Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss Explained
| Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss |
| Label1: | Chinese |
| Data1: | 连珠铳 |
| Label2: | Invented |
| Data2: | 1674[1] |
| Label3: | Inventor |
| Data3: | Dai Zi[2] |
| Label4: | Usage |
| Data4: | Putting down Geng Jingzhong's Rebellion |
The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss[3], also known as "Lianzhu Huochong" (连珠火铳), [4] was a kind of breech-loading, smooth-bore, single-shot flintlock, [5] invented by Dai Zi (戴梓),[6] a firearms expert in the early Qing Dynasty, in the thirteenth year of Kangxi (1674).
Usage
The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss could fire 28 rounds of ammunition at a time and was powerful.[7] These guns played an important role in quelling Geng Jingzhong's Rebellion (耿精忠叛乱).[8]
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