Qu Tong, a scholar from Liangjie Mountain, and Jie Bingzhi led the Pearl River Army to the military camp under the Liangjie city wall. Qu Tong spoke very little, while Jie Bingzhi patiently explained some matters.
"You, the group of the literary army, are quite lucky, because just a month ago, the demon world launched a massive charge, including some demon kings. As you know, according to the rules of the Ten Thousand Worlds, only the Great Demon King, the Great Barbarian King or the Great Confucian are considered kings, and ordinary demon kings and barbarian kings are not considered true kings. The demon world sent more than a hundred great demon kings and great barbarian kings to attack the city, and the number of great Confucian scholars of the human race was seriously insufficient, so they suffered heavy losses."
"However, our human race had already prepared powerful mechanisms and light iron arrows and other items, and successfully repelled the demon king. The number of demon kings far exceeds that of humans, but thirty-seven demon kings died in that battle alone. They will not use the kings to attack the city in the short term."
The generals in the literary world were secretly amazed. There were only a dozen great scholars in the entire Confucian literary world, but in the demon world, hundreds of them could be mobilized for a single siege.
"This is good news, but also bad news. It means that your group of literary warriors will no longer be able to be included in the military merit book, and you will not receive any additional benefits."
"What are the benefits of being listed in the military merit book?" Fang Yun asked.
"For example, the top ten armies will be provided with whatever they want to eat by Liangjie Mountain, even if they have to eat the most delicious food every day. Of course, this is just the basic treatment. What is really useful is that they can decide at any time whether to stay on the city wall to fight or go down the city wall to rest. Their weapons or mechanisms are the best in the entire Liangjie Mountain and even among all human beings. For example, the 'Giant Crossbow Mechanism', 'Light Iron Arrow' or 'Holy Page' or even cultural treasures, the armies that are not on the military merit list have no right to obtain them and can only passively wait for the Ministry of War to allocate them. But the top ten armies do not need documents from the Ministry of War and can directly take a certain amount of mechanisms or treasures from the warehouse to help in the battle."
"Those armies with higher rankings will eventually exchange their military merits for generous pensions to ensure that the families of soldiers who died in battle can have a better life. The successive great scholars who guarded the Liangjie Mountain attached great importance to pensions. There were often great scholars who said that if the families of martyrs could not live a stable life, then there was no need for such a country to exist. However, most soldiers care about being able to protect their descendants. For any army that has ever ranked in the top three in the military merit book, one of the descendants of each soldier can obtain a recommendation letter from the Holy Academy. With the recommendation letter, they can directly study in the official literary academy where their household registration is located, and the possibility of passing the imperial examination is much greater than that of students studying in ordinary private schools. Liangjie Mountain is a place where all people are soldiers and all people can study, so there is no need for such a recommendation letter, but with a recommendation letter, their descendants will have a higher status."
"besides… "
Xie Bingzhi spoke incessantly, and the generals of the Pearl River Army listened attentively.
While listening, Fang Yun looked at the two-hundred-story-high city wall. Others could not sense it, but he could clearly sense that the vital energy of the heaven and earth in the sky was almost completely chaotic. Even though he was dozens of miles away, he could feel that the wall of Jieshan City was constantly shaking slightly.
It seemed as if there was a force concealing the battle on the city wall, so that not only could no sound be heard from inside the city wall, but also no light from war poems or witchcraft could be seen.
Only the busy elevator indicated that the war was still going on.
The majestic wall of the Boundary Mountain keeps all dangers out, protecting the entire Liangjie Mountain and the entire Shengyuan Continent.
"That's the real battlefield!" Fang Yun stared at the towering city walls that seemed to be in the clouds.
On the fourth day of September, ordinary soldiers of the Pearl River Army were still conducting high-intensity training, while all scholars and above went to a place full of mechanical devices to receive training on their operation.
The human race's mechanisms are a great help in defeating the monsters and barbarians. Generally speaking, they are controlled by scholars and workers. However, once the scholars and workers are seriously injured or die, the soldiers nearby must operate the mechanisms as soon as possible.
Whether the mechanism operates properly or not often affects the outcome of a battle.
There are all kinds of mechanisms, including powerful crossbow mechanisms, repeating crossbow mechanisms, boiling oil mechanisms, rolling stone mechanisms, stone throwing mechanisms, flame mechanisms, etc. Fang Yun tried them all himself and found several of them very enjoyable to use.
For example, the flame mechanism, once used, is enough to turn the area fifty feet in front into a sea of fire. Anyone below the level of a demon commander who touches it will die. Only a demon commander or a more powerful demon can resist with the help of qi, blood and armor.
While operating the mechanism, Fang Yun also learned about the latest situation in the demon world. It turned out that the demons and barbarians had not been idle in recent years. They had been forcing the humans in the demon world to cooperate with the barbarians to build various siege equipment. The demons and barbarians always had various ways to send the humans to the top of the city walls, and would even try every means to destroy the human mechanisms.
On the morning of the sixth day of September, Fang Yun had breakfast and rode his black dragon horse to the parade ground near the military camp.
The fourteen newly arrived armies from the literary world were lined up there in neat rows. In front of each army, there were many large flags, including national flags and military flags.
None of the fourteen armies established their own inherited military flags, because they could only be displayed after victory.
Fourteen square formations stood quietly in the parade ground, and the marshals of each army rode their horses and stopped in front of the army.
Fang Yun glanced at the other thirteen marshals. Some of them responded indifferently, some turned a blind eye, and some nodded slightly.
Among them, the Marshal of Fei Lian Army, one of the strongest armies of Zhao State, and the Marshal of Tian Shui Army, one of the strongest armies of Qin State, responded most enthusiastically. Tian Fangyun also talked with the two of them, but the relationship between them was not deep.
Not long after, people from the Ministry of War's Department of Literature arrived. This time, there were more than fifty people, among whom two people who looked like Hanlin scholars walked in the front.
Fang Yun frowned slightly, secretly sighing that the status of literary warriors was really low.
The chief minister of the literary world department is a university scholar, but he has not appeared so far. It has always been the left and right ministers who communicate with the literary world, and the people who are really responsible are the general managers of the candidates.
Pang Zhong, the Right Secretary of the Wenjie Division who received Fang Yun that day, was also there. He stood in front of the fourteen armies and said, "Today is the day for you to step onto the Jieshan city wall. However, I have to make it clear that for three days you can only stand behind the city wall and watch, gaining your knowledge, and you are not allowed to fight. Because... I am afraid that if you fight, your entire army will be wiped out."
Pang Zhong's words made many people in the literary world angry, but no one dared to refute it.
Pang Zhong held the official seal in his hand, looked at the time, and said, "Please wait a moment."
Everyone waited quietly, while Fang Yun looked towards the direction of the military merit book. A few days ago, the Qin Imperial Guard was ranked 97th, but after only four days, it was overtaken by other armies.
At this point, all the literary forces were blacklisted from the list of military merits.
After a full hour, a large group of people were seen coming in from the gate of the parade ground and slowly approaching.
These people have different uniforms, and based on their uniforms they are divided into seven teams.
Fang Yun first saw the military uniform of Chu, and then recognized the military uniforms of the other six countries.
Everyone suddenly realized that these should be the literary army that withdrew from the wall of Jieshan City, and then their whole body turned cold.
Confucius and the literary world sent out more than five million troops, but now there are less than 50,000!
.(To be continued.)