Wu Peifu, who was a soldier in his life, had various bad habits in the first half of his life, but in the end he came out with strength.

Among the Beiyang warlords who "crabs are rampant, one crab is not as good as one crab", a group of martial artists who do not know a lot of characters are naturally mixed. Among the warlords, Wu Peifu is very powerful. He has always been known as the "Confucian Marshal", but what everyone does not know is that Wu Peifu has a bad temper and loves to smoke a lot of cigarettes. Once he had an encounter with a local rich man in a big smoking hall. Conflict, he was proud and wanted to take revenge. He took advantage of the rich man’s 80th birthday to his mother, and found a bunch of gangsters to make trouble. The result was that he completely offended the rich man and was deprived of his reputation as a scholar. Leaving home. Wu Peifu had no choice but to become a "Beijing drifter", relying on fortune-telling and writing couplets to make a living. Because there are more blind people in this industry, after becoming a warlord, many people laughed at him for this reason.

After a long time, Wu Peifu felt that he couldn't go on like this, so he joined the army and was incorporated into the patrol camp. Because Wu Peifu was a talent and literary talent in his early years, a civilian named Guo in the patrol camp appreciated him, so he sponsored his boss, Yuan Shikai's godson Duan Zhigui, to Baoding Military Academy. Because Wu Peifu was thin and thin, he asked him to change to surveying and mapping. Wu Peifu is educated, he is good at surveying topography and drawing maps. He has good academic performance. After graduation, he entered the Beiyang Ace Army and Cao Kun's Third Beiyang Army Division. He rose from battalion commander to Cao Sanye's confidant general.

At that time, the Beiyang president was Feng Guozhang, and Duan Qirui was the prime minister. Duan Qirui wanted to unify the country and let the straight army as cannon fodder rush to the front against the Southwest Allied Forces. Of course Wu Peifu did not do it. He immediately stopped the offensive, negotiated peace with Lu Rongting of the Southwest Allied Forces, and retreated with the troops. The Southwest Allied Forces took advantage of the situation and moved north, Hunan changed hands, and even Hubei and Henan were lost. Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui had no choice but to promote Wu Peifu, and Wu Peifu immediately regained their lost ground. It didn’t take long for Feng Guozhang to die, and the Zhi-Anhui War was officially launched. Wu Peifu defeated Duan Qirui’s Anhui army with a blitzkrieg. He suddenly became the "Military God" of the Zhili warlord and the "Tai Shanghuang" of the Beiyang warlord center. Unprecedented.

Hubei Warlord is a direct line of Wang Zhanyuan, nicknamed Wang Laoqi, and is also from Shandong. He is very qualified, and he is on the same level as Cao Kun. After seeing Wu Peifu's army, Wang Zhanyuan always wanted to rectify the army in Hubei, but the gang of soldiers under Wang Zhanyuan didn't care at all. You confided in the army and I mutinous, fighting and looting in Wuhan. When Hubei was in chaos, Zhao Hengti from Hunan next door took the opportunity to attack Wang Zhanyuan. Wang Zhanyuan hurriedly called for help from Wu Peifu who was stationed in Henan, but Wu Peifu sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, seeing Wang Zhanyuan being beaten by the Hunan army and fled.

said that Wu Peifu and Sun Chuanfang are rising stars, because people like Feng Guozhang, Duan Qirui, and Zhang Zuolin became famous very early. They were figures who had tens of thousands of soldiers before the Qing Dynasty, and Wu Peifu died in Yuan Shikai Later, Feng Guozhang and Duan Qirui became a teacher when he was in power. However, although Wu Peifu's qualifications are shallow, he is very domineering and doesn't put these old guys in his eyes. After the Zhi-Anhui War, the leaders of the Zhili and Fengzhi met to discuss the treatment of Anhui soldiers. Zhang Zuolin advocated leniency, and Cao Kungang spoke. Wu Peifu interrupted in a loud voice saying that the national pirate Duan Qirui must be arrested and war criminal Xu Shuzheng must be severely punished.

Old Zhang thought to himself why this guy is not big or small, so he said Brother Third, who is this guy? Cao Kun quickly said, this is Ziyu, you have seen it before. Lao Zhang said, do you need teachers to attend this meeting? If I had known it a long time ago, I "beaten" and brought my teachers. Wu Peifu originally looked down on Zhang Zuolin, thinking that Lao Zhang is a bandit and uneducated. Now Lao Zhang is hurting himself in public, and now he hates him even more. From then on, the two of them are facing each other everywhere. When they meet, sparks are splashed. Finally, they meet each other. In the first Zhifeng war, General Fengjun was expelled from the customs. Since then, he has completely risen from Luoyang and has become a direct warlord who sneezes and trembles in Gyeonggi.

Reference materials: "Historical Notes on the Reign of Beiyang Warlords", "Wu Peifu Biography"

Text: Liu Niu Zhengwei, Lin Yuan Fusheng Studio.