This is an overview of Chinese siege weapons. Siege ladders were used starting from the Warring States period. A hinged folding ladder known as the "cloud...

Jieming (2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity. Leong Kit Meng. ISBN 981-05-5380-3. Look up siege engine in Wiktionary...

Ancient Greek military personal equipment Chinese siege weapons Helepolis List of siege engines Category:Siege equipment Castle: Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections...

properties to inflict burns or damage. These weapons or devices could be used by individuals, thrown by siege engines, or utilised as army strategy. Incendiary...

cannons over other siege weapons was the ability to fire a heavier projectile, farther, faster, and more often than previous weapons. They could also fire...

Jieming (2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity, p. 30 Wood, Frances (1995). Did Marco Polo go to China?, London: Secker...

carrying hooks and glaive weapons Dutch depiction of a Ming soldier holding a glaive weapon Chinese armour Chinese siege weapons Lorge 2011, p. 43. Mao (矛)...

This is a list of siege engines invented through history. A siege engine is a weapon used to destroy fortifications such as defensive walls, castles, bunkers...

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derailing the Chinese war effort. Li Hongzhang used the siege as a political weapon against his rivals in Beijing, since he controlled the Chinese telegraph...

is also known as the Chinese sabre, although those with wider blades are sometimes referred to as Chinese broadswords. In China, the dao is considered...

history, weapons have changed with it. The use of weapons is a major driver of cultural evolution and human history up to today, since weapons are a type...

sultani in Arabic. In China, the mangonel was called the pào (砲). The mangonel originated in ancient China. Torsion-based siege weapons such as the ballista...

dated 1380–1385. Initially used as defensive weapons, primitive bombards began to be used as siege weapons in the later 14th century. Henry IV and Henry...

(UK: /ˈɒnədʒə/, /ˈɒnəɡə/; US: /ˈɑːnədʒər/) was a Roman torsion-powered siege engine. It is commonly depicted as a catapult with a bowl, bucket, or sling...

Introduction and Use of Gunpowder and Firearms among the Chinese, "Journal of the North China Branch Royal Asiatic Society, 6 (1871), 89. Maspero, Georges...

Nanyang (南陽), Henan] are as cruel as wasps and scorpions." Iron weapons also gave Chinese armies an edge over barbarians. Han Fei recounts that during a...

Recherche Scientifique. Liang, Jieming (2006). Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity – An Illustrated History. Needham...

armor, early gunpowder weapons, and other advanced weapons, but also adopted nomadic cavalry and Western military technology. China's armies also benefited...

Needham 1994, p. 145. Needham 1994, p. 146. "Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity" by Liang Jieming ISBN 981-05-5380-3...

At the time, nuclear weapons had not been developed fully. Japan conducted research on biological weapons , and chemical weapons had seen wide battlefield...

The fire lance (simplified Chinese: 火枪; traditional Chinese: 火槍; pinyin: huǒqiāng; lit. 'fire spear') was a gunpowder weapon, it could be used by lighting...

a weaponized virus or weaponized laser. The use of weapons has been a major driver of cultural evolution and human history up to today since weapons are...

The siege of Tsingtao (German: Belagerung von Tsingtau; Japanese: 青島の戦い; simplified Chinese: 青岛战役; traditional Chinese: 青島戰役) was the attack on the German...

weapons during their wars against the dynasties of China. In 1232 the Mongols laid siege to the Jin capital of Kaifeng and deployed gunpowder weapons...

Alamut Assassins fort, "Khitayan" built siege weapons resembling crossbows were used. "Khitayan" meant Chinese and it was a type of arcuballista, deployed...

Louchuan (traditional Chinese: 樓船; simplified Chinese: 楼船; pinyin: lóuchuán; lit. 'tower ships') were a type of Chinese naval vessels, primarily a floating...

typically used as indirect fire weapons for close fire support with a variety of ammunition. Historically mortars were heavy siege artillery. Mortars launch...

large and small cannons were developed for siege and field battles. The cannon replaced prior siege weapons such as the trebuchet. After the Middle Ages...

States: Brills. pp. 78–106. Liang, Jieming (2006), Chinese Siege Warfare: Mechanical Artillery & Siege Weapons of Antiquity, Singapore, Republic of Singapore:...