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. [1] . It first appeared in 10th–12th century China and was used to great effect during the Jin-Song Wars.

The Huolongjing (traditional Chinese: 火龍經; simplified Chinese: 火龙经; pinyin: Huǒ Lóng Jīng; Wade-Giles: Huo Lung Ching; rendered in English as Fire Drake Manual or Fire Dragon Manual), also known as Huoqitu (“Firearm Illustrations”), is a Chinese military treatise compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Bowen of the early Ming ...

2017年1月4日 · Feng Lei Huo Gun (風雷火滾, lit. 'Wind and thunder fire roller') was a rolling cylindrical explosive device similar to Ping Kuang Bu Zhan Sui Di Gun (平曠步戰隨地滾) as well as Shuang Fei Huo Long Jian (雙飛火籠箭). It was made of bamboo basketry, wrapped in forty to fifty layers of paper and filled with poison smoke gunpowder ...

2019年7月3日 · Song Dynasty military forces as early as 904 A.D. used gunpowder devices against their primary enemy, the Mongols. These weapons included "flying fire" (fei huo), an arrow with a burning tube of gunpowder attached to the shaft.

The first known use of a military rocket was in 1232 when the Chinese used fei huo tsiang (flying fire lances) against Mongols attacking the city of Kai-fung-fu. The first devise to meet the criterion for a rocket was not an aerial projectile but a firework, called ti lao shu (ground rat), made from a bamboo tube filled with gunpowder that ...

2014年11月12日 · Shen Huo Fei Ya (神火飛鴉, lit. 'Divine fire flying crow' or 'Flying crow with magic fire') was a unique, bird-shaped rocket made of papered bamboo or reed basketry. It was a long range incendiary weapon designed to attack stationary or slow-moving targets such as enemy encampments, fortresses and warships.

2020年3月27日 · These weapons included “flying fire” (fei huo), an arrow with a burning tube of gunpowder attached to the shaft. The flying fire arrows were miniature rockets, which pushed through the enemy ranks. For the first warriors who were confronted with the power of gunpowder, it must have seemed like frightening magic.

2016年4月21日 · Huo Fei Zhua (火飛抓, lit. 'Fire flying catcher'), also known by another fancier name Fei Huo Xiang Mo Chui (飛火降魔槌, lit. 'Flying fire demon-subjugating hammer'), was a rather unique weapon of the Ming Dynasty.

2024年11月3日 · The Huolongjing (traditional Chinese: 火龍經; simplified Chinese: 火龙经; pinyin: Huǒ Lóng Jīng; Wade-Giles: Huo Lung Ching; rendered in English as Fire Drake Manual or Fire Dragon Manual), also known as Huoqitu (“Firearm Illustrations”), is a Chinese military treatise compiled and edited by Jiao Yu and Liu Bowen of the early Ming ...

2022年10月20日 · During the siege of the city Kai-feng-fu, the capital of the province of Henan, by Mongolian forces, the defenders used a weapon they called “Fei Huo Jiang” (translated: flying fire spears). The weapon was used to set fire to food tents and wicker fortifications.