Ma Rong left more than 3,000 corpses in Yuanling City and evacuated hastily. However, in this tough battle, the Wuling Army also suffered heavy casualties. Including the soldiers and engineers of the Fan Camp and the Troop Camp, there were more than 2,000 casualties.
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As the prefectural government of Chenzhou, Yuanling is the political, cultural and economic center of Chenzhou. In the early days, there were thousands of households in the city. When various surname forces united to resist the Han family and his son, there were some big surnames who subordinated their relatives and dependents.
Luxi, Lingling and other counties moved into Yuanling to avoid the war.
In their opinion, no matter how strong the Han family and his son were, they would never be able to capture Yuanling City easily.
When Ma Rong led the Tanzhou soldiers and horses to settle in Yuanling, there were almost more than 20,000 people gathered in the city.
No one thought that the main force of the Fan soldiers they had assembled on the southern front would be wiped out so easily. However, Xiying ignored the revenge of killing her son and turned around to accept the imperial court's appeasement.
After that, the forces of various surnames who stayed in Yuanling City would naturally no longer be trusted by Ma Rong. After the armor of hundreds of soldiers was lifted, the relatives and dependents of various surnames were not only not allowed to leave the city, but were either imprisoned.
Or they were driven to the top of the city to help defend the city.
In the final stage of the siege, Tanzhou soldiers and horses resisted tenaciously and had no intention of giving up Yuanling City easily. They used the intricate buildings and street battles in the city to kill the Wuling army.
In order to reduce their own casualties, the Wuling Army naturally used cyclone artillery to bombard every stronghold occupied by the enemy after occupying the city wall, causing many accidental injuries in the process.
Although the specific figures have not yet been calculated, it is estimated that the death toll of civilians in the city and relatives of the Chenzhou tribes will not be less than 2,000 due to these two main reasons.
For Yuanling City, which was only two miles square and had more than 10,000 people, this battle could be said to have been a river of blood. It could be said that every household was wearing sackcloth and wearing filial piety.
Even so, being able to capture Yuanling City in such a short period of time made Xiying feel uncontrollably shocked deep in his heart. He could not imagine that the Wuling Army would have launched such a strong offensive if they had not chosen to compromise in Datanzhai.
How much can they support on their heads?
Three days?
Five days?
Half a month?
No, Xiying can definitely believe that they cannot last for half a month.
Datan Village is far less deep than Yuanling City. The various surnames can only gather at most two thousand soldiers in Datan Village. However, Ma Rong defended Yuanling and used some unimaginable means of defending the city without revealing anything he saw.
Based on the flaw that Tanzhou had found, less than two thousand remaining soldiers were withdrawn in the end, and they were not completely collapsed. How confident could he be that he could defend Datan Village longer than Ma Rong defended Yuanling?
Xiying is small in stature, with a dark and thin face. If he hadn't been wearing the sixth-grade dark green official robe of Zhou Sima, he would have looked like an ordinary old man from Shanyue in the crowd. No one would have compared him to Chen.
In the past ten years, Fanzhai has become the fastest growing and most famous powerhouse in the state.
Yes, in just a few years, the Chenzhou Xi family has expanded from a medium-sized village with less than a thousand people to the largest surname in Chenzhou with a population of 20,000. All the sons in front of it are good at fighting, and Xiying's heart is also
Extremely proud.
But at this time, after winning the battle, he looked old and desolate. Standing on the ruins of the city, he looked at the Gengshi River flowing into the Yuan River. His mood was complicated, and the stagnation in his heart was difficult to eliminate. In the end, he let out a sigh.
"The Fanying camp contributed a lot in this battle. Master Zheng also said that the Fanying camp would first recruit soldiers from Lingling, Luling and other places to supplement the fighting strength. I thought Master Xi had already gone to Lingling in person to select Jianyong, but I didn't expect to see it.
Mr. Xi is lamenting the spring and autumn here! But what worries can Han Qian solve for Mr. Xi?"
Xiying turned around and saw Han Qian, who was wearing a scribe's robe walking from the city entrance road and talking to him with a smile on his face. Behind him was Mrs. Xi who had abandoned Feng Changyu for Han Qian. She was following Han Qian like a shadow.
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Han Qian had a kind smile on his face, as gentle as the spring breeze, but Xiying felt as if she had been bitten by a poisonous snake. She felt a little frightened in her heart. At this moment, she didn't have the courage to look directly into the eyes of this extremely young person in front of her.
Are you really old?
Outsiders generally thought that the rise of the Han family in Xuzhou was due to the work of his father, Han Daoxun. However, Xi Xunqiao went to Datan Village to persuade him not to act rashly, but he told him clearly that if he did not want Xi's clan to be exterminated, it would be better to offend Han Qian.
Real stupidity.
Even though his three sons could be said to have died due to Han Qiansheng's plan to attack the east and west, Xiying did not pay much attention to Xi Xunqiao's warning in Datanzhai. However, in the attack on Yuanling, he paid no attention to Xi Xunqiao's warning.
Only then did I truly understand some of what Xi Xunqiao said, and my reflection on the past became more in-depth.
Yes, if he hadn't been self-righteous and determined that the Han family and his son would never hand over the three thousand elite soldiers they managed to manage with great difficulty to Zheng Hui, he would not have fallen in with Han Qian's plan of seducing the east and attacking the west and running to Datan Village by himself.
Sitting in command, the more strategic Jiming Village was handed over to Shehu for defense.
Based on this alone, Xiying found that she was far behind the young man in front of her.
What's more, the new trebuchet cyclone cannon was first built when Han Qian was helping the third prince defend Xichuan City, and it had never appeared on the battlefield before.
"The soldiers suffered heavy casualties in this battle. Xiying stood on the city wall and saw corpses floating across the river, and she felt sad." Xiying was stunned for a while, then remembered that she had not responded to Han Qian's question, so she found an excuse.
past.
After a few nonsense words with Han Qian, Xiying excused herself and walked off the city wall.
"This battle obviously caused rivers of blood to flow from Tanzhou's soldiers and horses. Why is Xiying a little timid and afraid of you? Is it possible that he doesn't even dare to blame you for the death of his three sons?"
Xi Rong looked at Xiying's slightly desolate back as she walked down the road to the city and said with emotion, "It seems that Emperor Tianyou wants to support the restoration of the power of native surnames in Chenzhou, lest your Han family and his son stretch their hands too far.
It’s probably going to fail!”
"You said before that Emperor Tianyou was recruiting Fanying and could not control the development of the situation here. Is this what you were referring to?" Xi Rong asked.
Han Qian shrugged and did not ask Xi Rong's question. Instead, he took her to inspect the craftsman camp.
The medical camp was still located in a mountain col to the west of Tieyanpo and was not moved into the city.
Since there were so many injured generals in this battle, the scale of the medical camp seemed huge at this time, with nearly two hundred tents distributed in an orderly manner in the mountain col.
At this time, injured civilians in the city were gradually brought in for treatment.
Because the Fan camp bears a huge siege task, the number of injured Fan soldiers currently being treated in the camp even exceeds half.
These injured soldiers were mainly from Chenzhou, that is to say, most of them had brothers or clansmen who were wiped out by the Wuling Army in the ambush at Laoyao. But when they saw Han Qian walking into the camp, even though he was indifferent, there was something hidden in his eyes.
A hint of gratitude.
Most of these soldiers are veterans, and they know very well what kind of treatment ordinary soldiers would receive after being injured in the past.
There are extremely sophisticated gold wound medicines in the world that can inhibit wound infection and also have good hemostatic effects. However, the drugs used in these gold wound medicines are very rare and are rarely produced. They can only be supplied to middle- and high-level military attachés.
When ordinary soldiers are injured, at most they can only use plant ash to stop the bleeding, or even use mud to paste the wound. Whether the wound can heal and become scarred is really left to fate, and most injured soldiers cannot escape the loss of blood. The abscesses may burst and cause death.
In cold weapon warfare, especially for the winning side, the proportion of generals who actually died directly on the battlefield was not particularly high. More people died of excessive blood loss and wound infection.
In traditional military medical camps, it is very common for wounds of injured soldiers to become infected and suppurative. Even if they are cleaned up, the camp is still in a mess, which in turn seriously affects the mood of the wounded soldiers.
The usual wounded camp usually only has one medical officer with a dozen doctors or apprentices, which cannot take care of hundreds or even thousands of wounded soldiers.
In order to avoid affecting other generals, the wounded camp will be isolated from the main camp, which further strengthens the low morale of the wounded soldiers who are abandoned.
However, these phenomena did not exist in the medical camp under Han Qian's management.
Han Qian had earlier promoted the use of alcohol and saline for debridement within Zuosi, and also tried suturing wounds to stop bleeding. However, during the Jingxiang War, he was still groping for many things and was restricted by many conditions. At that time, Longque The treatment of wounded soldiers has not yet been highlighted.
The preparation of truly high-purity alcohol had to wait until Han Qian arrived at Yandangji Village to thoroughly study it. In addition, the sea salt available during the Jingzhou War had a lot of impurities, and the disinfection and debridement methods previously implemented were not very good. To inhibit wound infection.
Of course, it just didn't reach the level Han Qian expected.
At that time, there was also osteosynthesis to treat bone injuries. Gypsum was even used by doctors as a medicine to clear away heat, remove fire and stop bleeding. However, no one had yet realized the true role of gypsum in bone setting. However, these things were waiting for the Jingxiang War. Afterwards, Han Qian had time to think about it.
Debridement with alcohol and salt water after repeated evaporation and removal of impurities, suturing the wound to stop bleeding, and using clean gauze and plaster for bone setting. Han Qian has only recently formed a complete set of battlefield treatment methods.
Although the world has no specific concept of microorganisms, parasites, bacteria, viruses, etc., Han Qianyan used the concept of "water poison plague" and used the mysterious impression of poison in people's minds for thousands of years to combine microorganisms, parasites, bacteria, Concepts such as viruses were infused into "Gu Poison" to provide theoretical support for debridement and other methods. They were taught to the Du brothers and sisters and encouraged to explore the internal structure of the human body in order to continue to improve trauma treatment.
Han Qian handed over the command to Zheng Hui, who concentrated on the logistics and supplies, and immediately established a special craftsman protection camp.
In addition to the apprentices like Du Qiniang, Du Jiuniang, Du Junming and the dozens of doctors affiliated to Xuzhou Medical Center, Han Qian summoned them together with more than a hundred hard-working and thoughtful healthy women. Only when new trauma treatment methods are incorporated into medical camps will they have a mature foundation for large-scale promotion.
Zhao Ting'er specifically asked Han Qian to be sent to the medical camp to keep an eye on him.
Yao Xishui and Chun Shisanniang also took the initiative to come to the medical camp to help. They had other thoughts, but Han Qian did not turn them away.
Although many things in the fledgling medical camp are still being explored, it has also played a great role in previous battlefield treatment.
In the battle of Laoyao, the Wuling Army suffered more than a thousand casualties. However, in addition to more than 300 generals who were killed in the battle, and more than 100 who were maimed, nearly 600 generals eventually returned to the camp.
In the battle against Yuanling, the casualties exceeded 2,000, and less than 500 people died on the battlefield. Many more people were carried off the battlefield with injuries of varying severity, temporarily losing their combat effectiveness.
If we follow the traditional methods of treating ordinary soldiers, it would be incredible if two to three hundred of these wounded soldiers could eventually be able to thrive again relying on their own immunity. However, based on the initial treatment situation, Han Qian expected that at least a thousand of them could be completely treated.
cure.
In addition, in the Wuling Army, even if the generals were infected with the miasma plague that was so disastrous on the battlefields of Hunan and Guizhou, they could be treated effectively in time.
Most of the wounded soldiers received effective and adequate treatment. The conditions in the medical camp were much improved compared to traditional wounded camps. The mood and morale of the wounded soldiers were also very stable.
Whether the wounds have improved or whether the treatment is effective, the wounded soldiers themselves feel it most deeply and intuitively.
Han Qian went to the medical camp frequently. In addition to some methods, he also needed to further collect on-site data for further consideration. On the other hand, there was such a good opportunity to increase reputation among the soldiers and other generals, how could he miss it?
