The Song army broke through the city wall from the most unlikely location and advanced along the city wall at an extremely fast speed, which made the defense line arranged by the Yuan army useless, and the entry of the navy also caused the city to be divided into several areas. The plan to use the city wall to survive was completely lost, and it was trapped in the danger of being surrounded in the city.
"Wanhu, the enemy has come along the Imperial Street, and our army has suffered heavy casualties and is unstoppable." Deputy Wanhu Li Bolanxi hurried into the government office and said.
"You immediately ask Katowa to lead Ding Zhuang three thousand to stop him. You must repel the Song army and defend Luocheng." Zheng You said in shock.
"Wanhu, those Ding Zhuang turned against each other in the battle, killed Katowa and opened the Donghua Gate, and let the Song army enter the city." Li Bolanxi shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"Oh, where is Daruwachi?" Zheng You asked again.
"When he saw the Song army enter from the south, he led his personal soldiers to protect a large number of property and entourage to the north gate." Li Bolanxi said angrily.
"This bastard, he ran away quickly! Those wastes have been soaked in wine and their bones have been weakened. The gold and silk have slapped their courage and can't raise any swords and guns!" Zheng You were both angry and anxious but helpless, and what he was even more worried was that once he opened the north gate, the Song army would take the opportunity to enter the city, and even the last shelter would be gone.
"Ten thousand households, let's go too. The Song army is not far away from this. The newly recruited military households cannot resist it for a long time. Moreover, the southerners in the city rebelled one after another, blocked the streets, and assisted the Song army in chasing the defeated soldiers!" Li Bolan said anxiously.
"Where should we escape? Now we have surrounded the city and have nowhere to go!" Zheng You sat down depressedly. He did not expect that all the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas were lost in just two months, and all the four 10,000 households were annihilated. He conquered the Mongolian and Semu men in Hangzhou and nearly 20,000 men from each military household to defend the city. However, the army was defeated just now, and the escape route has been cut off. It can be said that there is no way to go to heaven and no way to go to sea.
"With ten thousand households, there is no large number of enemy troops outside the northern city, and there is still a possibility of breaking through. As long as we rushed outside the city with fast horses and light cavalry, we could collect ships to Jiangbei. The Song army's troops were unable to reach there." Li Bolan Xi advised.
"The Song army stayed alone in the north gate, wouldn't it be a trick?" Zheng You said with some doubts. Surrounding three and ones is also a common siege tactic used by the Mongols. He naturally knew very well that if he left the city at this moment, he might be chased and killed later. At that time, the army was defeated like a mountain, and he had no power to fight back at all, so he could only be wiped out by the entire army.
"Report that the officials, the people of the city and the defeated soldiers gathered at the north gate to open the city gate and leave the city. The noise started. The soldiers guarding the city could not be stopped. Please ask the general to show their advice!" At this time, a soldier came in and reported.
"Those who trespassed the city gate were the same as those who colluded with the enemy and were killed!" Zheng You ordered.
"Reported that General Daluhua Chi Suobashi of Hangzhou ordered the opening of the Genshan Gate. The thousand households guarding the gate dared not prohibit it. The city gate had been opened!" Before the person on this side had left, another soldier reported.
"Immediately ask them to pull up the suspension bridge and close the city gate, and don't fall into a trap!" Zheng You said in shock. He secretly hated that this guy wants to be the first to eat and even escape, and he has to take the lead in running. His morale is unstable and he can't fight this battle.
"Wanhu, no more than ten thousand households, the soldiers guarding the city were also swept away by the defeated soldiers!" The sergeant who delivered the letter said with a sad face.
"Wanhu, the Song army has fought over Liubu Bridges, and the vanguard is not far from Wanhu Mansion."
"The enemy's naval army has entered the city river and wants to cut off our retreat!"
"Ten thousand households, the Song army has occupied the outer city walls, and the Benluo City is coming!"
"It's too late for thousands of households to go, let's go!" One bad news after another, Li Bolan and Xi said anxiously.
"Okay, break through the army!" Zheng You also had no choice but to do anything, gritted his teeth and squeezed out a few words.
Zheng You and Li Bolan Xi hurriedly gathered their personal troops out of the mansion and headed to the north gate of the Imperial Street. They saw crowds running north along the way. They were either riding horses or taking cars, holding the elderly and young, calling their father and mother extremely miserable. There were many wounded soldiers lying on the roadside without anyone to rescue them, and even when they arrived, no one looked at them. But who would have thought that they would show off their power, perform their power, and make money in the city a few days ago.
The more you go, the more chaotic it becomes. Those who can live in Luocheng are either rich or noble, and the escape is like moving. Not only are the carriages carrying gold, silver and fine soft materials, but there are also large bags of small bags on the cart behind. Everyone rushed forward, and no one was willing to give way, blocking an imperial street tightly, but people continued to join the escape team.
"The Song army is catching up!" Suddenly someone shouted behind him, and the sound of muskets was also tighter. The shouting was like water pouring into a pan and it exploded. Because everyone knew that the Song army had always adopted the policy of killing the Mongols and Semu people. All officials of all sizes were executed and the women were closed; all the merchants' property was confiscated and they were closed for hard labor. Therefore, all the rush to escape, the cars blocking the road were overturned, and even swords and guns were killed.
Zheng You and Li Bolan Xi didn't care much at this moment, and led their guards to cut their horses in the crowd and slashed their horses and slashed out of the city gate. They soon caught up with Hangzhou Daluhua Chi Suoba, who had left the city first. But the two did not feel intimate when they saw him, but instead were very angry. At that time, the four ten thousand households in the Wanhu Mansion in Hangzhou were annihilated. In order to defend the city, he forced ten thousand households in the city to join the army to defend the city. But at this moment, he retained hundreds of his direct relatives and protected his family Xiaohe's property and rushed out of the city first.
The two looked back and saw that the Song army had already appeared on the top of the city. The fugitives were constantly falling under the bullet rains of the Song army. The fleeing crowds were still rushing onto the suspension bridge like crazy. Some were squeezed down the suspension bridge, while some jumped into the moat without any way to go, and were washed away by the river's rapid current. But they couldn't help themselves. But they could not escape for ten miles, and they saw dust flying in the southeast, and the Song army's cavalry rushed from the side and behind...
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Communication soldiers were constantly coming and going in Zhao Bing's temporary palace. There were more and more small red flags on the sand table in front of him, but the blue flags were constantly being pulled out. The troops seized the city walls with a devastating force and drove the enemy's defeated soldiers out of the city. By the time of war, they had already controlled the city gates and important places in the city, and occupied the government office. Zhang Shijie ordered the troops to move into the stage of clearing out the remaining soldiers, cleaning the battlefield, sealing the granaries, and pacifying the people. In the evening, the battle had ended, and the whole city was curfewed, and all the troops sent patrols to prevent the defeated soldiers from causing chaos and the gangsters took advantage of the fire to rob.
After nothing happened overnight, Zhao Bing issued an order to temporarily lead the prefect of Lin'an, and Ni Liang was the governor of Lin'an. The next morning, Lu Xiufu led civil and military personnel to the city to pacify the people, handled the aftermath and counted military achievements. Five days later, it was decided that the First Brigade of the Guards was responsible for the defense of Lin'an, while the personal military brigade took over the warning of Luocheng and the Imperial City. The Second Brigade moved to Xiuzhou, the Third Brigade transferred to Qiantang and Renhe counties, and the Fifth Division moved to Shaoxing Prefecture.
Both political affairs and military affairs were left to Lu Xiufu and Zhang Shijie. The city was not ready yet, so he could only stay in Qiantang. However, he was not idle either. He was busy slapping the wounded soldiers in the medical hospital and guiding the rescue work. Since this time it was a city offensive and defensive battle, there were fierce close combat between the two sides, and arrow wounds and knife wounds accounted for the majority. But this time, many people were infected with the "silence" disease, resulting in the death of many injured people.
As a "medical expert", Zhao Bing naturally had to participate in the treatment, but he had never heard of this sensation. After hearing Hao Yuntong's introduction, he learned that historical records had recorded the symptoms of this disease long before the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties. It is said that Prince Zhaoming died of sensation caused by trauma. There was a book in the previous Han Dynasty called "Jin Chuang Chuang Chuang Chuang Prescription", in which sensation was open damage caused by metal sharp objects, and sensation refers to the symptoms caused by injury. It is usually manifested as muscle tension, accompanied by hand and foot spasms, convulsions, etc., which are obviously different from general traumatic infections.
But after seeing the onset, Zhao Bing's heart suddenly hangs up. He saw that the patient often has fidgeting and irritability. The symptoms are often tightening the teeth and stiffening the neck muscles. Within a few hours, the spasm spreads to other muscles. The spasm of the facial muscles can cause the lips to contract or the corners of the mouth to converge, which is a spastic "wry smile". When the disease continues to progress, the continuous ankylo state of the whole body will be exacerbated, accompanied by severe spasm-like pain, difficulty breathing and a lot of sweating. This is obviously 'tetanus'!
When Zhao Bing was playing outdoors when he was a child, his hands and feet were accidentally pierced by rusty things. His parents would always yell at that time that he didn't understand that it was just a small flesh injury. Is it not enough to stop bleeding and bandage and disinfect? ​​After joining the work, he dealt with steel all day long and was inevitably hit and scratched. When he went to the hospital to deal with the wound, he still had to get this "tetanus injection". After seeing a worker who had an onset, he also learned the danger of this disease, which is a very high mortality rate.
As Zhao Bing knows, the reason why tetanus is difficult to treat is because of its particularity. Unlike common infections, the pathogenic bacteria of tetanus Clostridium tetanus is an anaerobic bacteria. This bacteria can only survive in an oxygen-deficient environment, such as in the intestines of humans and animals. If exposed to an environment with sufficient oxygen, Clostridium tetanus will undergo morphological changes and produce buds. Clostridium tetanus's bud resistance is amazing and spread through feces. It can survive in the soil for decades, and is also very resistant to high temperatures and tolerate boiling water. Therefore, Clostridium tetanus is widely present in both natural and residential environments.
However, C. tetanus itself is not aggressive and only reproduces in necrotic and hypoxia tissues. However, it can produce a neurotoxin that is extremely sensitive to the human body and is released when the bacteria are lysed. The released neurotoxin is generally called tetanus spasm toxin. It is extremely toxic, second only to botulinum toxin. The symptoms caused are that the muscles only contract but cannot relax normally and maintain a tight state for a long time. Patients often die of suffocation and heart failure caused by respiratory failure.
In fact, several special conditions are required to infect tetanus. The first is of course that the wound is contaminated by C. tetanus or its sprouts. The second is related to the shape of the wound. Generally speaking, the wound is open and deep, and the internal trauma is easily formed with tissue inactivation, causing tetanus. Only when these two conditions are met can C. tetanus successfully invade the human body.
What surprised Zhao Bing was that although the ancients could not understand the pathogenic principles of tetanus, they also found some rules through observation. They found that the mortality rate of soldiers after being seriously injured by dirt spears and arrows was very high. Since it was impossible to eliminate the beasts, it was better to drive the beasts into the enemy's military camp. Therefore, in addition to helping prevent the occurrence of tetanus, these rules also have an important role - killing the enemy.
According to the ancients' cognition, if C. tetanus can play its greatest role, it is necessary to create a wound. If you look for it with such standards, puncture weapons are undoubtedly more suitable for tetanus. The most typical one is crossbow weapon. Just puncture, as long as you hit it, it will be a semi-open deep-invasion. But they have no concept of sterile operation. They usually bandage some golden sore medicine, and use a soldering iron to burn it to stop bleeding if you are harder. Such a wound environment is simply the ideal home for tetanus. Therefore, C. tetanus has accidentally become a powerful weapon for killing people on the battlefield. Soldiers who were caught will experience a very painful death process.
Crossbowmen often have a habit after setting up their formation: insert all the arrows in the quiver into the soil at their feet. This method is to make it easier to take arrows and increase the rate of fire, and the other is to allow the arrows to be contaminated with dirt in the soil, which increases the infection and mortality rate after hitting non-critical parts. This move is no less powerful than using certain chronic poisons. In mild cases, the infection will lose its combat effectiveness, and in severe cases, the death of tetanus will occur.
Coincidentally, the Mongolians who are good at riding and shooting also have exclusive secret recipes. However, unlike Western longbowmen's fixed-point shooting, it is not convenient for riding archers to use local materials to contaminate arrows with soil. They boldly innovate in the method of preserving arrows, using horse manure to "nourish" arrows. After deep processing, they will concentrate them in bags made of cow stomachs to save. This step-by-step operation makes the arrows full of various bacteria, and of course, Clostridium tetanus is indispensable.
According to Hao Yuntong, the deaths of those who have received Jin Chuang Chuang Chuang Chuang Chuang Chuang Chuang Chuang can reach more than 60%. Zhao Bing was very worried when he heard that the mortality rate of more than two-thirds was unbearable for him. After all, those soldiers who suffered not fatal injuries were veterans with combat experience after recovery and became the backbone of the army. In modern times, only a few dollars of vaccine can save a life, but now he is helpless. What makes him sad is that Li Sanniang was also shot in the arm, and there is also a risk of infection.
However, Zhao Bing knew that tetanus itself is not a disease. It will only cause tetanus when bacteria reproduce in large quantities and the toxins it produces enter the blood. The condition for bacteria to reproduce in large quantities is hypoxia. This hypoxia environment generally only occurs when the outer opening of the wound is small, there are necrotic tissue or blood clots in the wound, ischemia, etc. Therefore, correctly treating the wound after injury and destroying the hypoxia environment in the injured area is the key to preventing tetanus.
Chapter completed!