![]() ![]() In 975, the state of Wuyue sent to the Song dynasty a unit of soldiers skilled in the handling of fire arrows. ![]() These fire arrows were shown to the emperor in 970 when the head of a weapons manufacturing bureau sent Feng Jisheng to demonstrate the gunpowder arrow design, for which he was heavily rewarded. Afterwards fire arrows started transitioning to rocket propelled weapons rather than being fired from a bow. The first fire arrows (huǒyào 火藥) were arrows strapped with gunpowder incendiaries, but in 969 two Song generals, Yue Yifang and Feng Jisheng (馮繼升), invented a variant fire arrow which utilized gunpowder tubes as propellants. The text reads from top to bottom: ignition chamber, horizontal tank, piston rod, and fierce-fire oil tank cabinet installed form. A Chinese flamethrower from the Wujing Zongyao manuscript of 1044 AD, Song Dynasty.
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