- the
huopao fire bomb (火礮) and the
huopao (火砲)
bombs propelled by
trebuchet were also in use as
incendiary weapons. The
defending Song army used
huopao (火礮)...
- The
Wuwei Bronze Cannon (武威銅火炮 — Wǔwēi tóng
huǒpào) or Xi Xia
Bronze cannon (西夏铜火炮 — Xīxià tóng
huǒpào) was
discovered in 1980 and is
probably the oldest...
-
failure and
defeat for the Jurchens. The Jin
dynasty navy was set on fire by
huopao (a type of
gunpowder weapon,
possibly cannons) and fire arrows, suffering...
- cannon). Li Ting
chose gun-soldiers (chòngzú),
concealing those who bore the
huǒpào on
their backs; then by
night he
crossed the river,
moved upstream, and...
-
invented by the
Muslims (Xiangyang pao or ******** pao) and hand
cannons (
huopao). The
siege took six
months and the
citadel felt to the
rebel hands. On...
- In the
Battle of
Tangdao in 1161, the
Southern Song
general Li Bao used
huopao (a type of
gunpowder weapons,
possibly cannons) and fire
arrows against...
- fire lance, an
early gunpowder weapon and an
ancestor of the firearm. The
huopao, an
incendiary bomb, was emplo**** in a
number of
battles and
gunpowder bombs...
- Pàozhang tǒng :
Firecracker (Pàozhang 'gun battle' + tǒng 'tube') 火炮花 :
Huǒpào huā :
Artillery flower 金鸡一把锁 : Jīnjī yī bǎ suǒ :
Golden rooster lock 空心木...
-
trebuchets to
bombard the Jin
ships with
incendiary bombs (pili
huoqiu 霹雳火球 or
huopao 霹雳火砲; "thunderclap fire balls") that
contained a
mixture of gunpowder, lime...
- [Zhang]
Shijie found himself ****ailed from the
front and the rear. He
fired huopao [incendiary bombs] at the
southern division,
setting fire to and sinking...
