The label of this medicine bottle had four italic characters written on it: "Express fatigue and cure disease". Zhou Changfeng's first reaction was that this was a painkiller?
Just like people in the original plane translated Paracetamol as "paracetamol", people in Ming Dynasty naturally pursued honesty and elegance when translating foreign languages, so Zhou Changfeng did not understand the meaning of the text.
It seems that the only non-steroidal analgesic and anti-inflammatory drug commonly used these days is aspirin, right? Other painkillers are the kind of stuff you shouldn't touch.
Facing his suspicious look, the military doctor Lieutenant Xie explained: "This is a new antibacterial drug jointly developed by Qianyuan Company and Merck. The first phase of clinical trials performed well. This time we caught up and specially issued a drug for us. batch."
In fact, this "deficient disease" is sulfadiazine, which was extracted by Shanghai Qianyuan Pharmaceutical Company and Merck's branch in Daming.
A few years ago, the famous German company Farben discovered the bacteriostatic "Bailang Duoxi", which was the first artificially synthesized antibacterial drug in human history. Subsequently, the Pasteur Institute in France discovered that its active ingredient was actually It was sulfonamide, and the name of sulfonamide became a global sensation.
For the first time, humans have drugs that can combat bacterial infections, so more than 200 papers have appeared in just two years, which shows how popular it is.
Sulfonamide drugs are a huge family, and people have synthesized hundreds of them in a few years. However, their properties vary. The key is to find sulfonamide drugs with good efficacy and few side effects.
Sulfadiazine is translated as "expressing deficiency and fixing the disease" by Xindaya of Qianyuan Company. It is a broad-spectrum bacteriostatic agent and has inhibitory effect on most Gram-positive and -negative bacteria.
As a result, this achievement immediately attracted the attention of the imperial court, and animal experiments and clinical trials were carried out one after another. Moreover, due to the situation in Uzbekistan, before the experiment was completed, the Ministry of War issued an order to produce a small amount and provide it to the army. If the clinical trials were not hindered, Everyone is happy, otherwise it will be destroyed on the spot.
Zhou Changfeng didn't take it seriously. Since the test was correct, just take it. In this era without antibiotics, what more could you ask for if you have sulfonamide antibacterial drugs?
After asking about the specific conditions of each defense zone one by one, he went to rest peacefully - moved a few wooden boxes together and spread a blanket to serve as a bed.
When Zhou Changfeng fell asleep to the sporadic sound of gunfire, there was a busy scene at Lingzhi's airstrip.
Fighters usually don't take off and land here, and there are usually only contact opportunities here. Therefore, the Air Force has very few ground staff stationed here, only about 20 people.
At this moment, two trucks loaded with ammunition were being unloaded, and the quartermaster was signing the handover with the ground support team leader.
Bullets, artillery shells, grenades, and explosives are all packed in standard wooden boxes, and will then be packed into prefabricated airdrop boxes.
In order to carry out this airdrop mission, the Air Force dispatched four Type 29 twin-engine service aircraft from Lhasa, which are expected to arrive at Yinshi.
The night seemed to be particularly short and fleeting. The northern and southern capitals of the empire were already bustling with traffic, but Lingzhi, located in the East Sixth District, had just seen the white fish belly on the horizon.
Naturally, there were no approach lights on the runway of the airstrip, so several planes could only land slowly following piles of bonfires.
After landing on the ground, people swarmed forward and began to move the airdrop boxes weighing 250 kilograms into the cabin.
The twin-engine, double-wing Type 29 service aircraft is far from comparable to a serious transport aircraft. Its two engines are domestically produced models of Pratt & Whitney's R-985 "Little Hornet". They are air-cooled, star-shaped, and have a maximum output power of 450 match.
However, in the high-altitude Uszang area, the engine output has dropped significantly. The Type 29 service aircraft that was originally capable of carrying one ton of cargo or six people can now only carry half of the cargo.
As for why transport planes were not dispatched to carry out this mission, the main reason is that the Air Force considered that the first battalion was oppressed in the urban area of Dimaji. The high-speed transport planes would airdrop supplies at large distances. I am afraid that many supplies would not fall into our own control area. Therefore, After weighing, we chose a service aircraft that could fly at slow speeds and have a small circling radius.
An hour and a half later, the four planes crossed over the mountains at the eastern foot of the Himalayas and arrived in the sky above the small Dhemaj.
The Ming army on the ground immediately released four blue smoke canisters in the southeast, northwest, and north to mark the airdrop area.
Unlike transport aircraft with semi-automatic airdrop tracks, the airdrop method of service aircraft is very primitive - manually hook the parachute hook to the steel cable, open the hatch after reaching the target, and kick the airdrop box down.
"Attention all aircraft, descend to 250 meters and slow down and circle."
Four planes circled over Demaji at an extremely slow speed. The buzzing sound of their engines excited the officers and soldiers of a battalion on the ground. Everyone looked up and watched the snow-white parachutes slowly floating down.
Not to be outdone, the British and Indian troops outside the city organized machine gun fire and fired into the air. Tracer bullets streaked through the sky and fired directly.
Zhou Changfeng immediately ordered a shooting to hinder the enemy's anti-aircraft shooting.
Twenty 250-pound airdrop boxes landed one after another, and the excited soldiers rushed to pick up the goods. This scene reminded Zhou Changfeng of people going to get takeout.
He left the headquarters with the same interest, intending to join in the fun, but he didn't go far when he heard loud gunfire from the northwest, and it wasn't far away. It seemed to be in the city?
Without hesitation, he immediately summoned a nearby platoon, and then headed northwest with one squad at the forefront.
After walking through several streets and alleys among the rubble and broken walls, they arrived at the firefighting area, and the group immediately sought cover nearby.
I saw an airdrop box falling in the middle of a three-way intersection. The bodies of four or five Ming army soldiers fell near it. The only remaining wounded man was hiding behind the airdrop box to bandage himself. The blood they shed covered the The snow-white parachutes covering the ground were stained red.
There were more than a dozen soldiers scattered nearby, all hiding behind bunkers and firing back.
Good guy? Guarding the airdrop box to fight an ambush, right?
Zhou Changfeng immediately discovered the evil enemy army - unknown in size, hiding in the ruins of a two-story brick and concrete house to the north of the three-way intersection.
This house is in a good location and has a good shooting range. It was originally planned to be used as a fire support point for subsequent street battles, but it was destroyed by an aerial bomb during yesterday's air raid.
Of course, the ruins can also be used to place firepower points, and they are more concealed and unpredictable. But in the end, this "enemy" turned out to be our own side?
This British-Indian army that penetrated into the city was so bold that Zhou Changfeng was very unhappy. He immediately sent an order to send another platoon to support.
Last night, the second team took advantage of the darkness to make a large circle to reach No. 0 Heights and switch defenses with the first team, which suffered heavy losses there. There was a gap of about an hour and a half in which the defense was empty. He estimated that this enemy team took advantage of the opportunity. At that time, he quietly penetrated past the defense line and entered the city.
