Sun Tu never imagined that his army would meet a Jurchen army of several hundred people head-on on an official road more than ten miles away from Lingzhou, and an unexpected encounter broke out.

Before, he didn't even have the intention of marching with a leak, and it was already dark, but there were still twenty miles away from Lingzhou, and the ordered army was stationed. Because he knew that the next thing he would face was the Jurchens, who had amazing combat power, and that the soldiers had to maintain sufficient energy and physical strength to ensure victory.

But after the second watch, the situation changed. Before he went to bed, he got a report, saying that there was a fire in Lingzhou City, and when he came out of the tent and looked into the distance, he found that the fire was still spreading all the way, which was obviously not a fire in the general sense, but someone in the city was deliberately setting fire.

Thinking of the danger that Lingzhou was facing at this time, Sun Tu's first thought was that it was such a coincidence that the Jurchens actually chose to launch a surprise attack on Lingzhou City tonight, and judging from the current situation, they had already succeeded and set fire to the city everywhere......

Now Sun Tu is impossible to let the whole army rest for one night like Mount Tai, this night has passed, and when he arrives with the army tomorrow, maybe Lingzhou City will be robbed and killed by the Jurchens! Under the decision, Sun Tu ordered the whole army, set off quickly, and went straight to Lingzhou City.

But as a result, when they traveled and came to the edge of a small village, there was also a team of people who came out in the dark, and the two people collided together unprepared, and then the officials and soldiers saw that they were dressed differently, and they were not the people of the Great Song Dynasty.

When the soldiers at the front of the team shouted and asked the identity of the other party, those guys did not say a word, and took the lead in launching the attack, hundreds of people shouted like a beast with red eyes after seeing its prey, brandished weapons and slaughtered, and in the blink of an eye, dozens of soldiers in front of them were slaughtered.

It was only at this time that the officers and soldiers woke up and hurriedly formed a counterattack, and the two sides started a head-to-head confrontation. Although Sun Tu, who was in the middle of the team, was suspicious after seeing this situation, he still quickly raised his spirits and ordered the state capital and township troops that came with him to form a formation and defend it, intending to annihilate all the enemy troops of unknown origin who were obviously far inferior to his own.

But after the battle continued, Sun Tu knew that his judgment had been wrong, the combat effectiveness of the enemy army in front of him, which was only a few hundred people, was far beyond his imagination, and under their constant rush to kill without fear of death, the officers and soldiers who wanted to encircle from both sides actually suffered heavy casualties, and the rest of those who had begun to appear to be restrained by fear. This is an ordinary thief soldier, and it is clearly the most elite infantry army!

It was only at this time that Sun Tu guessed the exact identity of the other party, they should be the Jurchens who were about to launch a sneak attack on Lingzhou that they had discovered! And confronting the brave and skilled Jurchens at such nights was an impossible task for the soldiers and horses of the Shandong prefectures who had just received formal training for only two months.

It's just that Sun Tu feels strange that since this army is here, who lit the fire in the city? Could it be that these Jurchens were so shrewd that they expected that they would lead an army to rescue Lingzhou in the morning, so they set up an ambush on this road in advance? Or is there some misunderstanding in this, the fire in Lingzhou City was not actually set by the Jurchens, and his previous judgment was completely wrong?

It was impossible to get answers to these questions for a while, and all Sun Tu could do at this time was to keep shouting and giving orders, so that the scattered troops around him could shrink as soon as possible, regroup, and resist the enemy's offensive head-on. But it is much more difficult to carry out this order than it was to order the armies to disperse and encircle and suppress the enemy, because after watching the continuous fall of robes, the morale of the officers and soldiers has been confused, and many people even turn around and run away in panic, which gives the Jurchens a greater opportunity to constantly tear through the defense line of the official army, and little by little they will enter the center of the official army and sweep towards Sun Tu's position.

Compared with the cowardice and fear of death of ordinary soldiers, those middle and low-level military attaches are much more heroic, even if there are people around them who continue to fall, they do not see the slightest fear, and some people even shout loudly to meet the enemy and counterattack, in order to stimulate the fighting spirit of their subordinates.

However, the actions of these people did not have much effect, and the officers and soldiers who had already broken their courage did not pay attention to their generals at this time, and just wanted to escape with their lives. However, the military attaches did not know how to restrain the behavior of their subordinates in wartime and boost the morale of the army, so it was naturally impossible for them to play a big role by taking the lead.

Especially when they fought head-on with the Jurchens, they still couldn't take any advantage, and after only a few faces, more than a dozen military attache captains or something were killed by the enemy, which made ordinary soldiers even more frightened, and they could only retreat and flee, and they didn't even have the courage to block at all.

In fact, it stands to reason that although the combat strength of the Great Song Dynasty official army is not strong, it will not be so crushed at the touch of a button, especially the main general of this army is still Sun Tu, even if he suddenly encounters the elite of the powerful Jin State tonight, he will not be defeated so quickly and so miserably.

But because of various inconsistencies, this absurd result has appeared-

First, this was when the officers and soldiers were on their way to the enemy after a short night's sleep, and they were not mentally prepared at all, and their morale was not too high before the war began.

Second, the head-to-head confrontation in the field is not what the Song people are good at, and the Great Song army has been able to win and defeat with the Liao army for a hundred years, relying on the excellent technology of defending the city, but once the city is lost, the Song people's combat power will be greatly reduced. This is also another reason why Sun Tu immediately sent troops after discovering that there was a change in Lingzhou.

Third, when facing the enemy, he made a mistake in his judgment and failed to give full play to his superiority in troops, but chose to divide his troops to besiege him. If Sun Tu chooses to gather troops in front of him and withstand the enemy's onslaught, even if he is defeated, he will not let the army's morale collapse so quickly. After all, when the front and back are all their own robes, the courage of the soldiers will be stronger, and the defense will be more stable.

Fourth, and most crucially, because of the darkness and chaos of the scene, the enemy and the enemy were strangled together, so that they could not use the most powerful weapon of the Great Song army, the bow and crossbow.

The night battle had already damaged the sight, and now the enemy was completely mixed with his own robes, so that all the armies did not dare to use bows and arrows at will, for fear of hurting their own people, so the combat strength of the officers and soldiers was once again reduced.

The combination of these factors led to a one-sided outcome less than half an hour after the encounter began. In the frenzied attack of the Jurchens, the entire army of officers and soldiers has been completely torn apart, and they are like red-hot knives cutting into butter like entering a no-man's land, constantly killing and moving forward, directly taking the official army and the middle army, and actually planning to completely destroy this Song army of unknown origin in one go!

Seeing that the enemy was approaching step by step, the soldiers in front didn't even have the courage to resist, and they almost collapsed when they touched it, and Sun Tu's entire face was so black that it was about to blend with the night.

He had indeed realized his miscommand and thought that the Jurchens were far more powerful than the Song army, but he still found it difficult to accept that such a result would appear in front of him vividly, and the army under his command would be vulnerable to such a situation!

In the past, although Sun Tu was dissatisfied with the weak combat strength of the current Great Song Dynasty official army, in his opinion, the army was still somewhat useful after all, and the previous confrontations with those enemies also confirmed his judgment. You must know that the Qingzhou army he brought out was not only to pacify the bandits and bandits in the Great Song Dynasty, but also to fight with the Jurchens and the Liao army to the end.

But the rout in front of him today shattered his idea!

He led thousands of men and horses to come to the aid of Lingzhou, but he was killed by hundreds of Jurchens here and had no power to fight back. More than ten or twenty people beat one person but were killed back, could it be that all the Jurchens are Ip Man, and he can beat ten of them?

In fact, in the final analysis, this is the evil result of the Great Song Dynasty's emphasis on literature and military suppression and continuous suppression of generals in the army over the past century. For the people of the Great Song Dynasty today, enlisting in the army is the last choice under the forced helplessness, only when there is a famine in a certain place, the people can not live their lives, will a large number of young and strong people enter the army, as the so-called erection of the recruitment flag, their own food people.

The imperial court's perception of the officers and soldiers is just to eat enough and not make trouble, how can the officers and soldiers in such a situation have the determination to fight for the country? When such an official army confronts the powerful and fierce Jurchens, all they can do is to flee and retreat, and let them wantonly kill like pigs and dogs.

From taking the initiative to send troops to attack the strong enemy Liao State, to being sent by the Jin State to attack the capital Bianliang, the two generations of monarchs of the Manchu Dynasty were all in the hands of thieves, and there was only a few short years in between. Such a devastating collapse speed shows that the Great Song Dynasty army has been completely rotten at the root, and for the Jin people, they only need to blow a breath to completely destroy the Great Song Dynasty, which is the real core of the Great Song Dynasty that seems to be prosperous and prosperous today.

Of course, at this time, Sun Tu had no time to think so far, looking at the approaching Jurchens who were smiling and killing, his hand was already clenching the spear - these guys also underestimated themselves, even though those state capital troops had been dispersed, but he absolutely believed in the Qingzhou army that he had trained single-handedly!

At this moment, Sun Tu was really glad that he didn't completely entrust himself to the point that he didn't even bring out the final team. At this time, around Sun Tu, the main general of the First Army, were three hundred veterans of the Qingzhou Army who stood solemnly, without the slightest panic in the face of the collapse of the whole army.

Their eyes were firm, they looked straight ahead, and the weapons in their hands were raised flat, and they had no intention of taking half a step back!