Firearms inherited the usage of "Fei Huo" in late Tang Dynasty. According to "History of Song Dynasty", the Ministry of War Shangshu monsoon ordered the rocket method to be introduced into Song Jinting. This method is to tie a gunpowder barrel to the front end of the arrow shaft, and then use the reaction force of the gas ejected backwards after the gunpowder burns to shoot an arrow. This can be regarded as the earliest jet firearm in the world. Rockets in the Song Dynasty are mainly divided into crossbow gunpowder arrows and gunpowder whip arrows, which are basically the same, and are mainly used for burning grain and grass and siege equipment.

In addition to fireballs and rockets, the world's earliest tubular firearms also appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. In the second year of Shaoxing, Song Gaozong (A.D. 1 132), Dean County magistrate invented the first tubular firearm. This kind of firearm now looks very crude, that is, putting gunpowder into a rough bamboo pole, igniting the tail in battle and burning the enemy with the sprayed flame. It is operated by two or three people. Although the style of this weapon is simple, stereotyped writing defeated a skirmisher led by a man named Hengli, and stereotyped writing became the originator of modern tubular firearms, and this small-scale operation also officially put tubular firearms on the historical stage.