I, too, doubt the Soong would march north even if they had the best canon around the time. This is maybe a little bit regionalism, but Northerners are bigger, stronger, more violent, we might not have the brain power to write classical poems, but we sure know how to fight, even to this day. People in China Proper were totally spoiled by the good weather, they could not handle the hash climate out of the Great Wall.
Historically, no southern Chinese dynasty won a single "unification" war against the northerners. It's always the northerners going down and conquer the China Proper. I was once sitting in a talk by a history professor. He told us the phenomenon is so true that even the communists, they first occupied Manchuria, then going from there and won the Civil War.
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Originally Posted by Officer of Engineers
It might have been the other way around with the Soong marching north though I doubt it. The Soong were on the edge of another technological leap. They were perfecting the canon to the point that it could be mass produced. There were advances in personal firearms though I doubt those would have the same impact since archers on horseback were far more lethal and the firearms of the period were notoriously inaccurate.
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