冯玉祥是我国近代历史上著名军事家和政治家。从1896年投军至1946年被蒋介石解除军职,他从事戎马生涯整整50年。在50年的军事斗争中,为了探索治军的道路,冯玉祥始终跟着时代的脚步曲折而又艰难地向前迈进。从忠君爱国到主张共和早年,冯玉祥投军并没有明确的目的,而是因家庭生计窘迪,为取得“恩饷”(即吃皇粮)糊口。从军前,他曾经读过一年零三个月的私塾,从军后,他又发奋学习,如饥似渴地诵读如《封神演义》、《彭公案》、《施公案》、《三国演义》等旧小说以及《纲鉴易知录》、《古文观止》、《论语》、《孟子》、《左传》、《曾胡治兵语录》等书。再加上旧军队的禁锢,冯玉祥难以接触各种新思潮,因而忠君即爱国的封建主义 Feng Yuxiang is a famous Chinese military strategist and statesman in modern history. He was voted Army from 1896 to Chiang Kai-shek in 1946 and was dismissed from military service for exactly 50 years. In his 50-year military struggle, Feng Yuxiang has been following the trend of the times and making difficult strides forward in order to explore the road to running the army. From the loyalty to the patriotism to the advocacy of the early Republican years, Feng Yuxiang’s military did not have a definite purpose. Instead, he was forced to obtain “grace pay” (that is, eat imperial food) for his family livelihood. Before he was in the army, he had read the school for a year and three months. Since he was a soldier, he has worked hard to study and hungering like an old reciter of “Gods and Deities,” “Peng Kung Case,” “Shi Gong Incident,” “Romance of the Three Kingdoms.” Novels and books such as “Gui Jian Yi Zhi Lu”, “Gu Wen Gu Zhi”, “The Analects of Confucius”, “Mencius”, “Zuo Zhuan” and “Once Hu Zhibing Quotations”. Coupled with the imprisonment of the old army, Feng Yuxiang difficult access to all kinds of new ideas, which loyalty that patriotic feudalism