UPDATED NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Drawing of a Huo Qiang, from 'Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志》)'. |
Contrary to a popular misconception, fire lance was probably not the direct predecessor of true guns but a branched development/specialisation of earlier gunpowder-based flamethrowers and proto-guns, only appearing in recorded history around 1230s. In fact, this particular Huo Qiang was devised around the turn of the seventeenth century.
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