Hu Wenkai tapped his fingers on the table and pondered for a while and said, "Li Manqiang sent a report to Han Xiaojun in Xuzhou asking him to prepare a hundred people to be transported over tomorrow to replenish the heavy armored regiment, and your task now is to repair." After the surrender of the Feng army in the Guannai, your mission will enter the northeast and go straight to Mukden. ”

"I'll talk about it after meeting Wu Peifu tomorrow, and now you will accompany me to comfort the wounded and sick."

Most of the more than 100 injured were gunshot wounds, and the lungs of the wounded soldier who watched the chest wounded have a high fever and need immediate treatment. Karrotta's father's friend, John, walked out of the surgery tent in a white lab coat with a tired look: "Hu Wenkai needs nursing staff here, and the medicine is running out. ”

Hu Wenkai explained: "Dean John, you have worked hard, the seriously injured will be transferred to Tianxing Town tomorrow, and the required medicines have now been shipped from Shanghai, and they will arrive here tomorrow morning." ”

John took the hot towel handed by his assistant to wipe the sweat on his face and hurried into the operating room, this Dr. John took the initiative to go to the front line to treat the wounded, and the battle began the day before yesterday without rest. There is a shortage of medical personnel, and even the personnel of Tianxing Town Hospital are not able to complete them, and Hu Wenkai is helpless when he looks at the wounded soldiers lying on the ground.

The war is too cruel for China to continue like this, and it is the people at the bottom who suffer in the end. The most crucial thing now is to block the Feng army in the pass and force it to surrender, and to break up and reorganize the 120,000 troops to prepare for entering the three eastern provinces.

The next morning, as soon as the sky was filled, Hu Wenkai got up and washed with cold water before riding a horse to the field. The earth was woven into an endless blanket of green, and the distant horizon was shrouded in a faint mist, through which the purple glow shone on the dew drops of the tips of the leaves. The gallop of the horses startled the turtledoves in the woods to flutter, and the moist morning breeze rippled in the wilderness.

He had to make a good posture to greet Wu Peifu, and in three days, he annihilated more than 30,000 Feng troops for the Feng system, and Hu Wenkai laid a decisive foundation for the victory of the direct line in the Zhifeng War. Wu Peifu learned that Hu Wenkai was on the front line in person, and happily made the decision to come to Cangzhou to see his nephew.

Hu Wenkai couldn't win the victory, and he lost his etiquette, so he galloped 20 kilometers and waited for Wu Peifu's arrival. Arriving at the three-way intersection in the small village of Liangjiaying three hours earlier than the agreed time, he jumped off his horse, handed over the reins to a guard, and said to Wang Xiaojun: "Why is the nearby village not popular at all? ”

"Boss, you don't know, when the two sides lined up the troops, the people in this belt had already dragged their families and families to leave, and now the eight villages are empty. Fengjun was born as a bandit, and when he encountered a larger village and town, he looted it, and the money seized in the past few days was enough for two planes to transport. ”

Later generations recorded very few details of the Zhifeng War, and the nature of the Feng army was that the bandits did not do less robbery in the Northeast, and they would be like a wild horse without the reins when they were stationed in North China to make profits for Zhang Zuolin, and what military discipline would there be. It is no wonder that in later generations, the three provinces of Hebei, Shandong, and Henan have never been able to develop, and their foundations have been destroyed, and they will not be able to recover their vitality without 100 years. Think about the fact that Yangzhou is so prosperous that the Qing army has not recovered for hundreds of years after the slaughter of the city, and it is still a third-tier city no matter how the capital is injected in later generations.

He said fiercely: "Damn, Zhang Zuolin, this bandit has harmed the people a lot, you give me a good interrogation during this time, and the officers of the Feng Department who participated in the looting of the people were directly shot." Let it out, our army will not take in officers of the Fengjun army who have committed robbery. ”

He saw the two direct cavalry commanders beside him standing respectfully like a tree stump, and the two exchanged surprised looks. This governor from Jiangsu is very irritable and wants to kill people at every turn.

Hu Wenkai glanced at it and said, "What are the troops used for?" ”

Wang Xiaojun replied loudly: "Defending the people to live and work in peace and contentment and resist foreign aggression is definitely not for the purpose of preying on the people. ”

Hu Wenkai said lightly: "I don't ask you what you did before, but as long as you disturb the people in my army, you will break the law, and if you set it up and rob it, it will definitely be a capital crime." Each of my troops will be paid a full amount of military salary, and it is a capital offense to pay directly to the personal account, and the commander will have to deduct the salary. ”

"Report to the chief, our unit has always been Wu Shuai's guard force, the military discipline is strict, there is no disturbance to the people, robbery is completely different from the Feng army." One of them said loudly.

Hu Wenkai nodded slightly, touched the shriveled pocket, and Li Manqiang trotted up and took out a cigarette from his briefcase and handed it over. The cavalry commander took out a match from his pocket and helped Hu Wenkai light it.

Hu Wenkai took out a book from his briefcase and sat on the ridge on the side of the road and looked at it intently, Li Manqiang smiled and said to the two cavalry commanders: "Our commander just reads books as long as he has time, he doesn't pay much attention to pomp and circumstance, how casual and how good." The sun shone warmly on him, and the ants in the field climbed up his face, and he flicked his fingers away.

Hu Wenkai didn't expect the heavy armored regiment to fight so easily, Wu Peifu took his nephew Hu Wenkai's hand with a smile on his face and said: "The whole Beijing is rumoring that I Wu Peifu has a team of heavenly soldiers and generals Zhang Zuolin is a fart and urine, haha my Wenkai's nephew's handwriting." ”

Hu Wenkai replied respectfully: "Uncle has won the prize and made his nephew landless, if it weren't for my uncle's 100,000 army, how could my nephew have achieved such a record, and my nephew would have won the victory by standing on my uncle's shoulders." ”

"Wen Kai's nephew, don't be too modest, let's go into the room and talk about it." Wu Peifu pulled Hu Wenkai into a tiled house next to the airport.

The uncle and nephew sat down at the table of the Eight Immortals, and Li Manqiang left after making tea on the side.

"Uncle, please have tea, I was going to visit my uncle......" Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted by Wu Peifu.

"Our uncle and nephew, don't chew the words, nephew Wen Kai, you learned Wen crepe with Mr. Liang Qichao, which is not good. We're a family behind closed doors. ”

"You kid know, Zhang Zuolin's elite in the pass was all defeated by you, well, from the feedback from this morning's battle report, more than 30,000 Feng troops ran away, less than 10,000 surrendered, but Zhang Zuolin's baby son Zhang Xueliang let me go. The Feng army has more than 120,000 troops in the Guannai, and now it is less than 60,000 when it is full. Wu Peifu grabbed the cigarette in front of Hu Wenkai and picked it up.

Hu Wenkai nodded but didn't answer, this is a good habit he has developed, and he will wait for the other party to take out all the goods in his stomach.

Wu Peifu blamed: "How can you rabbit cub learn to be so deep and ready to let the uncle pour out all the words?" ”

Hu Wenkai was embarrassed and had to ask: "What are your plans after dealing with the 120,000 Fengjun in the Guan." ”

"I knew that you kid was going to ask about this, and there were two opinions, Cao Laoshuai's opinion was a truce and peace, and there was another opinion to uproot Lao Zhang."

"Uncle is the latter opinion?"

"Well, it's not to listen to your kid fool, I also want to stop talking about the war and fighting, it's too hurtful."

"Uncle, the Japanese are always known behind the Feng department, will you be willing to defeat him this time? Will the Japanese be willing? The Japanese did not intervene this time because they were very sure that Zhang Zuolin would win. Are you going to fight after Zhang Zuolin recuperates in two years? ”

"Although I know some things, my uncle can't make the whole decision, Cao Laoshuai has received words and suggestions from the Japanese every day since yesterday."

Hu Wenkai took a sip of tea and gently put down the teacup and said: "Uncle, isn't this Cao Kun bent on becoming president, if he doesn't recover the Northeast, he will not be stable even if he becomes president, uncle, you bring a word, as long as the army enters Shanhaiguan according to your meaning, the Northeast is like a bag, and our uncle and nephew fully support him as the president of the Republic of China." ”

Wu Peifu was stunned for a long time and didn't speak, got up and walked back and forth in the house.

"Even you can see Cao Kun's thoughts?" Wu Peifu doesn't call Cao Laoshuai anymore.

Hu Wenkai said: "He didn't want to expel the Feng forces in Beijing because he wanted to be the president. However, this man does not have great wisdom and does not control most of the country, and even if he becomes president, he is still a sloping president. If he spares no effort to get rid of Zhang Zuolin, I Jiangsu will fully support him as president and support him for 5 million in three years. ”

"Uncle nephew, tell you the truth, this Cao Kun has the grace of knowing me, but now his brothers and sisters are suspicious of me, and the villain is constantly slandering me beside him, and he thinks that I am a master."

"When you don't have the power to control it, you can be removed at any time, and my nephew heard that Cao Kun has a lot of opinions about his uncle's use of the Bank of Communications to buy arms with 4 million."

Wu Peifu sat down heavily: "Don't mention this matter, if it weren't for the uncle training in Luoyang with heavy troops, he Cao Laosan might have instigated Cao Kun to remove me." ”

"Now his subordinates Wang Chengbin, Zhang Guorong and others are all his henchmen of Cao Kun, and my uncle thinks that even if we take the Northeast, we will make a wedding dress for Cao Kun in the end. However, as long as he supports him as president according to his nephew's proposal, he Cao Kun will definitely not spare any effort to march into the northeast. ”

Hu Wenkai pointed to the map of the northeast and said: "This uncle don't worry, we don't want to beat Zhang Zuolin to death with a stick, when the uncle comes forward to let Zhang Zuolin own Fengtian Province, but the army only allows him to keep 20,000, this is also to prevent the Japanese from jumping off the wall in a hurry." Of course, talking about these things is too far, and the key is to tie your pockets tightly at Shanhaiguan and not let the Fengjun in the customs slip away. ”

Wu Peifu nodded and said: "With your words to support him Cao Kun as the president, it's no problem, you kid pay so much and don't hide it with your uncle." ”

"The old uncle and nephew are also in difficulty now, Lu Yongxiang mobilized heavy troops near Shanghai and wanted to annex Jiangsu at any time, and Anhui's Anhui system also echoed from afar."

"You kid want to eat Zhejiang and Anhui, right? He, Lu Yongxiang, is so bold and fat, and dares to move your idea. There should be no problem in eating the two places in the Anhui system, and he Cao Kun will focus all his energy on the northeast in the next time, and there is no problem with the uncle here. Wu Peifu said this with a red face, Hu Wenkai still needed something for him, and his tone changed for a while.

"Wen Kai, you are also 21 years old, you are the only one in the family who died early, you give birth to a few children for me as soon as possible, otherwise you are sorry for the dead Hu Dingbang."

"There's no hurry, Carrotta is only 20 years old, too young."

"Before I was young, a girl at the age of seventeen or eighteen gave birth to a few children, and you are not a small one."

"Carrotta's parents told me to wait two years for the wedding."

"I won't say much about this, I don't have a bottom in my heart about opening up trade and investment in Northeast China to Britain, France and the United States, and finally point to the backbone of the countrymen and scold the traitor."

Hu Wenkai enlightened: "Uncle, don't worry about this, after obtaining the Northeast, this matter needs to be negotiated, and it depends on what benefits these three countries can give to the government." Tohoku should not allow Japan to enjoy the benefits alone, and the introduction of three countries can have competition and be beneficial to the overall development of Tohoku. You see, now the Japanese are making Tohoku feel like their own home. ”

Wu Peifu sighed: "This is also the case, as long as you don't sign a traitorous treaty, it's easy to say anything." ”

After a brief lunch at noon, Wu Peifu visited the sparrow plane, and then left the Cangzhou station to go to Cao Kun's place.