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In 950 AD, Tao Gu described multiple crossbows connected by a single trigger: The soldiers at the headquarters of the Xuan Wu army were exceedingly brave. They had crossbow catapults such that when one trigger was released, as many as 12 connected triggers would all go off simultaneously.
The soldiers at the headquarters of the Xuan Wu army were exceedingly brave. They had crossbow catapults such that when one trigger was released, as many as 12 connected triggers would all go off simultaneously. They used large bolts like strings of pearls, and the range was very great. The Jin people were thoroughly frightened by these machines.
In 99 BC, mounted multiple bolt crossbows were used as field artillery against attacking nomadic cavalry. [50] In 180 AD, Yang Xuan used a type of repeating crossbow powered by the movement of wheels: ...around A.D. 180 when Yang Xuan, Grand Protector of Lingling, attempted to suppress heavy rebel activity with badly inadequate forces.
A report in 231 AD mentions the capture of 5,000 suits of "dark armour" (xuan kai or xuan jia 玄鎧/玄甲) and 3,100 crossbows. Dark armour appears in Han texts as well, but only as the attire worn by honor guards at funeral processions. The only known trait about dark armour is that it reflected the sun's rays.
The repeating crossbow (Chinese: 連弩; pinyin: Lián Nǔ), also known as the repeater crossbow, and the Zhuge crossbow (Chinese: 諸葛弩; pinyin: Zhūgě nǔ, also romanized Chu-ko-nu) due to its association with the Three Kingdoms-era strategist Zhuge Liang (181–234 AD), is a crossbow invented during the Warring States period in China that combined the bow spanning, bolt placing, and ...
Xuanwu or Xuan Wu may refer to: Mythology. Black Tortoise or Turtle, one of the Four Symbols of Chinese astronomy; Xuanwu (god) ("Dark Warrior"), a god in Chinese ...
Dated to the 11th century, the temple was dedicated to Xuan Wu, or Trấn Vũ (chữ Hán: 鎮武) in Vietnamese, one of the principal deities in Taoism. As one of the Four Sacred Temples of the capital, Quan Thánh Temple is located near West Lake in a ward of the same name: Quán Thánh Ward; and is one of the leading tourist attractions in ...
Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei (May or June 483 [1] – February 12, 515 [2]) was an emperor of the Xianbei-led Chinese Northern Wei dynasty (499-515). [3] He was born Tuoba Ke, but later changed his surname so that he became Yuan Ke.