In some of the world's great powers, there will always be one or two of them, because of the concentration of steel smelting enterprises, they are crowned with the title of steel city.

It is no secret that Australia's Pilbara region has huge reserves of iron ore in later generations, and this area of four sizes the size of France is the world's main supplier of iron ore, although it exports millions of tons of iron ore every year.

But the whole Pilbara region is hard to see modern buildings and towns, and in addition to being one of the world's largest sources of iron ore, it is also one of the driest regions in the world, full of bare hills, red and barren enough to grow only a few shrubs.

Even in later generations, his permanent population was only about 40,000 people, and now in the 17th century, I am afraid that only a few indigenous people will live here, and no one else will run here, it is really too unsuitable for survival, and the dry climate makes it not suitable for growing food crops at all, only a little grazing.

Anlan came here for the purpose of building a steel city here, which is also the second town in Australian history in the strict sense, and in order to support his construction, half of the people in Ren Changle Construction Company were recruited here by him by forceful means.

The Pilbara area is very large, it is not so easy to build a town here, the dry climate makes it very water-scarce, the closer to the Pilbara area, the more obvious it is that everyone can feel the dry climate brought here, and some of the young people who come with them have begun to admire the local aborigines, they can actually survive here, compared to the aborigines around Manchester City and the Swan River, the aborigines here simply live in the area.

"Commissioner An, there is a situation, there seems to be an aboriginal activity not far ahead." An Army soldier trotted back to report.

Taking the binoculars in the soldier's hand and looking at it, An Lan really saw that about 300 meters in front of him, there were some thatched huts made of weeds and branches, and some people were moving, obviously this was a local indigenous tribe.

There is nothing to say about this situation, for the army soldiers, it is definitely necessary to end this tribe, and now I have come to report that this is what it means, let An Lan and the others wait in the rear, and everything will be solved when they are solved, the officer in charge of leading the team this time is a young man named Wu Qi, who is extremely experienced in indigenous combat.

Sure enough, after the soldier finished reporting, he rode over to An Lan: "Commissar An, we are preparing to launch an attack on the indigenous tribes in front, you and other non-combatants can stay here and rest, and we will inform you when the battle is over." Wu Qi said very respectfully, although he was the head of the team's escort and the highest commander of the garrison in the new town, but here An Lan was the biggest.

"Okay, let's rest where we are, but your battle may need to end soon, because it's already 15 o'clock in the afternoon, and once it's night, a lot of things are not expected by us."

Afterwards, Wu Qi said goodbye to An Lan and waved his hand, and the soldiers guarding An Lan and other staff members all followed his horse and walked forward.

At this time, the indigenous tribe did not seem to have noticed these sudden outsiders, and was leisurely dancing in their camp with their misdirection, Wu Qi, who had been observing the situation through a telescope, really couldn't bear to disturb the peaceful life of these natives, but as a soldier, he had to eliminate these possible dangers, and the construction of new towns and the mining of iron ore required labor.

The indigenous tribe is not large, judging from the size of the maximum of more than 200 people, for this kind of small tribe fighting, the experienced Wu Qi will generally adopt encirclement tactics, and intimidation tactics, the aborigines of Australia have generally not seen explosives, as long as they throw a round of grenades outside their tribe, the natives will obediently lie on the ground when they hear the explosion and wait for themselves to be bound.

This tactic has been tried and tested repeatedly, and it has never failed, so Wu Qi got off the horse and made a tactical gesture, and the soldiers around him immediately understood what he was talking about, and after everyone arrived at the designated place and hid it, he immediately took out the grenade hanging on his waist.

"Bang, bang, bang" explosions were heard one after another, and the impact of the grenade explosion blasted the dirt outside the indigenous tribe in all directions. It's just that the behavior of the natives didn't seem to be much frightened, but after the explosion, they picked up the things around them that could be used as weapons and ran towards the outside of the tribe, this kind of change was something Wu Qi didn't expect. Just change tactics by whistle.

Now that the natives were obviously going to fight, Wu Qi had no choice but to change his tactics, start killing, tactical moves, and pass them to each soldier one by one through the soldiers around him, and then everyone threw grenades at the natives.

"All of them, rush," as the trumpet sounded, a platoon of thirty soldiers formed an encirclement like an indigenous tribe, and at this time, the natives who had just been knocked to the ground by the shock wave after the grenade attack had not immediately come to their senses, and the army soldiers wanted to take advantage of this time to go up and arrest them all, and shoot them all if they resisted.

The whole battle did not take long, it only took an hour and a half to clean up the battlefield and the battle, and it was already 16:30 in the afternoon, which was no longer suitable for advance according to the current situation, and the soldiers had just gone through a battle and urgently needed to rest.

So An Lan gave an order, the whole team is resting here tonight, and tomorrow morning is discussing whether to advance, and this has entered the Pilbara area, An Lan hopes to take the time to go around to see if there will be any discoveries, if there is iron ore here, there is no need to continue to move forward, as long as the camp is going on, judging from the life of the natives here, there must be a water source nearby, otherwise they will not survive at all.

"Second Lieutenant Wu, have you found anything?"

"Yes, in addition to some wild fruits, we also found a large altar made of red stones, right there, would you like to go and see it?"

The red altar, An Lan was skeptical, it wasn't hematite, following Wu Qi, An Lan saw the altar built with red stones, picked out a small stone from it, and then took out a small piece of magnet that he carried with him, and used the principle of magnet iron absorption for primitive detection, and sure enough, it was adsorbed after a try, although the absorption was not very strong, but it can be proved that this is a piece of iron ore.

"This is iron ore, it seems that there is an iron ore near here, I think we can put the settlement of the new town here, there must be a water source nearby, otherwise the indigenous people will not be able to live."

"Is it really iron ore? Commissar An, are you sure, if that's the case, we don't have to move forward. ”

"I think yes, if these stones were collected nearby, there must be iron ore here, and this place will become the steel city of Australia."