On the eighth day of November 1, the eighth year of Zhenghe in the Song Dynasty, it is advisable to travel and accept the acquisition; it is not advisable to: go up to the beam.

Five days passed in a flash, and today a new round of Cuju competition between Song and Liao will be held in the school ground five days ago. However, the sensation caused by this competition is far from being compared with the previous time. Although the court still invited Guan Qi to explain in real time on the original platform, although major gambling shops also opened the market, the people lost their enthusiasm. Of course, this was because the defeat five days ago caused too much harm to everyone.

Not only was the people's attitude towards this battle a little cold, but the court no longer responded as solemnly as before. Zhao Ji stopped coming this time, and the senior officials in the court were also absent. Tong Guan, who had responsibilities, and a group of military officers who were already incompatible with the Liao people, still rushed over with enthusiasm. In addition, the highest-ranking position in today's Cuju competition was the crown prince Zhao Huan, which was also the attitude he showed.

Of course, the impact of this game is only compared to the one I watched five days ago. In fact, this Cuju match still attracted the attention of many people. Whether it is the people or officials, they all hope that the Song Dynasty can avenge its previous shame and defeat the Liao people today. Moreover, there were actually tens of thousands of spectators entering the school stadium, which filled the stadium. Before the game started, the stadium was already very lively.

As time came to Si Shi, the two teams appeared separately. Then everyone focused their attention on the Song team, and many people showed surprise on their faces: "What are these people wearing?"

It is indeed a bit surprising, because the Song players who came out this time were not wearing the red short jerseys before, but were replaced with a weird outfit - the bright red clothes were extremely close to the body, and there were no fragments. Their lower bodies were also wearing shorts of the same color but only the knees, which looked very different from the popular calves. Some people had the same red unknown things on their calves. In addition, behind these people, they also drew some patterns of unknown significance. Anyway, no matter how they looked, it made people feel very strange.

In fact, the equipment worn by this team is the football suit that Sun Tu took out of the No. 2 warehouse. This is much lighter in short dresses worn by players in this era. Since opening the No. 2 warehouse, Sun Tu has never known what the things here can do. Until this time he has taken the important task, he knows how useful these sports equipment are.

Two days ago, when he took out these sportswear that looked quite weird in the eyes of others, many people were suspicious and resistant when they put on other team members. But after wearing this outfit and having a training session, they completely fell in love with this light outfit. Even military generals like Zhao Tianyao praised it. Especially the brand of football shoes provided by Sun Tu to them, which were so light that they could hardly feel the weight. They could make people jump higher and run faster, and protect their feet, so that they could only give them a thumbs up and say admiration.

So even if everyone appeared at this time, they felt the strange gazes from the audience in the stands around them, and these players did not feel uncomfortable. Instead, they raised their heads and chests one by one, looking quite confident.

After everyone gradually got used to their weird outfits, everyone discovered a brand new question: "Hey, why are there only eight people on the stage?"

The Cuju team led by Sun Tu has only eight people, including him, which is really beyond the expectations of the audience and the opponent. Although the number of people in the Cuju competition is generally not limited, since twelve people were used in the previous battle, it is reasonable to have twelve people today.

This made the Liao team quickly raise doubts: "What do you mean? Can't even find the twelve good Cuju people in the Song Dynasty?"

When the official of the Ministry of Rites responsible for this game threw the problem to Sun Tu and the others, as the captain, he smiled: "Of course not. But since we are the masters, we proposed to fight again in this game, so we should have some expression. So today we only had eight people in this game. As for the Liao Kingdom, no matter you have twelve people or the number of others, we will all be respected." The meaning of the words is to fight against the masses with few.

These words immediately caused dissatisfaction among the Liao people. As the captain, Xiao Shihu immediately shouted: "Song people, don't be too self-righteous. Since you are with eight people, I, the Great Liao, will never take advantage of you. We are..." Just as he was about to say that there were only eight players, he heard a voice coming from the stands: "Slow up." It was Chen Xiangnan who suddenly spoke.

After interrupting Xiao Shihu's words, he said with a smile: "Since you have automatically reduced people, you will have the awareness of losing because of this. There is no difference between Cuju and the duel on the battlefield. There is always a lot of troops, and we still have twelve people!"

This statement was not only Xiao Shihu, but also many Song people showed surprise reactions. Is this still the tough performance of the Liao Kingdom? They have always claimed that they have outstanding military power and have the belief that they will win even if they are weak Song people, even if they are few and many enemies, why did they shrink their heads today? Is it because the Han people in charge, so they are less courageous than ordinary Khitans?

They didn't know that the real decision was a genuine Khitan, Yelu Jian. At this time, he was looking at Sun Tu and everyone in the team with a cautious look, and secretly made a plan in his heart: "Since he dares to take on such a heavy task, it means that there must be a strange plan, and I must not take it lightly. He wanted to use the reduction of our team's personnel to break our cooperation, and I couldn't do it as he wished!"

Just as he felt the gaze from Yelu Jian, Sun Tu, who was standing on the sidelines, suddenly looked back and looked at Yelu Jian from afar, then curled his lips and showed an inexplicable smile.

Since the Liao ambassadors had spoken, Xiao Shihu had to accept even if he was dissatisfied. He immediately began to remind his team members: "We have a great advantage in this battle, so we must win so that we will not lose the might of our Liao Dynasty! At the beginning of the game, let them know how powerful we are, and we are stronger than what they know!"

"Ao..." These Liao players shouted loudly, looking like the wolf totem they worshipped. At this time, the spirit they showed was even more powerful than five days ago.

After a small episode, the time finally came. With the sound of drums suddenly stopped, the two teams had already started playing, standing near the center line waiting for the kickoff.

As the gong sounded, Cuju was thrown high, and almost all the Liao players were about to charge and rushed forward the attack the moment the ball landed. With the number of people already taking the advantage, they naturally were unwilling to fall into a passive position as before.

Amid the cheers and noises of the people, the ball landed on the ground. The twelve Liao people rushed over as quickly as twelve cheetahs catching prey. They wanted to win the ball first and grab the ball earlier.

But just as they rushed forward, an unexpected scene happened - the eight men in the Song people did not rush up to grab the ball as usual, but retreated sharply at the same time, retreating straight to the vicinity of their own gantry gate, and then stopped and took a defensive posture.

The Song people actually gave up the initiative from the beginning of the game and allowed the Liao people to attack their Longmen!

After understanding this, the Liao players on the field showed excited expressions. They shouted and rushed towards the Song people's dragon gate like a tide. In just a blink of an eye, the three people in the front had already rushed to the opponent. The ball handler in the rear immediately raised his foot and sent the ball to their feet, so that they could shoot immediately.

After seeing this strange scene, the audience was upset: "What are they doing? Have they given up completely? Why don't they fight against the Liao people? Even if they lose, they won't look so cowardly..." Some of the impatient ones even started to curse, and even suspected Sun Tu's intentions.

However, the Liao people's mission was filled with joy, and they shouted to encourage their teams and asked them to score a goal quickly to kick off the big victory. Only Yelu Jianzhen was in it, but his face was solemn and frowned: "What do they want to do? Are they planning to rely on defending to survive these three quarters?"

The situation on the field changed rapidly. With the different reactions of the audience on both sides, the Liao team player who had just stopped the ball and wanted to shoot a shot suddenly found that there was a simple man in front of him. The opponent actually blocked the angle he wanted to shoot, and at the same time he also pulled his legs to destroy his control of the ball. The one who appeared to fill the ball was Cui Lue Shang.

This made him feel irritated and he could only change the shot to the ball before the opponent hit the ball and pass the ball to his teammate on the side. However, a defender soon appeared in front of that person. Shen Liang, who was also calm in his face, had no chance to shoot and was quite difficult to break through, so he could only pass the ball again.

So Cuju was constantly passed by the Liao people, and as long as they found the shooting angle, a defender would inevitably come out in front of them, so that they could not shoot at all and could only continue to conduct. Finally, the ball fell to Xiao Shihu's feet.

After seeing this series of defenses in the back, he finally understood the opponent's strategy. It seemed that the Song people really planned to use iron barrel-like defense to imprison their own offensive. No matter how good the ball skills are, these people are at least very fast, and they can actually stare at twelve people with eight people, and this is because three of them have not come forward to help.
Chapter completed!