The crossbow was the weapon for Chinese ranged warfare, creating it achievable to aim very easily with high energy missiles or shoot faster than anybody else.
There are examples of 20% of an army carrying these weapon systems, when fighting nomadian tribes with lots of archers. So 1st, the crossbow played a substantial part in Chinese warfare.
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