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Actually, Song Zhe-wu wrongly blamed Xu Zheng. When Xu Zheng led his troops to Wu'an, the county magistrate of Wu'an came to find him with a telegram from Shang Zhen, which instructed the First Division not to stay in Wu'an and continue to march towards Handan, where they would be stationed. At the same time, it was said that there was another telegram notifying Song Zhe-wu. Although Xu Zheng held the position of deputy division commander, he was after all a young man of only 26 years old, with simple thoughts, thinking that going to a city like Handan to garrison would be a good thing that the commander would not disagree with. So on the one hand, he ordered his troops to march towards Handan, and on the other hand, he sent a telegram to Song Zhe-wu.
Song Zhe-wu, still fuming after receiving Shang Zhen's telegram, felt that he had overreacted earlier, but he was not going to change his orders. He would never allow his subordinates to follow someone else's commands without his permission, and if this situation wasn't stopped immediately, his troops would be led astray and turn against him. So, he decided to make an example of Xu Zheng, but also took Xiao Guo-dong's advice and ordered Zhang Ya-fei to take over the troops and continue to garrison in Handan. Shang Zhen's telegram said that this was Chairman Chiang's intention in Nanjing, and Song Zhe-wu knew that it was because Bai Chong-xi was preparing to lead Liao Yue-sheng's 36th Army south to Wuhan, and Chairman Chiang wanted him to block the Longhai Road. Chairman Chiang's orders were now mandatory, otherwise they would affect his overall plan.
After lunch, Song Zhe-wu took his deputy officer Liang Bi out of the hotel department. He wanted to go to the field hospital and arsenal of the Security Guard Army to take a look. He wanted to visit the wounded soldiers, these injured warriors were the backbone of the battle, and their concern would absolutely be rewarded with the loyalty of these simple-minded soldiers.
There are two more reasons: He has two important departments there, one is a drug laboratory in the field hospital. The other is an armory's weapons research room.
During this period, Western methods for stopping bleeding from external injuries were very simple, with only bandaging and compression to stop bleeding, which was even inferior to China's methods at the same time. Traditional Chinese medicine often used traditional Chinese medicine to stop bleeding, which was very effective. However, the traditional Chinese medicine used to stop bleeding during this period were all folk remedies and secret recipes, without any standardization. In Song Zheyu's memory, Yunnan Baiyao was a very good hemostatic traditional Chinese medicine, but when he inquired about it everywhere, no one knew anything about it. He only knew that Yunnan Baiyao became famous during the Battle of Taierzhuang, with the main ingredient being Sanqi, and he had no idea who invented it or what other ingredients were used. The Battle of Taierzhuang was still 10 years away, so Song Zheyu couldn't wait and had to set up a laboratory to solve the problem himself.
Fortunately, he had someone to help him. The director of the field hospital, Wang Lianzhang, was a dual Ph.D. in surgery and pharmacology from the United States. In this era, not only were doctors who studied abroad unwilling to join the army, but even ordinary doctors did not want to take risks and follow the troops everywhere. However, good people have good rewards, and Song Zhewu is now more and more respectful of his late father.
Wang Lianzhang was from Tianjin, born into a poor family, intelligent and studious from an early age. After his parents passed away one after another, he was adopted by Song's father, who supported him to study abroad. Wang Lianzhang returned to China in 1927, a year after Song's father passed away. During that time, Song Zhewu had been asking Sun Jiahui to send him tuition fees on time.
After returning to China, Wang Lianzhang only knew about Song's father's passing and rushed to his grave to cry. He then directly joined the Baoshan Army. Although he could not repay Song's kindness, helping his son was the best way to repay him. With Wang Lianzhang, Song Zhewu established a field hospital that was quite good among various troops at that time.
In addition to Wang Lianzhang, there were five traditional Chinese medicine doctors in the hospital who were skilled in treating external injuries. However, they were all brought by Song Zhewu with high salaries and intimidation. After two years, they had become accustomed to working peacefully in the Baoshan Army. There were also three Western doctors hired by Song Zhewu through Shi Tuer Deng from Peking Union Medical College, with a one-year contract. They helped Wang Lianzhang treat wounded soldiers while cultivating over 100 medical students in the hospital together.
The security army's field hospital was set up outside the North Gate, and Song Zhe Wu had just entered the courtyard when Wang Lian Zhang came out to greet him after receiving a report from the sentry. Wang Lian Zhang was only one year older than Song Zhe Wu and was now wearing the rank of lieutenant colonel. Wang Lian Zhang casually gave Song Zhe Wu a military salute, smiling and saying: "I was thinking of looking for you tomorrow, but I didn't expect you to come today, not even taking a rest." Song Zhe Wu smiled bitterly and said: "My brother, since I put on this uniform, I estimate that I won't have time to rest for the rest of my life. What do you want me for? Is it because there aren't enough beds for the wounded or is it because we lack medicine?" Wang Lian Zhang smiled mysteriously and said: "Neither, the hospital beds are indeed not enough, but before you came back, Vice Chief of Staff Wang should have already solved this problem. As for medicine, I've opened a purchase order, and without Colonel Xiao's approval, the logistics department will quickly buy it, and when we get back, we'll find Colonel Xiao to reimburse us. They all know your attitude towards treating the wounded, no one dares to delay." Seeing that Song Zhe Wu still wanted to ask questions, Wang Lian Zhang pulled him into a room on the left side of the courtyard, which was the medical laboratory.
Several old Chinese medicine practitioners with lieutenant colonel military ranks hanging on the wall were busy leading more than a dozen student assistants. As soon as Song Zhe Wu and Wang Lian Zhang came in, everyone stopped their work to salute them. The posture of several old Chinese medicine practitioners saluting was extremely unstandardized. Song Zhe Wu smiled in his heart and returned the salute.
Wang Lianzhang smiled and said to them, "Aren't you here to report the good news to Commander Song? Hurry up, he will only issue the reward after acknowledging it. Mr. Wang, let you go and report to Commander Song."
The man called Wang was a middle-aged traditional Chinese medicine doctor in his fifties, although he wore the rank of lieutenant colonel, but Wang Lianzhang respected him and always called him Mr. Wang. Mr. Wang smiled and said to Song Zhe Wu: "Commander, you want us to make the hemostatic powder a success." "Success!" Song Zhe Wu was very happy, on the battlefield because of uncontrolled bleeding, due to excessive blood loss, deaths accounted for a large proportion, if there were good hemostatic drugs, it would save many lives.
Mr. Wang took a small paper bag, poured out some white powder, and let Song Zhe Wu see it. He then said: "According to the commander's instructions, we used the method given by Dean Wang, with San Qi as the main medicine, combined with Ma Bo, Wu Bei Zi, Chi Shi Zi, Yu Yu Liang, Shi Liu Pi, Xian He Cao, Ai Ye, Zao Xin Tu, Bai Ji, and Zi Zhu, dozens of Chinese medicines with hemostatic effect. After repeated experimentation, we finally determined that San Qi was the main medicine, combined with five other Chinese medicines to make a hemostatic powder. The experimental results showed that the hemostatic effect is very good." Mr. Wang turned around and took a piece of gauze from an assistant's hand and handed it to Song Zhe Wu, saying: "This is Dean Wang's idea, called a hemostatic bandage. Dean Wang said to make it into an emergency kit, each soldier has one, which can be quickly wrapped and stopped bleeding on the battlefield." Song Zhe Wu took the gauze, this piece of gauze except for the middle section of over 100 cm long was slightly yellowish, otherwise there was nothing special. Mr. Wang saw that Song Zhe Wu was puzzled and explained: "Dean Wang is indeed a returned overseas Chinese, he used some kind of cold extraction method to extract the medicinal properties of our hemostatic powder, this yellowish gauze is soaked in the medicinal liquid, the effect is very good."
Song Zhe Wu was delighted and thought to himself that this was a perfect combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine. He felt that his presence might have brought about the discovery of this method decades earlier. With a smile on his face, he repeatedly said "good!" Wang Lian Zhang was also very happy, but intentionally put on a serious face and said: "My great commander, you can't just pretend to be generous, are you going to give out the reward money?" It turned out that Song Zhe Wu had previously promised that if they successfully developed an effective hemostatic agent, he would give a reward of 20,000 yuan. Song Zhe Wu smiled and said: "Yes, yes! You go to the chief of staff right now and ask him to issue a voucher for you to receive 50,000 yuan from the logistics department. Not only will we reward the hemostatic powder, but also this hemostatic bandage." Everyone was thrilled when they heard Song Zhe Wu's generous promise. Mr. Wang smiled and said: "The hemostatic bandages were all made by Director Wang, so he should be the one to receive the reward." Wang Lian Zhang waved his hand and said: "I'm just one person, I don't need that much money. What would I do with it? Everyone has worked hard for this hemostatic powder, so I'll share the money with all of you. This hemostatic powder doesn't have a name yet, why don't we ask the commander to give it one?" Everyone agreed and asked Song Zhe Wu to come up with a name. Song Zhe Wu thought for a moment and said: "This hemostatic powder is made from six medicinal ingredients, and there are five of you plus Director Wang, which makes six people in total. I think we should call it Liu He Zhi Xue San (Six Harmony Hemostatic Powder)." Everyone exclaimed in agreement. Song Zhe Wu encouraged them to continue their research and try to develop more common disease treatments, such as powders and injections. Of course, only Wang Lian Zhang could work on the injections.
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