(349) Empty tables and chairs

On November 24, 1723, the early morning twilight covered the land.

This was the area of the previous battle of Ramvedens, and on the night of the 23rd, Valstadi** won a crushing victory, and they drove the main force of King Solan** from the battlefield at great cost of casualties.

In order to avoid offending the sensitive nerves of the neutral nation, the commander-in-chief, Prince Leopold, ordered all his troops to retreat 2,000 meters, and strictly forbade the troops to raid the neutral country's villages, leaving no reason for condemnation.

The Sylvinian Empire, the host country in the battlefield area, sent a team of five diplomats to the winning side's headquarters to coordinate with them, and their attitudes were intriguing, showing no tendencies, only making many ambiguous and ambiguous statements.

His intentions are clearly revealed,

This battle was only the first step in the invasion of the Solan Kingdom, and the battle for world supremacy was far from over, and they decided to remain neutral and wait patiently for the results of the other major battles to come, before choosing the side of the victor.

However, in the face of the menacing Valstads, they made some compromises, allowing medical personnel to cross the border to clear the battlefield and provide necessary material support.

In a frustrated mood, Lady Janen Winstede arrived at Ramvedence Farm Fortress in the center of the battlefield with her medical team, first sending her doctors and nurses to the front-line medical station to help, and then went straight to the headquarters, desperate to make sure her husband was safe.

Dressed in a white lab coat with a red cross emblem embroidered on her hat, Janine handed the guards her identification and was allowed to enter the core area of the headquarters.

The mood of the officers and soldiers in the fortress was surprisingly low, and from time to time she could see soldiers hiding in the corner and crying bitterly, which made Jian Ning's heart clouded with a haze, and she couldn't help but think:

(Didn't yesterday's battle be a big victory?) Why can't I see the celebration feast? There were no victorious songs, large pieces of roast meat and large barrels of beer piled up in the hall and no one cared, and where were the smiles of everyone? Now, what happened? What's going on? )

After more than ten minutes of searching, she finally found her husband in an empty living room.

The Marquis of Dalí Einfurt, still wearing the tattered marshal's uniform of the previous one, with a blood-stained bandage on his head, and his left arm hanging from his chest, was sitting on a snare drum in the corner of the drawing-room, looking stunned with a glass of gin.

Dalí ...... You okay? Janening rushed over and hugged her husband.

"My dear, you're here......" A smile appeared on the bitter face of the Marquis of Dali Einfurt: "Don't worry, I'm fine, it's all skin trauma." ”

Jian Ning kissed her husband's cheek distressedly: "Skin trauma? Don't try to hide it from me! I'm a professional! Why is your arm hanging and broken? ”

"Oh, I dislocated my left arm when I fell off the warhorse, and the military doctor has already helped me reset the joint, and I was temporarily hung up just to facilitate recovery, no big problem."

"That's good...... That's good...... I can finally rest assured, it's good that our William served in the Guards and didn't participate in this battle. Dali...... You know I was going to die yesterday, I'm afraid of losing you! ”

"I'm fine." Marquis Dalí smiled bitterly; "It's just a little lonely."

He took his wife's hand, stood up, looked at the empty hall, and said with a low expression:

"Jain, look at this hall, in the early hours of yesterday morning, before the start of the battle, our senior officer team of the Third Army gathered here for a meeting to discuss the next tactical strategy.

Look at this chair, yesterday Jiawen sat here, Poigny sat next to him, the two men had been arguing over tactical differences, and almost started to fight, but fortunately the adjutant dissuaded him in time. ”

"Oh, the two of them have completely opposite personalities and quarrel when they meet, but I know, Dali, that the three of you are best friends, and the quarrel is just because you don't agree and are anxious, and you don't really hold a grudge against each other."

Dali gently stroked the back of the chair as if he were caressing his brother's shoulder:

"Yes, there are many quarrels between us, but each time it only lasts for a while, one second we have to fight with fists, and the next second we are reconciled, and the other officers of the Third Army love to see our three jokes, it's really embarrassing...... Not really. ”

"What about the two of them? I need to say hi to them! Especially Poigny, after all, he was also my suitor. Jian Ning said with a smile.

"No need to say hello, my dear, my good brother Gavin and Poigni, they have all died."

"What?!" Jian Ning was so shocked that she sat on the ground, her clean white coat dirty.

"So...... I was lonely. "Dalí mourned;" Yesterday the hall was very lively, and everyone was talking enthusiastically around the map, but now? The senior officers of the Third Army are left with me as a bare-bones commander! ”

After saying this, the Marquis of Dali Einfoot, holding his friend's relic in his hand, began to look at the empty tables and chairs in the hall in a daze.

Jian Ning looked at her husband, her heart hurt to the extreme, after all, she had also experienced a painful past, and she understood this feeling.

There is an unspeakable sadness, a never-ending pain, familiar faces that seem to be dancing in the mirror, familiar voices as if they are standing on the table and speaking impassionedly.

She could imagine how lively this hall was before yesterday's battle! The officers of the Third Army fiercely argued tactics for the victory of the Fatherland, and after only one moment it all became illusions, empty seats accompanied by empty chairs, and former good friends could never be reunited.

At this moment, Janen Winstede finally understood why there was no laughter and laughter in the headquarters, why there was no celebration party and singing,

Because of the heavy casualties, it is heartbreaking.

The casualties of senior officers were still like this, and the situation of ordinary soldiers can be imagined, and the battle of Ramvedence was like a meat grinder, greedily sucking the flesh and blood of the soldiers.

Jane Winsted quietly walked out, left her husband alone in the hall, and closed the door gently.

(Dear Dali, no one bothers you now, cry if you want to!) )

After that, she took the initiative to report to the front-line medical station, hoping to help, and the doctors and nurses were overjoyed to see the famous expert of the empire.

The scene in the medical station was a hundred times worse than the most pessimistic situation that Janine could imagine.

Because of the number of dead, there were no longer enough body bags for the corpses, so straw and hemp ropes had to be used instead, and hundreds of seriously wounded lay on stretchers and wailed.

The crates in the corner of the operating room were littered with sawn-off severed arms, blood-stained cotton balls and bandages were thrown all over the floor, and the air was filled with a pungent smell of iodine mixed with blood, which Janening knew was the smell of death.

A young doctor with a tired look recognized her and excitedly shook her hand:

"Oh! Now, Lord Lady Janening! Thank the gods! I'm glad you came, I have a tough question here! There was a shrapnel stuck in the soldier's left chest, and I didn't dare to take it, for fear that the heart valve in Huishan would kill him! ”

"Rest, young man, let me come! Give me a mask and gloves! And the tools that have been sterilized! I also need a physician assistant! Two nurses! After that, Jian Ning immediately threw himself into the intense operation Zheng

The warrior sacrificed his life on the battlefield, and the battlefield of the healer was in the operating room, and Janine Winsted's forehead was covered with fine beads of sweat, and the assistant helped her gently wipe it,

She hadn't rested for more than 20 years, and the tiredness after the long journey hit hard, her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and she pierced her thigh with a scalpel in order to cheer up, forcing herself to wake up with pain.

Janine Winsted knew she couldn't rest, she was the premier expert in the medical station, there were too many difficult problems for her to solve, too many lives for her to save.