The Sage of Confucianism and Taoism

The Art of War has thirteen chapters, and the battlefield of Sun Tzu's literary world is divided into thirteen layers of continents from bottom to top. Since it looks like a Mohist siege ladder from a distance, and there are cloud-shaped stairs connecting the continents, these thirteen continents are named "the Thirteen Cloud Ladders of the Military Strategists".

After entering the first cloud ladder, the military strategists can participate in some battles. As long as they win, they will gain a certain killing power. After accumulating enough killing power, they can enter the second cloud ladder, and so on.

The minimum qualification for entering the Thirteen Cloud Ladders is also a military strategist who has passed the palace examination. In addition, ordinary strategists have only one chance to enter each year, while the Saint Academy strategists can enter three times each year. They can exchange three opportunities with the literary list, and three additional opportunities with military merits. Disciples of semi-saint families can get three additional opportunities, disciples of sub-saint families can get six additional opportunities, and disciples of Confucius Saint families can get nine times.

For each level of literary advancement, three additional opportunities can be obtained each year.

A strategist of the Confucius Saint Academy can enter up to eighteen times a year.

The only exceptions are the Sun Tzu family and the Sun Bin family. The disciples of these two families can directly get an extra ten chances every year.

Fang Yun is a virtual saint. Even if he has not passed the palace examination and is not a Jinshi of the Holy Academy, the basic number of entries per year has reached thirteen. After being crowned as a virtual saint, the Sun Tzu family and the Sun Bin family each gave him an extra ten chances, and the Holy Academy also gave him an extra ten.

Fang Yun can also exchange for writing and military merits, and now he can get a full forty-nine chances every year!

Except for the half-saint, no one in the world can compare to Fang Yun, not even the head of the Sun Tzu family.

The difficulty of the thirteen cloud ladders of the military strategists is as difficult as climbing to the sky.

Even Han Xin, Zhang Liang, Sima Yi, Zhou Yu and other world-famous military strategists and scholars, in the end, only stepped on the ninth cloud ladder and could not rise any further.

After the ninth cloud ladder, there is an alias, called the battlefield of the holy position!

Because after the ninth cloud ladder, the war often affects the entire continent. If the literary courage is not strong enough and there is no power of the holy way, no matter how strong the military tactics are, it is difficult to take into account the overall situation.

Before the ninth cloud ladder, it was just a battle between countries or with monsters, but after the ninth cloud ladder, it will involve various races, a battle of hundreds of races, and the fighting methods and terrain are also very special. Even from time to time, there are holy monsters, and the degree of danger is far above ordinary wars.

The thirteen cloud ladders are the core holy land of military strategists. For military strategists, it is better not to enter the mountains of books and the sea of ​​​​learning, but to climb the thirteen cloud ladders.

The military confrontation is to enter a certain cloud ladder continent. The winner can take away part of the loser's killing power, and no matter how much killing power the loser has, he will inevitably descend one cloud ladder, and then the killing power will quickly dissipate, and finally drop to the minimum limit of this level.

If you descend from the second cloud ladder to the first cloud ladder, all the killing power will dissipate.

It is precisely because the punishment for the military confrontation is too harsh, so unless there is a deep hatred, military strategists rarely fight in this way.

It's just that the number of people in the ten countries is too large, and the conflicts between the countries and families are too complicated, so there will be dozens of military confrontations every year.

Qingguo is different from Jingguo.

Jingguo is to the north of the barbarians, and all generals have experienced a lot of actual combat. But Qingguo has been peaceful for many years, except for a few generals stationed in various demon mountains and generals in various ancient lands, the rest are mediocre.

For example, although Zhou Junhu is now serving in the capital, he has been leading the army in battles for decades. Although he has not participated in the war recently, he has focused on the art of war. With sufficient accumulation before, the art of war has not retreated but advanced.

The military scholar will at least reach the third cloud ladder, and the excellent ones can enter the fourth cloud ladder. Zhou Junhu just entered the fifth cloud ladder last year, which is already considered a top military scholar.

In terms of military talents, the top group of people in the two countries are on par with each other, but in the middle level, Jingguo's defect of small number of people is obvious, not as good as Qingguo, and in overall terms, Jingguo is still at a disadvantage.

In order to protect Fang Yun, Jingguo sent Zhou Junhu and other university scholars and great Confucian scholars on this mission, but the famous generals of Qingguo were all guarding important places and could not come with Qingjun, so they were naturally inferior.

In theory, Zhou Junhu proposed a confrontation of military ways, even if Xin Zhi did not dare, the military scholars of Qingguo present should have taken it up, but they knew that they were really not as fierce as Zhou Junhu.

Whether the military scholar is murderous or not depends mainly on the literary platform formed when he became a scholar. For example, Zhou Junhu's distant cousin in Qiguo is the great Confucian Zhou Qingtian, whose military literary platform is the "Wanjun Wentai", which is more focused on strategizing and has a general murderous nature. Zhou Junhu's literary platform is the Baibing Wentai, which once activated will show countless weapons, and is extremely murderous.

Xin Zhi is also a famous general of Qing State, and he is outstanding among the Hanlin scholars, but he is far behind Zhou Junhu.

Xin Zhi avoided Zhou Junhu's sharp eyes, looked at the Hanlin scholars of Jing State, and said: "General Zhou is suppressing me with the position of Grand Secretary, so I can't defeat him. However, do you like to bully the weak in Jing State? Hanlin scholars of Jing State, dare to fight me?"

After these words came out, the officials of Jing State fell silent.

Jing State is now facing internal and external troubles, and the top Hanlin scholars are all in the north, preparing to fight against the monsters. Hanlin scholars with strong military skills are not as good as ordinary Grand Secretary scholars in protecting Fang Yun, and it is impossible for them to follow Fang Yun.

Most of the Hanlin scholars present are Hanlin scholars of civil service academies such as the Ministry of Rites and the Honglu Temple, and there are only a few Hanlin scholars of military strategy, such as He Ludong.

He Ludong had just become a Hanlin and had no experience in commanding a major war. If he fought against Xin Zhiwen, he would not be afraid and was even confident of winning. However, in terms of military strategy, he was indeed inferior to Xin Zhi.

The hall was in an awkward balance, with both sides having their own strengths and weaknesses, but both could be controlled by the other.

Xin Zhi was suppressed by Fang Yun before, but now he finally let go of his bad breath. Seeing that the people in Jingguo didn't answer, he chuckled and said, "What? Jingguo only bullies the small with the big, and when he meets people with the same rank, they all become shrinking." Head turtle?"

He Ludong is a bloody man after all, and said angrily: "Then I will compete with you, a scumbag, to see who is better!"

"Hahaha...Okay, I will take away your killing power in the Thirteen Cloud Ladders and let you..."

"Wait a minute." Fang Yun's voice sounded.

Xin Zhi was so frightened that his tongue trembled, and he cursed in his heart, Fang Xusheng, that's enough! From the meeting yesterday to today, I have been suppressing all the officials of the Qing Kingdom. One poem has pushed the Qing Lord and the royal family into the ditch, and they have been stained with shame. Why do you want to take action now?

Xin Zhi closed his mouth and looked at Fang Yun with some fear, a shadow in his eyes.

Under the gaze of everyone, Fang Yun looked down at everyone like a king and said slowly: "General Xin said that there is no one in our country and likes to bully the small with the big, but I think that is not the case. On the contrary, I feel that it is better to let General He and General He... General Xin's military confrontation is just a bully, so I think that in order to show his magnanimity, Jing Guo chose a Jinshi to compete with you, General Xin, do you dare?"

The officials were stunned, while Xin Zhi had a look of suspicion in his eyes. He quickly glanced at everyone in Jingguo and thought that Jingguo had not had any outstanding military strategists in recent years, and it was impossible for him to be in the team.

Xin Zhi looked at Fang Yun subconsciously, and was stunned for a moment, suddenly realizing! .