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Napoleon's evaluation paper on artillery
Because artillery is made of gunpowder, which is one of the four great inventions in ancient China, strictly speaking, the originator of artillery is from China. In fact, all firearms originated in China at that time. After all, those things would not have been invented without China's gunpowder. Even if their shells were made without gunpowder, they were just a pile of scrap iron.

The invention of gunpowder was quite accidental at that time. It was accidentally invented by Taoist alchemists when they were refining alchemy. This invention process is quite accidental and interesting. Unfortunately, although China invented gunpowder, he did not use it in the war, but used it to make fireworks. At that time, many rich children used gunpowder to make fireworks as entertainment, and then celebrated with fireworks on some important festivals. This habit has been preserved until now, and modern people especially like to set off fireworks on festivals, especially during the Spring Festival. Salute and fireworks were set off during the last military parade, which was very lively.

The first time our country used gunpowder in the war was in the Song Dynasty, when an artillery unit was formed, which also used their weapons to repel the Jin Army invading our country. Gunpowder is still very useful in war. However, China was relatively peaceful, so the artillery units did not continue to organize.

It was not until Napoleon's time that artillery units re-entered people's sight. Generally speaking, artillery originated in our country, and gunpowder was invented in our country, so it is beyond doubt that China is the originator of artillery.