At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 42, the vicious tiger and wolf master
  October 35, the 10th year of the First Emperor's reign, Nanton County.

After Meng Shao failed to attack Nanton County for the first time, he quickly changed his strategy. He drove thousands of people in the camp to the battlefield.

"Kill!" Meng Shao commanded the Qin army to attack the city again.

But this time it was the people of Nanton County who carried the ladders to attack the city. The regular Qin army drove these civilians out of the range of their bows and crossbows to attack the city. Obviously, the Qin army wanted to use the Nanton County civilians as cannon fodder to consume the rebel soldiers. combat effectiveness, and even city defense supplies.

Xu Fan cursed endlessly for the shameless behavior of the Qin army. Using such a method to consume the rebels' city defense materials clearly showed that they did not regard the local people as their own. How was this different from the Hu regimes?

Other rebel soldiers also cursed the Qin army, especially those from Nanton County. Many of the people below are their relatives and friends. It is simply inhumane for the hero to use this method. Although the Qin army's move could reduce casualties, it also made the entire Nanton County feel the same hatred towards the enemy.

This means that Meng Shao doesn't understand Xu Fan's inner thoughts. If he knew, he would definitely laugh at Xu Fan's naivety. He, the Qin State, can even use the people of his own country as cannon fodder, let alone the people of the Chu State.

In Meng Shao's view, a large number of people in Nanton County joined the rebels, and the local people were naturally guilty of original sin. These people needed their blood to prove their loyalty to the empire.

Even if Xu Fan and the others couldn't bear it, they couldn't tolerate being soft-hearted on such a life-and-death battlefield. Xu Fan could only point his crossbow at these innocent people.

The other soldiers who defended the city began to stone, roll with logs, hit with stones, and shoot with arrows. The civilians under the city wall kept screaming, and the civilians on the ladders also kept falling.

In less than an hour, the bodies of the civilians who were attacking the city were scattered all over the city. The cruel casualties scared the civilians and fled to the rear for their lives. This wave of attack was collapsed.

Meng Shao didn't care about the life or death of these civilians. Even though they suffered heavy casualties, in his opinion, the effectiveness of the civilians' attack on the city was excellent. Many civilians even climbed onto the city wall. Although they did not last long, this had already made him Seeing hope, he ordered the Qin army to continue driving the civilians to attack the city.

"Go forward and kill. The first person to climb the city wall will be rewarded with a five-level knighthood. Everyone who breaks the city will be rewarded with a three-level knighthood!" The Qin army drove away hundreds of civilians who suffered heavy casualties, and also used it on them. An inducement.

The temptation of the title was not tempting to these people, but the spears of the Qin army were real. Driven by the Qin army, these civilians could only carry the ladders to attack the city again.

The offensive and defensive battle in Nanton County became fierce again. This time, in order to cover the attacking civilians, 400 Qin army archers continuously shot at the rebels on the walls of Nanton County.

The rebel soldiers braved the rain of arrows, or under the protection of shield soldiers, threw huge rocks at the ladder and the civilians below, and rows of hammers hit the ladder. The Qin army and civilians were either shot to death by long arrows, or their heads were smashed by huge rocks and trees, and their heads were bleeding. Under the city wall, the corpses of civilians and Qin soldiers were scattered everywhere, and the wailing sounds of injured civilians echoed throughout the battlefield.

"Clang, clang, clang!" The battle continued until noon, before the Qin army called for gold and retreated. But by this time, under the Nanton city wall, it had become a Shura field littered with corpses.

Meng Shao was extremely satisfied with the situation of the battle. The Qin army suffered only a few dozen casualties in this battle, while the rebels in Nanton County suffered more than 2-3 times as many casualties. This situation was in his favor. As for the civilian casualties, he did not Without looking at them, all the civilians are dead, and they can just catch them. The population of Chen County exceeds 50, and there is no shortage of people at all.

On the other side of the battlefield is Nanton County.

The rebels were having a hard time, not only because of the heavy casualties today, but also because they mainly killed and injured Nanton County civilians, their relatives. Some Nanton County rebels even cried silently when they saw the situation on the battlefield. Under such circumstances, how could the morale of the rebels improve? Xu Fan also felt uncomfortable, but in order to survive the tens of thousands of rebel troops, he only had to continue killing the enemy.

Xu Fan directed the civilians to climb the city wall, carry wounded soldiers for treatment, carry crossbows, long arrows, boulders and other materials for defending the city, in order to prepare for the next battle.

After doing all this, Xu Fan came to the injury camp again.

Chen Xiu, who was wearing a nurse uniform, was surprised to see Xu Fan and asked, "Why are you here?"

Xu Fan took off his armor, put on clothes made of linen and said, "Come here and help."

After saying this, Xu Fan came to a wounded soldier and directed Chen Xiu to wash the wounded soldier's wounds frequently with cold boiled water. Then he ordered two strong men to grab the wounded soldier, and then used sterilized needles and thread to help the wounded soldier suture his wounds.

There were no anesthetics in this era, so the pain of the soldiers using this method can be imagined. Fortunately, someone caught the wounded soldier, and Xu Fan tried his best not to let the long needle penetrate too deep, and he quickly completed a suture. The wounded soldier finally stopped struggling, but the pain made him break into a cold sweat.

The next four people cooperated together and completed 4 such suture operations. Other doctors also used Xu Fan to suture wounds in this way, and most of the wounded soldiers were treated.

The war hadn't even started yet, but Xu Fan had begun to set up a camp for wounded soldiers. It was the camp that Xu Fan had cleaned up and had a few clean houses. The nurses who take care of the injured are composed of 30 adult women including Chen Xiu. What they had to do was to help the soldiers clean their wounds, suture them with needles and thread, and bandage them, while 60 civilians helped them.

Don't look simple, but such a simple method can greatly reduce the death rate of soldiers, because Xu Fan remembers a nurse named Nightingale, who reduced the casualties by 90% in the wounded camp because of taking care of the wounded soldiers, and became a nurse. role model for the times.

And what she did was extremely simple, which was to help the soldiers clean their wounds with gauze sterilized with boiling water, suture the wounds with needles and thread, and bandage them. Such simple things saved the lives of most soldiers.

The role of a veteran who has been on the battlefield in this era cannot be compared to that of 10 new soldiers. Xu Fan has always felt that the war in the late Qin Dynasty would be more than ten to one, with less defeating more, because of the chaos of hundreds of years. The reason for the decline of veterans is that the quality of soldiers has deteriorated, and the role of the coach's command has been highlighted and magnified.

At this time, there were more than 150 wounded soldiers in the wounded barracks, and they were wailing in low voices. After Xu Fan changed into clean clothes, he took the initiative to help these wounded soldiers pull out the arrows, stop the bleeding, and used stitches to help the wounded soldiers suture their wounds.

At this time, a young wounded soldier from Nanton looked at Xu Fan and begged: "General, please save our family."

As soon as these words were spoken, the other wounded soldiers from Nanton also looked at Xu Fan. Even though they knew that this was impossible, they looked at him with a ten thousandth of hope. They wanted a miracle.

Xu Fan looked at the group of soldiers who were looking forward to him and said resolutely: "I will definitely save your relatives."

(End of this chapter)