In the west of Xuanhu City, outside the Changxiang, most of the burned Xidaying was being rebuilt. A large number of soldiers on the slope were on guard, and in the temporary tents, many wounded soldiers were groaning and wailing.

When you go to the battlefield, you will die if you are not careful. Those who are injured but survive are not all lucky, because some people are suffering, and their injuries show no signs of improvement. They are just struggling for the slim hope of survival.

There are wandering arrows everywhere on the battlefield. If you are shot accidentally, it would be fine if you die on the spot. If you are shot in the vital area but not dead, there are still some people who are injured, because the arrow is not a joke.

The chest was hurt, and the lungs were hurt. If you took a breath, you would vomit blood. If you couldn't last long, you would die. If you hurt your internal organs, you would love it, but it would hurt. If you were about to have a night, you would die after a few days.

This process is very painful for the injured person. The wound hurts, and then there is a fever, which makes him feel unconscious and tremble all over. Life is worse than death.

Even if the arrow is not shot into the vital point and the limbs are shot, if the arrow injury is not properly handled, people will die. Most of the arrowheads are rusted or stained with dirt. If you are shot into such an arrow, it is easy to trigger tetanus.

To prevent the arrow injury from worsening, you must pull the arrow as soon as possible to stop the bleeding and remove dirt from the wound. Although there are military doctors in the army, not everyone who is shot in the arrow can receive timely treatment. In the end, they either die due to excessive blood loss or tetanus attack.

Common injuries to the battlefield include swords and axes. Ordinary skin and flesh injuries are fine, but if your hands and feet are cut off, even if you do not die due to excessive blood loss, it will cause unbearable pain. If the wound is not properly treated, it will also become purulent and lead to ulceration, which makes people worse than death.

In addition to the wounds of knives and axes, there are also guns and spears. Although they do not break their hands and feet, they will not live long if they are stabbed. It is also not easy to suffer from being injured by sharp objects and being hit by blunt objects such as iron maces and hammers.

Even though he was wearing armor and a zipper on his head, he was hit by a blunt weapon, he seemed to be good, but in fact he suffered internal injuries and might feel headaches and chest tightness, and he died within a few days.

In addition, there are burns, which are also painful injuries. If a person is burned by fire and his skin is ulcerated on a large scale, it is a wound that may not be cured even if the miracle doctor Hua Tuo is alive.

Most of the skin on his body is burnt, which is no different from being peeled off. This kind of pain is uncomfortable just thinking about it. Many injured people are burned by tincture oil tanks thrown by the enemy, and they are burned on a large scale. Living is painful.

There is another kind of injury that was rarely seen before, that is, burned by quicklime. This kind of injury is slightly damaged by burns, but the wounds are basically in the mouth, nose and eyes.

Quicklime will get hot when it comes to water, and there are many wounded soldiers who are burned by mistake by quicklime, and blindness or severely reduced vision due to quicklime staining on their eyes.

Last night, the enemy attacked the camp and threw a large amount of quicklime, which caused many officers and soldiers to be injured, and were burned by quicklime in their eyes or inhaled into their mouths. Such injuries would not be killed, but they could make people suffer.

At this moment, the person groaning in the military camp is the injured on the battlefield who was lucky enough to die but was not as good as death. Although many military doctors came to heal the wounded, the biting pain made many people feel in pain.

Relatively speaking, the captured soldiers and young men were much lucky. At first, they were afraid of being killed by the other party, but after a long discussion, the enemy army released everyone.

Those who fight bravely to kill the enemy are either dead or injured. Among the injured, there are still people who are worse than death in life, while those who surrender when they see the situation is not good, nothing is done.

Such a strong contrast made everyone a little surprised, and they didn't know who was right or wrong. The soldiers and young men who were busy building camps felt uncomfortable listening to the moans of the injured not far away.

Is it worth killing the enemy with your life?

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In a corner of Xuanhu City, in a yard, a wounded soldier was undergoing "operative". His right palm was gone. He was cut off by enemy soldiers during the battle last night. The doctor who was undergoing surgery was bandaging his wound.

It is common for broken hands and feet to break on the battlefield. Whether the injured can survive can only rely on his own hardships. However, the injured soldier was decisive. After being cut off his hands, he took out a "first aid bandage tie" to tie his wrist to stop the bleeding.

Then burn the wound with a torch.

Not everyone can do it to burn himself, and it is precisely this seemingly cruel behavior that prevents him from killing himself on the spot due to excessive blood loss. After withdrawing back to the city, he will be dealt with and waiting for the military doctor to arrange "operation".

At this moment, the wounded soldier was lying on the "operating bed" on his back, his eyes covered with gauze, his mouth biting a cloth, his arms and legs were fixed, and several military doctors in white robes were busy surrounding him.

The "scalpel", "surgical scissors", "surgical forceps", lines and bandages are neatly arranged, and there are bottles and jars containing medicine next to them. Although they emit the smell of medicine, they are diluted by a stronger smell of alcohol.

Military doctors use not alcohol but "alcohol" obtained by repeatedly distilling with special "distillers". The purpose is naturally not to drink, but to "disinfect".

First wipe the wound of the wound with alcohol, then find the blood vessels that have scabbed in the wound, and carefully tie it up with disinfected threads to avoid accidentally scabs and cracking and causing heavy bleeding.

Then use a sharp scalpel to remove the black rotten meat, wipe it with alcohol, apply special healing medicine, and finally bandage the wound with disinfected gauze. The operation is completed.

During the whole process, some military doctors guarded several shelves and always paid attention to adjusting the glass mirrors on them to reflect the sunlight to the wound, making it easier for the military doctors to perform surgery. Several military doctors served as assistants to help the military doctors.

He also wiped sweat for the military surgeon and the wounded soldiers who underwent surgery.

Because there was no anesthetic, the wounded soldier was directly suffering from the pain of each knife, but he bit the cloth in his mouth tightly, and even if he was sweating profusely, he would not say a word. After the operation was completed, several hand towels for him to wipe his sweat were used.

The wounded soldier was helped up and walked out slowly. Several military doctors took off their masks and hats, sat in the pergola next to drink water and rested. As military doctors in Huangzhou, they had already mastered their skills through countless vital anatomy and internships.

Yu Wen Wen, who was watching on the side, did not disturb the doctors who had undergone many surgeries in succession, and quietly left with his entourage.

Battlefield medicine is a necessary technology to reduce the casualty rate of soldiers, and surgical surgery is an indispensable medical technology. However, in this era without antibiotics and blood transfusion technology, if soldiers who have been injured by arrows, burns, and knife wounds have a relatively scientific surgical procedure, the success rate of the surgery is still not high.

Without antibiotics, it cannot fight against bacterial infection in the wound; without reliable anesthetics, it is impossible to even perform effective surgical operations: if the injured person who undergoes the surgery cannot withstand the severe pain, the operation will fail.

But this is not the reason why Yu Wenwen gave up. Without antibiotics, at least he had to find a way to reduce the chance of bacterial contamination in the wound. Without ready-made anesthetics, he would keep trying various formulas. If he could not have general anesthesia, he could at least reduce the pain.

Hua Tuo during the Three Kingdoms period was said to have developed the anesthetic "Ma Fei San". He didn't believe that he could not try a similar formula even if he tried to burn money.

In order to exercise the surgical ability of military doctors, Yu Wenwen even conducted a taboo medical experiment of living surgery. If death row prisoners are not enough, they should use the slaves bought from the slave hunting team as the experimental subjects.

Judging from the modern ethical and moral perspective, is such an act worthy?

It is worth it. As long as the development of surgical operations can be promoted and the progress of battlefield medicine can be promoted, and he will be given a little infamous reputation. He doesn't care, killing one person and saving a hundred people, it is worth it.

And he didn't sacrifice his life in vain, he had all the basic medical devices he should have.

With a microscope, the concept of bacterial infection has gradually been accepted by military doctors and the concept of "disinfection". How to prevent bacterial infection, because there is no antibiotic, there is actually no good way. You can only rely on alcohol and boiling water to disinfect equipment and supplies.

After countless "internships", military doctors in Huangzhou have been able to carry out surgical operations that are very thrilling, and the success rate for the treatment of arrow injuries, burns and knife injuries has improved significantly.

Even amputation surgery has a considerable success rate.

Although compared with the medical level of later generations, the success rate of surgical operations like Huangzhou is still very low, but it has clearly surpassed the medical level in other places in the same era.

The cost is that the military doctors trained cannot charge others' "training fees" and most of the expenses will be borne by Yuwen Wen himself.

In the army, it is free to perform surgery on the injured soldiers. Yuwen Wen couldn't make money by using this. Everything was to ensure combat effectiveness and to survive.

While thinking, Yuwen Wen came to the top of the city, looked at the rising water level outside the city, and then looked at the long encirclement outside the city that looked like the Great Wall, and sighed.

After two major defeats yesterday, the enemy army seemed to understand that it was unrealistic to attack, so they used the method of long-term siege to waste it. At this time, the water gate should have been closed, so the water level of Rushui rose. If this continues, it will turn into a vast ocean outside the Xuanhu City in one or two days.

There was water outside the city, and he and his troops were really trapped in the city. He could do nothing except consume food every day.

He had already expected this situation when he was doing strategic planning with his brother Yu Wenming in Shannan and was mentally prepared to siege the enemy's city and attack the reinforcements. Therefore, there would be no reinforcements in Xuanhu, and there would be no reinforcements in the short term.

The ultimate strategic goal to achieve by sneak attacking Xuanhu is that Yu Wenwen uses himself and Xuanhu as bait to attract the main force of the enemy to nail the enemy near Xuanhu, buy time for Shannan, and concentrate his troops in a certain direction to make a breakthrough.

To this end, he prepared to stay in the Xuanhu for a long time. Just for the preparation of food, it was enough for the military and civilians in the city to have a year's needs.

The price is to be in danger and be like a trapped beast. If the situation has not been opened for a long time, he will be like Wang Sizheng, the general of the Western Wei Dynasty who guarded Yingchuan back then. He will not wait for reinforcements for a year and surrender after all the food is gone.

Wang Sizheng could still be valued when he surrendered to the Eastern Wei Dynasty, but he had only one way to die.

Is this worth it?

When he was in Shannan, Yuwen Wen asked himself this question from time to time, but until now, he has no regrets.
Chapter completed!