Chapter 1018: Striking Directly at the Yellow Dragon

"Your Highness, this is the canned horse meat we have trial-produced." While Zhao Xu was looking around, the manager of the cannery brought over a silver-gray tin can.

Zhao Xu smiled and turned to the officials, including Industrial Department manager Chen Xu. "Come, let's taste it together."

This Chen Xu was among the first batch of students at the Technology Academy and could be considered his student.

Previously, he had been following Wang Chong at the Research Institute.

But the Industrial Department is a technical job; one cannot place officials who know nothing about industry in this position.

Thus, he had requested Chen Xu.

Because although this Chen Xu did not have extremely high talent in one specific area like Qu Sheng and Wang Chong, he was a generalist, and his level was quite decent.

It was precisely because of him that the Industrial Department could coordinate seamlessly with the Research Institute.

During his time away at war last year, he had planned the industrial construction of the Great Song and established many new workshops.

"Your Highness, let me open the lid." Chen Xu replied in the affirmative and eagerly took the can.

Asking the cannery manager for a Dagger, he pried along the edge of the box; the lid opened, revealing the red horse meat inside.

"It smells quite fragrant." Chen Xu sniffed it and praised.

Hearing this, the cannery manager's face blossomed into a smile.

Chen Xu then presented the can to Zhao Xu, "Your Highness, please taste."

Zhao Xu did not stand on ceremony; he took the can, picked up a piece of horse meat, and began to eat.

Although the horse meat was cold, it tasted like braised horse meat.

For people of this era, this was definitely a delicious feast.

Even if sold as a commodity, it would certainly be a trendy item at present.

"Not bad, not bad." Zhao Xu showed a satisfied expression and gave the can to Chen Xu, letting the Industrial Department officials taste it.

In this Battle of Yongzhou, too many Warhorses had died.

This horse meat came precisely from those Warhorses; it could be called pure, natural, and unpolluted food.

The officials tasted it one by one; some gave a thumbs up, and others nodded repeatedly.

Zhao Xu said to the cannery manager, "Hurry up and calibrate the equipment; the soldiers setting out on the expedition are waiting to eat your canned goods."

"Your Highness, rest assured, we guarantee to deliver on time, with quality and quantity," the cannery manager said, patting his chest.

Zhao Xu nodded.

After touring the cannery, Zhao Xu and Chen Xu and the others went to the last stop of the light industrial workshop area, the battery workshop.

The Great Song's Electricity experiments began with the Voltaic Pile.

But the Voltaic Pile was an extremely backward product, bulky and not easy to carry.

So he had the busy Li Wei also produce dry batteries.

The earliest dry battery of the contemporary era was born in 1860.

What he had Li Wei make was this type of first-generation dry battery, the Carbon-Zinc Battery.

This type of battery was basically no different in appearance from contemporary batteries; the center was a carbon rod, the outer skin was a ring of zinc, and the middle was filled with a paste-like electrolyte made of carbon powder, manganese dioxide, and ammonium chloride.

Previously, although Li Wei had long since produced dry batteries, they were limited to Laboratory manufacturing.

Now, hydrogen could extract manganese to synthesize manganese dioxide, and it could be used in Hou's Process to manufacture ammonium chloride; the materials for manufacturing dry batteries were all complete.

Precisely because of this, this dry battery workshop and the alkali-making industry were built at the same time.

However, since the alkali-making workshop had not yet started production, this dry battery workshop could not start production at present either, at the earliest by March.

But while battery assembly could not be carried out, the carbon rods and outer skins of the dry batteries could indeed be produced.

Arriving at the dry battery workshop, Zhao Xu heard the roar of machinery.

Entering the workshop, the craftsmen of the battery workshop were manufacturing these two types of parts.

"Once the dry battery is released, it can spawn many small electrical appliances." Inspecting the production line of the battery workshop, Chen Xu showed an expectant expression.

At this moment, several industrial products that could use batteries had already appeared in his mind.

Back when he was at the Technology Academy, Yan Wang had once spoken to them about this.

"For example, a Flashlight." Zhao Xu laughed softly.

This remark by Chen Hu stirred up a surge of excitement in him.

Since having Electricity, he felt as if one had cleared their meridians.

The Great Song was about to sublimate; countless new things would appear in a fountain-like burst.

Besides the Flashlight he mentioned, which could be realized with the Great Song's current industrial level, there was another thing that could also be realized, and that was the most primitive Camera.

Currently, the Research Institute was already researching the Camera, just waiting for the battery to appear.

At the same time.

While Zhao Xu was inspecting the light industrial workshop area.

The Azure Dragon Army Second Army commanded by Mu An arrived at Longyou County.

After resting briefly, he immediately launched an attack on Longyou County.

Ruan Youjin had stationed the main army at Zhiling County, which led to a void in the military strength of Longyou County.

At this moment, there were no more than three thousand defending troops in the county seat.

Although there were about twenty thousand soldiers in the city who had fled back from Zhiling County.

But these soldiers were basically scared out of their wits and dared not fight the Great Song army again.

No matter how the generals urged them, they simply refused to climb the city walls.

Now, they only wanted to eat a meal in the county seat and then continue fleeing south.

Therefore, as soon as Mu An launched the attack, Longyou County collapsed in less than half an hour.

How could these three thousand Jiaozhi soldiers be a match for the twenty thousand Azure Dragon Army; they immediately suffered heavy casualties.

Before nightfall, the Azure Dragon Army successfully entered the city.

After resting for a night, Mu An left two thousand soldiers to guard the city and wait for the remaining troops to arrive.

He then led the remaining troops to head south first, moving toward Hanoi.

Leaving Longyou County, they traveled south for about thirty li before emerging from the mountains.

An endless plain appeared before Mu An.

"You dog Emperor of Jiaozhi, your father is here to capture you!" Spitting on the ground, Mu An ordered the main force to head toward Hanoi.

While the Azure Dragon Army was marching toward Hanoi, a marine corps consisting of eight thousand men was also marching toward Hanoi.

This marine corps was commanded by Captain Ding Lu, who was under the command of Pan Zhang.

After receiving a telegraph from their General Zhou Yi, he led the marine corps stationed in Luzon toward Jiaozhi.

This time, he mobilized a total of twelve thousand men.

Four thousand of them landed in central Jiaozhi, splitting Jiaozhi in two.

He personally led eight thousand men toward Hanoi.

Along the way, he only encountered minor resistance, all from the garrison troops of Jiaozhi county towns.

These garrison troops were naturally no match for the marine corps.

Therefore, the marine corps was currently moving as if through uninhabited territory.

After more than a day of trekking, the marine corps entered Hanoi, where the Jiaozhi Imperial Palace was located.

At this moment, he faintly heard bursts of gunfire coming from the north.

After listening carefully, his expression changed, and he said, "The Azure Dragon Army is already fighting the Jiaozhi army. Brothers, follow me! Whoever enters the Jiaozhi Imperial Palace first will be promoted three ranks!"

Having said that, he took the lead and charged toward the city of Jiaozhi.

Upon hearing this, the marine corps soldiers were instantly invigorated, howling as they followed him.

As soon as the figures of the marine corps appeared near the city of Jiaozhi, they were immediately discovered by Mu An's men.

Learning that the marine corps was approaching from the east, Mu An gritted his teeth and roared, "Fight them hard! Let those boys from the marine corps see how our Army fights a war!"

As his voice fell, the gunfire at the north city gate immediately became even more intense.

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