Davos and Helps were conferring on how to treat the wounded more efficiently when Menon sent an escort to call him over.
As soon as he entered, Menon shouted angrily, "I said 'if you have any new ideas, you have to come and tell me first'! And you promised. But now, you have deceived me! You broke your promise!"
"What did I do wrong?" Davos was baffled.
"You were able to revitalize those unconscious soldiers without telling me beforehand, yet you did it secretly!" Menon's face was in disbelief.
Davos was amused, "Respected Chief Menon, the situation was urgent, saving people was important, if we had to report to you first and then organize people to save them, Ashestus would have died long ago!"
Davos added in a sarcastic tone, "Not to mention that this isn't some new idea, it's my ancestral healing art. I came to be a mercenary, not a slave, and I need your approval to even heal!"
Menon was momentarily speechless. Just now the soldiers chanted the name "Davos", so he was momentarily overwhelmed by jealousy, and without thinking, he indignantly called Davos, and met with embarrassment as a result.
He simply said, "I'm still short of an escort here, from now on, you'll be responsible for escorting me to safety, and you're not allowed to leave without orders!" He had a premonition that he had to separate Davos from the soldiers to avoid continuing to influence them any further, thus weakening his hold on this mercenary army.
"I'm sorry about that, Chief Menon. I'm more suited to be a common soldier than a guard. Besides, my captain wouldn't agree!" Davos guessed Menon's intentions, and of course he wouldn't agree.
Menon didn't expect him to reject it outright and laughed in anger, "I'm your chief! Who dares to disagree with my orders!"
"I disagree!" With a shout, Antonius stepped into the living room.
"I don't agree either!" Following close behind was Capps, followed by several squadron leaders.
Seeing Antonios nodding at him, Davos was relieved: he was safe. Of course he didn't know that when the guards aggressively called him away, Xylos felt bad and immediately ran to inform Antonius, who was the reason they showed up so quickly.
"Who let you guys in? Where are my guards?!" Menon was anxious and angry. The fact that several of the major captains under his command had come in unannounced made him uneasy.
"Chieftain, the wounded in the camp are still anxiously waiting for Davos to treat them, there can be no delay!" Antonios' calm-sounding, darkly threatening words made Menon's heart flinch, and the cold gaze of the crowd made him feel even more weak.
He chose to back down and stammered, "Well ... Davos used his brilliant medical skills to save the injured unconscious soldiers, and I ... am very happy. So called him to ... well ... want to appoint him as a barracks doctor to heal more soldiers."
"I would love to save my wounded brethren! But I will not be either a doctor or an escort as you said before! I would only be a soldier under Xellos." Davos replied dryly. Being a barracks doctor was safe, but it didn't fit into his plans, not to mention that he was unwilling to accept Menon's reconciliation, and now that he had already torn his face, it would be difficult to bridge the gap, given his initial knowledge of Menon. There was no need for him to be polite to him and give the wrong signal to these team officers who had run to support him.
In front of the crowd, Menon was doubly embarrassed to be refuted by a lowly common soldier and immediately roared, "Davos!"
As soon as the words left his mouth, a sudden, earth-shattering sound came from outside the courtyard, "Release our Davos and give the soldiers a chance to live!!!"
"Menon, if you don't let Davos out, we're going to charge in!!!"
It was the shouts of countless soldiers that emboldened Menon.
"Davos, you go back first." Antonius said.
Davos nodded and exclaimed, "Thank you captains for your help!!!"
Upon hearing this, Menon immediately turned his indignant gaze on the captains. Immediately after Davos went out, he said slyly, "Antonius, Capps ... have you also begun to oppose me?"
"Menon, you are our leader, of course we should listen to your command. But Davos is a god-favorite of Hades, and the soldiers have witnessed the many miracles he has performed! The gods are watching over us from the heavens, blessing us with a smooth journey home from the foreign lands, and will not allow us to be half-hearted." Antonios replied politely.
Menon, of course, heard what he was saying: we understand what you did to Davos. We can follow your commands, but when it comes to Davos, we have to defend him. He was about to make a few retorts to preserve the dignity of his chieftain when Amyntas, the most antipathetic of the team officers, shouted, "Listen Menon! Our mercenary mission is over. If you mess up again, we don't mind reelecting a new chief! I'm sure the soldiers will never re-elect you!"
Amyntas's words hit the nail on the head for Menon: mercenaries are a loose military organization, and Menon was able to become the leader because he was well-connected and was able to get assignments, get money, and pay his soldiers. Now, after the death of Cyrus the Younger, Menon has lost his employer and can no longer get money or pay his soldiers. The reason the soldiers still hold him as their master is because a safe return home is a common goal that must be held together, and a scattered army cannot survive in Persian lands. The mercenary chain of command was readily available and managed effectively, and the soldiers were used to it. Secondly, with long years of mercenary life, these experienced team officers under their command rarely changed, and most were on good terms with Menon, helping him to control the whole team. Now for Davos, the team officers and soldiers united against him, has indicated that his control over this team is in jeopardy.
Menon did not have a good reputation in the hearts of the soldiers, and he knew it in his own heart. In the past, he did not care, because as long as the money, he can always replace a group of soldiers, the Greek mainland because of the barren land and the previous Peloponnesian War, resulting in people's livelihoods have been depleted, and go out to seek survival of the young and strong are many. But now it has become his biggest problem.
He forced himself to be calm and sent Antonious and Capheus away before returning to the living room before letting out a roar of anger to vent the stifled feelings in his chest, "I'm going to kill that kid!!!" Just as the words left his mouth, he realized something and busied himself by walking to the entrance of the courtyard, where the guards who had followed him for more than a year had disappeared at some point.
He felt frightened, and fidgeted in the parlor, looking at the house, which was in a state of disarray because of his anger, and after hesitating for some time, he finally decided to go to Arrizos: he had heard that a number of Arrizos's relatives had come over in the last couple of days to look for him, and that with their help the mercenaries might not have to work so hard to get back to the ...
Thinking of this, Menon had an idea. He straightened his makeup, went to the yard and took a horse, gave the horse's belly a hard clip, and sped off to the north.
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Having tested his influence in the Menon barracks by this incident, Davos returned to his lodgings and proactively recruited Helps to discuss the treatment of the wounded.
Although Davos was not a doctor in his previous life, he had accumulated more than two thousand years of knowledge than people in this era, enough for him to formulate a far better and more complete medical plan: firstly, set up a medical team, with Helps as the main one, and then find one or two soldiers from the barracks who are interested in medicine to serve as a doctor as well, and ask for a few female slaves from the supply battalion to serve as nurses, and treat them as they are cultivated, and I believe that they would quickly Secondly, open up an area as a wartime hospital to centralize the treatment of the wounded and improve efficiency; again, develop a realistic medical system and train doctors and nurses in the concept of sterile hygiene, the most common thing in the army is trauma, as long as you can prevent infection, with the strong physical condition of the soldiers, most of the mild to moderate traumas can be healed; lastly, along the way, collect from the local people of Persia some cures for the disease The Mesopotamian civilization is one of the oldest civilizations on earth, and the people who have flourished on this land for thousands of years certainly have their own unique means and methods of coping with illnesses, and after learning from them, and using modern methods of analysis to remove the bad and take the good, naturally expanding the scope of the medical team of Davos to treat illnesses.
Davers intends to develop this medical team into a regular and essential organization in the barracks for the future.
Mastering the health of your soldiers is mastering the heart of your army.