If nothing unexpected happens, the six divisions arranged in Annan will be enough to deal with the possible attacks of the Qing Dynasty and Thailand. The Qing Dynasty mobilized so many troops to come, and it would take half a year to go. During the First Opium War, the British army set off from India and took a boat to Guangzhou for about twenty days. The Qing army headed south from Beijing and traveled all the way up the road, and the time it took more than sixty days. You can see how corrupt the Qing court was.

Although it is the Qianlong period and the situation in the past should be better than in the Daoguang period, it is not an easy task to mobilize so many troops.

Therefore, Zhu Haitao decided to take the newly formed 12th Division to the Netherlands. He had decided to form the 12th Division before the negotiations and had conducted targeted training for combat in the towns. The division commander was appointed as the royal power. This was also a tiger general. He was the combat hero of the First Division. He repeatedly destroyed the opponent at a smaller price in the war. In addition, the number of the 12th Division was the same as the Royal Guard Division, and it also strengthened the rocket troops, making the 12th Division's combat power stronger.

In addition, Zhu Haitao also made new moves in the navy. After a long period of development, steam ships and steam warships were finally built from Fengtianfu Shipyard and Chengtianfu Shipyard. The steam ship Zhu Haitao ordered ten ships together to be used as transport ships for the army, and the steam warship Zhu Haitao also ordered ten ships, named "Shang" class warships to form the Fifth Fleet.

The "Shang"-class warship is the first steam warship designed by Zhu Haitao himself. This steam warship has a full load displacement of 500 tons and is driven by two 500 horsepower high-power steam engines. If driven at full speed, the warship can reach a speed of 18 knots. If the eight sails are added, the speed of this ship can reach more than 20 knots.

The endurance of this ship is smaller than that of the Xia-class warship. It can only reach about 1,500 nautical miles when filled with coal. At the same time, its military equipment is also very powerful. It is equipped with 8 105mm naval guns and 8 75mm naval guns, and two hundred millimeters of iron armor are also laid in key areas. Even if it uses a 48-pound cannon to shoot one kilometer away, it can only create a large pit on it.

The emergence of the "Shang" class warship was thanks to Zhu Haitao and steam engine experts' continuous and day-to-night research over more than two years. Although many people know how to make steam engines and their principles, there is knowledge about metallurgy, forging, casting, materials, etc., which are very critical things that can continuously increase the power and miniaturize the steam engine. These require repeated experiments to be carried out in order to succeed in the end.

After several years of repeated trials, the 500-horsepower high-power marine steam engine has finally been successfully studied. The larger 750-horsepower steam engine is under research, and a 1,000-horsepower steam engine is also predicting.

In addition, the "Shang"-class warships used propellers as driving force, which is why Zhu Haitao began to develop this type of warship in 1780 and was not yet successfully developed. There is also a lot of knowledge in the entire process of designing and manufacturing of propellers, which requires time to conquer them one by one.

At this time, Europe, with the development of steam engine technology, research on steam ships was gradually carried out. In 1765, Watt invented the twin-cylinder steam engine. In 1768, he cooperated with Matthew Bolton, the boss of the Birmingham Turbine Factory in the UK, to develop a special purpose steam engine for ship propulsion. This is the Bolton-Watt engine commonly used on early steam engines in the world. The ship used a steam engine and a steam engine appeared, thus completing the third revolution of ship power. Ships used steam engines as power, making it possible for humans to build larger and larger ships and carry more cargo.

In 1769, the French began to test steamships in the Seine River, but they did not succeed. More than a decade later, John Fitch was the first American to invent a steamship, a 45-foot ship that successfully sailed on the Delaware River on August 22, 1787. Later, he built a larger ship to transport passengers and cargo between Philadelphia and Burlington, New Jersey. On August 26, 1791, after a fierce debate with another inventor, James rumsey, about a similar design for a steamship, he finally obtained his first steamship patent in the United States. However, he did not obtain monopoly, so he was still competing with Ramsey and other inventors.

The one who really made the commercial steamboat run successfully was the American Robert Fulton. After many failures, on August 7, 1807, Robert Fulton's clermont traveled from New York City to Albany. The journey took 150 miles, an average speed of about 5 miles per hour, and took 32 hours, making history. Four years later, Robert Fulton and him

Partner Robert Livingston designed the New Orleans and put it into service as a passenger and cargo ship in the lower Mississippi River. By 1814, Robert Fulton and Robert Livingston's younger brother Edward began providing regular steamboat and cargo services from New Orleans, Louisiana to Naziz, Mississippi. Their ships went downstream at 8 miles per hour and upstream at 3 miles per hour.

However, these ships use paddle wheels, that is, one or two pairs of wheels are installed on the side of the ship to drive the ship to travel. This kind of ship is not only inefficient and inconvenient to steering, but also in war, once the paddle wheels of these ships are destroyed, these steam warships become buoys at sea and can only be the enemy's living targets.

On February 5, 1783, the climate in the South Ocean was smooth. Zhu Haitao and a group of naval generals came to Chengtianfu Bay and began to observe the fifth fleet's army formation ceremony.

Zhu Haitao personally handed over the flag of the Fifth Fleet to commander Du Fuguo and deputy commander Fu Zhenwu. They were both campuses of Naval University, and the commanders and deputy commanders of the four fleets in front were all first-class graduates.

The establishment of the Fifth Fleet marked that the Ming Navy had established the world's number one naval fleet. Even if Britain led all its fleets to attack, it might not be able to defeat the Ming Navy.
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