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野炮是炮兵装备的一种。一开始它指比较小的，能伴随野战部队前进的火炮，供野战炮兵使用，以和装在堡垒里的要塞炮或是攻城炮区分。

使野炮战术发扬光大的就是拿破仑。他给它们安上更大的轮子以更快移动。野炮在击破敌军的阵形中发挥了极重要的作用。

A field gun is an artillery piece. Originally the term referred to smaller guns that could accompany a field army on the march and when in combat could be moved about the battlefield in response to changing circumstances (field artillery), as opposed to guns installed in a fort (garrison artillery/coastal artillery), or to siege cannon or mortars which were too large to be moved quickly, and would be used only in a prolonged siege.