The naval and land armies of the Great Zhou Dynasty fought in Burma and Borneo at the same time, which affected the hearts of the entire Great Zhou Dynasty and the opposition of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and even more affected the hearts of Zhang Lingyang.

Previously, the Great Zhou army dominated East Asia and even defeated the Rus' kingdom twice. But Zhang Lingyang understood that it was just a fluke and did not represent the true combat strength of the Great Zhou army.

Now, it is time to truly test the combat power of the Great Zhou.

The army is okay to say, in the end, it has long-term experience in foreign operations, but what about the navy

In fact, the Great Zhou Royal Navy did not even have a trace of maritime combat experience.

However, Zhang Lingyang deeply understands that in the next century, the navy will be the only criterion for testing whether a country is a real great power.

Therefore, even if it is now facing the navy of Franco, which has been reduced to a second-rate country in Europe, the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou cannot take it lightly.

What's more, Da Zhou's naval strength is indeed far behind Europe now.

Now, the mainstream warships in Europe have reached the tonnage of five hundred tons, and the main warships of the Great Zhou are here

Now the largest warship in the Great Zhou is only 100 tons, and the difference with Europe is obvious.

This is not to say that the Great Zhou did not have the strength to build 500-ton warships, on the contrary, after absorbing European science and technology, the Great Zhou was fully capable of building 500-ton warships.

But the trouble is that a 500-ton warship can be built in as little as one year, and if you add sea trials, commissioning, etc., it will take at least two years to officially become an army.

But is there so much time for the big week right now?

The answer is yes!

However, the premise is that in the next ten years, the navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty will not be able to carry out long-distance voyages, let alone accumulate relevant navigation and combat experience, and even the coastal waters of the Great Zhou will be surrendered to others within ten years.

Therefore, in order to accumulate sea navigation and combat experience as soon as possible, Zhang Lingyang resolutely ordered to build hundreds of small warships with a tonnage of less than 100 tons.

What is wanted is that in a short period of time, Da Zhou can resist the colonial expansion of European powers in numbers, and even gain a benefit from it.

Otherwise, ten years later, the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty will be officially formed, and the final colonial partition frenzy will be completely lost with the Great Zhou.

And Zhang Lingyang could only watch other powers eat meat there, but he couldn't even drink a sip of soup and water.

But fortunately, now the shipyard in Tianjin has accumulated enough experience in a short period of time, and in the next few years, it will be able to build warships with larger tonnage and stronger firepower.

Of course, if Da Zhou wanted to build a warship of 500 tons or more than 1,000 tons, Zhang Lingyang would naturally not choose to use wooden warships.

What Zhang Lingyang has always wanted in his heart is an ironclad battleship.

Now, the Tianjin shipyard has begun to organize experts and scholars to demonstrate the feasibility of building ironclad warships.

After all, this is the first time Da Zhou has eaten crabs in the real sense.

Even in Europe, even the English Navy, which spans the world, does not yet have a real ironclad warship.

There are too many science and technologies needed for ironclad warships, such as metallurgical technology, steam engine technology, design capabilities, and so on.

In particular, metallurgical technology, in the past, even in European countries, the mining and utilization rate of iron ore was not very large.

Because even if you build a cannon, you don't need a lot of iron ore.

An ironclad battleship needs hundreds of times, or even thousands of times more iron ore than an artillery.

Building iron warships is not just about using some iron ore, but has played a great role in the advancement of the entire industrialization process.

The mining, transportation, smelting and production of various parts and components of iron ore can form a complete industrial production chain.

If you add the machine tools and equipment used in processing, then the creation of iron armor can basically include all the industrial technologies developed in the world today.

It is precisely because of this that Zhang Lingyang began to mount ironclad warships when the Tianjin Shipyard had just formed the ability to build ships.

In order to promote the development of the entire industrial system of the Great Zhou.

Now, Zhang Lingyang has handed over the construction of wooden warships to the Jiangnan Shipyard and Guangzhou Shipyard, which have already been built, so that Tianjin Shipyard can devote itself to the research and development of Dazhou, or the world's first all-ironclad warship.

Of course, the amount of money that needs to be invested in this is huge.

And the last thing Da Zhou lacks now is silver, so Zhang Lingyang will support it unreservedly. Who let the economic output value of the current Great Zhou account for more than 40% of the entire world economic output value?

Forty percent is just Zhang Lingyang's own estimate, and no one has counted it.

In Zhang Lingyang's view, in the previous life, the Qing Dynasty still occupied 30% of the world's total economic output on the eve of the Opium War, and there is no reason why the industrialization process has been carried out, and the economic level of the Great Zhou Dynasty, which is open to the outside world, will be worse than that of the Qing Dynasty.

Although Zhang Lingyang has been paying attention to the research and development of the first ironclad warship of the Great Zhou, he is now more concerned about the war in Burma and Borneo.

The Burmese side is okay to say, after all, Myanmar borders the Great Zhou, and Zhang Lingyang can receive information about Myanmar at any time.

But Borneo is different, there is a sea between the Great Zhou and Borneo, and there is a lot of inconvenience in message transmission. Therefore, since Han Liang led the Royal Navy to sea, Zhang Lingyang often did not receive a trace of news in ten days and half a month.

Now, Zhang Lingyang finally received Han Liang's letter again.

However, the content of the letter is very simple, just that the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou has reached the waters of Borneo, and as for the situation of the battle, it will take three or five days to know.

Although Francois has now been reduced to a second-rate European power, it is an old colonial power and an old naval power.

As for whether the naval battle between Da Zhou and Franc Machine was won or lost, Zhang Lingyang really couldn't say.

After all, the Franc aircraft has accumulated hundreds of years of experience in naval warfare.

In this way, after five days, Zhang Lingyang did not receive a single letter from the Royal Navy, which made Zhang Lingyang worried.

At the same time, Zhang Lingyang had a faint worry in his heart, whether the Royal Navy of the Great Zhou Dynasty was defeated by the Francophiles, and it was even possible that the whole army would be wiped out

has such a worry in his heart, Zhang Lingyang has been thinking about tea and food in the past few days, and even people have lost weight, no matter who comes to persuade him, Zhang Lingyang just has no appetite.

Until this day, Zhang Lingyang finally received a great piece of good news.

However, it did not come from Borneo, but a letter sent by Sun Dingzong, the commander of Burma.

"Your Majesty, General Sun has just sent a letter, our army defeated the British army in Jiling Temple, an important town in western Burma, of which 1,000 and 5 enemies were annihilated, 800 were captured, and the rest of the British army was scattered...... "The secretary of the military department entered the palace to report to Zhang Lingyang as soon as he received the letter......