Nineteenth Century Medical Guide

Brecht's intention is obvious, that is to assemble early and attack early, and place the battlefield outside the border.He would not hide around the fortress and passively defend like the ultra-conservative Ludwig, so he made a decision to actively attack northward after receiving news of the war on September 9.

In the early morning of the 26th, the affiliated Third Army rushed to the valley ahead and was expected to enter Silesia two days later and launch an attack on Breslau.

Only in this way can the Western Front Allied Forces formed by the South German Confederation stabilize the situation, and will not be encircled and defeated by the Second Prussian Army on the Northern Front.

In fact, these were all his unilateral extravagant hopes. The four-month extension of the preparation time did not change the military strength of the Confederate countries, but they were defeated more thoroughly.The Confederate Army on the Western Front was not an opponent of Prussia at all, and it would collapse at the first touch, so Austria had to send out the Western Front Army to stop it around a week ago.

Of course, these are all for later.

Rumors that the army was going to move forward had spread within the army as early as the evening of the 25th, and the recruits in the barracks immediately became nervous and agitated.Everyone was busy preparing clothes and dry food for the front line, and some people began to worry about the number of guns and ammunition in their hands.

Many people are destined to find it hard to sleep that night, and Litokwa, the newly promoted second lieutenant military doctor, is one of them.

The work at the Fortress Army General Hospital was heavy and unfamiliar, with many requests never seen at the Graz hospital.But Litokwa, like other military doctors who came here, could only follow the orders of the director of the General Hospital.

When he was working during the day, he happened to find ink and a quill in the supplies box, and he wanted to finish the diary he left behind while resting at night【1】.Get a good night's sleep after finishing writing the diary. I heard that the dean will be in Olmitz tomorrow, and there may be a chance to show his face.

But sudden rumors disrupted his plans.

Like everyone else, Litokwa spent the first half of the night surrounded by noisy noises, and the surrounding area became quiet in the second half of the night. He barely fell asleep, but he was still in a state of waking up from time to time, and he was in a daze.

When Litokwa woke up, the order had already entered the barracks.

The [-]rd Corps, as the vanguard, would follow the cavalry regiments that left first, and march north.

The weather in September was fresh and cool. Although the soldiers who left the barracks were a little worried, they breathed the fresh air and basked in the early morning sunshine, and their mood improved a lot.

In the distance are the rolling green ridges of the Sudeten Mountains, with the blue sky above and tall trees around, and the whole team forms a winding line, like a long snake crawling slowly on the ground.

The Kravov Infantry Battalion is in the center of the army. In the front is the reconnaissance unit after the cavalry regiment has dispersed, and in the rear is the artillery regiment and a group of transport carriages.

There were too many recruits in the army, and they were unprepared for the sudden march order. Many people didn't release water in the morning, and they could see guys who left the team to find grass to relieve them at any time.Some veterans can't hold back their mischievous temper, and quietly follow up and throw some sand to play pranks.

The weather was sunny and pleasant, but the tense march gave off a feeling of playfulness when students went on spring and autumn outings.

But all this seemed too short-lived. At 10 o'clock in the morning, the sound of rumbling cannons in the distance broke the laughter and laughter in the marching troops.

The army once again fell into a tense atmosphere. The veterans held their guns tightly, full of murderous looks, and the recruits were also extremely excited.Even those military horses were elicited by the gunfire to raise their front legs, their manes stood upside down, and they neighed endlessly.

Major Kravov quickly judged the distance from the battle to the troops from the sound of the guns: "The battle is in the valley ahead!"

The major's judgment was not wrong. The sound of the artillery came from the contact zone where the reconnaissance team and the Prussian Second Army went south into the front of Bohemia.During the meeting of the headquarters, it was not realized that the contact with Prussia would come so early. Fortunately, the reconnaissance team tested the position of the Prussian army.

There is no chance of hesitation on the front lines.

Even if the infantry battalion was unable to respond immediately, the commander of the entire Third Army quickly issued a military order.Within 10 minutes after the sound of the guns appeared, the orderly brought the order on horseback: "Everyone in the Third Army seizes the opportunity and rushes forward!"

The military order was like a mountain, and Kravov pulled out the saber at his waist reflexively. The blade pointed directly at the sound of the guns and roared: "Everyone in the battalion, follow me and rush forward! Charge!"

Seeing the major rushing forward following the troops in front, everyone also shouted: "Come on!!!"

The yelling is not neat, but because the sound is loud and the drag is long enough, it gives people a very uplifting feeling.And these soldiers were not just shouting slogans, everyone marched forward like crazy.No one knows where the battlefield will be, nor what enemies are ahead, they just know to charge with the team.

As for whether to load the rifle and shoot directly when encountering an enemy, or to load a bayonet and fight desperately, we will wait until we actually encounter the enemy.

Litokwa is the doctor accompanying the army, so he must charge together.His steed was all right, unfazed by the shouts, but the mule was different.The shorter transport vehicle was far less powerful than he had imagined, and he was only willing to move forward reluctantly after he dragged it desperately.

He could only hand over the mule to a soldier, and he followed the team with the simplest dressing tools first.

The so-called charge is running at extreme speed without oxygen. After all, human beings are still carbon-based organisms, and the limit lies there.

Most of the soldiers lacked exercise, and carrying dry food and guns and ammunition further dragged down their endurance.The entire charge lasted less than 5 minutes. At the beginning, only a small number of people stopped, and slowly began to spread backwards, infecting the entire marching team like dominoes.

However, just when everyone felt that there was nothing wrong with doing so, the second and third shots of the cannon fire rang out after a long silence, and the black smoke brought by the explosion gradually rose from the valley in front.

Gradually, dense gunshots also began to appear in everyone's ears.

They are like a stimulant injected into their bodies, the second round of the charge begins
Artillery has developed from solid ammunition in the 18th century to the current flowering ammunition. A simple shot can cause massive damage. It is the weapon most feared by infantry.And those artillerymen will also be equipped with short-range shotguns to defend themselves. The only problem they need to solve is accuracy.

Prussian artillerymen were not as well-trained as their infantry, and a large part of the reason needs to be attributed to the fascination complex of artillery commanders with smoothbore guns.

This made the update of artillery weapons come very late, and it was not as thorough as the infantry, which seriously delayed the training speed of soldiers, and also delayed Prussia's research on artillery warfare theory.

But these factors will not bring too much disadvantage. As long as the artillery positions can be selected well and the artillery attacks in groups can be launched, these artillery groups mixed with smoothbore and rifled can still bring effective damage.

The Austrian cavalry first discovered the opponent's artillery unit. While ordering the order to be sent back, the cavalry captain "decisively" issued an order to charge.

There is nothing wrong with the order itself, and the fast and mobile cavalry can break up the artillery team as long as the distance allows.It's just that he seriously underestimated the number of the opponent's artillery and the firepower of the infantry regiment participating in the defense.

This is an artillery team that came to find a position, and a Prussian infantry regiment participated in the protection.

They did not want to be in contact with the Austrian army, and even the entire Second Army did not want to meet with the Austrian army.The order they received was to build fortifications, do a good job of scouting, and wait for the order to attack.

Prussia didn't expect the Austrian army to come so quickly, let alone the opponent's cavalry who dared to attack the half-built artillery position head-on.

From the moment the cavalry charged, a cannon in the distance counterattacked first, followed by the intensive firepower of the infantry regiment's rear-mounted firing pin guns.

The cavalry reconnaissance team was the first to bear the baptism of artillery.

They rushed into the black smoke from the explosion of the shell and the flying sand splashed by the shrapnel, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.The bullets and explosions that flew past them didn't seem to affect them. The only thing the cavalry had to do was to charge.

This charge represented the courage of the Imperial soldiers, but it brought irreparable damage.

The initial attack did cause the artillery to lose several carriages and escort soldiers transporting the barrels, but the intensive firepower quickly shot the reckless cavalry into a sieve.The second and third shelling that Litokwa heard was an attack on the marching team on the valley road after repelling the cavalry.

This was just a tentative attack, and the first round of official shelling soon smashed into the frontmost marching team with several kilograms of shells.

Immediately, various voices began to appear alternately over the team:
"Spread out and find cover!"

"Don't back down, keep hitting!"

"Stretcher soldier, there are wounded here!"

"Order the artillery in the rear to fire in the valley ahead!"

Litokwa was not even a qualified soldier on his first battle.He didn't know how to deal with the sudden shelling, until a shell flew directly above his head, smashing several soldiers behind him, and then he reacted under the doctor's instinct.

"Stretcher!"

He was the only one who dismounted and rushed to the crater after seeing the shells fall, because everyone else knew that the fragments from the exploding shells could easily cut through their bodies.

Maybe it was something wrong with the shell itself, or maybe it had come into contact with the soft sand, but the round shell just lay there without exploding.No explosion doesn't mean no harm. Soldiers who were directly hit by physical impact were like bottles at the end of a bowling alley, lying on the road.

They were severely injured, but showed no mental or physical response, and the real shouts were often those of other witnesses.

For the first time, Litokwa showed his medical skills on the battlefield, bandaging the stumps of two soldiers with broken legs, recovering the exposed intestines of a soldier whose abdomen was torn open, and A headless soldier prayed briefly.

Only then did the soldiers realize that they had been mortally wounded and that their short lives were coming to an end.

"Will I die?"

This was the sentence they were most willing to ask after returning to rational thinking, but coupled with the deathly pale face and trembling body, it would only make Litokwa feel distressed.

Because just a few hours ago, they were still admiring the scenery along the way, making jokes about other people on the side of the road, and even "looking forward" to their future as generals.Just yesterday, one of them was sleeping next to him, discussing the texture of military uniforms, how to use firearms, and the poor food treatment in the barracks.

In just an instant, these people became victims of war.

Looking at the soldier who was about to lose his life, Litokwa kept turning his limited medical knowledge in his head: What should I do?
Is it to bring people back to the fortress, or to stay here to save people regardless of them?

But the shells are so powerful that they lost their hands and feet. Can I really heal the damage caused by the shelling?

Suddenly, a picture of his training as a military doctor flashed in front of his eyes.In a critical moment, a medicine in the medicine chest can effectively prevent the wounded soldier from dying on the battlefield.

"Give me the medicine kit!" Litokwa looked at the rear troops and found the mule carrying medical supplies for him: "Give me the medicine kit, someone is injured here!!!"

The soldier who had been helping to lead the mule seemed to have heard his cry, and ran towards him with two large boxes on his shoulders.

A reasonable combination of bandaging adrenal gland extract ya tablets and tincture can stop bleeding in the first place and relieve the pain of wounded soldiers.But this is not enough, far from enough, the Prussian shelling continues