Chen Zikun absentmindedly helped Wang Degui finish his work, changed into a clean military uniform, came to the door of the signing room with vigor, and shouted: "Report!" ”

"Come in." Wu Peifu's voice was very calm.

Chen Zikun strode into the signing room and saluted cleanly: "Private Chen Zikun is ordered to come to report!" ”

"Sit, sit." Wu Peifu did not wear a military uniform, looked gentle and elegant in a silk gown, held a Ming version of "Spring and Autumn" in his hand, and his hair was shaved very short, quite like a Confucian general.

Chen Zikun wondered, which one did the handsome sing and why was he so kind?

Wondering, he still sat down obediently, and his ass occupied the entire chair, not the kind of small officials who trembled when they saw their bosses.

Wu Peifu took a look and nodded secretly, this son is a downright person.

"Zikun, you have repeatedly performed miraculous feats, but Ben Shuai has never been promoted to you, do you have any complaints?"

Chen Zikun had already written a draft, and replied loudly: "Soldiers regard obedience to orders as their duty, and they dare not complain under the mark. ”

"Hehe, don't you dare to have it, or don't you have it at all?"

"Back to Dashuai, I really don't, I know under the mark, Dashuai has good intentions, and he wants to hone his perseverance to be pampered and humiliated."

Wu Peifu nodded, very satisfied: "I know your origin, the May Fourth Trend, you have a share of the merits of burning Zhao's house, a scholar has a pen from Rong, this heart of serving the country with fists is remarkable, and then he has both tiger courage and two divine powers, such a fierce general with both civil and military skills, if I Wu Peifu don't use it, wouldn't I be blind?" ”

Chen Zikun stood up and arched his hand: "Handsome and wise!" ”

"You sit, drink tea, drink tea." Wu Peifu deliberately rendered this meeting in the form of a private meeting, and Chen Zikun also knew that the other party wanted to close the distance, so he was more open, and said: "How is Yushuai going to arrange the bidding?" ”

Wu Peifu said: "Although our army has strong force and soldiers use their lives, there are still many deficiencies, the coordination of infantry and artillery is extremely poor, the machine guns will not shoot across the machine, and the soldiers will not repair if they fail, and the tactical tactics are no different from those of the former Qing Dynasty. ”

Chen Zikun thought deeply and said: "To strengthen the army, we must put people first." ”

"Exactly!" Wu Peifu suddenly stood up and paced back and forth in the room, seemingly excited: "Master Yi's long skills to control Yi, this is the way we are going, I am going to send you to study abroad and study military affairs." ”

Chen Zikun also stood up: "Xie Dashuai!" But I don't know which country Dashuai is going to send the bid to study in? ”

"In Japan, only the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School is the best choice." Wu Peifu looked out the window and said word by word.

Chen Zikun was greatly disappointed, he looked down on all the things in small Japan in his heart, and the same is true for the military, when he said: "Marshal, when I was studying at Peking University, I once heard that if you talk about the army, only Germany and France are first-class in the world, and the Japanese army is only second-rate." ”

Wu Peifu said: "Young man, you only know one but don't know the other, I have multiple considerations for choosing the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School for you, one of them, Japan is next to me, since the Ming Dynasty Wanli years have repeatedly started wars with our country, Jiawu and Gengzi have burned the flames of war to our country's door, twenty-one are still snowing, and Qingdao has been swallowed by Japan!" There will be a big war between me and Japan in 20 years! ”

Chen Zikun said: "Dashuai means that only by being familiar with the enemy and understanding the enemy can we better deal with the enemy." ”

"Yes, that's the intention, that's one of them; Second, the Japanese army is more suitable for our people to study, Britain, the United States, France and Germany, the national strength is strong, their army is mainly artillery fighting vehicles, the division has an artillery brigade under its jurisdiction, the regiment has an artillery battalion, and a brand-new weapon has appeared on the European battlefield, called 'tank', with iron armor on the outside and artillery machine guns inside, and there is the courage of ten thousand people. Not to mention the chariots, even the machine guns we can't do one in each row, and Japan is similar to our country, Bibang has accumulated national strength since the Meiji Restoration, and there is still a gap between Europe and the United States, their troop composition, similar to our Beiyang, but they defeated the Qing Dynasty, defeated Imperial Russia, and impressed the world, isn't it worth learning. ”

Chen Zikun nodded again and again, not daring to interject.

Wu Peifu said: "Third, you have not studied in Wutang and Army University, and there are no teachers and classmates in the army, so it is difficult to move an inch, and among my Chinese soldiers, there are many people from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, Jiang Baili, Xu Shuzheng and others are all from this school, let you study in Japan, but also for you to accumulate contacts in the future." ”

Dashuai even thought of this layer, Chen Zikun was convinced, moved, and nodded on one knee: "Xie Dashuai cultivates, and marks that he will definitely go to the soup in the future to repay the kindness of Dashuai!" ”

Wu Peifu laughed with a figure of eight and waved his hand: "Someone's coming." ”

The orderly walked in with a tray with a military uniform and a stack of banknotes.

"Zikun, you captured Qu Tongfeng, forced down tens of thousands of enemy troops in Changxindian, captured wanted criminals, these three merits are recorded in the merit book for you, today on meritorious deeds, you will be promoted to second lieutenant of the army, awarded the Order of the White Eagle of the first class, rewarded with 100 yuan, and granted a special vacation of three days." Wu Peifu said with a smile.

"Xie Dashuai!" Chen Zikun jumped up and put on a military uniform on the spot, and Wu Peifu personally hung a second lieutenant epaulette and a medal for him.

"Okay, let's go, go home and have a look, and let everyone know that I, Wu Peifu, am not a mediocre person who has no merit and is not rewarded." Wu Peifu waved his hand, watched Chen Zikun's back leave, and muttered: "It's a pity, I don't have a daughter of the right age." ”

……

Chen Zikun was proud of the spring breeze, and returned to the cooking class very much, bought two cans of three-fort cigarettes, ten catties of sauce donkey meat, twenty catties of two-pot head, please everyone, Wang Degui and Li Changsheng drank heartily, after hearing that Chen Zikun was about to go to Japan to study, the two of them moved their feelings, and they were drunk, but it was a pity that Zhao Yufeng was far away in Baoding to buy military funds, and the four of them could not drink together, which was quite a pity.

Although he has been promoted from the lowest-ranking private to a second lieutenant officer, and has realized the transformation of a carp jumping over the dragon gate, the second lieutenant is the lowest-ranking officer after all, with no riding boots, no command knife, and no handsome tweed uniform, but an extra red hoop on the brim of the hat and a lieutenant star on the epaulette.

The next morning, he changed into a new military uniform and went to Beijing with the banknotes rewarded by the marshal.

Under the shade of the trees at the gate of the Nanyuan camp, there were several foreign cars parked, and the coachman sat on the dustpan and chatted, knowing that he was singing tirelessly on the trees, and there was no wind at all, and it was as hot as a steamer.

"Salute!" The sentry at the camp gate saw a second lieutenant officer approaching and hurriedly raised his gun and saluted, and the coachmen, realizing that business was coming, rushed up and shouted: "Sir, take my car, I am young and fast." ”

Chen Zikun looked at these coachmen with a smile, as if he saw himself last year, he picked for a while, pointed to an old man standing in the back row and said, "You come." ”

The coachmen were taken aback, how did the officer pick an old guy in his fifties, the old man and the old car, and he ran slowly, what did it mean.

What happened next surprised them even more, the officer did not get into the car, but forced the old coachman to sit in his seat, picked up the handlebars himself, and ran away in a puff of smoke, seeing that the skillful posture was clearly an expert in the rubber ball.

"I've practiced with this master." The drivers looked at each other.

It is more than ten miles away from Nanyuan camp to the city, and Chen Zikun is sweating all the way down, but for him who often exercises, it is just a warm-up exercise, and the bones in his body are only comfortable.

"Alright, that's it." Chen Zikun took out an ocean and threw it over, and the old coachman frowned: "Master, I can't find it." ”

Chen Zikun laughed heartily: "Take it, it's all my own people, I have run a car before I joined the army, and I know the hard work of this industry." "Let's go in stride.

"Good man......" The old coachman's eyes moistened.

Chen Zikun walked on the crowded street, feeling the prosperity and enthusiasm of Beijing, and suddenly a familiar voice came from behind him: "This master, please stay, I see that you have the joy of adding Ding between your eyebrows." ”

Looking back, there was a fortune-telling table on the side of the street, and Hu Banxian was pulling a man in his forties to fool people.

The man said suspiciously: "I recently married a concubine, but I only entered the door last month, and even if I was happy, it wasn't so fast." ”

Hu Banxian said: "No, let me ask you, you still have a daughter." ”

The man said: "Yes, there is a daughter." ”

Hu Banxian pinched his fingers and said mysteriously: "Congratulations, you are going to be a grandfather." ”

The man was furious, waved the fan in his hand and hit Hu Banxian's eyebrows, and immediately saw blood, and scolded while beating: "What nonsense are you stinky fortune tellers, my daughter hasn't come out of the cabinet yet, where is the joy, see if I don't kill you!" ”

The onlookers also followed suit, and lifted Hu Banxian's hexagram stall, and it was making a lot of trouble, Chen Zikun came over and persuaded: "Okay, if you fight again, you will die!" ”

Everyone saw that he was dressed up and tall, and they were afraid to make trouble again, and the man kicked Hu Banxian's ass before leaving, and did not forget to turn around and scold: "Stinky fortune teller, don't let the master meet you again." ”

"Alright, half-immortal, come out." Chan said.

Hu Banxian crawled out from under the table and sizzled coldly: "The mouth is open, yo, bleeding." ”

Chen Zikun said: "Pack up and go back quickly, I'm afraid there will be no more business today." ”

Hu Banxian picked up the sunglasses that had been trampled on from the ground and put them on, and suddenly smiled: "It's you, we are really fated, hey, I see that you have the joy of Dengke between your eyebrows, but you also have the pain of crossing the ocean, so it seems that you are going to study abroad." ”

Chen Zikun's heart moved: "Do you know where to study?" ”

Hu Banxian pinched his fingers and said, "The land of the extreme west." ”

Chen Zikun laughed, Japan is the east of China, why did he come to the extreme west, but he was too lazy to entangle with Hu Banxian, dropped a silver dollar and said: "You are not in a good state today, let's go back and find a cool place to rest." ”