"That''s fine... Anyway, how close to the prototype have you made?" Xiaoyun curiously asked.

"Just the frame and the main gun. But the engine is the hardest one to crack... I can show it to you."

"Sure."

As the third Russian brought Xiaoyun all the way to the third factory, he could see several workers and engineers standing in front of blueprints.

"Lin, you made any progress?" The third Russian asked.

"Not yet, Joseph. We''re still trying to test how to improve it from the last attempt," one of the engineers replied.

"Okay... Here''s the prototype boss."

The door to the inventory room slowly opened, shocking Xiaoyun as he instantly reconganized what he was trying to build.

It was a T-34, the most mentioned tank in all the history books when he was still in school.

"Can it drive?" Xiaoyun curiously asked, his voice filled with hope that he would say yes.

But much to his disappointment, Joseph shook his head.

"It can move a few miles before breaking down... we just need to figure out how the V-2 cooling system works, but we don''t have the exact blueprint."

"Don''t worry about time. I want you to spend all your effort on this. The moment you have it running, tell me, okay?"

"Yes, boss."

---

After walking past a few more factories to satisfy Xiaoyun''s curiosity, he gave them an invitation to the military parade before leaving.

Next, Xiaoyun decided to check out the pilot location that the three Russians gave.

When he arrived at the destination, he was a little surprised to find that it was just someone''s wooden house near the training field.

A plane was located in the front, with a runway right next to it, which confirmed that it was indeed the right place.

As he walked up to the porch, the door opened, revealing a middle-aged man standing right at the front with a saw in hand.

"Fei Tian?"

"Commander!"

"When was the last time we saw each other?" Xiaoyun curiously asked as the two of them headed over to the bench nearby.

"Almost half a year ago. I thought the commander had completely forgotten about me."

"What? Of course not... Ahem, how far had you gotten the planes to work?"

"It works perfectly right now. But we don''t have enough pilots, and the current ones being used just don''t have a practical use."

Xiaoyun understood Fei Tian''s first issue, but he couldn''t understand the second part.

He remembered several pilots in Foshan''s military base flying the plane as scouts, transferring information on the ground through a radio.

"What do you mean practical? Isn''t it already being used for scouting purposes?"

"That''s the issue. It can only do scouting missions... But a few engineers and I got together to work on a bomber."

"Really?" Xiaoyun asked, looking a little surprised.

Xiaoyun started to look a little hopeful, but it was quickly crushed as Yiming mentioned the next part.

"But since we don''t have spare parts to repair, I don''t want to damage the plane using another type of fuel."

After a short silence, Xiaoyun finally decided to bring it back to his original plan.

"We actually still have planes that your pilot could actually fly. That''s why I''m here today with Fei Tian."

"Really?" Yiming asked, looking a little intrigued.

"Xiaoyun, aren''t those just scouting planes?" Yezi quickly pointed out, recalling seeing them being flown out of Luoping.

"Fei Tian, you explain to them."

A few minutes later...

"So that''s the issue I''m facing right now. I just don''t have enough pilot and a place to get on-the-ground test data from."

Fei Tian finally finished explaining, as Yezi and Yiming were still a little shocked to learn that there was a functional bomber plane.

"I have over a few hundred people who used to be in the Air Force. If I gave them to you, can you train them to fly it?"

Fei Tian immediately nodded in agreement, accepting Yiming''s offer.

"Perfect, now we got that out of the way——"

"Fei Tian, how many planes do you have right now?" Yezi interrupted Xiaoyun from finishing.

"Um, around ten of them right now."

"That''s nowhere near enough. How about I help you set up a factory here to mass-produce it?"

"Thank you!" Fei Tian bowed down in gratitude.

Seeing everything working out, Xiaoyun couldn''t help but smile at how the two worked it out.

However, the smile soon disappeared as soon as Yezi and Fei Tian left the command center, leaving him and Yiming together.

"Come on, Xiaoyun, don''t leave. I need you to help me iron out this military parade." Yiming stated as he signaled him to sit in Yezi''s seat.

"Fine..."

Xiaoyun sighed as he began looking over what the two had made so far, getting ready to get into work mode.

---

When Xiaoyun finally arrived back home, it was already nine o''clock at night.

The entire military parade was fully planned out, and the only thing missing was recalling all military units to Luoping.

Since all the roads connecting to Guangzhou had been repaired, driving to Luoping, even from Foshan, would take less than an hour.

And there were still two more days before the actual military parade began to take place.

Besides finishing planning the military parade, Yiming made an interesting position near the end.

He suggested doing the military parade in Guangzhou as well, as half of the population under Luoping''s banner was located there.

After considering it, he eventually decided to change the parade''s start and end locations to Guangzhou and Luoping instead of only Luoping.

Although it was easy for him to say in front of Yiming, he soon regretted it when he brought it up at the dining table.