Chapter 3

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  At that time, the generals of the Beiyang and the Republic of China went to Japan to study military affairs one after another, wearing Japanese swords.

  Sheng Shicai left his hometown in Liaodong to further his studies at the Japanese Military Academy. He didn't come to wield a katana, he yearned to become a true soldier.

  Shengshi brought his uncle's diary with him when he crossed the ocean to the East. His uncle had gone to Siberia in his youth to build railways for the Tsar.

  After three years of hard work in the vast desert, the Eurasian Continental Bridge was completed. The train whistled from St. Petersburg and went straight to Harbin.

  Later it was the Russo-Japanese War, and Big Nose and Little Nose started fighting, turning the Northeast into a sea of fire. My uncle stayed in Siberia.

  October Revolution, my uncle organized the Chinese battalion with Chinese laborers, fought out of Siberia, defeated Denikin and Kolchak, and later transferred to the southern Russian steppes. Their leader was received by Lenin. My uncle became the idol of young Sheng Shicai. At that time, Zhang Zuolin had emerged in the Northeast, and Sheng Shicai wanted to join Zhang Zuolin. My uncle said: "If you want to lead troops, you must attend a military academy. Only educated people can lead troops to achieve great things." Many classmates entered Zhang's Northeast Lecture Martial Hall as small platoon leaders or company commanders. My uncle told him that the best military academies were abroad, where he could learn real skills.

  His uncle handed him a diary before he died. The diary was actually a chaotic battlefield note. Shengshicai read the distant story in a wooden house on the vast land of Liaodong, with the light of the candle. He read Stalin's name, Budyonny, Voroshilov. Shengshicai was attracted by Stalin's name, although he often saw this name in newspapers, but reading it from this chaotic battlefield note had a different meaning. A mysterious thing connected him with Stalin, later Stalin supported him to become the new Xinjiang border defense supervisor, and he worked vigorously in the vast northwest border for more than ten years.

  At the age of seventeen, he could no longer stay in Northeast China. A very distant and vast territory appeared in his dreams, which was his world. The grasslands and forests could no longer hide his wild gaze. He climbed to the top of a hill, looking north, where Genghis Khan had built his achievements, and the Mongolian army had set out from there to conquer the whole world. However, reality couldn't verify his dreams. He repeatedly checked the map, and Xinjiang passed before his eyes without leaving any impression. The hotspots on the map were not related to him. His dream was full of strong vitality but had nowhere to settle, his head was like a pregnant woman's belly, he had already heard the voice of new life, and he had realized some characteristics of great figures from ancient times to the present: that is, you must find a vast and free space for your life. Genghis Khan's territory was opened up with war horses and bows and arrows, and on this vast land, there were also Khitan, Jurchen, and Nurhaci.

  He showed unprecedented cleverness and alertness, and his dull and stupid eyes suddenly became clear. The abbot of the temple said that it was the spiritual light of his previous life that had fallen on him.

  He was terrified and ran wildly in the wilderness. The Kanto region has been a place with abundant dragon energy since ancient times, where the Changbai Mountains and the Xiao Xing'an Mountains rose into the sky, and the Heilongjiang River, Songhua River, and Ussuri River flowed through it. Yelü Abaoji, Wanyan Aguda, Genghis Khan, and Nurhaci galloped and shouted among them, these heroes were the past life's spiritual light of his life.

  On the first day of school, General Harada, a famous tactician in the military world, came to give a lecture. All the students stood up and paid their respects. General Harada spotted Sheng Shi Cai in the lineup at a glance, asked his name and hometown, and said: "Most Chinese students come to Japan to study for personal gain, but Mr. Sheng has come to make a name for himself."

  That day, General Harada said many exciting things. General Harada said: "During the Sino-Japanese War, I fought in Manchuria and we were attacked by hunters at Da Xing'an Mountains, our main force was almost wiped out. The bravery of the people from Kwantung is no less than that of Genghis Khan, Sheng Jun comes from Liaodong, probably a descendant of those hunters."

  Sheng Shi was so excited that he trembled. After class, his Japanese classmate patted him on the shoulder and said, "Don't worry, Sheng, the general only praised you because of what you said." The Japanese classmate continued, "We Japanese are different from you Chinese. We have built statues for the Western powers who defeated us, but you Chinese would never do that."

  "General Yuan doesn't know me, how can he know my aspirations?"

  "A soldier's aspiration is written on his face." This was General Harada's motto. Chiang Kai-shek, Ts'ai T'ing-k'ai and Wu Lu-ch'ien were the first batch of students discovered by General Harada. You are very lucky, Sheng Jun, to have received praise from General Harada.