The Strongest Lu Bu's Sweeping Thousands of Armies

Chapter 211 Flying Ordnance

The night before, Lu Bu and Pang Tong talked about building Feiyuan.

But he was not a carpenter. Although he had such an idea, he didn't know where to start.

Early in the morning, he asked people to select more than a dozen soldiers who were carpenters from the army.

The soldiers stood in a row, staring at Lu Bu intently.

Lu Bu walked back and forth in front of them twice: "Are you all carpenters?"

"Yes!" More than a dozen soldiers replied in unison.

Zhang Liao approached Lu Bu and whispered, "Marquis Wen, these soldiers are the best carpenters in the army."

"What are you doing in the army?" Lu Bu asked again.

This time the soldiers responded differently.

Most of them are miscellaneous soldiers, but there are also two sword and shield players and a corporal leader.

Lu Bu nodded: "It would be a pity if people like you were sent to the battlefield to die. If I leave you behind, will you be willing or not?"

The soldiers looked at each other, none of them being too willing to stay behind.

Go to battle to kill the enemy and establish meritorious deeds. Once the deeds are made, their lives will be rewritten.

Staying at the back and having no chance to make contributions, their lives may always be what they are now.

Judging from the expressions of the soldiers that they were not very willing, Lu Bu said: "Actually, you don't have to go to battle to kill the enemy to make meritorious service. If you can build more ordnance that can kill the enemy army, what does the meritorious service have to do with killing the enemy?" the difference?"

Not knowing how to make military exploits without killing people, more than a dozen soldiers looked at a loss.

"I want to ask you a question, as carpenters, who do you think is your ancestor?" Lu Bu changed the subject.

The corporal replied: "Reporting to Marquis Wen, the ancestor of the carpenter is Gongshuban."

Gongshuban is actually Luban.

His surname is Gongshu, and he was a native of Lu during the Spring and Autumn Period.

At that time, people often used the name of a country in front of a person's name. As time passed, more and more people only knew Lu Ban, not his real name, Gongshuban.

Lu Bu nodded: "Since you know that your ancestor is Lu Ban, you should have heard that he once created something called Feiyuan."

Of course, the soldiers who were carpenters had heard of flying kites, but no one actually made them.

"Has anyone among you created a flying kite?" Lu Bu then asked them an embarrassing question.

More than a dozen people lowered their heads.

At this time, they were extremely ashamed in their hearts.

The patriarch once made the flying kite, but those of them who have inherited the craftsmanship for thousands of years don't even know what the flying kite looks like.

"I haven't made a flying kite, have you ever made a kite?" Lu Bu changed his question.

I don't know what Feiyuan looks like, but the soldiers have really made kites.

Wu Zhang looked ashamed and lowered his head and replied: "Reporting to Marquis Wen, we have made kites, but that thing and flying kites..."

"As long as anything that can fly, without the help of external propulsion, it will either be ejected into the sky, or it will glide into the sky." Although he didn't know how to fly a kite, Lu Bu was very clear about the most primitive flying principle: "Especially kites, all of them are flying. It’s gliding to the sky. What I want you to do, is to be able to fly kites, but these kites need to be able to carry the weight of a person.”

Lu Bu did not tell the craftsmen that what he needed was the most primitive glider.

It is easier for craftsmen to understand the idea of ​​replacing a glider with a kite.

Even so, the craftsmen still looked at each other.

Although kites can fly into the sky, they can't figure out how to send people up.

Even if a person flies into the sky with a kite, how to control the landing is still a problem.

If you are not careful, you may fall to pieces.

Puzzled in their hearts, the craftsmen refused to say it out of their mouths, and they didn't want to disturb Lu Bu's good interest.

"Are you thinking, how can a kite be so small to send people to the sky?" Lu Bu asked them.

Having been pierced by Lu Bu, the craftsmen subconsciously nodded.

"Actually, besides the kite, I also plan to build something else." Lu Bu said, "But that kind of thing is more troublesome to control, and not only a carpenter is needed, but a cobbler is also needed."

The night before, Lu Bu didn't say at all that he planned to build other things besides Feiyuan.

Pang Tong, who was beside him, looked blank.

He asked in a low voice: "Marquis Wen didn't say last night that he wanted to build others, why did he suddenly bring up these again?"

"I didn't think of it last night." Lu Bu replied in a low voice, "It was also a sudden inspiration just now."

"What is Marquis Wen planning to build?" Pang Tong asked suspiciously.

"You may be wondering what exactly I want to build." Lu Bu said to everyone present: "In addition to kites that can carry people to fly, I also plan to build hot air balloons."

Everyone was even more at a loss. Where had they heard of hot air balloons.

In fact, when Lu Bu said it, he was also beating drums in his heart.

It was only half a month since Gao Shun came here, and it might still be possible for him to build a glider in half a month.

But making a hot air balloon...

He wasn't too sure it would work either.

But before that, it is still possible to make Kongming lanterns...

"Wen Yuan!" Lu Bu told Zhang Liao, "Go find some cobblers and get some lighter oil lamps."

He just heard that he planned to build a hot air balloon, but Zhang Liao, who didn't know what it was, responded.

When Zhang Liao was looking for the cobbler, he was still muttering in his heart.

Since the Battle of Xiapi, Marquis Wen has created more and more strange things.

Needless to say, toothpaste and toilet water, just the bed has subverted people's bedtime habits.

When they left Pengcheng, the beds made by Lu Buren were out of stock.

After the trial of the people who first received the bed, sleeping on the bed is indeed more comfortable than sleeping on the ground.

After creating something that subverts cognition, Lu Bu now wants to build a kite that can carry people to fly.

With his imagination, Zhang Liao could still imagine what that thing looked like.

But the hot air balloon he just mentioned made Zhang Liao confused, not knowing what it would look like.

After a while, Zhang Liao selected several cobblers from the army.

Most of the soldiers under Lu Bu's command are Qingzhou Army.

The Qingzhou army was born in the Yellow Turban. Many people were farmers or small handicraftsmen before joining the army, and of course there are many skilled craftsmen among them.

When the cobbler arrived, Zhang Liao ordered people to fetch some oil lamps.

According to Lu Bu's instructions, the oil lamps they brought were relatively light.

However, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were no materials such as glass or tin and aluminum, and clay was still used to make oil lamps.

Clay is relatively dense and relatively heavy.

After receiving an unlit oil lamp, Lu Bu was also weighing it in his heart.

Oil lamps are heavy, and the material used to make balloons is also cortex, which must be heavier than paper, and Caihou paper in this era is rough, and it is impossible to use it to make Kongming lanterns.

(End of this chapter)