Strictly speaking, Xiao Chen is not a literati, and the shocking poems he recites are not written by himself, but by others.

He just likes literature very much, and has read a lot of Tang poems, Song poems and ancient articles.

He's actually a science and engineering man.

The major is mechanical design, manufacturing and automation.

Mechanical design, manufacturing and automation are wide-caliber majors, and the disciplines of design are extremely wide.

It is based on mechanical design and manufacturing, integrates computer science, information technology, automatic control and other technologies, uses advanced design and manufacturing theories and methods, solves various complex technical problems in the field of modern engineering, and also has a multidisciplinary and multi-directional intersection of intelligent design and manufacturing.

That's why he was able to design and manufacture the wheelchair with a very advanced technological concept.

As for the heating system, it is pediatrics for him.

It is no exaggeration to say that he understood when he was in elementary school, when his grandfather went to work for a long time, the heating production was sluggish, so he came out to take over private work, and Xiao Chen, who was on summer vacation, followed behind his buttocks, why not see too much? Sometimes I help to put on a few loops of thread buckles......

So when General Xiao Chen finished the settling-in fee, and his mood was obviously much better, more than a dozen great craftsmen gathered together and talked cordially for a few words, and everyone immediately looked at him with admiration.

"Why Marshal Xiao, you are also a blacksmith?" A small, but stout blacksmith guessed.

"This, too, doesn't count." Xiao Chen said with a smile.

"Either you are a family of craftsmen, and the smelting technology you mentioned just now cannot be said by a non-connoisseur!" The little blacksmith said.

"I usually like to think about these things, it's a kind of hobby, okay, what do you call your brother?" Xiao Chen has always been so approachable, which makes the big guy quite frightened.

"Oh, I don't dare to be it, the villain is called Liu Tiebi, because I have the strength of my arms, everyone calls me Liu Tieji." Don't look at his small size, but his arms are very thick.

"Let's just talk about small talk, no matter the identity, just brothers, Brother Liu, with our current tools and equipment iron-making furnace, can we think of a way to smelt lead and iron into an alloy?" Xiao Chen gradually stepped into the theme.

"Yes, yes, but there are several ways, it depends on what it's for?" When Liu Tiejian talked about professionalism, he came to the spirit.

"The projectiles used to make muskets, now our projectiles are all iron, firstly, the weight is too light, and it cannot be far, and secondly, the iron is too hard, which will hurt the chamber of the gun, and the barrel of the gun will be scrapped after not being used many times." Xiao Chen said.

"That's simple, it's iron-clad lead, I can do it!" Liu Tiearm grinned, how big of a deal should it be?

"Okay, tomorrow you will choose a few helpers to find Vice General Wei Yuntian and discuss how to make the two of you discuss." Xiao Chen was overjoyed.

"Okay!" Liu Tiejian was very excited, as soon as he came, he had a job to do, and he got an extra five taels of silver a month!

Besides, this is the first errand sent by the marshal to us, and it will be handed over to my Lao Liu, then even if my Lao Liu is tired to death, he will definitely do a good job for the marshal!

"Gongsun, will you make a big car?" Xiao Chen asked Gongsun Ban again.

"Look at what you said, Marshal, we are masters, how can we not even build a car?" Gongsun Ban was not very happy when he heard this.

"I'm talking about chariots." Xiao Chen ordered someone to bring a piece of blank paper, asked for a piece of sharpened graphite, and while writing and drawing on the paper, he told the big guy his thoughts and intentions.

"Marshal, you're not a chariot, isn't this a sedan?" A chubby carpenter named Liu saw Xiao Chen draw the general shape of the car, and immediately expressed doubt.

The sedan he was talking about was actually a box car like a sedan chair.

"This is called a box car, who said that a box car can't use a combat vehicle?" Xiao Chen smiled, "And what I want is an ironclad chariot that can fire bows and crossbows. ”

Oh? When the craftsmen heard this, they were all interested, so what do you mean, marshal......

Xiao Chen began to paint the graphics inside the car, he is a person who has studied mechanical design, and the graphic painting is called a major!

But a group of professionals said they didn't understand.

"Marshal, you want to wrap a layer of iron on the outside of the car, and then install a large bow and crossbow in the car, we all understand, but what are you doing in these crooked rows? And why are these triggers connected to the bowstring designed like this? In addition, the following piece seems to be a spring? But what is the role? Expert Gongsun Ban was also confused when he saw it.

Xiao Chen wants to make a repeating bow crossbow, and he uses a mechanical device to control the firing, theoretically he hopes to be able to reach a rate of fire of twenty per minute, of course, a dozen can also be used.

The crooked rows were boxes for crossbow arrows, the triggers connected to the bowstring had a geared drive that could fire in bursts, and the springs underneath were used to push the arrows in the barrels onto the bowstring.

Not...... That's what it meant.

The design idea of the marshal is really awesome, and the structure is actually not very complicated, but there are many specific problems that need to be solved.

In addition, although the structure is not very complicated, but it is not strong, the car has to move, if the installation is not strong enough, it will fall apart halfway!

So it's best to be detachable, and if it can be folded, it's even better, so that it can also free up most of the space in the car for transporting supplies......

It's a challenging job.

But all excellent craftsmen are a little neurotic, or obsessive-compulsive, the more difficult the work, the more they want to do it, and they want to do it well.

"The big guy pondered slowly, if there is any problem, let's go back and find time to continue the discussion, I have taken a step in advance." Xiao Chen got up and said goodbye.

Uh-huh, ahh Let's go.

The big guys were all focused on the drawings, and when they heard Xiao Chen's words, they just agreed casually, and no one looked up at him at all.

The reason why Xiao Chen wanted to create this kind of ironclad ballista, which felt very bulky, was to deal with the Xian Yu cavalry.

In this era, cavalry is the pride of the army, with its awesome mobility and terrifying speed, it is almost invincible on the battlefield.

The Xian people are nomadic people, they have grown up on horseback since childhood, and in order to compete for rich pastures and limited resources, they are almost always in a state of war, so both men and women, young and old, are good at riding and shooting.

Most of Yanyun County is a plain area, which is the most suitable for cavalry to fight.

Although the more than 1,000 people selected by Xiao Chen's subordinates are barely elite soldiers, most of them are infantry, and they can ride horses, but cavalry is far from being able to fight.

With more than 1,000 infantry formed improvised, they went through hundreds of miles to fight against tens of thousands of elite cavalry...... It's really no different from giving away someone's head.

But Xiao Chen was unwilling, he also said that even if he was a grasshopper after the autumn, he had to jump a few times!