Indicator 1: Have a city with a population of not less than 500,000 and a popular sentiment index of more than 80%.

Current progress completed: 81% of the people's sentiment index; It has a population of 580,000; Capture 1 city. Done

Indicator 2: It has more than 400 square kilometers of base development space.

So far: 800 square kilometers. Done

Indicator 3: Occupy more than 50,000 square kilometres of land.

So far: 49,680 square kilometers. to be continued

Indicator 4: Have more than 20,000 combat soldiers, and must form two formed mechanized troops, at least at the brigade level.

So far: 32,856 people. Done

…… (The above text is free!) ）

When the occupation of Bossaso was officially completed, and when the Somali flag was planted in Bossaso, Li Lan turned over the high-level privilege upgrade indicators. Sure enough, the most difficult to reach the first indicator has been completed.

Not only the first indicator, but also the following dozen or so important indicators, as well as some relatively simple indicators, Li Lan also completed them ahead of schedule, especially the 200 construction units and 500 defense units, Li Lan would not let such data hold him back, and they must have been completed early.

However, among all the indicators, there is still one that has not been completed, that is, the third target, occupying 50,000 square kilometers of land, which is already the size of a province in China. However, Li Lan has now completed seven-seven-eighty-eight.

From Somaliland to Bossaso alone, this land adds up to more than 40,000 square meters. Counting part of the Surud Mountains, Li Lan is already close to reaching the target. Now it's only a few hundred square kilometers. For him, it wasn't a big deal.

Bossaso is already in control. To increase these hundreds of square kilometers, only one order is needed. To the south of Bossaso, there is no man's land that stretches all the way to the city of Carlin. Next, Li Lan also needs to take down the city of Carlin, and naturally, the target of 50,000 square kilometers has been completed.

The city of Carlin, located south of Bossaso, is a forty or fifty kilometre walk south along the main road. And this place is said to be a city. In fact, it is not as good as a small town, with a population of only tens of thousands, and it has little economic value, so it is a very desolate place.

However, the geographical location of the town is very important, the topography here is very much like a delta, to the north is Bossaso, to the southeast is most of Puntland, and to the southwest, although it is also the boundary of Puntland, but it is not more than 20 kilometers. It is the territory of Somalia that has not yet become independent.

The city of Carlin, located in the middle of such a three-way road, is also the only way south of Bossaso, and Puntland has many foreign exports. All have to pass through this road before Bossaso.

However, there are not many armed forces, some underworld or tribes. There isn't much interest here either, so. The place is starting to fall into a bit of a desertion. In the whole city, there are only tens of thousands of households. Puntland is here, too, with a small force of a few hundred men.

This place really doesn't have much value in peacetime, but it is very important in wartime. Especially if Puntland is determined to be the enemy of Li Lan, this place is very suitable as the first line of defense. And the Ethiopian side, if it does not go through the territory of Somalia, is also very likely to come from here.

So, Li Lan needs this place. Anyway, now that Bossaso has it in his hands, it's not a bad city of Carlin.

The occupation began when the troops were resting, and the 4th Mechanized Infantry Battalion of the Mechanized Infantry Brigade set out for Carlin after the battle of Bossaso.

At this moment, Li Lan was in the console, waiting for the news of the Fourth Machine Infantry Battalion.

"Natasha, how long has it been since the Fourth Mechanized Infantry Battalion left?"

"Commander, an hour and thirty-five minutes, at speed, has arrived. At the moment, there is no news of the battle. Natasha replied.

"All information about Carlin City, report it as soon as possible." Li Lan said.

"Yes."

Flipping through the page of firearms and ammunition at random, Li Lan looked at the ammunition production that cost money like water. The tank factory, which has now become a huge munitions and ammunition production plant, has countless munitions produced from the tank factory every day, and then through the logistics units, it is sent to the front.

Not to mention the consumption of armored brigades and mechanized infantry brigades, and the consumption of heavy artillery brigades alone, in the three days since the Bossaso War began, Li Lan has spent at least 100,000 base funds on artillery shells, and this is still on the premise that there were a lot of stocks in the past, otherwise at least tens of thousands more will need to be spent now.

It's not that Li Lan is stingy in this regard, but when the cannon sounds, there are ten thousand taels of gold. At present, he is only producing very ordinary ammunition, excluding missiles, and in the future, if the missiles are equipped with troops, a short-range air defense missile will require several hundred base funds.

If you face a high-intensity battle, millions of base funds are really not enough.

At present, Li Lan is trying to save as much money as possible to cope with the unknown high-level privilege upgrade task, so when he sees the large number of ammunition icons waiting to be produced on the ammunition page, he inevitably feels a little distressed.

In the past few days, he has saved millions of dollars, but Li Lan deeply feels that these funds are still not enough.

The two bauxite mines have begun to be mined on a large scale, and there is a daily income of more than 20,000 yuan, although the amount is not much, but it is better than nothing. At present, the territory has a daily capital income of 70,000 yuan, which relies on science and technology to drill oil wells, and the 113 model only gives Li Lan a fixed 180,000 yuan.

And now, if he wants to expand the source of funds, Li Lan has no quick means. So, now we can only save as much as possible.

At present, Li Lan no longer plans to continue building defensive units, in fact, the entire base has already been occupied by those 500 defensive units, and there is no room for more defensive units. Especially those anti-aircraft guns, the entire base has at least 300 seats, and the income of the entire ten days is all spent on this.

There is also no way, first of all, the indicators are there, and they will not work if they are not built, and secondly, the air defense means of the base are weak, and they can deal with the enemy at an altitude of 8,000 meters, and there is no other means besides anti-aircraft artillery. Li Lan only stopped after he was ruthless in building on a large scale and meeting the target of 500 defensive units.

Just as Li Lan was checking the production of firearms and ammunition pages, Natasha suddenly reported to him: "Commander, the 4th Mechanized Infantry Battalion has sent back a report, they have not encountered too strong resistance, and they have successfully occupied Kalin City. ”

"Very well, let them immediately release the guard post and build a defense with Carlin City as the center." Li Lan thought for a moment and continued: "Let the Second Mechanized Infantry Battalion and the Third Mechanized Infantry Battalion support Karlin City after they have finished resting. ”

"Understood." Natasha nodded and asked, "The Fourth Machine Infantry Battalion sent an inquiry, what about the prisoners!" ”

"How many captives do they have there?" Li Lan said.

"More than three hundred." Natasha said.

"Let them send a platoon and escort it to Bossaso, and then follow the captives of Bossaso to the mines, and all of them will be miners." Li Lan said very simply.

Li Lan didn't have the extra heart to worry about the prisoners, nor did he bother to bother with any international conventions, and there was still a shortage of workers in the mines. When this stage is over and the territory calms down again, it's not too late to deal with it.

Now, Carlin City has been taken smoothly, as long as you wait a while, the base will be automatically confirmed, and you can know the task of upgrading the advanced privileges.

Li Lan has been looking forward to advanced permissions for more than a year, and it would be false to say that he was not excited. If it weren't for the fact that he could reach the high-level authority as soon as possible, he wouldn't have had to be so busy this year, and there would be no need to work so hard.

He can develop slowly, step by step at the most steady pace. All this is for the sake of high-level authority, for his own subordinates, to be able to truly master the three armed forces of the navy, land and air force.

For this reason, he did not hesitate to do many notable things in his fledgling, all for the sake of gaining the population and ensuring the hearts and minds of the people.

Now, seeing that all the indicators have been completed, how to make him not excited.

However, in addition to being excited, Li Lan also had a lot of worries about the upgrade task of advanced permissions. At the beginning, the intermediate permission task made him persist for a whole month, and in the face of the enemy's attack for a month, even he walked on the battlefield. It can be said that he fought with his own life.

The advanced permission upgrade task does not need to be thought about, and it is definitely more difficult than the intermediate permission upgrade. And if he can't complete it, for three whole years, he won't have access to high-level authority, no matter how well he develops the base, it's the same.

Therefore, this task of upgrading the advanced authority is very important to Li Lan's future development. This is at stake in whether he can continue to stand on his feet in Somalia in the future, and whether he can continue to enjoy international support.

If Li Lan could already build a navy and air force now, then he would not attach so much importance to high-level authority. But the problem is that it is impossible for him to build the army for three years in a row and get high-level authority again. To be honest, Li Lan can't afford to wait.

Now that the international situation is changing, he may be isolated at any time. China's support is not without the slightest price, if he can't continue to increase his value and bargaining chips, it is likely to lead to the deterioration of this tacit deal. In other words, if Li Lan is unable to continue to show his own strength and value, it is very likely that China will turn support into control.

At that time, he couldn't resist if he wanted to. (To be continued......)