Chapter 81 Method of Restraint
Faced with the request of an elder, the white-haired woman, although she was a mysophobe and didn't like others touching her things, still handed over the jade flute like a well-behaved granddaughter.

The jade flute fell into the hands of this old man, who had long been dead in the eyes of the world. He played the melodious sound of the flute but with hints of weapons. With the help of his profound skills, the sound broke through the blockade of the sounds of killing on the battlefield and fell into the ears of an old friend who was very familiar with his flute sound.

Boom!

The iron wall made up of nearly a hundred shields did not last long in front of the powerful chariots. Soon, a terrifying roar sounded, and with the roar, shields were knocked out by the chariots and danced wildly in the sky. Before the dust settled, the Qin soldiers on the chariots drove their horses out recklessly.

At the same time, the two thousand cavalrymen dispatched by Wang Ben also successfully circled to the two sides, intending to join forces with the chariots to encircle and suppress the Zhao army.

boom! boom! boom!
On the battlefield, the chariots, which were known for their reckless charging and were considered invincible, were unable to continue their advance after knocking down the shield formation. Instead, something incredible happened. The soldiers holding shields had already retreated, using stones, vehicles, and other objects to prop up their shields.

Behind the shields that had lost their owners, there appeared half-foot-high, square stones. Although the chariots broke through the iron wall of shields, the stones got stuck on the wheels under the carriages. The wooden wheels collided with the stones, and the heavy chariots tilted because of the stuck wheels. Unfortunately, once the chariots charged, they could not be easily stopped. The 30 chariots that were originally in order collided with each other because they could not dodge each other in time.

Amid a series of continuous muffled noises, the chariots fell apart one after another. The war horses and the Qin soldiers on the chariots were unable to dodge the sudden disaster.

"what!"

"Oops!"

"help!"

……

In a short moment, thirty chariots were destroyed by square stones. The broken chariots, along with injured horses and soldiers, were scattered on the road ahead of Wang Ben's army. The blood of the Qin army dyed the earth red, turning the route of Wang Ben's main force into a bloody road.

Click! Click! Click!

The fate of those two thousand cavalrymen was not much better than that of their companions.

In order to facilitate transportation, all countries would build official roads. For example, the Qin State's highway was built by piling up layers of paving stones and was hard to be damaged by swords. However, the official roads of the Zhao people were far from comparable to the Qin people's highways. Not only would the roads become extremely muddy after rain, but they were also simply opened up by some people who walked a lot.

Zhao State was full of corrupt officials, and many of them built official roads purely to fulfill their duties and enrich themselves. Therefore, Sima Shang's army easily used the last time to dig holes in the road that were as big as horse hooves and several inches deep.

When the three Qin armies attacked from both sides, Sima Shang had already led the army to retreat a hundred feet. The Qin cavalry, who attacked from both sides, had their horses' hooves fall into the prepared pits. In addition, the expected enemy fled far away, and they were actually brothers who had been with them day and night. Caught off guard, the horse legs made a crisp sound and broke in the middle. The huge inertia threw the knight on the horse back out.

Bang!Bang!Bang!
In a flash, there were only a few Qin cavalrymen still intact, and the legs of most of the war horses were broken. The knights on horseback fell heavily to the ground, either dead or injured.

"what!"

"What the hell is going on?" "It hurts!"

……

Throughout the State of Zhao, the only person that the Qin army feared was Li Mu. Although Sima Shang was also a famous general, he was far inferior to Li Mu in terms of talent and prestige. Although Wang Ben said that he wanted to defeat Sima Shang, the deputy general trained by Li Mu himself, to relieve the regret of his father Wang Jian, in fact, he did not take Sima Shang seriously at all.

Accordingly, the Qin army officers and soldiers also regarded Sima Shang as an insignificant person. Unexpectedly, more than 2,000 soldiers were defeated by Sima Shang without any effort. Countless Qin army officers and soldiers fell to the ground with serious injuries, unable to get up, and could only groan in pain on the official road.

As the commander of the 10,000 Qin troops, Wang Ben watched his men pave a bloody road, blocking the army's advance. In an instant, his face became so gloomy that it looked like it was going to rain, and his right hand clenched tightly, with veins bulging on the back of his hand.

"Sima Shang, I really underestimated you!"

To Wang Ben, this series of events clearly showed that Sima Shang had made a stunning move. At this time, the two sides were a hundred feet apart, and the road was filled with soldiers from his own side. If the injured soldiers were not rescued and the corpses on the ground were not cleared, the army could not move forward. In the end, Sima Shang defeated more than 2,000 soldiers without bloodshed. Even if he could bypass this section of the road to catch up, as an expert in leading troops in battle, Wang Ben knew that the morale had been greatly hit, and if he caught up, he might not be able to win.

Fortunately, Guo Kai had already obtained the property he had embezzled for decades. Otherwise, Wang Ben would have lost everything.

"Weird!"

Tianxuan, who was riding a pony, accompanied Wang Ben and witnessed the whole process, feeling secretly nervous.

If he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, Tian Xuan would never have believed that the chariots and cavalry, which were famous for their powerful impact in the history of cold weapon warfare, could be easily dealt with by two hands that seemed to have no technical content. He had just witnessed with his own eyes that Sima Shang was clearly helpless. Why, in a blink of an eye, Sima Shang was able to come up with a simple and effective way to restrain the chariots and cavalry.

Combining the sound of the flute that broke into the battlefield with the memory of his previous life, Tianxuan immediately came up with a guess and couldn't help muttering:
"Use a stone to shake the wheels of the chariot and make it fall apart; then dig a hole in the ground to break the horse's legs. The person who can come up with this method must be a powerful person who is very familiar with chariots and cavalry. But it doesn't seem to be from Sima Shang! If Sima Shang really has such a skill, how could the Qin Dynasty easily capture Handan City?"

Tianxuan's words fell into the ears of Wang Ben who was beside him, like a revelation. The raging anger in Wang Ben's heart disappeared, and was replaced by a sudden realization.

Oh oh oh!
Because the Qin army suffered a setback, the battlefield on the official road was shrouded in endless horror. Against the backdrop of the empty environment, the faint sound of the flute seemed particularly loud, echoing between heaven and earth, and contained complicated messages.

"withdraw!"

Sima Shang listened to the flute sound echoing in the sky, his expression froze, and he spoke to his subordinates without thinking.

have to! have to! have to!
The situation had changed. Wang Ben could only grit his teeth in anger and prepare to watch them leave when he saw that the Zhao army led by Sima Shang was about to retreat. At this moment, dense horse hoof sounds came from behind the Qin army. Although there were only a dozen war horses, they created a momentum like thousands of horses galloping.

(End of this chapter)