Although this is just a small episode in the contemporary European maritime expansion history, such new weapons played an important role at the battlefields during the Ming-Qing cataclysm.

• 此事虽只是当时欧洲海权扩张在世界各地所引发的一则小插曲，但却在之后明清鼎革的战争中扮演著重要角色。