The afterglow of the setting sun painted the desert red, and the scorching heat slowly dissipated, replaced by a dim canopy that slowly opened and enveloped the entire desert. The desert in the evening appears even more desolate and tragic.

Luntai roared in September at night, and the gravel of a river was as big as a bucket, and the stones were all over the ground with the wind.

Leaving the city wall, Li Lan has been walking around the territory, checking the progress of the construction of the territory, until the sun is waning, he returned to the base car with a body of dust.

As soon as Li Lan walked into the hall on the first floor, Mohammadi walked in close behind, still holding a thick document in his hand.

"Natasha, make tea." Seeing Muhammadi, who was also dusty, Li Lan shouted, then pointed to the sofa and said to Muhammadi: "Sit down!" ”

"Sir Xiexie." Muhammadi thanked him and sat down on the sofa.

"It's been a busy day!" Looking at Muhammadi, whose eyes were full of exhaustion, Li Lan sat down and said.

"Huh!" Muhammadi smiled slightly, handed the document in his hand to Li Lan, and said, "It doesn't matter, as long as my heart is full, I will be happy to be tired." ”

Li Lan nodded, took the document, and didn't say anything. He knew Muhammadi as a person, and there was much he needed to say now.

Just as Li Lan opened the folder and began to look at it, Muhammadi spoke again: "Today, nearly five hundred families have been accepted, and the number of residents in the territory has increased by nearly three thousand. ”

"How many laborers are there in the territory at the moment, apart from our engineers?" Li Lan continued to look at the documents in his hand without raising his head.

"After more than a month of rest, the refugees have recovered a lot, and now there are 15,000 young people who are helping the engineers build houses. There were nearly 20,000 women who were there to help. ”

"Very good, the development of the territory still needs to be accelerated, and those refugees who arrived early have almost recovered their physical strength, and the progress can be accelerated." Li Lan nodded and continued to look at the documents in his hand.

The main content of the document is the speed of construction of the territory, from the construction of dwellings, the rest of the fence, to the most basic planning of livestock and experimental farmland.

"One-third of the water pipes have been laid, and the existing residential houses are all laid with water pipes, and the electrical circuits are almost complete. At present, the construction of the base is limited by materials and manpower.

Moreover, the current construction work is slow, which is also limited by our lack of large-scale construction equipment, and the construction machinery currently owned by the base has been unable to meet the requirements. A lot of big work still needs to be solved by manpower. The most direct problem is that in the current territorial planning, there are 16 mountain slopes, with a height of up to 100 meters and a minimum of more than 30 meters, and the area spanned is also very large.

According to the chief's plan, these slopes need to be completely bulldozed, but we don't have many large excavation tools. These slopes cannot be leveled quickly by manpower. As a result, many construction jihua has been delayed. The most immediate effect is that without the soil on these hillsides, the reclamation work cannot be completed according to the jihua. The dock planned by the commander may not be able to meet the needs of the commander in time. ”

As Li Lan went through the documents, Mohammadi also explained.

"Large-scale use of tools, these will be resolved as soon as possible, the current arrival in the base are tanks and armored vehicles, these large-scale construction equipment, it will take some time." Li Lan put down the document, thought for a moment, and continued: "At present, a tank battalion and two machine infantry battalions have been formed at the base, and it is time to think about construction. ”

Li Lan has reduced the number of troops as much as possible, and one tank battalion has only 32 tanks, while at present the base only has 40 Rhino tanks, and there are more infantry fighting vehicles, and two infantry battalions have been formed.

And in the vehicle construction page, after being promoted to intermediate permission, Li Lan can also produce some engineering vehicles. It's just that he has always been focused on army building, and Li Lan rarely pays attention to engineering vehicles, and he doesn't build much.

During this period of time, the total number of excavators and forklifts built was less than ten, and none of those large trucks were produced, and they were always replaced by military trucks. As for those such as bridge erection vehicles and cranes, Li Lan did not produce any of them.

It's not that Li Lan is not thoughtful, but that the base needs to form a certain combat strength as soon as possible. Every day, the Chinese soldiers continued to build, building gaps in drilling wells and refineries, and constantly building power plants, barracks and chariot factories, in order to build up the combat effectiveness of the territory as soon as possible.

The reason for this urgency is that Bossaso has calmed down, and the government forces have suddenly adopted the tactics of retreating, abandoning the territories occupied by the major shili and holding the existing ones. The major shili also took it when they saw it, and there was no further action.

Li Lan wanted to quickly arm his military strength because he was worried that the government army would cause trouble in the territory. Although the whole of Bossaso now knows that refugees are being taken in, the government forces are afraid to act on their territory for the sake of their reputation and fear of international pressure. But there is no guarantee that the government forces will not take risks, even if they dare not attack the territory, cause some trouble for Farah at the Bossaso docks, or fight for food and supplies, they must not be unprepared.

At present, with one tank battalion and two infantry battalions, the armor strength has begun to take shape, and it is time to consider the production of more engineering vehicles. Under military construction, we should not neglect the construction aspect. After all, engineers need tools in their hands to bring out their abilities.

The construction of the entire territory is carried out around the planning map, occupying 800 square kilometers of land, not all of them are flat, just south of the former territory, there is a small hillside, and now this hillside is within the territory. In order to meet Li Lan's vision of the Bagua Array, these hillsides must be leveled, because around the territory, there are no slopes with a similar shape to daxiao, and buildings that are too tall will also become a pointing marker, and the significance of the existence of the Bagua Array will be greatly reduced.

Therefore, if Li Lan wants to build the entire city into a Bagua Array, he needs to build every area exactly the same, and the arrangement of the city wall and the style of the building must be consistent, so that the whole city will turn into a huge labyrinth.

Under the interference of the electromagnetic pulse of the base, combined with the crack generator, even if it is an air strike, it will be lost under all the same buildings, and the target will not be found, unless the entire city is destroyed. (Spoiler?) ）

Of course, these are just Li Lan's beautiful assumptions, and when the time comes, when the city is built, will it verify his idea, this is a matter for the future.

However, even if it does not achieve the effect, such a neat large city is equivalent to creating a precedent in human history, and it will surely usher in many other benefits, such as the layout of the city can be used as a selling point to develop tourism after the complete peace. None of this is impossible.

Moreover, Li Lan was also built for the purpose of promoting Chinese culture, after all, no matter where he was, he was a descendant of Yan and Huang. There is a gossip village in Lanxi, China, and Li Lan, who has been there once, will never forget it, and longs for more people to appreciate Chinese civilization.

"How many large construction machines do we need?" Li Lan said.

"According to the engineers' calculations, more than 100 excavators and forklifts will be needed to build the city's infrastructure in a year, and all of them must be large. Small construction trucks are not up to the hard ground here. When Muhammadi heard Li Lan say this, he immediately replied: "And we also need a lot of large piling machinery and large cement mixers, at present, in the area near the sea, every building needs to be dug by hand, and then filled with reinforced concrete, and the speed of manual excavation is too full." ”

"I understand, excavators and forklifts, these will be owned soon, but machinery such as pile drivers, we need to find another way." Li Lan nodded, excavators and forklifts, the base can be produced, but there is no way to produce things like pile drivers, at least at present, under his authority, there is no such thing on the production list.