The combined Anglo-French fleet, consisting of the British Far East Fleet and the French Far East Fleet, was also quite a threat to the Han Kingdom. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At present, the Han Kingdom has five fleets, namely the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, the Fujian Fleet, and the Guangdong Fleet of the former Manchu Qing Dynasty, as well as the Yangtze River Fleet of the Han Admiralty, with a total tonnage of more than 80,000 tons, and in terms of tonnage, the tonnage of the five fleets of the Han Kingdom is more than half of the combined British and French fleet.

Moreover, the ships of the Anglo-French combined fleet were basically launched around 1880, and they were not much more advanced than the ships owned by the navy of the Han Kingdom.

However, Yan Xueyi was very worried about the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, the Fujian Fleet, and the Guangdong Fleet, and he was afraid that in a real naval battle, these four fleets would not dare to fight, knowing that their enemy was the world's largest naval power, Britain.

Of these five fleets, the strongest is of course the Beiyang Fleet.

From 1875 to the present, Li Hongzhang has continued to purchase warships for the Beiyang Fleet, and now the Beiyang Fleet has 25 main warships, 50 auxiliary warships, 30 transport ships, and more than 4,000 officers and men.

Among them, the main ships are: 7,300-ton Dingyuan and Zhenyuan ironclad ships, 2,900-ton Laiyuan and Jingyuan armored protection cruisers, 2,300-ton Zhiyuan, Jingyuan, and Jiyuan dome armor protection cruisers, 1,350-ton Chaoyong and Yangwei impact cruisers, and 430-ton Zhendong, Zhenxi, Zhennan, Zhenbei, Zhenzhong, and Zhenbian gunboats.

The total tonnage of the Beiyang Fleet exceeded 30,000 tons, and even though the Beiyang Fleet had gone all out to develop its navy since it obtained Korea, the tonnage of the ships of the Beiyang Navy had not surpassed that of the Beiyang Fleet, and even the combined fleet of Britain and France had not asked the British and French fleets to send ships to join it.

Almost all the captains and senior officers of the major warships of the Beiyang Fleet graduated from the Fuzhou Shipbuilding School, and most of them went to the British Naval Academy for internships. After being recalled to China, they went to the Fujian Naval Academy to study the navy and serve in the navy, and there have always been foreigners in the fleet as officers as technical experts and guides, and the officers of the Beiyang Fleet can speak English, and the internal command orders are also issued in English.

In the case of the Beiyang Fleet, once a war broke out with the fleet of its teacher, the British, it was difficult to predict whether it would win or lose, even if the total strength of the five existing fleets of the Han Kingdom exceeded that of the combined British and French fleet.

The Nanyang Fleet, as opposed to the Beiyang Fleet, was also established in 1875, and currently has 17 cruisers and gunboats, with a total tonnage of about 20,000 tons, and most of the ships are manufactured by the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau, with only a small amount purchased from Britain and Germany, and the main anchorages of the Nanyang Fleet are Shencheng and Jinling.

The Fujian fleet, which should have been almost wiped out in the original history, was well preserved because of the appearance of Yan Xueyi, but the main warships of the Fujian fleet were more than a dozen, but they were all wooden and wood-hull structures, with a total displacement of only more than 10,000 tons, and the strength was relatively poor, and the Far East Fleet facing Britain or France alone could only lose.

The main warships of the Guangdong Fleet are the three 1,000-ton cruisers of Guangjia, Guangyi, and Guangbing, and their strength is slightly stronger than that of the Fujian Fleet.

Finally, there was the Yangtze River Fleet of the Admiralty of the Han Army, with twelve 560-ton gunboats.

In Yan Xueyi's eyes, these five fleets should be eliminated, don't look at the Beiyang Fleet is stronger than the Navy, in fact, the ships of the Beiyang Fleet have just been launched, how can Yan Xueyi, who wants to build a big navy, look down on these five fleets that are far behind the navies of Western countries.

However, one thing is very important, that is, these five fleets can provide a large number of manpower for Yan Xueyi's future big naval plan.

In addition to the Yangtze River Fleet, which belonged to the Han Army's Admiralty, the Beiyang Fleet, the Nanyang Fleet, the Fujian Fleet, and the Guangdong Fleet, the four fleets were not only backward in ships, but even some of the officers and generals did not meet the standards.

Of course, Yan Xueyi did not believe that these four fleets could defeat the combined British and French fleets in a naval battle, anyway, at the beginning, the British, French, Russian, and Japanese allied forces were mainly based on the land forces first, and once the army was frustrated, they would take the initiative to navy.

However, when the four-nation alliance was frustrated, the navy was dispatched, and I am afraid that at that time the British and French combined fleet would face the bombardment of the airships of the Han Kingdom, and the British and French combined fleets that were not equipped with anti-aircraft machine guns or anti-aircraft guns would definitely give them a deep impression.

By mid-June, most of China had been captured by the Han army, leaving only parts of the northwest and northeast waiting for the Han army to recover.

It was at this time that Meng Fanxuan, the director of Shancheng Shipyard, received an order from Yan Xueyi: go to Shencheng to build a new shipyard! Build our own steel ship!

When Meng Fanxuan received Yan Xueyi's order, he immediately cried bitterly, he had waited too long for this moment.

Since Meng Fanxuan came to Shancheng in eighty-four years, in establishing a shipyard that can only produce hundreds of tons of ships, Meng Fanxuan has always wanted to build thousand-ton ships, and even 10,000-ton giant ships, but in Siqi Province, Meng Fanxuan could not get this opportunity, only by establishing a shipyard by the sea, Meng Fanxuan could build a 10,000-ton giant ship.

The opportunity has finally arrived.

Meng Fanxuan told his students and the workers of the Shancheng Shipyard about Yan Xueyi's order, and everyone was also in tears.

"Would you like to go with me to Shencheng to build a bigger ship?" Meng Fanxuan, whose eyes were red, shouted to everyone.

"Teacher, I do." Yuan Ye was the first teacher to support him.

"Factory director, I'm willing to go with you."

"Director, I also intended to go with you."

"We are willing to go with you, and we will build a big ship under your leadership."

Hearing the workers' answers, Meng Fanxuan once again shed tears of excitement.

Meng Fanxuan knew how difficult it was for the workers to make this decision, knowing that their current home had been placed in the mountain city, but now in order to build a big ship with him, he had to stay away from the mountain city to Shencheng, thousands of kilometers away.

Building a big ship is Meng Fanxuan's dream, Meng Fanxuan's students' dream, and the shipyard's workers' dream, who must continue to work hard for their dreams......

In addition to the Shencheng Shipyard to be established by Meng Fanxuan, there are also the Fuzhou Shipbuilding Bureau and Jiangnan Shipyard left over from the Manchu Dynasty, although these shipyards have many problems, but after they are reformed, Yan Xueyi will also expand them, and it is impossible to support a country's shipbuilding industry with a single Shencheng shipyard.

It's just that it will take a long time to develop the shipbuilding industry, and the enemies of the Han Kingdom can't wait to make a move. (To be continued.) )