People in the Qin Dynasty, entertained during the Warring States period

He hurriedly followed Ji Wuye's gaze and looked down, but even from a thousand meters away, he couldn't make out anyone's face.

"General... Cao Ze has come too?"

Jade Tiger swallowed hard; Nightfall and Cao Ze had quite a grudge against each other.

Ji Wuye said coldly, "Not long ago, the King of Qin appointed Cao Ze as the military supervisor to oversee the Qin army's capture of Nanyang."

Jade Tiger felt despair and his thoughts of surrender vanished instantly.

If Cao Ze really comes too, I'm afraid we'll have to chop him up into minced meat and make steamed buns.

Ji Wuye took a deep breath.

Fortunately, it was a city defense mission; otherwise, I wouldn't be standing here, and I would have run back to the State of Chu overnight.

The Pingyang Heavy Armor Army can be said to be the elite of the Qin army. Although it only has 30,000 men, they are all veterans with many battles and outstanding achievements.

Having experienced the conquest of Changping, the capture of Wu'an, the capture of Pilao, and the occupation of Shangdang, it can be said that every soldier in the group was forged in blood and fire.

If the battle were fought on flat ground, even if he had assembled 100,000 South Korean troops, he would likely have been routed.

It wasn't that he was incompetent; it was simply that the Qin army was too strong.

"Hey? General, what do you think the Qin army is up to?"

Emerald Tiger pointed, and Ji Wuye noticed that the Qin army had stopped a thousand meters away and was no longer advancing or deploying troops. Instead, they placed dozens of black mechanical weapons resembling crossbows in front of their formation.

"This is……"

Ji Wuye did not immediately recognize that this was a special weapon used by the Qin army in the Battle of Puyang.

But when the Qin army had finished setting up and assembled the Divine Crossbow, Ji Wuye looked at the completely black Divine Crossbow and his face turned ashen.

Its fame from the Battle of Puyang was so great that no general in the six kingdoms was unaware of it.

"Divine Crossbow!"

Ji Wuye slowly exhaled, instinctively hiding behind the wall to avoid being killed by concentrated fire.

He looked at the neatly arranged crossbows through the wall, and his sense of powerlessness grew stronger.

This thing is a true siege weapon.

Now, I just hope that the Qin army doesn't have too many crossbows, otherwise, the city walls of Nanyang will probably be bombarded and collapsed in three days at most.

Cao Ze spurred his horse forward.

It only stopped three hundred paces outside the city wall of Nanyang.

"Is the garrison commander General Ji Wuye? My old friend has come to visit, why do you not see him?"

Ji Wuye, standing behind the wall, twitched his fierce face a few times.

That damn Cao Ze!

Ji Wuye stepped out from behind the battlements, his face solemn as he looked down at Cao Ze below the city.

"Cao Ze! Why do you want to see me? If you've come to reminisce and persuade me to surrender, then go back to where you came from!"

Even though he really wanted to surrender to Qin, he didn't want to gamble on whether Cao Ze would take his life.

His best option was to surrender to Chu, since he was originally from Chu, rather than to surrender to Qin, and to seek survival under the watchful eyes of his enemy, Cao Ze.

Cao Ze smiled nonchalantly.

"General Ji is as principled as ever. Since that's the case..."

Ji Wuye could easily detect the sarcasm in Cao Ze's tone, and his expression immediately turned even more unpleasant.

Emerald Tiger glanced at Cao Ze below the city and, knowing he had no hope of surrendering to Qin, felt a nameless rage rise in his heart.

"Cao Ze! You are a despicable person! The general treated you well in the past, why did you betray him? Now you have betrayed Han and brought the Qin army here. You are a heartless and immoral beast who has no regard for family!"

Emerald Tiger, emboldened by who-knows-where, put one hand on his hip and pointed at Cao Ze with the other, cursing angrily.

Cao Ze was slightly taken aback, but didn't mind and just waved his hand.

A few breaths later, dozens of jet-black, spear-shaped crossbows with four blades on their arrowheads swept over Cao Ze's head, accurately bombarding the gate tower of Nanyang City and directly collapsing it.

With a sudden tremor, the once arrogant and increasingly boastful Jade Tiger instantly turned into a quail, shrinking directly to Ji Wuye's side.

Cao Ze assessed the power of the Divine Crossbow.

It has roughly the power of a mortar in later times, but its advantage lies in its long range, capable of firing within a kilometer.

However, its weakness is also obvious – insufficient production.

The Pingyang Heavy Armor Army was only equipped with thirty-six Divine Crossbows and a little over three hundred ballistae, which used to be fired in bursts of eight or nine times.

The reason they were so arrogant in Puyang was purely to test the effectiveness of the Divine Crossbow, and they transported most of the Divine Crossbows there.

Who would have thought that Gongsun Yu would destroy almost everything?

Although there are more Divine Crossbows now than before, because all the military camps need them, not many can be allocated to the Pingyang Heavy Armored Army. This is only because Ying Zheng intentionally gave more; otherwise, having eighteen Divine Crossbows would be considered a sign of the newly established Ministry of Works being conscientious.

Cao Ze gazed at the smoke rising from the city walls and the Han soldiers scrambling for cover everywhere, and sighed inwardly.

Even with the mechanical skills of the Gongshu family, it would be difficult to quickly fill the crossbow bolts with refined oil, keep them dry, and prevent them from being affected too much by shaking or bumping.

The main problem is that the research direction is wrong. At present, we are not yet capable of perfectly and efficiently storing a fluid liquid like kerosene in a crossbow bolt.

Cao Ze waited patiently for Ji Wuye to show himself again.

He did come here today with the intention of persuading Ji Wuye to surrender.

After all, the best strategy is to subdue the enemy without fighting, and the key lies in winning their hearts and minds.

If Ji Wuye becomes impotent, then everyone will be happy.

If Ji Wuye insisted on becoming more powerful, he would have no choice but to let Meng Tian give Ji Wuye a few rounds of sex to get a taste of the experience.

When the smoke cleared, Ji Wuye hid in the safe zone. Seeing that Cao Ze hadn't done anything after firing a few shots, he couldn't help but peek out and look down at the city.

Cao Ze spotted Ji Wuye immediately, whose face was almost blackened by smoke.

"General Ji, how are you feeling? How does this crossbow work? Shall we fire a few dozen more?"

Upon hearing Cao Ze's nonchalant words, Ji Wuye revealed a slight look of fear.

One cannon shot was enough to destroy the city gate tower. If dozens more cannon shots were fired, no matter how strong the Nanyang city wall was, it would be destroyed.

Once the city walls were breached, the Qin army advanced unimpeded.

With the fighting strength of the Pingyang heavy armor army, they were capable of slaughtering the entire city of Nanyang.

"Cao Ze!"

Ji Wuye hissed, "Don't try to fool me! You certainly don't have many crossbows like these!"

He didn't know how many crossbows the Pingyang heavy armored army had, but he knew that if morale wasn't stabilized, Nanyang City would fall without a fight.

Cao Ze said calmly, "Ji Wuye, I have no interest in arguing with you about these things."

"If you surrender with your troops now, I will take charge and report to the King, and you will be rewarded with a great achievement, and being granted an official position and a title will be a given."

Ji Wuye was slightly tempted.

The jade tiger shrank its neck and said, "General, perhaps..."

Ji Wuye glared at him, "Weren't you cursing so enthusiastically just now? Now you want to change your mind?!"

Jade Tiger looked dejected; he had no idea the Qin army possessed such a deadly weapon—it was terrifying.

Ji Wuye gritted his teeth; there was no way to retreat now.

Putting himself in Cao Ze's shoes, he didn't believe Cao Ze's nonsense.

If it were him, he would surrender today and be boiled alive tomorrow.

"Cao Ze! You traitor! Don't try to bewitch me!"

Jade Tiger stared at his general in shock. Was he even more daring than him?

Cao Ze was stunned when he heard this.

His first reaction wasn't anger, but rather a feeling that it was a bit absurd.

I never imagined that one day I would be branded with the infamy of my adoptive father's killer, Lü Fengxian.

To avoid leaving himself any way out, Ji Wuye decided to directly offend Cao Ze to death.

As long as we can withstand this Qin army's siege, at least Han Fei won't have to worry about making things difficult for us.

"What are you looking at! I'm talking to you!"

"Don't think I don't know. You used to serve the State of Zhao, then the State of Han, and now you've gone to the State of Qin!"

"If you're not a traitor who has served three masters, then who is!"

"He's gone mad, the general has gone mad..." Jade Tiger groaned inwardly.

Now he's really going down this dead end. If Nanyang City falls, he'll be finely chopped into minced meat!

Jade Tiger felt a chill run down his spine when he thought of Cao Ze's joke in Xinzheng that he was suited to be finely chopped into minced meat and used as filling.

Cao Ze was naturally not swayed by Ji Wuye's words.

He's clearly from one of the four families... cough cough!

He clearly never recognized anyone as his adoptive father, nor did he ever hold any official position in the Zhao or Han states. So what talk of loyalty or being a traitor to three masters!

Cao Ze said coldly, "Since you're so stubborn, then don't regret it!"

After saying that, Cao Ze turned his horse around and rode away.

Ji Wuye secretly broke out in a cold sweat.

He was genuinely afraid that Cao Ze would fire all his crossbows at him at once.

Even if his external martial arts skills were extremely high, and he could even withstand the attack of a half-step grandmaster, he could at most survive the explosion just now and keep his body intact.

"Brother Cao, it seems we still need to mobilize troops."

Meng Tian said, "If I had known, I wouldn't have let Brother Cao show up."

Cao Ze smiled faintly and said, "It's alright, I did it on purpose."

"Brother Meng, what are your plans for attacking Nanyang?"