Chapter 178

After disinfection with iodophor, combined with the medical arts of this era, it was enough for most of the soldiers to get better!

As for those who were seriously injured, Lin Yang was also at his wit's end!

"Yes, my lord!"

Personally watching Lin Yang operate and hearing his explanation, the physician responsible for treatment in the army had eyes that were shining!

In order to make the other party understand the concept of disinfection!

When Lin Yang explained it, he also modified it slightly, changing the concept of disinfection to "evil energy"!

Iodophor could prevent evil energy from entering the body!

For the physician, this was simply a tremendous surprise!

Taking the iodophor with both hands, the army physician treated it like a precious treasure!

After finishing all this, Lin Yang left with Cheng Yu, Zhao Yun, and the others!

Watching Lin Yang's actions throughout the night, Cheng Yu, Zhao Yun, and the others were deeply shaken!

First distributing cotton-padded clothes, and now understanding medical arts!

Involuntarily, the gazes of Cheng Yu, Zhao Yun, and the others turned toward him!

"My lord, just how much more are you hiding!"

Cheng Yu thought of the black gunpowder that had previously caused the "earth dragon to turn over," and could not help but sigh inwardly!

And just as Lin Yang was doing this, on the other side, in Huaiyincheng!

"This damn weather is getting colder and colder!"

"Who's to say it isn't? The meat soup from before is gone now too!"

"Heh, being able to escape back here is good enough!"

"That's not how you put it; I heard the captives in the enemy army are eating better than us!"

"Shh, keep your voice down, are you looking for death?"

"......"

In a corner of Huaiyincheng, dozens of soldiers sat together, leaning against firewood, whispering to each other!

Ever since the battle outside Huaiyincheng, they had been defeated!

Now their food standards had also dropped quite a bit!

The meat soup they had before had also been stopped!

The reason given!

Was that since they had lost the battle, they still wanted to drink meat soup?

Zhao Yu, as the commander-in-chief, was under immense pressure and had become increasingly strict with the soldiers!

It was said that he had even shouted the slogan of defending Huaiyincheng to the death!

Regarding such a slogan!

The group of people only wanted to say!

Zhao Yu should die!

In the previous battle, Tao Qian's main force of twenty thousand Danyang soldiers had been routed, with only six thousand surviving!

Most of the remaining people were soldiers Zhao Yu had brought from Xiapi and Peng Cheng!

Although this group was also under Tao Qian!

They were not his main force, nor were they his trusted elite!

If it weren't for being trapped in Huaiyincheng now!

Zhao Yu has also dispatched battle supervisors to patrol constantly; they all want to become deserters now!

In the chaotic era of the Eastern Han Dynasty, being a deserter is actually quite normal!

Unless they were truly in a desperate situation, ordinary soldiers would not fight to the death!

"Hmph, what does the defeat have to do with us? Those black-armored cavalrymen, swords couldn't cut them, arrows couldn't hurt them; if we didn't run, were we supposed to wait for death!"

One of the soldiers vented his dissatisfaction, his eyes still harboring fear of the Iron Pagodas!

"Besides, General Zhao ran faster than us!"

Yes!

When Zhao Yu retreated, he was the one who ran the fastest!

Even to ensure his own safe retreat!

The Danyang soldiers had suffered heavy losses!

In terms of success or failure, Zhao Yu was the one who should take the blame!

"Now, they are wearing fox-fur coats and eating meat soup, while letting us freeze and starve here!"

The murmuring words vented the soldiers' resentment!

Such words also voiced the inner thoughts of everyone!

"If I had known it would be like this, I would have just surrendered to Lin Yang!"

As soon as the words were out, a fellow villager and companion beside him hurriedly covered his mouth!

Such words!

Once known by the supervising officers, they would definitely die!

The next day, early in the morning!

"My lord, regarding the bodies of Tao Qian's troops, should we send them over?"

Now in the dead of winter, the Battle of Huaiyin had already ended for several days!

The bodies on the battlefield had also been processed!

The bodies on Lin Yang's side had already been properly settled and transported back to Guanglingcheng!

As for the bodies of Tao Qian's soldiers, because Zhao Yu feared the charge of the Iron Pagodas, they had not been processed!

"Uh, Zhongde, the dead should be at peace!"

Seeing Cheng Yu bring up the bodies, Lin Yang's heart skipped a beat, and he hurriedly said!

He was truly afraid!

Afraid that Cheng Yu would say something like, "In the dead of winter, the army needs meat for nourishment!"

"My lord, I know that!"

Cheng Yu nodded; now that the military camp had plenty of meat, he hadn't set his sights on the bodies!

Seeing that Cheng Yu had no plans to make jerky, Lin Yang breathed a sigh of relief!

"Send people to transport the soldiers' bodies over!"

Although it was winter, having so many bodies piled up there was not a solution!

If they weren't processed!

Sooner or later, there would be a plague!

Plagues in ancient times were no joke!

In a situation with extremely poor medical conditions, once a plague broke out!

The entire army would completely collapse!

Because there was no way to treat it, once a plague appeared, the best way to handle it was to bury them all directly, or burn them!

This was why in history!

Whenever a plague appeared, entire villages were slaughtered!

There was no other way!

This was the best way to isolate it!

And when two armies fought, unless it was a fight to the death!

Otherwise, they would generally process the bodies of their own fallen soldiers!

One reason was for the "fallen leaves to return to their roots"!

The second was to prevent a plague from breaking out due to the accumulation of a large number of bodies!

"My lord, should we send them now?"

Hearing Lin Yang's order, Cheng Yu couldn't help but ask one more question!

"Uh!"

Lin Yang turned his head in confusion and glanced at Cheng Yu!

This sentence made Lin Yang's body tremble!