"I heard that the General Staff is quarreling all day long. 【】It's pretty lively, isn't it? "Lively?" Pei Chengyi glanced back at Yuan Chenhao and handed over the brewed dissolved coffee. "It's really lively, it's similar to the talent market outside, and the bargaining is a lot more, so I almost didn't do anything. Listen to you, you are not in the General Staff these days? ”

Yuan Chenhao knew that Pei Chengyi was asking knowingly, so he didn't answer this question, and said: "I also heard about it on the Internet, the equipment matter is really tricky, you have worked in the equipment office, and you know the situation better." Listen to Mr. Xiang. In less than ten days and half a month, these things are not clear. I think you've probably come down this time. ”

Seeing Yuan Chenhao's appearance of talking about him left and right, Pei Chengyi didn't dwell on the starting questions, shook his head with a wry smile and said, "Why let me stay?" What kind intentions Xiang always pressed, you can't be unclear. It was clear that it was the chief of the general staff and the chief of the logistics and equipment department, but let me handle it. It's understandable that he doesn't want to offend people, after all, everyone wants to leave a good name before leaving office, but he can't think about everything for the sake of the new chief of the General Staff, right? ”

"Lao Pei, you're talking angry, you still don't know Lin Xiaolei's personality?" Round reading the most chopped chapters, choose the tear book, throw the concave Peng complete

Pei Chengyi smiled. Didn't join the topic.

Yuan Chenhao did not let go of this topic, and said: "When I first entered the General Staff, I knew that Lin Xiaolei was an out-and-out "big navyr". It's because I'm worried that he will mess up the rules of the army. Although I am not a believer in the "Army Victory Theory, nor am I" the Air Force Victory Theory. 's believers don't have much interest in other so-called "winning theories", but I believe that if Lin Xiaolei is really allowed to let go of his hands and feet, I am afraid that the world will be turned upside down in less than five years.

"You're here to be a lobbyist?" Pei Chengyi leaned against the sand.

"Is this necessary?" Yuan Chenhao smiled and said, "Mr. Xiang didn't tell me anything, these are my own thoughts." Besides, if I really want to do ideological work for you, I don't need to pull Mr. Xiang, right? ”

Pei Chengyi smiled, knowing that Yuan Chenhao was not lying.

To be honest, it's impossible for you not to know Mr. Xiang's intentions. ”

"We just need to understand this."

Pei Chengyi said so. Yuan Chenhao didn't have much to say.

In fact, when Xiang Linghui asked him to participate in the examination and approval of the equipment exhibition plan in the name of attending a high-level meeting, Pei Chengyi knew that the chief of the general staff's move was to ask him to contain Lin Xiaolei. To be precise, this is unlikely to be Xiang Linghui's idea, after all, Xiang Linghui has no obvious prejudice against the military and arms, and he has long since asked about the work of the General Staff. According to Pei Chengyi's guess, this is likely to be Yuan's arrangement.

As Yuan Chenhao said. Yuan's first intention was to use Pei Chengyi to suppress Lin Xiaolei.

To be exact. It is to let Lin Xiaolei know that he is not unique, and someone can replace him, or even do better than him, and let him be honest after sitting in the position of chief of the general staff. Don't come up with something ingenious. Obviously, the importance of limiting the dominance of the Navy is not great.

Not that naval expansion should not be restricted, but it is necessary.

Although Peng Maobang was an out-and-out "Continental Army activist", in the last few years of his military career, there was a major change in his concept, the most direct manifestation of which was to focus on cultivating Xiang Linghui rather than other army generals. For example, Su Jinhui, who had a very high voice at that time. Xiang Linghui is nominally an army general, but in fact he does not have a close relationship with the army, at least not like other army generals. It is believed that the army is larger than other branches of the armed forces. It is precisely because of this that during the years when Xiang Linghui was chief of the General Staff, the building of the military strength of the Republic became more and more balanced, and independent branches of the armed forces, including the Space Army, the Electronic Corps, and the Marine Corps, were born, and the military force system was perfected. No matter what future generations say about this chief of general staff, who has never commanded a war, no one can deny Xiang Linghui's outstanding contributions to the national defense construction of the republic.

Relatively speaking, in the old years when Xiang Linghui was chief of the general staff, the navy made the most obvious progress.

According to the data mentioned in the "Annual Comprehensive Analysis of Global Military Forces" published by the "Jane's Defense Weekly" at the beginning of the year, that is, after the London summit, the Republic Navy is already the second largest navy in the world after the US Navy, and its overall combat strength is equivalent to the West of the US Navy, and it is the only maritime power capable of confronting the US Navy, and it is also one of the two major global navies. A year ago, that is, when Xiang Linghui was reused by Peng Maobang. The Republic's navy ranks seventh in strength after the United States, the United Kingdom, the Russian Navy, the French Navy, the Japanese Navy, and the Indian Navy. It is only slightly stronger than the Italian Navy, which is in eighth place. More importantly, at that time, the Navy of the Republic was not yet an ocean-going navy, and at most it could only be regarded as a "far-shore navy" that could only operate within the cover of shore-based aviation.

In just one year. The number of large warships with a displacement of more than one ton has increased, the displacement of the main ships has increased in a hurry, and the average displacement of the main warships has increased from less than Jintun to four stews. With six aircraft carrier battle groups, it has established the world's largest submarine force and a complete sea-based strategic strike force, and can send two marine brigades to a thousand kilometers away at one time...

These achievements were basically made during Xiang Linghui's tenure.

It is precisely for this reason that after Xiang Linghui decided to retire, some people pointed out that the navy has already made great progress, but the air force has seriously lagged behind due to insufficient funds, especially in terms of strategic strike capability, the air force of the Republic is far inferior to the most powerful opponent, that is, the US Air Force, and even in terms of tactical aviation and support aviation, the air force of the Republic of China does not have any advantages, so let Zhang Zhongxian be the chief of the general staff, instead of letting the navy be alone

Although most of the people who put forward this viewpoint have something to do with the Air Force or Zhang Zhongjing, this viewpoint is not wrong, after all, who is the chief of the general staff is originally a dispute of interests between the services. If a civilian could have served as chief of the General Staff, these problems would not have arisen at all. It is a pity that it is not possible for a civilian to be the chief of the General Staff.

Wang Yuanqing doesn't use Zhang Zhongxian, and it is not complicated to choose Lin Xiaolei's original throw: Zhang Zhongxian is too politically minded.

Lin Xiaolei is not without problems, and his biggest problem is that he has no political acumen.

Everyone knows that during Lin Xiaolei's term of office, the republic's national defense construction will certainly be dominated by "austerity," and it is impossible to violate the general law of national development and expand under the condition of limited national strength. Of course, Lin Xiaolei can also recognize this problem. However, as a soldier with a very strong sense of purpose, even if there are no conditions, he will create conditions. In other words, Lin Xiaolei is very likely to use the power in his hands to put the construction of the navy in one place, resulting in serious malnutrition in other branches of the armed forces. You must know that in a maximum of 30 years, the world situation will undergo drastic changes, and the fate of the Republic and the fate of the Chinese nation will once again be decided by the military. If the Republic's national defense strength is greatly reduced because of the erroneous national defense construction policy, not only Lin Xiaolei will become a sinner of the Chinese nation through the ages, but Wang Yuanqing's wisdom will also be affected. Round reading the most chopped chapters, choose the tear book, throw the concave Peng complete

Mother Yong doubted that Wang Yuanqing would not let such a thing happen.

More importantly, Wang Yuanqing should know that after he steps down, even if Gu Weimin, who takes over, will adhere to the policy of military reform, he may not be able to suppress Lin Xiaolei. In other words, Wang Yuanqing must find a way to effectively restrain Lin Xiaolei, as well as someone who can make Lin Xiaolei bow down.

The way to do this is to make a plan for the next few decades, at least the old year, before he leaves office. Although no one can guarantee that the equipment exhibition plan will be able to stick to the old year without making adjustments, in fact, no equipment exhibition plan can last more than one year, after all, the degree of technological development far exceeds the degree of formulating profits, but what Wang Yuanqing wants is not a plan that can be more detailed than it can be, but an overall exhibition plan, that is, an equipment development plan based on the entire national defense system. Exactly. At the end of the past few days, Pei Chengyi seemed to be at ease, and those generals who didn't understand the situation were arguing about meaningless details, wasting a lot of time for no reason.

The person Wang Yuanqing wants is Pei Chengyi, that is, the one who can threaten Lin Xiaolei! Only Pei Chengyi. In fact, in terms of fame and prestige, Pei Chengyi is above Lin Xiaolei, especially among a large number of grassroots officers. Pei Chengyi's influence and appeal are even no less than Xiang Linghui. In the words of a grassroots officer, as long as he can follow Pei Chengyi to the battlefield, there is a good chance that he will come back alive and receive awards and promotions. For junior officers, what they pursue is commendation and promotion. Because it was impossible to arrange Pei Chengyi to fight with Lin Xiaolei in the General Staff, and to consolidate Pei Chengyi's position, Wang Yuanqing came up with a compromise method to let Pei Chengyi join the "Yanhuang Plan thugs", that is, to recognize Pei Chengyi's place in the leading group of the republic. In addition, supporting Yuan Chenhao is also consolidating Pei Chengyi's position in the army. Don't say anything else. When ordinary people think of Yuan Chenhao, they think of "the young general who followed Pei Chengyi to win the war in India".

After understanding these relationships, Pei Chengyi naturally knew the importance of the approval work of this equipment exhibition

Yuan Chenhao is not a stupid person, he realized it before he came back from Pakistan to meet Pei Chengyi, because of his special relationship with Pei Chengyi. The future and fate of the two have been tied together. When Xiang Linghui asked him to live in Pei Chengyi's house, Yuan Chenhao made up his mind and chose the camp.

There is no doubt that Yuan Chenhao's role in this power struggle within the military is very crucial.

Seeing Yuan Chenhao, he didn't plan to speak. Pei Chengyi said with a smile: "You don't need to worry about the affairs on my side. I haven't seen you in the past few days, so let's talk about the situation on your side. ”

"I'm here to say goodbye to you."

"Farewell?. Pei Chengyi's brows jumped a few times and said, "Are you going to go back?"

"Yes, the plane is ready to take off at any time Yuan Chenhao let out a sigh and said, "Don't worry, just give me a pound anyway." When people go back, they take off at any time.

Pei Chengyi smiled and shook his head. said: "I didn't expect that you were leaving again a few days after we met, and things over there were very urgent?" ”

"It's not urgent, it's just that a lot of our work is not in place. In Director Li's words, it would be more helpful for us to go back early and prepare. ”

"Li Cunxun asked you to go back?" The tear book bar throws off the concave coffee factory and tells less, Xia Chop, Xia more

Yuan Chenhao nodded and said, "I have been in the Military Intelligence Bureau for the past few days, and in addition to understanding some necessary information, the main thing is to ask Director Li's opinion. In the words of Mr. Xiang, if you want to do secret work, you have to find Li Cunxun. It's useless to find anyone else. ”

"What did Li Cunxun say?"

"It's not good, anyway." Yuan Chenhao smiled bitterly. "In his words, if you don't lift the lid, this pressure cooker in the Middle East will explode." Although I think he is exaggerating, when I was at the South Asia Theater Command, I also followed the situation in the Middle East, even if the Falklands conflict would have an impact on U.S. decision-making, because the direct participant in the conflict is Israel, so as long as Israel is not prepared, it is unlikely to create a conflict. But Director Li's words also make sense, after all, we should have prepared early. Just one more chance of winning. Besides, what the Central Committee said had little to do with me, and since I was asked to go back to preside over the overall situation, I would not send a new theater commander, and there was no need for me to stay and wait for the results. ”

"Since Li Cunxun has said so, you can go back early." Pei Chengbian "paused slightly" and chiseled: "The problem in the Middle East is not very big. According to Renchai's judgment, the possibility of a fight within the year is very small. You must know that the top priority of the Israeli prime minister is to get the Knesset to ratify the "London Treaty," and the United States certainly does not want to see Israel break the treaty, so both the Israeli authorities and the US authorities will calm things down and even make certain concessions to ensure that the situation is stable. At the end of the year, the treaty will officially enter into force, and the United States and Israel will be able to fight in a big way. With the capabilities of the Military Intelligence Agency, let alone dealing with Syria and Iran, even in the face of the four and Mossard, more than half a year is enough to make all the preparations. ”

"You're saying that I should go back early, not for this?.

Pei Chengyi smiled and nodded, not in a hurry

"Cocospoon"

"Have you been to Yuanfu these past nights?"

Yuan Chenhao was stunned for a moment. said: "I went the day before yesterday, and I didn't attend the meeting of the Yuan Mansion for two nights. ”

"I haven't been to Yuanfu for two nights." Pei Chengyi let out a long breath and said, "Before that, I wasn't sure yet. Now that I know that it was Li Cunxun who asked you to go back, I can be sure that there must have been a disagreement on the issue of the commander of the South Asian Theater.

Yuan Chenhao immediately tightened his brows.

"Of course, the Ingkey is not on you, but on mine."

"Lao Pei, don't go around the bend with me, just say it, I can stand it

Pei Chengyi shook his head with a smile and said, "Think about it, I'm in the army now, in addition to you, there are a few old subordinates who really hold real power?" Of course. I do not deny that I have some friends in the military, such as Hua Jianfeng, who is about to become the commander of the Navy, and there are also several generals in the Air Force who have a good relationship with me. The point is, who else but you will support me on the fundamental issue, not Lin Xiaolei?.

Yuan Chenhao was stunned for a moment. Then he put on a deaf look.

"That's the key. To put it in not-so-nice terms, you are my foundation in the army. Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "I'll tell you the truth, before I came back, Yuan sent me to a very important place. And it exposed me to something that only the central leadership could access. Other words. Yuan recognized my position in the central decision-making level, but did not give me any real power. Apparently. You must want to ask, why did Yuan arrange it this way? The reason is simple, there is no room for me to swing for the time being, so there is no need to reuse me, and the challenges ahead are very serious. Maybe when you need me to charge. Of course, these are only superficial. If I'm not mistaken, Yuan's real intention is for me to contain Lin Xiaolei, that is, to use me to control Lin Xiaolei. ”

"I've thought of all of this, but,"

"Since you think of this, then you should know that Yuan will let you come back. It is to confirm your position in the South Asian theater of operations. ”

Yuan Chenhao nodded slightly, expressing his agreement with Pei Chengyi's analysis.

"Meta-identity does not mean that others also agree." Pei Chengyi sighed and said, "As the saying goes, people's hearts are separated from their stomachs, even if Yuan is sharp-eyed, it is impossible to see through everyone. In fact, Yuan's arrangements for the future of the republic are not esoteric, and anyone with a bit of political acumen can see it. That is to say, if someone intends to direct the Republic to advance according to their own wishes, the first thing to do is to enlist Lin Xiaolei's support, and it is best to take advantage of Lin Xiaolei's shortcomings, such as the idea of building a large navy to control Lin Xiaolei. In this way, they will find a way to deal with me. To deal with me. I'm going to have to deal with you first. In other words, either you will be transferred or you will be assigned a boss. ”

"That being the case. Why should I go back? ”

"Do you think you'll be able to withstand this storm?" Pei Chengyi shook his head and said, "Li Cunxun asked you to go back." The purpose is twofold. One is to let you hold your territory and filter the people around you so that you don't get framed. The second is to let you avoid the political struggle at home, after all, you are still in your fledgling, what is the point of being a major general in the army? ”

"Damn, I knew that

"Don't say vindictive, that's the reality." Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "So I said it's better to go back early, and do everything that needs to be done, so as not to give people a handle." ”

Yuan Chenhao nodded slightly, suddenly thought of something, and said, "I patted my ass and left, what should you do?" ”

"Are you still in the mood to worry about me?"

"You said it too. We're a thread of ants, you're finished, how good can I be? ”

Pei Chengyi shook his head with a smile and said, "Don't worry, I'm much smarter than you, and I won't stay and wait for death." As long as Mr. Xiang is still in the position of chief of the General Staff, no one will dare to do anything to me. Of course, I will definitely leave the capital before Mr. Xiang leaves the General Staff. As for the future, it will depend on your performance at the South Asia Theater Command

Yuan Chenhao let out a long breath. said: "It seems that we have no way out. It's okay to do this, if you don't show the courage to break the boat, you really treat us as sick cats. "The tear book bar is less than the concave factory, and the bad salary is due to the bad night

"Do you need me to take you to the airport?"

"No, I'll just go myself." Yuan Chenhao stood up and said, "You still have a meeting in the afternoon, so I won't delay much, and we'll get in touch when we get there."

Pei Chengyi nodded. sent Yuan Chenhao to the door.

Obviously, Yuan Chenhao came to Pei Chengyi before leaving, not just to say goodbye, but to remind Pei Chengyi, but Pei Chengyi had already seen through it, so he didn't say a lot of words in his heart

Come.

In any case, Pei Chengyi and Yuan Chenhao have indeed become ants on the same line.