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    captures a sumo wrestler 力士, dragon ascending 龍驤, flag waver 招揺, or thunderclap 霹靂, promotes on the spot. The cavalryman 馬兵 promotes if it captures a Frankish...
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  • lead balls, and the "flying-cloud thunderclap eruptor" (fēi yún pī-lì pào, 飛雲霹靂炮), were early cast-iron proto-cannons that did not include single shots that...
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    gunpowder arrows and fire bombs, but also a weapon called the "thunderclap bomb" (霹靂炮), which one witness wrote, "At night the thunderclap bombs were used, hitting...
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    gunpowder arrows and fire bombs, but also a weapon called the "thunderclap bomb" (霹靂炮), which one witness wrote, "At night the thunderclap bombs were used, hitting...
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