title: Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss
text: # Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss
  
  The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss (simplified Chinese: 连珠铳; traditional Chinese: 連珠銃), also known as "Lianzhu Huochong" (连珠火铳), was a kind of breech-loading, smooth-bore, single-shot flintlock, invented by Dai Zi (戴梓), a firearms expert in the early Qing Dynasty, in the thirteenth year of Kangxi (1674).
  
  ## Usage
  
  The Continuously Shooting Blunderbuss could fire 28 rounds of ammunition at a time and was powerful. These guns played an important role in quelling Geng Jingzhong's Rebellion (耿精忠叛乱).
  
  