Struggle in the Steam Age

Due to the limited transport tonnage of the airship, Lawrence simply divided his subordinates into two parts: Among them, He Nala will arrive in Pine Valley in advance by airship with medical personnel and some medical supplies that cannot be transported by land. Other armed personnel and logistics personnel slowly joined them along the main road.

The reason for making such a decision is that Lawrence knows that saving people is like putting out fires. If the field hospital can be established a minute earlier, maybe there will be a few more people.

As for the safety issue, he didn't need to worry too much, because the front line is not too far from Pine Tree Valley, so there are a large number of troops stationed in the valley, so he doesn't need to worry too much about safety issues.

"The road here is really bad." After the airship took off, looking at the crowded mountain road below the airship, Lawrence said with emotion. That mountain road looks extremely muddy now, and a group of people took up half of the road to build a temporary meter-gauge railway. So even if the headquarters sent a lot of people to direct in the middle of the road, it would not be able to make the flow of people on the road faster.

"I think the situation should be better after the wartime meter-gauge railway is repaired." Nora, who was also looking at the situation below, said fairly. "Fortunately, the mountains here are mainly rocky, and the terrain of the valley is relatively flat. Otherwise, it would never be as simple as it is now to build roads."

Because the airship can fly in a straight line, those roads that take a whole day along the mountain road can now be reached in just over an hour by airship. After the airship landed on the platform where the temporary hospital was planned to be built, Lawrence and the others immediately got busy.

"Colonel!" Just after Lawrence and the others got off the airship, many soldiers ran out of some tents stationed next to the platform, and then a lieutenant walked up to Lawrence and saluted, then looked at what he said. "Excuse me, are you going to build a field hospital here?"

"Yes, I am the captain of the medical team, Colonel August." Lawrence also raised his hand and said after saluting. "Considering that there may be wounded people now, I brought the medical staff and some medicines here ahead of time, hoping to start the treatment work as soon as possible."

"Thank you very much for this, Colonel." Hearing what Lawrence said, the lieutenant in front of him saluted Lawrence again, then trotted back to his camp and shouted.

"The doctors from the field hospitals have come here ahead of time, so if you can move, hurry up and help them. The sooner they finish their work, the sooner they can treat the patients."

"What? The doctor has already arrived." "Didn't it mean that the doctor will come tomorrow afternoon?" As soon as the lieutenant finished speaking, the soldiers immediately began to discuss.

However, when they saw the medical flag erected by Lawrence with green herbs and white scalpels crossed on the red and white stripes, all the soldiers on the scene ran out of their tents and came to the construction site to help. live.

The army that came to help was the National Guard of Tranquility Valley Continent of the White Eagle Federation, and the number of them was about one company. The task assigned to them by the command is to be stationed in Pine Valley as a guard force.

So with the help of these neighbors, Lawrence and the others temporarily set up the most important debridement, dressing, inspection and surgical tents within two hours.

And not long after the tent was set up, some medical equipment had not yet been sent in. Some critically injured patients who were waiting for the airship to be transported in the valley were transferred here for temporary treatment.

Under such circumstances, Lawrence could only organize a group of doctors to carry out rescue work on the spot, while directing the rest of the staff to continue the construction of the field hospital.

Naturally, this practice of receiving patients while constructing has brought a lot of pressure on Lawrence. Especially since the consultation has just started, the number of patients sent here is large due to the previous accumulation, and most of them are seriously ill with severe trauma. Even if Lawrence and the others try their best, they cannot guarantee to save all of them. .

Therefore, under such circumstances, Lawrence, Nora, and a priest of the Church of Suffering formed a working group to classify the wounded who were sent to the hospital to ensure that more wounded could be treated.

In a way, they are also here to decide the life and death of many people.

This is a heavy-hearted job, especially in Lawrence they have neither high-level magic scrolls nor high-level priests who can release this type of magic.

So they could only harden their hearts and reject some seriously injured people who were determined to be unable to be revived after a simple inspection.

Aside from being heavy-hearted, there are some really tricky things about this job. For example, for the soldiers who fought side by side with the wounded, it was difficult for them to accept that their brothers were abandoned while they were still alive. Fortunately, Lawrence and his group have priests from the Church of the Passion, so everyone can accept this despite the pain.

At this time, Lawrence also noticed that because there are real gods in this world, everyone clearly knows where they will go after death. So when facing death, he is obviously more open-minded than in his previous life. At this time, the priests who came with the team were also sent out to hold the dying ceremony for the dying wounded.

Because this world is a standard polytheistic world, considering this, the priests of civilized races all master a common dying prayer magic.

This magic will not change the original beliefs of the recipients, but will only allow the recipients to receive simple blessings from the gods, helping them live better during the journey after death.

Except for those injuries too severe to treat. Lawrence and the others had to persuade some wounded to return at the entrance of the temporary hospital, who seemed to be seriously injured, but could actually wait for the airship or even the vehicle to deliver them. Let them save the opportunity for treatment to those who really need urgent treatment.

Due to the intense battle on the front line, the wounded were continuously sent towards Pine Valley. This also made Lawrence and the others have to work all night, in order to keep as many wounded as possible alive. Fortunately, just when they were about to lose their hold, the group of logistics that were left behind finally arrived.

In addition, after learning that Lawrence's field hospital has arrived at the designated location but lacks manpower. The frontline command quickly sent some people here to help.

Therefore, after the logistics from the rear arrived, they quickly and smoothly rotated out the medical staff who were doing post-work, so that the operation of the field hospital was on track.

Although it is said that because of capacity constraints, Lawrence and the others are temporarily unable to obtain enough materials to complete the construction of the previously designed field hospital. But fortunately, there are enough manpower available here, so after the operation of the field hospital was on track, Lawrence and Nora immediately acted as transport capacity to carry various materials for the field hospital.

Of course, it was Nora who mainly served as the labor force. And Lawrence was sent out with only one task, and that was to wrestle with the officials for various supplies.

After all, if she wanted to obtain supplies, Nora's identity was not convenient for negotiating with the logistics officers, but it was more convenient for Lawrence to ask for supplies from the logistics officers.

But after seeing the colonel in the logistics department again, Lawrence realized that the facts were a little different from his own thoughts. Because when they heard that Lawrence and the others wanted to pick up the goods by themselves, the other party did not set up any obstacles at all, but directly called a second lieutenant to take Lawrence and the others to the cargo storage yard.

The cargo yard is the cargo yard that used to be used to support the railway station, but with the outbreak of the civilization expedition, the area here has been greatly expanded. So Lawrence and the others saw the high piles of goods two blocks away from the freight yard.