最晚在唐朝之前,我们中国人的老祖先在炼丹中无意发明了火药,四百多年后,经阿拉伯这个“二传手”传到了欧洲。有人说,我们中国人发明了火药后,只拿来做鞭炮搞娱乐,所以后面一切都因耽误而落后了。其实,这是个谬误——在垄断了火药的四百多年里,老祖先想尽了办法将其用于战争,并又领先发明了枪。只不过,过程十分曲折。火药第一次在战场上运用,据说是在唐朝末年的公元904年,杨行密的军队攻打现在的南昌,使用了一种 At the latest, before the Tang Dynasty, our Chinese ancestors had no intention of inventing gunpowder in alchemy. Four hundred years later, it spread to Europe via the “setter” of Arabia. Some people say that after we invented the gunpowder, the Chinese used to engage in entertainment only with firecrackers, so everything behind was lagged behind. In fact, this is a fallacy - in the four hundred years since the monopoly of gunpowder, our ancestors tried their best to use it for war and took the lead in inventing the gun. However, the process is very tortuous. For the first time, gunpowder was used on the battlefield. It is said that in the late Tang dynasty, in AD 904, the armies of Yang Zhaomi attacked Nanchang, now using a