The navy was finally attracted and appeased by this epoch-making ship, in fact, the kind of warship introduced by Zhang San is still not an all-steel warship, and the 30-millimeter steel plate is only three centimeters, and the hull of a large ship of tens of thousands of tons cannot be only three centimeters thick.

Therefore, to be precise, this kind of ship is still a kind of steam-powered ship with a wooden ship and an iron hull, but such a ship is also the inevitable development of history, Zhang San certainly understands this truth, and the power of the steam engine is not enough to drive a large ship of more than 5,000 tons within ten years.

Zhang San now seems to have touched the ceiling of technology, and if he wants to make progress, he can only rely on the wisdom of the people of this era and make a breakthrough slowly, so Zhang San knows that there are existing wood-clad iron battleships, and there are all-steel battleships behind them.

Of course, this friend is a hybrid battleship with sails and steam engines for a while, because the steam engine has just been invented, the operation is not stable, and the energy output ratio is not high, so the sails need to be used together.

But Zhang San has no competitors now, so he feels that he can wait slowly, and wait until the steam engine technology is mature and stable before it is installed on the ship, there is no need to engage in hybrid ships, wasting resources and time.

After the Navy is no longer making a fuss, the next step is to review the army establishment plan, which does not need to be discussed by everyone, but Zhang San took the ministers of various departments, several core leaders of his friend General Staff and Prime Minister Wen Huanzhang to discuss together.

First of all, we studied the problem of cavalry, cavalry is the core of construction in the next few years, but also the core of the use in the next few years, in order to let the northern ethnic minorities do not have the opportunity to complete the great cause of the reunification of the Central Plains, Zhang San decided to adopt the strategy of first north and then south.

The enemies in the north are now mainly the Liao State in the waning western mountains, the Jurchens who have just emerged, and the half-crippled Western Xia, as well as the Western Regions occupied by the Uighurs.

But for the plateau climate, it is really not that Zhang San can go up if he wants to, and even the solution of the Tubo problem will be placed after the Great Song Dynasty, Zhang San must first train troops in the plateau area for a few years after the elimination of Western Xia, and wait for the soldiers to fight normally on the plateau.

And there is another problem with the elimination of Dali, that is, to encircle the Great Song Dynasty to death and want to drive him to the South Asian subcontinent, the other party has no way to break through, according to Zhang San's plan, the war against the Great Song Dynasty should be divided into three steps.

The first step has been completed, that is, to occupy the land east of the Shandong River, to gain a foothold, and then to unify the north and gain the advantage of population and cavalry, which will be completed in five to eight years.

The second step is to occupy the Central Plains, all places except Shu, this stage is because they are all fighting in the territory of the Song Dynasty, so Zhang San expects it will take about three years to complete.

The last step is to drive the Song people in Shu to the south, including Dali, to the South Asian subcontinent, so that they can compete with the Indians there, which is also beneficial for Zhang San.

The Indians have always been the most populous group after the Han Chinese, and a South Asian subcontinent completely controlled by the Indians would be a great scourge and potential threat in the future.

The level of the Great Song Dynasty should still be able to capture the Indians at the time, not to mention that there is also Zhang Sanla's bias, so that the Great Song Dynasty, which occupies a piece of South Asia, will not become a kingdom, and the South Asian subcontinent will not be a monopoly, and it will strategically cut off the possibility of India's rise.

This is a grand strategy, so Zhang San can't destroy it in order to quickly get back the original territory, otherwise Zhang San simply landed from North Vietnam and hit Dali directly, which is faster than going to Tibet, and logistics and supply are also more convenient.

Zhang San was thinking about North Vietnam again, but now Zhang San had too many places in his hands, and once he had rice, Zhang San would be a little disdainful, so Zhang San decided to send tens of thousands of troops over when he was free.

Of course, not this year, in the next three years, Zhang San's main energy will be in the north, not only in Shandong Hebei, but with Shandong Hebei, Mongolia and Beihai Province as the three fulcrums to form a three-sided encirclement of Liao, the next step is how to solve Liao and Jurchen together with the least consumption.

A new fulcrum is mentioned here, that is, Beihai Province, where not only the cavalry sent by the Mongols, but also a new plan of the General Staff, which was proposed by a staff officer of the Army General Staff.

At that time, this staff officer felt that since His Majesty the King could recruit the Mongols as cavalry, then why not recruit some Jurchens as cavalry, and when the time came, it would be no more familiar to use the Jurchen cavalry to destroy the Jurchen tribes than in other places.

Zhang San was also stunned when he saw this plan, and this is also to blame Zhang San for being bound by thoughts, yes! Why don't you recruit a little Jurchen, now that the Jin State has not been established, and the Jurchen tribe has not been unified, you can also recruit Jurchen warriors from the north.

Thinking about how it would be more exciting to use the Jurchens to fight the Jurchens, Zhang San agreed to this plan and began to make contact with the northern Jurchens in the inner and outer Xing'an Mountains and explore the terrain in the northern part of the Changbai Mountains.

Just after the end of the war against the Song Dynasty, the Jurchen Project will be launched this year, and the goal is to be able to attack from Mongolia, Beihai Province and Hebei from three sides in the decisive battle between Qi and Liao and Jurchen, and eliminate the two nomadic clans in one fell swoop.

Of course, the focus now is not to discuss this issue, but the issue of the army cavalry, if the Mongolian steppe is strengthened, then it should not be a problem to provide Zhang San with hundreds of thousands of war horses in a few years, plus Zhang San's own horse farm, it is estimated that there will be no problem in providing 100,000 war horses a year after three or five years.

Therefore, the key to the training of cavalry is not the lack of horses, but the lack of people who can ride horses, the backwardness of cavalry tactics and other problems, of course Zhang San has his own ideas about this, in fact, Zhang San has always had a killer feature that has not been taken out, that is, riding a gun.

The cavalry spear is the musket used by the cavalry, with the progress of industry, the musket of the Qi country has fully suppressed the bow and arrow, so the short-barreled cavalry gun can already equip the cavalry troops, and the reason why there is no equipment is also because it is not necessary.

The enemy that Zhang San faced with cavalry some time ago was mainly infantry, so he only needed a saber to solve the battle, but in the future, when facing the Liao State, then it would be cavalry against cavalry.

The carbine has not been equipped because the front-loading musket loading operation is complicated, and the cavalry cannot complete the operation of changing ammunition on the horse, so Zhang San has always wanted to wait for the successful research of the fire cap, and then directly put on the rear-loading musket and then match it with copper bullets, so that it is much more convenient to change bullets.

But the development of science and technology is not transferred by human will, so Zhang San decided to use the front mounted rifle first, the cavalry gun is a short-barreled rifle, a cavalry with one, and then each cavalry is equipped with three handguns, when engaged, the long distance with the riding gun, close with the handcuff, basically four bullets after the two sides are very close.