Oh and check this out, I’m reading about the fubing (ordinary militia) and there are 5 types, so “bubing” are melee troops but archers and crossbowmen are, get this, “bushe.” It’s a loan word!

@Leucrotta oh chinese, it wasnt threaded with ur previous thing

@Leucrotta interesting that the loan word is for crossbow considering china invented everything

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@daylight apparently crossbow is “nu” - if I ran into that reading about predynastic China I’d forgotten it. This book is awesome!

@daylight Karl Heinze Ranitzsch, The Army of Tang China, apparently it’s OOP and I got absurdly lucky.

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