In the lecture hall of the military department, Kong Ming was wearing an ordinary school uniform of Huayuan University, and the students present were dressed in a variety of strange clothes, some wore magician's clothes, some wore swordsman's clothes, some wore assassin clothes, and some other departments wore clothes, it was really different, putting a very ordinary-looking person like Kong Ming here, it was like putting a drop of water in the sea, and no one would notice Kong Ming's existence. The military department is an important department, but the students of the military department have always studied together in the two departments, and the members who study here generally have their own different professions, among which the swordsman is the most, the assassin is the second, and the magician is the least, because the time of the magician is far more precious than others, but those magicians who come here are disciples of some clans, and they have a certain talent in magic, and they need to coordinate the battle between the magicians in the army and other arms when they join the army. After all, ordinary magicians, even holy magicians, don't understand the timing and method of magicians in battle, so people with a certain amount of mage knowledge and war knowledge need to join in order to do well. There were only more than two hundred people in this classroom, and there were more than five hundred seats, all of them sitting separately and some gathered together, Kong Ming sat behind everyone, and next to him was a young man in his twenties who was a senior swordsman next to him from a seat. It's not the first time Kong Ming has come here to listen to the class, and he is also familiar with this young man, that is, the kind of person who has a familiar face and recognizes people, but doesn't know the name. Obviously, the man was not too interested in Kong Ming, and he didn't pay attention to Kong Ming. There are many people in the classroom who are disciples of the family, a few are soldiers who have come here to further their studies, and some civilians like Kong Ming have come here to listen to the lectures. These are easy to recognize for people like Kong Ming, who have been wandering at the bottom of society for a long time. The young man who was separated from him knew at a glance that he was a nobleman, and it should be that kind of great nobleman, Kong Ming had seen him in that position more than once, and once he left the classroom, there were usually two great swordsmen following him. However, what puzzled Kong Ming was that if he was a nobleman of the empire, then he should be the same as those nobles in front of him, after all, the students of the military department in front of him would generally serve in various armies of the empire after graduation, and befriending the future generals of these empires is something that every imperial noble, especially the heir to the throne, must do, because the throne is unstable without the support of the army, which is a common sense, and this young man never pays attention to other people, I don't know what the reason is. There were three waves of students in front of them who were clustered together, and the rest were scattered. Those three waves of people are people who support or are friendly with the three princes of the empire, and they are also divided into three waves because of this, although they have a very complicated relationship with each other, but except for private communication, they dare not communicate now. After all, this is related to the future of the family, and the swing between the two parties is very disgusting. The battle between them has become a scenery of the school, but because this is the school, they don't dare to be too presumptuous, so they can only restrain each other.

Just as Kong Ming was thinking about the possible identity of the nobleman, a standing command made him stand up, this is the respect of the students for the instructor, all of them stood up, but there were fast and slow, Kong Ming saw that among the three people, they stood up very fast, without a trace of mud and water, which made Kong Ming very surprised by this change in those guys, because Kong Ming had come here so many times and never seen these guys so active? In the past, they always had to get up for half a day, so how could it be so fast this time. After sitting down, Kong Ming finally saw the instructor standing on the podium, and finally knew why those guys were so active, because it was the only sword saint in the military department, Sun Bing. I heard that this person has been in the army of Huayuan when he was young, from a staff officer to the generalissimo of the empire, and then for some reason he insisted on withdrawing from the officials of the empire, and came to this Huayuan University as an ordinary teacher, and stayed for more than a hundred years, now whether it is Huayuan University, or in several other empires or even in the army of the enemy country, there are many people who are his students, it is said that he is now a person who is close to the sword god, and he also has the guidance of several god-level figures in the school, and it is only a matter of time before he enters the god level。 No wonder those guys are so nervous, this is the guy known as the "god of war" on the mainland. And he often comes here to teach in the school, although his courses are not very many, but he has always insisted on coming here to teach, and at the same time he is also looking for a worthy student here to specialize in teaching, and generally the people who get this honor are now mostly playing a key role in the various imperial armies, because of this, so when he comes to class, the people of the military department will rush to listen to the class, and even people from other departments will run over, directly squeezing the class, and then in order to reduce this unnecessary trouble, his courses are not announced in advance, but in the name of other instructors' courses are reflected in the course schedule, so those who chased his fame gradually realized this, and stopped coming here to crowd the class, which made the classroom of the military department much quieter. And Kong Ming has also listened to several of his lectures here, which has made Kong Ming's understanding and insight into military affairs have a qualitative leap. I saw that Sun Bing had a short inch of black and white hair, yellow skin, black triangular eyes, and there was no hint of strictness in his eyes, but there was a kind look, with a kind of wrinkles left by the years, and a black and white one-centimeter-long beard grew above and below his mouth, because of the Sword Saint, a person in his two hundred years old looked like he was in his fifties, he was not very tall, and he looked only one meter seven. Walking to the podium, Sun Bing looked at the entire classroom, there were only more than 200 people in the classroom with more than 500 seats, and they were sparsely seated, without a trace of neatness, and the strict and neat military camp was too far away, he didn't say anything, it seems that he has been used to it, and after leaving the military camp for more than a hundred years, many habits have changed. Flipping through the lesson plan in his hand, he glanced at it, and said a topic that everyone was very interested in to more than 200 people: "Today I will teach you swordsmanship and the art of war. ”

After hearing this question, Kong Ming's heart couldn't help but move, after all, in his opinion, swordsmanship is swordsmanship, and the art of war is the art of war, how can the two be mixed together? It can be said without hesitation that although Kong Ming has been in the army for more than a year, and has been fighting in the front for more than half a year, he has been exposed to many military practices, and he is also a great swordsman, but you must know that he, the great swordsman, can make people use drugs to Cui out, and there is no corresponding real experience of swordsmanship, although there are some similarities with tactics in swordsmanship, but he has never thought about why the art of war is associated with swordsmanship. Kong Ming didn't know, this was originally a common sense, or in other words, in this school, everyone understands that swordsmanship and the art of war have a lot of connections, just ask a person, he can say ten rules and eight rules, proving that swordsmanship and the art of war are related, only Kong Ming, who has never received formal education, will have a lot of puzzles about this. Perhaps it is in response to that sentence that abnormality is a demon, Sun Bing saw that there was no reaction on the expressions of all the students at the moment, and he knew that this was a truth that everyone knew, so that when he was in class, he could draw some truths from what he knew that everyone would understand, so as to achieve the effect of educating people. But as a sword saint, his perception is too powerful, even if he doesn't want to see something, there is still no way to pretend not to know, he feels that a student in the last row doesn't seem to know about this, only to see that the student is at a loss, it seems that he really doesn't understand, this discovery makes Sun Bing very depressed, how many years has this thing not been? ten years, twenty years or more than a hundred years? It seems that he has never seen such a scene since he left the army, especially in this high-class school in the country, and I did not expect to meet one today. Kong Ming's situation also made the nobleman sitting not far from him look at it, and this situation also made him feel very strange, in his cognition, people like Kong Ming are unique, just like Sun Bing thought. On the contrary, there is nothing wrong with Kongming. In this case, Sun Bing began his class, and it was also this class that opened the beginning of the enlightenment of Kong Ming's swordsmanship and the art of war, that is, from this class, Kong Ming really began to comprehend the essence of the art of war.

"Swordsmanship pays attention to the advance and retreat, the offense and defense are mutually compatible, the virtual and the real are born, and then a sword is successful, the art of war is the same, the army's advance and retreat, attack and defense, frontal combat and the attack of the surprise soldiers, these are the common places of swordsmanship and the art of war, just as a person's swordsmanship is based on fighting spirit, the combat effectiveness of the army is also based on the quantity and quality of the army, if there is no foundation then even the best art of war, swordsmanship can not play its ability. For example, a six-year-old child who can only fight a little bit of fighting spirit with a divine sword to fight with a strong man of a great sword master, even if that child has the sharpest divine sword in the world, and uses the best fighting spirit in the whole continent to use the most exquisite sword skills, he will not be able to hurt that great sword master. Because there is no fighting spirit as a basis, the sharpest sword is just a noble ornament, the best fighting spirit is no different from the light wind, and the superb sword skills are just a clumsy performance in front of the great sword master. In the same way, any conspiracy with an absolute superiority in the strength of an army will not succeed. Therefore, swordsmanship, like the art of war, under absolute strength, any trick is just a joke. And in this case, the art of war and sword skills are not needed. The two armies are facing each other, and when the two fight each other with a certain strength, that is, when the difference has not reached an irreparable point, that is, when the art of war and swordsmanship are in full swing. In other words, among the opponents of the same army strength and the same level, the art of war and swordsmanship have become the greatest guarantee for victory, which is why so many countries have offered so much money to recruit those generals who know the art of war, and for most of the swordsmen, a good sword skill is also a capital rampant between the same level, of course, because many things can be bought in the market now, such as the art of war book and many well-known swordsmanship can also be bought, but just as possession is not the same as knowing, knowing is not equal to mastering, mastering is not equal to being able to use that, many thingsIf we want to be able to grasp and use it correctly, we must know its principles, reasons, and real mastery, just like the art of war and sword skills, the same sentence, the same word, different people have different understandings of it, but there are things we can use, these things can be used universally with the same or similar principles, and we can also master one and use it as an opportunity to master another, and use this to master another skill, this kind of universal thing, can save us a lot of time。 On the surface, the art of war and swordsmanship seem to have nothing in common, but many of the most essential things in them are the same. Remember that the value of an approach is far greater than the value of a skill. ……”

Sun Bing spent a full two hours, using as concise, interesting and vivid language as possible, combined with the battle examples he had participated in or seen, as well as the duel between masters, to illustrate the similarities between swordsmanship and the art of war, and these were very rich for both rookies in the art of war like Kong Ming and for other military professionals. For other people, Kong Ming didn't know how much understanding they had, but this translation gave Kong Ming a new revelation, let Kong Ming see a new field, and also let Kong Ming find a place where swords, magic and military communication are connected, it can be said that listening to your words is better than reading ten years of books. After class, Sun Bing left directly, and the classroom suddenly boiled from silence, without Sun Bing's classroom, there was no more difference between the vegetable market. Then there were no other classes, so the students packed up their textbooks one after another and left the classroom, and Kong Ming was still thinking about Sun Bing's words at this time, the nobleman next to him who had been ignoring Kong Ming suddenly walked over to Kong Ming, and after hearing the footsteps stop next to him, Kong Ming slowly raised his head, and saw the nobleman who had been sitting next to him come to his side, Kong Ming didn't react much, just said sit. The man also sat down directly on the seat next to Kong Ming and Kong Ming, looked at Kong Ming, and said, "My name is Xiang Tiancheng, please ask?"

"Empty Ming. ”

"Hehe, this name is very rare. Xiang Tiancheng said, it is true that the name Kongming is very rare.

"A name is just a code name, what's the difference between rare and common. Kong Ming said coldly. It's been more than half a year since he came here, Kong Ming is still not used to communicating with people, on the one hand, most of his time is spent on learning and cultivating, on the other hand, he is not too keen on this kind of communication, although he came here to study as a Huayuan person, and he also knew that he was born in a noble family of the Huayuan Empire when he was attacked by Phyllis's spiritual magic, but he himself always thought that he was a Kari, that was his hometown, where there were his companions and the old mage who had always raised him。 So he doesn't have much affection for this kind of exchange, after all, there may be a battle between the two on the battlefield in the future. At this time, he did not realize the importance of diplomacy to him, but he knew that once he indulged in this kind of thing, then his cultivation would be ruined.

"I don't mean to find out your details, I just want to know you. Xiang Tiancheng said.

"Why?" Kong Ming frowned, there was really no reason for the other party to make friends with him.

Perhaps seeing Kong Ming's doubts, Xiang Tiancheng changed the topic and said with a smile: "I wonder if I have a chance to have lunch with you?"

"Is there any wine?" said Kong Ming directly, for him, the charm of wine is far greater than anything else.

"Hehe, you can have as much as you want?"

"Haha, okay, just drink enough, let's go. "With wine, what's not to do?