This traveler only wants to choose the lowest difficulty

Chapter 262

After discussing such a trivial matter as Huanbu, Hou Junji hurriedly asked Wang Dong to talk about his next plan for making the trebuchet.

Wang Dong nodded, and then took out a list from his sleeve.

Hou Junji took the list, unfolded it, and felt relieved. He saw that everything Wang Dong needed was written down in detail on the list, including what kind of wood Wang Dong needed, how long the wood needed, and how much. The rope, how much iron, and finally wrote that he made a trebuchet, which required about ten workers.

Wang Dong had settled the matter to such a detailed level, which obviously made Hou Junji feel relieved.

What else is there to say? Hou Junji agreed, and then started arranging the troops. Wang Dong, who was resting in the marching manager's house in the afternoon, was informed that he could go to a school field in the city to start making trebuchets.

When I came to the school grounds, I saw that the people Hou Junji had arranged for Wang Dong were all old craftsmen from the Tang army, and they were waiting for their new boss with anticipation.These craftsmen had a good first impression when they saw Wang Dong, but when they found out that Wang Dong came to work with a piece of paper, they couldn't trust Wang Changshi in their hearts.

Everyone's first reaction is that this is a white-faced scholar.This kind of role that seems to be a literati can always come up with some novel ideas in front of Shangguan, but it is these craftsmen who often have a headache when it comes to implementation.

But Wang Dong didn't talk nonsense with them, he directly asked them about their job types, and then picked out the big carpenter among them to open wood for them, the blacksmith to make nails, and then asked other craftsmen to work for the carpenter first.

"Is it just to open wood? May I ask if you want to make the mortise and tenon first?"

The carpenters had already started scratching their heads when they heard the words, making a piece of equipment. The first step made them think that Wang Dong should take out the sketch, and then they should confirm it according to the sketch, and then design a suitable tenon according to the force of each component. After that, discuss how to open the wood.

The most important thing is to think about the mortise and tenon joint when cutting the wood. Otherwise, when the wood is cut, there will be scars or loose wood in the place where the mortise and tenon joint is to be placed. Then it will be very troublesome to go back and modify it. things.

Wang Dong directly shook his head.

"This trebuchet doesn't use mortise and tenon joints. We use hook nails to connect them all. You can just open the wood."

Hearing that all the craftsmen were taken aback, using hook nails, can the strength of the ordnance produced in this way be enough?
But Wang Dong didn't care what they thought, because Hou Junji had already made it clear to him before coming that it was obviously impossible for a large weapon like a trebuchet to be made first in Shanzhou and then pushed all the way to Gaochang. , so the trebuchets used on the actual battlefield must be made of on-site mining of wood.

Therefore, Hou Junji's request to Wang Dong is that in addition to designing a complete trebuchet with the craftsmen and testing their tactical effects, the more important thing is that if these trebuchets are indeed suitable, Wang Dong must also train a group of masters. Craftsmen who can quickly produce this trebuchet technology on the battlefield.

However, if he wanted to make equipment quickly, the first consideration that Wang Dong could think of was naturally the need to obtain materials conveniently.

Thinking about the natural environment of Gaochang, where there are so many trees with good conditions for them to use, so when Wang Dong was looking for the design of the trebuchet, he deliberately found a lot of methods on how to use spliced ​​wood to achieve the same force requirements as complete wood. As for the mortise and tenon, Wang Dong completely gave up. The tenon and tenon structure is naturally good, but the requirements for materials are too high when making it, and it may not be practical on the battlefield.

Instead of doing this, it is better to start thinking as if there is no way to make mortise and tenon joints when you first start practicing.

However, after hearing Wang Dong's request, all the craftsmen felt a little bit in their hearts.

They subconsciously determined that this was another braggart who was a layman guiding an expert.

But helplessly, they were just a group of craftsmen, and they didn't dare to talk too much in front of an official, so they could only bite the bullet and took the adze, chisel, ax and saw, and began to cut wood according to Wang Dong's requirements.

These craftsmen are all experienced, and it is not difficult for them to open a few large pieces of wood, so after three days, a large pile of opened wood was placed in front of Wang Dong, and several pieces of wood were neatly discharged. An area of ​​ten square meters.

Next, Wang Dong didn't ask everyone to start making, but after looking at all the wood materials, he called the woodworkers who cut the materials.Let them take a brush to number each piece of wood.

The carpenters felt that Mr. Wang was doing useless work, but they had no choice but to meet such a layman anyway, so let's play with him.

So it marked another day and passed. Wang Dong was not in a hurry to ask everyone to clean up the wood. He carefully packed it and moved it to the warehouse, covered it with linoleum and came back to work the next day.

When they got off work, all the carpenters looked at each other in blank dismay. After four or five full days of work on the school grounds, they opened up a lot of materials and didn't make anything yet. Everyone can have a good rest.But after working with such an adult for half a month, everyone is not sure whether they can make a trebuchet. If the machine cannot be made by then, they will be punished.

The next morning, Wang Dong came to the school field and asked everyone to take out the wood that had been packed yesterday.

Then Wang Dong ordered everyone to put the wood together piece by piece according to the serial number.

"This... how to spell it?" A carpenter asked Wang Dong with some doubts.What he held in his hand was just a lot of long and short wooden blocks, and he had no idea of ​​the music in his mind, which was completely different from their usual way of making instruments.

But Wang Dong looked at the wood and took it for granted. His set of trebuchet blueprints was a mature plan bought directly from a foreign trebuchet forum. .His trebuchet manufacturing method has been tested by many people, and the effect should be quite good.

Looking at the wood now, Wang Dong feels like assembled furniture bought from a mall.So Wang Dong simply took out a copy of the blueprint he copied and drew, and pointed to the structural diagram on which the order of A, B, C, D was marked, and explained to everyone.

All the craftsmen were surprised when they saw the exquisite structure diagram. They thought that Wang Dong was directing blindly there, but they didn't expect that they had really figured out how to arrange these long and short things? , but the hesitation in everyone's heart has not decreased but increased. How do you think this way of writing and calculating work is not very reliable.

However, everyone didn't dare to refute too much, so at Wang Dong's request, they started to assemble according to what he said.Then……

"My lord, the length between these two pieces of wood seems inappropriate..."

Wang Dong glanced at the work in the hands of the carpenter, nodded, and said: "Don't worry about it, just use nails to harden it for him."

The carpenter was taken aback for a moment, then nodded suddenly, picked up a steel nail and forcibly nailed two pieces of wood that were not of the right length together.

After a few minutes. "My lord, after putting these two pieces of wood together, there seems to be a gap in the middle."

Wang Dong glanced again, picked up the blueprint and checked it, then picked up a piece of broken wood from the ground, "Hey, cut this piece into it, and nail it up."

When all the carpenters saw Wang Dong's behavior, they couldn't help but want to cover their faces. They could basically imagine that when the things were made, they would not be ashamed to say that they were their own handiwork. This work was too rough. Hey, I don't know. Will this so-called trebuchet built during this period fall down on its own...

(End of this chapter)