※Before Liu Xiaobin's kindness was mentioned in Beijing, Pei Chengyi knew it was time for him to go to

On April 19, the day after returning to Beijing, Pei Chengyi accompanied Li Cunxun to the head of state and reported to Gu Weimin in person the gains of his trip to Tehran.

What surprised Pei Chengyi was that Gu Weimin was not only not very concerned about the situation in Iran, but was not very enthusiastic about issues related to the Middle East War. After Pei Chengyi reported the situation, Gu Weimin handed over the relevant matters to Li Cunxun. And asked Pei Chengyi to be responsible to Li Cunxun. This arrangement was a bit unruly, because Li Cunxun was only the head of the Military Intelligence Bureau. Even if he had power and power, he could not command the active army general, and he should not be responsible for the war. According to common sense, Gu Weimin, as the supreme commander of the military force of the Republic, even if he did not have the ability to command war, he should entrust the Chief of General Staff to command military operations. In other words, Pei Chengyi should be responsible to Lin Xiaolei.

Of course, Pei Chengyi did not take this matter to heart.

Gu Weimin's arrangement must have taken into account two factors. First, starting from the overall situation, when a full-scale war with the United States must be avoided, as a national general, it should naturally be avoided; in other words, as long as Gu Weimin does not come forward, no matter what the Middle East is like, there is room for recovery; in fact, the US authorities have also adopted the same method, and the most direct manifestation is to let Du Qiwei go to Turkey to take over the coalition headquarters. Second, from reality, that is, the competitive relationship between Pei Chengyi and Lin Xiaolei forced Gu Weimin to arrange a barrier between the two, and a barrier that neither of them could break through; Mu Yong doubted. In addition to Gu Weimin himself, there is only Li Cunxun; not to mention other officials, even if Yan Jingyu and Ye Zhisheng came, it is not necessarily possible to settle the matter between Pei Chengyi and Lin Xiaolei.

In fact, Pei Chengyi did not regard Lin Xiaolei as his opponent. No matter what, he and Lin Xiaolei are not on the same path.

After meeting the head of state, Pei Chengyi went to the General Staff alone the next day.

According to Li Cunxun's arrangement, Pei Chengyi's archives have to be kept in the General Staff for the time being. This is why Pei Chengyi had to go to the General Staff to deal with some personnel-related matters.

I have to say that Pei Chengyi's luck is quite a secret. Lin Xiaolei went to another place to inspect work two days ago.

In April, Pei Chengyi took the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau to take a thug-win high-speed business plane specially applied for by Li Cunxun for him. He went directly to Gwadar Port in Pakistan, which is the location of the South Asian Theater Command.

Some unpleasant things happened on the site selection of the South Asian Theater Command.

Because I had known that Wang Yuanqing would implement the third military reform after the end of the Indian War, and with the increasing number of overseas military bases in the Republic, it urgently needed to strengthen management, and replaced the military system that had been implemented for several years with the theater system. So before the end of the Indian War, Pei Chengyi sent some of the equipment of the front-line command to Gwadar Port, laying the groundwork for the later establishment of the theater command there.

Pei Chengyi's approach was obviously selfish. At that time, he had already made the decision to give up competing for the Chief of Staff and determined that he was the number one candidate for the commander of the South Asian theater. No matter what, Vozilabad was so big that he could not tolerate the theater headquarters. As a result, everyone knew, Pei Chengyi was busy in vain. The problem was that Pei Chengyi chose Gwadar Port not because Gwadar Port was the most ideal choice, but under the circumstances at that time, it was the only choice. More importantly, Pei Chengyi could not have expected that Wang Yuanqing would have such great ambitions and controlled several of the most important naval bases in India in one fell swoop after the war. In other words, Pei Chengyi's choice was a bit hasty.

After Yuan Chenhao went to the South Asian Theater Command, he had a lot of conflicts with the Pakistani authorities, the Indian authorities, as well as officials from the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and even had disputes with the Indian Post-War Reconstruction Organization Committee for the reasons of the same. The theater command had at least thousands of people, plus the naval officers and soldiers attached to the port, and the permanent military personnel of the entire base were more than 10,000, or even tens of thousands. For any port-type city in Pakistan and India, more than 10,000 permanent soldiers in the Republic meant billions of annual consumption, which meant billions of income and tens of thousands of jobs.

For the not-developed Pakistan and the Tsai.com, which were sacked by war, this income was large enough for them to try their best to fight for it. More importantly, in addition to the benefits of economic interests, the Pakistani and Indian authorities also have to consider the benefits of politics and diplomacy, and even the military. Combined with these factors, India and Pakistan are not just fighting for it, but fighting for it.

In fact, the ideal address of the South Asian Theater Command is Trivandrum at the southern end of the Indian Peninsula. As a strategic center in the southern part of India, Trivandrum has India's most complete comprehensive base for the army, navy and air force, and India's most complete aerospace and communication center. Geographically speaking, Trivandrum penetrates deep into the Indian Ocean and is an ideal base for the Republic to control the Indian Ocean in the future. Even from the perspective of the Republic's national strategic defense system, because Trivandrum faces the Indian Ocean, the interception system deployed there can effectively make up for the loopholes in the southwest direction. Even from an economic perspective, because it is closer to the Republic's mainland, the cost of long-term garrison is definitely much lower than that of Gwadar Port.

It’s not that Yuan Chenhao didn’t know these benefits, but that Pei Chengyi chose Guadal Port at the beginning.

Of course, Yuan Chenhao could not regard this as a high-sounding reason. When facing doubts from all parties, he could not use this as a high-sounding reason.

Hou Lou Chenhao only mentioned a reason. That is, Gwadar Port is closer to the Middle East. At that time, it seemed that Yuan Chenhao was unlikely to have such a long-term strategic vision, but who can deny that this young general, whose military talent is not necessarily much worse than Pei Chengyi, does not have such a long-term strategic vision?

In the words of some Yuan Chenhao's "fans", Wang Yuanqing's ability to withstand pressure and straighten him before leaving office has a lot to do with his strategy.

To put it bluntly, the commander of the South Asian theater must have sufficient strategic capabilities.

At the beginning, Pei Chengyi thought he had won this position. It was because he believed that Wang Yuanqing would arrange a commander with sufficient strategic vision. At that time, except for a group of veterans such as Xiang Yinghui, few generals had the strategies of Huaneng that were comparable to him.

What determines this situation is the unique geographical location of the South Asian War Theater.

Compared with the Western Pacific War Zone, the biggest feature of the South Asian War Zone is that it is from the mainland of the Republic. To be precise, it is too far from the developed areas of the Republic. There is no doubt that the Western Pacific War Zone is the war zone at the gate of the Republic, and its main responsibility is to guard the gate of the Republic. The South Asian War Zone is the war zone in the backyard of the Republic. In addition to guarding the backyard from Pakistan to Malaysia, its main responsibility must be wary of the possibility of rushing in through the back door at any time and be ready to work and work for the expansion of the back garden. As the saying goes, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. After the third military reform, although the power of the war zone commander is far inferior to that of the previous military commander,

It is the responsibility of the theater command, especially in dealing with foreign-related issues, but it is much heavier than before. In fact, because the military region system is not external, it cannot be compared with the theater system. In other words, the theater command has shared the responsibilities of the General Staff and the Ministry of National Defense to a large extent, thus playing the most important role in the foreign-related military operations of the country. It is precisely because Yuan Chenhao was the chief of staff of the South Asian theater, when he was the chief of staff of the South Asian theater, he was the most important thing to do was to coordinate the forces in the theater to carry out small-scale military operations. In frequent foreign-related operations, if the general who holds the power of the theater does not have enough strategic vision, he will inevitably make mistakes.

In fact, after the Indian War, Yuan Chenhao received more attention than Pei Chengyi.

At the end of the year, the American "Times Weekly" held a survey activity called "A Thousand Celebrities Influenced the Process of Human Civilization in the Twenty-first Century". It was selected by more than four journalists around the world, as well as about 40,000 thugs. According to the classification of politics, military, diplomacy, economy, science and technology, engineering, culture, education, social activities and other old categories, among nearly 20,000 candidates. The famous ones selected were only just a year, and it was absolutely a huge achievement to be able to defeat so many competitors with their performance in the middle of the year and rank among the most influential military strategists.

In fact, among the former military strategists, Pei Chengyi was the only one who appeared on the international stage in the year of the Milky Year. He appeared on the international stage with him, and later Stark, who presided over the US military development plan work in the Pentagon, was only ranked No. 1. According to the comments used by Time magazine when evaluating celebrities in various fields, in addition to assisting Pei Chengyi in winning the Indian War that influenced and changed the fate of 100 million Indians, Yuan Chenhao's greatest influence was that during his tenure as Chief of Staff and Commander of the South Asian Theater, commanded a series of military operations aimed at safeguarding the national interests of the Republic, laying a solid foundation for the Republic to dominate the Indian Ocean, march into the Middle East, and landing on the African continent. Regardless of whether this comment was common in the US news media, Yuan Chenhao's contribution during his tenure as the Supreme Commander of the South Asian Theater was undeniable.

Of course, Pei Chengyi also cared about this old subordinate and good friends.

When leaving Beijing, Pei Chengyi specifically asked Liu Gongbin for information related to Xi Chenhao, as well as information on military operations and military deployments in the South Asian theater over the years.

In Pei Chengyi's understanding, Yuan Chenhao was first and foremost a tactical genius.

In fact, Yuan Chenhao's first appearance was during the Japanese War, and he proposed to use an electromagnetic cannon that was still in the test stage to launch a strategic strike against Japan. Although some reckless actions almost ruined his future, this proposal, which many people think is whimsical, finally made him pay attention and use by Xiang Yinghui. To be precise, it was only after he turned the idea into reality that he was recognized by Xiang Yinghui. From this, it can be seen that in addition to being a tactical genius, Yuan Chenhao is also a practical practitioner who is good at turning the idea into an action.

In a sense, it was these two talents that allowed Yuan Chenhao to get the first gold in his life.

No, after the Japanese war, Yuan Chenhao came to the stage, and the God of Luck never left him again.

Because of internal struggles in the army, Pei Chengyi left the General Staff after the Japanese War, first went to further study and then went to Pakistan, which led to the lack of a capable person around Xiang Yinghui who could solve his problems. At this time, Xiang Yinghui thought of Yuan Chenhao and gave him a chance to try. At that time, Xiang Yinghui did not choose other senior staff who had been working in the General Staff, nor did he choose a young general like Pei Chengyi, and there was a lot of struggle with the internal struggles of the army.

The laughing department. Yuan Chenhao was demoted to the grassroots troops, which made him less susceptible to attacks from others. More importantly, Yuan Chenhao was young enough. Not only did Xiang Yingzhu connect and promote the appetite of young officers, but he could easily make people tie him to Pei Bian Xiaying as a flower. In this way, not only did Xiang Yinghui give him the opportunity, but the staff of the General Staff would give him some face. No matter what, no one wanted to offend a young officer who could achieve the same achievements as Pei Chengyi.

Pei Chengyi, or the Indian War, was the one who really allowed Yuan Chenhao to be promoted to the Rockets.

Before the war broke out, Pei Chengyi won an additional opportunity for promotion on behalf of Yuan Chenhao in the name of arranging Yuan Chenhao as the deputy commander-in-chief of the front line. Although he was still a colonel officer, this time the promotion was not added, that is, the colonel level was previously rated as a first-class colonel. When Yuan Chenhao was promoted, he was already a first-class colonel, so it was equivalent to obtaining the qualification to be given priority promotion, laying the foundation for the subsequent jump to two levels and directly being promoted to a major general of the army.

After becoming the deputy commander-in-chief of the theater, Yuan Chenhao's performance was completely worthy of Pei Chengyi's appreciation.

There is no need to say much about the outcome of the war. After the war, Pei Chengyi successfully became the youngest army general after the founding of the Republic, and Yuan Chenhao was promoted two levels in a row. He became the second youngest army major general after the founding of the Republic.

Although it was not possible to break the record of the youngest major general in the army set by Pei Chengyi, this extraordinary promotion made Yuan Chenhao only one step away from becoming a success. In a sense, it was this extraordinary promotion that gave Yuan Chenhao the possibility of being in charge of the South Asian theater, because according to the rules set by the third military reform, the minimum commander of the theater commander was lieutenant general, and the minimum chief of staff was magistrate. If Yuan Chenhao failed to be promoted to two poles, he would be at most a brigade general in the army, and he would not be able to become the chief of staff of the theater.

Of course, luck is only part of it, and you don’t have enough ability. Even if you are not lucky, it will be useless.

After arriving at the South Asian War Zone, Yuan Chenhao got more opportunities to show his tactical talent, and at the same time he also got the opportunity to show his strategic ability.

Four before, one of the best things Yuan Chenhao did was to crack down on pirates in the Northwest Indian Ocean.

At that time, under his arrangement, the Republic's Navy Task Force and the General Staff's special forces operated in joint operations. Within less than a month, hundreds of pirate strongholds were removed in Somalia and Yemen. Hundreds of pirate leaders were captured and a large number of evidence of a country's secret support for pirates. It is precisely because the Republic proposed to send troops to Somalia in the name of the United Nations at the end of the year to help Somalia restore the situation, and at the end of the year, Libi proposed to send peacekeeping troops to Yemen. The proposal to give peacekeeping troops to deal with local pirate organizations was not rejected. Although the operation to send troops to Somalia was proved to be wrong,

Yemen's peacekeeping operations were also extremely difficult. But from a strategic perspective, the significance of these two moves was extraordinary. In a sense, after Landers came to power, he couldn't wait to make a difference in the Middle East and change the increasingly unfavorable situation for the United States, and had a great relationship with the Republic's control of Somalia and Yemen, because this was equivalent to cutting off the United States' access to the Arabian Sea from the Mediterranean, and also putting Eritrea and Djibouti under the control of the United States in the dilemma of being surrounded on all sides. If Yemen's impact on Saudi Arabia in the north and Oman in the east, the US authorities had to consider the strategic intention of the Republic to lay out these two chess.

Before seeing the information provided by the Military Intelligence Bureau, Pei Chengyi thought that these two operations were authorized by Li Cunxun or Lin Xiaolei, and did not laugh much with Yuan Chenhao. In fact, Xi Chenhao proposed to march into Somalia and Yemen, and submitted the first relevant combat plan in the month of Sizhikou. Because it is a relatively complete combat strategy. "Considering the time it takes to formulate a combat plan, Yuan Chenhao may have had such an idea before becoming the commander of the war zone and started to carry out the initial work. In other words, Yuan Chenhao made accurate strategic judgments without the influence of others.

This understanding made Pei Chengyi's mood a little complicated.

If his inference is correct, then in July, when Yuan Chenhao returned to China to attend the high-level meeting before Wang Yuanqing left office, he had this idea. It is possible that he even proposed this idea to Wang Yuanqing and received the support of Wang Yuanqing, Li Cunxun and others, thus laying the foundation for him to realize the idea later. The problem is that Yuan Chenhao did not tell Pei Chengyi about these things at that time, that is, he blocked Pei Chengyi outside.

Regardless of Yuan Chenhao's motives, Pei Chengyi has to admit that people's hearts are separated from their stomachs.

Of course, Pei Chengyi did not hold a grudge or jealous of this. As a soldier in the new era, Pei Chengyi is very open-minded in many things. No matter what, a soldier is first and foremost. Only by doing a good job in the essential person can he become an excellent soldier. Selfishness is not a shameful thing. As long as he is a human being, he has selfish ideas. Besides, on the road to the general of the army, Pei Chengyi has also made selfish moves. To measure whether a soldier's selfish behavior is good or bad, it is not to see whether he opens his heart to his superiors, but to see whether his actions violate the duty of a soldier, whether it has affected the country, and whether it has harmed the interests of others.

Obviously, Yuan Chenhao's selfish behavior did not cause the above three harms.

For Pei Chengyi, before arriving at Gwadar Port, all he had to do was to adjust his mindset.

In fact, Yuan Chenhao is no longer his subordinate, but a comrade-in-arms who has a common goal with him.
Chapter completed!