But what he didn't expect was that the red lady was not convinced, and she began to recruit troops by herself. Early the next morning, a recruiting flag was planted in the city, and this flag was very strangely written, only women, not men, and these women must have strong hands and feet, strong strength, and weak and not to talk.

The recruits under the banner are two girls, although they are young, but they go there to stand there, sassy and heroic, dignified and powerful, which is all amazing.

This strange thing immediately spread throughout Huayin City, and everyone started to just watch it as a joke, but they didn't expect that there were really women who came to apply.

Most of these women were widows, childless, single, and many girls who were not out of line, and all the members of the family were dead. In less than half a day, more than 100 people were recruited.

At that time, the world was very different from a hundred years ago, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, natural disasters and man-made disasters occurred frequently, and cannibalism was commonplace, and what was impossible. Originally, women were only in charge of knitting and housework, but because men died too much, the surviving women had to do men's work. Therefore, there are many women with strong bodies, strength, and stamina, so it is not difficult to recruit them.

The Red Lady brought these people together and gave them a resounding name, called the Women's Army!

She ran to Li Yanyi and said, Li Yan was secretly amused in his heart, and he didn't say anything, just said that since he was recruited, he would be led by the red lady, as long as he didn't cause trouble.

In fact, at this time, Li Yan had no intention of caring about these things, because the Ming army led by Shi Kefa had already arrived in the city.

At this time, Shi Kefa was standing in front of his camp, looking at Huayin City from afar.

He arrived in front of the city last night and ordered him to camp five miles in front of the city, and be on guard to prevent the Qin army from looting the village. After the night, he led his own soldiers and rode up the hill outside the city, looking into the distance.

Seeing that the banner in the city was clear, and the city was densely covered with soldiers, but the city was quiet, and he looked like he was in a good position, and he understood that the Qin army was ready and waiting for him.

He looked to his battalion, where a group of soldiers were moving down the carts and catapults and assembling them, and it would not take them an hour to come in handy. On the way here, he had ordered people to get a lot of stones, as small as a dozen catties, as large as dozens of catties, Shi Kefa believed, no matter how thick the city wall was, it couldn't help but smash a stone.

The catapult was called the stone crossbow or stone cannon in ancient times, and it was the most powerful siege weapon in ancient times, and it was used during the Warring States period, but the power was far less than that of later generations. The stone crossbow of the Ming Dynasty can already throw and launch hundreds of pounds of large stones, and the power is amazing.

Shi Kefa was confident enough to capture Huayin City.

At this time, there were also spies in the city who reported to Li Yan, saying that the enemy army was busy in the camp, and from a distance, he didn't know what vehicles were being assembled.

Li Yanjiu has read military books, of course he knows this kind of siege weapon, if this thing is lined up and dozens of trebuchets are launched together, it will be a disastrous consequence, not only will the city not dare to stand people, but even the houses and people in the city will also be destroyed. It won't take long for the city wall to be destroyed, so that the Qin army has no danger to defend.

What's even more terrifying is that it has a great devastating effect on the psychology of the defenders in the city. Once the defenders break down, the city will be destroyed.

Li Yan and Li Kang quickly discussed, sent a team of men and horses, quietly sneaked out of the city, and went around to the side of the Ming army, only waiting for the enemy to push out the trebuchet, and then rushed up and set it on fire. As long as it is destroyed, the attack of the Ming army will not be terrible.

Not long after this small group of men and horses left the city, a strange whistling sound sounded in the sky, and then the city began to tremble, and there was no need to ask, the Ming army began to attack.

Shi Kefa stood in front of his military formation, looking at the stones flying towards the city in front of him, and his mood was very calm. He asked the sappers, who were familiar with trebuchets, to measure the distance, so that the stones did not fly into the city and hurt the people, he just wanted to beat the thieves at the head of the city, knock down the walls, and then the cavalry rushed in to settle the battle.

This method of warfare is undoubtedly feasible, and the situation in front of him also confirms his ideas.

The Qin army watched from a distance at the head of the city, and the Ming army began to line up, and everyone was gearing up, ready to meet the enemy's charge, but after waiting for a while, not a single Ming army came up, and only saw a dozen strange wooden carts launched. These wooden carts are one zhang high, and one zhang wide, like a cone-shaped wooden platform, with a long giant log horizontally on it, and a copper pot on the top of the giant wood, I don't know what it is.

Everyone was watching, only to see that the Ming army began to load stones into the copper pot on the car, and then they didn't know how to move, the giant wood on the car suddenly bounced up, and the stones in the copper pot flew up suddenly, and smashed straight towards the city. With a bang, the stone smashed on the battlement, and immediately smashed a large part of the battlement.

The Qin soldiers were taken aback, although they had also seen trebuchets in the Qin Dynasty, but the trebuchets at that time could not throw such heavy stones, and they were not used to attack cities.

For a time, the trebuchets of the Ming army began to be launched in turn, some stones smashed on the city wall, some flew up to the city, and the soldiers of the Qin army, who had no time to dodge in the future, directly smashed into the city and fell into meat cakes.

The Qin army was immediately in chaos.

At this time, Li Dang rushed to the head of the city, he had just heard Li Yan say that this thing was powerful, and standing on the head of the city at this time was tantamount to looking for death. He commanded the Qin army to withdraw from the city and wait for the Ming artillery bombardment to stop.

In a short time, the Ming army had already fired hundreds of stones, although they did not collapse the city wall, but they also smashed holes everywhere, and in some places the city bricks had been shattered and fell. What's worse is that the head of the city was also smashed into a mess by stones, and deep ditches appeared in many places, which made it impossible to stand and was not conducive to defense.

Seeing that the defenders had withdrawn from the city, Shi Kefa stopped throwing stones, and with an order, the Ming army began to attack the city.

They carried ladders and carts and threw themselves at the city walls. At the same time, hundreds of crossbowmen, under the cover of shields, began to shoot arrows at the head of the city. Suppress the bows and arrows of the Qin army.

Seeing that the Ming army no longer fired stones, Li Dang knew that he was about to attack, and hurriedly ordered the Qin army to go to the city to resist. But as soon as the army reached the top of the city, they were shot down by a rain of arrows flying up from below. Everyone hurriedly blocked the front with shields, and then the crossbowmen desperately shot arrows under the city to prevent the Ming army from attacking the city.

However, the rain of arrows outside the city was too dense, and the Qin army only cared about the besieging enemy army under the city, so it couldn't guard against the arrows in the distance. There was a bit of panic for a while.

Li Dang had been in battle for a long time, and was not afraid of danger, but when he saw that the momentum was not right, he calculated and ordered the Qin army to withdraw from the city, and all of them hid on the horse road behind the city wall, so as to avoid the rain of arrows, and let the Ming army attack the city.

Although the army did not understand, they did not dare to disobey the order, and they withdrew their horses one after another, and put their shields on their heads to block the flying arrows.

When the Ming army besieging the city saw that there was no one on the city, they thought that the Qin army had been dispersed, and they were all overjoyed, and they rushed to the city one by one.

As soon as the Ming army approached the city, the crossbowmen below stopped firing arrows, fearing that they would hurt their own people.

After a while, hundreds of Ming troops had already climbed the city, and the follow-up Ming troops were like ants, climbing up the ladder.

Seeing that the Ming army had already entered the city, Li Dare shouted, and the Qin army jumped up, rushed to the city from the horse road, and strangled with the Ming army.

Only then did the Qin army understand that by waiting for the Ming army to go to the city and then fight, they could avoid the suffering of bows and arrows and boulders under the city.

For a time, the two armies met in close arms at the head of the city, and the melee was in one place. Blood splashed, knives and guns collided, and the sound of killing shook the heavens and the earth. From time to time, people screamed and fell off the city.

Although the Ming army has already attacked the city, after all, they all climbed the ladder to come up, and the people behind could not reach the city for a while, so the number of the Qin army was much more than that of the Ming army, and it was generally two or three Qin troops against one Ming army. Those Ming troops were not the opponents of the Qin army one-on-one, not to mention that they were outnumbered and few of them were killed at the head of the city, or forced to go down the city, and broke their bones and tendons.