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"Your Highness, the latest situation has just been reported from the front. The enemy's 80,000 cavalry are currently circling our flanks and are suspected of encircling the eastern part of our Montuo City!"

Just as Xiao Yan was looking towards the north with a worried look on his face, a soldier came up to him in a hurry and reported immediately.

"Pass on my order. The entire army is on high alert and ready to respond to the invading enemy at any time!"

Xiao Yan waved his hand and immediately gave the order.

As the saying goes, when an enemy comes, we fight him with our soldiers; when a flood comes, we block it with earth. Now that things have come to this, he has no better way to deal with it.

Now the only thing he could do was to hold on to the city of Mengtu and wait until Xia Yun led the main force of the army to come to his rescue!

……

In the blink of an eye, a day passed.

Xia Yun's army, which had just captured Ulan City yesterday, has recovered to its best condition after a night of rest.

While all the soldiers were busy maintaining their weapons, Xia Yun appeared in the vicinity of Ulan City with a few others.

"Marshal, according to the latest exploration report, there are indeed a large number of natural iron ore and coal mines around Wulan City. This is the place."

Qin Tianye walked at the front of the crowd and led everyone to a plain.

Although it is a plain, there is almost no grass or soil on the surface. At a glance, the area of ​​tens of thousands of square meters is all iron ore.

"Has there been any news from the Energy Bureau in Beijing recently?"

Xia Yun asked calmly.

"In reply to the Marshal, Lady Wan'er is also serving as the Director of the Energy Bureau. However, Lady Wan'er is currently supervising the road paving project in the Utengger Prairie, and no news related to energy has been received yet."

Qin Tianye responded immediately.

Just this morning, their exploration team in the northeast reported to them the latest news.

Or to be more precise, it was the exploration team in the Ulan City area that discovered a large amount of ore around Ulan City.

As a result, an extremely bold idea came into Xia Yun's mind.

He wants to build a military factory in the Northeast!

Because of this, Xia Yun asked Qin Tianye to take him to the site for inspection early in the morning.

"Marshal, judging from the mining conditions, the area around Wulan City does have extremely rich mineral resources. However, Wulan City is located in the northeastern border after all, adjacent to the Dune Dynasty."

"If the Dune Dynasty sends a large force to besiege our Ulan City in the future, I'm afraid the gains will outweigh the losses."

After a moment, Qin Tianye expressed his concerns.

For them, they already had experience in establishing military factories as early as Dai County.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before another military factory is built in the Northeast.

The most core issue is safety.

Unexpectedly, as soon as Qin Tianye finished speaking, Xia Yun just waved his hand.

"It doesn't matter."

Xia Yun said calmly.

"At present, our army lacks the necessary heavy engineering weapons. Mineral resources around Dai County are scarce and production is seriously insufficient. In addition, the road from Dai County to the northeast is rugged and biased, making transportation inconvenient."

"Pass on this commander's order. Immediately allocate resources from the army to quickly build a military factory in Wulan City. You will also serve as the factory director."

Then, Xia Yun added one after another.

While explaining the necessity of establishing a military factory in the Northeast, the appointment of Qin Tianye was announced.

"Yes, handsome!"

Qin Tianye received the order without any hesitation and immediately saluted Xia Yun respectfully.

Whatever Xia Yun ordered, he would obey it unconditionally!

……

At noon, Xia Yun and his party, after inspecting the mineral resources, returned to Ulan City.

The first thing Xia Yun did was to select a vacant land of over a thousand square meters in Ulan City in the form of a written order as the address of the military factory.

Then hundreds of soldiers proficient in construction were selected from the entire army.

These soldiers were almost all elite troops under Xia Yun, and they had originally followed Xia Yun from Dai County.

During this half year, in addition to following Xia Yun to fight, these people were also responsible for a variety of other tasks on a daily basis.

Therefore, building a brand new military factory was not a problem for them.

Soon, the military factory started production in full swing.

With the cooperation of various troops, a large amount of construction materials were delivered to the construction site.

Of course, due to time urgency, Xia Yun did not require the use of reinforced concrete structure.

"Marshal, it will only take half a month to build a military factory, but all the machines needed for the military factory can only be transported from Dai County. In addition, I wonder what kind of weapons the Marshal wants to manufacture?"

After the construction of the military factory started, Qin Tianye once again hurriedly found Xia Yun.

Before they came to Ulan City, there was only agriculture but no industry in and around Ulan City.

Therefore, there are naturally no modern machines here, and they are unable to even perform the simplest smelting of ore to extract metals.

"Dispatch twenty chariots from the army and give them to Zhao Xinlei. Have him rush back to Dai County and bring all the necessary materials from Dai County, including workers familiar with military manufacturing."

Xia Yun gave instructions immediately.

In fact, he had anticipated this. To build a modern military factory in an agricultural city, the resources of this one and a half acres of land were far from enough.

Fortunately, the army was equipped with hundreds of new chariots, and he could transport all the necessary supplies from Dai County in less than half a month.

Immediately afterwards, Xia Yun took out two drawings from his arms and handed them to Qin Tianye personally.

"The first weapon, I call it the Divine Might Cannon, has a caliber of 200 millimeters, weighs two tons, uses the latest artillery shells, and is extremely powerful."

"The second weapon, I call it the Maxim heavy machine gun, it is extremely powerful, it can break rocks and attack city defenses."

Xia Yun spoke successively.

Long before he decided to build a military factory, he already had the specific name of the weapon he wanted to manufacture in his mind.

In the past few months, the hundreds of thousands of troops under his command have been equipped with tens of thousands of automated troops.

But whenever the army encounters a siege, certain shortcomings will be revealed.

Back in the Hexi Corridor, whenever the army attacked a city, the only heavy weapon they could use was the catapult.

However, in reality, the destructive power of the catapult on the city wall was quite limited.

Therefore, cannons became the siege weapon that the army urgently needed!

As for the Maxim rifle, it is perfect for defending the city.

As he expected, the development of the Dune Dynasty has successfully entered the era of the Industrial Revolution.

Otherwise, the troops sent by the Dune Dynasty to the northeast would not be equipped with the instant rifle, a product that far exceeded the era of cold weapons.