In the northern border of Great Xia, on the frozen soil of the bitter cold land, a northern tribesman wearing a hard hat on his head is loudly directing a heavy forklift to drop off the goods at the designated place.

In recent years, exaggerated snowstorms have erupted in the bitter cold of winter, often starting in a month, which has greatly delayed the efficiency of the Twin Cities redevelopment project.

However, think about it from another angle, the snowstorm that swept over made the people of the northern tribes have to stay at home and rest obediently in winter.

With a whole winter to recharge their batteries, after the beginning of spring, everyone's motivation will naturally become more sufficient.

In the past few years, the expansion of the Twin Cities has been planned for a long time, although nearly 60 percent of the area still needs to be built.

But it is undeniable that the remaining 40 percent of the land has formed a complex of buildings that look quite like that.

This led to more appointments from the northern tribes who had migrated to Luronse in the early years and chose to move back to their hometowns, adding a manpower to the construction of the Twin Cities.

During this period, Rowling's life was also quite busy.

After leaving Lu Longse, as the supreme governor of the entire northern region, Rowling not only needs to deal with some government affairs in the north, but also needs to worry about military affairs.

Recently, outside of the Twin Fortresses, which had been largely rebuilt, their patrols discovered unfamiliar footprints.

Later, according to reports from the Third Region (Arken Kingo's Europa territory and HRE territory), there was a rebel group in their territory who fled to this side.

Xia Qi, who confirmed the news at that time, directly ordered the matter to be handled by Rowling.

In this regard, Rowling also directly transferred a team of yak warriors and a unit from their twin legions to carry out patrol and search missions along the border.

Compared with the early years, the yak warriors of the yak tribe today can be regarded as a complete makeover with the times, wearing a twin army uniform with white as the main color, and holding the latest lightning seven-link bolt rifle in their hands.

Although the combat effectiveness of the yak has been greatly weakened in this era of thermal weapons, its excellent physical fitness and ability to trek through ice and snow still allow them to complete the patrol mission excellently.

At the same time, more importantly, they have excellent endurance, in the bitter cold, they can go to almost any terrain, and they can go where the car can't drive.

When going out to perform tasks, they can also carry a lot of materials, which is enough to support the soldiers to perform tasks outside for a long time, saving the time of running back and forth, which can be said to be quite convenient.

Therefore, even in this era, in the north, the yak warrior is a signature class.

After that, the northern orc tribes who also received the news also sent troops from the White Fox Clan and the White Wolf Clan, which had relatively outstanding reconnaissance capabilities, to assist in the investigation.

There is no way, the area of this bitter cold land is too vast, and it is not easy to find those rebels who have escaped in a short time.

In a way, it's a lot of work, but it's not to be left untouched.

After all, as the supreme governor of the Bitter Cold Lands, Rowling couldn't allow a bunch of people who might be a danger to her northern tribesmen to roam the outskirts of the North.

"After leaving the Twin Fortresses, we tracked it all the way to a valley three hundred miles away, where we found traces of life. But the man has gone."

After taking a breath of breath, the soldier in charge of reporting the results spoke again, "Judging from the remaining traces, the other party should be a small group of more than thirty people, and at the same time, it has a certain degree of armed force."

As he spoke, the soldier on the side put an object on the round conference table in front of him at the right time.

At the conference table, the eyes of the chiefs of the northern tribes, including Rowling, and the orc patriarchs, fell on the object.

It was a bullet casing.

At this time, the round table

The patriarch of the White Wolf Clan, Kgrud, asked in a deep voice, "Have you traced their whereabouts?"

The soldier shook his head.

"No, in this environment, they probably have a lot of experience in survival, and when they left, most of their traces were erased, which made it very difficult for us to track down."

As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately caused a commotion among the patriarchs present, and it seemed that those rebels were even more troublesome than they expected.

While the patriarchs were arguing about this matter, Rowling, who was sitting on the throne, spoke.

"Alright."

Just two simple words, but the entire conference room was quiet, which was enough to show her status among the northern tribes.

"If those rebels didn't even have this ability, then the environment of the bitter cold land alone could kill them, and they wouldn't have survived now."

With that, Rowling's gaze fell directly on the soldier in charge of reporting.

"Thank you, Captain, this matter must continue to be investigated, and the search area will be expanded with that valley as the center. I have already applied to Your Majesty to mobilize an aerial reconnaissance team to assist in the search, and you must also intensify the search and find out a result as soon as possible."

"Yes, General!"

Looking at the report sent by Luo Lin in the palace of Daxia City, Xia Qi also directly passed it with a big stroke.

Although the number of rebels is small, its existence is still an unstable factor for Great Xia, and it is better to deal with it as soon as possible.

At the same time, Xia Qi also suddenly realized that it seemed that it was time to expand the airship force in Great Xia.

Over the years, the air airships of Great Xia have been built more and more.

Because it is undeniable that this air vehicle is indeed convenient.

Today, the air airship unit of Great Xia is composed of three troops, namely the goblin bombing unit, the aerial reconnaissance unit and the air transport unit.

The number of goblin airships in the goblin bombing force is currently forty, five ships in a squad, a total of eight squads, basically scattered all over Great Xia, rather than concentrated in one place.

The reconnaissance airship of the aerial reconnaissance unit is cheaper than the goblin airship, and the manufacturing efficiency is also faster, and the demand is also very high, so there are more of them.

At present, the number has increased to 80, which is directly more than double the number of goblin airships, and they are also scattered in various sea areas and regions of Great Xia, carrying out aerial reconnaissance missions all year round.

The transport airships of the air transport units are the smallest among the three units, with only 20 airships.

Because under normal circumstances, the transportation of materials in Daxia is still mainly land transportation and sea transportation, and the cost of air freight is also high, these 20 transport airships were built by Xia Qi in consideration of wartime emergencies, and they are basically not used in peacetime, just for emergency use at critical moments.

At this time, looking at the configuration of his airship troops, Xia Qi was thinking about how to expand the establishment according to the financial report of this quarter.

It costs money to build an airship, and after it is built, long-term maintenance also costs money, and this thing is not a one-time expense, so every time he expands the establishment, Xia Qi has to think about it.

"In this way, Zhang Liang, you go and arrange that the goblin bombing force will add one more team, and if you want the aerial reconnaissance unit, you will add four more teams."

For Xia Qi, reconnaissance vision is more important than firepower.

At the end of the day, his current firepower is basically enough.

In this way, in the bitter cold land, the aerial reconnaissance team was sent over, and the size of the air force that should be expanded on his side also quickly expanded.

Bitter Cold Land.

It's not hard to find an army in an area, because the more there are, the bigger the target.

But to find dozens of rebels is tantamount to looking for a needle in a haystack.

Fortunately, among the northern tribes, the white fox clan and the white wolf clan are both races that are good at tracking targets, and combined with human tracking technology

and the assistance of aerial reconnaissance airships, centering on that valley, after rapidly expanding the search area, soon allowed them to discover new traces.

Looking for clues and traces left by the other party, they soon discovered the hiding place of the rebels.

Bang! Bang! Bang......

The continuous sound of gunfire echoed above the frozen ground, and the rebels, whose whereabouts were exposed, immediately picked up the rifles in their hands and tried to resist.

However, the rifles in their hands were old-fashioned muskets that were even more backward than the old-fashioned manual rifles, and their own marksmanship was also limited, which was not comparable to that of the highly trained regular army soldiers.

Several muskets fired in succession, but in the end they failed to hurt a single person, but it was the soldiers of the Twins who threw a few shock grenades directly after being attacked.

The bright light that erupted in an instant, mixed with the sound waves that spread continuously, easily deprived the dozens of rebels of their ability to resist.

Although they are traitors, it doesn't actually make much sense to shoot them, so it's better to just throw them away as coolies and work until they die.

At the same time, if they still have accomplices, they can be interrogated if they are captured alive to see if they can ask for something.

In this way, after a few shock bombs were dropped, the soldiers of the Twin Legion rushed directly forward, and while holding the lightning seven companies in their hands against the opponent's head, making those rebels stop resisting, others handcuffed them neatly.

After such a long search, the soldiers who have finally completed the task have finally breathed a long sigh of relief.

Of course, you can't relax until you send people back to the Twin Fortress for detention.

"Tie them all together and go back!" One of the squad leaders shouted.

After confirming that the rebels had been caught, Rowling couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, and at the same time, the captain also reported a new situation, that is, they found a suspected mineral vein in the mountain sky.

"Veins?"

Hearing this, Rowling's face couldn't help but show a hint of surprise, and then nodded and said, "I know, you go down and rest first."

Although it is just a guess, since it is related to a vein, it is necessary to ask the Geological Survey Bureau to send someone over to conduct a survey.

It's a little farther away, and the nearest geological survey bureau to them is also on the side of the mountain city.

Originally, there was a permanent geological exploration team on this side of the bitter cold land, but because of the later war, the cities in the north fell one after another, so the geological exploration team was gone.

Now, although the Twin Cities have begun to be rebuilt, they have not yet been rebuilt, so the Geological Survey Bureau on their side has no intention of re-establishing it in a short period of time.

In any case, we will have to wait until the reconstruction of this city is completed.

Originally, there was no big problem, the task of the geological exploration team was to explore the geology and find the ore vein, but the ore vein, if people don't look for it, it won't send it to the door by itself.

Therefore, on this side of the bitter cold land, before the Geological Survey Bureau is re-established and the geological exploration team is put into work again, there will be no geological exploration and other work, who would have thought that this vein would really be sent to the door by itself.

"Is this really an accidental discovery?"

As the radio communication equipment of Daxia became more and more perfect, the speed of intelligence transmission was also greatly improved, and after the geological survey bureau in the mountain city received the intelligence news, it was delivered to the chess player as quickly as possible.

Originally, things of this level didn't need him to do it personally.

Isn't it just to explore the geology? The city hall in the mountain city can approve it, why do you need to send it to him?

In general, the Geological Survey is only required to submit a formal report after the discovery of a new vein.

This time, however, things are a little different, because it's so far away.

Through the system map, Xia Qi quickly locked down the area where there might be ore veins in the report, which was far from the Twin Cities

It's 800 miles away.

However, this distance is not close in modern society, if he wants to send a geological exploration team over, then I am afraid that he will have to mobilize a lot of funds, as well as manpower and material resources.

And after the discovery of the vein, it is even more difficult to build a mining field there.

For this problem, Xia Qi was also a little distressed.

At this distance, if he wants to connect the territory, he will probably need to build another small city, and at the same time, considering the problem of territorial filling in the future, it is estimated that there will be two or three more major developments in that area.

This matter is not as easy as it seems, and the projects involved in the back are too big.

Xia Qi's right index finger unconsciously tapped on the table, weighing this matter in his heart.

But it's useless to think too much about it now, before that, he has to make sure if there are any veins underneath, and if so, what kind of veins are there.

After that, Xia Qi directly issued an order, signaling the mountain city to send a geological exploration team to the bitter cold land to investigate.

After receiving the order, the Geological Survey Bureau quickly formed a team, and after almost a week of preparation, the transport trucks loaded with exploration equipment quickly drove through the Grand Canyon of Lulongse and headed for the bitter cold.