rise of empire total war

Chapter 155: Slaked Lime Disinfection, an Essential Skill for Travelers
"Help... someone help me..."

"Mom...I want to go home..."

"Ah...it hurts...I really hurt..."

"..."

Listening to the wailing from the wounded barracks under the city wall, Richard felt a sense of fear in his heart.

Now it is only the end of the second siege battle, and the wounded battalion set up under the city wall has sent in many wounded soldiers. Many of them were wounded by swords, and some special people-they were killed by soldiers on the city wall. Most of the body was burned by the explosion, or the fragments of clay pots splashed out were deeply inserted into the body.

Looking at their horrific wounds, Richard was terrified from the bottom of his heart. The tragedy of severe burns was not acceptable to anyone. Even just looking at those burned areas would be terrified to death.

Richard knew that these poor soldiers could not be saved. With the crude medical skills of the Middle Ages, let alone a well-trained doctor, even the birth of Jesus and the Virgin Mary would not be able to pull them from the death line. return.

Their burns are almost incurable. In the dirty and messy environment, their wounds are easily infected by bacteria, and then pus festers, and finally dies slowly in a very painful way.

"Go give them a good time. Instead of enduring pain and waiting to die, it is better to set them free now." Richard ordered to Lieutenant General Condra, who nodded after hearing this, indicating that he would carry out the order.

Then, Richard suddenly remembered something. He pointed to the messy environment of the wounded barracks, and said to Condela: "The environment here is too bad, and the treatment of the wounded will only have a bad effect. Do some disinfection."

"Disinfection?" Condela looked at Richard suspiciously, and asked. He had never heard of disinfection, and he didn't know what it meant.

"It's to eliminate the virus hidden around." Richard explained, and he quickly realized the generation gap between himself and the medieval natives, so he didn't explain, and said directly: "You send someone to prepare some quicklime, requisition a house, and put Quicklime is sprinkled on the ground and then sprinkled with water, allowing the quicklime and water to react to produce calcium hydroxide, most bacteria cannot survive in the presence of calcium hydroxide, which can kill bacteria.”

Although Richard didn't understand what the calcium hydroxide was, this did not prevent Condora from following Richard's instructions.

After asking Condra to carry out the order, Richard walked up the city wall under the entourage of the knight guards. The method of disinfecting with slaked lime has actually been used in various time-travel novels. It is really a bad trick, and Richard De also learned similar knowledge in high school, so it is not difficult to use it.

Soon, he walked to the city wall. The soldiers on the city wall were cleaning up the bodies of soldiers who died in the war. From the stumps and broken arms and blood flowing everywhere, we can see the brutality of the war.

And a section of the city wall not far from Richard was where the explosion occurred. The terrible explosion partially collapsed the section of the city wall, and the wall stacks were even shattered. Viewed from the front, the gap that was blown out was very conspicuous.

And the nearby wall was also burned by the flames and turned black, and the blood that was sprayed out was burned to the point where only dark marks remained.

The corpses of the dead soldiers here have already been carried away together with the wounded soldiers, but the fragments of the bombed corpses are really difficult to clean up, and a small part of burnt meat sticks to the ground.

Looking at the burnt minced meat, Richard knew that he might not have to think about eating meat today and tomorrow.

"Let's take advantage of the truce to repair and strengthen this section of the city wall overnight." Richard said to the guard knights behind him.

"Obey." A knight took the order and turned to leave.Richard turned his gaze to the siege camp of the coalition forces several miles outside the city wall. Following his line of sight, white cooking smoke was slowly rising above the siege camp of the coalition forces, and several tall black figures stood impressively in it.

"What's that?" Richard asked subconsciously in doubt, and everyone around followed his words and looked out of the city, and then all exclaimed.

"Then, that seems to be the siege tower we used when we attacked Ravana City?" one of the sharp-eyed people shouted.

Another immediately retorted: "You idiot, you obviously burned down the siege equipment in the camp before we withdrew."

The person who spoke first was called an idiot for no reason, and wanted to argue with him when he was angry, but Richard interrupted them, saying, "No, that is indeed a siege tower, but we didn't burn it down."

"It seems that they have imitated the siege tower." Richard said in a deep voice. He didn't know the reason. On the Valdasia Peninsula, there were very few basic siege equipment like siege towers. See, it is said that it is only used in countries such as the Holy Kuyawi Empire in the north - and the Farnik Kingdom, an island country in the shining sea.

Although he knows that human beings have a strong imitation learning ability, Richard still feels uncomfortable when Bundak uses it on himself so quickly.However, Bandak can only imitate the basic technology of the siege tower, and it is impossible for them to imitate advanced gunpowder weapons anyway.

After all, Bundak hasn't lit up the use of black powder in the technology tree. He can't even make the most basic gunpowder, let alone hand cannons and artillery that rely heavily on gunpowder.

Speaking of which, Richard has never asked Mobutu where he learned the black powder formula, and he must find out clearly after the war is over.

Cough, far away.

Pulling his eyes back, he looked at the siege towers that were much higher than the city walls of Port Bell. Because of the constraints, they did not have a layer of iron on the surface to prevent fire arrows, so Richard's worries about them were reduced to a minimum. lowest.

In tomorrow's war, the defenders can light the siege tower with fire arrows to force the enemy to abandon it, or they can use a simpler and more crude method to directly bombard the tall siege tower with artillery. Such a large target is tantamount to living A target, or a slow moving target.

While Richard was standing on the city wall and observing the besieged camp, outside the city, Bandark and Jutian, two usurper kings who were wrongly crowned, gathered together to discuss the war against Port Belle.

The two-day attack caused them to lose a lot of soldiers, among which the Winster Expeditionary Army brought by Zhu Tian was the most. Against the defenders' arrows and shells.

"We have successfully imitated the siege tower that Richard used when attacking Ravana City. Although only five towers have been built so far, it is undoubtedly a good start." Bandak said.

"I took a look at the siege towers you built. There are more than enough arrows to defend the defenders, but what about their mysterious weapons that can emit thunder? The iron balls fired by that weapon are very powerful. I am afraid that the siege towers will block you. Can't live."

"Not to mention the wooden siege tower, I'm afraid even the city wall made of stones can't block it." Bandak said with a wry smile.

He was right. In front of the artillery, the city wall piled up with stones could only block one shell. After several shellings, the only result was collapse.

(End of this chapter)