"The reinforcements of two thousand people, if you include those transport ships and the small fleet of sailors, the reinforcements should be about 3,300 people." Lawrence squinted his eyes and thought for a moment before saying. "In this case, we should prepare food for 3,500 people for a week.
Supplies and some medicines.”
"Well, this amount is indeed reasonable." After Lawrence decided on the supplies to be sent out, Sephiel, who was sitting next to him, nodded and said. "After all, it has been less than a year since the New Saul Island was developed.
So it is enough to be able to produce this number of supplies.”
"In addition to these supplies, I think our territory should also send some forces to join this war."
After discussing the details about providing supplies, Lawrence suddenly threw a proposal to everyone. This suddenly surprised everyone present.
"Your Excellency, I can understand your enthusiasm for righteous behavior." After a few seconds of silence, the top person in charge of the Passion Church on the island, an old priest with a long white beard, stood up to dissuade us, "But we
The work on the island has just begun, and the goblins may counterattack at any time. Under such circumstances, it is really not suitable for us to transfer the main force."
"Yes, yes." The priestess of the Church of Fortune also said at this time, "Facing the evil and barbaric forces entrenched around us, each of us must indeed contribute our part.
But this kind of participation is also based on our ability. For example, there is really no need for an island like ours to send its own army."
"Uh - actually I don't plan to mobilize the main army on the island." Upon hearing the words of these two priests, Lawrence immediately understood that those present might have misunderstood what he wanted to express just now, so he hurriedly
Explained, "What I mean is, we can send out a small force of non-combatants."
"After all, I also know that although the army on the island has been replenished, the army has not stopped fighting since we arrived on the island. Although we have won great victories in these battles with absolutely superior strength and suffered a lot of losses on our side.
It’s small, but this kind of continuous fighting still makes everyone feel extremely tired.”
Since gaining new power, Lawrence has been able to roughly sense the emotions of the people around him. Recently, when Lawrence went to inspect the military camp, he could clearly feel that his troops, especially the army, were very, very tired and needed to
Take a good rest for some time.
Unlike those big countries, New Sol Island is small in size and has a small population, so the regular army is less than two thousand.
In this case, once something happens, the entire army will be dispatched. Sometimes it is even necessary to mobilize a part of the militia to make up for the shortage of manpower. Therefore, it is simply impossible to take turns dispatching like those big countries.
Because of this, Lawrence will naturally not mobilize this group of tired troops again to engage in a cruel and relatively long war like the Civilization Expedition.
But on the other hand, under such circumstances, he did not have the only option of sending out the only group of regular troops he had.
"If we don't send the army, what should we do?" Mr. Lambert also expressed his opinion at this time. "Although it is a good idea to send some residents to serve as migrant workers, we are already short of manpower in the morning.
It is really impossible to spare the population to do such work.”
Unlike several other priests, Mr. Lambert is Lawrence's father in any case, and is also a true descendant of the August family. Therefore, in addition to taking into account this major event that concerns the entire human race, he will also consider both sides.
When there is no principled conflict, issues related to island development will be considered.
"Of course I don't plan to send out workers. After all, our island itself lacks enough manpower. Even if we reluctantly send out workers, we will only be able to remove two to three hundred people. The number of people of this scale on a battlefield of this level is really too small.
, at most it can only play a very weak role.”
"So I'm thinking that in this case we should give full play to our island's expertise." Lawrence said, looking at the priest of the Passion Church. "And our island's biggest expertise now is in medicine.
So I thought we could send a medical team to the front lines."
"This is indeed a good idea." The priest of the Passion Church immediately understood Lawrence's idea, "Especially since the best medical skills on our island are disinfection and surgery, which should be regarded as the most suitable for battlefield rescue.
That kind of medical skills, and this is indeed much more meaningful than sending 1,000 soldiers or the same number of migrant workers."
Now that the decision has been made, the next step is to arrange the details. Saphiel took some officials and began to prepare supplies for the reinforcements of the Elysion Empire, while Lawrence went to hospitals, armies and various locations to mobilize
Volunteers, ready to organize a medical team.
Perhaps it is because the great concept of civilized expedition has been deeply implanted in the hearts of every civilized race, so when everyone heard that it was necessary to recruit a medical team for the civilized expedition, they all enthusiastically signed up.
This also made Lawrence's process of recruiting volunteers smooth, and even required selection methods to control the number of volunteers.
"Professor Hans, it would be better for you to stay here. After all, you are now 65 years old and are really not suitable to participate in such an expedition." In the research room of the hospital, Lawrence persuaded the hospital director who took the initiative to ask for help.
"Especially the frontline conditions are so bad that it's really easy for people to get sick."
"Mr. August, I am not as weak as you said." Professor Hans said a little angry. "As for the situation on the battlefield, I know more than you do. After all, what happened more than ten years ago and 30 years ago
I have participated in two civilization expeditions, so I think I should be more adaptable than you in this aspect."
Professor Hans was the professor who taught Lawrence pathology when he was a student at White Eagle Federation. He retired the year Lawrence graduated.
Later, when Lawrence became the earl, he happened to think of this professor who had a good impression on him, so he spent a lot of effort to invite him to run the island's hospital together with the people from the Passion Church.
However, Lawrence never thought that this usually very elegant professor would be so excited when faced with a civilization expedition, and even insisted on clamoring to join this medical team and go to the front line of the civilization expedition.
To be honest, Lawrence does admire Professor Hans's courage and determination. But the problem is that in this era when ordinary people can live beyond 60 years old, it is rare, Lawrence really does not dare to take this old gentleman to a dangerous battlefield.
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Especially at the beginning, because various affairs on the island were very busy, the development of hospitals and medicine on the island was not satisfactory. Later, after Professor Hans came to the island, under his specific responsibility,
Only then did the pharmaceutical industry as a whole get on the right track.
Not to mention that as a professor who has stayed at Far Harbor Comprehensive University all his life, Professor Hans naturally has very good connections. At least 1/5 of the medical researchers on New Saul Island are now
Recruited by him. That's why Lawrence was unwilling to take the risk and let this key figure return to the battlefield.
So Lawrence spent several hours that day persuading this old gentleman. In the end, he finally concluded that the production of various drugs and medical supplies in this war was as important as the doctors who were on the front line to treat the injured.
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And if Professor Hans could not supervise the production of those products here, he might not be able to provide enough medicine and consumables. On the pretext that he persuaded the old gentleman to voluntarily stay on the island throughout the war.