wounds or something, these people are skin injuries, they don't need to look and smell, they only need to clean the wounds, the big wounds are sutured after cleaning, and the small wounds can be directly dressed, which is all manual work, not a doctor can also do." Why not bother the soldiers who have nothing to do now? ”
Imperial Doctor Lin straightened up and said, "I originally had this intention, but I was afraid that these soldiers had just returned from a hard battle, and it would be inconvenient for them to be tired again, so I didn't trouble His Royal Highness the Crown Prince because of this." ”
Qingzhi said: "These soldiers are only temporarily tired for a while, but if these wounded are not saved in time, they will lose their lives. ”
Imperial Doctor Lin pondered for a moment and said, "Doctor Kong is reasonable, I'll go now." ”
As he spoke, he hurried to the tent of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.
After a while, he returned and said to Qingzhi, who was stitching up the wound of a soldier, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince agreed, and he also said that he should do this in the future." He believed that soldiers should be taught the most basic methods of wound cleaning, suturing, dressing, and dressing, so that when there were wounded after the war, these soldiers would be able to join the ranks of treating the wounded so that they could treat more wounded soldiers. ”
Qingzhi said, "Then, I'll train those soldiers." ”
"Okay, come on." Imperial Doctor Lin said as he walked over to a wounded soldier who was moaning and began to observe his wounds.
Soon after, the soldiers sent by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to help arrived, about two or three thousand people.
The reason why more people are not sent is because there is no place to stand, and the tools for treatment are also limited, and no matter how many people come, it will not make much difference.
Aoeda began to train them on how to inspect wounds, when stitches are needed, how to clean wounds, how to apply medicine, how to bandage them, etc.
These soldiers don't know how to stitch up wounds, and a few other things can be learned at once.
It doesn't hurt if you don't know how to stitch, it's more appropriate for the doctor to do the suturing, and they can help with other things to save the doctor's time.
The addition of these soldiers greatly improved the efficiency of the doctors. Most of the time, the doctors only need to stitch up the wounds, and the soldiers do almost everything else.
That night, while everyone else in the army was drinking and eating meat and singing and dancing around the campfire, the people in the military medical camp did not even have time to breathe.