While warfare provided partial impetus for the invention of ingenious new weaponry, "the emergence of the wooden ox was no historical accident," asserts Wang Jian, conveying his enthusiasm for the history of Chinese mechanical science.
除了戰爭的時代背景，促使當時發明各種精巧的武器外，「木牛流馬也不是歷史上的偶然，它是一系列科技發明的其中之一。」