Chapter 1083 Ceremony

Yinshan.

Just as the cavalry reported to Chen Hu.

The Central Army has now set out from Tongguan.

After three days of trekking, the Central Army arrived at the Yinshan area.

It is now past May, and the sunlight falling from the sky has become a little hot.

The grass on the grassland has gradually turned from light green to dark green.

As for Yinshan, it is already lush and green from a distance.

When passing Yinshan, Chang Wei looked back in the direction of Tongguan, and the corners of his mouth rose slightly. .

Once upon a time, Yinshan was an absolute forbidden area for the Dasong army.

But now, they can pass through here with great fanfare without worrying about being attacked by the Beidi cavalry.

Perhaps the Dasong soldiers who have just joined the army cannot understand his feelings.

But as long as more than ten years ago, the generals and soldiers who belonged to the Dasong Imperial Army and guarded the border must have been able to understand his current mood, such as Bai Shang, who was beside him and always looking at Yinshan.

The difference between the two is really a world of difference.

"Hahaha, we have passed Yinshan Mountain. It will take another ten days or half a month to reach the Northern Di Khanate. This time, I, Lu Chang, can finally go on a killing spree." When Chang Wei was feeling sentimental, Lu Chang suddenly shouted loudly, causing other generals to laugh.

Last time in the battle of Yongzhou, he was left in Yancheng and almost died of anger.

This time, he was crying and begging Chang Wei to fight the Northern Di, and finally got what he wanted.

In addition to him, Bai Shang and Huo An's second and third armies also followed Chang Wei to the expedition, with a total of 60,000 people participating in this war.

Together with Chen Hu's lancers, their force will reach 120,000.

However, this is only the force directly involved in the battle.

There is no steam locomotive in the vast grassland, and their baggage must rely on civilian power.

Fortunately, Chen Hu's lancers captured many cattle and sheep, which greatly alleviated the logistics problem.

Moreover, they only have 60,000 people, and the supplies they carry are not much, and they also use the previous chariots.

Therefore, they only recruited 30,000 people to assist in transporting food and grass.

These people were Koreans and Japanese who were recruited to build the railway in Dasong.

After the battle, they had to return these people to the Construction Department.

After another twelve days of trekking on the grassland, the Central Army arrived near the Northern Di Khan Court and officially marched with Chen Hu.

"General." Chang Wei said, Chen Hu, Zhong Fang, and Xue Jian came to greet him immediately.

"I didn't see a single Northern Di cavalryman along the way. You did a good job this time. Except for the Northern Di Khan Court, the entire grassland is basically under your control." Seeing Chen Hu and the other two, Chang Wei laughed.

"The Northern Di cavalry is nothing but chickens and dogs in front of us now." Chen Hu looked proud, "but I didn't expect that they would struggle in the Khan Court."

As Chen Hu said, he led Chang Wei to a raised mound.

From the mound, the layout of the Khan Court can be seen clearly.

"The emperor had anticipated this after receiving the intelligence from the four supervisory institutions. I didn't expect that the emperor would be right. Ulanba had just surrendered to the Russian Empire, so he had to be a loyal dog and show his determination to Nicholas. In this battle, he was not fighting for the Northern Di, but for the Russians." Chang Wei picked up the telescope.

In his field of vision, there was a fan-shaped green mountain in the distance.

There was a narrow pass several miles wide in the center of the fan.

And the Khan Court was surrounded by mountains.

It must be said that the Khan Court's position was really offensive and defensive.

Moreover, the green mountains on both sides were its barriers, and their best attack direction could only be the front.

Of course, they could also attack by turning over the mountains on both sides, but this was not only time-consuming, but also more dangerous.

Moreover, he thought it was unnecessary to go through so much trouble.

The Northern Di's aggressiveness was nothing more than a puppy attacking a person to him, and they could easily defeat it from the front.

Under the overall situation, Chang Wei had a plan in mind.

After a pause, he said to Chen Hu, "You lancers should prepare for the pursuit, and the rest will be left to the Central Army."

"Yes, General." Chen Hu replied.

Their cavalry could not do anything else at the moment.

After chatting with Chen Hu and the other two for a while, Chang Wei ordered to set up camp.

The army had traveled a long distance, and the soldiers were very tired. It was not appropriate to launch an attack immediately.

Moreover, Beidi was determined to defend the Khan Court, so there was no need to rush.

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Yancheng.

When Chang Wei arrived at the Khan Court, no one in Yancheng cared about the final battle with the old enemy.

Everyone's heart fell on something they thought was more important.

This was the discussion on the completion and power transmission of the Yancheng thermal power plant.

For the people of Yancheng, they firmly believed that their army would return victorious.

Instead, it was not as attractive as the news of the power plant that the newspapers repeatedly publicized in the past few days.

Moreover, for the day when the thermal power plant was completed and powered on, they had been making full preparations for this period of time.

On the streets of Yancheng, street lamps were erected one after another.

The workshops in Yancheng were connected to the power lines, and the steam engines were transformed into electric motors.

Even the people's homes were wired, and lamp holders and incandescent lamps were installed in their homes.

Every day when they returned home, they would look up at the incandescent lamps, imagining what it would look like when the lamp above their heads was lit?

Finally, at dusk today, the completion meeting of the thermal power plant was finally held.

At this moment, Zhao Xu in Wuji Palace was also looking forward to it.

It was still noon, and there were still three hours before the power was turned on.

The reason why the completion and power-on ceremony was held in the evening was naturally for the shock of the moment of power-on.

The power-on effect in broad daylight was not good.

Zhao Xu was in a state of excitement for an entire afternoon.

Li Wei arrived at Wuji Palace one hour before the ceremony.

With him came the cabinet ministers headed by Liu Fu.

At the same time, Xiao Guizi also arranged to pick up the retired emperor Zhao Heng.

From the emperor to the cabinet ministers.

This lineup personally attended the ceremony, which shows how important this power-on is.

After all, this is a landmark event for Dasong to jump from the steam industry to the electric power industry.

It also means that Dasong has realized the second industrial revolution as the first in the world.

After the power-on, the workshops covered by the Yancheng Thermal Power Plant will once again break through the constraints in terms of production capacity, variety, precision, or quality.

What will follow naturally are more technological breakthroughs and the birth of more industrial products.

From then on, Dasong will officially open up the gap with the steam industry in the West.

No matter how large the steam industry is, it cannot make up for the generation gap between steam and electricity.

Moreover, when he ordered the construction of Yancheng Thermal Power Plant, he also trained talents related to power construction, allowing them to learn while building thermal power plants in other important industrial counties according to the standards of Yancheng Thermal Power Plant.

Although the progress of these thermal power plants is slower than that of Yancheng Thermal Power Plant.

But they will be put into use one after another in the next one or two years.

By then, even in terms of industrial capacity, Dasong will gradually surpass the entire Western Land world.

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