In the 19th century, people's lifespan was very short, and the requirements for age and basic education were not so high. Many geniuses were able to make a mark on their respective stages early.
These figures often appear together in the art world, and they can win the favor of royal nobles before they reach adulthood, simply because artistic creation relies on talent and inspiration rather than experience accumulated over time.
But even so, Kawei's promotion along the way can be called magic. To be recognized by almost all surgeons at such an age, and to be reused by King Franz at the same time, was unprecedented in the Austrian medical community.
Caesarean section, Justina's modified breast cancer resection + breast reconstruction, Fernand's abdominal surgery, Marshal Ludwig's spine surgery
In the 19th century, when surgical conditions were extremely harsh, Kawei managed to reach this point by relying on one operation after another that was beyond current knowledge.
Military medicine, including medical logistics, requires a complete set of systems to ensure operation. Maintaining the old routine will definitely cause considerable trouble, so at first he wanted the entire military medical department to make changes.
It's a pity that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers. Being another person in charge equal to Edinson does not eliminate some people's doubts. On the surface, he was granted a royal license, but at the critical moment, Kawei's qualifications and title still failed to convince the public.
If you stand on the forefront, everyone will stare at you. Rather than doing this, it is better to take a step back.
Finally, after discussion, Carvey chose to give up his power to interfere with the military medical office and the medical committee, and further reduced his power to intervene in surgical operations. He only took over the Northern Front Olmitz Army Fortress General Hospital from Edinson and became the director there.
I only got this after Archduke Brecht helped me talk.
Power is meaningful only when it is recognized by his subordinates. This kind of exchange and active concession made Kawei feel relaxed.
In Edinson's eyes, the northern front was closest to Vienna and was heavily garrisoned. It was also Austria's main attack direction, so the situation would not be too severe. Even if there really was a war, the battle line would have already advanced to Silesia, and it would have little to do with Kawei who stayed behind.
Life will be very comfortable, and at the same time, you will not get any meritorious honors.
After decentralization, among the military hospitals of the entire Austrian army, only the Olmitz and Jodek hospitals on the northern front strictly abide by Kawei's "Military Medical Manual", and all the hospitals used are those who are willing to follow Kawei. surgeon.
On the Western Front, the army as a whole focused on defense.
The town of Muchen along the Isar River was the top priority this time. The general hospital there was built under the supervision of Edinson himself, and its overall level was basically equivalent to the Prussian hospital in Gransenyi.
Of course, this is also related to the size of the town. There is no large hospital like Olmitz, and everything needs to be expanded on the basis of small hospitals.
With this four-month preparation period, it is not a problem at all to complete the expansion of a 1,500+ bed hospital. Kawei originally also gave a list of logistics supplies needed by the hospital, as well as a ward planning map. Including how to eliminate rodents and pests, how to disinfect wards, how to clean bed sheets and equipment, how to get water, how to transport supplies, wounded soldiers, etc.
Unfortunately, Edinson still maintained the original arrangement and did not adopt it.
He only made a small expansion on the original basis of the small hospital, and then placed a large number of wards in private houses around the hospital, using simple wall panels to enclose a large medical area. This indeed saved costs and would not bring much change to the city after leaving, but he seriously underestimated the intensity of battlefield casualties.
Within three days, the 1,000 beds brought by private housing were quickly exhausted. Faced with the continuous influx of wounded soldiers being evacuated, it was obviously impossible to expand further, and the only way to solve the accommodation problem was to rely on tents.
By the third day, they also ran out of tents, and could only use churches and some large houses in the town as temporary settlement sites for wounded soldiers.
The ward was only one of the difficulties he encountered. The more critical problem was that he failed to take into account the number of wounded soldiers before, and the four expanded operating rooms also experienced serious congestion.
The operating room here cannot be compared with the professional operating room carefully renovated by Kawei. There is no connected logistics warehouse, no regular disinfection and cleaning, and no green expressway connected to the ward. If you want to send a patient for surgery, you need to find a private house where the patient is located and then call a carriage to transport it, which is time-consuming and labor-intensive.
What's even more troublesome is that the area of the operating room is very limited.
Unlike Carvey, Edinson has difficulty breaking away from the constraints of the internal layout of the operating theater. One operating room and one operating table severely limits the utilization of the operating room.
Of the 2,300 casualties, nearly 800 required timely surgery. Only four operating rooms were obviously not enough. In the end, it evolved into a situation where residential buildings were renovated or directly used as operating rooms, and the concept of disinfection that Kawei emphasized before disappeared.
When everything changed due to the surge in the number of personnel, the doctors' treatment operations began to deform, and the operations became disorganized. Everything was performed to complete the mission, rather than to treat the wounded soldiers.
The director of Muchen General Hospital is Etler, a chief physician who came all the way from Hungary.
The reason Edinson was willing to hand over the management of this hospital to him is because the 45-year-old Etler opened a hospital in Budapest, Hungary and has 14 years of hospital management experience. At the same time, he also agrees with Edinson's philosophy. No matter how you look at it, Etler is a very rare talent.
But managing a dental hospital and a front-line military hospital are completely different things. On the second day of the war, Etler encountered a lot of trouble.
What troubled him the most was not the treatment of wounded soldiers, but language communication.
Austria's Western Front troops were mixed with Hungarians, Czechs, Poles, and even Slavs in some troops, and it was difficult to unify their languages. Moreover, the morale of these non-Austrian soldiers was far from excellent, and they began to spread panic in the wards as soon as they encountered setbacks. 【1】
Soon, this panic, accompanied by sensitive soldier casualty figures, spread to the entire Western Front military camp.
Austria could only build fortifications with the Royal Saxon Army on the east bank of the Isar River to resist the Prussian attack.
The battle damage on October 3 directly shattered the last strength of the Austrian military camp. The casualties of more than 1,000 people far exceeded the 130 Prussian soldiers.
This kind of battle-loss ratio could not be tolerated by the commander-in-chief Archduke Brecht, so after he sent the Sixth Army to the Muchen front line on October 4, after much deliberation, he decided to skip Edinson and send it directly to Olmi. Kawei from Fort Ci sent a telegram.
The disadvantages in equipment have been highlighted. If medical logistics remains as messed up as it is now, the war will undoubtedly fail.
Kavi received the translation of the telegram on the morning of October 8, organized a medical team and left Olmitz.
He left Hills to run the fort hospital on his behalf, and Bill Rotter to oversee all surgical operations as chief surgeon. Ignatz, the first trauma treatment team, Lucius, Goram, Sarson and a group of assistants and nurses were packed up by him and sent onto a carriage bound for the small town of Muchen on the Western Front.
There were all elites here, escorted by the Royal Guards who were originally responsible for the safety of Kawei. The journey went smoothly and no problems were encountered.
However, Mu Chen at this time is no longer the Mu Chen he was four days ago.
After the Sixth Army entered the Western Front battlefield, Deputy Marshal Wilhelm von Laming under Archduke Brecht immediately commanded the troops to cross the Isar River again and had a fight with Prussian Lieutenant General Metz who was deploying troops in the riverside town. Face to face.
The battle started in the early morning of October 8.
Deputy Marshal Laming's night attack was very effective, and the timing happened to be stuck at night when supplies were being transported.
Countless baggage trains and artillery carts were crowded on the throat road leading to the town. Even Metz and his staff were trapped in this "traffic jam." The Prussian troops looked bloated here, and the entire marching team seemed to be squeezed in the middle, unable to move, let alone make effective decisions.
The troops could not deploy, and the vanguard was caught off guard.
It was not until the middle of the night, after all the hard work, that Metz's main force got out of the crowd, and quickly ordered the army to shrink its defense and withstand Lamin's first wave of offensive.
The two armies made brief repairs in the morning, and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the Prussian and Austrian armies had a real battle on the high ground since the war began. Deputy Marshal Laming's 1st Brigade of the Sixth Army occupied the commanding heights first and launched a courageous and fierce resistance to the revised Prussian attack.
Among them, the hunters under Lamin's command performed the most outstandingly.
However, the Prussian army immediately launched a counterattack with the rapid firepower of the new rifles. By about 4 o'clock in the afternoon, the 1st Brigade was in pieces under the attack of the Prussian army. Laming, who learned of the situation, immediately sent another brigade to support, but unfortunately, this brigade soon met a similar fate.
During the battle, rows of Austrian infantry were riddled with bullets and bomb fragments. Under the huge firepower, they fell in groups among the grass and thorns.
The battle was extremely fierce, and people couldn't help but recall the scene with the French at the Battle of Solferino seven years ago. The dead bodies piled up, and the soldiers who followed continued to move forward, stepping on the corpses of their comrades, and then became new corpses
It was because of too many casualties in the battle that neither Nassan nor Franz was in the mood to fight again. In the end, Austria failed and abandoned the Lombardy region.
However, Lamin misjudged the situation at this time. He thought that the Prussians were exhausted after several fierce battles, so he sent his elite cavalry in the evening, hoping to end the battle in one fell swoop.
However, the Austrian cavalry was quickly intercepted by Metz's dragoons and lancers.
At the same time, because the baggage transportation in the rear town was opened, more infantry and artillery poured into the battlefield and joined the battle. At 8 o'clock in the evening, after several waves of nearly suicidal charges by the heroic Austrian cavalry failed completely, the stubborn Lamin finally gave the order to retreat.
The embarrassed remaining soldiers crossed the Isar River and returned to the small town of Muchen.
In this battle, the total losses of the Austrian army exceeded 6,000 people, of which 2,500 were declared dead or missing. Prussia on the opposite side only lost 62 officers and 1,060 soldiers, of which only 315 were killed.
Until October 12, when Kavi brought his medical team to the Western Front battlefield, the original Muchen General Hospital had already left the control of the Austrian army and became part of Prussia.
On the night of the 8th, Lamin, who suffered a disastrous defeat in the battle, left the Isar River with the remaining troops and continued to retreat eastward. The Austro-Saharan coalition originally in Muchen was no match for the Prussians, so they left with them.
Originally, according to the predictions of Archduke Brecht and Laming, the Prussians would not advance too fast.
But it turns out that both Austrian commanders underestimated their opponents' marching speed.
Lieutenant General Metz did not choose to wait for the main force in the rear. He deeply understood the essence of Moltke's command of operations and acted extremely decisively on the spot. As soon as the Austrian army retreated, he organized his troops to quickly cross the river and launch an attack on the small town of Muchen on the east bank of the Isar River.
If the Austro-Saharan coalition did not retreat together, the attack would inevitably fail.
It's a pity that there is no if in the world, and Metz won the bet.
The Prussian troops crushed the remaining Austrian troops all the way east until they came to the outskirts of Gablenz, 25 kilometers east of Muchen, and encountered a fierce counterattack by Lamin's artillery, and then stopped.
Metz's troops only had 6 artillery pieces and could not provide effective artillery support to the attacking friendly forces. At this critical moment, the Prussian infantry went against the norm and launched a bayonet charge against the Austrian army.
The second gamble was successful again. From the moment the bayonets of the Prussian-Austrian soldiers saw red, the armies of both sides began to suffer completely equal casualties.
The hand-to-hand fighting lasted for more than an hour, and the main Prussian force caught up. Laming's Sixth Army could only get rid of the entanglement of the Prussian troops and announced its retreat again.
"So the Western Front retreated 30 kilometers and now it has reached Gablenz." Kawei looked at the map on the wall and shook his head repeatedly. "There is no military hospital prepared before. Everything is temporary."
As the head of the Western Front General Hospital in Muchen, Etler stood in front of Kawei: "Doctor Kawei, everything is in chaos. Our army has too many casualties and there is no time to deal with it."
"I saw them all along the way."
Kawei felt very sad. If he was deployed to the Western Front, he might not be much better off. The outcome of the frontline battle was not directly related to military doctors, and in the end they had no choice but to retreat.
However, Etler's handling method was indeed too amateurish. If it were him, even if he retreated, it would not be so disorderly.
Kawei sighed, not intending to blame him: "At this point, there is nothing to explain. Fortunately, there are also things to be thankful for."
"What's up?"
"At least the Prussians did not notice any difference between the Austrian military medical system and their own."
Kawei teased him, took out Archduke Brecht's message from his pocket and handed it over: "I received an order from the commander-in-chief and came here to support me. I hope Dean Etler can give me the greatest support."
(End of chapter)
