After entering October, the world war once again entered a difficult situation.
After Qin Zhiyuan led the Foreign Legion to a brilliant victory in Reims, Haig, the commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force, seemed to be stimulated. He ordered to increase the intensity of the attack, at least to achieve a victory comparable to Qin Zhiyuan's.
But this is not easy.
Under the leadership of Plummer, the British won successive victories at the Battle of Maine Road and the Battle of Bulligan Wood. The Bavarian prince could not bear the successive defeats of his troops and personally came to the front line to supervise the battle.
As a result, the German army regained some morale. In the subsequent Battle of Bruxen, although the German army suffered 30,000 casualties, the British also suffered 25,000 casualties.
It seems that the fighting has returned to the meat grinder mode before 1917.
Neither the British nor the Germans could withstand such heavy casualties.
So the British changed players again, from Gough to Plummer, and now it's the turn of Arthur Kerry from Canada.
The Canadians performed very well. At the Battle of Vimy Ridge, they achieved the most brilliant victory of the British army this year.
This should have been a big write-up, but the former glory has now been obscured by Qin Zhiyuan's aura and has become dim.
The troops in Arthur Kerry's hands were all from British colonies, including Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc.
Of course, the British colonial army is much more than these. There are also a large number of Indian troops and Gurkha Rifle battalions active on the European battlefield. This is the last capital of the British. Haig will not assign these troops to Assik.
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The British were also a colonial power. The British recruited millions of troops from their colonies to fight in Europe, but the French could only form a few regiments. If Qin Zhiyuan had not come out of nowhere, the size of the foreign legion would not have exceeded 50,000.
From this point, we can see the gap between the French and the British in terms of running colonies.
Arthur Kerry carefully studied the current confrontation situation, and then took a conservative attitude. Arthur Kerry estimated that if the attack continues under the current circumstances, to achieve the strategic goal of conquering Pascal, the casualties may reach 16,000
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Although he had a premonition that there would be heavy casualties, Asekri did not refuse the mission and still led his troops to attack.
As Arthur Kerry predicted, the first attack suffered heavy casualties, but it also caused the same losses to the Germans.
Three days later, the second attack was restarted, with the same heavy losses and no improvement. Four days later, the third attack was started.
By mid-October, after arduous fighting, the exhausted Germans were driven out of the Passchendaele Territory. As Arthur Kerry expected, the British suffered 16,000 casualties, mostly Canadians.
This result directly led to Arthur Kerry being tried after returning to Canada after the World War.
Of course, for now, Arthur Kerry is a British hero and has not received any harsh criticism.
As of the victory of the Battle of Pascual, the British had lost a total of 250,000 people, and the Germans had suffered similar losses. The Germans had lost 118 divisions, many of which suffered casualties. The British seemed to have only 43 divisions, but because
Colonial troops were continuously replenished, and the British had much more effective strength than the Germans.
Haig even declared victory before the battle was completely over, because the Allies needed a big victory to boost morale and morale.
Just in October, the Germans and Austrians joined forces to launch the Battle of Caporetto, also known as the Twelfth Battle of Isonzo.
Before the campaign was launched, the German-Austrian forces had 33 divisions and the Italians had 41 divisions.
After the battle was launched, no one expected that the battle would turn into a huge rout.
Because six German divisions participated in the battle covertly, the Italians surrendered 200,000 people within three days, lost 1,800 cannons, and the remaining 800,000 people fled. Then in the subsequent battles, the Italians lost a total of 460,000 people.
This included 265,000 prisoners.
This result was intolerable to everyone. The Italian commander-in-chief Cardona, who liked to shoot every ten people, was dismissed, the Roman government collapsed, and Britain and France would eventually have to take over this mess.
Therefore, General Fayol, the commander-in-chief of the French Army on the Western Front, and General Plummer, who had just made some progress, immediately received orders. They would lead five French divisions and five British divisions through the tunnels under the Albis Mountains to the Piedmont.
The Jave River established a defensive line to help the Italians strengthen their defense.
It seemed that the progress made by Qin Zhiyuan and the British army through a series of victories was completely lost by the Italians.
It’s not all bad news. In mid-October, good news finally came from Corsica.
In fact, as early as July, the research on penicillin was in a state where it was possible to succeed at any time.
The first batch of finished products were used on experimental mice, then monkeys and orangutans, and then German prisoners of war.
From the beginning of the war to the present, France has captured approximately 400,000 German prisoners of war, nearly half of whom were captured by Qin Zhiyuan this year.
These prisoners of war were widely used in mining and road construction, and were engaged in heavy manual labor.
After Crown Prince William was captured, he visited more than a dozen German prisoner-of-war settlements within half a month, and then submitted a request to the French government to change the living conditions of the prisoners of war.
As a prisoner of war, it is really strange to be able to make such a request.
But what's even more bizarre is that the French government actually accepted Crown Prince William's request. The labor intensity of the German prisoners of war was reduced and their lives were improved.
Crown Prince William's prestige among German prisoners of war suddenly rose sharply, which was an unexpected surprise.
Under the joint operation of Qin Zhiyuan and Crown Prince William, some German prisoners of war were transferred to Corsica for resettlement. On the one hand, they served their sentences, and on the other hand, they also helped Corsica with its construction.
Mary and Portlem were overjoyed for this group of free workers. Not only did they provide a relatively superior living environment for the prisoners of war, but all aspects of supplies were as close as possible to the level of the recruit camp. Except for the absence of alcoholic beverages, they were basically scientific.
The prisoners of war had whatever was in the recruit camp on Signa Island.
Corsica is now basically full of new immigrants. New immigrants who have just arrived in a strange place will instinctively maintain a tolerant and friendly attitude towards the people and things around them.
Especially the Chinese from the Far East. Although the Chinese who are used to living a hard life are diligent and frugal, they will never be stingy.
The Chinese are also accustomed to sharing as a family unit. If they make something good at home, they must ask the neighbors to share it. Their warm and hospitable nature has won universal praise.
Moreover, the Chinese themselves, who have suffered from discrimination, do not know anyone, even the German soldiers who have fought with their husbands or sons. The Chinese can maintain basic friendliness, which makes the German prisoners of war feel warm.
German prisoners of war were engaged in construction work in Corsica, and lifting was inevitable. Since it was all manual work, there was a possibility of injury.
So one day in mid-August, a German prisoner of war was injured while transporting construction supplies. Later, the wound became infected and pus leaked.
If normal procedures were followed, such injuries would generally require amputation.
But after the injury was reported to Mao Shiba, Mao Shiba approached Sandy and requested that the wounded be given penicillin that had not yet been verified.
It cannot be used directly on humans. It absolutely cannot be used. This drug has not been verified yet. No one knows what will happen. We have to be responsible for the patients. Sandy refused directly.
It is precisely because I have to be responsible for the patient that I require this drug to be used on the patient. The injury on the patient's leg has become infected, and it affects both lower limbs. If not treated in time, the patient's legs will be amputated. You should
I know what this means to patients. Mao Shiba doesn't care about medical ethics and fashion. As long as this Qian Chuanzi thinks of the beautiful money scene described by Qin Zhiyuan, he can't wait to put this medicine on the market tomorrow.
After all, life is still alive after amputating both legs, which is much better than rashly trying to lose life. Sandy is very insistent. She has now confirmed that this is indeed a project that can touch the Dynamite Award, so there is no room for slacking off.
But life without legs is incomplete. The patient may become a burden to his family, a burden to society, and a heretic in the eyes of others. No one has the power to decide the patient's future life, except the patient himself. Mao Ba now takes
Big hats are used to suppress people one by one.
But now penicillin has not reached the stage of clinical application. If something goes wrong, who will be responsible for the patient's life? Although Sandy also wants to speed up and develop penicillin as soon as possible, Sandy hopes that this accelerated process can be controlled.
The patient himself will be responsible. Why don't we ask the patient himself and see what his decision is. After all, the patient is awake now. Mao Shiba made a suggestion that Sandy couldn't refuse.
Okay Sandy nodded in agreement.
At this point, there was really no need to push the patient further, so Sandy and Mao Shiba came to the hospital together to let the patient decide his own fate.
Thunder City has built a 300-bed hospital to provide medical services to patients in Thunder City and Trident City. Compared with the huge population base and the ongoing war, just one hospital is definitely not enough, so
The expansion never stops.
It is expected that when fully completed, the hospital, as well as supporting sanatoriums and rehabilitation centers, will cover a total area of more than 1.5 square kilometers and have 3,000 beds.
Most of the doctors in the hospital are Chinese, and there are also medical school professors hired with high salaries from France. This hospital is also the internship center of the medical school. Medical students usually stay in the hospital most of the time and receive medical advice at any time.
As the teacher knows, of course I will also do some simple work at the same time.
There are now more than 200 seriously injured people in this hospital who were specially sent from field hospitals. Most of them have physical disabilities and will receive long-term treatment here.
The German prisoner of war who was smashed was also here.
After hearing Mao Shiba's explanation, the choice of the German prisoner of war was not surprising. He requested to receive penicillin treatment. Regardless of whether it was effective or not, and whether he himself would suffer secondary injuries, he would have no regrets.
So Sandy personally performed a skin test on the patient and then injected penicillin.
The effect was very obvious. Starting from that night, the redness and swelling of the wound were significantly reduced, and the patient's high fever symptoms also began to subside.
On the third day, Mao Shiba took matters into his own hands, cleaning up the rotten tissue that had become infected and re-suturing the wound again.
That is to say, starting from August, penicillin entered the clinical stage.
