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The oldest surviving firearm is the Heilongjiang hand cannon dated to 1288, which was discovered at a site in modern-day Acheng District where the History of Yuan records that battles were fought at that time Li Ting, a military commander of Jurchen descent, led footsoldiers armed with guns in battle to suppress the rebellion of the Christian Mongol Prince Nayan. The earliest depiction of a gun is a sculpture from a cave in Sichuan dating to the 12th century of a Chinese figure carrying a vase-shaped bombard with flames and a cannonball coming out of it.

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With this, the three basic features of the gun emerged: a barrel made of metal, high- nitrate gunpowder, and a projectile which totally occludes the muzzle so that the powder charge exerts its full potential in propellant effect.

To take full advantage of that power, the shrapnel came to be replaced by projectiles whose size and shape filled the barrel more closely. To better withstand that explosive power, the paper and bamboo of which fire-lance barrels were originally made came to be replaced with metal. The proportion of saltpeter in the propellant was increased to maximize its explosive power. The De'an Shoucheng Lu, an account of the siege of De'an in 1132 during the JinвЂ“Song Wars, records that Song forces used fire-lances against the Jurchen. The earliest known depiction of a gunpowder weapon is the illustration of a fire-lance on a mid-10th century silk banner from Dunhuang. In China, the earliest firearm was the fire lance, a black-powderвЂ“filled tube attached to the end of a spear and used as a flamethrower (different from older Greek fire-powered Byzantine flamethrower) shrapnel was sometimes placed in the barrel so that it would fly out together with the flames.