Chapter 14: The Third Brother Wei Hua

  It was already December 1924, and since Premier Sun's departure for the north, everything at Whampoa Military Academy had returned to normal. Liao Zhongkai used the spoils of war seized from Sun Xinghua to add many useful things to the academy, each student now having a pair of shoes and no longer wearing straw sandals, while second-term students could even taste meat dishes once a week.

  Sun Xinghua's work, however, became even busier. The second division of the troops had begun to take shape, with Wang Boling as the division commander, and Gu Zhutong, a military instructor from the Training Department, serving concurrently as the regimental commander of the first regiment, Lin Dingke as the regimental commander of the second regiment, and Jin Fuzhuang as the regimental commander of the third regiment.

  The original formation of the second regiment had nothing to do with Sun Xinghua, but due to the problem of deserters in the third battalion of the teaching regiment, Jin Fuzhuang was demoted and removed from office by the school headquarters, and Wang Jun, the commander of the third battalion of the first teaching regiment, took over as the commander of the third battalion of the second teaching regiment. The position of commander of the third battalion of the first teaching regiment was then held concurrently by Deputy Regiment Commander Sun Xinghua.

  Of course, Principal Chiang had his own plan in letting Sun Xinghua take on the role of Third Battalion Commander. At the same time that Sun Xinghua took on the role of Third Battalion Commander, the pistol team, which was the best-equipped unit in the entire Party Army, was reassigned to the school headquarters and placed under its direct command. As for the position of Pistol Team Captain held by Sun Xinghua, Principal Chiang relieved him of his duties citing that he had too many concurrent positions.

  This matter made the leading cadres of the First Division very unhappy, after all, they had experienced the powerful firepower of the pistol team, and now it was changed to be commanded by the school headquarters, which meant that the First Division had lost an elite unit.

  However, Principal Chiang was generous and directly assigned the six US 75mm field guns aided by Sun Shiyu to the two instructional brigades. He also allocated sixty rounds of ammunition to the First Instructional Brigade, which finally shut up the leaders of the brigade headquarters.

  Due to the instruction of training the Second Regiment on Huangpu Island, the First Regiment of Huangpu was ordered to withdraw from Huangpu Island and stationed in the Yuzhu Cannon Fort area on the opposite bank.

  As the deputy chief instructor of Huangpu tactics, Sun Xinghua, who is also the deputy commander and third battalion commander of the first teaching regiment of Huangpu, has been running back and forth between Huangpu Island and Yuzhu Cannon Fort on the opposite bank recently.

  Instructing the First Battalion's Third Company garrison.

  Sun Xinghua sat in the camp, carefully thinking about the problem of weapon equipment. Now his own troops' supporting weapons have two French 37MM infantry guns, two heavy machine guns, and each company has one light and one heavy machine gun. However, such firepower still did not satisfy Sun Xinghua, who wanted to use intelligent computers to provide even stronger firepower.

  The last time the handgun team was formed, Sun Xinghua had already used the intelligent computer to provide weapons for the handgun team. However, in order to continue providing weapons later on, he must be promoted or the handgun team's weapons must be damaged before the intelligent computer will provide them again. If you want to provide unlimited weapons, it is simply impossible.

  "Smart computer General Chip startup, target locked..."

  "Sun Xinghua, Current position: Battalion Commander. Weapon supply in progress..."

  "Warning: this operation will deduct 10 merit points. Current merit points are 0. You will need to make up for 20 merit points later, do you want to continue the operation?"

  "My god, no way, and I have to pay double compensation." Sun Xinghua couldn't help but say a sentence after hearing that.

  However, after a moment of hesitation, the first Eastern Expedition was about to begin. Without some good guys, it would be difficult to hold on, after all, Yang Ximin and Liu Zhenhuan, these two old warlords, had not been in harmony with Huangpu Military Academy since Sun Zhongli's northward journey. They were unwilling to see the party army become stronger.

  Sun Xinghua knew the general time of the war, but he did not know that in the first Eastern Campaign, although the teaching group fought out a reputation with fewer people defeating more, they also paid a painful price, especially the First Teaching Group, which suffered heavy casualties.

  "Battalion Commander, all company commanders have arrived." The third battalion party representative Cai Guangju walked in and said to Sun Xinghua.

  Sun Xinghua nodded and looked at the three battalion commanders who had just walked in from outside.

  Chang Shen-chien, Whampoa instructor, graduated from Paoting Military Academy.

  Li Lianchang Hu Wei, a graduate of Whampoa Military Academy's first class, served as the regiment commander in Xu Chongzhi's division before joining Whampoa.

  Third Battalion Commander Dong Tianyong, a graduate of the first class of Whampoa Military Academy, served as deputy regimental commander under Tang Yulin before joining the academy.

  Three Communist Party representatives, all of whom were graduates of the first class and had a good relationship with Sun Xinghua, are Du Yuming, Song Xilian, and Guan Linzheng.

  These three young men were all specially obtained by Sun Xinghua, but they had shallow qualifications and no experience as military officers like Dong Tianyong and Hu Wei, so they all served as company party representatives.

  "Now that everyone is here, I'll speak directly. Chen Jiongming in the east has become restless, and a big war will probably happen sooner or later. I have formulated a training outline for the troops, and you all must follow it to train. As for equipment, I will try my best to allocate more to each company." Sun Xinghua said, looking at the six officers.

  Six officers smiled on their faces, they all knew that the US equipment in the troops now was aided by Sun Xinghua's father Sun Shi Yu. Now this regimental commander wants to provide equipment for the troops, it is obviously an easy thing to do.

  "Delegate, you come and take note." Sun Xinghua said, looking at Cai Guangju beside him.

  Cai Guangju was somewhat perplexed, but quickly took out paper and pen, waiting for Sun Xinghua's orders.

  "Infantry squad: Two squad leaders, equipped with Thompson submachine guns. Six infantrymen, equipped with Springfield rifles. Two machine gunners: Equipped with Browning automatic rifles."

  Infantry Platoon: Under it are three infantry squads. The platoon has 4 personnel: equipped with 1 Browning automatic rifle, and 2 Colt pistols.

  Infantry company: under the jurisdiction of three infantry platoons, one machine gun platoon (30 personnel): 2 French-style 37MM infantry guns, 2 Browning heavy machine guns. Company personnel 8: 2 Thompson submachine guns, 6 Colt pistols.

  Infantry Battalion: under which are three infantry companies, one machine gun company (60 personnel): two 75MM field guns, four Browning heavy machine guns, four Browning automatic pistols. Battalion headquarters personnel 20: Thompson submachine guns 15, Colt handguns 5.

  The total number of staff is 500 people.

  Several officers exchanged glances, involuntarily taking a cold breath. Even Cai Guangjie, who was recording, couldn't help but look at Sun Xinghua.

  "Captain, this equipment..." Cai Guangju seemed somewhat incredulous, looking at Sun Xinghua.

  "Our camp currently has only over 300 people, and each company still needs to recruit more soldiers. Don't worry about the weapons and equipment, you just focus on recruiting enough soldiers, and I will naturally take care of the rest." Sun Xinghua said to the officers.

  "Yes, Colonel." The six officers stood up and saluted in unison.

  "Everyone go back and prepare, the matter of recruiting soldiers, you all must keep it a secret for me, no pulling in strong men." Sun Xinghua said seriously.

  "Yes." The officers immediately saluted and walked out towards the outside.

  "Comrade representative, I'll go to Guangzhou for a bit and bring back all the weapons at the same time." Sun Xinghua said, looking at Cai Guangjie beside him.

  Cai Guangju nodded, although he was somewhat puzzled, but after all Sun Xinghua also served as the deputy team leader, so he didn't say anything.

  Driving the truck loaded with looted goods, Sun Xinghua went straight to Guangzhou. The reason why Sun Xinghua came to Guangzhou was first to borrow money from his elder brother Sun Jianhua, and secondly to dispel the doubts of the military officers. After all, Sun Xinghua couldn't suddenly produce a large number of weapons for them.

  After arriving at the foreign firm, Sun Xinghua explained his intention and was taken in directly.

  However, the one who received Sun Xinghua was not Sun Jianhua, but a young man with some similarities to himself. Compared to Sun Jianhua, he had more of a gangster air about him.

  "Second brother, how did you come?" Sun Weihua looked at Sun Xinghua in front of him and said excitedly.

  Xun Xinghua smiled, but didn't say anything.

  "Second Brother, Father has asked me to take the entrance exam for Huangpu this time. You must help me, Father has already sent me a telegram. If I don't go to Huangpu, he wants me to go somewhere else, in any case, I won't be able to return to his side." Sun Weihua's expression was somewhat dejected, with a pleading face.

  "Zhen Guo, you're not young anymore, wandering around all day isn't a good thing. If you study hard and report to Huangpu, you can definitely get in. Once you're there, you need to change all your bad habits." Sun Xinghua said helplessly, after all, the person in front of him was his third brother, Sun Xinghua hesitated but still decided to educate him.

  "Never mind, I'll figure it out myself." Sun Weihua looked at Sun Xinghua's lengthy lecture and quickly walked away.

  "Where's Big Brother?" Sun Xinghua looked at Sun Weihua who was about to leave and asked hastily.

  "It's not about business, by the way, Big Brother left you 3,000 yuan, he knows Huangpu is short of money and your life is very hard." Sun Weihua seemed to remember something, stopped in his tracks, and looked at Sun Xinghua behind him.

  Sun Xinghua's face revealed a smile, with these three thousand big oceans, his own recruitment of new soldiers would not have any problems. However, looking at the third brother Wei Hua in front of him, Sun Xinghua sighed helplessly, fearing that even if he entered Huangpu, Sun Weihua's nature might not change.

  After taking away three thousand yuan from here, Sun Xinghua hurried back to his post.