What Zhao Hua said to Chu Jun was not a joke. When he finished speaking, his personal guards also came to the head of Jinling City and moved his handsome flag to the head of the city.

Zhao Slip's move immediately moved the soldiers of the Chu army. Chu people have a romantic personality and are easily affected by the outside world, since even the boss is not afraid of the stone bullets thrown under the city, what is he afraid of?

In fact, this move is indeed extremely useful. Although the Song army's catapults were powerful and accurate, they had no problem hitting the city wall from a distance of four hundred meters. But it is not easy to hit the people on the head of the city from 400 meters away, even if it is a relatively conspicuous crowd.

When the handsome banner of Zhaohua was raised, some gunners of the Song army aimed the catapults at the area, but they were not able to destroy them accurately.

War is a gamble, and in this war, the commanders of both Song and Chu have gambled everything, including their own lives, for victory. Both sides have adopted the practice of leading by example, and in this way, the morale of the soldiers on both sides has been greatly boosted!

At this time, the catapults of the Song army under the city were still firing stone bullets one after another. Under this continuous attack, the female wall on the entire Jinling South City wall was almost completely destroyed, and the Chu army could hardly find any good defensive position on the city wall.

At this time, any stone bullet hitting the city wall will bring direct death to the soldiers of the Chu army. However, with the encouragement of the commander-in-chief, none of the Chu soldiers were willing to retreat from the city. As long as a stone bullet kills a soldier, a Chu soldier will immediately appear, carry the killed Chu soldier off the city wall, and clear the position on the city.

Tang Ying, who was under the city, also sighed slightly when he saw Chu Jun acting like this. He knew that it would not be possible to use catapults to continuously attack to demoralize the Chu army. Fortunately, now the female wall used for defense in Jinling City has been destroyed, and the Song army can calmly climb the city to fight.

He immediately ordered all the catapults to suspend the attack, and instead let the bed crossbows and ballistas under the city strike at the head of Jinling. Although the bed crossbow and ballista are far less powerful than the catapult, its accuracy is extremely high, and the lethality of these two weapons is even higher than that of the catapult when the Chu army at the head of Jinling City has no place to defend it!

When the Chu army in the city saw the Song army's bed crossbows and ballistas appear, they immediately had elite armor soldiers set up several thick iron shields near the Zhaohua Shuai Banner to defend Zhaohua tightly to prevent the Song army's snipers from sniping at it.

At the same time, the Chu army at the head of the city also began to move out of the city one after another, looking at its style, it is very similar to the bed crossbows and ballistas used by the Song army under the city!

After these weapons were transported to the city, they also quickly launched a counterattack against the Song army's positions under the city. In order to be able to accurately hit the Chu army at the head of the city, the distance between the bed crossbow and the ballista from the entire Jinling City was less than two hundred meters. At such a close distance, the bed crossbows and ballistae of the Chu army at the head of the city can accurately hit the soldiers of the Song army!

Such a scene made Tang Ying also a little surprised, but then he was relieved. It has been so long since the Song army invented such a weapon as the bed crossbow, and the Chu army has suffered from this weapon many years ago, it would be strange if the Chu army did not imitate this weapon of the Song army.

Although the crossbow arrows fired at the head of Jinling City can attack the Song soldiers under the city, their power and accuracy are far inferior to the original weapons of the Song army. Most of the crossbowmen who operated the bed crossbow at the front of the Song army's large array were wearing one or two pieces of leather armor, which was such a simple defense, and the bed crossbow of the Chu army could not break it if it was condescending!

When Tang Ying got such news, he was also relieved. However, there will be such a thing, and it is completely expected by Song Guo. After all, when the bed crossbow was designed, it relied on the industrial strength of Taoqiu, and many accessories in the bed crossbow could only be processed by relying on the industrialization of Taoqiu.

Of course, the Chu army can quickly obtain the drawings and samples of the bed crossbow, and can even get the actual bed crossbow directly from the battlefield, which allows them to easily draw the gourd in the same way and copy the advanced weapons such as the bed crossbow. However, without the various core accessories provided by Taoqiu industrialization, they can only choose other things to replace some key components, so naturally the power of their knock-off bed crossbow is far less than the genuine products of the Song Kingdom!

As Song Jun's confidant, Tang Ying had long known his calculation on this matter from Dai Yan's mouth, and now that he saw that his own lord's prediction had become a reality, he had to admire his own lord's foresight.

Could it be that when he first interacted with the disciples of the Mo family, he expected that there would be a war with the Chu army in the future, and that the Chu army would steal from the Song State and imitate the advanced weapons of the Song State? In this way, the lord of his own family can really be said to have a far-reaching layout!

Dai Yan naturally did not have such a far-reaching layout, he just imitated the basic methods of industrialization in later generations to build the military industrial system of the Song Kingdom.

In later generations, many people will think that the rabbit country, as a developing country, is lagging behind other countries in many aspects, so it will naturally lag behind the so-called developed countries such as neon and stick in terms of military. However, in fact, the rabbit is one of the few countries in the world that can master the fifth-generation aircraft, neon and stick think that the rabbit can do it, he can do it, but in fact, these two countries have spent a lot of effort and effort, but they still can't make a breakthrough in such a "simple" technology that a rabbit can master.

The reason for this is very simple, although the rabbit industry is still a little behind neon and sticks in some aspects, but after all, rabbit is a country with a complete industrial chain, for some advanced weapons, as long as a few categories are completed, it will naturally be able to produce the weapons needed. Although Neon and Stick look very advanced on the surface and are developed countries, they are small countries with incomplete industrial chains, and if their masters do not disclose their core technologies to them and do not provide them with key accessories, it is impossible for them to make breakthroughs in this regard!

And will their masters open up all the most advanced military technology to them, so that they can have the power to compete with their masters? This is obviously impossible! So it's not surprising that the neon mind of later generations, the KFX of the stick, finally went bankrupt after many years.

Now the advanced weapons of the Song State are placed on the Chu State, in fact, the same reason. If the Chu State wanted to make a bed crossbow as powerful and accurate as the one made by the Song State, unless the Song State provided it with some special accessories, or it imitated the industrialization of the Song State and was also able to make such accessories, it would never be possible to make a bed crossbow like the Song Army!

Tang Ying didn't understand the truth, but it didn't prevent him from respecting his own lord! As soon as he thought that his own sovereign was so wise and martial, he became more and more excited, this time the southern expedition to Chu was a policy set by his own sovereign himself, and he must not let the sovereign down!

After seeing that the Chu army also used bed crossbows to counterattack, Tang Ying was not idle, and he asked the Song soldiers to launch two other siege weapons to strike at the Chu army on the city!

Both of these weapons, from the outside, are car-like weapons. One of them, the ladder specially designed to approach the city walls and assist the soldiers in attacking the city, is the most typical siege weapon. When the ladder appears on the battlefield, there are immediately Song soldiers pushing it to get close to the Jinling city wall, and when it reaches the city wall, it will release a ladder embedded in the city, and there will be brave Song soldiers rushing out in the ladder and climbing to the head of Jinling City!

During this process, a crossbowman at the top of the ladder will shoot near the city wall to cover the attacking soldiers.

The other weapon is the Ladder, which is similar to the ladder in that it is much less numerous, but in appearance it is much taller and more powerful. The ladder is roughly as high as the head of Jinling City, and when soldiers climb the city wall, they generally climb up or climb the city in a flush way. And these new weapons are much higher in height than the head of Jinling City!

The building car is not a new weapon, it has appeared since the Spring and Autumn Period, it is a weapon used as a commander to climb high and look far away and observe the enemy's situation. And the ladder is also modified from this weapon.

However, the building car used by the Song army this time did not have the function of approaching the city wall for siege, similar to the cloud ladder. It returns to the main observation function of the Garage and adds ranged attacks to the top of the Cart, making it another offensive weapon.

Since the cart does not need to be close to the city walls, its agility can be reduced, so it can be made higher than the ladder, and its top can be equipped with more powerful weapons than the top of the ladder! At the same time, the resources required to manufacture such weapons are also extremely large, and the total number of such building cars on the entire battlefield is no more than twenty.

However, the role played by such weapons on the battlefield is incomparably huge!

After the ladder was put into attack, the soldiers of the Song army began to climb the city wall through the ladder, and the soldiers of the Chu army on the city wall naturally would not let the Song army get their wish, and the two sides immediately launched a fierce battle over the place where the ladder hooked the city wall!