Chapter 687 A Dream of Youth 219
"Doctor! Doctor, save our adjutant!"
Another person was carried in. He hadn't just been slashed; the knife had gone all the way in, damaging his internal organs and causing massive bleeding.
Xie Ning used acupuncture to stop the bleeding, but it was clearly ineffective, which meant that the internal organs must be ruptured. "Wash your hands."
The medic quietly opened the adjutant's eyes, then silently stepped back to continue stopping the bleeding of another soldier, waiting for Xie Ning to come and stitch him up. If it were them, they would have given up on such people, but Xie Ning spared no effort to save them.
After all, on the battlefield, the priority is to treat the lightly wounded. As for the seriously wounded, they are almost always waiting to die. Even when carrying the wounded, the lightly wounded are treated first, and only after the lightly wounded are treated will the seriously wounded be treated.
The two military doctors would secretly squeeze past the other female doctors to get close to Xie Ning and assist her, hoping to learn her techniques.
Xie Ning glanced at them, not hiding anything, and while treating them, she also gave them a simple explanation. They didn't even know how to stitch up ordinary knife wounds, let alone stitch up internal organs.
After treating most of the seriously wounded patients inside, Xie Ning asked the soldiers who were carrying the wounded back, "Where are we now?"
She didn't seem to hear any fighting sounds anymore. Could it be that the fight was over?
"Probably not. We only saw Deputy Chief Steward Liu lead his men to chase after them." Their deputy chief steward was an excellent archer, almost always hitting the bullseye, and he even shot and killed several of the enemy's fierce generals while chasing them.
As they were talking, a soldier rode up on horseback and said, "Lord Xie, please take a group of men to the front to set up a medical tent."
This place is too far from the new battlefield, making it inconvenient to transport wounded soldiers; they might die on the way.
"Okay." Xie Ning roughly calculated that this was the main battlefield, so he only took one of the original military doctors and two female doctors, Du Xin and another, and followed the soldiers to the new battlefield.
They rushed along and had just arrived when they saw Liu Yuanchang ordering the beheading of people. Du Xin and the others turned pale and almost vomited.
Sometimes, seeing wounds or severed limbs on a person feels different from witnessing a beheading.
"Ooh ooh ooh—"
Whether the soldiers were on horseback or standing or lying on the ground, they all cheered.
Xie Ning remained unaffected by this, simply passing by the crowd with a blank expression, and found a relatively flat spot to set up a small medical tent.
The lieutenant rode his horse and laughed a few times with the crowd. Then he noticed Xie Ning and his men approaching, so he immediately rode over, accompanied by Liu Yuanchang.
"Lord Xie, quickly, quickly treat the deputy chief steward."
He sent someone to summon Xie Ning, since his deputy steward was injured and couldn't be delayed. Moreover, the medical tent was more than 20 miles away, and it was difficult for the soldiers to carry him. They would die if they carried him with an untreated wound.
We can only trouble the military doctors.
Since there are now more than two military doctors, he naturally wants to save as many soldiers as possible.
Liu Yuanchang frowned when he saw that Xie Ning was covered in blood. "Did you encounter enemy troops on the way, Lord Xie?"
Xie Ning quickly stopped Liu Yuanchang's bleeding and cleaned the wound. Hearing this, she raised her head in bewilderment, "What makes you say that, Deputy Chief Steward Liu?"
"The blood on your body..."
"I'm a military medic, isn't it normal for me to have some wounded soldiers' blood on me?"
Liu Yuanchang was stunned. He had forgotten that he subconsciously still regarded Xie Ning as a noble lady from the capital. He coughed lightly and changed the subject, "Does Lord Xie feel tired, after all, you have treated so many wounded soldiers?"
At Xie Ning's age, if he had married earlier, he could have had a daughter that big by now. What was the emperor thinking, sending such a child to the battlefield?
"It would be a lie to say I'm not tired, but with the soldiers fighting on the front lines, how could we, waiting in the rear, dare to complain of being tired? We only hope to save as many soldiers as possible so that they can return alive with glory."
When a person dies, no matter how glorious their achievements, they can only benefit future generations.
But this is probably the dream of most people.
Liu Yuanchang looked surprised when Xie Ning stitched up his wound. "Master Xie, why do you need to stitch up the wound?"
He had never seen such a treatment method before.
"Your wound is quite large and can no longer be closed with bandages. Sutures are the best solution. This will also prevent the wound from widening or tearing again due to movement, and it will also prevent external pathogens from entering."
Liu Yuanchang didn't rush back to see the Grand Steward. Instead, he stood not far away and watched Xie Ning treat the soldiers with his men. When he saw Xie Ning treat the seriously wounded soldiers first, he couldn't help but pull a familiar military doctor aside.
Shouldn't we start by treating those with minor injuries?
"Oh my, Deputy Steward Liu, this Lady Xie is amazing. She saved those seriously injured people."
Why didn't they go to save the seriously injured? Because they couldn't save them, and it would be a waste of medicine.
But now that Xie Ning is here, the situation is different.
The medic saw Xie Ning asking several veterans to help lift a seriously wounded patient onto a table, and quickly ran over, rolling up his sleeves. "Wait, let me do it!"
Let him be my assistant!
The military doctor followed Xie Ning around for a while, tossing aside a severed leg, and then while stopping the bleeding and bandaging the broken leg, he observed how Xie Ning was suturing the patient's other wounds.
Du Xin shook his head and went to help the other wounded soldiers.
Not long after, the military doctor reluctantly withdrew his gaze, then touched the wounded man's pulse and was immediately shocked, "Lord Xie, he has no pulse."
Actually, he felt from the beginning that the person was beyond saving because he had lost too much blood.
Xie Ning turned his head and instructed the soldier next to him to brew medicine. Then he knelt on either side of the wounded man's thighs, pressing on the wounded man's chest while instructing the military doctor.
"If you encounter this situation, you can place your hands flat on both sides of the patient's chest, with your thumbs pointing inwards and close to the lower end of the sternum, and your four fingers pointing upwards and outwards. Use the weight of your upper body to press down on the patient's chest."
This will force air out of the patient's lungs...
Then Xie Ning leaned back, releasing his own pressure, allowing the patient's chest to expand naturally according to its elasticity, causing air to enter the lungs, and repeated this process.
Liu Yuanchang stood aside, feeling that Xie Ning couldn't accept death. He was about to step forward to persuade her when he saw the person exhale and slowly regain her pulse.
"Go get medicine number three for him."
Before this, Xie Ning took out a honey pill from her purse and put it into his mouth, keeping him alive.
"What kind of technique is this? It can actually bring someone back to life!"
Xie Ning was unable to explain, and could only stagger down, shake her hands, catch her breath, and then throw herself back into the treatment. It had been too long since she had done such intensive treatment. Fortunately, she had good energy, otherwise she wouldn't have been able to last so long.
After watching for a while, Liu Yuanchang's impression of Xie Ning changed considerably. He left a team to gather the troops and protect the medical tent before riding back to the main tent.
In the great victory at Moduo Pass, Liu Yuanchang not only beheaded their chief, Meiluo, and the military supervisor, Liang Ge, along with fifteen others, but also captured twenty-two people, including the chief's nephew, Duomai.
The Grand General was overjoyed and praised Liu Yuanchang for a long time before saying, "We will rest and prepare the troops. We will march on Yinzhou in three days. I wonder how things are going on with General Li."
After calling in several key generals to discuss the battle plan for three days later, Liu Yuanchang mentioned Xie Ning, his tone tinged with apology.
"At first I thought that Lord Xie bringing a group of women here was of little use, but now it seems that I was short-sighted."
The chief steward patted Liu Yuanchang on the shoulder and said with a smile, "His Majesty is far-sighted. He sent Lady Xie here naturally because she is capable."
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