Chapter 2 Accumulation
.Returning to college to further study allowed Mu Haoyang to gain a broader future and also made him miss a major event in his life.
This big event is a marriage that many peers already have.
Although after returning to university, Mu Haoyang still enjoyed the basic treatment of a lieutenant colonel, he did not have the attendance subsidy and the monthly allowance was less than 5,000 yuan. This little money made him live a rich life completely fine. Moreover, in the military academy, he didn't have to worry about food, drink, housing and clothing, and he was all paid by the army. However, this income made him buy a house and get married really a dream, and he quarreled with his girlfriend.
Mu Haoyang did not try to keep this relationship, although he really wanted to keep it.
He is not young anymore, and Jin Qiu is not young anymore. If he hadn't served in the army, the two would have been married long ago, and maybe even had children. In order to maintain this relationship, Jin Qiu paid a great price. If he dragged on, Mu Haoyang felt that the most sorry for was Jin Qiu.
Half a year later, he received an invitation to get a wedding in Jin Qiu.
Mu Haoyang did not attend the Golden Qiu wedding, but just asked someone to give him a generous gift: the Korean People's Army awarded him the honorary major general and the Korean People's Heroes Battle Medal.
His idea was simple: what supported him in fighting in North Korea was that innocent relationship.
Giving up the emotional burden, Mu Haoyang devoted himself to learning.
Before going to the Korean battlefield, he always thought that he was not a material for studying, but the war made him realize that it was not machine guns and cannons that defeated the enemy, but knowledge. Without the electromagnetic weapons developed by scientific researchers, the volunteer army would not only pay a heavier price, but also impossible to defeat the powerful US army.
If knowledge is a weapon, Mu Haoyang wants to master this weapon.
"Don't take it to your heart. There are many women in the world, and there are talents like you, so you don't have to worry about not being able to find a wife."
Mu Haoyang smiled and said these things, which made him much easier.
It seemed that the topic was too heavy, Lu Wen reiterated and said, "After the war, have you contacted the commander-in-chief and his former comrades?"
"Old Zhou has been here several times, and he has been doing business. He has asked me to drink a few times."
"Zhou Yusheng?"
Mu Haoyang nodded. At the Volunteer Army Headquarters, Zhou Yusheng had the closest relationship with him.
"Now, he is about to become the submarine commander of the East China Sea Fleet."
"So fast?"
"I also heard that he is now the chief of staff of the East China Sea Fleet Submarine Corps. With his resume, he will be promoted to lieutenant general next year."
Mu Haoyang forced a smile, and Zhou Yusheng had already taken two big steps forward.
"There is nothing to regret. You have accumulated strength and made efforts. I'm afraid you will catch up in three to five years."
"Mr. Lu, are you kidding?"
"Of course not. In fact, based on your resume, if you went back three years ago, you would probably have been the colonel."
Mu Haoyang sighed and said nothing.
Lu Wen is right. Mu Haoyang considered this issue three years ago.
At that time, Huang Zhibo's prediction was correct at all.
At the end of January 2015, the warring sides signed the first informal armistice agreement, which solved several major issues such as front division and prisoners of war exchange.
Although in the next month, due to the great differences on land exchange, the war was ignited again, and the two sides invested hundreds of thousands of troops from the Linchuan River to Chunchuan. They fought fiercely for half a month, causing nearly 70,000 soldiers to die worthlessly, by the end of March, neither side could hold on.
On May 15, 2015, the two sides signed a formal ceasefire agreement on the Linchuan River Bridge in Wenshan. South Korea used 7,500 square kilometers of land in Gangwon Road to exchange 2,000 square kilometers of land on the north bank of the Linchuan River. After the war, the United States and South Korea provided North Korea with US$55 billion and US$750 billion in reconstruction costs for ten years. At this point, the Second Korean War officially ended, and Mu Haoyang was still studying at the Naval Academy.
After the victory and triumph, Huang Zhibo's influence in the army can be said to be at its peak.
At the end of 2015, Fu Xiubo formally appointed Huang Zhibo as the deputy chief of staff and awarded him the title of general.
You should know that this is the first general in the Chinese army since the founding of the country and awarding merits.
Although four headquarters leaders including Lu Fenglie were also awarded the title of general, as well as Xu Fantao and General Liao Wengang who helped Huang Zhibo win the Second Korean War, everyone knew that Fu Xiubo broke this common sense in order to build Huang Zhibo into the "God of War" of the Chinese army.
After becoming the Deputy Chief of Staff, Huang Zhibo took over most of the work of the General Staff.
With the support of Fu Xiubo, the General Staff became the absolute core of the four headquarters, and Lu Fenglie publicly stated that he would be semi-retired and would no longer interfere in the daily affairs of the General Staff.
This arrangement cleared most of the obstacles on the road to military reform for Huang Zhibo.
As the saying goes, one day the emperor is the emperor and another day the minister.
After taking office, Huang Zhibo's first thing he did was to reuse young officers who performed outstandingly on the Korean battlefield, including Qi Kaiwei, Mother Qi Tie, Yang Yufang, Zhou Yulong, as well as a group of generals such as Wei Chenglong and Wu Jianjun, all of whom had a prominent position and became the right-hand man in helping Huang Zhibo promote military reform.
This arrangement is understandable.
Only those officers who have been on the Korean battlefield and fought with the coalition forces can deeply realize that modern warfare can never be won by courage. Without advanced military ideas, advanced command system, and advanced technical equipment, even the most powerful army is a decoration.
If Mu Haoyang returns to the army at this time, he will definitely be reused.
Unfortunately, Mu Haoyang did not go back, but chose to pursue a master's degree, and studied two master's degrees in electronics and communications at the same time.
Mu Haoyang himself couldn't explain why he did this.
Perhaps, his friends know better.
When he was on a business trip to Dalian, Zhou Yusheng had asked Mu Haoyang several times and advised him to leave the military academy and seize the opportunity to do something big with Huang Zhibo, but he was unmoved. In Zhou Yusheng's words, Mu Haoyang was just a stone in the toilet, so he didn't ask for help when he was time.
Perhaps, this is related to Mu Haoyang's growth process.
If he had been willing to ask for help more than ten years ago, he would not have joined the army and served. Instead, he would have entered a university like millions of students every year, and devoted himself to society four years later, become a white-collar worker in a large enterprise, a government civil servant, or work hard to start a business in a big city.
In addition, this is also related to emotional ups and downs.
At that time, Mu Haoyang had just broken up with his girlfriend and was about to get married. He had no intention of doing big things and just wanted to bury himself in school.
Although Mu Haoyang had never admitted it, he did think about it at that time, and read it to the top in one go, and then stay in school as a teacher.
When Mu Haoyang woke up from the blow of love, Huang Zhibo had no position in his hands. Wu Jianjun became the commander of the Special Operations Command, Cao Anguo took over the amphibious special forces, and even Pang Yuelong became the captain of the colonel.
If Mu Haoyang goes back at this time, he can at most get a job in the General Staff Department and has to start from scratch.
For the arrogant special forces soldier, he definitely doesn't want to follow the old path.
Mu Haoyang believed even more that as long as he was still working hard, the opportunity would come sooner or later.
It is precisely this reason that when he applied for a master's degree, he chose two majors, and both received admission letters with the top five in the school.
Four years, it’s not long or short.
If we can make full use of the capital accumulated over the past four years, Mu Haoyang will never become a mediocre person.
Now, the opportunity comes.
As he thought about it, Mu Haoyang started to laugh.
"why are you laughing?"
"Mr. Lu, do you think if I were not a soldier, but did something else, wouldn't it be like now?"
"That depends on what it is." Lu Wen also laughed and said, "I have read several papers you wrote, which are very profound, and you can tell at a glance that they were written by an officer with practical experience. Although your understanding in some professional fields is still superficial, your understanding of war is more than all nerds. Therefore, as long as you can combine these two, I believe that no one can do better than you."
"Yeah?"
"Actually, you have a very strategic vision."
Mu Haoyang was stunned and felt that Lu Wen was joking.
"If you don't have the vision, why would you choose these two majors?" Lu Wen smiled and said, "Although we won the Second Korean War and this war also helped us get out of the dilemma, as the unipolar pattern collapsed, the world entered a turbulent period. In the future, perhaps decades or hundreds of years, military conflicts will become the main theme of the global situation."
"Mr. Lu, have you become a war madman?"
"Are soldiers necessarily war madmen? If we have to participate in a certain war, the purpose is not war, but to use war to fight for peace and to strengthen peace. An American politician once said that only peace achieved through war is the most solid peace."
Mu Haoyang smiled and shook his head, not arguing with Lu Wen about these philosophical issues.
However, he must admit that Lu Wen is right.
After the Second Korean War, the United States' international status plummeted. Although the United States is still the only superpower with global influence, it stabilized the global front through a series of foreign policies and even took this opportunity to win over several countries with conflicts of interest with China, such as India in South Asia, Indonesia in Southeast Asia, Vietnam and Malaysia, and also took the opportunity to consolidate the United States, Japan, the United States and the Philippines alliance and strengthened its strategic siege on China. However, affected by this war, the United States' control is no longer as good as before. The most direct manifestation is that in the second year of the war, France, Germany and Italy announced that it would double the size of the European legion to enhance the EU's independent defense capabilities.
For China, it is impossible to control what European countries want to do.
But in the surrounding areas of China, there are too many unstable factors. The East China Sea dispute, the South China Sea issue, and the deadlock in southern Tibet have all become hot topics under the instigation of the United States.
Chapter completed!