thermal weapons are a general term for explosive weapons using gunpowder .
One of my country's four great inventions is the invention of gunpowder. Our country is the first country in the world to invent gunpowder and the first country to use firearms in the military. Around the beginning of the 10th century AD, during the reign of Emperor Ai of the Tang Dynasty (AD 904), Zheng Fan attacked Yuzhang (now Nanchang) and burned down Longshamen. At that time, people used flying fire, artillery , rockets and other things in battle. This was the first record of gunpowder being used in military affairs in the history of our country. It was also the first record of the advent of hot weapons in the world.
In the Northern Song , firearms developed rapidly. Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin's army used rockets and artillery to fight against the Southern Tang . Later, firearms such as fireballs, fire caltrops, fire harriers, and thunderbolt fireballs were used. In 1126 AD, when the Jin people besieged Bianjing, Li Gang defended the city and fired thunderbolts of fireballs. Around the time of the Southern Song Dynasty, my country invented the tubular firearm-the musket. It uses giant bamboo as a gun barrel, which is filled with gunpowder. When it is in battle, it spits out flames to burn people.
This primitive artillery should be the originator of tubular firearms. The rise of Mongolian Genghis Khan absorbed the industrial and firearms technology of advanced nations and created the world's earliest metal tubular firearms. This is a major breakthrough in the history of thermal firearms development. Since then it has gradually developed in the direction of modern guns. The use of firearms in our country is very early, about three to four hundred years earlier than and Western Europe . In the 13th century, my country’s gunpowder and firearms manufacturing technology was introduced to Arab countries.
