Chapter 690: Burning Kyoto

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The cannons were loaded on carts with disc wheels, and they braved the wind and snow on the rudimentary road from Osaka to Kyoto, and with the efforts of the Yuan army, it took only a short time to reach the front. The gunners of the Yuan Army, who specialized in operating it, used hoisting machinery to unload the cannon from the vehicle, deploy it in position, and adjust the angle of fire. On December 7, the cannon was ready, and under the horrified gaze of the Japanese, its roar began.

The first shot of the Yuan army's Xiangyang cannon was a huge stone projectile, destroying a city gate, and then it fired three more stone projectiles, destroying a city gate tower and a section of the city wall. Although the gap in the fortified walls of Kyoto was opened, the Yuan army did not attack immediately, but launched other artillery bombardments, killing and wounding the Japanese defenders on the walls and preventing the Japanese from repairing the gaps in the destroyed walls.

The next scene that shocked the Japanese was that after firing seven stone shells, the Xiangyang cannon fired a relatively light shell, which flew over the city wall and fell into the city and exploded, it emitted a dazzling light and thunderous sound, followed by a rising flame.

One by one, the cannonballs fired from the Yuan army's giant artillery flew through the city and into the heart of Kyoto, destroying houses and temples with terrible force, knocking down civilians in pieces or burying them alive in the rubble. Hojo Tokimune was shocked to see a cannonball hit the wall of a temple, causing the entire temple to collapse on the spot. The huge explosion made the earth tremble within a radius of two miles

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