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一早在北宋时期,中国就已将火器运用到军事上。到明朝永乐七年(1414年)底,明廷创立了装备枪炮、专习火器的神机营,并在火器制造上严禁“不如法及尅落隐瞒匠料”。同时,明军在远征漠北中也采用过“神机铳居前,齐射,马队居后”的新战术。但这支世界上最早的火药化军队到明中叶后早已腐化不堪:官兵多视火器“但多一铁把,以备急时充铁棍之用”;
Early in the Northern Song Dynasty, China had already applied its firearms to the military. By the end of the Ming Dynasty Yongle seven years (1414), the Ming court set up a machine-gun shop that specializes in firearms and is strictly forbidden to manufacture firearms. In the meantime, the Ming army also used new tactics such as “God machine dwells in front of the enemy, volley in the cavalry and ranks behind the horse” in expedition to the Mobei. However, the world’s first army of gunpowder has long been corrupted by the middle of the Ming Dynasty: officers and soldiers have regarded many firearms as "