More than 4,000 contestants were divided into eight groups, and after nine rounds of elimination, only one person from each group made it to the quarterfinals.

This kind of competition is not fierce, and it can be said that in addition to the most important strength, I am afraid that a certain amount of luck is also needed.

If you encounter a super opponent too early, or if you are not in good shape in a certain game, you may be eliminated directly in advance. However, few people were willing to give up, because the competition of the last eight people would be held in public on the palace square.

At that time, the Empress Dowager of Emperor Bilan, the princes and dukes of civil and military officials will watch in person from the sidelines.

Even the final test will be transmitted from the Phantom Array to the various cities of Bilan.

In the past, where would this contest between students be so great, and where would it be so grand? All this should perhaps be 'thankful' for the special war period.

This is not only an opportunity to rise to prominence, but also a godsend opportunity to become famous in one fell swoop, how many people can withstand this temptation?

If he can win the first place in this competition, he may be able to become the next Yuan Hao.

If you want to ask who Yuan Hao is, nine out of ten people in the Bilan Empire four years ago may not have heard of it, but now his name in the Bilan Empire is similar to Mi Yuanyun to Shenyan.

Yuan Hao was born in a military family, and like Fu Bo, his father, uncle, and elders were also generals in the Bilan Army. Graduating from the First Military Academy six years ago, he joined the Imperial Southwestern Corps.

I have to say that his background has helped him a lot. In less than three years, he was promoted from a hundred cavalry commanders all the way to General Wupin Anyuan, who commanded 10,000 people.

This kind of promotion speed is unimaginable for other people, after all, the Bilan Southwest Corps at that time did not participate in any war at all. Even if you are talented, where are the opportunities to show your talents?

However, the outbreak of the war between Bilan and Chilou three years ago finally brought him the greatest opportunity to rise.

The initial advance speed of the Southwest Corps was not ideal as that of the Southeast Corps, and the Chilou people had already made sufficient preparations for the invasion of the Bilan people, and the initial battle actually went very smoothly.

At that time, the 10,000-strong team led by Yuan Hao performed exceptionally well and repeatedly won big victories in local battlefields, which quickly attracted the attention of the Southwest Corps.

In the process of being promoted one after another, he used several clever tricks to attack the rear of the Chilou people, or combined light and darkness to trick the main army of the Chilou to make wrong decisions, and finally tore the southwest defense line of the Chilou people to pieces.

Because of his presence, the fighting in the Southwestern Theater soon became extremely smooth. When the time came to a year and a half, the battlefield of Bilan Western Front had advanced tens of thousands of miles, becoming the most dazzling one among the three major theaters.

At this time, Yuan Hao had been rapidly promoted from General Anyuan of the fifth grade to General Zhennan of the second grade. Although he was still not the supreme leader of the Western Route Army due to his seniority, many of the battle plans were entirely in his hands.

Today, he is ranked seventh among the famous generals in the Book of Heaven. Some of the battles he fought have even been used as examples for teaching at military academies, and his name has been engraved on the famous 'wall of famous generals' by the First Military Academy.

He is the pride of Bilan people, and it is the goal that the students of major military academies strive for.

Before Yuan Hao graduated, he won the first place in the battle competition. It's just that the battle competition at that time was not as grand as it is now.

So this biennial competition, in the minds of many students, is naturally endowed with another layer of more distant meaning - like Yuan Hao to win the first place in the battle match, and then become a famous general of the empire like Yuan Hao, leaving his name on Tianshuce.

Tang Yuanhua is one of the students with this kind of vision, and now he is in the third year of the command department of the First Military Academy, and he also hopes that he will become a general star who has attracted worldwide attention in the future.

On the other hand, he also knows very well that he is unlikely to sit on the top spot in the intra-class battle, and it is relatively unlikely that he will win in this competition.

Especially, after seeing another figure surrounded by the crowd and entering the command hall with him, he sighed helplessly in his heart.

Unexpectedly, Yuan Yao was also in his group.

Yuan Yao is Yuan Hao's younger brother, and he is now the most eye-catching person in the First Military Academy. This is not only because of his brother who shook the Bilan Empire, but also because of his own excellence.

As early as two years ago, Yuan Yao had already won the fifth place in the last year's battle matchup, and at that time he was the only second-year student among the top eight.

On the campus of the First Military Academy, a topic that is often talked about by everyone is whether Yuan Yao can become a generation of famous generals like his brother Yuan Hao in the future. One family of two brothers, that is likely to become a legendary story in the future.

The batch of students who graduated two years ago had already graduated, and there were many people who were optimistic about this competition, but no one would think that Yuan Yao would not be able to highlight the sixth group. In the eyes of many, the rest of this group is just his foil, and he is even already the favorite for the first place.

As a result, although there will be eight competitions in this hall at the same time, ninety percent of the audience's eyes are focused on Yuan Yao alone.

Many of the girls even shouted their love at the tall, handsome man in the room, and he waved frequently......

He looked less like a cadet and more like a lord patrolling his territory.

The noise on the sidelines finally calmed down temporarily until more than a dozen teachers in charge of the arbitration competition sat down one after another. And it was only at this time that Tang Yuanhua finally collected his thoughts and looked at his opponent.

The first two rounds of the competition took a month to complete due to the large number of people. At this time, everyone's opponents were also completely randomly distributed, and Tang Yuanhua's opponent in the first round was a sophomore from the Second Military.

It wasn't until three days ago that Tang Yuanhua didn't know the name of his opponent - Lin San.

This is a name that is easy to make people laugh, and in terms of unpleasantness, I am afraid it is second only to Li Ergou Zhang Daniu, a random name taken for the sake of good birth.

Especially after being similar to the name of the person who shook the continent, it is easy to be used as a joke.

Of course, Tang Yuanhua would not regard this opponent as a great enemy just because Lin San and Lin Si were only one word apart. Before the game, he had made a point of inquiring about his friends at the Second Military Academy, but the result was no result.

If there is no result, it means that the person is not famous, and the lack of fame often means that there is nothing extraordinary, so no one has heard of him.

The only thing he knew was that this man had retired from the front line more than a year ago because of a wound in his leg.

Such students often have a hard time keeping up with the pace of the course. As for the ability to command operations, if you really have that kind of talent, would you still be a small soldier on the front line, you should have become a general a long time ago, right?

So, there's nothing to worry about in this matchup.

Most of his attention was even on the other party's walking movements, which had become strange because of his lameness.

The two stood facing each other, and after one last glance at the unremarkable face of his opponent, he put his mind on the battle plate in front of him.

The rules of this duel are very simple, each side leads 30,000 people, the troops are free to choose and match, the terrain is random, and in the end, whoever can completely annihilate the other party, or take the lead in occupying the opponent's base camp, is the winner.

The types of troops are roughly divided into three categories: horse infantry and bows, but there are many nuanced divisions, such as cavalry is divided into heavy cavalry and light cavalry, and even heavy cavalry has various distinctions such as pikemen and heavy axemen.

When the light of the formation shrouded the two of them, they could no longer see the spectators around them, nor could they see the opponents on the opposite side.

This is the role of the formation, because of the formation, even if the opposing soldiers are actually close to a zhang away, they can't see it if they don't reach a certain distance. Because on the map, that zhang represents a distance of hundreds of miles.

Tang Yuanhua quickly selected his soldiers, whether it was cavalry infantry archers, he would not miss them, because any of them were an essential part of the war.

The only difference is the number between them. Although the light cavalry was fast, it was not necessarily advantageous to attack the fortress, and the bow and arrow could not penetrate the protection of the heavy shield soldiers, and the heavy infantry did not march fast, but the defensive ability was quite strong.

Before deciding on tactics, you need to clarify your next thinking, whether to attack heavily and ignore defense, or to focus on defense and light attack, which are all important conditions for determining the distribution of troops.

He ended up picking 15,000 light cavalry, 5,000 archers, and 10,000 heavy infantry.

With everything unknown on the other side, he began to sprinkle scouts in all directions, and the hussars followed the scouts in all directions.

He wants to fight a defensive battle, let the opponent attack his base camp, and the light cavalry lying in ambush outside and the archer infantry left behind in the camp will definitely eat away at the opponent's strength little by little. And when the disparity between the forces of the two sides gradually becomes greater, he can press it hard.

He didn't have to wait long, and soon he was met with a fierce attack from the other side.

It was a very fierce attack, because there were fifteen thousand lancers in front of him. This opponent was too desperate to send all the cavalry out at once?

This kind of attack is either slowly advanced or waiting, but in any case, you can't let your troops disconnect from each other, right? The competition has only started for so long before the opponent's attack arrives, which shows that the opponent's infantry and archers are probably still hundreds of miles away, and even in the base camp.

This person is too layman.

At the moment of the first confrontation between the two sides, Tang Yuanhua fell into a short-term disadvantage, because he really didn't expect this opponent to be so bold.

So much so that when the other party rushed to his base camp, the light cavalry he left outside did not have time to outflank him in a short time.

His base camp was devastated, and the impact of the lancers was extremely strong. In the face of the opponent's wolf-like attack, his archers were rushed and defeated after only one volley, but fortunately he still had 10,000 heavy infantry.

For a time, the two sides engaged in fierce hand-to-hand combat in front of the base camp.

In fact, one of the important reasons why the game takes so long is that each game takes a long time, and sometimes it is not uncommon for a match to last two hours.

In the first two quarters of an hour or even half an hour at the beginning of the war, the two sides often sprinkled scouts with each other, tested each other, and familiarized themselves with the terrain at the same time, and there were not many small-scale contacts, and sometimes they did not even touch each other's figures.

A decisive battle like the one we have now usually takes place at the end of the battle. But now the competition between Tang Yuanhua and Lin San has only started for half an hour.