"Major General Wu, please come with me." The deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office of the National Defense University said to the student Wu Peifu.

Although Wu Peifu did not like the "major general" military rank, he obediently followed behind the deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office and walked out of the teaching building.

When I passed through the teaching building, I heard the people coming and going of the aisles filled with various local accents. The accents of students from Northeast China to Yunnan, Guizhou, Northwest China, Qinghai-Tibet, etc. are even more difficult to understand. As the highest military academy of the Republic of China, 60% of the students in the National Defense University were admitted according to their grades, and 40% were allocated to various provinces. Since it is a unified country, students in each province should have quotas in the National Defense University.

In the National Defense University, Wu Peifu also saw some familiar direct faces. Most of them were instructors from direct military academy, mainly international students and graduates of Baoding Army Officers' School. When these people saw Wu Peifu, they lowered their eyes and were unwilling to show closeness to Wu Peifu. Wu Peifu felt that he shouldn't blame these people, but he was inevitably unhappy.

These straight guys and Wu Peifu's "major general" rank are two things that Wu Peifu was unhappy in the National Defense University. He Rui's Beiyang government reorganized the Beiyang and even the generals of various places. After unifying the whole country, he ordered all martial arts lecture halls and other military academy personnel to go to Beijing for training. As scheduled, they would not be registered and recognized. The instructors of local military academys established by warlords were not angry. Most of them expressed starvation to death or poverty, and would not go to the capital. However, after making such a speech, most of these instructors went to the capital obediently and accepted the reorganization. After the reorganization, a few instructors were directly assigned to the National Defense University to teach. Wu Peifu didn't like these people very much, but as a surrendered general, he couldn't say anything else. It was just that the unhappiness in his heart was difficult to resolve.

As the deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office walked out of the teaching building, he soon arrived at the green space inside the National Defense University. There was someone guarding the entrance there, and the two approached, and the guards stopped the two. Not long after, he saw a person walking out of the road covered with green trees. It turned out to be the principal Zhou Yinshan. Lieutenant General Zhou Yinshan looked at Wu Peifu and greeted him, "Major General Wu."

Wu Peifu could only salute Zhou Yinshan, "Principal Zhou."

Zhou Yinshan didn't say much and left straight. The deputy director of the Academic Affairs Office took Wu Peifu in. A moment later, Wu Peifu saw He Rui inside. Wu Peifu had only seen He Rui on both sides, but He Rui's portrait was hanging in the military academy. Wu Peifu would not make this young face wrong.

But when He Rui greeted, "Hello Major General Wu," Wu Peifu still felt unhappy.

In fact, Wu Peifu himself didn't care about the many titles added to him by the leader of the Zhili Group, Brother Cao Kun. These titles were not important. In the old Beiyang Army, the words of General Cao Kun, "My soldier is Wu Ziyu's soldier" are enough to explain everything. With this sentence, Wu Peifu had everything in the Zhili Group.

However, He Rui inherited the legal system of the Republic of China, and naturally took the Beiyang in the capital as the standard. The Zhili clan's title was not recognized by the He Rui government. After the Zhili surrendered in 1924, the National Defense Forces determined that Wu Peifu's military rank was actually the military rank in 1915. In 1915, Wu Peifu was promoted to the brigade commander of the 6th Brigade. After the movement to protect the country and fight against Yuan, Wu Peifu joined the camp and suppressed the Yunnan National Protection Army led by Cai E.

Wu Peifu felt that this was a bit unfair and filed a complaint, believing that he had to re-examine the military ranks in 1917. However, the staff of the Military Affairs Office took orders and let Wu Peifu take a look at them himself.

The information provided by the Military Affairs Office clearly records that in 1917, Sun Yat-sen formed the military government, Duan Qirui sent Cao Kun and Zhang Huaizhi to lead troops south to attack. Wu served as the acting commander of the 3rd Division and the commander-in-chief of the front enemy. In the Beiyang Army system, the commander of the division was a lieutenant general. However, the Military Affairs Office informed Wu Peifu that he was the acting commander at that time, but the military rank was still a major general.

Although He Rui's words "Major General Wu" made Wu Peifu unhappy, Wu Peifu broke free from his displeasure as soon as possible. After all, he was a 50-year-old man, and it was indecent to get entangled about this matter.

Wu Peifu saluted He Rui, "Chairman He, the lower-ranking official Wu Peifu came to report."

He Rui pointed to the stone bench beside the table, and the two sat down face to face. He Rui then said, "Brother Ziyu, now the front line of Myanmar has won some victories and captured some prisoners. Prisoners of war camps have been established in Myanmar and Kunming. I wonder if Brother Ziyu is willing to serve as supervisor."

Wu Peifu immediately asked, "I wonder how many prisoners were captured? How many British people were there?"

He Rui shook his head, "There are many wars recently, and the number of people has changed rapidly. I don't know how many prisoners there are. But after Brother Ziyu said, are you thinking that there are too few prisoners?"

Wu Peifu had decided to accept this appointment at this time. He Rui said this and knew that he was concerned about it, so he was confused. The answer was incorrect. He quickly sorted out his mood and stood up and replied: "The official is willing to obey the orders."

He Rui nodded and asked Wu Peifu to sit down, "Brother Ziyu, you have been in the military academy for a year, and I think you have already understood the current military system. Although the Military Commission agrees with Brother Ziyu's talent, the prisoner-of-war camp is also organized according to the military organization. Many things have to be discussed. Wu Peifu certainly knows the current system of the National Defense Forces. The military chief officers and political departments at all levels command battles have formed a military command system. Most of the personnel power is in the hands of the political commissar. However, the political commissar system is not a military supervisor, because the political commissar itself is a military background, and many political commissars have excellent military qualifications...

After He Rui finished speaking, Wu Peifu stood up and replied: "The officials have learned the military system of the National Defense Forces and will definitely strictly abide by the rules."

"Okay. Then I'm looking forward to Major General Wu's excellent performance." He Rui stood up after saying that. After Wu Peifu saluted, he returned the gift to Wu Peifu and left directly.

Wu Peifu looked at He Rui's back and felt mixed feelings. It was the youth in front of him who swept across the world, and the military achievements of unifying the world were just an inconspicuous part of He Rui's victory. He defeated Japan with a corner of the northeast and started a war against Britain, the world's largest power. Even Wu Peifu cannot help but admire him. Since He Rui met Wu Peifu himself, he thought he had no malice.

The next day, Wu Peifu received a transfer order and went to the General Staff to accept a new position. The political commissar who worked with Wu Peifu was a colonel named Yu Cen. Wu Peifu did not know about Colonel Yu Cen's past, but felt that this little brother from Sichuan was full of heroic eyebrows and his every move was very powerful, and he was an outstanding soldier.

Colonel Yu Cen gave Wu Peifu a list of personnel without much greetings. After reading the list, many of the names made Wu Peifu feel very wrong. These people didn't support the land reform policy very much, but the situation was stronger than the people, so they had to accept the reorganization. What did He Rui pick out these people?

After reading the list, Wu Peifu tentatively said: "Political Commissar Yu, I wonder who formulated this list?"

"It was formulated by the General Staff. Does Major General Wu have any objections to the people inside?"

Wu Peifu wanted to speak but stopped, and finally shook his head, "No objection."

"If you have no objection, please sign with Major General Wu. We will set out soon. These people are scattered in different units, and it will take time to gather them."

On June 21, the management team of the prisoner-of-war camp took the train and headed south. Half of these people were direct officers of the old Beiyang Army. Everyone was embarrassed to see each other after a year of reorganization. They couldn't say anything. Finally, one of them found a topic, "This train seems to be different from the previous one."

Wu Peifu understood the mood of his direct brothers in the past, so he could only follow the topic. Moreover, Wu Peifu had already felt that the train he was taking was indeed different. First of all, the shape was the front of the new train, which was quite square, completely different from the columnar front of the steam train. Moreover, when the steam truck head was started on the platform, thick white smoke always sprayed out, making the front of the car look like a monster. The front of the train, as well as other similar fronts that Wu Peifu had seen, seemed to have not spit out any smoke.

Judging from the number of cars, this train has 12 knots, not 4 knots or 6 knots of ordinary steam trains. As for the speed, this train is probably at least half faster than an ordinary steam train. As a soldier, Wu Peifu also paid great attention to these details. If the train really has twice the number of people, the speed can be half faster, and the impact on the wartime troop transport has reached a state of upside down.

The direct officers exchanged their observation results, but could not discuss anything. Wu Peifu could only ask Colonel Yu Cen. Since Wu Peifu took the initiative to ask for advice, Colonel Yu Cen readily introduced the internal combustion locomotive to the officers who were traveling with them.

Diesel locomotives do not use internal combustion engines to drive train wheels, but use internal combustion engines to generate electricity and drive trains with electricity. There are also two types of internal combustion locomotives. The first is like a steam engine, which only drives the front of the car, and drags a series of carriages by the front of the car. The second is to install a motor on the vehicle's undercarriage. When traveling, the power is driven by the front of the car together with these carriages.

Wu Peifu tried his best to imagine, but he could only have some outlines in a vague way, but he still couldn't really understand it. After thinking for a while, Wu Peifu found a suitable comparison object, "Political Commissar Yu, which country is the train imported from?"

Yu Cen immediately replied: "This is a train designed by our domestic railway department and it is a completely self-produced train. Now no such advanced train technology is available in countries around the world."
Chapter completed!