The next day, Night Lion 5 returned to the Gobi Desert, and before leaving, Cheng Lei handed him the defense map that he had spent most of the night carefully drawing. He also instructed him a lot of things, and sent De Yingxiang to escort the Night Lion 5 back with his twenty cavalry, and also brought a few carriages of explosives and tools for setting traps that Cheng Lei got up early in the morning to prepare.

Now you can finally rest assured, no matter how powerful those lion beasts are, it is impossible to predict the existence of mines. The truckloads of explosives given by Cheng Lei were used by the members of the Night Lion Squad and the Viper Squad to set up improvised mines.

Cheng Lei's plan was to set up traps around the cement plant and then plant a ring of mines around it, leaving only one access point. Then send people to guard the armored vehicles 24 hours a day, I'm afraid that when the time comes, don't say anything about the lion dogs, not even a single fly will fly in.

The limestone mine also did the same, and when transporting it, it also sent strong firepower to protect it, so that the lion beasts would not have any chance at all. What Cheng Lei hopes most now is that the cement plant will be completed and put into operation as soon as possible, and then the golden Vic gold coins will flow like water to the Lion King squadron. At that time, it is not necessary to have guns and guns, people and people, and territory!

The current situation in the east is too unstable, and Cheng Lei can't afford to have the idea of developing slowly step by step like before. The shadow of the behemoth of the Balun European Kingdom is now probably shrouded in the hearts of every person in the Silver Tower City, as short as a year, as long as a few years, I am afraid that the real disaster that the Silver Tower City will face will come soon.

And there is also the unknown number of Sikong there recently, and no one knows what the ultimate purpose of his last visit to rob Silver Tower City was. To say that the younger brother of the city lord of the dignified Silver Tower City would take such a risk for some money, Cheng Lei would not believe it at all.

In Cheng Lei's heart, the most likely thing is that Si Wu wants to use those inconsequential hungry soldiers he specially recruited to test the current depth of Silver Tower City. Maybe he has now gathered a team to disadvantage Silver Tower City, and has used stratagem to try out the details of Duke Dozan, I'm afraid a big battle with him is inevitable.

Cheng Lei's biggest headache is that this kind of thing happened at this time, neither the base nor the cement plant have been built, and most of the troops are outside as the escort of the project. If such a sudden incident really happens, Cheng Lei really has no bottom in his heart.

Although there are now as many as eight or nine hundred regular troops in Yinta under Duke Duozan, most of them are rabble, and Cheng Lei does not believe in their ability. After thinking about it for a long time, he didn't come up with any good way, Cheng Lei had to sigh and resign himself to fate!

However, he couldn't do nothing if he resigned himself to fate, so he sent two cavalrymen to the Tieji tribe to send a letter to his father-in-law Dunleha, hoping that Dunleha would send a letter to Cheng Lei if he found any changes on the grassland. Although this may not have any effect, it is better than nothing to prevent problems before they happen.

Xing Chenghui received another 2,000 gold from Cheng Lei, and Cheng Lei also needed him to continue to provide gasoline for the Lion King squadron. Moreover, he has already sent people to handle the matter of trucks in the West, and if the purchase can be successful, then it will only be a matter of a few months to ship it back.

Cheng Lei has already seen Xing Chenghui through, this person is a pure businessman, and the armament he raises is just to escort his business. Businessmen are mercenary and will not fight to the death for power like politicians, so this person has no threat to Cheng Lei.

However, Xing Chenghui's son Xing Junjie disguised himself as a gentleman when he first appeared, and I am afraid that he is still like that in the impression of the major forces in Silver Tower City. But what he said and his performance when he first came to deliver gasoline to Cheng Lei fully proved that this person is not a good stubble, let alone the kind of gentleman that everyone thinks. It may be that Xing Junjie was too excited at that time and inadvertently exposed his edge, which made people really aware of it.

At that time, Xing Chenghui was seriously ill, and Xing Jiamen didn't reveal the news at all, so everyone didn't know. Xing Junjie thought that the day when he would be the master of the door was coming soon, and Xing Chenghui did hand over some of the power to him at that time. However, Xing Chenghui's sudden improvement in his condition and the retraction of power caught Xing Junjie off guard, and now I heard that Xing Junjie has been recuperating in the Xingjiamen Inner Mansion since then.

People said that Xing Junjie wanted to usurp the throne when Xing Chenghui was seriously ill, so he was put under house arrest by Xing Chenghui. No, Cheng Lei doesn't think so, because he knows that Xing Chenghui is not the kind of person who has an extremely strong desire for power. The only reason that can explain Xing Junjie's failure is that after Xing Chenghui's serious illness, he may feel that his body is not as good as day by day, and he may leave Xing Junjie in the house to patiently train him, and wait for the day he dies so that his son can take over.

However, this is all Cheng Lei's own thoughts, and what the specific things are remains to be understood. However, if Xing Junjie inherits Xing Chenghui's position, I am afraid that Xing's family will not be as peaceful and stable as it is now. From the last three words, Cheng Lei could hear that Xing Junjie's ambition was very big, and it was so big that he didn't know what to do, Cheng Lei had already told himself that he must be careful of this person.

Northeast of Yinta City, cement factory.

Shao Qian and Yin Changcheng, together with two teams and some migrant workers, began to dig deep pits around the cement factory and set traps, and they made many mines with explosives according to Cheng Lei's ideas, and buried them on the periphery of these deep pit traps.

In this way, as long as the lion dares to approach the cement factory, it will step on a mine and be killed and injured. Even if the light is injured, if they still have to move forward, they will definitely fall into the deep pit. Shao Qian and the others arranged many wooden and iron spikes in the deep pit, and if a huge animal like the lion dog beast fell, there would be only one result, and it would only be to die.

It took them three days to complete all the defense work around the cement plant and the limestone mine, and they no longer had to worry about the external pressure of the lion dog beast before they were relieved to put into the official production trial operation. And the wind and sand in the vicinity have been much smaller these days, and it has no impact on all the work, so it's a good time.

However, Qi Mi's mood is not so good, although all the preparations are ready, but the cement produced by the trial is not so ideal. The cement labels produced by these experiments were quite different from the values he expected, so he was troubled by this.

He asked Cheng Lei to find the cement produced by the Western Empire, and they used electricity to carry out various crushing and blending work, so it was much less labor-saving than semi-manual labor, and the quality of the cement produced was better than the cement produced by Qi Mi and them now. Qi Mi used all the things in his head to study the blending of cement, but the result was not very satisfactory to him, which made him very entangled.

Shao Qian came in at this time, Qi Mi's work research room was just a small room of more than ten square meters, and the most placed in it was all kinds of drawings and calculation data. Qi Mi was rubbing his head and thinking about things at this time, and he didn't look up when someone came in, looking very annoyed.

Shao Qian smiled when he saw him like this, took off his coat and hung it on the hook on the wall, then walked over and knocked on the table and said, "Director Qi, what's wrong with this listlessness?" ”

Qi Mi raised his head and squinted his reddened eyes and said, "Captain Shao, you said that our Boss Cheng must be very anxious to see the cement produced now, right?" ”

"Of course, Boss Cheng told me that he sees the cement factory as more important than the base. Otherwise, how can you send both the night lion and the viper to your command? Shao Qian lit a cigarette and said as he smoked.

"Then you say, what if my research is not successful and the cement plant cannot produce?" Qi Mi said helplessly.

Shao Qian nodded and said, "Well, do you think that with Boss Cheng's character, he will easily spare you?" When the time comes, you will just wait to eat the first row, and after spending so much manpower, material, financial resources, energy and time, you will give a sentence, the research is unsuccessful? If it were me, I wouldn't be able to spare you! ”

Qi Mi kneaded his eyebrows with his fingers, and after a while, he pinched out a red spot, which looked a little funny: "But...... Alas, Boss Cheng values me so much, I'm really sorry for him if I drop the chain. But now I am encountering difficulties, I don't know what is going on, the allocation of raw materials has been tried many times and has not been successful, what should I do! ”

Shao Qian took two more puffs, thought for a while and said, "Have you carefully checked whether there are any faults in those machines, and then whether the personnel have been trained?" ”

"I've checked everything you asked, but everything is normal, and there are no mistakes. You think, since I want to produce, I must implement everything neatly before I do it. Qi Mi said.

Shao Qian nodded again: "Well, have you thought about it from other aspects, is it a problem with raw materials?" ”

"I've seen the limestone over there for a long time, and it's a very good quality limestone mine. The other raw materials were also bought by me at a high price, so of course there should be no problems. Don't...... Could it be it? Qi Mi was suddenly a little excited, as if he had thought of something.

"It? What is it? Shao Qian hurriedly asked.

Qi Mi said happily: "Captain Shao, maybe we have found the reason, thank you for the reminder!" He happily took Shao Qian's hand and thanked him, but Shao Qian was confused and couldn't understand what he was talking about.

When Qi Mi was happy, Shao Qian realized that Qi Mi was talking about gypsum, and Qi Mi originally listed all the raw materials into a list for Cheng Lei to buy, but there was no one in Yinta City that specifically sold this. If you want to use it in large quantities, you need to go to other city-states to buy it, Cheng Lei thinks it's just a little gypsum, and it shouldn't affect anything if you don't use it, so he put it down.

Since he didn't buy gypsum, Qi Mi also crossed out the gypsum from the raw material list. He is also a blind man crossing the river and a blind man touching an elephant, and now that he has found the cause of the disease, of course, he hurriedly informed Cheng Lei and asked him to send someone to buy gypsum quickly.