Daily life in Qin Dynasty

Chapter 11 Seventy percent
"How about the casualties of our army?"

In the large tent of the Chinese army, the general Meng Ao, who had white hair and beard and a majestic expression, but his eyes could not hide the tiredness, sat on the ground behind a low table and said in a deep voice.

Although the veteran of the three dynasties who has experienced King Zhaoxiang, King Zhuangxiang, and the current Qin Dynasty, although he is still brave and good at fighting, he still cannot withstand the erosion of time after all.

If it was the past, it was nothing more than a two-day and one-night raid, plus a small defeat.

This time attack Zhao.

The commander will be Meng Ao, and the deputy will be Zhang Tang.

This is also a veteran who has gone through hundreds of battles.

He has experienced many wars, big and small, and has long been used to life and death. Whether it is victory or defeat in a war, it is almost difficult to arouse such a veteran's mood swings.

However this time.

When Zhang Tang heard Meng Ao's question, his expression was unusually strange.

He opened a roll of bamboo slips and said, "This time in Feixia's battle, plus the previous battle to capture three cities in a row, our army lost a total of 980 cavalry, 770 soldiers, and the rest of the soldiers. There are [-] people in corvee.”

Leaving aside the battle losses of ordinary soldiers and corvees, more than one-third of the elite cavalry and armored soldiers died in this battle alone.

To know.

This is already an extremely tragic death rate.

After all, everyone is afraid of death. Once the number of deaths on the front line of most troops exceeds one-tenth, the soldiers will probably start to retreat. This is human nature.

An army that can maintain its morale when the death rate exceeds [-]% can already be called a "valiant soldier".

And the death rate exceeds [-]%, which is only possible when the armies of both sides are engaged in a 'death battle'.

However, for the Qin army, the death rate in a major battle exceeded [-]%, which was just a conventional battle loss.After all, Qin was located in a barren land, and from the very beginning, unlike the other six countries, there was no retreat. Therefore, for the people of Qin, every major war was a war with no retreat.

So upon hearing this, Meng Ao's expression remained calm, and he continued: "And then?"

Meng Ao understands that these are just the statistics of soldiers who died directly in battle. After each battle in the past, the number of soldiers who died of serious injuries and wounds due to heat poisoning was often not much less than the number of soldiers who died directly in battle.

Heat toxicity is inflammation.

Even sometimes more soldiers died from injuries than died on the battlefield. This is a normal phenomenon.

But the next second.

Something that Meng Ao never expected happened.

Lieutenant General Zhang Tang put away the bamboo slips with a slightly strange expression, and said: "It's gone, these are all casualty statistics, and there will be soldiers who will be treated in the wounded barracks later, so they haven't been calculated yet."

Meng Ao raised his head suddenly, opened a pair of tiger eyes, and asked in surprise, "No more?"

Zhang Tang nodded and said, "Not anymore."

Meng Ao got up instantly, and said in disbelief: "This is impossible, is there a mistake in the record?"

Zhang Tang shook his head and said: "Probably not. As far as I know, the number of deaths due to injuries in our army after this battle is very small. It is said that the reason is that there is a soldier who is proficient in witchcraft and has rescued many warriors." .”

"Witch medicine?"

"Yes, it is said that this kind of witch medicine has miraculous effects in healing wounds and reducing fever. In this series of battles, more than [-] people were injured in our army, and more than [-]% of them were successfully treated, and [-]% of them were injured. The soldiers above were all rescued by that scholar with witchcraft."

"Is there such a thing?"

This time, even with Meng Ao's state of mind, he couldn't help but change his face.

To know.

For the Qin army today, what is the most feared thing in a war?
Not death, but hunger and wounding.

Although the people of Qin were brave, they were not good at fighting. After all, people would die in battle. Even if they had military merits, if they had a choice, it is estimated that not many people would be willing to exchange their lives for titles.

But the fact is that Qin has never had a choice.

in history.

The state of Qin is located in a barren land with barren land. Almost from the moment of birth, the old Qin people have to constantly fight against the sky and the earth.But even so, the old Qin people still suffer from hunger all the time.

It wasn't until the time of King Qin Huiwen that the king adopted Sima Cuo's advice and sent a large army to cross the Qinling Mountains, conquering the land of Bashu and turning it into a granary. Qin's plight was finally alleviated a little.

But even so, in the event of a famine, the old Qin people would still starve to death in large numbers, with corpses floating around.

In order not to starve anymore, Qin had no choice but to start a war.

In Meng Ao's lifetime of war alone, there were at least three or four wars. It was because of the famine that the Qin people could hardly survive and could only be forced to go to war.

No one understands the torture of hunger better than the Qin people. In many cases, the Qin army would rather die in battle than starve.

And injury is as terrible as starvation.

Being killed by the enemy on the battlefield is just a matter of a sword.But once the wound is hot, poisonous, red and swollen, the result in many cases is that life is often worse than death.

After many soldiers were injured, their wounds were red, swollen, hot and poisonous, and pus and blood flowed out all the time. Coupled with the persistent high fever, they sometimes couldn't sleep for days and nights.

But he couldn't die.

Moreover, once a person survived the battlefield, even if he wanted to commit suicide later, it would be very difficult to do so.

In this way, they have been suffering from extreme pain, and a large number of soldiers persisted for seven or eight days before they completely died.

A war is over.

With the current level of military doctors and the number of doctors in the Qin army, it is thankful that they can finally save [-] to [-]% of the wounded soldiers.

Even if the number of doctors is sufficient, with the current average level of medical skills, it is estimated that only [-]% to [-]% of the wounded can be recovered after the war.

This is a simple conversion.

In other words, Mo Jun's power alone is already equivalent to at least hundreds of doctors.

thought here.

Meng Ao couldn't help being startled.

Immediately Meng Ao broke his mouth and said: "Call that scholar over, I want to see him."

As soon as the words fell, Zhang Tang replied: "I have already sent someone there just now."

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"Okay, don't move around now to prevent the wound from bursting, and then come over tomorrow to change the dressing." In a temporary tent, Mo Jun sewed up the wound for a "soldier" who had removed his armor, and put it on. After taking the medicine and putting on the bandage, he opened his mouth gently.

The soldier's face was a little pale, and his body temperature was also high. He was obviously feverish due to wound infection, but even so, he still held his hand and saluted: "Thank you, Brother Mojun, if I can survive by chance, I owe you Brother Mo Jun's life. Although I have nothing to do, if Brother Mo Jun has any orders in the future, I will go through fire and water."

Mo Jun smiled slightly, and said, "Brother Tu, you are being polite. Since I am now a member of the army, I should do my part."

The soldier saluted again, then turned and walked out of the tent without saying anything more.

At this time, it has been almost a day and a night since Mo Jun healed Xiong Da and the dozen soldiers who were in the same tent with him. Jun's reputation soon spread throughout the barracks.

And with these dozens of people's healing testimonies, the number of soldiers who came to Mo Jun for treatment increased instantly.

last resort.

Mo Jun had no choice but to ask the people whose injuries he had healed before to come and help.

One of the advantages of modern medicine lies here. With finished medicines, even if there are not enough professional doctors, a large-scale treatment system can be built in a short period of time.

With more and more people coming to seek medical treatment, Mo Jun's pressure doubled, and at the same time, he received more and more help.

For example: a better treatment environment, medical tools, raw materials for making medicines...etc.

As a result, Mo Jun's treatment methods have become more diverse.

For minor injuries, give some 'new knife wound medicine' directly.

For slightly more serious injuries, the wound is rinsed with alcohol, then sutured with sterilized needles and threads, and finally bandaged with medicine.

As for where does the alcohol come from?
This question is also very simple. Although alcohol is banned in the military, there is no shortage of alcohol.

As Mo Jun treated more and more people, he just casually mentioned something, and soon someone brought wine to him, and then Mo Jun used a decomposition machine to decompose a batch of alcohol.

And in order to further enhance his prestige, Mo Jun deliberately bleeds a little.

He used one-tenth of a piece of [Life Crystal (Fragment)] to dilute a tank of "Water of Life". Although this "Water of Life" cannot directly heal other people's injuries, nor can it increase life span, it can Significantly enhance the body's self-healing ability.

More importantly, Mo Jun later discovered that this diluted 'Water of Life' could eliminate the allergic side effects of penicillin to a certain extent.

It was also by virtue of these methods that Mo Jun was able to rescue [-]% of the wounded in a short period of time.

As for the remaining part of the wounded, there is really no way.

Most of the wounded are penetrating wounds and ruptured internal organs. In this case, unless Mo Jun is willing to take the risk of using [Life Crystal] to directly ingest it to people, showing the means of 'reviving the dead'.

Otherwise, with the current medical conditions, it would be impossible to save the gods.

Obviously, Mo Jun is not so great yet.

Just after Mo Jun treated the wound of another soldier with a hot and poisonous wound, a soldier suddenly walked in outside the tent. Now Mo Jun's memory is very good, he remembered that this soldier seemed to have been treated by him before.

as predicted.

Before Mo Jun could speak, he saw the soldier walking in front of him, and said very politely: "Brother Mo Jun, the general is here to invite you."

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(End of this chapter)