Chapter 9: First Meeting with the Premier

  Three days later, November 3, 1924.

  After Huangpu students finished their morning exercises, they lined up neatly and waited for Sun Yat-sen's arrival.

  After inspecting the fortress command of Changzhou Island (Huangpu Island), Sun Yat-sen took a sedan chair to rush to Huangpu Military Academy.

  Chiang Kai-shek led the faculty and students, all waiting at the entrance of the military academy. The officers and men of the First Regiment of the Training Corps, as well as the first batch of students from Whampoa, were assembled on the large drill ground of the military academy under the leadership of He Yingqin, Sun Xinghua and other officers, waiting for Sun Yat-sen's inspection.

  "The principal is coming."

  At the sound of a shout, the military band began to play music.

  The officers and men of the Huangpu Instruction Corps and the first batch of graduates from Huangpu stood at attention, singing the school song.

  "With diligent students, loving and sincere, the Three Principles of the People are my revolutionary first voice. Revolutionary heroes, vanguard of the nation, continue to strive for success. Comrades in arms, happily follow instructions, from beginning to end, life and death, do not forget this school today. With blood splashing flowers, with school as home, lying on thorns and tasting gall, striving to build China." After singing the school song, He Yingqin drew his sword and stepped forward, reporting to Sun Yat-sen: "Reporting to Director Sun, the Whampoa Military Academy's first batch of students are assembled and ready."

  Sun Yat-sen nodded and raised his hat with his right hand in a salute to the officers and soldiers of the instructional corps, as well as the military school students.

  Immediately afterwards, under Chiang Kai-shek's command, the officers and men of the Training Regiment and the first batch of students from Whampoa began to conduct regular drills.

  Seeing the Huangpu students, after half a year of training, their formation was neat and tidy, their drill movements were skillful, Sun Yat-sen's spirit was high, he was very pleased, the smile on his face never disappeared from start to finish.

  "Is that Sun Xinghua?" Sun Yat-sen asked with a smile, pointing at the man who was directing.

  "Yes, Premier Sun." Chiang Kai-shek hastily replied.

  Looking at Sun Yat-sen's good mood, Chiang Kai-shek continued to say: "Director Sun, this time the Pacification Commercial Delegation should take the lead in merit. This time in Huangpu, the Auxiliary State also established a drama society, through plays and other performances, publicizing and propagating revolutionary principles, compared to previous propaganda, it has had a great effect."

  "Oh? I didn't expect that Auxiliary Country still had such abilities." Sun Yat-sen was also quite surprised, but after saying this sentence, Sun Yat-sen did not say anything else and continued to watch the training of the instructional team.

  At noon, Sun Yat-sen had lunch with the students of Whampoa Academy. During the meal, Soong Ching-ling proposed that the newly established drama club of the school should put on a show.

  "Assist the country, Premier Sun wants to take a look at the theatrical company's program, you quickly organize it." Chiang Kai-shek hastily found Sun Xinghua and passed down the order.

  Sun Xinghua didn't dare to delay, and hastily found Li Zhilong and others, passing down Chiang Kai-shek's order. Li Zhilong and others were even more anxious, without finishing their meal, they brought the core members of the drama club, under Sun Xinghua's command, rushing towards the military officers' club.

  Arrived at the military club, several people counted together, arranged a script and presented it to Sun Xinghua.

  Sun Xinghua was pressed for time and hastily glanced at it before agreeing to the students' arrangement.

  At 2:00 pm, Sun Yat-sen arrived at the Military Club with Soong Ching-ling, accompanied by students and teachers from the military school.

  The performance has begun, and the students' hilarious performances occasionally bring laughter from the crowd.

  "This is great! The blood of the martyrs, the flower of ideology." Sun Yat-sen's face was full of smiles as he looked at the couplet hanging beside him and sincerely praised it.

  "Premier Sun, the name of our theater troupe is actually taken from this couplet, it's called Blood Flower Theater Troupe." Chiang Kai-shek hastily said.

  Sun Yat-sen nodded and looked at Chiang Kai-shek, saying: "Jieshi, your drama club is doing well. It enriches the students' extracurricular life and can also use performances to achieve the effect of promoting revolution."

  The two of them continued talking, and the performance on stage was about to end.

  "Comrades, I have watched your drills and performances, and I am extremely delighted. You have grown into excellent revolutionary soldiers. I believe that in future battles, you will certainly uphold the spirit of revolutionary soldiers, and put everything you learned at Huangpu into practice on the battlefield. Overthrow the imperial powers, overthrow the warlords. Make contributions to unifying China." Sun Yat-sen walked up onto the stage, powerfully waving his arm and shouting loudly.

  "Overthrow the imperialist powers and overthrow the warlords."

  The students immediately shouted loudly, Sun Yat-sen signaled everyone to be quiet and then began his speech.

  As for Sun Yat-sen, later generations have different opinions about him, but at this moment, Sun Xinghua listened to Sun Yat-sen's speech and felt deeply moved.

  Sun Yat-sen on the platform, indeed fought for China's future, eleven times of arduous revolution, established the Republic of China, eleven times of revolutionary failure, but did not shake Sun Yat-sen's confidence.

  The man in front of us has made contributions to Chinese history.

  "The prospects for the revolution are optimistic, although there are many shortcomings in China at present. But I believe that as long as we revolutionaries firmly believe in our own faith, the Chinese Revolution will definitely succeed. Here, I hope that teachers and students will continue to work hard and be a strong backbone for the revolutionary government." Sun Yat-sen said solemnly.

  "Not for money, not for life, but for the country and its people."

  Chiang Kai-shek stood up and shouted loudly.

  More than two thousand students and teachers immediately stood up, following Principal Chiang Kai-shek.

  This is their oath, an oath that they have remembered in their hearts since entering the Whampoa Military Academy, and this oath will be remembered in their hearts for many years to come.

  At 5:00 pm, Sun Yat-sen left Huangpu Island and took a boat back to the Grand Marshal's Mansion. This was his fourth visit to Huangpu Island in his lifetime.

  "Director Sun, how was our performance?" Chen Gong and others came to Sun Xinghua's place on their own initiative after Sun Zhongshan left.

  Sun Xinghua nodded in satisfaction. Although some of them performed inadequately, considering their abilities, this performance was already quite good.

  Jiang Xianyun was squatting on one side, casually picking up the military book that Sun Xinghua had translated halfway through to take a look.

  Li Zhi Long was also on the side, occasionally discussing something with Jiang Xian Yun.

  "Officer Sun, I heard last time that you brought a machine gun to the armory, and it's even a model we don't have. What kind of weapon is that?" He Zonghan suddenly remembered something and asked.

  "Now our main weapons are from Germany and the Soviet Union, American-made ones are not very common. That's an American one, a Browning automatic rifle, which can be used as a light machine gun, but with less ammunition, only 20 rounds in a magazine, it can't guarantee sustained firepower." Sun Xinghua said with a smile.

  "What's the use of that? The Maschinengewehr 08 has plenty of bullets, just a single belt of 250 rounds can sustain firepower for a long time." Hu Zongnan hastily said.

  Sun Xinghua shook his head and looked at Hu Zongnan, saying: "It's not entirely true. The Maxim heavy machine gun is very inconvenient to move and is easily attacked by artillery shells. The Browning automatic rifle can be moved quickly and ensures flexible use. However, we have not introduced a large number of them here yet."

  Hu Zongnan nodded his head, looking as if he had learned something.

  The rest of the students took the opportunity to ask Sun Xinghua some military questions, occasionally raising some strange and weird questions, which made Sun Xinghua have to think carefully before answering.

  Fortunately, Sun Xinghua's memories all merged together. The military knowledge he had previously accepted was also understood by Sun Xinghua. Otherwise, it would be very difficult for Sun Xinghua to answer these questions in the future.

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