Chapter 53 Aftermath
In the early morning, the rising sun rose and the rays of light were shining. Shaoling City was bathed in the morning light. New flags had been replaced at the top of the city, and the sound of flies was heard under the blowing of the spring breeze. At the same time, coughs also rose one after another.
On the second day after the war, in a heavily guarded camp in the west of Shaoling City, many prisoners were lying in tents and coughing constantly. In each tent, several doctors wearing strange white robes, white masks and white hats were checking on these patients.
Coughing up blood, bloody stools, and diarrhea are symptoms of tuberculosis and dysentery. They are very contagious. If you are not careful, even the doctor will be infected.
However, these doctors in white robes directly contacted the patients, took their temperature, listened to their chest, looked at their mouth, and took their students to bet on their lives, and conducted an extremely rare "on-site internship".
and drug tests.
"What are you going to do! What are you going to feed him!"
A soldier shouted and rushed to the patient, trying to stop the doctor from taking medicine. The soldier was also a prisoner, who volunteered to take care of the captured sick comrade. Seeing the smelly black water in the doctor's hand, he couldn't help but be anxious.
He was wearing a mask and had a northern accent, so his words sounded a little vague. Most of the doctors and students were from Jingxiang, Shannan. They didn't understand what the other party said, but they could guess one or two, so they explained.
However, the other party refused to listen and tried hard to protect his companion. The doctor snorted coldly when he saw this and said loudly: "He is suffering from a terminal illness. If he continues like this, he will definitely die. After drinking my bowl of medicine, he will have a chance to survive!"
"Nonsense! How could the medicine be so fishy? It's obviously feces!"
"Absurd! This is 'Huanglong Decoction', which comes from "Emergency Prescriptions for Elbows". It can cure evil diseases. Don't be ungrateful!"
The soldier glared at the doctor, then looked at his dying comrade. After hesitating for a moment, he moved away. The reason why he was willing to stay here was that he hoped that his companions could survive from death.
When the doctor saw that he persuaded the other party, he quickly signaled the students to come forward to feed the medicine. The students learned a lot of "theory" in Huangzhou on weekdays, but they did not have the opportunity to actually contact people with bad diseases. Now that they are cured, there are patients everywhere, and there are many opportunities to practice.
At the entrance of the tent, a student listened to the doctor's instructions and looked at the pocket watch in his hand to record the time. From the time after feeding the medicine, they would take the patient's body temperature every hour (half an hour), observe the patient's condition and record it.
This is a rare internship opportunity, but the risks are also great, so the doctors and students who dare to join the camp have already put their lives and death aside, and the same is true for those prisoners who volunteered to join the camp to take care of their comrades.
There is no one who takes the opportunity to escape. Because after entering this camp, there is a high probability of getting infected with an epidemic. No prisoner dares to take such a risk and betray the snake.
The Shannan army captured Shaoling camp last night, but did not kill all the sick soldiers and chopped off their heads and took credit for credit. Instead, they were taken to this camp as much as possible and allowed the prisoners who were willing to take care of the sick to enter the camp.
For doctors and their students, these people are also good 'observation objects'.
The process of a healthy person being infected and sick by a patient is really worth observing and recording!
Of course, no one intends to poison these soldiers who take care of their comrades. They are mainly short of manpower. After all, taking care of so many patients at all times requires a lot of "care" and it is impossible for their own soldiers to take such huge risks.
The prisoners who were accompanying each other also had comprehensive protective measures, and the food and drinking water were clean. If they could survive safely, it would show one thing: these soldiers were indeed very healthy.
It is a kind and righteous person to sacrifice your life to take care of your companions who are infected with evil diseases; it is okay to drink polluted river water before, which means you are very healthy.
Such prisoners are excellent seeds of elite soldiers!
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Outside the south gate of Shaoling City, the military officers were counting the head count. A long line of trolleys lined up, and the cars were filled with bloody heads, while the soldiers guarding the car were guarding the heads in their car like mother dogs protecting their cubs.
In ancient times, when fighting, they always used their heads to record their merits. The soldiers guarded each chariot, but the merits of their troops. One less head was like a piece of meat falling from their bodies, and they couldn't help but feel nervous.
At the end of the convoy, there were mountainous heads on the open space, with dead heads with various expressions piled up together, both terrifying and bloody. Looking at this familiar scene and smelling the familiar smell, Wang Yuwen of Xiyang did not change his face.
A general's success has halted thousands of bones. He would rather walk along the mountain of corpses and blood than become a remains of others' footsteps on the way to the top.
Yin Shishi, who also served as Gongcao, was supervising the military officers to count the heads. This was the first time he had seen such a bloody scene. He had a little discomfort in his stomach, but he could barely hold on, and his self-esteem made him unable to stage fright.
Since ancient times, the head level has been recorded, but there are also killing good people to make achievements. Therefore, the military officer who records the number must distinguish the "true and false" of the head level. The heads of women will definitely not be included in the total number - in fact, the heads here are all male heads.
There were more than 100,000 soldiers and horses in the enemy army, including a large number of them followed the military and civilians. The soldiers of our side fought bloody last night and killed the people when they saw them. They tried not to kill prisoners as much as possible, but they still captured so many heads, which ones were not said to be soldiers and civilians.
As long as it is a man's head, it will be included in the total number of heads. There is no saying that he will kill good people and take credit for his achievements.
While supervising the counting, Yinshi Division recalled the arrangements last night. Because of the merits of the head, soldiers often compete for the heads on the battlefield, which would lead to no one chasing the enemy soldiers and finally being counterattacked by the enemy soldiers, so they won first and then lost.
He was fortunate to watch the pre-war deployment of King Xiyang, and the other party's method of solving the head problems was worth learning from.
Of course, Yuwen Wen didn't know what the Yin Shishi thought. He didn't sleep all night, but he was in good spirits because he had just won a big victory and defeated the enemy who had become a sick cat.
Although bullying the patient is a bit "unfair" and it is still a great victory.
In the battle last night, our side beheaded more than 10,000 people, which was just the head of the enemy who was killed on the spot. There were corpses everywhere in the wilderness. If their heads were also included in the statistics, the number would probably increase dramatically.
Not to mention the floating corpse in the river, its head level was not included.
The enemy camped in Shaoling City and nearby areas. The camp lasted for more than ten miles. Lekou, where the Rushui and Lishui converged, was also included in its camp. Last night, a battle, countless enemy soldiers drowned in the river. The number of floating corpses actually blocked the Rushui and Lishui river channels.
The scene was so terrifying. Rushui and Lishui were like the Nai River in the legendary underworld of the bardo. The surface of the river was filled with corpses, so it was as infiltrating as it was.
Yuwen Wen walked around Rentou Mountain and then arrived at the north of Shaoling City. The riverside was filled with corpses salvaged from lishui, and the salvage work was only halfway through.
The downstream of Rushui and Lishui have been blocked by soldiers sent by Yuwen Wen with serial bamboo rafts to prevent floating corpses from floating to further downstream areas, causing large-scale epidemics.
Not to mention it elsewhere, the Ru River flows southward through Xuanhu after passing Shaoling. If it is not handled properly, the Xuanhu will be the first to be affected and it is very easy to cause epidemics. By then everything will be done.
Rivers have the ability to clean themselves, but once the amount of pollutants exceeds the amount that the river can accommodate, the downstream section will inevitably be polluted. Yuwen Wen made arrangements before the war, and sent people to collect, catch, burn the corpse after the war, and even let people throw a large amount of quicklime into the river to minimize the possibility of large-scale outbreaks.
In an era without antibiotics, once an outbreak of epidemics or plagues is not a joke. In order to break the enemy, Yuwen Wen used a large amount of feces to pollute the river water. He did not want to trigger a larger-scale plague and must do a good job in the aftermath.
After a battle last night, more than 100,000 troops were destroyed. Yuwen Wen's name may become famous all over the world. However, if a large-scale epidemic is caused, a large number of people will be destroyed. At that time, the death toll will be hundreds of thousands, and his reputation will be bad at that time.
Yuwen Wen became Yuwen "plague"? How could that work!
Yuwen Wen was just thinking about being ecstatic, and several cavalry came out of the city and approached the river where he was. It seemed to be the messenger who conveyed messages, but for some reason he had to go out of the city to find him.
Chapter completed!