Singijeon - China's earliest shooting metal heat weapons

Cannon - China's earliest shooting metal heat weapon

Cannon is China's earliest batch of shooting metal heat weapon, also known as the fire barrel, does not refer to a weapon, but the Yuan and Ming Dynasties for this type of weapon. Singijeon first began to appear in China's Yuan Dynasty, compared to the Song Dynasty period of the sudden gun, Singijeon in the case of its basis for a large number of improvements and optimization, by the bamboo barrels changed to metal, gunpowder performance has been further improved, began to gradually replace the cold weapons were mass production equipment, became the main battlefield combat weapons. The appearance of the cannon means a change in the way of fighting, a large number of cannons were used in the battlefield completely changed the traditional mode of combat, its huge role became a decisive factor in the battlefield.

China's first appearance of firearms dynasty is the Tang Dynasty, when the firearms called rockets, is in the arrowhead part of the arrow is tied with a fuse on the small gunpowder packet, the use of the fuse will be ignited with a crossbow to launch out on it, which belongs to the most early in China's gunpowder for the use of the crude; in the Song Dynasty people in the gunpowder as the foundation of the case of the manufacture of a lot of all kinds of thermal weapons, such as muskets, sudden musket and artillery and so on.

The sudden musket is the earliest shooting hot weapon in China, its barrel is made of bamboo, with stones or broken iron as bullets, fired with gunpowder, is the origin of all tube type shooting hot weapon, its emergence created a tube type shooting hot weapon of the precedent; followed by the Yuan Dynasty period of the cannon, the cannon represents the traditional mode of fighting in our country is no longer suitable for a large number of cold weapons in the light of the roar of the cannon also began to be used. The roar of the cannon also began to dim more and more, until it was replaced by its exit from the stage of history.

The barrel of the cannon was already made of metal, and in the early days it was made of copper, so it was called the "Copper Cannon", and then it was changed to steel and called the "Iron Cannon", and if it was divided finely, it was called a different name for the different materials. The biggest innovation of the cannon is that it can not only be filled with gunpowder, but also can be repeatedly filled with "projectiles", the metal body of the gun greatly improved the service life of the cannon, can withstand the power of gunpowder and projectile types are also more reusable, the practicality of the cannon is greatly enhanced, in the emergence of a short time after the mass production.

The establishment of the Ming Dynasty in Zhu Yuanzhang when the cannons also provided great help in the Ming Dynasty period of the importance of the cannons to further enhance the large number of cannons were used in the border defense and sea defense and so on has become an important part of China's national defense forces, in the Yongle period the court also set up a purely firearms troops will be named "Shenjiying", which was the Ming Dynasty forbidden guards, and was the first time in the Ming Dynasty.

Chinese cannons were used in border defense, sea defense and so on, and became an important part of our national defense force. During the Yongle period, the court also formed a pure firearms unit named "Shenji Battalion", which was one of the three battalions of the Ming Dynasty's Praetorian Guards and could be said to be the first special force in the world's history.

China's firearms history is much longer and earlier than foreign countries. A lot of historical records about firearms to lead the world, after all, gunpowder is our four great inventions, but why we in the Qing Dynasty was forced to suffer the loss of power and humiliation of the country such a shame, in the final analysis, or the Qing Dynasty blind arrogance, regarded as a heavenly country, closed-door self-blockade, which is the history of the Chinese nation we have gotten the biggest lesson, so that we will be later on to be warned.