In a bloody battlefield by the Nile, there was a slightly calmer place.

As usual, after the front calmed down a little, Napoleon, while arranging the alert of his troops, at the same time found a place to house the wounded soldiers in the flanks and rear of the battlefield.

Berthier also raised a curtain around the perimeter to provide the soldiers with a sense of psychological security and a little isolation from the hustle and bustle of the battlefield.

Don't underestimate the psychological effect, although this white cloth siege actually has no defense, but the wounded soldiers will feel much better because of it, even if there are few sanitary soldiers, even if the medicine is insufficient, but they will feel that they are being cared for to a minimum extent, this mentality is very important, so the wounded soldiers have a better chance of holding on, and it is also very helpful for the morale of those soldiers who are not injured.

Of course, this is a real battlefield, and naturally there are extremely real injuries, and there are still many soldiers who need more help than psychological comfort.

"General Bertier, here, here!"

"I told you, cut off the shaft of the arrow first, and I'll pull it out for you later, there are no big blood vessels there, you are not in danger, you must be patient."

"General, general, please, help me, help me."

"Are you still bleeding?"

"No, no, my blood is going to drain."

"Don't panic, if the blood runs dry, you are already dead, it is impossible to say stupid things like this, no bleeding means that the bleeding has stopped spontaneously, and it has not hurt the artery, wait for me, I will come immediately."

Like the wounded soldiers, Berthier, who was also covered in blood, bandaged an unconscious soldier and comforted those who were not in such an urgent situation.

It was not a thin bandage, but it looked like a band-aid in Bertier's huge hand.

But Bertier's thick fingers were adept at it, and he was so dexterous that he could handle a wounded soldier with an ordinary injury in a matter of minutes.

There are not many priests, and the magic materials are also valuable. Only officers, and seriously wounded officers, could enjoy divine healing.

This was not a rule set by Napoleon, it was a rule of law in all countries, but Napoleon occasionally showed favors.

There was no blood on the little French general, but all the soldiers knew that he had just entered the core position set up by Muhammad Ali at the crossing, killing a dozen of his enemies.

Eventually, Muhammad Ali took an extremely strong half-orc. to repel him.

The French eventually abandoned the offensive and allowed Mohammed Ali's troops to cross the river.

They were in a terrible situation, although the previous raids were extremely successful, having killed and captured more than five hundred enemies.

However, they were still faced with a two-sided attack, and although some of the enemies who pushed into the Valley of the Kings performed poorly, the morale of the enemy who crossed the river from the east bank was unexpectedly high.

Quite a few officers advised Napoleon to retreat.

But Napoleon refused, he was high-spirited and did not waver at all. He walked into the makeshift hospital and said to a priest, "Come here, give him a treatment for minor injuries!" ”

However, my spellcasting material ......... "The priest has a low political status in the French Republican Army, and he is basically unable to be a stand-alone figure, but he also has a voice.

Egypt does not have a real Shirek Cathedral and Cardinal Archbishop, and there are few believers in Shirek without these key factors. Crafting Divine Materials is extremely inefficient.

So even though Napoleon was okay with them, several priests were still using magic with great restraint.

"I'll reimburse you for the right figures. You must give this soldier a magic spell, he has fought in the Valmi Heights, followed me over the Alps, shed blood in Italy to defend the Republic, he deserves a magic spell! ”

Napoleon could not give political rewards to the priests, although he had a lot of money. But there are more places to use, so in reality, he is relying on pressure and charm to squeeze the pastor.

But he is indeed a man of great ability.

"I'm just a flesh wound, I don't need magic to give him to that veteran."

"I can stick with it. Just sleep for a while, you don't have to give me magic. ”

A few more officers were so badly wounded that they even saw bones, but there was no danger to their lives, and the priests finally relented.

There are several veterans who are indeed in danger of life, and at Napoleon's insistence, they have also obtained a zero-level or first-level divine skill, plus Bertier's treatment, although there are still people who will die due to lack of medical treatment, but at least no one is certain to die, and every injury has been given a chance to live.

Every wounded soldier, as long as he could still raise his hand, saluted the few officers who had given up their magic skills.

Mutual understanding between officers and soldiers, and at the same time respect for officers, was one of the fundamental sources of the French army's superior combat effectiveness over other powers.

Along the way, Napoleon chatted happily with the wounded soldiers, told them the latest barracks jokes, and laughed at the unclothed orcs and their completely unorganized tactics.

With this relaxation and naturalness, the soldiers feel that his victory is in his hands.

Finally, he came to the center of the makeshift hospital and patted the shoulder of the most wounded person in the hospital, the giant Juno.

"I'm fine." Juno's words were extremely brief, but in fact he was so badly injured that it was not only impossible for him to continue the war, but he actually had to have his leg amputated.

Wu Xin's fireball technique is the root of all suffering.

In the process of retreating, in order to protect his subordinates, he was thrust twice by Villefort's dagger, and one of his arms could not be saved.

"Don't persuade me." Before Napoleon could speak, the giant spoke, "I bet you, give me another holy water, and I will hold on." ”

Napoleon looked at Bertier, who shook his head: "You can still give him a copy of the holy water, but it won't be useful." ”

Juno's situation was not just a cut from a cold weapon, the burns combined with the properties of the Villefort dagger made the holy water ineffective at all.

Unless there is a miracle, he is dead.

"Juno, my friend, I told you all along. Wise people should know when to give up, and you always don't understand this truth. "Napoleon loved Juno, even if he was so open-mouthed at the officers' banquet that everyone was joking about women, but as he spoke, he bet that Napoleon's wife, Josephine, would never be chaste for Napoleon, who was fighting hard in Egypt. Rather, you will be happy in Paris. "It's a terrible habit to bet."

"Without an arm, I'm a waste!" Juno's refusal to accept the amputation once again emphasized, "Waste! ”

The only person who can regenerate the severed limbs is the True Chosen Pope, and the price of letting him take action. Even today's Napoleon can't afford it.

"Even if there is only one arm left, you are my Juno, my arm." Napoleon looked Juno in the eye, and he knew that it was just too innocent a person. "As long as I want you, you're not a waste."

Napoleon spoke Juno to tears in a few words.

…………….

The operation proceeded quickly, and Berthier quickly removed one of Juneau's arms, and in the compartment, he looked at Napoleon, who could hardly hide his exhaustion, and said, "Don't you retreat?" Now we can still get out of the way, it's a draw at best. ”

"A draw is a defeat. And we can't afford any of that. Napoleon shook his head, "Our numbers are so small, the death of a Frenchman weakens our strength by one point, and the psychological advantage over the enemy is our greatest source of strength, and the enemy cannot be allowed to have a record of repelling us." ”

Napoleon's reasoning, and Berthier also understood, could not allow the enemy to have even a small victory or a narrow draw. Only then can the soldiers dare to take the initiative to attack three or four times their own enemy, and make the local gentry who have evil intentions pay for food.

But the current situation is that there are enemies on both sides. In particular, the enemy who crossed the river was unexpectedly tenacious.

Napoleon was rarely surprised, but today was surprised by the performance of Muhammad Ali, and his judgment was wrong.

Originally, I thought that this person, who had a great contradiction with Muradbey, would definitely take advantage of Muradbey's end and flee south with his troops. Going to the south to be his native emperor was the natural reaction of the Egyptian military chief.

But Muhammad Ali was not an ordinary military leader, but a man on whom Wu Xin had high hopes and would almost replace the Ottoman Empire in the future, and he gathered troops. Cross the river and fight back!

"But this time the enemy is very different." "It seems that Mesadir is right, this Muhammad Ali is indeed a much more dangerous enemy than Murad Bey." ”

Napoleon nodded slightly: "It's true that the initiative has been strengthened, but it's nothing, after fighting for so long, there should be such a half-non-garbage enemy appearing." ”

Napoleon said that he was optimistic, but in fact he regretted that he should have put the main force into the battle of the ferry as soon as possible.

Napoleon attacked Murad Bey in the Valley of the Kings with a quarter of his troops, and won an easy victory, thinking that half of his troops would be enough to take the ferry in one fell swoop, and he took a quarter of his troops as reserves.

By the time he threw himself into the reserves, the enemy had already come ashore too much, and Muhammad Ali was really trying his best to rescue Murad Bey.

If it was in the Old World, a retreat would not have caused much harm.

But Napoleon, far from his homeland, had to maintain his reputation as "invincible" and "victorious" for his army, and he was determined to give it a go.

Napoleon knew that war was an efficient process of scouring the sand and removing the chaff, and that in a long war, even a backward nation like Egypt would give birth to its own heroes.

Under the suppression of such a backward system as Mamluk, the real heroes still broke out of the cocoon.

Now he knows better than anyone what Muhammad Ali means, and he must not allow this leader to accumulate prestige.

"How many people have we lost?" Napoleon asked Berthier.

"Seventy-nine were killed in battle, and fifty-five were wounded, twenty of them like Juno, seriously wounded who had lost their combat effectiveness." Without further delay, Berthier gave the casualty figures. "There are not many minor wounded this time, and I may not be able to see so many prisoners, so it is better to ......."

Berthier made a downward cut.

Napoleon always guarded his captives with the lightly wounded, and there is almost no record of the execution of prisoners.

Napoleon closed his eyes for a moment, and quickly shook his head: "This is not what a soldier of the French Republic should do, we are a superior soldier and cannot be willing to fall." ”

Even when the situation was urgent, he stuck to his principles.

He quickly made a battle plan: "Let fifty soldiers guard the prisoners, five hundred people watch the ferry on the side, five hundred people rest, and change shifts at midnight, and you and I will take three hundred soldiers to clear the Valley of the Kings." ”

"Attack now? But the brothers are tired after a long day's journey? Berthier felt that he should attack again tomorrow, "It is better to rest for the night, and the enemy will not be able to cross the river at night to increase his troops." ”

Although there were at least 500 Egyptian soldiers in the Valley of the Kings, both Napoleon and Berthier felt that 300 soldiers were more than enough.

Napoleon said firmly: "The mood of the enemy is even more panicked, and they cannot be given time to regroup." This remnant in the Valley of the Kings is where Muhammad Ali is hopeful, because those remnants hold us back, he dares to go ashore, and when the Valley of the Kings is cleared, we can defend and wait for him to attack us, and it is impossible to cross the river and flee in front of me. ”

Berthier understood Napoleon's plan, and he nodded: "Actually, the situation of Muhammad Ali is also dangerous, and I am afraid that he will launch a night attack." ”

Napoleon was not worried about this: "Attack our camp at night? That's death, even in makeshift camps. Believe me, Muhammad Ali would not do such a thing. ”

………

In the mausoleum under the Valley of the Kings, Murad Beyi panted and drank water, and then patted Wu Xin on the shoulder: "Thanks to you this time, how did you think of making a water storage point here." ”

"I see that there is a lot of water in this place, which means that there is groundwater." Wu Xin didn't plan to tell him that when he first entered this place, there were many dry bones floating here, and although it was not a burial chamber, many tomb robbers had died, and he hadn't cleaned it up seriously.

Murad Bey and his remnants were mostly uneasy at first, but after seeing Wu Xin's secret warehouse, everyone's morale recovered.

The place was well watered, and there was food and weapons.

"But the food is a little lacking after all, and it looks like there will be no more food at most." Muradbey's appetite was not good, and the soldiers didn't eat much because of the poor ventilation, but Wu Xin insisted that Joel check them one by one to make sure everyone barely ate a little wheat cake. "We might as well retreat, they don't seem to notice the exit."

Of course, Wu Xin dug through several mausoleums and made prepared escape openings, but he didn't plan to use them now.

"Muhammad Ali has already crossed the river with his troops, if we escape," Wu Xin wanted to sleep to recover his magic and physical strength, "Don't worry about food, the French can't afford to delay, they don't dare to wait for tomorrow, their supplies will not be better than ours." ”

Murad Bey nodded, he did not prepare much food at the camp at all, and basically relied on transportation from the east coast, which was also one of the disadvantages faced by Napoleon.

"The French have attacked!" Villefort was quick to confirm Wu Xin's claims.

His trap is triggered, and a soldier gets stuck in a trap hidden in the tomb.

Wu Xin jumped to his feet and said to Muradbey: "Act according to the plan, believe me, we can do it." (To be continued.) )