Zhao Xin is very grateful that he insisted on running four kilometers every day a while ago.
He and Jiuzang first headed south, then along the coast to the southwest, until after running six or seven kilometers, he couldn't run anymore. After resting for half an hour, the two of them crossed southward on the ice of the island's bay. The width of the ice here is only more than 800 meters.
Fortunately, as soon as they crossed the ice, Lu Shoushan and Hengji came back to pick them up on their sledges.
Zhao Xin lay stretched out on the sledge, feeling more tired than a dog and almost stuck out his tongue.
The ten horses purchased years ago cannot be transported to the rented pasture until late January. Zhao Xin was thinking about buying two sleighs at this time. If he ran like this on foot again, he would be completely disabled.
Just thinking about it like this, an hour later, we finally arrived at the camp.
Zhao Xin endured the pain in the soles of his feet and stood up from the sledge. Lu Shoushan saw Zhao Xin's fatigue, so he helped Zhao Xin back to the car.
A Miao also entered the car at this time and followed Zhao Xin.
After Zhao Xin put away the rifle, he found the medicine box. He took a plate of antipyretics, a disposable syringe, and then took out two tetanus antitoxin injections from the bottom of the medicine box.
It was said that it was not easy for him to obtain these tetanus antitoxin injections. Regular hospitals will never prescribe it to unrelated people, and you can't buy it online. Zhao Xin found internal connections and used the excuse that his relative's foot was pierced by a nail and he couldn't come to the hospital, so he managed to get such a small prescription.
As for himself, Liu Sheng and the others, they had already received the tetanus vaccine.
Zhao Xin found a bag and asked A Miao to put all these things in. He also took two thermometers, alcohol, iodine, saline, cotton wool, gauze, tweezers, and Yunnan Baiyao powder, and stuffed them all into the bag.
Then I washed my hands.
Zhao Mongolian doctor Xin started his second medical practice in this time and space after treating Pan Xiucheng and Xu Funan last time.
The Serdan family, Yalha and Henji were all placed in a tent. After a few people settled down, they curiously looked at the stove and new quilts in the tent for a while, and then began to feel anxious again. Here are two wounded!
The door curtain flickered, and Zhao Xin staggered in, followed by Lu Shoushan and A Miao.
At this time, Serdan was lying sideways on the mat, still conscious; Yalha was still in a high fever coma.
Zhao Xin thought for a while, then took out the thermometer and placed it under their armpits.
Then he asked Lu Shoushan to take off Serdan's robe, roll up his sleeves, and expose his forearms. While Lu Shoushan and Serdan's family were busy, he took out the tetanus injection, first dipped some alcohol into cotton wool, and asked A Miao to wipe all his hands with it and perform a simple disinfection.
Then he installed the disposable needle and held it in his hand. Holding the ampoule (bu, four sounds) of the injection with both hands, he broke the bottleneck with a slight force and a soft "pop" sound, and then used the syringe to draw it out. About 0.1 ml, and another 0.9 ml was drawn from the bottle of physiological saline. After shaking to mix, prepare for skin testing.
(Those who have not received the tetanus vaccine must take a skin test before taking the serum, otherwise allergies will cause death.)
Zhao Xin followed the way he remembered the nurse doing a skin test on him when he was a child. He first used alcohol cotton to disinfect Serdan's entire forearm, and then prepared to make a small skin test blister on the front of his forearm.
I had to lift the needle up...pick it...but I failed and the skin was torn!
Come again... come again... I'll go! ……continue……
The Serdan family watched in stunned silence as the big leader in front of them held a strange thin needle and made small cuts one after another on Serdan's arm.
"Mom, Ama's arm is bleeding." Genggen whispered to Serdan's wife Dachun.
"Don't talk nonsense, this is to let blood to remove poison." Dachun said hesitantly. But she felt in her heart that if she was bleeding to remove the poison, wouldn't the amount of blood she drained be too little? It is said that shamans cut directly with knives...
Fortunately, Zhao Xin was too busy to care about what others said. After knowing this, he immediately became a big star and could directly set up the stage to play Guan Gong.
Novice Zhao was shaking slightly, with sweat dripping from his forehead. After trying seven or eight times, it finally worked!
Yeah~~ This guy let out a sigh of relief, thinking that this is fucking harder than embroidery!
Just as Zhao Xing was about to raise his hand to wipe his sweat, A Miao took a towel and wiped it for him. At this time, little A Miao opened her big eyes, filled with admiration. The master's medical skills are so amazing!
"Tell them to wait for now. If everything goes well after a while, you can take medicine." Zhao Xin said to Lu Shoushan.
After listening to Lu Shoushan's words, the Serdan family realized that it was not over yet, and their hearts that were about to let go started to rise again.
Zhao Xin took this time to look at the thermometers of the two of them. Serdan is in good condition and only has a low fever; Yalha has a high fever of over 39 degrees.
Zhao Xin asked Lu Shoushan to quickly ask Yalha about his frostbite and tell him. As soon as he heard that the cotton on Yarha's body would be tied up and could not be untied for seven days, he gave up the idea of changing the gauze. I found anti-inflammatory medicine and antipyretic medicine from the bag and asked A Miao to help feed them with water.
Then, he also performed a skin test on the back of Yalha's neck.
Fortunately, Dr. Zhao, whose technique became more and more "proficient", succeeded this time in only five times. During this period, Yalha, who had fallen asleep, was struck by the needle in Zhao Xin's hand and her head shivered.
Zhao Xin went to see the results of Serdan's skin test again. They were very good and there was no allergic reaction. So he took out all the tetanus injection from an ampoule, stuck a needle in Serdan's upper arm, and pushed the injection in.
Immediately afterwards, he asked A Miao to untie the cloth wrapped around Serdan's right back shoulder blade, use tweezers with alcohol cotton to wipe the wound, and even poke the cotton soaked in alcohol into the wound to wipe away the pus and blood inside.
Serdan didn't feel anything bad when Zhao Xin was "bloodletting and removing poison" just now, but now the pain was unbearable. He gritted his teeth hard, and every time alcohol touched the wound, his face was throbbing with pain.
Hengji looked at everything in front of him with fear. His legs were so weak that he could no longer stand up. But the high alcohol smell emitted by the alcohol cotton made him salivate, and he always wanted to take the small bottle of wine and take a sip.
Zhao Xin felt that the time was almost up, so he asked A Miao to continue treating Serdan's wounds. He checked Yalha's skin test results and found no allergic reaction, so he gave Yalha a shot of tetanus toxin in her butt.
For Yalha, Zhao Xin could only do this. If his condition worsens, he will have to resign himself to his fate. (High fever that persists will lead to increased intracranial pressure. In severe cases, puncture treatment is required to reduce intracranial pressure. This operation is difficult for non-professionals.)
After A Miao finished treating Serdan's wound, Zhao Xin took a look, sprinkled some Yunnan Baiyao powder on a piece of gauze, covered Serdan's wound, and wrapped it with gauze.
After all this work, Zhao Xin relaxed and was so tired that he dozed off.
Before leaving, he told Serdan's family through Lu Shoushan that the gauze and medicine needed to be changed every day. There was no problem, and they just needed to rest and recover. As for Yalha, Zhao Xin's opinion was that if the fever occurred after half a day, If the fever subsides, then everything is fine. If the fever does not subside, then it depends on whether Yalha's life is strong or not.
With all the gratitude from Serdan's family and Hengji, Zhao Xin got out of the tent and returned to the car, fell directly on the bed and began to purr. While snoring, A Miao took off Zhao Xin's shoes and put them away, covered him with a quilt, and then quietly walked to the table beside him.
"Meow" Duofu jumped from the table to A Miao's feet and rubbed his head against the human slave's calf.
A Miao held Duofu in her arms and tried to recall every step that Zhao Xin made in the tent.
More than two hours later, Zhao Xin woke up from his sleep. He was always thinking about the Qing soldiers coming, so he slept very restlessly. After washing his face and drinking the tea A Miao made, he felt less uncomfortable.
"A Miao, go find Lu Shoushan." Zhao Xin ordered A Miao while chewing compressed biscuits and checking the weapons.
After a while, Lu Shoushan came.
"Master, what are your orders?" He had been accompanying the Seldan family in the tent just now, and briefly told them about himself and the situation in the camp. He looked very sleepy at the moment.
"Shoushan, ask that...that person to prepare the sledge and take me to the observation post."
"Master, I'll go with you." Lu Shoushan raised his head and said without hesitation.
However, when Zhao Xin was carrying a big bag and was about to set off with Lu Shoushan, four people, Liji, Wan Zao, Pingtai, and Jiuzang, who heard the news, came over with knives and wanted to go with Zhao Xin. Zhao Xin only called Jiuzang, who had good military strength, and asked Liji and the three of them to stay at the camp to avoid chaos.
This time it was Elu who drove the sledge. When he heard that Lu Shoushan said that he was sending his master to the beach in the north, he rushed to go with him. Zhao Xin's dedicated treatment of Serdan made Elu very grateful and always wanted to repay him.
More than an hour later, the group of four returned to the observation point.
"Liu Sheng, Liu Sheng, what's going on? It's over."
"No movement. It's over." Liu Sheng knew that Zhao Xin was back, so he walked out of the wooden shed at the observation point.
"Here." After the sledge stopped, Zhao Xin handed the big backpack he was carrying to Liu Sheng.
"What is this?" Liu Sheng asked casually while opening his backpack to check. "Smoke bomb?" Liu Sheng took out a cylindrical object wrapped in a plastic bag from his bag.
"Yeah. I bought it at the outdoor store in the city before coming here."
In the backpack, in addition to four spare magazines and two boxes of ammunition, there were six smoke bombs individually wrapped in plastic, four pistols, and a pile of food.
Speaking of which, the outdoor store was the one where Zhao Xin saw a Gatling gun inside. The grenades and smoke bombs sold in the store are just like the lemons in the fruit shop, packed one by one in sealed plastic bags. People don't sell grenades casually, but you can still buy smoke grenades, so Zhao Xin bought ten of them to see the effect of using them first.
The two returned to the wooden shed, took out the topographic map of Bear Island, and speculated on how the Qing soldiers would act if they came.
Some time ago, since the four of them were discovered by Lu Shoushan, Liu Sheng, Wang Yuanfang and the others have gone out to investigate every day. They have already compared and verified the topography of the island with the photos taken by drones. The land area of the entire island is only more than 100 square kilometers, with the longest distance from east to west being 13 kilometers, and the distance from north to south being only 18 kilometers. Especially the terrain in the northern part of Bear Island, Liu Sheng and the others already knew it by heart.
Zhao Xin didn't know much about the tactics of the Qing soldiers, so he called Lu Shoushan, Pan Xiucheng and Elu to inquire. The three of them complemented each other on what they knew about the weapons configuration of the Qing troops.
The armor worn by Hunchun armored soldiers is all foam-nailed cotton armor. Zhao Xin knew that the cotton armor of this era was made from picked cotton that was wetted and beaten repeatedly to make thin cotton sheets; then multiple such cotton sheets were embellished into thick enough cotton cloth. An iron armor piece is placed between two layers of cotton cloth, and the inside and outside are fixed with copper nails (bubble nails). The cotton armor made in this way has a very good defensive effect against general firearms such as shotguns, and the iron armor pieces inside have defensive capabilities against bows and crossbows; and the foam nails on the outside can also prevent cutting by sharp weapons; the climate outside the customs is cold, and the cotton armor has a cold-proof effect. Very good.
After talking about armor, then there is the war horse. Each of the armored soldiers in Hunchun has a horse, and there is more than one. Most of the armored soldiers who are on missions are one man and two horses. Pan Xiucheng recalled that Ning Guta's deputy capital Tongyi had 20 war horses.
As for weapons, they are mainly bows and arrows, waist knives and spears. According to Elu, a small number of armored soldiers were also equipped with fire guns.
After listening to the explanations of the three people, Liu Sheng said to Zhao Xin confidently: "That's it, it's a piece of cake. I think that after the Qing soldiers landed, they would first search for traces of people, carriages and horses, and then they would follow the traces left on the snow. Search all the way with their footprints. The route left by our horses and sledges is their search route. So..."
He pointed to the river valley on the map near the middle of Bear Island. "As long as we ambush here, none of them will be able to escape."
Zhao Xin decided to ask Sheng Haizhou, who had been listening, to call the others for a meeting, and Liu Sheng arranged the ambush mission.
Liu Sheng used branches to draw the terrain near the river valley on the snow, and explained the division of responsibilities of everyone present one by one according to the principle of encircling all the circles and leaving no one behind.
As for Elu, Zhao Xin asked him to drive the sledge to transport everyone to the ambush site in the valley, and then return to the camp.
As Lu Shoushan continued to explain, the foolish and bold Elu heard that the big leader was planning to wipe out all the armored soldiers on the island. He looked at Zhao Xin and Liu Sheng with his mouth open in surprise, feeling that this was impossible!
So when he heard from Lu Shoushan that the big leader asked him to transport all the people to the river valley and then return to the camp, he firmly refused and said that he must follow him to participate in the ambush. He also said that his bow and arrow skills were very good.
"Okay, where are your arrows?" Zhao Xin glanced at Elu who was carrying a bow, and then asked.
"It's on the sledge, sir." Lu Shoushan answered for Elu.
"You tell him that without orders from Master Liu and me, he is not allowed to attack or move around during the ambush. If he alerts the Qing soldiers because of his disorderly behavior, Master, I will tell his family to get out!"
