On October 22, 1922, Chiang Kai-shek, who was the future of China's first OSS, was appointed by Sun Yat-sen to Fujian to be the unlucky chief of the General Staff. Because there is no army in his hands, the path of the chief of the general staff of this **oss is a big tragedy. The Cantonese army did not distinguish between right and wrong, and basically no one took Jiang Zhong seriously, except for Luo Yiqun.

Because Xu Chongzhi and Huang Dawei were too busy with work, it was his predecessor Luo Yiqun who went to the dock to greet Jiang Zhongzheng, and the two simply shook hands, exchanged a few words and got into a car.

"Do you have any thoughts on Jiegong coming to the Guangdong Army this time?" Luo Yiqun and Chiang Kai-shek sat side by side in the back seat of the car, and the two of them talked about it when they had nothing to do.

"Brother Yichen, what do you think about being the chief of staff for Xu Ruwei for a few months?" Chiang Kai-shek's face was gloomy, and his heart was obviously upset.

"Without my own troops, any chief of staff is empty, I don't care, it's just that Jiegong has big ambitions, don't you have any ideas? There's a chance now. Luo Yiqun secretly glanced at Chiang Kai-shek and found that the corners of his mouth moved slightly, and soon returned to normal.

"What Brother Yichen said?" Chiang Kai-shek wondered if there was something wrong with his ears, so he hurriedly asked.

"There is a nephew who graduated from the West Point Military Academy, and now he is a battalion commander in Huang Dawei's army, but a few days ago, when he was fighting Fuzhou, he happened to let him go to the Hongshanqiao Arsenal first, and now he has a batch of ordnance in his hand, but the foundation is too shallow, so he wants to find someone to cooperate." Luo Yiqun whispered in Chiang Kai-shek's ear: "There are more than 3,000 long and short guns, one hundred and one water organs, and twelve cannons, which is enough to form a division, I wonder if Jiegong is interested?" ”

As soon as Chiang Kai-shek heard that there was such a good thing, he couldn't hold back his excitement anymore, held Luo Yiqun's hand and said: "Brother Yichen values Zhongzheng so much, Zhongzheng is grateful, if Brother Yichen has any proposal, just say, Zhongzheng will definitely do his best." ”

"Jiegong doesn't have to be like this, it's not a secret, this proposal was put forward by my nephew Luo Yaoguo, he hopes that Jiegong can pull a reliable regiment from the Cantonese army, and then pull a group of reliable officers, and combine with my nephew's troops, and then expand into a division. The division commander is naturally a duke, but my nephew wants a brigade commander, with the face of the two of us, Xu Ruwei shouldn't refuse, right? "Luo Yiqun put forward a suggestion by the way to let Luo Yaoguo be the brigade commander, and become the brigade commander at the age of 23, I'm afraid there are not many in the troubled times of the Republic of China, right?

When Chiang Kai-shek heard it, the other party's request was completely reasonable, and he had also heard of Luo Yaoguo's name, graduated from West Point in the United States, with a golden signboard, with this diploma, a brigade commander did it, although he was younger, but small also had small benefits, and he should be more obedient.

"This matter is on me, I heard that Xu Ruwei's Second Army suffered heavy losses this time, and Huang Dawei has taken his place in the past few days? If he can have one more division, I'm afraid he won't be able to ask for it, right? As for Huang Dawei, he is not afraid, with you and me, plus Xu Ruwei, he should be able to suppress it. "Chiang Kai-shek quickly weighed it up and made a decision very quickly." Oh, when will I meet this top pastry student? ”

"It's a little difficult to talk about this matter, because my nephew's team has incorporated Li Houji's guards, so now he doesn't dare to leave the station easily, if Jiegong wants to see him, he has to ask Jiegong to go to Cangshan Town in person." Speaking of this, Luo Yiqun's face turned slightly red.

"Hehe, knowing that you can't control the troops, you can control the beginning of the troops, there's nothing to be embarrassed about. Yichen, you have a good nephew. "Chiang Kai-shek has been in the army all these years, and he knows that the troops are actually difficult to control, not to mention that other people's guards were captured by you, which Luo Yaoguo miscalculated.

Chiang Kai-shek, who returned to Fuzhou City, immediately went to Xu Chongzhi with Luo Yiqun to talk about the matter, Xu Chongzhi and Chiang Kai-shek were brothers, and they still trusted Chiang Kai-shek, and they were naturally full of joy when they heard that they could get a new division, and felt that the righteous brother was really helping him deal with Huang Dawei, so he readily agreed.

Immediately allocated Wei Lihuang's supplementary regiment to be combined with Luo Yaoguo's supplementary regiment, and then recruited and expanded into the Reading Division of the Second Army of the Guangdong Army, with two brigades under the jurisdiction of Wei Lihuang as the commander of the 14th Brigade, Luo Yaoguo as the commander of the 15th Brigade, and the division commander was concurrently served by Chiang Kai-shek, chief of staff of the East Road Thief Army, and the deputy division commander was given to Luo Yiqun, in addition, Chiang Kai-shek pulled out a number of non-Guangdong officers from the Guangdong Army, such as Jiang Dingwen, Qian Dajun, Liu Zhi, Gu Zhutong, and Chen Jiji, plus Wei Lihuang. On Luo Yaoguo's side, in addition to Wang Bao, Gao Shaojie, Li Shunen, Wu Ziliang, Wang Guodong, Liu Dezhu plus Luo Zhuoying, who came from Tai Po soon after, and Chen Cheng and Zhou Zhirou, who were brought in by Luo Zhuoying.

After negotiating with Xu Chongzhi about the expansion of the reading division, Chiang Kai-shek, accompanied by Luo Yiqun, went to meet with Luo Yaoguo in Cangshan Town, which is across the river from Fuzhou.

"Luo Yaoguo of the Ministry of Labor has seen Jiegong." Luo Yaoguo couldn't believe that the middle-aged general in front of him, who looked very military, was actually the old "former president"? Not at all! Chiang Kai-shek was actually so handsome? Could it be a mistake? Could it be that there were actually two Chiang Kai-sheks in the history of the Republic of China?

"Okay, good, Brother Fuwen is really young and promising, and he brought out such elite soldiers at a young age." It is difficult to understand the official dialect of Ningbo, which has a symbolic surname, which confirms that this middle-aged general with dignified appearance and eyes like a torch is Chiang Kai-shek, who was leaned on by Sun Yat-sen as the Great Wall.

"Jie Gong smiled, the ministry was just lucky, one step ahead of the Hongshan Arsenal, and ambushed Li Houji's guards, so that he got these situations." After confirming that the other party was Chiang Kai-shek, Luo Yaoguo felt that the meal ticket for the rest of his life was guaranteed, and he was in a much happier mood.

Chiang Kai-shek's program was a regular parade of troops, which took place in an open field southwest of Cangshan Town. About 1,000 officers and men lined up in a neat line, rifles in hand, machine guns and twelve 75 guns were also displayed. Looking at this army, which had half of its own shares, Chiang Kai-shek's eyes showed irrepressible excitement.

"Fuwen, did you capture all these cannons?" Chiang Kai-shek was an artilleryman, so his interest in artillery was naturally higher than that of other weapons.

"Jiegong, the luck of our army in the First World War in Fuzhou is unbelievable, Li Houji doesn't know what the purpose is, he actually put 42 75mm rapid-fire guns in the warehouse of the Fujian manufacturing plant without equipping the troops." Speaking of which, Luo Yaoguo was a fluke. "It's not how strong we are this time, it's that the enemy is too stupid, so I don't know how Chen Jiongming is better than Li Houji?"

"Chen Jiongming doesn't know much about military affairs, but he is good at grasping people's hearts." Chiang Kai-shek was angry when he talked about Chen Jiongming. "There are still many generals in the Guangdong army who have illusions about Chen Jiongming."

"Hehe, at the same time, he is a big man, my Guangdong fellows call Chen Jiongming a big man, and the prime minister is called an old man." Luo Yaoguo said half-jokingly: "I'm afraid our trouble now is not this big guy, but a group of brothers." ”

"Brother Qi?" Chiang Kai-shek was slightly stunned, but soon understood what Luo Yaoguo meant, nodded and said: "Yes, we don't have a real revolutionary army now, but warlords of all sizes, the army is in the private hands of the generals, the soldiers sell their lives for military salaries, and the commanders regard the army as a tool for profit, and there is no loyalty at all." ”

"It's a pity that building a real revolutionary army is not an overnight effort, and the current situation can only rely on warlords, and even we can only become warlords ourselves." Luo Yaoguo's words are somewhat meaningful, indeed, at the moment, Luo Yaoguo is a warlord, and Chiang Kai-shek has two supplementary regiments and is almost going to be a warlord.

"Yes, in order to build a revolutionary army, it is first necessary to train revolutionary officers, and in order to train revolutionary officers, it is necessary to have a reliable base area." Chiang Kai-shek looked at the southeast from afar, and his eyes seemed to see the steaming revolutionary military academy.

After listening to Chiang Kai-shek's words, Luo Yaoguo naturally went to the Whampoa Military Academy, but are the officers trained by the Whampoa Military Academy considered revolutionary soldiers? What should a revolutionary soldier look like? Thinking of this, Luo Yaoguo was also a little puzzled. "What kind of officer qualifies as a revolutionary officer? And how should it be cultivated? ”

Chiang Kai-shek glanced back at the young man who asked this question, and said: "Revolutionary officers should believe in the righteousness of the three clear boils, respect the leader, obey orders, and not be afraid of sacrifice." How many such officers are in your troops? ”

"Jiegong should ask how many such officers there are in our China." Luo Yaoguo replied with a smile.

"Everything is difficult at the beginning, auxiliary text, we still have to make this warlord army bigger and bigger now, and then we can have the right to speak, the revolutionary officers will wait until they return to Guangzhou and then train, now we should coax or coax, and the most important thing is to seize the troops." Chiang Kai-shek's words revealed a bit of sincerity, which suddenly made Luo Yaoguo have a lot of good feelings for him.

"What Jiegong said is that we should still make the troops bigger and grasp it now, by the way, when will the division headquarters go to the island? When will Captain Wei's troops be able to come? I want to reorganize the troops as soon as possible. In order to prevent Huang Dawei from annexing, Luo Yaoguo had to incorporate Li Houji's guards to increase his momentum, but now he feels that the troops are difficult to control, and those newly recruited soldiers are difficult to command.

Chiang Kai-shek had a rare smile on his face when he heard this. "The division headquarters will be formed as soon as possible, Wei Junru's troops will cross the river tomorrow, and you can get an idea about the reorganization plan."

"That's great, but about the reorganization, the department already has a belly case, and I still want to ask for the opinion of the Jiegong." Luo Yaoguo did this kind of thing for the first time, and he had no experience, so he took out the plan he had envisioned. Luo Yaoguo's plan was to divide the 600 captured soldiers of Li Houji's guard into two halves, and 300 to be scattered and incorporated into Wei Lihuang's supplementary regiment, and at the same time transfer 300 people from Wei Lihuang's regiment into his own troops, so that 7 or 800 people could be used to dilute 300 people. After the completion of the reorganization, the troops will be expanded into brigades, and the strength will be increased to 4,000 people, in addition to the 12 cannons, Luo Yaoguo is going to organize them into an artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters, but the artillery and artillery officers will ask Chiang Kai-shek to find a way.