Chapter 406 Marshal Wu!

When Du Haisheng came to Du's enterprise headquarters, Mr. Ziyu was waiting in the reception room under the hospitality of employees, and the teacup in his hand was still emitting white smoke, emitting a faint fragrance.

The man named Ziyu saw Du Haisheng coming in from the outside and quickly got up to meet him. He couldn't help grabbing the other party's hand and asked, "Mr. Du, do you know me?"

The man in front of him, about 50 years old, has a thin face that gives people a sense of brilliance. Even those eyes, although they are kind, can make Du Haisheng clearly feel that this person is not simple, and there is a trace of arrogance and fierceness hidden under his kind eyes, even those two short The eight-character beard seems to reveal a trace of his toughness.

Looking at him again, he was dressed in simplicity and not like others. He was wearing a Zhongshan suit, or a gray suit and tie. He looked very formal. The middle-aged man in front of him was just a short gray shirt and wide gray trousers. He looked very casual, as if he lived deep in the old mountains. The Taoist priest who practices is average.

Du Haisheng looked at it and said with a smile, "General Wu, be all right!"

"Uh...haha, I thought you couldn't guess my true identity, but you still recognized me!"

When Wu Peifu heard this, he couldn't help laughing. In this laughter, he was a little more domineering. The momentum of a generation of heroes and warlords was undoubtedly revealed. Even if he is now a depressed person, it does not affect his unique domineering at all, and there is quite a taste of giving up. Such a person can be called a hero, a great power, and an authentic figure.

"Ha ha, that's natural. If I can't even guess your identity, I'm fooling around on the beach here, and other people in the Republic of China don't want to laugh at me for not knowing Taishan!"

When Du Haisheng heard the name Ziyu, he had already guessed that this person must be Wu Peifu. Du Haisheng knows the warlords of the Republic of China, especially people like Wu Peifu who once dominated the whole Republic of China, even more powerful than the power and army of Chiang Kai-shek and the army. If even these people don't know, who will he sell his arms and weapons to in the future?

More importantly, Wu Peifu and Du Haisheng actually had a relationship. At the charity auction party held by Chen Guangfu last year, the two saw each other, but at that time, Du Haisheng was still a nameless junior. Even in this Shanghai city, his status was not important and prominent. At that time, Wu Peifu still holds a large number of troops in his hand, even the most brilliant and peak period in his life. The status of the two is too different, and they don't say anything. Naturally, they just vaguely remember each other's appearance.

As for Wu Peifu's character, it is too simple for Du Haisheng, a reborn person. Even without the introduction of Xue Yue and Sun Chuanfang, he knows it clearly.

Du Haisheng still appreciates Wu Peifu very much.

Wu Peifu was born in Penglai, Shandong Province, and his ancestral home is Changzhou, Jiangsu Province! No one expected that the ruffian-like boy who once smoked a big cigarette and was kicked out because he had no money later became a powerful warlord in the Republic of China. No one could underestimate him. Even Chiang Kai-shek and Jieshi had to choose a better opportunity to fight against him and did not dare to act rashly!

And his character is also deeply loved by the people and college students of the Republic of China. Even Du Haisheng appreciates this person. In 1919, when the May Fourth Movement broke out, Wu Zeng repeatedly called against signing at the Paris peace conference and supported the student movement, which was well received by public opinion. Many people even publicly stated at that time that they supported him for running for president of the Republic of China!

The southern local authorities formed an anti-stage military alliance. In December, Feng Guozhang died of illness. Cao Kuan and Wu Peifu inherited the status of direct warlords. In May 1920, Wu led the army to withdraw from the north of Hengyang and arranged a military force against Anhui. On the 14th, the Zhiyan War broke out and defeated the Anhui army with the cooperation of the Feng army. Since then, Zhifeng and the two departments have jointly taken control of the Beijing government. In April 1922, the First Zhifeng War broke out. The direct army won, and the Feng army was defeated and retreated. Wu Peifu became the leading figure of the Beiyang warlords and manipulated the political situation. In September 1924, with the second direct battle, Wu Ren, the "commander-in-chief of the rebel army", went to Shanhaiguan to supervise the battle, and was defeated by the Feng army and Feng Yuxiang's National Army. In October 1925, Sun Chuanfang, the Zhejiang Governor, launched a war against Feng. Wu served as the "commander-in-chief of the allied forces against thieves" and sent troops to Henan. After that, he communicated with the Feng Department and attacked the National Army in the north and south. Since the Northern Expedition in 1926, Wu rushed from the north to the front to supervise the war, and suffered fiasco in Tingsi Bridge and Hesheng Bridge in southern Honan. In October, the Northern Expeditionary Army captured three towns in Wuhan, and the main force of Wu was annihilated. Since then, it has been depressed. He returned to Beiping (now Beijing) in 1932. Wu Zengtong's electric voice denounced Pu Yi for acting as a puppet, and refused to pull him into the water. In 1939, Wu Peifu suffered from dental disease and had a high fever. On December 4, the Japanese dentist was ordered to Tu, and Hihara murdered Wu Peifu, who died on the spot under the dentist's knife. He was 65 years old. The Kuomintang government regarded him as a first-class general in the army.

Wu Peifu said, and the wind and waves have been seen. He is a rare commander of warlords. He once occupied a place in the Republic of China.

American John Powell, editor-in-chief of the Shanghai English magazine The Miler's Review, even thought that he was "more likely to unify China than anyone else."

But it was such a person who was assassinated by the Japanese in the end. He died and ended up quite tragically!

And Wu Peifu doesn't know much about Du Haisheng. He just knows that when he met this guy a year ago, he was just an unknown little man in Shanghai, and in less than a year and a half, he called for wind and rain in this Shanghai city. Even Xue Yue and Sun Chuanfang heard that he was not only close to him. Even many things are the idea behind his back.

Even Kong Xuan, his usually arrogant military division, after meeting with Xue Yue from Shanghai City, he went back to praise Du Haisheng himself in front of him. Between his words, he did not hide his appreciation at all, which was rare in his eyes, and when he told everyone about Du Haisheng's plan. After talking about it again, Wu Peifu knew that he used to underestimate Du Haisheng's energy.

He holds a Du's enterprise in his hand, and now he has achieved the largest group position in Shanghai. Even the Japanese are stingy in front of him. Rumor has it that several times the Japanese secretly used conspiracy and tricks to kill him. Unfortunately, none of them can succeed. This is Du Haisheng. There is nothing in the legend. People who can't.

Wu Peifu looked at it for a moment and nodded secretly, but he said in his heart that it was different from when they met more than a year ago.

It is not only temperamental, but also a more calm temperament!

"Mr. Du's words are also reasonable!"

Wu Peifu thought about it, smiled slightly, and said, "I haven't seen you for a year and a half, but I didn't expect that Mr. Du would have made such great achievements in a short time. I, an old bone, have to come to meet him in person!"

"Ha ha, Wu Dashuai's words are serious. If you don't come, I'm going to visit you!"

Du Haisheng smiled indifferently and said modestly.

His words are true. In Wu Peifu's heyday, he supported hundreds of thousands of soldiers, including five divisions and a mixed brigade of more than 100,000 people, controlling the territory of Zhili, Shaanxi, Shandong, Henan, Hubei and other provinces. At that time, Luoyang was set up by the representative agencies of the governors and governors of 18 provinces across the country. Luoyang became the center of all parties and was called the "West Palace" by people at that time. On Wu Peifu's fiftieth birthday, there were as many as 600 to 700 dignitaries, cultural celebrities and envoys from various countries from all over the country who came to Luoyang to celebrate his birthday. Since Wu Peifu had become the most powerful warlord in the north at that time, Luoyang actually became the political and military center of the north. According to Cao Kuang, "As long as Luoyang sneezes, it will rain in Beijing and Tianjin."

Think about it, when a local warlord celebrates his fiftieth birthday, as many as 600 people attend his birthday banquet, which does not include those Jianghu sects and other small officials, if included, will be an astronomical figure.

Some time ago, Fu Zihao celebrated his birthday, and more than 200 people went to congratulate him. In Du Haisheng's view, this was already quite amazing, but compared with the person in front of him, it was far from each other, so weak that he could not mention it!

"Well, are you going to visit me?"

When Wu Peifu heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned. Then he smiled indifferently and mocked himself, "Ha ha, I, Wu, have been a man of war all my life, but in the end, I fell into a disgrace. My friend betrayed, fired a gun in the back, and wanted to put me to death. What kind of person is Feng Yuxiang? He also secretly opposes me. In this world, I can trust. Who is it? Now I can only live with General Yang Sen in Sichuan. Everyone sees me as if I have seen a plague god, but I'm afraid I can't hide. Those who once flattered me and flattered me are going to do anything when they see me. At this time, Wu Wu is like a bereaved dog. But I didn't expect that you were going to see me, which made those who claimed to be gentlemen's heroes ashamed and made me grateful. However, aren't you afraid that the world will laugh at you when you do this?

Wu Peifu said, put away his smile, his eyes flashed, and looked at Du Haisheng.

"Haha..."

But he didn't expect that Du Haisheng listened to his emotion and smiled cheerfully and said, "I have always been free and unrestrained. If I don't want to do it, even if someone else comes to invite me with a sedan chair, I naturally won't go back. The gun is pointed at my head and still not moving. If I want to go, even if it's hails in the sky, yellow In the flood of the river, countless bullets flew around me, and I couldn't stop my determination. No one can control what I want to do, and no one dares to take care of what I don't want to do. Other people's comments are just fooling me. How can I take it to heart? If so, isn't it the same way as them?

"This..."

Wu Peifu never thought that Du Haisheng would make such a sincere and easy speech. He couldn't help but be stunned, but his heart was full of blood and emotion.

"Good!"

After reacting, I couldn't help patting my thigh and shouting.

"Sure enough, he is a person with a strong temperament. He speaks well and speaks well. The people in this world are all a group of useless people. Among the useless people, most of them are fools, and there are very few people who can be sober. Today, I can meet Mr. Du and listen to your words are taught and benefited by bandits. Such words only deserve to be said by heroes like you. Mouth, if it were someone else, I Wu would naturally disdain it. Usually at this time, if it is said that there are not many people I believe in Wu, there are four. Kong Xuan, the military division beside me, this person has been following me for many years. Naturally, there are also Xue Yue and Sun Chuanfang, the two generals of the Iron-blooded Eighteenth Army, who are true temperament, good men, the most The latter one is you, Mr. Du. Although you and I only have two faces, I can hear your words from the bottom of my heart, and I have no regrets in my life!"

Wu Peifu's voice is loud, like Hong Zhong. Every word comes from his heart. It is fortunate for him to meet such a person as Du Haisheng!

Du Haisheng knew his experience of being betrayed by Feng Yuxiang!

From September 3 to October 13, 1926, a Jiangsu-Zhejiang war broke out between Lu Yongxiang, the Zhejiang governor of Anhui, and Qi Xieyuan, a direct Jiangsu governor. Cao and Wu decided to assist Su Qi. Just a week after Wu Peifu became the cover of Time magazine in the United States, on September 15, Zhang Zuolin sent 150,000 troops in two directions to Shanhaiguan, Chifeng and Chengde on the grounds of opposing the direct opposition to the Jiangsu-Zhejiang War.

Cao Kuan appointed Wu Peifu as the commander-in-chief of the rebel army, leading 200,000 people to fight against it, and the second direct war broke out. In October, when Wu Peifu personally led a 100,000 army and was fighting fiercely, Feng Yuxiang, the commander-in-chief of the direct Third Army, who was dissatisfied with Wu Peifu's exclusion, suddenly led 30,000 horses in the rear to withdraw from Rehe, and plotted with the direct generals Hu Jingyi and Sun Yue to launch a "Beijing coup", imprison Cao Kuen and overthrow the direct central government. The regime. The direct infighting directly led to the defeat of the direct line in the second direct war. In November, the direct army was completely destroyed.

The grief is extremely sad. Later, Wu Peifu wrote to Feng Yuxiang: ... With the robe under his feet for several years, he has been imprinted with his heart, and now he has been plotted to say anything! Xi Leyi said, "A gentleman is out of friendship, and there is no evil voice; if a loyal minister goes to the country, his name is unclean." Pei is a dead man and has also been taught by a gentleman, but he doesn't know his heart, so he can't help it.

Perhaps it was this matter that made Wu Peifu see through the world and dared not trust others easily!

And Du Haisheng's words just now, as if Wu Peifu, who was lost in his mind, found his former self, and even the gradually dying heart began to come back to life.

Kong Xuan is right. This person is a dragon in the clouds and a tiger in the mountains. In just a few words, he won my heart and understands my meaning!

After Wu Peifu finished speaking, he couldn't help thinking about it secretly.

Du Haisheng smiled and said, "Of course, I Du do things and hope to become friends with anyone. Of course, I don't like to betray my friends. Feng Yuxiang is not kind. Just write to tell me that if Du guesses well and is a man, you are still not resentful..."

With that, he turned his eyes and said, "Wu Marshal, if I want to help you, do you have the confidence to return to your former peak?"

As soon as Du Haisheng said this, Wu Peifu was like a thunderstorm on a sunny day. He stayed there. It took him a long time to come to his senses and said, "I'm like this now. The army in my hand is less than 10,000. How can you help me? Let me tell you the truth, I, Wu, don't have this confidence, but with this belief, I will do my best to achieve the peak state you said! I will let those who betray me and frame me pay the price they deserve!"

His words were full of resentment, and his eyes flashed uncertainly, as if he were recalling the past.

"Hey hey, how to help? This is not something you should care about. I just want your last sentence. Now that you have said it, I can naturally help you!"

"Uh-huh... It seems that I, Wu, have made a trip, but it's worth it!"

Wu Peifu stopped his restless heart just now, calmed down, smiled slightly, and said, but he thought in his heart what the young man planned in front of him and why he had such a tone.

"Natural!"

Du Haisheng nodded and said, "Can you guarantee to pull up a team of 30,000 people within half a year? And want to train them into excellent soldiers?"

"Haha, this is naturally not difficult. The last time Kong Xuan went back and said that you planned, I had begun to recruit troops, not to mention half a year. Even now, my army at hand has exceeded 30,000. As for what you said, I can't guarantee it, but when they go to the battlefield, I firmly believe that they are a group of hard men who are not afraid of death. A man, even if the bullet is over the head, he won't blink at all!"

Wu Peifu didn't know what Du Haisheng's words meant. He just saw his unfathomable face and had to follow his meaning.

When he came here this time, he was supposed to discuss cooperation with Du Haisheng, but now it seems that he doesn't need to talk any more.

"Okay, but, after all, I'm a businessman after all. Everything is unprofitable. You don't have to laugh at me. I, Du Haisheng, naturally won't do anything without benefits!"

"Okay, tell me your conditions!"

Wu Peifu naturally knew that there was a calculation that he could put forward this opinion.

"It's really refreshing enough, so Mr. Du said it bluntly!"

Du Haisheng nodded and said, "First, I have 30,000 Thomson submachine guns, fifty machine guns, pistols, rifles, explosives and grenades. Are you interested?"

"Really?"

Wu Peifu was shocked again when he heard the words and asked in disbelief.

"This is natural! I won't lie in front of Marshal Wu. I will give it to you at the lowest price, but you should also promise me three conditions!"

"Let's talk about it!"

Wu Peifu didn't think about it, so he said.

"First, you, the army of 30,000 people, let my men and the officers and soldiers of the Iron-blooded Eighteenth Army go to guide a group of people!"

"This, okay!"

Wu Peifu naturally knew the meaning of Du Haisheng's condition and nodded.

Seeing that the other party readily agreed, Du Haisheng said, "Second, your army should cooperate with the Iron-blooded Eighteenth Army, and do not act rashly without authorization, except if there is an emergency, in the recent period, keep a low profile and do not leak any information! And, I want to be your deputy commander!"

"This..."

Wu Peifu is a little difficult. After all, there are many problems involved in this aspect. If a coach wants to cooperate with other troops to act, what's the point of the coach?

"What, does Marshal Wu have any concerns and unspeakable secrets?"

Du Haisheng smiled and asked...