Chapter 153 It’s time to grab a bed in the dormitory again
The support troops of the 9th Division of Xiong District arrived at Baiteng Town at 4:15 in the morning after a bumpy journey.
The rear door of the Dongfeng truck opened and all the soldiers got out.
Commander Xu Changhe, who had followed the vanguard team here and had been stationed here for a few days, personally inspected this group of soldiers.
"…Report to the commander, all the soldiers who returned home to visit their families have returned to the army. Except for those who stayed in the army, the rest are all here." Zhai Ximo led several cadres to report to the commander and gave the commander the corresponding list.
"Well, you've worked hard. You guys go get ready first. Also, where are the temporary hygienists selected from the military wives this time?"
Zhai Ximo's expression froze for a moment, then he said calmly, "In the last car."
"Go and tell them to get off the bus. The damn xxx is restless every day and night. We have a lot of wounded people who need to be taken care of." Xu Changhe's unshaven face was full of gloom. When he mentioned the name of the general next to him, he cursed him. "Adjutant Wang, you accompany Deputy Colonel Zhai and take all the medical staff to the patient area to hand over the work immediately."
"Yes!" Adjutant Wang and Zhai Ximo beside Xu Changhe said in unison.
He then jogged straight towards the last Dongfeng car.
At this moment, Wang Ziru and Zhu Yan were so sleepy that their heads were almost fuzzy, but they were called up to get off the bus.
"What's going on? Is it time already? It seems like I just fell asleep," Wang Ziru said while yawning, not feeling any relief from her tiredness after waking up from a nap, as if she hadn't slept at all.
Seeing that there were only two of them in the carriage, Zhu Yan whispered, "Sister Ziru, they have all gotten off the train. Let's quickly roll up the quilt."
"Why are you so anxious? We won't have anything to do in Bai Teng Town at this time..."
Wang Ziru said that she didn't care, but her actions were extremely skillful.
He quickly put on his cotton jacket and an old coat issued by the army as his duty uniform.
He put on his shoes, twisted his butt, got up from the quilt, and began to fold the quilt into tofu blocks and pack it up again.
The two women were struggling to roll up the quilt when they heard someone outside the carriage shout, "Zi Ru."
Wang Ziru turned around quickly and saw her man, who was very friendly. Since she didn't know how to pack, she had to ask him for help: "Come up quickly and help get some quilts."
Zhai Ximo was stunned at first, then he kicked his legs and crawled into the carriage.
At this time, Zhang Kang also took advantage of the situation and ran over to see what the two women were doing.
Zhu Yan had a bitter face and saw Zhang Kang, "Come up and help me pack."
"Oh my god!" Zhang Kang's previous worries disappeared immediately, and he laughed, "Did you two sleep all the way here?"
As he was speaking, he climbed into the carriage to help pack.
Seeing this, Officer Zhang didn't say anything.
Discussing the situation in Baiteng Town and the casualties with Adjutant Wang.
Only then did I see the two new military wives being carried down from the carriage by their respective husbands.
"Hehe, the rear of the car is too high, I can't get off by myself..." Wang Ziru had just been carried down from the car by a man. Her feet were on the ground, and when she turned around, she saw everyone was staring at them, and she laughed.
Zhai Ximo glanced at the six military wives with a nonchalant expression, "Line up and follow us."
The wives of the soldiers were also wearing old military uniforms and following behind with their backpacks on their backs.
"I wonder if we have a lot of external injury medicines stored here?" Officer Zhang, who was following at the end of the team, asked Adjutant Wang when he thought of the medicines.
Adjutant Wang replied, "We have enough medicines. Don't worry, Officer Zhang. The main problem is that we are short of doctors."
"I know that! But we brought a military wife with us this time, the wife of Deputy Colonel Zhai. It is said that she knows a lot about doctors..."
"Really? That's great! With a doctor, we don't have to send several seriously injured soldiers here to the city hospital." Adjutant Wang was ecstatic. They had not expected that after the border conflict broke out, when they received the order to carry out the mission, they found that the three female health workers of their 9th Division were all on maternity leave.
They applied to several neighboring military units to borrow sanitation workers, but each unit was limited in the number of sanitation workers it could provide.
Everyone needs it.
In the past few days, those with serious injuries had to be sent to the city hospital during the day.
Those with minor injuries were bandaged by themselves according to their field combat experience.
Adjutant Wang was very curious about what medical skills Deputy Colonel Zhai’s wife had mastered. “If she really knew the medical skills of a surgeon, we in the rear would have nothing to fear.”
Wang Ziru followed closely behind the group and had no intention of speaking when she heard the two men talking behind her.
She looked around curiously. This must be the main street in the town. There were shops and inns on both sides, all lined up in rows. All buildings were white-walled and black-tiled. It was not hard to imagine that the street must be very busy in the daytime, with people coming and going and traffic jams...
After walking for an unknown amount of time, the military wives followed them into a house.
Wang Ziru realized it later and went back to carefully read the words written on the sign at the door twice: "Bai Teng Town Garrison..."
Oh, so this is a place specially used for military offices.
Walking in from the main gate, there are halls and offices everywhere.
In the quiet mansion, you can see the soldiers at any time.
After turning two corners, Adjutant Wang quickly walked to the front and said loudly, "The six of you put your backpacks here first."
The women looked and saw that there was a room with several bunk beds.
"Come over and make the beds later when it's not busy. You can take turns on duty at night..." Adjutant Wang gestured to the wives of the soldiers to leave their backpacks and personal belongings in the dormitory reserved for sanitation workers.
When the four military wives heard that this was their dormitory, they rushed into the room and immediately occupied the four beds on the lower floor.
Wang Ziru and Zhu Yan didn't think about competing with them for the bed, and walked in slowly with their backpacks on their backs.
He took a look and patted a bed near the door, "I'll sleep here."
Several men stood outside the door with embarrassed looks on their faces, and no one expressed any opinion on the matter.
As the old saying goes, where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, let alone a group of women with their own thoughts.
The others were still rejoicing that they had taken a good seat, sitting down on the bed to catch their breath, when Wang Ziru turned around and asked, "Should we go see the injured now?"
"Yes, follow me."
Zhai Ximo had been here several times before and was very familiar with the layout of the house. He turned around and led his wife straight to a very large ward where the patient was lying.
Zhu Yan hurried out and followed behind, fearing that she would be left behind.
She knew that she knew nothing and was only here to do odd jobs. If the officers thought she was too lazy, her reputation would be bad.
The group walked into a not very spacious open room, and saw that there were injured people lying on every bed inside.
One of the wounded was groaning in agony due to the unbearable pain from the wound. Wang Ziru glanced around casually and saw that there were only twenty-three wounded here, many of whom were emitting the smell of blood.
Maybe they heard the sanitation staff coming to take care of them, because the room was filled with cries of pain.
"Can you check it first?" Zhai Ximo asked his wife.
According to his understanding, these injured soldiers were supposed to be sent to Xiongshi Hospital for treatment only after daybreak. Currently, the logistics personnel of the army have bandaged the wounds to prevent them from further opening.
"Where is the pharmacy? Are there any masks? Please help us distribute a mask to each person..."
Adjutant Wang was overjoyed when he saw this, and quickly said, "The pharmacy is next door, come with me to see what medicines are needed."
“There are masks too.”
The four military wives behind slowly came to the door of the casualty room and immediately smelled a bloody smell inside. Li Juan frowned and covered her mouth and nose with her fingers.
Zhu Yan was so frightened after seeing this scene that she lost her mind and followed Wang Ziru to the pharmacy like a machine.
When I reached the door, I heard Wang Ziru's clear voice, "Tell them to come in and get masks, wash their hands, and everyone go to work."
He looked like a surgeon.
Several military wives had never imagined that the new bumpkin could come to such a place to show off his power, and they all started whispering to each other.
Wang Ziru stood at the door of the drugstore, tying the four cotton straps of her mask. She poked her head out and glanced at the women who were whispering to each other: "No idle chatting here! After you get the mask, wash your hands and disinfect them, and then come back to work."
Li Juan received a thick cotton mask and went out to wash her hands.
When the others saw several officials watching them, no one dared to do anything and they just followed them dejectedly to wash their hands and put on masks.
Adjutant Wang stood at the door of the medicine room and said with a dry smile, "Do you know how to use these medicines?"
After fastening the mask strap, the cotton mask covered her entire face, leaving only a pair of clear and transparent eyes exposed, and her temperament changed instantly.
She scanned the shelves in the pharmacy and said, "Not yet. Let me check everyone's injuries first."
When they came out, they saw Zhu Yan still frantically putting on her mask. Wang Ziru saw Zhang Kang, who had come in to watch, and said, "Captain Zhang, please come in and help Zhu Yan put on her mask, and then take her to wash her hands and disinfect them."
Zhang Kang's eyes widened, as if he was under a spell, and he hurriedly asked Zhu Yan to go out and wash her hands.
Several men were completely at a loss and stood by to see if the new sanitation worker really knew how to bandage external injuries.
"Is there anyone here hit by a bullet shell?" Wang Ziru walked to the innermost part of the ward, intending to quickly go over the injuries of the casualties from the inside out.
Adjutant Wang nodded anxiously, "Yes! Bed No. 6 and Bed No. 17 are in the same situation. Do you have any way to fix this?"
"There is a clinic in this town. Don't you know how to call the doctors over for support?"
"Yes, they do, but they can't handle such serious injuries..." Adjutant Wang said with a guilty look on his face.
Wang Ziru stopped immediately, lowered her head and looked for beds No. 6 and No. 17, then walked straight to bed No. 6. A strong smell of blood filled her nose.
When I lifted the blanket that was almost dyed red, I saw that the wounded man was shot in the leg. The logistics personnel had tied him up with a bandage. |
But I don’t know how painful it must be to have such a big thing stuck in my bones and flesh.
Turned around and checked number 17 again.
"You're really lucky. If it was a little off, it would have hurt my heart!"
Wang Ziru decided to suspend the ward rounds and went directly back to the pharmacy to take inventory of the therapeutic drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs, and analgesics in stock.
"Who said there was enough medicine? There's not even a drop of anesthetic, how am I supposed to sew someone up?!"
Adjutant Wang was so frightened that he followed him to the pharmacy and opened the bottom door of the cabinet. "See if there is any anesthetic in these medicines."
Wang Ziru took a look at the liquid medicines stored in the cabinet and found nitrous oxide, sodium dithiopental, etc.
"Where are my hygienists? Have they all returned after washing their hands and disinfecting them?" Wang Ziru felt as if she had returned to her previous life in an instant, as if she was still in the obstetrics and gynecology operating room, counting medicines and equipment with the nurses before the operation.
However, at this moment, she immediately began to prepare the medicine, and even took out the pain pump medicine for use.
"Comrade Ziru, are you going to bandage their wounds now?" Officer Zhang couldn't help but come in and ask.
"Let's deal with No. 6 and No. 17 first, and then deal with the others. They are the most seriously injured. If the bullet casings are not taken out, they will bleed to death." Wang Ziru remained calm. While dispensing medicine, her sharp eyes searched around for various surgeons' scalpels.