Chapter 92: Hangu Blood 2
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However, the coalition troops under Xiang Yu suffered more casualties and paid more costs.
Among the veteran troops who followed Xiang Yu to the expedition against Julu, more than one-third of them were reduced, not to mention the other small princes and those Qianshou farmers who came here.
When Xiang Yu ordered a short rest, the personnel in charge of counting the casualties came up with a figure that made them all chill, that is, the coalition troops dominated by Chu officers and soldiers had paid more than 100,000 casualties in these two days of combat.
For Xiang Yu, this number is indeed inevitably moving them, but at such a time, he can't care so much.
It's just that Xiang Yu ignored a situation, that is, on the battlefield, because the weather began to get hotter, the corpses of many of the war dead quickly accelerated the decay speed in this climate.
Many Chu officers and soldiers who fought on the battlefield, although they were coerced and lured by Xiang Yu, had to be sent to endure this foul-smelling environment to fight.
But that's not a big deal. For the Chu army, the biggest problem is that many officers and soldiers on the battlefield are infected with germs that can kill Chu officers and soldiers when they are wounded.
In the past two days, more and more Chu officers and soldiers or coalition troops have developed many symptoms.
In this era when the knowledge of epidemic prevention has not been popularized, few of these officers and soldiers have been able to survive directly.
As far as Xiang Yu is concerned, he has no good way to solve this problem after receiving such a news. After all, his thinking is not like Zhang Jiashi from later generations, knowing and researching a more feasible epidemic prevention plan.
In the camp of the Chu army, many officers and soldiers had to lie in the tent because they were injured or infected with various infectious diseases, weak and moaning.
The moans of many officers and soldiers have become weaker and weaker, and have even stopped.
In this case, it often indicates a situation, that is, this officer and soldier have died.
The deterioration of this situation further undermined the morale of the coalition forces.
But for Zhang Han and others, such news is equivalent to a bolt from the blue.
Of course, Zhang Han and the others are now like the commander of the light pole, and there are only those soldiers around them who still maintain a certain loyalty to them. However, he himself knows very well that now that Zhang Jiashi has controlled Guanzhong, he already has a home to return to.
Zhang Han did not resent Zhang Jiashi, nor did he resent Xiang Yu, who killed more than 100,000 officers and soldiers under his command, he could only resent himself silently.
Because he knows very well that Wang Li, Dong Peng and Sima Xin are actually the best choice for Zhang Jiashi.
However, Zhang Han, who has lost almost everything and has truly become a loner, can only wait for his final result to come.
Whether Zhang Jiashi will let him go or not is no longer important to Zhang Han. But even if Zhang Jiashi lets him go, I am afraid that Dong Fei and Sima Xin, who are said to have been in high positions under Zhang Jiashi, will not let him live too freely. Because for them, Zhang Han can't live, whether it's for the officers and soldiers who were miserable by Zhang Han, or for themselves.
Zhang Han didn't want to die like this, but he didn't have a good way to capture Hangu Pass.
He knew very well that if Hangu Pass was so easy to capture, then Hangu Pass would not be Hangu Pass.
Although Zhang Han was once the Shaofu of the Great Qin Empire, it did not mean that he was able to get too involved in the defense of Hangu Pass and Xianyang City, which were important areas for the Great Qin Empire.
He knew very well that Huan Feng's ability was indeed quite high, otherwise, the other party would not have been heavily tasked when the First Emperor was alive.
Huan Feng is also from a Qin ** family, although his uncle defeated Li Mu's men when he conquered Zhao State, but it does not mean that the soldiers from the Huan family where Huan Feng is located are the generation of wine bags and rice bags.
According to some information from Zhang Han, one of the important officers under Zhang Jiashi, who is now guarding the Jixian area and acting as an agent for military and political affairs in the Jixian area, is actually Huan Feng's nephew.
Of course, I am afraid that few people know the truth of such a news now. After all, for him, even if Huan Su is really the son of one of the famous generals of the Great Qin, and for Zhang Jiashi, he is also a general who can fight well, so what does it have to do with him Zhang Han.
He glanced lightly at the camp in front of him, which seemed to be getting stranger and stranger, and could only sigh in his heart......
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While the coalition camp is full of mourning, the Qin army camp located west of Hangu Pass, although it is not as miserable as the coalition camp, but in the case of too many wounded, both medicinal materials and medical workers are quite insufficient, even if Huan Feng wants to save the lives of more wounded, it is difficult to do it.
It's not that Xianyang's support in this area is insufficient, but that there are too many wounded in such a place.
Including Cao Shen, Chen Ping and even the newly joined Lu Ze brothers, they have done their best in this regard. But this kind of thing can't be solved by trying your best.
In addition to the most basic medical workers in Shuangyi and the Lantian camp, which has now been converted into a civilian camp, both military and some county medical workers in the vicinity of the Xianyang area were transferred to the area west of Hangu Pass as if they were semi-forced.
However, a few hundred medical workers are a drop in the bucket for nearly 10,000 or 20,000 wounded. What's worse is that they can not find many medicinal materials, even if all of them are shipped to Hangu Pass, they are far from meeting the most basic needs.
In the camp of the Qin army, there were also many officers and soldiers who could never get up after the fainter and fainter moans ended. What was waiting for them was carried out of the camp tent directly by a few Qin officers and soldiers wearing masks, and then cremated outside......
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Zhang Jiashi has formulated a set of relatively complete and feasible epidemic prevention methods in Liaodong County.
The military's epidemic prevention methods have four main points:
1. Officers and soldiers fighting in epidemic areas must boil water sources, whether it is for drinking, cooking, or washing medical supplies.
Zhang Jiashi does not have a more effective method now, such as the direct disinfection of the water source, and some of the methods that Zhang Jiashi thought of in the past are quite ineffective. After all, it is like the disinfectant of later generations, either it is impossible to make it under the current conditions, or the cost is so high that Zhang Jiashi himself cannot accept it.
Therefore, Zhang Jiashi can only continue to use this seemingly stupid method.
Using boiling water to reduce this kind of epidemic through the water source is not to say that there is no effect, but such an effect is more difficult to guarantee.
Boiling water is not a panacea for disinfection, for example, once it is used to wash the white cloth used for medicine, there will be some viruses left in it. Of course, the amount of this virus generally does not cause cross-infection.
2. In the event of a serious illness or death from serious injuries, cremation must be carried out as much as possible if possible.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi was not worried that these officers and soldiers would play with corpses or something. Although such a possibility exists, if such a situation really happens for no reason, then Zhang Jiashi can only regard himself as unlucky.
And during this period of fighting, Huan Feng also saw many times the officers of the Liaodong Army, including Ruan Weng Shao, executing such a thing well.
He didn't understand the meaning of doing this for a while, but after asking Ruan Weng Shao, Huan Feng understood the significance of Zhang Jiashi's training.
He quickly asked some troops to learn this method from the officers and men of Liaodong in the interval between battles.
Because of their past, more often than not, the bodies of the war dead or the wounded who died of serious injuries were buried nearby.
The burning of corpses can be said to be a common situation in Zhang Jiashi's later generations, but in such a Great Qin Empire, which already has the idea of entering the earth for peace, it is difficult for the officers and soldiers under Huan Feng to accept it.
But Huan Feng pushed the crowd out and resolutely let them implement this method.
This made the officers and soldiers under Huan Feng's command feel very helpless. However, when they saw these remains, they did not burn them directly with each other, but buried them one by one again in a more orderly manner, which still made these officers and soldiers acceptable.
Zhang Jiashi's approach is certainly a bit "wasteful". But in many ways, Zhang Jiashi is well aware that by doing so, he can prevent these corpses from evolving into a new source of disease, and he can also prevent some things from happening.
After all, Zhang Jiashi didn't think that the corpses that were burned to bones by the flames could directly deceive the corpse.
Three: The military is often equipped with a medical worker who can treat some simple injuries or minor diseases according to a certain proportion of people.
Of course, Zhang Jiashi's current staffing is only able to equip about 500 medical workers at most, which is also the reason why the number of medical workers is seriously insufficient this time.
However, in such a situation, it is no wonder that Zhang Jiashi, after all, even if Zhang Jiashi wants to vigorously train a team of medical workers, I am afraid that he will not be able to do such a little in a while, not to mention that even if Zhang Jiashi has such a plan, the resources he has now cannot support him to do this.
Of course, compared with those officers and soldiers of the coalition army, the wounded of the Qin army can live more, and this mandatory requirement of Zhang Jiashi is actually one of the most critical places.
Four: This point is mainly due to Zhang Jiashi's popularization of military medical and industrial treatment methods.
In fact, this is not a good arrangement, but Zhang Jiashi believes that an inherent treatment system, before it matures, using a method to promote is quite effective.
In a sense, this can be regarded as "stifling" the development of medical treatment, but it is undeniable that this "framework" is indeed a way to educate a group of medical personnel who can be quickly put into use in batches.
Zhang Jiashi knows very well that such a situation cannot be said to be a good thing, but under the premise that there is no other better way, in order to be able to get more medical workers, Zhang Jiashi can only choose this kind of second-best result.
Of course, in Zhang Jiashi's plan for this aspect, Zhang Jiashi believes that once the conditions are ripe, these medical workers will still be arranged by him for further training to make up for the shortcomings caused by his decision.
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Xiang Yu summoned the leaders of the various forces in the coalition army this time, including Zhang Han and Han Guang, the leaders of the rebel army who defected to him or the rebel generals of the Qin army.
Xiang Yu convened such a meeting, in fact, it was only held in order to continue to storm Hangu Pass.
And some of the leaders of the rebel army or the small princes who had a certain amount of military power, but also suffered heavy casualties, did not want the officers and soldiers under their command, that is, their own strength to be further weakened by Xiang Yu.
After all, they are afraid and hateful of Xiang Yu.
What I am afraid of is that Xiang Yu still has the absolute strength in the coalition army, and what I hate is that Xiang Yu has been in the past two days, or that Xiang Yu has staggered their troops during this period of time, as the first batch of "cannon fodder" to attack Hangu Pass.
In this kind of thing, if they are capable, they will also demand such a "friendly army" that is not as strong as their own, but this does not mean that they themselves will be willing to accept such an arrangement when they encounter such a situation.
However, at such a time, it was also not a good opportunity for them to resist Xiang Yu.
And more importantly, that is, the leading power of the grain and straw of the officers and soldiers under their command is also in the hands of Xiang Yu. Once Xiang Yu besieged them and cut off the supply of food, what awaited them would be an outcome that they could not even imagine.
Whether they are heroes or bears, they can understand one thing, that is, the situation is weaker than people, and they will not bow their heads until they are not.
After seeing that almost everyone had arrived, Xiang Yu said in a deep voice: "Everyone, in the first two days of the battle, although we still couldn't break through the Hangu Pass guarded by Qin Dog, but there were two chances, we were almost able to capture the Hangu Pass in our hands, since this is the case, this also shows that we need to increase our strength, and then we can capture Hangu Pass, and then, we can get Guanzhong." ”
Xiang Yu, who said these words, thought that he would be able to get strong support from the people present, but it backfired, except for the Chu army officers under Xiang Yu, the response of others was not worth mentioning at all.
Xiang Yu felt that in such a situation, he should show that he was very angry in order to show his authority as the leader of the coalition.
But Fan Zeng, who was beside Xiang Yu, had to use his cane to gently tap the soap boot cloth on Xiang Yu's instep.
Xiang Yu knew that Fan Zeng also thought that he shouldn't be angry at such a time, but for Xiang Yu, it was really difficult for him to endure such a situation.
It's just that Xiang Yu is not a brave and unscrupulous person, after all, if Xiang Yu had courage and no scheming, he would have been caught by the Qin people a long time ago, and then his head would have been in front of a certain city gate tower.
Therefore, Xiang Yu pondered for a while, and suddenly thought of something, and a sufficiently inspiring idea also came to life spontaneously.
Xiang Yu focused his eyes on those rebel leaders or small princes, and he said loudly: "If you can do your best to occupy Hangu Pass, Xiang Ji swears to heaven hereby that you can only lead your army to do what you want in any area except Xianyang in Guanzhong." ”
Xiang Yu's words were disguised as saying his arrangement. That is, once they enter Guanzhong, they will be able to get what they want in areas outside Xianyang.
Among them were money, food, and even women, slaves.
Such a sentence made those small princes and the leaders of the rebel army couldn't help but be shocked.
It's just that the shock that Xiang Yu brought them was not only these:
"At the same time, Xiang Ji will also be on the table of the king (referring to the heart of King Chu Huai), so that everyone can become a prince!"
Xiang Yu's words naturally made more people feel invigorated. You must know that according to the covenant of King Chu Huai in the Pengcheng area, only those who enter the customs first can get the title of prince.
According to such an agreement, these people directly became soy sauce makers, and they couldn't even drink the soup.
And right now, Xiang Yu's words are conjuring up more than a dozen pieces of meat that exude an attractive fragrance out of thin air, making them want to stop.
It's just that, among them, there are still people who can maintain a certain sanity. That is, as the leader of the rebel army with less than 10,000 people left, Shenyang who was cornered by the local Qin army in Sanchuan County.
Shenyang, who became the king of Henan in history, has not yet completely lost his mind at this time. After looking at Xiang Yu for a while, he gritted his teeth and said what he wanted to say:
"Alliance leader, if the lord of your country does not allow this, then what should I do?"
After Shen Yang said this, his mood can be said to be quite apprehensive. After all, such a sentence can be regarded as offending Xiang Yu.
It's just that what the people in the camp didn't expect was that Xiang Yu seemed to have such an idea, or he had such an idea for a long time:
"This matter is certainly a problem, but Xiang Ji hereby guarantees that if the king does not allow this, then Xiang Ji will decide this matter as the leader of the alliance. I don't know what you think?"
This sentence fully revealed Xiang Yu's mentality.
If Zhang Jiashi was in this place, he would say, "That's true." ”
Xiang Yu can be regarded as an unloyal minister, and he has no respect for the sheep herding baby of Chu Huai Wang Xiongxin, let alone loyalty.
There is also a wild historical rumor in history that illustrates this, that is, Xiong Xin, the king of Chu Huai, once fell in love with Yu Ji during a chance encounter and planned to take Yu Ji for himself. But after Xiang Yu received the news, he actually rushed directly into the palace, snatched out Yu Ji, and even beat Xiong Xin violently.
In any case, such a promise was undoubtedly a successful and effective agitation when it was heard by those present......
"I am willing to serve the alliance leader to the death!!"
A group of small princes and the leaders of the rebel army did not hesitate, because they knew very well that they should also express their position after receiving so much "goodwill".
Otherwise, I really can't even drink a sip of soup......
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