"For the Crown Prince!"
A Paris Police Academy first-year student with a sergeant's insignia looked toward Joseph, clutched his chest, and responded loudly, as if the Crown Prince were carrying out a routine inspection at the academy.
"For the Crown Prince!"
"For His Majesty the King!"
"For honor and France!"
The other injured soldiers immediately disregarded their pain and joined in the shouting, their voices echoing throughout the entire battlefield hospital.
According to their habitual thinking, with the medical conditions of the era, being wounded was basically tantamount to death.
What awaited them would be wound infections, and within one to two weeks, they would die in a fever-induced coma.
