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Fire lance

The fire lance (simplified Chinese: 火枪; traditional Chinese: 火槍; pinyin: huǒqiāng; lit. 'fire spear') was a gunpowder weapon used by lighting it on fire, and is the ancestor of modern firearms. It first appeared in 10th–12th century China and was used to great effect during the Jin-Song Wars. It began as a small pyrotechnic device attached to a polearm…

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related to External links · 11
Fire lance → Antiquity, Chris, Fire LanceMedieval Chinese Armies, Info, ISBN, Little Bit, Mechanical Artillery, Men-at-arms, Peers, Siege Warfare, Siege Weapons
related to China · 10
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iron pellets or pottery shards were later added to the gunpowderinstance ofProjectiles0.80text
porcelain shardsinstance ofpieces of shrapnel0.80text
small iron pellets were added to the gunpowder tubeinstance ofpieces of shrapnel0.80text
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