Chapter 101: Return to the camp and resettlement
After leaving Li Mu's camp, Gao Yuan and Li Yinghong returned to their camp, because now the two are husband and wife, so they can live together in a big tent, the first half of which is for official business, and the second half is for two people to live.
As soon as the two returned, Gao Yuan immediately summoned Shen Shen and asked him about the placement of the soldiers.
Gao Yuan retreated to Quyang with Li Mu to settle down, and several of the disciples he accepted in Handan, such as Zhong Sun Qi, Wu Zhanpeng and others, as well as Shen Shen, also came to Quyang with Gao Yuan. This time, everyone also went out with the plateau and came to Jingcheng.
Zhongsun Qi, Wu Zhanpeng and others followed Gao Yuan to Jingcheng together, and there was no accident when they arrived, because they were originally warriors, and they were also thrown under the Gaoyuan Gate in order to join the army, but Gao Yuan did not expect that this time Shen Shen was also very resolute in requesting that he go on the expedition with him, and said that he hoped to go to the military camp to have a long experience.
However, the scholars of this era are not like the powerless scholars of the later Song and Ming dynasties, because at this time, the countries were constantly fighting, so the martial arts prevailed, and everyone more or less had some martial arts and swordsmanship, one is to strengthen the body, and the other is to have the power of self-protection in the war, and even the Confucian disciples have to learn the six Confucian arts, including driving and archery. Moreover, the boundary between civil and military officials is not clear, most of the officials are capable of civil and military affairs, such as Shang Ying, who reformed and changed the law in the Qin State, and Zhang Yi, who is famous for his tongue and argument, have led the army to fight and establish battle medals. Therefore, it is not surprising that Shen Shen asked to go with the army. Seeing that he insisted like this, Gao Yuan did not refuse, let him follow him to the Jingcheng camp, and handed over the internal affairs of his military camp to Shen Shen to deal with.
Now the plateau has led a battalion of its own, with nearly 10,000 soldiers under his command, and seven or eight thousand war horses, even if some of them are still left in the Panwu camp as a reserve, but in the Jingcheng camp, there are also six or seven thousand soldiers, more than 5,000 war horses, and there are a lot of various affairs every day, and Shen Shen's work is also very conscientious, and he also handles all the things in the military camp in an orderly manner, without any chaos. Therefore, after handing over these things to Shen Shen, Gao Yuan also saved a lot of effort.
After seeing Shen Shen, Gao Yuan asked, "Have all the soldiers been settled?" â
Shen Shen said: "Lord Huiyu, they have all been settled, this time a total of one hundred and forty-four soldiers were killed, and two hundred and thirteen people were wounded, and now the bodies of the dead soldiers have been collected, and they will be cremated and buried tomorrow, and the wounded soldiers are also placed in the wounded camp for treatment, and two hundred and seventy-five war horses have been lost." Six hundred and seventy-two weapons of all kinds were dismantled. â
Gao Yuan nodded, he was also very satisfied with Shen Shen's work, thought for a while, and said, "Let's go, let's go to the wounded barracks to have a look." â
Shen Shen was stunned, but still nodded, and followed Gao Yuan to the wounded barracks.
In fact, in this era, as long as it is a famous general, they all attach great importance to the comfort and care of the soldiers, because no matter how clever the tactical strategy, the soldiers need to complete, if the soldiers are not brave to fight, then the ability of the main general is useless, Wu Qi in his military book has a special book [Lishi] a volume, requiring the main general to be able to love the soldiers as a child, can share weal and woe with the soldiers, and do not forget to care for the families of the soldiers, only in this way can we achieve the goal of "issuing orders and people are happy to hear, rejuvenating the division and people are happy to fight, and people are happy to die when they are handed over". And in this regard, Wu Qi is also physically lĂŹ line, every time there is a war, he eats and sleeps with the soldiers, and even sucks pus for the soldiers, so every time the battle, the soldiers trained by Wu Qi are extremely brave, and they fight to kill the enemy to repay the main general. And Gao Yuan's desire to visit the wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks is also in line with the behavior of famous generals.
Because the medical level of this era is very backward, the general army does not pay much attention to the medical treatment of soldiers, the mortality rate and disability rate of wounded soldiers are quite high, and the cure rate is generally not more than 50 percent, and sometimes only 2 or 3 percent. Even if he was a famous general like Wu Qi, he only bandaged the wounds of the soldiers, strictly speaking, the symbolic significance was greater than the practical significance, but it did not improve the medical conditions of the army.
In fact, the vast majority of the wounded soldiers were not seriously injured, but because of untimely treatment or improper foot bandaging, the wound became infected, which was originally a minor injury, but it developed out of control. Therefore, the vast majority of generals believe that instead of focusing most of their energy on treating the wounded, it is better to recruit and train more new soldiers to fill the gap in the wounded soldiers. There were many times when the army simply threw away the wounded. The result is a vicious circle.
However, Gao Yuan attaches great importance to the treatment of wounded soldiers, because wounded soldiers, even soldiers who have been wounded at the beginning of the battlefield, but their combat experience is far above that of new soldiers, so the treatment of one wounded soldier is worth at least two or three, and even more recruits. Like the soldiers in the plateau battalion, all of them have to go through four or five months of rigorous training, and they can't just recruit a few new recruits to replace them.
Moreover, in this era, it is a conscription system, and every time there is a war, a large amount of labor will be withdrawn, which will have a heavy impact on social production, so curing a wounded soldier can also recruit one less recruit, and can also reduce the impact on social production. In addition, the psychological impact of attaching importance to the treatment of wounded soldiers on other soldiers should not be underestimated, and with the guarantee of the medical system, soldiers will have fewer worries when fighting.
The wounded battalion in the highland battalion currently has a total of eight tents, and there are two treatment tents, one large and one small, the large treatment tent is responsible for the general wounded soldiers, and the small tent is for the treatment of the seriously wounded. But no matter how big or small the tent is, the plateau requires that the wound must be washed and dried with salt water or wine before it can be bandaged. The wound is bandaged with absolutely clean white gauze.
Moreover, before sending troops, Gao Yuan also purchased a large number of wound medicines, and requisitioned twelve langzhong, and selected thirty shrewd and capable people from his own family to learn some simple treatment and bandaging techniques, which can also come in handy.
The other six tents were used to house wounded soldiers, and four of them were fully open inside, which could accommodate 60 wounded soldiers, each with a single bed about one meter wide. In each tent, a man and three helpers were assigned to change the wounded's dressing and check their recovery. The other two tents, which were used to house the seriously wounded soldiers, were divided into thirty-six small single rooms, each with a lang zhong and five helpers.
In order to establish such a wounded soldier camp, Gao Yuan did spend a lot of effort, first of all, the cost, not to mention the cost of herbs and requisition, that is, the salt water or wine for cleaning the wounds of the wounded soldiers, which were all valuable items in this era. However, the establishment of the wounded barracks on the plateau also received the strong support of Li Mu, and all the expenses were not refused, and the plateau donated more than 3,000 eridium gold to the whole army, so no one said anything even if he spent this money.
Although such conditions are still unsatisfactory in the eyes of the plateau, they are already the best in this era. Immediately after this war, it came in handy.
Gao Yuan, Li Yinghong, and Shen Shen came to the camp for the wounded, and this time all the soldiers who returned to the camp for wounded soldiers had received better treatment, and were transferred to the tents of the wounded soldiers for placement, of which thirteen soldiers were placed in the seriously wounded camp, but so far no soldier has been injured and died, which is also an extremely rare thing in this era.
After walking around the wounded barracks, Gao Yuan also walked into every tent, comforted the wounded soldiers, and also learned about the situation of the wounded barracks, and took a look at what else needed to be improved in the wounded barracks.
The wounded soldiers are very grateful for this, many of them are veterans, have been injured several times, and have seen many comrades die because of poor medical conditions, but only this time the treatment conditions are the best, plus Shen Shen also lost no time in telling the wounded soldiers, these facilities and conditions are set up by the plateau for the wounded soldiers, for this reason did not hesitate to spend a lot of money, specially prepared salt water and wine for the soldiers to clean the wounds, but also moved many soldiers to tears, on the spot to kneel to the plateau, some swore on the spot, After the injury is healed, you must work hard to kill the enemy to repay the kindness of the plateau.
And Gao Yuan just comforted the wounded soldiers with kind words, and told the soldiers to obey Lang Zhong's arrangement now, recuperate from their injuries with peace of mind, and talk about other things after they are injured. Of course, he instructed Lang Zhong on the spot that he must take good care of these wounded, or leave one of them to treat them all, etc.
After comforting the wounded soldiers, Gao Yuan came to the tent for treatment and asked the twelve men who had been recruited to see if there were any improvements there.
In fact, in the opinion of these Lang Zhong, the conditions of the wounded barracks are good enough, and most of the soldiers are not seriously injured, and within three or four days, nearly half of the wounded soldiers can be cured and returned to the team, and the preparations for the plateau are also very sufficient, and the medicines, gauze, salt and wine prepared are also very sufficient, so there is basically nothing to improve.
Of course, it is not completely without improvement, the biggest problem of the wounded battalion now is that there is a shortage of manpower and place, at present, there are only twelve Langzhong, thirty assistants, this time there are only more than 200 wounded soldiers, they can still take care of it, but the number of people has already accounted for most of the wounded battalion, if there is a big battle with the Qin army, even if it is a battalion on the plateau, there are more than so many wounded soldiers, and the manpower and the place to place the wounded soldiers will definitely be insufficient at that time, so it should be arranged in advance.
Manpower and location are insufficient, of course the plateau knows, but the lack of place is easy to solve, you can slowly expand the scale of the wounded camp, but Langzhong is not manpowered, and the plateau has no good way for the time being, because in this era, there are not many people engaged in the profession of Langzhong, and there are many Langzhong is actually a magic stick, mainly relying on witchcraft to cure diseases, and it is only a few who really rely on medical skills to treat people, and now there are less than 30 people in Langzhong in the entire Zhao army camp, and it is difficult to have a big increase in a short period of time. Therefore, I can only make the current Lang Zhong work harder, and the other is to train more assistants.