Chapter 63: The Hospital
While the Japanese army was actively increasing its troops and sweeping around to accumulate supplies, the Chinese army was not idle.
The most important thing the Chinese military does is training.
Since the defense line of Lingbang was stabilized, the logistics unit organized by the US military marched into Lingbang and turned Lingbang into a base in the shortest possible time.
With the help of American cranes, Chinese sappers and Burmese laborers built training centers, gas stations, auto repair shops, hospitals, airports, and even clubs in Ling Bang with their hands.
As a result, the inaccessible Lingbang became a bustling traffic, and the wounded from all directions had to be sent here for treatment, tanks and cars had to be sent here for repairs if they broke down, and small planes also took off from here, either flying to the front line to reconnoiter or sending the seriously wounded directly to India for treatment and recuperation...... This is also one of the reasons why the Chinese Expeditionary Force has been able to maintain its morale, if it fights as usual, if it is wounded on the battlefield, it basically depends on self-rescue, even if it is carried to the rear, it is only a simple care, and the wounded often change from minor injuries to serious injuries and then from serious injuries to incurable because of lack of medical treatment.
In this case, the hearts of the soldiers were weak before they went to the battlefield...... If you kill the enemy with one shot, you can suffer less, and if you are injured, such as a broken leg and a broken hand, you will have to suffer a lot to be free!
As a result, this will inevitably have a great impact on the morale of the troops, and even on the battlefield, they will be afraid of being injured.
However, the complete and rapid hospital system established by the Yankees in the rear relieved the soldiers' worries: once they were injured, they would be sent by armored vehicles to the field hospital in Ling State for initial treatment, minor injuries could be solved in Ling Bang, and serious injuries would be sent by plane to Sunbrabang or India for surgery.
Therefore, the soldiers often smiled and said goodbye to the wounded: "You can go by plane!" Don't worry, the Yankees will fix you! ”
Yankee's medical skills are indeed good, and Zhang Chi himself has been there once...... In fact, it was just a small piece of flesh on his left shoulder that was cut off by shrapnel, and if it was handled according to the Chinese soldiers, it would be enough to bandage it, but Pete insisted on letting Zhang Chi go to the hospital.
"Zhang ......" Pete said, "don't think it's a minor injury, you must know that this is a jungle." Deadly germs and nasty leeches everywhere, I listened to you on the battlefield, but now you have to listen to me, I don't want to lose you as a partner! ”
Pete said the same, Zhang Chi is a modern person, of course he knows that there will be more trouble after the wound is infected, especially the leeches, they may smell the smell of blood released from the wound, and they always surround Zhang Chi in patches, no matter how careful Zhang Chi is, they will still let the leeches bite everywhere.
So there was no way. Zhang Chi didn't want to be sucked dry by leeches in his dream as soon as he fell asleep one night...... This is not an exaggeration, this is a real thing that happened in the jungle, the reason is that the leech thing will release a toxin similar to an anesthetic when it stings people to suck blood, so they don't know that they are being sucked blood, sometimes the soldiers wake up, they find that the soldiers around them are pale and can't wake up, poke their noses and find that they are out of breath, and then take a look at their clothes...... The whole body is covered with leeches, densely packed like a layer of fishing nets. Even when I think about it now, I feel a tingling in my scalp.
Thinking of this, Zhang Chi did not object anymore, he took the note handed by Pete and followed the car that evacuated the wounded to Lingbang.
The only thing that made Zhang Chi feel a little uncomfortable during this process was the strip in his hand...... Stilwell stipulated that Chinese soldiers who were sent to field hospitals for treatment must have the approval of a US military instructor.
This also seems to be excusable. Because Stilwell is a China expert, he knows that the Chinese military will have many phenomena such as self-injury and self-harm when fighting, or Stilwell intends to use this to aggravate the status and image of American instructors in the minds of Chinese soldiers.
But whatever Stilwell's purpose was, Zhang Chi felt that this regulation was really ******. What if an American instructor died in battle? Does that mean that the wounded will not be evacuated or treated?!
Not to mention, this kind of situation really happened from time to time, such as the American instructor being injured or leaving for a meeting or something. The wounded at the front did not dare to leave their positions without permission because they could not get the approval, so there were some unnecessary attritions and accidents.
In fact, Stilwell's worries were completely unwarranted.
The reason is that the soldiers of the expeditionary force are different from those units in China, and the vast majority of the soldiers of the expeditionary force voluntarily join the army and still have a heart to go back to their hometown...... The Chinese have an idiom called returning to the heart like an arrow, and this sentence is the most appropriate to describe the soldiers of the expeditionary force.
Therefore, there is basically no phenomenon of self-injury and self-harm, and the soldiers usually stay in the hospital until they can move and can't wait to be discharged, and if American doctors do not allow discharge, they will secretly jump out of the window and run over the wall.
This is the complete opposite of the American wounded, so the American doctors and nurses are very surprised by the Chinese soldiers' actions, and they cannot understand why the Chinese soldiers are more afraid of injections and medicines than afraid of going to war.
And if Stilwell wanted to use this to increase the status of American instructors...... Then he was obviously thinking wrong.
Because on the battlefield, soldiers always respect the officers who can lead them to victory, even if they pay the casualties for that victory.
When the car arrived in Lingbang, Zhang Chi found that Lingbang had completely changed, with houses rising from the ground, warehouses built sturdy and secret, and cars constantly transporting ammunition and supplies into the warehouse. Surrounded by busy people...... The Chinese soldiers who needed to repair the cars and tanks were trying to let the American engineers know what was wrong, and the wounded who could not find the hospital were anxiously asking their comrades passing by, and the excavators and bulldozers not far away were still "rumbling", and they needed to open up this ridge state bigger and wider to meet the needs of the large-scale counteroffensive of the expeditionary force in the future.
These should be the credit of Brigadier General Peake, the American Corps of Engineers, Zhang Chi has heard of him from the mouth of the Burmese in modern times, General Peake is the hero of the construction of the Stilwell Highway, he is skilled and good at management, especially valuable is that as a general, he has always had no shelf, and usually mingles with ordinary Chinese and American soldiers.
It was this Pique who said to the soldiers on the front line: "We will never build more than a day away from you!" ”
The fact is that he did it, and this is one of the reasons why the Chinese army in history was able to be able to overcome such a formidable Japanese army.
(To be continued.) )