Cannon [with wheel]

Author: Li Xiaoming from Haberstatt
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Publish Date: 2004-12-01
Features: Read the excerpt: The history of artillery in battle is long-standing and renowned. It can be traced back long before the introduction of gunpowder, cannons, and rockets. For over a thousand years, this situation remained largely unchanged. Today, just as before, artillery is still a weapon that delivers immense combat power decisively into the enemy's position. A thousand years ago, people used "tension" artillery to hurl large rocks onto enemy city walls or into dense infantry formations. This was an effective, rapid, and large-scale method of killing enemies and destroying enemy fortifications at the time. This is the essence of war – making it difficult for the opponent to fight and then imposing one's will upon them. Artillery does just that, whether it's a tension artillery that hurls large rocks or a 203mm cannon that fires nuclear shells.