Ping Kuang Bu Zhan Sui Di Gun (平曠步戰隨地滾)

Drawing of a Ping Kuang Bu Zhan Sui Di Gun, from 'Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志》)'.

Ping Kuang Bu Zhan Sui Di Gun (平曠步戰隨地滾, can be roughly translated as 'Anywhere roller for foot combat in wide plains') was a strange contraption designed to break enemy camps and disrupt enemy formations. It was essentially a tree log full of poisoned blades, hooks and nails, equipped with sixty linked black powder rocket propellers that pushed the weapon forward and doubled as short range flamethrowers. The tree trunk was also hollowed out and filled with explosives and blinding dust, so that it would explode into a shower of flaming wood splinters, smoke and blinding dust after a predetermined time.

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Xing Nu Qiang (行女牆)

Drawing of a Xing Nu Qiang, from 'Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志》)'.

Xing Nu Qiang (行女牆, lit. 'Moving woman wall' or 'Moving battlement') was a type of Chinese wagon-fortress. It was essentially a miniaturised fortress on wheels, complete with battlement, arrowslits and even a gate tower.

While Xing Nu Qiang bore some similarities similar to a siege tower or Lu Gong Che (呂公車), it was probably not employed in the same manner as an ordinary siege tower. Instead, Xing Nu Qiang was probably used as a fortified mobile command post during siege.

Like Lu Gong Che, it was hardly ever used by the Ming army.

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Mu Nu Qiang

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Gong Cheng Lin Chong Lu Gong Che (攻城臨衝呂公車)

Stylised illustration of a Lu Gong Che, from 'Wu Bei Zhi (《武備志 》)'.

Gong Cheng Lin Chong Lu Gong Che (攻城臨衝呂公車, lit. 'City-siege approaching assault cart of Lord Lu'), often shortened to Lin Chong Lu Gong Che (臨衝呂公車, lit. 'Approaching assault cart of Lord Lu') or simply Lu Gong Che (呂公車, lit. 'Cart of Lord Lu'), is the Chinese siege tower. It was named after the semi-legendary Lu Shang (呂尚), better known as Jiang Zi Ya (姜子牙).

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