After drinking the pot of coffee, the sky was already dark. Pei Chengyi didn't sleep all night, not thinking about the war, relying on him. People's brains can't think about it, but they are thinking about Yuan's intention to give him this top-secret document, and it can't just be to let Pei Chengyi understand the current situation.

Yuan's direct intention is very simple, let Pei Chengyi know that after this war starts, the scale will be very amazing, and be mentally prepared. The deeper meaning, Pei Chengyi didn't think of it for a while, and he didn't think about it seriously. After reading the document, Pei Chengyi vaguely felt that Yuan did not treat him as a soldier, at least not as an ordinary soldier, because the things mentioned in the document that need the attention of soldiers can be mentioned in the pre-war intelligence briefing, and most of them only need to be mentioned in one stroke. There is no need to go into detail. Having lived in Pakistan for several years and seeing through the nature of Pakistan's political struggle, Pei Chengyi has no interest in anything other than military duty.

After receiving a call from Dongfang Wen, Pei Chengyi changed into a military uniform, and then the cigarettes he brought back were finished.

"General, I brought you breakfast, and Dongfang Wen took out two packs of cigarettes and stuffed them into Pei Chengyi's hands, "I forgot to leave it last night, and I brought it today." ”

"What does this mean, bribery?.

"Of course not, the cigarettes are rationed by the General Staff, and I don't smoke much

Pei Chengyi smiled and picked up a cigarette. Take the paper bag.

"I helped you contact the tailor and come over to measure it at lunchtime."

"What are you doing with measurements?"

Dongfang Wen looked at Pei Chengyi and said: "This year's new military uniforms have changed their style, your sets are outdated, and the chief of the general staff has ordered, let me find a tailor to make a few new military uniforms for you." You don't have to worry about it, you are guaranteed to be the best tailor in your craft, and the cost will be deducted from your allowance

Pei Chengyi was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a smile.

After raising the remuneration of military personnel, at the request of the vast number of officers and men, the Ministry of National Defense revised the regulations on the management of military uniforms at the end of the year. The Ministry of National Defense will pay for military uniforms according to price changes. This reform has given rise to many ready-to-wear stores dedicated to serving military personnel. There are eight ready-to-wear stores in the immediate vicinity of the General Staff. Except for 3 companies that order from companies on demand, the rest are handicraft workshops. Designed for generals and senior officers. With Pei Chengyi's allowance level, it is not a problem to buy a few sets of new military uniforms at all. Besides, the money for the purchase of military uniforms is paid by the Ministry of Defense, and it is a bit unreasonable not to use it.

Coming to the General Staff, Dongfang Wen sent Pei Chengyi to the floor where the Chief of the General Staff's office was located. I went back to my unit to report.

The General Staff is still like that, which makes Pei Chengyi a little strange.

Before the conflict in southern Tibet, there was a proposal to rebuild the office building of the General Staff. I also applied for reconstruction funding. When Pei Chengyi went to study at the National Defense University, the General Affairs Office, which was in charge of the business, was negotiating a contract with a domestic construction company. It stands to reason that a few years later, the new office building of the General Staff has long been repaired, and now it is still standing the masonry building built in the last century.

Could it be that Xiang Linghui is reluctant to spend money?

There is a possibility.

Don't look at Xiang Linghui's willingness to spend money on armament construction and military welfare, in fact, Xiang Linghui is a very frugal person, sometimes even more critical than his predecessor Peng Maobang. Not to mention anything else, the Office of the Chief of General Staff has been working hard for many years since the day Zhang Maobang took office, and it should have been redecorated a long time ago, and it didn't take a few dollars, and Xiang Linghui just couldn't give up. This can also be understood, Xiang Linghui climbed up from the grassroots troops, and after suffering hardships, he naturally knows how to be economical.

"You came early, how did you sleep last night?"

"To be honest, I didn't sleep all night."

Xiang Linghui glanced at Pei Chengyi and shook his head with a smile. "I miss my wife, it's still water and soil

"Mr. Xiang, am I the kind of person who has a long love for children? .

"That's not exactly. As the saying goes. The taxi should be impressed every three days, and the three autumns are not stopped. Who knows if you've changed? ”

"Don't you often say that I'm still the same?"

Xiang Linghui brought the tea over and didn't chat with Pei Chengyi again. "Have you had breakfast?"

"I ate it on the road, and it seems that the dog ignores the buns

"Like?"

"I didn't care anyway."

"Yes, your kid is indeed the way he was, he never cares about inconsequential things Xiang Linghui walked to the desk, pressed down the intercom, and said to the secret outside, Xiao Zhang, let Yuan Chenhao come to me in ten minutes, remember to ask him to bring the documents I gave him yesterday

Hearing this name, Pei Chengyi frowned slightly.

"You should know him Xiang Linghui walked over," and met, but I'm afraid you don't remember."

"I really don't remember." Pei Chengyi did not lie.

"The Japanese War, the captain and staff officer who was going to Tanegashima in a hurry."

"You mean" After Xiang Linghui reminded, Pei Chengyi immediately remembered, "It turned out to be that kid, counting it, he is also in his thirties, right?" ”

"Thirty-three, already a colonel

"Rising so fast?"

"What, jealous? In terms of promotion, this kid is no worse than you, but he hasn't broken your record. ”

Pei Chengyi smiled, he would not be jealous of a young officer who was ten years younger than him.

Yuan Chenhao can be regarded as Xiang Linghui's second major appearance, the first catty. The major present is naturally Pei Chengyi. A year before the outbreak of the Japanese war, this captain, who had obtained a double master's degree in military strategy and campaign planning from the National Defense University, came to the General Staff Headquarters and became a staff officer under Pei Chengyi, then chief of the Operations Division. Like all staff officers who went to work in the General Staff after graduating from the Military Academy, Yuan Chen... The first year of the Dianhuai Staff Department is basic! There is no performance, hard work, and doing it is wrong... Horn staff officer or Pei Chengyi poured tea and water. If nothing else. Two years later, that is, after basically getting acquainted with the situation of the General Staff, Yuan Chenhao will go to the grassroots units for training for at least two years. If he performed well, by the time he returned to the General Staff, he would have been at least a major officer, becoming a senior staff officer.

There are unforeseen circumstances, and after the year of the thugs, the war broke out in Japan.

After entering a state of war, the work burden of the General Staff Department has greatly increased, and in particular, the operations department has to plan both campaign operations and command combat operations. All of them are three-headed and six-armed, and they can't be busy.

Yuan Chenhao got the first opportunity to perform at this time: to assist the senior staff officer Gui Ge to fight the campaign.

Relatively speaking, this is not the best opportunity.

The officers of the General Staff know that only when they are assigned the task of commanding a campaign can they be regarded as getting ahead.

It's gold, and sooner or later it will light.

When assisting the senior staff officer Guige to fight the campaign, Yuan Chenhao proposed to use airborne troops to attack Ryukyu Island. Although this suggestion was led by his senior staff officers "stolen for himself." Yuan Chenhao failed to attract Pei Chengyi's attention, but the combat plan he proposed received great results in actual combat. He made great contributions to the attack on Ryukyu Island. Of course, Yuan Chenhao can't reach the sky in one step. It was not what he thought of to let the marines feint to attract the enemy's attention, but what Pei Chengyi thought of when he was perfecting the battle plan.

After successfully conquering the island of Ryukyu, the Republic began to march northward.

When submitting the second operational plan, Yuan Chenhao bypassed his boss and sent Ji Ge's thugs to Pei Chengyi. If in normal times, this move is enough to make Yuan Chenhao lose his job, because in a hierarchical army, there is never a chance to report beyond the ranks. Fortunately, at that time, Pei Chengyi was busy directing the combat operation to sweep the surrounding islands, and the operational plan submitted by the captain's staff officer once again followed the trend and made a major contribution to the final defeat of Japan.

When Yakushima and Tanegashima were defeated and the strategic attack on Japan was re-planned, Pei Chengyi noticed the operational plan submitted by Yuan Chenhao. At this point, several pounds have passed. In the month, Pei Chengyi was already busy, so he naturally failed to associate the name on the operational plan with one of the hundreds of staff officers under him.

Like adopting the previous operational plan, Pei Chengyi once again adopted Yuan Chenhao's operational rules. The Army's orbital electric light artillery unit, which is still in the finalized test stage, will be deployed to Yakushima and Tanegashima to carry out strategic strikes against large and medium-sized cities in the southwest of the Japanese mainland with electromagnetic guns with a range of up to several hundred kilometers.

He has never received any news on whether the operational plan has been adopted, so Yuan Chenhao is also very anxious.

Knowing that the General Staff had sent the Army Artillery Test Unit to Yakushima and Tanegashima, Yuan Chenhao immediately arbitrarily believed that it was his boss who had stolen his "achievements". It was also at this time that Yuan Chenhao took the initiative to report and asked to go to Yakushima and Tanegashima to command the battle.

Of course, it would be accurate to investigate the real combat performance of the new orbital electromagnetic gun.

At this time, Pei Chengyi already knew that the strategic strike would not last long, and was fully assisting the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the State Department in armistice negotiations with Japan, as well as in dealing with the pressure of Western countries. Since someone is willing to go to the front line to investigate the actual combat performance of the new equipment, it is naturally better, Pei Chengyi approved Yuan Chenhao's transfer report without thinking about it.

This is also Pei Chengyi's last contact with Yuan Chenhao. ”

In fact, the two have not met at all except for the occasional photo exchange when commuting to and from work, and usually meeting each other during regular department meetings. After all, there are hundreds of staff officers in the combat department, Pei Chengyi only has contact with senior staff officers, and low-level staff officers like Yuan Chenhao are all led by senior staff officers, and it is impossible to make every catty. Everyone is very familiar with Pei Chengyi.

Since then, Yuan Chenhao has been in the grassroots army.

During the conflict in southern Tibet, Yuan Chenhao also went to the front line with the independent artillery brigade of the old airborne army, and participated in the combat operation of supporting the airborne thug's nephew battalion to attack Tawang. Strictly speaking, Yuan Chenhao's performance at the grassroots level was not very good, because he was not an artillery professional. It's just that as a subordinate officer of the General Staff, the grassroots troops give him face. It is precisely because his performance at the grassroots level is indeed not outstanding that Yuan Chenhao has stayed at the grassroots level for several years.

In the year of the milk thug, Poison Chengyi went to the National Defense University for further study.

The newly appointed chief of the operations department is far inferior to Pei Chengyi. Although there are not many combat missions in peacetime, Xiang Linghui is always uneasy. In order to strengthen the work capability of the Operations Department, Xiang Linghui personally ordered generals to recruit senior officers from the grassroots level. In order to familiarize the transferred senior officers with the working environment of the General Staff Headquarters as soon as possible, Xiang Linghui first considered the low-level staff officers who had been delegated to work at the grass-roots level, especially the low-level staff officers of the Operations Department. Dozens of low-level staff officers who had been delegated for less than two years benefited from this, and Yuan Chenhao, who had been working at the grassroots level for more than three years, also returned to the General Staff Headquarters.

Returning to the General Staff, Yuan Chenhao was successfully promoted to major officer.

From captain to major. Yuan Chenhao spent nearly 7 years, which is not fast, and even lower than the average annual promotion. What's more. Yuan Chenhao's promotion has nothing to do with performance, but after returning to the General Staff, he has already served his year, and he has reached the maximum age of promotion, if he is not promoted, he can only be retired. Xiang Linghui needs more manpower, and it will take at least many years to train new senior staff officers, and it is better to promote officers who have reached the promotion period.

It can be said that Yuan Chenhao picked a cheap one.

It was from this time that Yuan Chenhao was "transferred".

At the end of the year, the plateau multi-arms coordinated combat exercise, codenamed "Winter Horn Biao," was held. The battle plan drawn up by Yuan Chenhao helped the Blue Army, which played the role of an imaginary enemy, to win a complete victory, which attracted Xiang Linghui's great attention. You know, "Winter Horn Beater." The exercise was held

"Five Dozen Prisoners, the Red Army is the most skilled field army in the country to fight in the harsh environment of the plateau, imitating the mountain division of the US Army; In the previous exercises, there was only one time, that is, the time when Pei Chengyi was the commander-in-chief of the Blue Army, and the Blue Army defeated the Red Army! It was during this exercise that Pei Chengyi made a splash and laid the foundation for his later role as the front-line commander of the Republic's Volunteer Army in the Peninsula War. At that time, Pei Chengyi was already a colonel's staff officer.

It is by no means simple for a major staff officer to have such ability.

If you consider that Yuan Chenhao's opponent is the commander of the Sword Army, the youngest grass leader of the Republic of China, Ling Yunxiao, it is even more difficult!

At the beginning of the following year, Yuan Chenhao was promoted to lieutenant colonel.

As if to test Yuan Chenhao, in the "Winter Horn Force" exercise, Xiang Linghui transferred him from the Blue Army camp to the Red Army camp, replacing Ling Yunxiao as the joint commander. The result did not disappoint Xiang Linghui, and under the planning and command of Yuan Chenhao, the Red Army defeated the Blue Army without any suspense.

In the concave year, Yuan Chenhao was promoted to colonel.

Promoted to 2 levels in 2 years, it has broken the promotion record set by Pei Chengyi, because it took Pei Chengyi years to go from major to colonel.

"If I'm not mistaken, he's a whole year younger than you." Xiang Linghui smiled and said, "Ten years of people, I am more than ten years older than you, and you are ten years older than Yuan Chenhao. ”

"Mr. Xiang, you are almost twenty years older than me."

"Am I that old?" Xiang Linghui smiled and shook his head, "If I'm not mistaken, at most five years old." ”

"That's not ten years old."

"Yes, you're serious again

Pei Chengyi was stunned for a moment, and then changed his words and said, "Yuan Chenhao should be from Sichuan, right?"

"Yes, it's four" people, do you remember? ”

"After you reminded me, I remembered that many staff officers complained about the smell of spicy food in the office. said that it was Yuan Chenhao who brought Douban from his hometown

"Really? Sichuan's Douban is really good, and Chongqing's is also very authentic. ”

"I still remember that his family was not very good."

"It's average, it's not good, it's not bad." Xiang Linghui hesitated. went to the desk drawer and took out a personnel file and handed it to Pei Chengyi, "This is his catty, person file, this year's promotion arrangement is about to start again, if there is no big problem, he will be a brigadier general next year." ”

Pei Chengyi frowned slightly and opened Yuan Chenhao's personal file.

As with all "young Zhuang" officers. Yuan Chenhao did not have any background in the military. His ancestral home is Anyue, Sichuan, his father used to be a small businessman, opened a copy shop, after the global financial crisis broke out in the flying year, business was sluggish, and he was admitted to the civil service.

In the first year, Wang Yuanqing carried out the action of "streamlining the administration of the army" and drastically reduced the staff of government organs. Yuan's father took the initiative to resign at this time and received a high subsidy and full pension insurance. Compared with his father, Yuan Chenhao's ambitions are much greater. When he was old, he was admitted to the bachelor's and master's degree of military strategy at China National Defense University with the third place in the county, and the second major of the undergraduate degree was campaign planning, and the second major of the master's degree was also campaign planning. Yuan Chenhao's ambition can be seen from this academic choice, if he only studies military strategy, the best place for Yuan Chenhao to go after graduation is not the General Staff. When he went to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to become a military attache stationed abroad or saw a post in the Ministry of National Defense, he embarked on the road of abandoning military force and following literature. The choice of campaign planning for his second major paved the way for him to enter the General Staff. Originally. The main reason why the General Staff recruited him was not how many first grades he won in his major in college, nor how many scholarships he received, but that his second major was better than his own major.

After reading it, Pei Chengyi smiled. This kid is not simple.

"Well, it's very similar to you, isn't it?.

"It's much better than me, I haven't won so many firsts."

"What's the use of being number one in school?" Xiang Linghui smiled and said, "When you were studying at the National Defense University, the conditions were much worse, and your goal was stronger, and you knew that no matter how many firsts you won't be able to prove your actual hands-on ability, if you want to win the first, are you afraid that you won't be able to get it?" ”

"Mr. Xiang, you are exalting me too much

Xiang Linghui shook his head and said, "I'm telling the truth, you two do have a lot of similarities. If nothing else, both of you are the kind of people who have a clear purpose, and you can even say that you are the kind of person who will not give up until you achieve your goal. ”

"Have a purpose, but also have the ability."

"That's the second resemblance between the two of you

Pei Chengyi smiled and said, "Having said so much, how do you plan to arrange it?" ”

"Let you understand the situation first, the specific arrangement, it depends on your attitude."

"My attitude?.

Xiang Linghui nodded.

At this time, there was a few knocks on the door. A colonel-officer who was not very outstanding in height, build, or appearance, and did not even have many physical features that people could remember at a glance, followed the secretary into the study.

Pei Chengyi deliberately looked at the officer, he was indeed mediocre, and it was no wonder that the thugs who worked together couldn't remember it for more than a few years.

At the second glance, Pei Chengyi believed that Xiang Linghui was not looking at the wrong person.

It is not the appearance that shows a person's ability, but the confidence revealed in his mannerisms, movements and eyes. Only self-confidence based on ability. can be inadvertently expressed by the most ordinary actions. For soldiers, a look, a step, and a raise of hands and feet can show their inner ability in front of outsiders. The strong self-confidence in my heart can never be expressed so naturally and convincingly through dressing up and acting.