When it comes to Zhuge Liang's inventions, they are among the best in China. I'm afraid few people can match him. There are more than a dozen well-documented inventions of Zhuge Liang, among which the famous ones are herding cattle, gossip, Zhuge crossbow, lantern, lock, chess, steamed bread, bridge gun and so on. Zhuge Liang's greatest invention was the development of two special weapons during the Three Kingdoms period: mines and fake animals.
Some people want to ask, gunpowder only appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. How did Zhuge Liang invent mines? Let's popularize it here: the gunpowder we are talking about generally refers to the black gunpowder invented during the Sui and Tang Dynasties. Its components are "nitric oxide, disulfonate and carbon three", that is, explosives. Combustible "gunpowder" was used in smelting as early as the Spring and Autumn Period, and its function was to support combustion. For example, sulfur, in ancient times, was called stone flowing yellow, leaving yellow, flowing yellow and so on. Around the year of Huai Nan Zi BC, "Liu Huang" has been recorded. In 2006, there was also a record of "saltpeter making dragons", but this kind of gunpowder was mainly used by the people. When Zhuge Liang invented mines, he used "gunpowder" instead of explosives.
Zhuge Liang invented this kind of mine, and Fan described it this way: "Because Ma Dai arranged a black fuel tank in the valley, the fuel tank on the car was made of prefabricated artillery, so it was named' mine'. Hide nine guns in one shot, bury thirty steps, and tie the bamboo pole to lead the medicine line; At first, the mountain destroyed the stone and cracked. " It can be seen from this description that the "mine" invented by Zhuge Liang is almost as powerful as modern mines. The principle of ignition and explosion of this kind of mine is similar to that of modern mines. It can be seen that the mine invented by Zhuge Liang, the originator of modern mines, has a history of 1800 years.
The fake beast invented by Zhuge Liang was definitely a special weapon at that time. This fake animal should be called "automatic unmanned flame spraying vehicle" in terms of operational elements. It is powered by "robot" and can realize automatic attack. Even in the modern battlefield, it has certain lethality. In A.D., the fake beast was described as: "Shake the feather fan, and its wind will return to its array, and the fake beast will leave the Shu array. When the barbarians saw the giant beasts in the Shu array breathing fire, emitting black smoke, shaking bronze bells and bared their teeth, all the evil beasts were afraid to move forward. Instead, he ran back to the barbarian cave and knocked down countless barbarian soldiers. "
Zhuge Liang should be the first person in the world to use robots on the battlefield. American robots have only been on the battlefield for a few years. Zhuge Liang has been playing robots for 1800 years! Zhuge Liang was also the first person in the world to use a powerful flamethrower. More than 500 years after Zhuge Liang invented the "false beast", Byzantine flame thrower powered by hand pump appeared.
As early as 1800 years ago, Zhuge Liang invented these two special weapons, but later Jin and Sui did not update these two firearms. If these dynasties had taken Zhuge Liang's firearms seriously, the real mines would not have appeared in the Song Dynasty, but in the Jin Dynasty or the Tang Dynasty.
The most regrettable thing is that the "fake beast" invented by Zhuge Liang has not been upgraded. If this fully automatic powerful attack weapon was upgraded to the Qing Dynasty, it went through the upgrading process from oil to explosives and from spraying to launching. Perhaps in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, fully automatic spraying trains and fully automatic long-range artillery appeared in China, and unmanned tanks became possible. Before the soldiers and weapons arrive, all foreign devils will give them away for nothing, such as the Sino-French War, the Sino-Japanese War and the Opium War. In this way, China's century-old shame is gone! Unfortunately, this is not history, but a hypothesis. I hate that some dynasties in China oppressed Zhuge Liang too much, otherwise there wouldn't be so many rotten T's.