1855 United States Tycoon

The battle ended when the southern army stopped its offensive. In just one attack, dozens of people were killed, and dozens of others were wounded and fell on the battlefield filled with gunpowder, constantly wailing. Especially the soldiers who rushed through a barbed wire fence but were blown to the ground by landmines. Now they can no longer escape through the barbed wire fence, they can only cover their injured feet and wailing loudly.

"Send military envoys and ask them to abide by the previous agreement and treat the prisoners and the wounded in a humanitarian manner." Jackson said.

"No, they are already in action. Jackson, look over there!" General Pierre Borregard put down the binoculars in his hand and pointed to the opposite side with his right hand. "Look, the red cross flag on the white background."

Jackson looked over there. At this time, the fog on the battlefield caused by the constant shooting in the battle just now had begun to dissipate, and a red cross flag with a white background suddenly jumped out of the dispersing fog. Behind the flag, a group of people in white medical uniforms are carefully following some soldiers in military uniforms with a white red cross on their sleeves, and walked into the green grass. It looks peaceful and quiet, but it is a perilous land full of mines. They marched crookedly, carefully approached the wailing wounded soldiers, carried them onto a stretcher, and then carefully carried them back.

Jackson looked through the telescope and saw a wounded soldier fell in a corner near the barbed wire fence. Several soldiers carrying the red cross sign stopped a few meters away from him. One of the soldiers was holding a handful of multi-purpose engineers. The shovel squatted down cautiously, not knowing what he was doing. After a while, Jackson saw that it was the soldier who had taken out a small iron box from the ground with trembling hands, and then carefully placed it aside. Then he took a step forward, squatted down again, and got busy again...

It took almost an hour. The people with the Red Cross armbands from the North Army carried all the wounded soldiers in the minefield within the barbed wire fence. They also carried the bodies of the soldiers who had died. Got out. As for the wounded and dead outside the barbed wire, most of them were taken back by their own when the southern army retreated. Those who had not had time to take away were also carried back by the Northern Army.

Now that the tentative attack failed, the Confederate Army planned to retreat. The Union army opposite them had just experienced a big defeat, and they didn't have the guts to come out and pursue it. By about two o'clock in the afternoon, Jackson's troops were ready to retreat. The soldiers of the Northern Army appeared in front of their camp again.

"Captain Carter, what are you doing this time?" Although the attack was frustrated just now, General Jackson still maintained a good demeanor.

"General, you know, in the last battle, we had too many wounded soldiers, so now our medical rescue force is very limited, although we have done some taboo treatments for the wounded of your army, but to be honest, Due to conditions, it is difficult for us to give the best treatment to all the wounded. In addition, the remains of some war-dead people in your army are also with us. We hope to be able to transfer the remains of these wounded and those who died in the war. Here you are. In addition, in the last battle, some of our military personnel were captured. If possible, we also hope that we can exchange prisoners of your military for a considerable number of prisoners of our military. Here is our statistics of your military’s wars. Please go through the temporary statistics list of the dead and injured and captured persons," Carter replied.

This request is really difficult to refuse. General Jackson thought for a while and said, "I agree with this suggestion. When and where do you plan to conduct such an exchange?"

"Just an hour later, in front of the battle between our two armies, a little closer to your army. Do you think it's okay?" Carter said while thinking of Scrooge's advance explanation, "Our army's personnel Approximately fifty people will carry no weapons and will display a red cross flag on a white background, and they will also have a red cross armband on their arms as a sign."

"Our army will also send corresponding personnel to hand over a considerable number of your prisoners of war to you." Jackson said, "please pay tribute to your commander on your behalf, whether your army’s combat effectiveness or its post-war performance The knightly demeanor is heartbreaking, it's a pity that we are the enemy."

Carter immediately remembered what Scrooge had said to him during the previous exercise of this scene, and immediately replied: "Mr. MacDonald and General Gardner also asked me to greet you. They said that when the war is over, United After the States are reunified, we will be brothers again."

"The war is over and reunified. Are Mr. MacDonald and General Gardner optimistic about the prospects of the war? Well, Captain, you can go back and return. We will fulfill our promise as a knight as agreed."

An hour later, just in front of the battlefield, Jackson personally took 50 soldiers from the Southern Army and 42 captured by the army to the exchange point. He saw a group of unarmed soldiers from the North Army and some medical personnel laying stretchers one by one on the soft and flat green grass. The batch of soldiers on the left are all soldiers who have died in battle. The blood stains on their faces have been wiped off. Although there are holes pierced by bullets and traces of blood stains on the uniforms, these uniforms are at least It has also been neatly organized. These war dead lie there quietly. If only looking at their peaceful faces, it will even give people the illusion that these young men are just asleep.

A small cloth bag was placed next to the remains of every soldier of the Southern Army. A small piece of paper was pinned on the cloth bag, and it was marked with some personal belongings belonging to the soldier in the cloth bag. List.

On the other side, there were forty wounded soldiers of the Southern Army. Most of them were injured by landmines, so a thick bandage was tied to one of their feet, and some bandages were still stained with blood. However, the mood of most of the soldiers was stable, and there was no loud wailing. Jackson understood that this must be the result of the Northern Army giving them heroin. Jackson felt very grateful for the Northern Army's consideration. At this time, he suddenly discovered that there was a familiar figure, wearing a white coat, squatting next to a wounded soldier of the Southern Army and talking to him.

"Isn't that Mr. MacDonald?" Jackson opened his eyes suspiciously. He knew that as a talented chemist, Scrooge McDonald was already a multi-millionaire. And everyone generally believes that it will be sooner or later that his assets exceed 100 million. Would such a rich man actually appear here? !

Jackson hurried over, and when he walked over, he was hearing the injury saying to Scrooge: "Doctor, can my legs really never get better? Oh, God! Then I might as well. Good to die!"

"Ah, friend, I don’t want to lie to you. The power of that landmine is not great, but at the modern medical level, unless there is a miracle, you will never be able to live without crutches. But my friend, anyway, is alive. It’s always better than death. We can’t be so selfish, we can’t just think of own pain, we can’t just live for ourselves, we live for those who love us and the people we love. Think about your mother! Guess her Are you willing to watch you go back with crutches, or are you willing to watch you lie back in a small box? Stop talking stupid, life is always full of pain, but this pain is God’s arrangement, we except Endure and persist, what else can you do?"

Scrooge, who was busy pouring soul chicken soup for the Southern Army soldier who seemed not too much older than himself, didn't seem ashamed at all for making an inhuman weapon such as a broken palm mine. Instead, he faintly regarded it as a manifestation of conscience. . Maybe the performance was too hard, he didn't seem to notice Jackson's arrival.

"Mr. MacDonald, you are so right!" Jackson exclaimed, and at the same time he squatted down in front of the soldier, smiled and said to him: "Robby, don't think about it, your parents still have Your Little Brother is waiting for you to go back. And as long as a person is mentally sound, he can achieve something. You have read a lot of books. I don't need me to give you examples of this, right."

"Thank you, sir! Thank you, doctor! I won't be stupid anymore, I want to tell you that, to live for all who love me and those who love me. Thank you!"Jackson and Scrooge both smiled at the wounded soldier, and then stood up.

"Mr. MacDonald, I didn't expect to see you here!" Jackson stretched out his hand to Scrooge. "You are a billionaire, and you would go to such a dangerous place yourself."

"Aren't you here too?" Scrooge shook hands with Jackson with a smile, and replied, "I'm just a civilian, and you are a general. Besides, whether you have money or not, you are in front of God. All are equal, and all have to fulfill their own responsibilities. I am the director of the "Salvation" hospital, and it is my responsibility to serve the wounded."

Jackson didn't know what to say, he just held Scrooge's hand tightly, and finally said: "Mr. MacDonald, seeing you, I am full of hope for the future of mankind."

A few years later, when General Jackson finally died on the battlefield for the South, his descendants sorted out her diary and saw that in the diary he wrote on this day, there was this sentence: "I saw the legendary saint with my own eyes today. By."

In the battle on this day, although the Southern Army suffered a setback, the casualties were not large, and even the deaths and injuries were less than a hundred people. Compared with the Northern Army's failure last time, it was not a matter of the same level. But after the defeat, this actually insignificant victory seemed extraordinarily valuable. So in the newspapers, this small battle was touted as having the great significance of turning the tide and helping the building to fall.

What's more, this battle was not only won on the real battlefield, but also won a great victory on the spiritual battlefield. The initiative proposed by Mr. Scrooge McDonald and first signed by General Gardner, in the eyes of many media, is simply a symbol of the spiritual victory of the North over the South. President Lincoln spoke highly of the initiative that Scrooge copied from the Geneva Conventions of later generations. He said that the great humanitarian spirit expressed in this initiative is a manifestation of America’s infamous destiny. He is not only a tribute to the people of United States. Dreams should also become the norms of United States and the world. Even President Davis of the Confederacy of the Confederate States of America said that the Confederate States of America believe that this initiative embodies a great humanitarian spirit. In the future war of self-defense, the Confederate States of America will honor their commitments.

As the initiator of this initiative, Scrooge was of course unanimously praised. Even the French writer Hugo could not help but publish an article praising Scrooge for his contribution to this era. Even in 1862, when he finished his great work "Les Miserables" and claimed that he was shaping the protagonist of the book, Jean Valjean, he remembered two rich but always kind United States people. The merchant, one is George Peabody, and the other is Scrooge McDonald.

Huge prestige is also a weapon of battle. Under these conditions, the America government gave Scrooge a whole package of business including the purchase of rifles and gunpowder, including the training of soldiers, including food and medicine, and no one jumped out to oppose it. , The vast majority of people think it should be: Don't leave such important matters related to the life and death of the country to the always conscientious Shi Gaozhi, should it be handed over to those who have no conscience at all?

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