The door to the farmhouse that acts as a battlefield ambulance and operating room is hanging crookedly by the wall, and all the glass windows have long been broken. There are only two bedrooms on the first floor, a living room, and a kitchen.

The operating room is located in the first floor living room with spacious space and air circulation. The military doctor asked the ambulance to move away all the furniture in the room, and asked the accompanying craftsmen to set up three wooden tables and reinforce them. The nurse took it to be spread on it by a clean sheet, and then built an operating table. A white curtain surrounds the top and surroundings of the operating table, and the medical box was also opened, and various surgical instruments were placed one by one.

The two bedrooms on the first floor are places for the wounded to rest, while the second floor serves as a doctor and nurse lounge and an officer's ward. As for the kitchen, it becomes the disinfection room of this battlefield ambulance, either boiling water, sterilizing water, or steaming and cooking bandages and surgical instruments. According to the strict regulations of the Desai Division's Battlefield Ambulance Regulations, all rooms need to be cleaned in advance to avoid dust. The diluted potassium permanganate solution is also sprayed inside and outside to disinfect.

As one of the most powerful assistants of military doctors, Nurse's task is to assist the surgeon and take care of the seriously injured on the operating table. Or follow the requirements of the military doctor, take the wounded soldiers in advance, take out alcohol to wipe the wound; or pass hemostatic forceps, scalpels, washbasins, bandages, tweezers, and gauze to the military doctor; or sigh and cry secretly, but an angelic smile always appears on his face, comforting and shouting softly, and scolding himself and the doctor's amputee.

From time to time, nurse Cruz had to temporarily perform the sacred duties of the priests of the army. She whispered in a low voice, conveying the sacred mystery of the Bible to the wounded soldiers over and over again, allowing their dry lips to kiss the fingers of the "Holy Mother", as if this would become stronger. Until the operation was completed, the wounded soldiers were carried back into the hospital bed or transferred to the corpse transport truck outside the house.

When the last seriously injured person was carried off the operating table, the military doctor on duty unbuttoned his mask and breathed a sigh of relief. He washed his hands with dirty blood in a basin of blood-stained water, and smiled at the sweaty female assistant.

The doctor persuaded kindly: "Miss Cruz, go upstairs and sleep for a while. The battle tomorrow may be even more tragic, and more wounded soldiers will be brought here." There are three surgeons in the field hospital here who can take turns on duty or assist in the surgery, but there is only one nurse Cruz who serves as an assistant. She did not wait for a moment for a rest for the past four hours.

The female nurse looked very stubborn and shook her head and said, "I'm not very tired, so I'd better clean the operating room first."

The military doctor was not insisting on anything. He was going to patrol the ward again and then go to rest. At this time, a lieutenant officer walked in quickly. The military doctor knew the identity of the visitor. He was the chief guard of Duke Hruna. Lieutenant Jacques pulled the medical officer aside. After muttering a little or two, the two rushed out of the house, leaving nurse Cruz who was cleaning the operating table.

At some point, Miss Rolina walked in. She tiptoed behind Cruz, covered the female nurse's eyes with her hands naughtyly, imitated the tone of a man, and said in a strange way: "Hey, Miss, guess who I am?"

Cruz burst into laughter, "Little guy, this is the 12th time you have done the same prank!"

The black beauty seemed a little discouraged, pulled her hands back, put her hips on her back and said, "This is also your 12th prank to destroy me!"

The female guard asked, "Why are you lazy again? You are not on duty yet?"

Rolina said aggrievedly: "I was only busy for a while, and the doctor stopped me from helping me."

As the favorite appointed by Duke Hruna, Nurse Rolina received extremely high treatment in the field hospital and its status was comparable to that of a military medical officer. This naturally aroused the dissatisfaction and jealousy of other female nurses. Everyone deliberately or unintentionally excluded her, and secretly described her in a sarcastic tone, although Rolina herself had no airs and wanted to have a good relationship with everyone.

However, Cruz, who is used to being taciturn, hit it off with Rolina at first sight and had a good personal relationship. When they have nothing to do, the two always get together. The relationship between Cruz and Garset was also privately exposed to Desai. This was why the division commander gave Sergeant Garset a large sum of money at the entrance ceremony, as a gift for the engagement of the two couples.

Cruz decided to find something for Rolina. She pointed to a barrel covered with black cloth and said, "Okay, come forward for me and ask a soldier to bury the things inside!"

"Oh, what?" Rolina bent down curiously, lifted the black cloth on the wooden barrel, trying to see what was going on.

"Don't!" Before Cruz finished speaking, the black cloth had been moved away by the pervert.

Rolina didn't expect that what she saw was a bunch of disgusting and sticky people's arms and legs. "Vomit" and a violent vomiting sound immediately sounded in the room. Her face turned pale, she covered her chest, and kept pouring out all the food in her stomach and intestines.

Cruz was angry and funny, so he quickly brought a glass of clear water to the black beauty for her to drink. After the vomiting sound gradually subsided, Cruz said: "Go back quickly, this is the seriously injured area!"

Rolina nodded silently and stopped showing off her strength. Before leaving the door, she asked, "Oh, by the way, Sister Cruz, what else do you need here?"

Cruz did not refuse her good intentions. She thought for a while and said, "If possible, ask the ambulance to send a few more buckets of boiled water here. The previous batch was used up, and many seriously injured people needed to repeatedly clean the wounds."

"This is easy to deal with. I saw that the Guard Brigade had just dragged two carts of clear water from near Mengsangtu Village. After I asked them to boil, I sent it over immediately." Rolina suddenly remembered another thing and said happily to the female nurse: "Also, some guy is outside!"

At this time, outside the battlefield hospital, Garset had been lonely and unbearable for nearly two hours. During this period, he circled around the room for 30 times, smoked 20 cigarettes, and helped the nurse carry 12 wounded people, just waiting for the appearance of his fiancée, Miss Cruz.

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At midnight, Rusty received two news, one good and the other bad.

The good news is that after timely rescue by military doctors, General Desnuet, who was seriously injured, finally escaped from danger of life and has finished the operation and transferred to the ward to rest. Due to excessive blood loss and anesthetics, he is still in a coma. Thanks to the magical effects of new drugs and artificial blood transfusions, the military doctors optimistically estimate that General Desnuet will recover in 2 to 3 weeks.

Before arriving at Mount Monsantu, Desai had temporarily appointed Rusti as the acting brigade commander of the Cavalry Brigade, but he still hoped that he would continue to serve as chief of staff instead of serving as military chief. Because that was not what he himself was good at, or violated some taboo.

For bad news, the intelligence officer Lieutenant Jacques reported to him about the deployment of the coalition forces in the defense of the Monsantu Mountain Pass. With the cooperation of the Guard Brigade, Jacques and others captured a Portuguese officer who was lost in the darkness in the woods at the entrance of the mountain pass. After an emergency interrogation, the intelligence department drew some intelligence from his tongue.

To the Chief of Staff, these situations are very bad, and they can even be described as "extreme".

British general Hill deployed four lines of defense, 6,000 soldiers and 120 artillery in the 5,6-kilometer-long pass of Mount Monsanto. In particular, the artillery was not only numerous, but also a quarter of the 16-pound large-caliber heavy artillery was equipped with solid bullets, grape bullets, grenades, etc. After the daytime battle, Hill was asking Lisbon to deploy more reinforcements.

Rusty seemed a little upset about this, and he asked the intelligence officer: "Before, did your Military Intelligence Bureau promise the General Staff that Lisbon would not have more than 30 artillery pieces or more than 2,000 troops for the British?"

Faced with the blame, Jacques could only explain: "According to the captives' confession, most of the artillery were dismantled from the warships of the British local fleet and then towed to the Monsanto Mountain Pass. As for the coalition forces, Hill made a large number of Portuguese militias dressed as regular troops to guard the coalition barracks, not only missed the Lisbon Parliament, but also deceived the intelligence officers of the Military Intelligence Bureau. Of course, this was our mistake!"

"Enough, Lieutenant. Your military intelligence agency should directly review the division commander, not me or the General Staff!" As he said this, Rusty suddenly frowned and began to suspicion. Because according to regulations, the intelligence officers around the Duke never took the initiative to be responsible to the General Staff unless something major happened.

Sure enough, seeing the Chief of Staff feel suspicious, Jacques stepped forward and whispered the reason: "Half an hour ago, the duke fell into a coma due to a high fever! The military doctor was diagnosed with acute severe pneumonia and needed meditation and recuperation. At present, no sixth person knows about this except me, you, Adjutant Mardan, the Duke Guard Chief Jacques, and the military doctor."

Suddenly hearing this, Rusty's face changed drastically and she turned pale. The daytime battle failure has caused the momentum of the officers and soldiers to suffer severe setbacks. Once the news of the division commander falling into a coma again comes out, the consequences will be unimaginable. The Desai Division (corps, brigade, division) has not tried real failure since its establishment. All previous battles have always been manifested as invincible and invincible.

While it seems to be extremely glorious, it also hides great hidden dangers, namely lacking the maturity of enduring setbacks. Not only for ordinary soldiers, but also for middle and senior officers. No matter where and where, the officers and soldiers believe, firmly believe, and even superstitious about the omnipotence of the Duke of Hruna will lead them from one victory to another.

After hesitating for a moment, the chief of staff told the intelligence officer: "Continue to block the news from the outside, and accompany a loyal and reliable nurse to take care of the duke throughout the journey. Well, by the way, let that black beauty go! In addition, tomorrow's plan to attack the Mengsangtu Mountain Pass will be cancelled, and the guards cavalry will leave two squadrons to take on the current post guard duty. Other troops, including all the wounded soldiers, have evacuated to the Mengsangtu Village area for rest. Tell the soldiers that this is the order of the division commander, and we must wait for the support of the subsequent artillery!"

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Chapter completed!