"Fathers, fellow villagers, old defenders, we can't believe you. But the matter of the Huns committing crimes is here. In case of danger, let us always help! ”

The female soldiers said one after another.

They have experienced miserable circumstances and can better understand that sense of powerlessness.

Some of the men nodded silently, while others shook their heads and sighed.

Fan Li was an old defender who had repeatedly made war exploits, and in the border cities, he participated in almost all the wars of the Hun invasion.

The Han woman was taken captive by the Huns and then became a slave, which is a good ending. More often than not, after being ravaged, throwing corpses into the wilderness.

Seeing the silence of the men, Yanran stood up and said loudly: "Fathers and fellow villagers. We women are not the weakest. The most in need of protection, the weakest are the children. If all the men are killed in battle, who will protect the children? Nature is our woman. You are the sons of the Han, and we are the women of the Han. And children are the flowers of Dahan and the future of Dahan. Protecting the future of Dahan is my original intention of recruiting female soldiers. ”

Yan Ming didn't speak, Yan Ran had told him before that he wanted to recruit female soldiers. But he didn't expect Yanran to do what he said.

Female soldiers, if they were in the previous completely cold weapon war, naturally did not have much use. But now everyone is equipped with a military crossbow. The effective range of this crossbow arrow has exceeded 60 meters, and it is still lethal even within 100 meters.

This advanced crossbow bolt does not require much force to reload and activate. As a result, the gender gap is getting smaller and smaller.

Imagine a country once all the people are soldiers. Don't say that it is the Huns, even if it is a powerful offender, I am afraid that it will not be able to please it.

Of course, all the people are soldiers is not the ultimate goal of Yan Ming. He just wants to make a country strong. And in the process of strengthening, war is indispensable.

In Yan Ming's heart, if the purpose of war is not to eliminate war, then it is to invade.

Now, everything that was prepared in the face of the Huns was a war of extermination.

"I seriously support Princess Yanran's decision." Seeing that some of the men of the Great Han Dynasty were embarrassed to agree to women joining the army, Yan Ming was the first to raise his hand and shouted.

With him taking the lead, many people said they would no longer interfere. Only a few patients with straight male cancer are still holding their guns. But when most people were silent, they were silent.

This is how the so-called silent majority came about.

The registration and selection of female soldiers proceeded smoothly. This is a group of female soldiers that Yanran wants to organize herself. Yan Ming didn't ask too much. Just said hello to Yanran and left.

After Yan Ming left, those men did not leave, but stood around and watched the work of selecting female soldiers.

said that it was a female soldier, but in fact, it was the people Yanran invited from the army to train the basic movements of the women. For example, the basis of defense offense.

As for the military crossbows, although they are all equipped in the army of Captain Hu Cai, the hundreds of old soldiers are not equipped yet, so it is naturally impossible to equip female soldiers with such advanced weapons first.

Seeing Yan Ming leaving, many men began to discuss.

"This Hou Ye is so easy to speak. I don't think it's manly! ”

"Yes, the superintendent of Cloud City is such a soft-boned marquis, and the defender of the city is such a general who climbed up with his sister, I think this city will be finished sooner or later."

"Fart, who said it was over?" Fan Li's eyes stood and he said: "Mo said that there are two thousand Hu cavalry captains, but when there are none, how many times have our hundreds of people repelled the invasion of the Huns?" ”

"Also, when I see it, I still have to rely on an old defender like Lao Fan." Someone slapped Fan Li's ass.

But anyone who understands knows that this is not a fear of sycophancy. Fan Li is indeed qualified to say such big things. Before the arrival of the Hu Cavalry Captain's army, this dilapidated city in the clouds was often harassed by small groups of Xiongnu cavalry. It was this Fan Li who led them to repel attack after attack.

"Little Marquis, little general, little princess, I see that when the little emperor takes office, he likes to use young people with no qualifications!" The old Confucian sighed.

This old man insisted on teaching and educating people in the border city, and even though there were many crises, he never flinched. It is very respected by the people of the border city. Now that he said this, everyone thought that the old man was right.

"According to the old man's thoughts, this little general and the little marquis are unreliable. I think Lao Fan, you still gather those old soldiers. It's okay to train, or follow the previous method to guard against the Huns. I'm the only one who has hope to defend Cloudsdale! The old Confucian shook his head and said.

Fan Li also thinks so. I still had a good impression of this Hou Ye before. But this marquis let his princess and daughter-in-law mess around, what kind of female soldiers, and said that their small-looking military crossbow can shoot the enemy from a distance!

Isn't that a joke? There are so many strong bows and crossbows, and so many arrows, they can't shoot an arrow beyond the ground. This little marquis is crazy and says that this kind of military crossbow can shoot farther than a strong bow and a hard crossbow, isn't it crazy?

The old defenders were amused when they saw that everyone in Captain Hu's army was carrying such a small military crossbow. However, Captain Hu Qi also has something they envy, that is, Yan Dao.

The quality of the swallow knives was much, much better than the swords they used. It was precisely because Wei Qing replaced all their broken copper and iron swords with Yan knives with a stroke of his pen that this group of old defenders was a little convinced by this little general. But it's just to convince his bearing, as for fighting, then you have to go to the battlefield!

Five or six days passed peacefully.

In five or six days, Lao Xu and Old Man Lu did a lot of things. It was around the city wall drawn by Yan Ming that wooden towers were erected one after another.

On the towers, trebuchets were installed. It is also guarded by two Hu cavalry captains.

The Tiezhuang brothers led by Elder Chen also arrived in Cloud City on time. The iron-smelting village must be built in the city. If you are outside the city, it is easy to be attacked by the Huns.

The place where the gunpowder was made was placed by Yan Ming in a place in the city near a water source. There was a big blister in the city. Although it is a blister, it does not dry all year round.

At that time, when Yan Ming measured this small city with his footsteps, he calculated that the place where the gunpowder was made was placed here. Close to the water source, the air will naturally be a little humid. Relatively speaking, it is also a little safer.

The people who were selected to make gunpowder were all cronies sent by Liu Che. Only such cronies can be used to create such dangerous and domineering things.

Yan Ming didn't give them the gunpowder recipe completely. Instead, it takes the form of an assembly line. Only in this way can the safety of the gunpowder manufacturing method be guaranteed.

The shell of the fire thunder has been built in many ways. Gunpowder also began to produce some. Yan Ming immediately found some careful and skillful people and began to assemble fire and thunder on the other side of the waterfront.

In the past five days, Yan Ming has been running around various construction sites. Hoping.

Yan Ran didn't come to pester Yan Ming. She had just built a team of 100 female soldiers. And he grinded out a hundred sets of military crossbows from Wei Qing's hands. Each female soldier was also equipped with two crossbow boxes.

Yan knives were not distributed to female soldiers. Wei Qing believed that once the war fell to the point where female soldiers were needed to fight for swords, it would also fail.

These days, female soldiers are happy to train to use military crossbows.

The advantage of crossbow arrows is that they can be recycled after they are fired. As long as you don't shoot a target with a very high hardness, you can use it repeatedly.

After a few days of training, the female soldiers have become much more proficient in crossbow arrows. Yan Ran is even more of a master. She can even hit the target accurately.

For female soldiers, Yanran also has extremely high requirements.

You have to practice to be able to hit anywhere within 60 meters!

This requirement, at first, seemed impossible. So Yanran invited Lou Xiaowu over and asked him to give these female soldiers how to aim and launch......

Cloudsdale still looks dilapidated, but everything has changed since the construction of the city walls.

In other words, this city will become a bridgehead for the Han against the Xiongnu. It will become a turret and a firepower point on the border of the Han Dynasty.

The frontier residents of Cloudsdale saw busy workers working on the city walls, erecting towers one after another. Even the towers are connected by hanging ladders to facilitate walking back and forth.

Gradually, boxes and boxes of things were delivered to the tower.

Although I don't know what's in there, I can see the porter's careful picking up and putting down, softer than touching the most exciting girl, and I know that the things in it are not ordinary.

Inside the box is naturally fire and thunder. Yan Ming had sawdust and fire and thunder mixed together to prevent them from colliding with each other and causing explosions.

The current production of fire mines is not so high, and each tower can barely be equipped with a box. There are only six fire thunders in one box.

Of course, Yan Ming gave death orders to the people guarding the tower. Except for a large-scale attack by the Xiongnu, it is not allowed to use fire and thunder.

A small group of Hun cavalry, no more than 5,000 people, Yan Ming and Wei Qing research believe that in the case of defending the city, the use of military crossbows can completely suppress the Huns to fight!

In the blink of an eye, ten days have passed.

Ten days allowed Yan Ming to temporarily gain a firm foothold in Cloud City.

Look at the walls all around the city with towers, and on each tower there are catapults. This made Yan Ming very pleased. As long as the towers are erected, the catapult can be fully functional.

The next step was to build the walls.

The construction of the city wall, Yan Ming did not want to achieve it overnight, and directly achieved the ultimate goal.

The existing city wall in the clouds is the support of Yan Ming. Construction starts from the place of the collapse. Connected to the old city wall, the city wall of Cloud City can be closed in the shortest possible time.

It's just that he has a requirement that when building the city wall, the foundation must be laid deep so that it can be connected. That is, the old city wall did not have a foundation, while the new city had a foundation. The materials of the two walls are also different. It's just a simple connection.

The advantage of building this way is that it can strengthen the defenses of Cloudsdale first. Another advantage is that after the closure, the old city wall can be demolished and the new city wall can be built at the same time.