There are many military experts in ancient China, and if they are listed according to the dynasty, they can be written into a very thick book. We have selected five of the best military experts from ancient times, whose writings and inventions can be called the first in the world.
Sun Wu (c. 545 BC – c. 470 BC), a native of the late Spring and Autumn period of the Qi state of Le'an (present-day northern Shandong Province). Chinese well-known military expert, honored as Bing Sheng or Sun Tzu, known as "the master of the Hundred Generations of Soldiers" and "the originator of Oriental Military Science". He is the author of thirteen works of "Sun Tzu's Art of War", which is respected by later generations of martial artists, known as the "Holy Code of Military Studies", and has been translated into English, French, German, and Japanese, becoming the most famous model book of military science in the world.
Zhuge Liang (181-234), a native of Langya Yangdu, Xuzhou (present-day Yinan County, Linyi City, Shandong), was a well-known military expert of the Shu Han Dynasty during the Three Kingdoms period, including more than a dozen inventions such as wooden cattle and flowing horses, Kong Ming Lanterns, and Zhuge Lian crossbows. Among them, "landmines" and "fire-breathing beasts" are the most famous, which are the earliest firearms in the world. "Landmines" are the world's earliest mines, with oil as fuel to burn and explode, and the fire-breathing beast is the world's first "fully automatic unmanned spray train", which has certain lethality and advanced nature even if it is placed on the modern battlefield.
Tang Fu, born and died unknown, was a military expert of the Northern Song Dynasty, and served as the commander of the Song Shen Weishui Army. In 995, Tang Fu used gunpowder to build rockets and muskets. In 1000, it also produced firearms such as fire tribulus and fire tribulus. Song Shi Bing Zhi XI: "In August of the third year of Xianping, Tang Fuxian, the commander of the Shenwei Water Army, made rockets, fire poles, and fire tribulus terrestris. "The fireball was the world's first grenade.
Zhao Shizhen (1554 ~ c. 1611) Ming Dynasty firearms expert. The word Changji, the number of the lake. Zhejiang Yueqing people. He invented "Rocket Slip", "Electric Gun", "Eagle Gun", etc., and authored books such as "Artifact Spectrum" and "Beibian Tuntian Che Shu Yi", which were highly praised by the famous British scholar Joseph Needham. Among them, the rocket slip is the world's first rocket launcher, and its shape has been very similar to that of modern rocket launchers, at least 300 years more advanced than the West.
Dai Zi (1649~1726), a firearms expert in the Qing Dynasty, was a character wenkai and a cultivator of tobacco. A native of Renhe (present-day Hangzhou), Zhejiang, he used to manufacture "Lianzhu Gun" and "Weiyuan General Cannon". Among them, the "twenty-eight consecutive balls of fire" is the world's first machine gun, which can fire 28 bullets in a row, and the firing principle is no different from that of modern machine guns, which is 100 years more advanced than the West.