Qin Dan looked at the valley littered with corpses and ordered: "Let the soldiers clean up the corpses of the soldiers of both armies in the valley, find a place to bury them beside the first mountain, and collect the living horses.
As for the dead horses, we can’t let them go to waste. Find some people to skin them and clean them, and cook some broth at night so that the soldiers can quench their thirst and drive away the cold air in Liaodong.”
Although it was completely dark, the Wu troops in the valley all held up torches and gathered the corpses together in the valley and piled them up so that they could be transported away and buried somewhere later.
The crows continued to circle in the trees around the valley, calling "ya-ya-ya". Even if the entire valley was illuminated by fire, it could not drive these crows too far.
There are also some soldiers who are helping the wounded one by one to sit down next to the fires lit on the hillside and bandage them, treating the wounds left by knives, guns, and arrows.
Qin Dan and Du De, the surrendered generals of the Wei army, were not left behind. They cleared a clean area in the valley and found a few doctors who could treat battlefield wounds to help them.
From time to time, wounded soldiers screamed in pain or even fainted.
Two hundred soldiers went to fetch water from the stream in the first mountain not far away, put three or four pieces of wood on the fire, burned the water with copper cauldrons, pottery basins and other cooking utensils of varying quality, and cooked the large pieces of water.
Put the horse meat in it and cook it,
There were soldiers at the back who were responsible for putting up the tents that had been dismantled at dawn in the morning. After all, it was impossible to sleep directly on the field at night in such cold weather in Liaodong. Even if the tent was small and shabby, it could still provide shelter from the wind.
A place to take shelter from the rain.
The Chinese character for "disease" contains the word "arrow", which means arrowhead. It can be seen that the origin of ancient medicine is closely related to war. The ancient army mainly fought hand-to-hand combat. After each battle, in addition to the dead soldiers, there would be
A large number of soldiers were injured,
As the scale of war expands, the types of weapons increase and their lethality increases, sick and wounded soldiers emerge in large numbers in the war, and there will be tens of thousands of wounded soldiers in a battle.
Even in modern times, it is difficult to treat wounded soldiers. What's more, in ancient times, when the medical level was low, it was difficult to treat diseases, let alone treat wounded soldiers.
The ancient Roman army could only scrub wounds with wine. The only way to treat wounds in the West during the Middle Ages was to cauterize the wounds directly with a red-hot iron or hot boiling oil.
In "Mozi Ying En Tong", there is a sentence that "gives wizards, divination, special skills, and medicines, officials support them." This means that wizards often prepare medicines to fight the enemy.
Trauma treatment often uses relatively simple and painful methods such as scraping, sawing, chiseling, and pulling out.
In the Warring States Period's Military Book "Six Taoists, Hu Tao, and Wang Yi", there is also a record of "three alchemists, who are responsible for hundreds of medicines to treat golden sores and cure all kinds of diseases." It was only after the Qin and Han Dynasties that witch doctors were separated.
During the Jian'an period, Hua Tuo was the first person in the world to use anesthesia for major surgical operations. Military doctors at that time were temporary guest doctors. When there was a war, they were military doctors, and when there was no war, they were civilian doctors.
Arrow injuries were the most common among military casualties. If the arrowhead is broken in the bone, oral medicine plus external application is often used. It is said that the arrowhead can separate from the bone on its own.
The key points and methods of medical treatment in the ancient army: "The most common disease in the army is golden sores, so it is the first. The second is poison, and the third is falling from the horse, and the horse bites. These four are not injured except by the army.
So come first.
Ancient military treatment focused on stopping bleeding, removing blood stasis, resetting, etc.
In the treatment of fractures, bamboo splints have been used to fix broken bones.
For example, "Shen Ji Di Tai Bai Yin Jing" records a method of "wiping the blood inside the abdomen" to treat fractures.
"Behind the Elbow" records that the suspected fractured area should be clamped with bamboo pieces and wrapped in soft old cloth, not too loose or too tight.
This will not hinder the circulation of blood. Military doctors have been able to use ropes to stop bleeding from battle wounds, cut open muscles and remove arrowheads, and can immediately revive people who have fainted from stab wounds or arrow wounds.
In short, the medical treatment is to take hemostatic drugs, wash the wound, suture if necessary, apply ointment, set fractures and bones, return intestinal prolapse to the abdomen, etc. Now there are many doctors on the hillsides in the valley using this method.
Treat the casualty's wounds.
In view of the fact that medicines are not easy to find or cannot be afforded during the period when soldiers are fighting and the people are in chaos, military doctors also create acupuncture to save medicines. In addition to wounds such as knives, guns, and arrows, there are also traumas such as frostbite, burns, and other injuries.
There are many treatments for internal diseases in the military.
When the army goes on an expedition, military doctors will also go with the team. If any soldiers are injured or sick, they will be treated through the military medical patrol camp. If there are a large number of wounded, tens of thousands or tens of thousands, a wounded reception camp will be set up in the rear.
Migrant workers were recruited to transport the wounded to the rear. If the wounded could not walk, they would be given one animal. If they were seriously injured, they would be given two animals, which would be tied together to carry the wounded.
Donkeys are usually provided, and relays and tea stations are set up along the evacuation route for the wounded. The wounded are transported as they arrive, and dressings are changed at regular intervals. The food, accommodation and cooking staff are responsible for providing food and accommodation for the wounded.
When the water in the cauldron is boiling, the soldiers on the side will carefully pour out a pinch of salt from the small cloth bag they carry with them and sprinkle it evenly into the cauldron with their unclean and rough hands.
In the eyes of Wu Jun's officers and men, although this salt is not as white as the snow in Liaodong and even has some bitter taste, it is a very precious and rare thing.
Qin Dan smelled the increasingly strong aroma of meat in the air and said, "This horse meat must taste good, although it doesn't have as many condiments as Jianye's horse meat."
Du De stroked his beard and said: "It's a pity that there are few horses in Jianye City, so there is even less food for people. However, I have eaten it a few times at banquets in the palace, but the most delicious horse meat is still when you and I were there."
I ate it when Liaodong was hiding in Tibet. The taste is really nostalgic!"
Horse meat is not only eaten by the common people, but also appears on the tables of high-ranking officials and wealthy families.
It seems unbelievable to use horse meat as a dish today, but in the Qin and Han Dynasties, horse meat was not uncommon on the tables of the upper class.
The secret "Shi Ming·Shi Diet" written by Liu Xi during the Jian'an period explained "荍": "Finely cut pig, sheep, and horse meat to make it look like delicious food."
It can be seen that people in the Han Dynasty had the custom of eating raw horse slices; there was "horse sauce", which is a sauce made from minced horse meat;
There are also people who use horse meat to make soup, and there are even records of eating horse meat in some bamboo slips and silk medical books.
The Book of Pregnancy and Pregnancy in the Han Dynasty says: "If you want to make your child strong, you should eat the meat of a mare."
This means that when a woman is pregnant, she can eat mare meat to make the fetus strong.
Another example is the record in "Fifty-Two Prescriptions for Diseases" that "when treating diseases, do not eat fish, pig meat, or horse meat." It can be seen that eating horse meat was a common thing at that time.
Although these two records are about dietary nourishment and taboos, medicine and food have the same origin since ancient times, and they can also be regarded as a portrayal of real dietary life.
In addition, nobles in the Han Dynasty also drank horse milk and used horse milk as wine.
There was a "Family Stable" in the royal stables of the Western Han Dynasty, which was renamed "Tong Stable" by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. It was a place where mares were raised and was responsible for supplying horse dairy products to the palace.