The colonel approached Lin Jie, snapped to attention with a salute, and said, "Comrade Lin Jie, your request to participate in the treatment of the wounded has been approved."

"By order of the higher-ups, the field hospital here is entirely under your command."

"I am Fang Jianbin, ordered to assist you in handling all matters of the field hospital."

Lin Jie was taken aback and confirmed by asking, "Entirely under my command? You're not joking?"

Fang Jianbin saluted again and said seriously, "Yes! Comrade Lin Jie, the order I received is exactly that. Military orders are as solid as a mountain; there's certainly no joking around."

What exactly are the military higher-ups up to?

Although Lin Jie was full of doubts, now was a time racing against death.

Before entering the tent, Lin Jie noticed that many wounded were brought here by ambulances and helicopters, with medical soldiers running around everywhere, and many cries and screams from the wounded could be heard.

No time to waste, Lin Jie thought. His main job was to perform surgery to save lives. As for commanding, he could leave it to the colonel in front of him.

He got up and began putting on a new military uniform brought by the medical soldiers, saying, "Give me a brief introduction to the field hospital's situation first!"

"Yes!"

Fang Jianbin responded loudly, "The hospital currently has four multifunctional field surgery vehicles, and two sterile surgery tents and three trauma handling areas have been set up."

"Two generator vehicles, along with several other logistical support vehicles."

"Medical personnel include three associate chief physicians, eight attending physicians, twelve resident physicians, twenty-eight intern doctors, and forty-four medical soldiers..."

Lin Jie pondered for a moment and said, "Equip me with two operating rooms and two surgical teams, each with two attending physicians and several nurses."

"Hmm..."

Lin Jie further instructed, "Have an associate chief physician handle triage; everything else remains as before. That's it for now!"

"Understood, I'll go make arrangements right away!"

Fang Jianbin replied and ran out of the tent!

Lin Jie turned to Zhang Xiaoxiao and said, "Xiaoxiao, take care of Kexin, Miaomiao, and Kemeng. Find a place to eat and rest for a bit."

After saying this, he didn't wait for Zhang Xiaoxiao or An Kexin to respond and told Bi Zhixin, "Go, take me to prepare for surgery immediately..."

At the entrance of the field hospital, there was an open area of dozens of square meters.

Every wounded person sent to the field hospital would first be brought here for an initial examination by doctors, who would then decide where to send them for treatment.

The attending physician in charge, Yuan Li, had many bloodstains on her white coat.

She felt around the current wounded's body several times, asked a few questions, wiped the sweat off her face with her sleeve, and said, "Fracture and bodily trauma, send to Tent No. 3!"

As soon as she finished speaking, two medical soldiers promptly lifted the wounded and jogged away.

"Yuan Li, leave this to me, and go to the trauma handling area!"

Yuan Li looked up in surprise and said, "Deputy Chief Jin, weren't you in the operating room? Why are you here? Who's in charge of Surgery Vehicle No. 2?"

Deputy Chief Jin's face turned stern as he said, "My work has just been adjusted; someone else is responsible for Surgery Vehicle No. 2. Now I command you to go to the trauma handling area!"

Yuan Li still couldn't understand and asked, "Deputy Chief Jin, isn't it a waste for you to handle triage?"

"You perform a surgery, and that's a life saved!"

Jin's face sank, and he barked, "Yuan Li, less nonsense; it's wartime discipline now. If you drag on any longer, I'll treat it as insubordination!"

Yuan Li was instantly startled.

Wartime discipline is no joke; being treated as insubordination could even mean getting executed on the spot.

She spoke no more, saluted, and ran off with large strides.

Deputy Chief Jin, with a grim face, took over Yuan Li's work and inspected each wounded person's injuries.

There's no denying that, as an associate chief physician, Deputy Chief Jin's efficiency was significantly higher than Yuan Li's.

In over twenty minutes, he had assessed the injury level and type for a batch of over twenty wounded and sent them to different treatment areas.

At this time, another injured person was taken off an ambulance.

Upon touching, Deputy Chief Jin found that the person's abdomen was swollen with fluid accumulation, and he immediately shouted, "Abdominal crush injury, internal bleeding, surgery needed urgently — which operating room is available now?"

The medical soldier accompanying him, responsible for reporting the hospital's various sections' availability, checked the indicator in hand and said, "Reporting, Surgery Vehicle No. 1!"

"Number one..."

Deputy Chief Jin stopped halfway and asked abruptly, "Are you sure? Twenty minutes ago, a critical surgery patient was just sent there!"

"Affirmative!"

If the medical soldier handed over the indicator and said, "Deputy Chief Jin, look, the indicator light for Surgery Vehicle No. 1 is green, showing it's unoccupied."

Deputy Chief Jin nodded and assigned the wounded to Surgery Vehicle No. 1...

Ambulances, helicopters, and even many wounded sent by private vehicles kept arriving continuously.

In the past five hours, Deputy Chief Jin hadn't been idle, so busy that he barely had time for a drink of water!

"Deputy Chief Jin, Surgery Vehicle No. 2 is now available!"

Hearing this statement again, Deputy Chief Jin's feelings of doubt, confusion, and curiosity reached a peak.

Half an hour!

On average, half an hour is the time Surgery Vehicle No. 1 and No. 2 take to perform surgeries.

This damned efficiency is too high!

Unless... unless...

Each surgery in the middle ends up with the patient unexpectedly dying...

Thinking about this, Deputy Chief Jin found it impossible. This is a military hospital; there wouldn't be doctors treating life as trivial.

Unbearably unable to contain his curiosity, he called over a medical soldier and instructed, "Go to Surgery Vehicle No. 1 and No. 2, and find out what exactly is going on."

"Yes!" The medical soldier obeyed and left.

After waiting anxiously and bewilderingly for a full ten minutes, the medical soldier returned, running.

"Deputy Chief Jin, this... this... It's incredible, unbelievable!"

The medical soldier was so excited his face was flushed as if he'd seen an alien.

Deputy Chief Jin's temper flared up, and he shouted, "Cut the crap, just give me the details of what you saw and investigated, report the facts."

"Yes!"

The medical soldier suppressed his excitement and reported, "Surgery Vehicle No. 1 and No. 2 have only one chief surgeon."

"He is responsible solely for handling visceral injuries and other complex issues, such as incision and suturing of wounds, fracture management, and all other external injuries — all are handled by surgical assistants; the chief surgeon doesn't bother with them!"

"The surgical efficiency is really... really not just high."

"The two surgical teams are exhausted like dogs and sometimes can't even keep up with the efficiency of this single surgeon. It's truly astounding."

This answer left Deputy Chief Jin somewhat unable to accept it.

Is there really a chief surgeon with such high surgical efficiency? His own mentor, acknowledged as a surgical virtuoso, couldn't achieve this. Who is this mysterious doctor?

He probed further, "Do you know who this chief surgeon is?"

The medical soldier was taken aback and said, feeling sheepish, "I was too excited; I forgot to ask. Just know it's a very young doctor, not from our military system."

A very young doctor?

He suddenly remembered someone his mentor had mentioned and asked gravely, "What about the surgery mortality rate?"

The medical soldier loudly reported, "Reporting to Deputy Chief Jin, from what I know, this chief surgeon has conducted a total of nineteen surgeries, and so far, not a single patient... has died!"

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