Hardcore ruthless starts in the Pacific

Judging from the fact that the little devils stationed on Peleliu Island are all elites, whether they are riflemen, machine gunners, or grenade launchers, although they are not nearly as good as they were in 1937~1939, they still have a hit rate of 1% to [-]%. , you can guess how terrible casualties will be caused by the organization blasters and flamethrowers in the [-]st regiment to destroy the bunker.

As a member of the 5th Regiment, even if you want to help the 1st Regiment, you don’t have the strength to do so—saving people takes dozens of times more effort than killing people, and Ivan and Grant spent most of their energy half an hour ago. They all acted with the will not to give up a single wounded man.

"How many did we save?"

Ivan adjusted his posture and lit two cigarettes.

After receiving the cigarettes, Grant gasped and said, "I can't count, twenty or thirty? Thirty or forty?"

"Then let me put it another way, how many of them did we fail to save?"

Hearing this question, Grant, who finally had spare time, fell into a burst of sadness. After about ten seconds, he sobbed in a low voice, "Nineteen."

For many recruits who follow the medical soldiers, they don't have much in their minds about how many comrades they saved, but they remember how many comrades they didn't save.

This is an inevitable thing, and it is also the only way for many recruits to grow up.

"There's nothing to cry about, we've tried our best." Ivan patted the guy's chest and said, "Although nineteen people failed to be rescued, I can be sure that the number saved will be doubled or even tripled."

Of course, some things were left unsaid.

Whether the wounded who are carried back can survive depends on whether they can survive the operating table. The real situation is often very tragic, and it is considered a high incense to have a ratio of three to one...that is to say, if you are in an emergency situation on the battlefield Sixty people were treated, and twenty of them survived the operating table in the end, which is already very lucky.

Excessive blood loss due to lack of plasma, wound infection but the injection of penicillin had no effect, and even some wounded were allergic to penicillin, these were carried to the operating table anyway, and many of them were not carried to the operating table.

For example, when transporting wounded soldiers, there are sharp stones everywhere on the battlefield. If you fall off a stretcher and fall on the concrete floor, there is usually no big problem. There are those who were transported back to the ship by the waves directly hitting the transport poles, drenching the wounded, causing the uninfected wounds to become infected immediately, which cannot be suppressed by several injections of penicillin, and... see Ivan I have seen a video, which is a real historical image of the Battle of Iwo Jima.

What impressed me the most was that when the two stretcher soldiers were carrying the wounded soldier back, they heard the violent whistling sound from the sky.

It's not clear whether the wounded who survived would call their mothers Ivan, but the two stretcher soldiers would definitely feel that they were innocent - did they let me protect the wounded even though they knew there were large-caliber mortar shells falling?Why would you gamble with my life?

Medics in the U.S. military can die for the wounded, but don't expect the stretcher soldiers who take the wounded back to do the same.

Therefore, the medical soldiers belonging to the infantry company tried their best to keep most of the wounded soldiers from dying in front of their eyes.

Of course, this is not absolute, because there are miraculous wounded people in history—for example, the limbs were frozen and lacked clothing and food, but they could survive three days and three nights and climb back and were rescued and lived to be seven or eighty years old. Relying on two hands, he sent himself to a field hospital 80 kilometers away and was rescued and lived until he died of old age. His whole body was burnt and he seemed to have only one breath left. After being sent to the hospital, he was raised for a month and survived. Can continue to fight.

Call it a miracle, the number is definitely not many, and the vast majority of the wounded are still normal people.As long as you are a normal person, you think that luck and misfortune will be half and half, but in fact you only have misfortune.

You were wounded on the battlefield, and the medical soldiers carried you back. You accidentally bumped and bumped on the road, and you seemed to be lucky enough to make it to the operating table to survive the real cleaning of the wound and hemostasis, but infections kept appearing, and you died in the end. It cannot be judged as dead.

Ivan didn't like the US military's determination of death very much, and felt that they were playing a set of cold-blooded and ruthless word games.Looking at the battles in which the U.S. military participated in World War II, it seems that the casualties are divided into killed, injured, and missing. In fact, 80.00% of the missing should be included in the killed, and 5.00% of the injured should also be included in the killed. .

As long as soldiers are rescued by medical soldiers on the battlefield, they die on the way back, die on the operating table, or die of infection after getting off the operating table. It cannot be counted as a death.

The amount of pensions varies greatly. What is more important is that soldiers who died in battle not only enjoy the national cemetery, but also their family members enjoy the lifelong security of the state. Among the injured, those who survived also enjoy the lifelong security from the state. ——We tried our best to save him, but he failed to survive this catastrophe.

Give a sum of money that is very different from the death benefit and it is over.

Therefore, in many videos about the U.S. military in World War II, there will always be stupid guys comparing the U.S. military’s death figures to those of the enemy. On the surface, there is no problem. But it won't be that few deaths.

"Ho Ho... Ho Ho..."

It's okay not to be a medical soldier, but after saving so many people, I always think about the calculation of the US military's casualties, which makes me very tired.

Ivan was lying in the dirty bomb crater panting heavily, his body and mind were too tired to move even a bit.

Fortunately, mentality is not a big problem. Thinking more about Captain Haldane can relieve him, mainly in terms of physical fitness.

After several hours of rescue, Yi Wen deeply understood that compared with this type of arms, the physical fitness of normal infantry is not enough at all-carrying 20 kilograms for 5 kilometers cross-country?Just kidding, Laozi carried 20 kilograms while cross-country for 5 kilometers while rescuing dozens of wounded soldiers. Can the two be compared? ?

"This damn weather, I want to drink water again." Grant licked the corner of his mouth, ready to move.

No joke, for many Ma Run who participated in the Battle of Peleliu Island, fresh water was a very precious luxury during the first two days of landing operations.

"Hold it." Ivan said, "Wait another hour before you can drink water."

Almost half an hour had passed since the last time he drank water. At this time, one of the three jugs carried by Grant was empty, and the remaining one was full, and the other drank a fifth of it.It is more than two o'clock in the afternoon, and there are still more than ten hours before tomorrow morning, and fresh water will only be available on the third day at the earliest, so the body's instinct must not be allowed to succeed.

"Sergeant, I see you have a lot of water bottles with you."

Grant didn't want to drink the fresh water that Ivan was carrying, but he was simply curious about it, "The Cannon King asked each of us to bring two more water bottles before we set off. How did he know that we would be so short of fresh water when we landed?"

"Didn't you hear that the temperature in this area would be very exaggerated before you came here?" Ivan replied.

"Have it?"

Grant shaded the sun with his dirty hands.

"How did I remember it being hotter than Hawaii?"

"Have you ever been to Hawaii?"

"No." Grant admitted honestly.

The landing site of the 5th Regiment is in the middle of the West Bank. The forest here is not to mention the luxuriant foliage. It is very difficult to find a tree with leaves. At this moment, the sun is hanging on the top of the heads of the landing troops. The place is like a dream.

No matter who you are, you feel like you are in a sauna room. The sweat that seeps out quickly dries up, and then more sweat seeps out.

Generally speaking, as long as the duration of the sauna is just right, it is a unique enjoyment.

In the past, Ivan didn't hate the sauna or how much he liked it, but now he began to hate this terrible high temperature - he felt like he was stuffed into a huge air fryer, and the wind blowing over him could exceed 40 degrees Celsius High temperature... Where is the wind? It's like a small needle poking at the body.

"Let's bear with it, don't fall asleep, and maintain a sense of crisis."

"understand!"

As soon as the voice finished speaking, the gunfire that had stopped for a short period of time sounded again, and there was a special one among the rapid and short voices. Ivan heard that it was not the Japanese army launching a counterattack and encountering Ma Run of Company K, but something else.

For Ivan, no matter which one it is, it is the end of his precious rest time.

"Medical soldier! Medical soldier! Medical soldier——!!!"

As expected, only two seconds after the sound of the explosion disappeared, there was a cry for help about 70 meters directly in front.

Ivan fantasizes that he can jump up suddenly, but finds that the ideal is very beautiful and the reality is very skinny - if he has not lay down and rested during this period of time, his muscles are still in a period of high-load operation, he can do it no matter who it is. The whole person rushed out like a tiger descending a mountain.

"Ah ah ah..."

It was Grant who called out, and he stood up with difficulty as if wearing a mask of pain.

When Ivan resisted the muscle soreness, the facial features on his face were almost squeezed together. Compared with the recruits himself, he was no better. He just relied on his personal will to forcefully suppress the desire to shout.

When he left, he didn't forget to give Grant a hand. If he didn't help this guy take two steps, he would have to go down again.

The two of them seemed to be injured, and they limped towards the place where the medical soldiers were called. When Ivan reached the specific location, his pupils shrank suddenly when he saw the wounded.

"Paul!?"

Ignoring Grant, Ivan rushed forward as if his body had recovered his strength.

7. Dry until the medical satchel is empty

Paul isn't dead yet, but he's almost there—this guy's body is covered in dense wounds, and if you don't look carefully, you might think he was hit by a shotgun.The wounds were mainly concentrated in the chest area, with few limbs, three on the face and two on the neck. The whole person was like a wooden barrel leaking everywhere, making it impossible for Evan to start.

"He just..."

The one who spoke was Eugene Sledge, a close friend of Nanqiang Bing, watching Paul who could not even speak at the moment, the sadness in his eyes seemed to be carved in them forever.

After Ivan came to Paul's side, he immediately took out the last morphine from his satchel.Even if the seriously wounded can't speak, the medical soldiers need to know what the dying comrades need.

After the hypodermic injection was completed, Ivan didn't take his eyes off Paul, but asked, "He went to save the little devil?"

"Well, yes." Eugene nodded, "He saw the wounded Japanese soldier calling for help, and he scolded the brother who wanted to shoot the little devil. I should...should... "

This recruit, who once had a great longing for war and heroes, seemed to be looking for a crime that could be imposed on himself.He obviously didn't know if doing this would make him and Ivan who was by Paul's side feel better, but it was the only way he could think of at the moment.

Clumsy, naive, and even silly.

"Paul...he—"

After taking a few deep breaths, Ivan squeezed out a smile and said, "Sledge, it's not your fault. It has nothing to do with anyone, and you have to take responsibility for the decisions you make—he's not a recruit, and I haven't done it more than once. I told him that a dog can be saved on the battlefield, but the wounded little devil cannot be saved."

With morphine, Paul, whose body was like a hornet's nest, seemed less miserable, and turned into a kind of regret.

After a few seconds, he shed tears and died of regret.

Paul participated in the battle of Guadalcanal and also participated in the battle of Gloucester Point. He should know that the wounded soldiers can't save the little devil...but few people know and most people can't do it I understand, what prompted him to rescue the frenzied little devil and wounded soldiers.

"Sledge, Grant, do you know how our opponents deal with their wounded soldiers?"

After helping Paul close his eyes, Ivan educated the two recruits while taking out useful medical supplies from his satchel.

"do not know."

"Like us?"

After going to the battlefield, Grant basically followed Ivan around the wounded. If he took some time to train, he could become a qualified field medical soldier, so the answer given by Sledge was completely different.

"In the eyes of the little devil, there are no wounded soldiers, only wounded officers." Ivan collected the useful medical supplies and carried Paul's body on his back. "It can be a skin trauma or a disease. As long as the soldiers inside the little devil are injured, They will all be regarded as useless people, and then be ruthlessly abandoned—the funny thing is that only a small number of devils think this is wrong and problematic, while the vast majority of people think this is a correct and meaningful behavior.”

"What happened to Paul is the first thing that most of the devilish guys do when they get hurt."

Taking advantage of the kindness of the medical soldiers to the wounded, pretending to call for help and then killing them all with their hands... The most infuriating thing is that the middle and high levels of the Japanese army even praised this behavior.

After the fall of the huge Kanglian, Europe and the United States, the regions that controlled the center of world public opinion, talked about FXS mostly only NAZI Germany, how hateful those people were, what appalling massacres they caused, and how much damage they brought to the European continent Disaster, but rarely mentioned Japan, which is more insane than NAZI Germany.

According to the conclusion of history, NAZI and Little Japan are the same, but in Ivan's eyes, we have to choose the more hateful one among the two garbage, but it is not De San, who has been scolded by the people of Europe, America and modern Germany for more than 70 years.

"So, I remind you both."

Before taking Paul's body back to the tidal flat, Ivan warned the two recruits, "Don't bet your life that what you encounter is a small part of the Japanese army. The first thing you need to do when encountering wounded soldiers is to shoot them to death—— Paul will not be the last lesson until the war is over."

During World War II, the U.S. military trained nearly 11 medical soldiers, at least half of whom went to the front line, but tens of thousands of them are still far from enough. Aside from casualties in fierce battles, the main reason is not to absorb what happened Lesson after lesson.

War will destroy humanity, and drive normal people into lunatics and devils, especially the medical soldiers who have to deal with the wounded. For the brother you have tried everything possible to rescue, once or twice is okay, too many times will always make the medical soldiers become indifferent and numb, until they have no respect for life at all.

After all, medical soldiers are related to "doctors". They are on the front line of saving lives and healing the wounded. What they can't lack is the awe of life. Otherwise, there will be the kind of thinking that Ivan despises - anyway, life can be saved temporarily, and one less eye It doesn't matter like that.

When plunged into such an abyss, people will no longer be people.

"What else can I say but call you an idiot?"

Just like Ivan is constantly fighting against the demons in his heart, a medical soldier like Paul doesn't want to destroy his humanity, and he can't find other good ways. The fierce battle on the front line is completely out of his turn to go back to be an instructor, so he may take a risk to gamble The little devils and wounded soldiers encountered belong to a small number.

The specific reason is that only Paul himself knows what, and Ivan only makes judgments based on his own experience.

“It’s not necessary to do this kind of thing to stay human.”

Ivan sighed while scolding: "It would be great if I found out that you have entered a dead end earlier."

Paul is not dead, K company can have two medical soldiers to share with each other, and now there is only Ivan left.The loss of one less infantry does not have a great impact on the entire infantry company, but the impact on the medical soldiers is quite large-just like the difference between a two-day rest and a single rest. The former takes 2.5 days off for 1 day, and the latter Those who work on 6 days and take 1 day off.

It took some time to send away the remains of his comrades-in-arms, and instead of returning to the forest line immediately, Yiwen asked the medical officers for things near the tidal flat.

Because the medical supplies that Paul left for Ivan were only 3 rolls of bandages.

Yes, let alone a morphine syringe, there is not even a pack of sulfa powder or a bottle of sulfa tablets - Ivan also consumes about the same here, because most of the first aid bandages are in the first aid kits carried by individual soldiers That roll, so there are still 7 rolls left, like the triangular bandage, morphine, sulfa, pins, tourniquet, plaster adhesive, etc. are all used up.

I don't know how to use many small things. It may be that they fell out when I was in a hurry to find things during the first aid, and I didn't remember to pick them up, or they were really used on the wounded.

With Yiwen saving medical supplies so frantically, his satchel was empty, and there was not even a small plastic medicine bottle left. It can be seen how tragic the landing battle was in just a few hours.

Not bad for Paul with 3 rolls of first aid bandages left.

It was just that when Ivan was checking the remaining medical supplies, Ivan heard something that made him want to scold Paul but couldn’t say anything—Paul simply classified the five water bottles, one of which poured all the glucose granules he carried, and the remaining two The salt is evenly distributed in the kettle.

He didn't hesitate to give this kind of water source that can quickly relieve dehydration to his brothers who participated in the battle. He didn't take a sip, leaving two military jugs filled with fresh water, and he drank half of the jug of fresh water before he died. water, and the remaining 1.5L of fresh water was used to wash the wounds of the wounded.

Ivan inevitably thought of Sirius Dodge, the medic in the first reincarnation.

The two guys are so similar.

There is no time to feel too much emotion, because there is too little medical supplies on hand, the war is not only not coming to an end, but even just started, Ivan must grasp every minute and every second to collect medical supplies.

Twenty minutes later, Ivan, who had been busy for a long time, felt a little uncomfortable, because he had experienced a huge failure after transforming from a medical soldier to a beggar soldier—he only had 10 rolls of first aid bandages on hand, and nothing else related to first aid.

Reality is not a game.

The latter returns a tube of blood with a bandage, while the former often needs 2 bandages to treat a wounded soldier.A single roll of bandage can only be used to deal with capillary/venous bleeding. Ivan learned a truth during the time he was saving people on the battlefield—the wounded who only need 1 roll of first aid bandage can be ignored.

Most of the time it's small arterial bleeding, and occasionally 2 rolls of bandages are not enough, let alone some tricky injuries.

The location of the wound is tricky. It is not necessary to use multiple rolls of first aid bandages, because there are such good products as triangular bandages for tricky wounds. The problem is that Ivan doesn’t have any triangular bandages in his hand, so he can’t see wounded soldiers who are quite troublesome in order to save bandages. Just say "you are hopeless"?

In this way, the amount of bandages consumed may not be able to stop 3 rolls... When Ivan was begging everywhere, he expected to get a whole box of morphine from the very beginning, but in the end he could only go through the corpses of his dead comrades. The expectation has been lowered to the point where not to mention a triangular towel, even a piece of oral sulfa in a plastic bottle is thankful.

From begging to scavenging, the progress bar that has been holding back for a long time finally jumped for a while. Ivan managed to find the first-aid kits on the bodies of several dead Ma Run. When the sea water gets wet, they only carry a small packet of sulfa powder and a roll of first-aid bandages, and the sea water rushes them all away.

When it arrived, Captain Haldane sent someone to look for Ivan, and checked the receipt of the goods after he had been busy for a long time.

In addition to the original first-aid bandages, Ivan now has a total of 15 rolls of bandages and 5 small packets of sulfa powder. If he encounters an injury such as a broken leg or arm, he can only let the wounded bite his clothes to resist the pain.

The orderly took Ivan to the bush area where Company K was scattered for rest and security, very close to the runway to the south of the airfield.