Bright Sword: Follow Kong's fun and build the strongest military industry

In response to President Zhao's question, Minister Zhang could only whisper:

"Old Zhao, I can only try my best, but it takes time. You also know our current situation. It is difficult to even feed the soldiers every day."

"By the way, comrades, continue talking. I'll take note and then notify our personnel behind enemy lines to deal with it first."

At this time, the director of the Second Surgery Department also spoke up: "I hope Minister Zhang can get some anesthetics back. Right now our hospital only has 22 bottles of anesthetics in total. For the wounded sent in every day, it is simply a drop in the bucket and will not last for a few days."

"To perform surgery now, it all depends on the strong will of the soldiers to persevere. We doctors admire them."

"In the past, we would find some strong liquor and give it to the injured before surgery, hoping to relieve their pain."

"You know, this practice is strictly prohibited abroad, and in many cases it will directly cost the lives of the injured."

"But now even strong liquor has become scarce. Many soldiers choose to grit their teeth and remain silent during surgery to reassure us. They are the strongest soldiers and the cutest people."

After he finished speaking, he took off his glasses and rubbed his sore eyes.

The same was true for everyone else present, everyone had red eyes.

They are doctors and are used to seeing life and death. However, seeing many excellent soldiers unable to get off the simple operating table due to lack of sufficient medicine, all the doctors feel sad.

Especially some young people aged 18 or 19, who had a bright future, threw themselves into the battle to resist foreign humiliation for the nation without hesitation.

With enough medicine and surgical instruments, many people can recover.

As a doctor, this is the greatest sorrow.

Many of the doctors here are chief surgeons in large foreign hospitals. They gave up the favorable living conditions abroad and chose to return to China to join the Eighth Route Army.

Abroad, all they have to do is to save patients to the best of their ability without having to worry about issues such as drugs and medical equipment.

At the headquarters hospital, what they are most concerned about is how to save the use of drugs under the existing conditions. When Chinese herbal medicine can be used, not a single Western medicine should be used.

At this time, Minister Zhang wrote the word "strong liquor" heavily on a notebook.

Compared to rare items like anesthetics, spirits are easy to get, and you just have to spend money to buy them.

The 386th Brigade has won several major victories recently. In addition to seizing a large number of weapons, ammunition and daily necessities, it also surrendered 5000 yuan. This money can be used to purchase some medical supplies, which should be enough for a while.

Then, other doctors also started talking about the shortage of bandages, alcohol, syringes, needles, infusion sets, etc.

All in all, to put it in one sentence: everything related to medical care is in short supply.

Soon, Minister Zhang's notebook was filled with the names of medical supplies, but this did not solve the problem.

With the limited financial resources of the Eighth Route Army, they needed money from everywhere and could not spare much funds.

At this time, President Zhao suddenly said:

"A few days ago, the 386th Brigade sent us 100 kilograms of sulfa powder and 2.5 sulfa tablets. This was beyond the imagination of all of us."

"The sulfa drugs we got back before were basically dozens of pills, no more than a hundred at most. Now we have so many at once, enough to save thousands of outstanding soldiers."

"Lao Zhang, I heard that these medicines were brought back by Lao Chen from the 386th Brigade. Can you go and talk to him and ask him to think of a way to get some back to the hospital?"

After hearing this, Minister Zhang responded awkwardly:

"The medicines we got last time were accidentally seized during the attack on the Nanji stronghold. There were only those medicines, no other medical equipment. This kind of battle cannot be replicated. We should use these medicines sparingly in the future."

Just when everyone present was extremely disappointed, the sentry at the door came in and reported loudly:

"Reporting to the dean, a transport team has arrived at the hospital entrance. They said they are from the 386th Brigade and are carrying medical supplies."

When everyone heard the words "medical supplies" and "transport convoy", their eyes lit up. Led by President Zhao, they didn't even hold the meeting and ran out the door.

They were worrying about the little bit of medical supplies, but they didn't expect that Brigade Commander Chen would suddenly send a transport convoy of supplies. How could these doctors who were worried about the wounded not be ecstatic?

In their opinion, a transport convoy must not consist of one or two carriages, but at least five.

The mere thought of five large trucks of medical supplies made everyone excited.

But when they came outside, they realized how conservative their requirements were.

This time the transport convoy was so long that you couldn't see the end of it at a glance.

At this time, Minister Liu asked curiously:

"Chief of Staff Zhou, why are you leading the team this time?"

"Minister Zhang, President Zhao, there's nothing we can do. The main reason is that these medical supplies are too precious. The brigade commander and the political commissar asked me to bring the special forces battalion to escort them here."

"These things were handed in by the Independent Regiment. There are all kinds of things in them, and we don't know their specific uses, so we brought them all here."

After hearing this, Dean Zhao said excitedly: "Then let's take a look together to see what's in it."

Because many boxes on the carriage have different shapes, if they are the same box, it means that the items inside are the same.

First, everyone came to the first carriage, on which were piled a lot of boxes of varying sizes. After opening them, they found that they were all filled with liquids in glass bottles.

The doctors present often deal with medicines and basically understand the general uses of these things.

"This is medical alcohol, produced by the Japanese. It's a good thing."

At this time, Chief of Staff Zhou held up the list and said, "There are 2600 bottles of this stuff in total, and they are all in the carriages ahead."

When Director Zhao heard that their hospital had obtained 2600 bottles of medical alcohol at once, he was overjoyed.

This kind of medical alcohol is used to disinfect wounds. It has a wide range of uses and is used in large quantities. However, their base is unable to produce it, which leads to a shortage in hospitals most of the time.

Although strong liquor can be used as a substitute, the disinfection effect of strong liquor is not very good. In addition, brewing strong liquor consumes a lot of grain, which is not cost-effective.

Now, we have 2600 bottles of medical alcohol, which can last for more than half a year if we use it sparingly.

Thinking of this, Dean Zhao quickly issued the latest order:

"Move all this medical alcohol to the warehouse. Don't use strong alcohol to clean the wounds of the wounded in the future."