vrcanaries Chapter 1310
Chapter 1310
Seeing what was happening before their eyes, the soldiers, who were already filled with fear, could no longer hold back their emotions.
He dropped the bucket of water he was holding, cried out loudly, and quickly fled towards a place where there were no flames.
Looking at the campfire in the distance, Yao Guangxiao knew that the rapidly spreading fire was probably related to that strange smell.
However, he didn't know what it was, nor did he know how to deal with it, so he could only leave the place like the soldiers.
But just as Yao Guangxiao was fleeing the area, a scene that filled him with despair unfolded.
Although mortars are also called cannons, they operate differently from artillery shells, which fly in a straight line.
Mortar shells fly in a parabolic trajectory, taking ten to twenty seconds to travel a distance of several hundred meters.
The time Yao Guangxiao spent talking to that soldier was exactly the same as the flight time of the artillery shell.
So now is the perfect time for the shells to land!
Boom boom boom boom...!
A series of terrifying explosions rang out in the Northern Yuan army camp, causing the flames inside to rage once again.
The oil that had drifted away unlit in the air was finally ignited in this series of explosions.
The closest one came within about fifty meters of Yao Guangxiao, and the scorching heat wave swept directly over his body.
If he had only guessed that the fire was related to the Ming Dynasty before, he was now certain that the Ming Dynasty was responsible.
These sounds filled him with powerlessness and despair. He was all too familiar with the explosions; they were the new firearms that the Ming Dynasty had mastered.
"This is what I overlooked. It turns out that this type of artillery doesn't have the disadvantage of being difficult to move at all. I've lost again!!"
While muttering to himself, Yao Guangxiao's legs did not stop, and he ran straight towards the edge of the military camp.
He knew very well that the Northern Yuan army was now in dire straits and there was no possibility of turning the tide.
If he doesn't escape now, he'll be buried with the Northern Yuan army once the Ming army arrives.
After all, they couldn't deal with those terrifying cannons alone, and they didn't even know where the enemy was firing from.
And this inexplicably started fire, the cause of which is also unknown, and the fire continues to spread.
The entire camp is now in chaos, unable to even muster the manpower to extinguish the fire, and the situation will only deteriorate indefinitely.
Yao Guangxiao's choice was very decisive, but after all, he was a strategist and his physical strength was not as good as that of a martial artist.
In addition, the Northern Yuan army camp was quite large, and it took him more than twenty seconds to run to the edge of the camp.
However, what Yao Guangxiao didn't know was that twenty seconds earlier, Zhu Di had given the order for the gunners to fine-tune the angle of the cannon muzzle.
The purpose, of course, was to slightly change the position of the shells so that they could cover the areas that were not bombed in the first round.
At this very moment, the second round of shells landed, and one of them landed right at the edge of the camp.
Yao Guangxiao, who was preparing to flee the military camp, didn't even have time to react before he saw a burst of fire in the distance.
At the same time, it felt as if something had hit my body, and everything went black before my eyes, and my body was completely out of my control.
In the final moments before his consciousness faded into darkness, he sighed helplessly.
"I never imagined that I would be the one to lose this game of chess in the end!"
It's not surprising that Yao Guangxiao is so pessimistic, mainly because there are no other possibilities given the current situation.
In this campaign against the Ming Dynasty, the Northern Yuan has deployed its most elite troops, with its strongest forces all in this military camp.
In other words, this major defeat was equivalent to damaging the foundation of the Northern Yuan, leaving it with no power to retaliate against the Ming Dynasty from then on.
The key was that the cannons in the hands of the Ming Dynasty were not only more powerful and lethal, but also did not have the drawbacks of heavy cannons.