The train runs through the field, and the black fields on both sides of the railway are exposed, and the crops have been returned to the warehouse, showing a scene of abundant harvest. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoGe Yunfei looked at the swarthy land, and the image of Meng Enyuan appeared in his mind. Meng Enyuan, who was the envoy of Jilin when he was in Beijing, once came to visit Yuan's mansion, and Yuan Shikai held a banquet to entertain guests. At that time, there were many guests, and Ge Yunfei and Meng Enyuan knew each other, but they had no intersection. Yuan Shikai appointed Meng Enyuan as the overseer of Jilin and concurrently served as the commander of the 23rd Division, apparently to guard against Zhang Zuolin.

Ge Yunfei's visit to Meng Enyuan is an important part of coming to the Northeast. Although Meng Enyuan is good at shaving and patting horses, his reputation is not very good, but he is a patriotic soldier. In the later Kuanchengzi (Changchun) incident, Meng Enyuan dared to start a war against the Japanese garrison in the face of the Feng army's attack from the north and south, and the situation was precarious. At that time, a Japanese railway employee crossed the defense area of the Jilin army near the railway station and clashed with the soldiers, and the Japanese railway garrison arrived when he heard the news, and a gun battle broke out between the two sides, and the Japanese side suffered 36 casualties, which is known as the Kuanchengzi Incident.

The reason for Meng Enyuan's bad reputation is that he once befriended the Empress Dowager Cixi when he was training at a small station, and later supported Zhang Xun's restoration, but this person has a clear stand on the issue of national integrity and anti-Japanese. Therefore, Ge Yunfei must have a good relationship with this person and strive to form an anti-Japanese alliance in the future.

The train arrived at Kuanchengzi Station, and Ge Yunfei and two guards got off the train and went straight to Mengfu. Meng Enyuan was shocked to hear that Ge Yunfei was coming to visit, and hurriedly came out to meet the guests. Meng Enyuan was radiant and a little bald, with a square face, but the eyebrows and eyes were very close, which affected the overall coordination of the face, but he couldn't tell that he was an old man in his sixties.

"The old man didn't expect General Ge to come to visit suddenly, it's really a magpie climbing the branch!" Meng Enyuan was pleasantly surprised. "General Meng, I came to Anshan with Sheng Xuanhuai to run an iron mine, and in my spare time, I came to visit General Meng, and I asked for a lot of forbearance in Xia Tang!" "This is a mistake, General Ge came to visit, it is an honor, I can't ask for it, please General Ge into the mansion to talk." The guest and host entered the living room of the mansion and sat down, and Meng Enyuan ordered tea. He was extremely happy with a red face, and his every move was not pretentious at all, showing the straightforwardness of a soldier.

Meng Enyuan is like this, which is directly related to Ge Yunfei's extraordinary. There are three reasons: First, as a young talent, he is deeply valued by Yuan Shikai and has a bright future. Second, Ge Yunfei is currently the richest in the Beiyang military system, and his wealth is rivaled by the country. In particular, the ability to make money is weird, and he became popular in the capital, and the generals of Beiyang privately admired him for his five-body throw, Cao Kun is an example. Third, Shandong faced the oppression of the Germans, and Jilin faced the double oppression of the Russians and the Japanese, and there was a feeling of sympathy for the same disease, so it was very cordial to see Ge Yunfei.

Nowadays, whether it is Zhang Zuolin or Meng Enyuan, if he does not have a strong force, even if he is as clever and talented as a tongue, he will not be welcomed, and he is useless to be a scholar! The characteristics of this era are particularly obvious. "General Meng, I am waiting for the capital to meet in a hurry, and I deeply regret it, and I came to visit this time, praying for the continuation of the frontier!" "General Ge is polite, how can he be in the next place, let General Ge favor him, and be ashamed in the next." "General Meng is tormented, I can't hide it, I can have today in the next, it's all up to Lord Yuan."

"Lord Yuan is a discerning eye and has discovered General Ge's talent. General Ge is so young, and he will have a bright future in the future. Meng Enyuan's vigorous praise seemed to be a natural outpouring, and it could be seen that his kung fu was excellent, whether he intended to stammer or ask for help, Ge Yunfei was not sure for a while. But one thing is for sure, Meng Enyuan may have something to ask for himself. "General Ge came from afar, prepare a little wine in the next place, let's have a good drink." Soon, the two of them pushed the cup and changed the cup, and when they were happy, Meng Enyuan asked.

General Ge had a close relationship with the Germans, and said bluntly, is there a way to buy a few German guns? General Ge didn't know that his unit was a newly reorganized unit, and several of the artillery pieces were old and just decorations. "General Meng, I know your difficulties. Before boarding the train in Harbin, I sent a report to Jinan that it was estimated that two German-made 76-mm mountain guns and 400 shells had been embarked on the ship in Penglai. These two guns and cannonballs are a welcome gift to the general, so please be sure to smile! “

"It is said that General Ge is righteous, and he really deserves his name, so you are not welcome. However, two guns are too few, how about I want to purchase a few more? Meng Enyuan was overjoyed when he heard this, and as soon as he made a move, he gave two artillery pieces, and the other party took the opportunity to ask for it because he was so wealthy.

Ge Yunfei smiled: "General Meng, you can't spend the money!" I'll give you a piece of news. The War Department has set up a cannon factory in Jinan, which will be put into large-scale production by the middle of next year. I got information through the War Department that, due to the importance of the border, the Northeast Ministries gave priority to the supply of artillery. "Is this information accurate?" "This artillery factory was built under the help of President Yuan, how can it be fake?"

"Haha, this is good news, but I would like to ask General Ge to say a lot of kind words in front of the president, and I need special attention." "General Meng, the Northeast is an important border defense area at the moment, and this time I came to the Northeast to play, I am going to submit a Northeast Defense Report to President Yuan Da, and the statement is very powerful." "I can see General Ge's feelings of worrying about the country, you and I are sympathetic. In Shandong, you are under pressure from the Germans. Facing the pressure of the Russians and the Japanese in Jilin, we have a heavy responsibility on our shoulders! “

"In fact, General Meng has more pressure and heavier responsibility. The Germans were in Shantung for commercial gain, while the Russians and the Japanese wanted to seize our territory, and the latter was the most terrible. At present, Russia's national power is weakening day by day, and the Russo-Japanese War has sharply reduced Russia's strength in the Far East. In particular, the domestic situation in Russia continued to deteriorate, and the Tsarist government was heavily indebted and the people were struggling to make a living. There are already signs of war in Russia. Judging from this, Russia will stop expanding in the Far East in the next decade or so. ”

"And the biggest threat to us in the future is the Japanese, and the Utai rebellion is ostensibly because the Russians support Mongolia to break away from the Republic of China government and control the whole of Mongolia. In fact, the real backstage is the Japanese, because the Japanese are planning for the independence of Manchuria, Mongolia and the Northeast. "What General Ge said is not wrong, the wolf ambitions of the Japanese are known to the world, but Japan is strong and we are weak, so we can only swallow our anger. At present, President Yuan Da relies on Britain, the United States, Germany, and Russia to balance Japan, so that the Japanese do not dare to be unscrupulous. "General Alliance, President Yuan's decision is a helpless move, and it can only be an expedient measure. It is better to seek others than to seek oneself, and as long as we are united, the conspiracy of little Japan will not succeed. ”

"General Meng, you and I are both soldiers, and it is our sacred duty to defend our home and country, I want to know how much you know about Japan and even the Japanese army?" "General Ge, I'm ashamed, I know that the Japanese Navy dominates the Far East, and the Japanese Army fights bravely and strongly, and has no opponent in the Far East." "General Meng, in my eyes, the Japanese Empire, the Japanese army is just a seemingly powerful. Although Japan had a strong fleet, warships would not be on land, and it was the army that would decide the victory in a war. ”

"Based on my understanding and analysis, Japan's maritime strategy is particularly important as an island nation. After the Meiji Restoration, Japan focused on the development of the navy, and the development of the army was relatively late, so the Japanese army's thinking on army building followed the line of elite soldiers. The Japanese soldiers fought bravely and were not afraid of death, and they were disciplined, which was the result of the Japanese instilling the spirit of bushido from an early age. The tragedy of Japan lies in the small size of the country and the scarcity of resources. Since ancient times, wars have been fought on national strength, which means how much money you have to support. ”

Meng Enyuan seemed to be stupid, he had heard such a profound insight for the first time, and he was deeply attracted. Ge Yunfei continued to talk. "Take the First Sino-Japanese War as an example, we lost the naval battle, but we also lost the land battle. The defeat of the land battle was not because the Japanese army was strong, but because the Manchu government was too incompetent, the soldiers fought to the death, and the officers were greedy for life and afraid of death and fled first. If this war had been fought for another half a year, the outcome would have been different. "What does General Ge mean is that the Japanese army's war preparations cannot be sustained?"

In order to let General Meng understand the truth more intuitively, take the Russo-Japanese War as an example to explain the problem more clearly. At that time, Russia had a population of 140 million and a standing army of 3.7 million. Russia's center of gravity is in the west, with 90 percent of its troops deployed in the west, and only 100,000 troops in the Far East. The situation is different in Japan, with a population of 47 million. The number of troops that can be mobilized is about 2 million. At the beginning of the war, the Japanese army had only 370,000 troops at its disposal, and only 250,000 in foreign combat. No matter how the two countries compared, the Japanese army was at a disadvantage. ”

After the two sides fought, the Russian army successively increased its strength in the Far East by 1 million, and the Japanese army subsequently mobilized and invested 1.2 million combat troops. The reason why the Japanese army dared to compete with the Russian army in the northeast was to consider the weakness of the Russian army's military strength in the Far East and the difficulty of supply in wartime. In this battle, Japan almost used its strength to eat, and although it defeated Russia, it also paid a heavy price, with 250,000 casualties. Another point is that the war between Japan and Russia was on Chinese soil, and the people at that time were inclined to the Japanese, which was one of the reasons for the victory of the Japanese army. ”

"The Russo-Japanese War, Japan was pure gambling. After the Japanese army defeated Russia, the Japanese army general Nogi Noshinori led his troops to return to China in triumph, and once shed tears in the wind on the ship and wrote a poem: The emperor is a million prisoners, and the corpses of the field siege are made of mountains. At that time, the people who greeted us cried, which showed the huge loss of manpower. However, for Japan, which has a weak economic foundation, the cost of the war is unbearable, and at the end of the war, Japan spent a total of 1.5 billion yen on its military, which is an astronomical amount for Japan. ”

"The negative impact of this war is that it has caused Japan's economic development to slow down, and it has not yet caught its breath. After Russia's defeat, Japan demanded that Russia pay 3 billion yen in reparations, but the tsar refused, agreeing only to exchange the interests of the Far East, otherwise it would fight another war. As a result, the exhausted Japanese can only accept what they see, and this can prove that Japan's current capabilities are simply unable to guarantee the consumption of large-scale wars, and to put it bluntly, modern wars are fought with money. ”

"General Ge is worthy of being a young talent, and his analysis is thorough and meticulous. It turns out that Little Japan is a foreign powerhouse and a middle cadre, and our land of China has a population of 40,000 and a vast land, so how can we tolerate the ravages of Little Japan. If there is a war against Little Japan one day, Meng will never back down. ”

The two talked very speculatively, and drank heartily until late at night. Ge Yunfei's goal has been achieved, and he may be able to have one more ally against the Japanese army in the future, even if this ally does not dare to openly support him, he will secretly help each other. Clearing away the unfavorable factors and uniting those who can help each other is the first thing he should do.