Zhao Bing was still full of suspicion after hearing Liu Zhu's analysis, and felt that some things were hard to explain clearly. If the pirates were discovered by the officers and soldiers, the first thing they thought of was to run away instead of resisting, or even go to war with the official army, unless they didn't want to get involved in this world. In addition, the golden juice cannon has always been the secret weapon of the Yuan army, so how could it easily fall into the hands of the pirates?

The answer to this analysis is about to emerge. Those merchant ships are not merchant ships at all, and even pirates are faked by the enemy. They may have come to reconnaissance the coast of Qiongzhou. Their first reaction after encountering them is of course to resist, especially when the Song army was about to board the ship for inspection; the other may be what Zhao Bing most reluctant to see - smuggling.

"Tong Liu, can you find out how different the current is from the past?" Zhao Bing asked with luck despite his doubts.

"Your Majesty, according to the report from the warden ship, no abnormalities were found." Liu Zhu shook his head, but thought about it and said, "Oh, they said that there have been more merchant ships this year just after the rainy season. When patrolling, they often encounter merchant ships passing through the strait, and even at night."

"Are they transiting in groups or single ships?" Zhao Bing asked anxiously.

"Your Majesty, if there are more than five ships passing by, the navy will intercept and inspect according to the rules. If it is close to the coast, it will also be driven away to prevent enemy or pirates from raiding coastal villages and towns. Therefore, the maximum number of transit ships is three or two." Liu Zhu replied.

"You will soon bring all the mailing ship logs from the end of October to the present, and immediately count how many merchant ships have transited!" Zhao Bing said after hearing this. At the beginning of the establishment of the navy, he required that each ship must record the journey, including the time of departure, route, weather, missions, number of crew members, weapons and food reserves and consumption, etc. Of course, the situations found during the voyage must also be recorded.

Zhao Bing asked that this would be done to facilitate the statistics of ship attendance rates, and if the situation occurs, it would be easier to find the cause, and it is also the basis for sea conditions investigation and ship maintenance. The statistics of the ships should be more detailed, and detailed records should be made of what they see along the way, so that when passing ships only enter the strait and when they sail out, it can be regarded as a big data study of this era.

"Your Majesty, because this involves two naval armies, I am afraid that I cannot collect all of them!" Liu Zhu was a little puzzled by the little emperor's sudden request for these things, but he still asked someone to do it and explained.

"I know, count the number of ships first. I will send them to Changhua Water Camp immediately after they are completed. In addition, during the day and at night, the daily number of ships must be calculated separately!" Zhao Bing nodded and reminded.

"Yes, my subordinates will handle it immediately!" Liu Zhu immediately called Dong Yicheng, the commander of the Haikou Water Camp, to ask him to summon people to do it immediately, and at the same time, he sent it to the Changhua Water Army to deliver it in time after the processing was completed.

"Tong Liu, I still feel uneasy. You immediately ordered the Chengmai Navy to send a fleet of heavy warships to maneuver towards Leizhou, and at the same time, the order of the Burgundy Army to cruise nearby. When the search fleet finds the enemy's situation, it immediately reinforces!" Zhao Bing thought about it and still felt that his judgment was correct. This should be the enemy's organized "smuggling" behavior, and he gathered troops in secret, so he ordered.

"Your Majesty is too worried. Now each water battalion has sent more than 50 medium-sized warships, and there are nearly a hundred warships on the sea. There is no problem with dealing with the three merchant ships!" Liu Zhu said with a smile.

"Tong Liu, be careful of sailing a ten thousand-year-old ship. Don't you think it's a bit strange for a large number of merchant ships to travel and cross the strait at this time?" Zhao Bing asked with a look of turning his face.

"Oh... I haven't thought about it!" The Qiongzhou Strait is an important trade channel, and it is normal to have merchant ships to deal with each other. Liu Zhu was unprepared for this question and could only answer honestly.

"You think that now when the rainy season has just passed and the trade winds are not coming, merchant ships should trade in Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou and Hangzhou merchant ports. Only after the trade winds next spring will a large number of them leave the port and pass the strait to the West for trade. Isn't it strange that merchant ships pass through the strait day and night?" Zhao Bing said what he thought.

"Your Majesty is worried that the enemy warships disguised as merchant ships and gathered troops in secret to attack Qiong!" Liu Zhu understood and said in surprise.

"Everything was speculation before we found out, and I dare not make up for it. However, the warships we sent were all warships below 1,000 stones, and the whistle ships were only 500 stones. If the enemy found that they were surrounded, they would send a large number of warships to support them. If we were not careful, we would suffer a loss!" Zhao Bing said lightly.

"Your Majesty said so well. My subordinates immediately ordered Liu Wenjun to personally lead the warships to sea to pick up the ships!" Liu Zhu felt cold sweat after hearing this. Because he was searching for merchant ships that attacked him, the ships sent were all small and medium-sized warships with fast speeds. Due to the limited to tonnage, the firepower configuration was naturally weak, and he used an evacuation formation. If he encountered his enemy's fleet, he would definitely suffer a great loss. He immediately ordered someone to send a letter to order the two armies to quickly gather to sail. After that, he had already responded, and granted Liu Wenjun the right to deal with emergencies as appropriate...

Everything was arranged, and the two sentry ships searching eastward returned to the airport reported that no enemy was found. The sentry ships were carrying pigeons and would be released if there was an emergency, but there was no news from other warships, so they could not make further judgments. Zhao Bing decided to take advantage of his idleness to see the injured officers and soldiers. Because Haikoupu not only stationed more than 20,000 naval troops, but also the garrison of the rear army, it was set up a medical hospital, which was specifically responsible for the medical treatment of the garrison and nearby military units.

The best conditions here are not the Dutong Palace, but the Medical Hospital, so it is not difficult to find. Zhao Bing did not like to rush around, and was accompanied by Wu Shiying, the deputy general of the Haikou Water Army, and led a few guards to the scene. The supervisor of the Haikou Medical Hospital did not dare to neglect when he heard that Your Majesty had arrived, so he immediately came out to greet him. This person was not a stranger, but Jiang Hong, one of the three "interns" led by Hao Yuntong on the ship of the epidemic. Although he suffered a little guilty back then, it was time to operate now. He became a sixth-rank official in three years. If he followed the steps, it would take at least ten years to reach this point.

Jiang Hong first introduced the treatment of the officers and soldiers of the attacked ship. At that time, a total of 41 people were sent, seven of whom were dead, and now they are waiting for their families to arrive. Another ten people were seriously injured, and the rest were slightly injured. Because they were injured by catapults, most of them were burns and bone injuries. After treatment, they were stable and there was no life-threatening. After recovery, they would not be disabled and could continue to serve.

Zhao Bing entered the ward. It was clean, spacious and bright, well ventilated, and the conditions were very good. Several seriously injured people might be tired and were in a drowsy after taking the medicine. He waved his hand and ordered people not to disturb them and retreated quietly. He visited the slightly injured people, comforted them and asked the situation of the attack at that time, and then asked the responsible medical officer to take good care of them and retreated after all.

In the past, Jiang Hong saw that His Majesty was very easy in his home, but now it is difficult. Of course, he was unwilling to give up the opportunity to ask His Majesty, the "medical master", and invited him to visit and guide him. To be honest, Zhao Bing had not been built last time, and it was actually the first time he came here, so he took a look at the bento inspection work. According to Jiang Hong's introduction, Haikou Pu Shujun Medical Hospital now has more than 100 medical officers, more than 400 nursing and servile personnel, and 600 permanent beds. He can accept 2,000 injuries and illnesses during war.

"Haha, we won't have to watch the injured officers and soldiers die helplessly!" After the visit, Zhao Bing smiled with emotion. In the first few days of his arrival in this world, he not only saw the ruthless killing, but also the helplessness of many injured people. On the way to escape, there were really wounded people everywhere, and once a soldier was injured and could not keep up with the team, he could only leave his will. No one in the marching brigade would stop and help the wounded soldiers who had lost their ability to move, even though they were still fighting side by side.

Of course, Zhao Bing also knew that they could not blame them for not having a charisma, because no one could save severe trauma, and no means of transportation to transport so many wounded people back to the rear. In fact, the military rescue system of this era was almost useless, and there was no battlefield rescue service organization. Only a limited number of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners were responsible for treating the wounded, and they were not good at surgical operations. They were powerless in the face of thousands of casualties.

Once a soldier is injured, he will also give some money to the general who "loves soldiers as if they are sons" and asks the injured soldiers to seek treatment by themselves, which is completely a personal matter. Wherever a soldier is injured, he will often be abandoned in place. Even if he escapes from difficult hunger, he will be killed by the torture of the harsh climate and illness. If a wounded person is lucky enough to find a place to shelter from the wind and rain, or his companions bring him to a relatively safe place, it will often only delay the time of death because no one can heal him.

"This is thanks to Your Majesty, so that the officers and soldiers in the army can be treated at any time!" Jiang Honggong bowed and said. He is not only a veteran of the medical institution of the General Administration, but also an executor. He is watching the medical treatment in the army be improved and developed little by little.

At that time, the Commander's Office, including Jiang Hong, had only four and a half-baked doctors, but the young emperor began to recruit doctors while establishing the government, and established medical institutions and systems from the prohibition of urination and defecation. After the commander's Office captured Guangzhou, he recruited doctors and purchased medicines. After arriving in Qiong, he immediately began to improve institutions, train personnel, and make medicines. The young emperor also taught them what he knew about first aid and combat injury treatment methods without reservation. Under his personal leadership, he established a new medical institution in just half a year, forming the current multi-level division of labor system:

The first level is in the Military General Hospital of the Imperial Hospital. In addition to being in charge of administrative affairs of the entire medical system, it is also responsible for the medical business of the military hospital, popularizing medical and health knowledge, cultivating medical and medical institutions, guiding the work of the next level medical institutions, and is responsible for all logistics work of the hospital and the medical device guarantee of each branch hospital. It is now under the jurisdiction of a medical college and a pharmaceutical factory, and there is also a direct military hospital, which is used to treat critical and difficult diseases.

The second level is the military branch, which is under the dual jurisdiction of the Ministry of War and the Imperial Hospital. It is mainly used to provide ordinary treatment, special treatment and surgical procedures to the wounded and rehabilitation care before returning to the team; the third level is set up for each general, which is generally carried out in fixed medical facilities, and can provide lifesaving, simple surgical procedures and hospitalization services, and train grassroots medical soldiers.

The third level is a medical team set up at the battalion level, which is under the jurisdiction of the baggage teams of each army. They must follow the army to be responsible for the simple treatment of the officers and soldiers of the battalion on weekdays and participate in front-line rescue. They must conduct careful inspections of the wounded and determine whether to send or further treatment based on the injury. The fourth level is down to the capital, and the actual medical work is short-term training soldiers. They can only deal with simple injuries and diseases. The main work in daily life is to popularize health and first aid knowledge, and in wartime, they undertake on-site rescue and sending the wounded.

After conquering Quanzhou, the entire medical system was further improved. The second-level hospital where Jiang Hong was located had full manpower and had reserved various medicines for three months. When each soldier was on the battlefield, they could send each soldier a lifesaving bag to rescue and rescue the injured comrades. The lifesaving bag contained simple rescue supplies such as tourniquets, gold-cancerous medicine, bandages and painkillers, and there would be no lonely and helpless things happening to the injured.

"All this is your credit. I just moved my mouth, and you are doing it!" Zhao Bing smiled. He knew how much he had. What he did was just to teach them some modern concepts and methods. What he knew was common knowledge such as alcohol disinfection, opium pain relief, blood vessel ligation and prevention of infection, and they still needed to do it in practice. Not only did he not want the tragedy to reappear, but life-saving techniques helped save the lives of the wounded, but also improved the morale of soldiers because they knew that there was professional medical care to protect their lives.

"Your Majesty, please go back quickly. There is a sentry ship in front of you who sends back the news, saying that the search fleet and the enemy ship were in a fierce battle!" Just as Zhao Bing was complacent about his outstanding contributions to ancient medical care, Liu Zhu hurriedly came over to report.

"How big is it?" Zhao Bing asked anxiously.

"I am stupid. Your Majesty's guess is correct. Those merchant ships are disguised by the enemy's navy." Liu Zhu said with a thick neck, "According to the report of the sentry ship, they found the enemy ships attacking our sentry ships about twenty miles west of the sea outside Leizhou. They sent signals to our nearby ships and continued to pursue them. When they chased them ten miles away from the shore, they found that more than twenty enemy ships were coming to reinforce the ships in Leizhou, so they sent an urgent report to the base to request troops to be transferred for reinforcements."
Chapter completed!