Chapter 182: Institutional Chariots
Chen Hai naturally thought that the mechanical wooden cow could be transformed more practical and effective, so he took the trouble to disassemble it and study it. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
In fact, Yanzhou's mechanism arts, alchemy techniques and talisman are so developed that the wind gust box can replace the engine, and it is completely possible to create a powerful self-driving machine tank that is no less than a heavy tank to charge into battle, and it should not continue to rely on the traction of animal power.
The Trap War Beast is not practical enough, but will the Trap Chariot modified on the basis of the Trap War Beast be used more effectively on the battlefield?
However, at this time, the craftsmen in the baggage camp were no longer the descendants of Chen Hai cultivated in the Medicine Master Garden, and his ideas on the transformation of combat weapons had leaked enough in the training records, so he naturally didn't want to leak more things.
However, in order to accurately draw the parts of the wooden ox into drawings, it is still necessary to find out these craftsmen to help.
In the first half of the night, Chen Hai was squatting in the yard looking at these spring parts, Su Aya couldn't understand what was there to study about these things, but she didn't know that Chen Hai was thinking about deeper problems.
Yanzhou is a world where the strong are respected, and the separation between the sect lords, the sect lords and the common people is extremely serious, and Chen Hai can see a lot from the manufacture of the different parts of this wooden cow.
The core wind array box that refines the wind rune array must come from the hands of a refiner who has a strong cultivation foundation.
Not to mention the core Wind Charm Array inside, even the outer box is cast with high-grade fine pattern dark iron, and there is no trace of loss at this time.
However, the other spring parts are made by ordinary craftsmen and craftsmen, and the materials used are already good, but they are only ordinary precision wrought iron, which lacks the necessary lubrication and cushioning, and wears out badly after thousands of miles.
Chen Hai knew from the earth that in order to improve the overall life of a well-made utensil, the quality of the core components must be strictly required; corresponding to the wooden ox, the wind gust box is the core component, but the importance of many spring parts cannot be ignored.
In fact, as long as the part of the fine-grained dark iron used in the wind array box is fused with the fine-wrought iron by the method of seepage casting to produce a higher-strength precision-forged and quenched gold-made iron, the durability of the Wooden Ox can be increased by more than ten times or even dozens of times.
This is simple to say, but fundamentally, it is necessary to break down the gap between the refiner and the craftsman, so that the high refiner is willing to cooperate with the lowest craftsman.
The wind shower box and machine spring have stronger driving performance than ordinary mules and horses, but at present, it still can't be compared with such a sophisticated riding beast as the green cunning horse.
The military attachés and generals who were born in the sect did not cherish the lives of the low-level generals at all, and they were accustomed to selecting soldiers from a hundred battles through the cruel elimination of bloody wars. And the elite combat forces that were finally selected, such as the Dao soldiers, sect lords and sects, preferred to raise strong war beasts and riding beasts for equipment, rather than manufacturing war weapons on a large scale.
Even if the most elite Dao soldiers in Hexi's Dadu Protectorate have been equipped with defensive chariots in batches, they are all refined into the defensive array, and Hexi itself has enough high-level riding beasts such as green cunning horses to pull chariots, and the wind gust box traction is a little weaker.
Therefore, except for some small and sophisticated warships, Chen Hai could still see the use of the Water Charm Array, on the land battlefield, there was no such thing as a Wind Array Box or any other rune array-driven mechanism chariot.
Ordinary generals and even civilians were only qualified to be dragged by ordinary mules and horses, and the wind shower box was too advanced for this class.
The wooden oxen built by the sect lords or sects were not for long-distance transportation, but for overcoming steep and rugged terrain during short-distance transportation, and even if anyone thought that the wind gust box could be combined with a chariot, it would not be taken seriously.
The root of this lies in the fact that the separation between the sect lords, sects, and civilian society is like a moat.
Because of this, the casting materials that Chen Hai could see in Yanzhou were either like fine-grained black iron, black gold steel, red pulp copper, tire iron, etc., and their performance was amazingly strong in all aspects, and they were several times or dozens of times stronger than the strongest alloys Chen Hai had seen on the earth, but these gold and iron were all genius treasures, and the quantity was scarce, and the price was naturally extremely expensive; or all iron and blister copper, and a small amount of fine wrought iron were only used for the casting of high-grade armor, which could not meet the needs of large-scale manufacturing of war weapons and utensils and utensils used by civilians.
In fact, it is much easier to drive the axle to rotate and drive the chariot forward than to drive the four hooves of the wooden ox across rugged mountains, and the internal spring parts can be simplified a lot, but it is necessary to redesign the matching axle gearbox, and the reliability and life will be greatly improved.
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Chen Hai's soul mind infiltrated the Blood Cloud Wasteland through the snake bracelet, and the puppet clone's Zhihai was really wonderful, and his calculation power was also shocking. In fashionable terms, Chen Hai was able to directly model and design an axle gearbox that could be driven by a wind gust box in the puppet clone.
Of course, in the Blood Cloud Wasteland, Chen Hai had the help of blood slave Yao Laogen and others, and it was not difficult to cast the body of the chariot, wheels, axles, gearboxes, and other spring parts.
In the previous time, Chen Hai had not only taught Yao Laogen to mine and smelt iron, but also taught Yao Laogen to forge more refined fine-forged iron, as well as to forge precision-forged and quenched iron that could easily break through the scale skin of the Martial Guard-level Rakshasa Demon by infiltrating casting.
In addition to teaching Yao Laogen to cast swords, halberds, spears, bows and arrows, Chen Hai also taught Yao Laogen to burn pottery, bricks, and make wheelbarrows, umbrellas and other daily utensils.
Yao Laogen and other blood slaves have a strong learning ability, and as they master more and more complex knowledge, the murderous nature in their blood gradually becomes weaker.
Many blood slaves seem to have been forcibly brought into the era of tool or refining civilization by Chen Hai from the ferocious blood of Ru Mao's blood drinking, and bloody killing is no longer a necessary means for their survival - in addition to the control of the divine soul, Yao Laogen and other blood slaves also behaved very obediently in front of Chen Hai.
Chen Hai wanted to try to build a new mechanical chariot, especially in the design and trial production stage, he naturally would not let the craftsmen of the Xiyuan Army Heavy Battalion have the opportunity to participate, it was enough for him to have Yao Laogen and other blood slaves to help him in the Blood Cloud Wasteland.
What is relatively difficult is the refining of the wind gust box that belongs to the category of magic weapons, and this can only be done by Chen Hai himself.
Chen Hai has never found an existence similar to cinnabar in the Blood Cloud Wasteland, let alone the current materials for refining magic weapons and prohibitions, but after countless experiments, he found that the Xuanxue sand made by mixing the ground Xuaniron powder into the blood of the Rakshasa Demon also has the purpose of sealing the spirit and guiding the spirit, and can be used as a substitute for the prohibition of refining the formation.
Of course, as a substitute, the formation prohibitions that can be refined by the Xuanxue Sand are quite simple, but fortunately, the Wind Resistance Rune Array inside the Wind Array Box is also quite simple, and with Chen Hai's attainments in refining weapons at this time, he can only refine the most basic rune array.
What's more, the first organ chariot, as an experimental or prototype chariot, was clumsy or even ugly, and Chen Hai was not afraid that a few blood slaves would laugh at him.
It took a month before and after, and Chen Hai, Yao Laogen and other eight blood slaves finally made the first experimental machine chariot.
The first generation of self-propelled chariots were naturally clumsy, slowly advancing in the depths of the potholed rift, like a turtle, and the axle wheels and envelope were also quite rudimentary, and it seemed that they would fall apart at any time.
The iron-cast body was too heavy, there was no way to carry more goods, and there was no practicality, but the excitement in Chen Hai's heart was really indescribable.
The manpower in the Blood Cloud Wasteland is still too limited, Yao Laogen and other blood slaves are really smart and studious, after all, they are not real craftsmen, but Chen Hai knows that this set of prototype mechanism chariots will be taken to the foundry of Taohuawu for further improvement, and it can be used as the primary organ chariot he envisioned to be used on the battlefield to charge into battle.
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As the commander of more than 30,000 soldiers, Chen Hai is qualified to completely shield his study with a ban to prevent others from prying into secrets. Therefore, in the camp of Xiling in Leiyang Valley, he can also sneak into the Blood Cloud Wasteland through the snake bracelet unscrupulously.
Although Su Aya served by Chen Hai's side all day long, he saw that Chen Hai spent most of the rest of his time in the study writing and painting, or cross-legged and closed his eyes to comprehend martial arts, except for necessary military affairs such as inspection of the defense area, supervision and drills.
The drawings that Chen Hai is now hand-drawn and the experience he wrote down as drafts will be burned to ashes at will, not giving Su Aya a chance to look at it at all.
Chen Hai was sure that he could build a mechanical chariot, but when he hesitated to use the craftsmen of the Taohuawu Foundry to officially build a mechanical chariot, it was already the middle of February of the seventy-fourth year of Emperor Yitian.
At this time, the hungry people gathered in Tongbei Prefecture broke out again, and more than 100,000 people gathered to attack the Tongbei Warehouse, which was built to store the grain and grass materials of the Xiyuan army.
Chen Hai was the closest to Tongbei Okura, and was ordered to suppress it as soon as possible.
Chen Hai didn't know if the Red Eyebrow Sect was instigating behind the scenes, but this time the hungry people who attacked Tongbei Beicang were really yellow and thin, and their clothes were ragged.
At this time, many court ministers may also realize that it is no longer meaningful to continue to blindly purge the outcasts and rebels, and if the famine is not resolved, the bloody purge will only make the momentum of the Red Mei Sect stronger and stronger.
Wen Boyuan and Fan Chun also officially wrote to the Taiwei Mansion in Tongbei to help the victims.
In mid-February, the Taiwei Mansion issued an edict, agreeing that Tongbei Beicang would allocate part of the grain to help the hungry people at the northern foot of Qintong Mountain.
At the same time, Chen Haihai's request for Zhao Wutai to replace him in charge of the first battalion was also approved, and he served as the Tongbei Okura Sicheng under the Xiyuan Army's Governor's Office, with the rank of Su Wei General, in charge of the Xiyuan Army's grain and grass material dispatch in the Qintong battlefield.