Ye Ting's three joys came to the door: he got love, joined the Communist Party, and became the first commander of the Revolutionary New Army.

In the second year after Guangzhou fell to the rebels, Sun Yat-sen returned to Guangzhou from Shanghai, reorganized the Kuomintang, established the Kuomintang, rebuilt the revolutionary base, and took charge of the military and political power in the name of the generalissimo.

Because Ye Ting was appreciated by Sun Yat-sen, Sun Yat-sen ordered Li Zhangda and Ye Ting to form a military police unit, Li Zhangda served as the commander of the military police after the formation, and Ye Ting served as the chief of staff.

"Xiyi, the social order in Guangzhou is so chaotic, you must quickly form a military police force to maintain it, and you and Zhang Da's burden is not light!" Sun Yat-sen, who had been running at home and abroad for many years for the New Democratic Revolution, looked at Ye Ting with a haggard expression, and his loving eyes were full of expectation.

"Generalissimo, as a soldier, I will do my best!" Although Ye Ting knew in his heart that it would be difficult to form a military police unit, he thought that he could not shirk the generalissimo's order, so he replied loudly, and when he left, he still "clicked" on his two heels, and after the military salute, he turned back and walked out of the presidential palace with firm and powerful steps.

However, the results of Ye Ting and Li Zhangda's running around confirmed that the warlords and politicians in the national ** were intrigued, fighting openly and secretly. Corrupt and pervert the law, engage in personal fraud, take advantage of the law, show off their might, bully men and women, act as a blessing, disregard people's lives, and draw the ground as a prison. The chapter "The Analects of Zilu" says: "If you can't be upright, what is like a righteous person?" "Because these self-respecting warlords and political oligarchs have done everything, and many officers and soldiers in the army and ** lower-level officials have followed suit, and they have also acted recklessly, how can the social order not be messy? To set up a gendarmerie unit, the first thing to do in the way was those warlords and politicians among the people, and they tried every means to resist it, so that Ye Ting and they could not raise funds, could not get guns, and lacked soldiers, so that the gendarmerie headquarters had no name, and Ye Ting and Li Zhang reached a veritable "bare-bones commander".

"The democratic revolution has been going on and on, how did it come to be like this?" Ye Ting, who was loyal to what he believed to do, was confused, puzzled, and angry by the filthy atmosphere of these warlords and dignitaries in front of him who ignored the revolution. Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen wanted to reverse it, but he was also obstructed by these dignitaries, and it was difficult for him to come up with a big measure to correct the evils of the times for a while. Ye Ting admired Sun Yat-sen's great talent and lofty ambitions, and sincerely believed that Sun Yat-sen's great cause would be successful. However, he also felt that the duckweed-like drifting around at the moment really did not have much effect on the democratic revolution, and it was better to lead the troops to fight. So, with the promise of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen, he asked his classmate and close friend Deng Yanda, who was now the commander of the Third Regiment of the First Division of the Guangdong Army in Jiangmen, Guangdong, to ask him for an errand to lead troops. Compared with Ye Ting, who has a strong temperament, Deng Yanda has the side of "a big husband can bend and stretch" and can adapt to the situation. He knew that the current First Division of the Guangdong Army was not the first division that was also the commander of the division back then, and the military discipline was strict and well-trained at that time, but after Chen Jiongming's devastation of the current First Division, many officers ate, drank, prostituted and gambled, and the soldiers were also tigers and wolves. Therefore, he asked Ye Ting to try to be the commander of the second battalion. Ye Ting went to the second battalion and stayed for more than a month, and he really felt that the current army was not easy to manage, and he felt that it was not enough for him to only have loyalty and strength now, and he also needed a kind of intelligence supplement and improvement of understanding, and it seemed that something else needed to be added, which required a time to study and think. So, he resigned from Deng Yanda and returned to the Ye family ancestral hall in Guangzhou.

Ye Ting has always taken a famous saying in "The Book of Rites: The Mean" as a criterion for regulating action, that is, "erudition, interrogation, prudence, discernment, and practice". In his spare time, he took books as his teacher, and he was well-read and accumulated. Now, he is no longer busy with military affairs, and he has to keep his hands on it again. Therefore, he often goes to bookstores, bookstalls, and reads history books and literary books, but it is the books and magazines that interest him the most are related to the current situation in the country and the political changes in the world. For example, the theoretical journal of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China "New Youth", which moved from Shanghai to Guangzhou, Qu Qiubai's "Qianfeng" edited in Guangzhou, "Guide" edited by Cai Hesen, and "Xiangjiang Review" edited by Mao ** in his early years. The greatest gain of his study during this period was that he understood the program of the Communist Party of China and the significance of the October Revolution in Russia, which laid an unbreakable foundation for his later life footprints.

In addition to studying diligently, Ye Ting often goes to a friend's house. The ancients said: "A conversation with you is better than ten years of reading." "Finding like-minded friends" to talk about the world and talk about life is also a pleasure that Ye Ting never tires of. The most frequent place he went to was the apartment of Li Zhangda, who was "in seclusion" at about the same time as him. Li Zhangda was also dissatisfied with the corruption of the warlords and politicians and retired from his home.

Li Zhangda's home is on Changxing Street in Guangzhou. It's a quiet little street. The houses on both sides of the street stand side by side, no more than a foot apart, and people on both sides can talk and laugh across the street on their balconies; A stone pavement in the center of the street, due to the frequent splashing of water and the rainy southern weather, is often moist and refreshing. This street is inhabited by many high-status families, so except for the occasional sound of hawkers, it gives people a sense of silence.

The place where Ye Ting and Li Zhangda drank tea and talked about politics was in the living room on the second floor of Li Zhangda's house. This living room faces the street, and on the balcony is a few pots of camellias, bamboo, Milan, jasmine and flowers unique to the south, and a pot of lush spider plants cascades down next to the bookcase against the wall, turning the whole living room green and blue, refreshing. Ye Ting's seat was sideways to the house across the street, so his eyes were attracted by the scenery of the house opposite from time to time. He was pleasantly surprised to find that the house facing the street opposite was a "boudoir", and there was a beautiful girl in the boudoir. The beautiful girl looked to be seventeen or eighteen years old, and she seemed to be a student. When Ye Ting and Li Zhangda's high-pitched conversation reached her ears, Yu Yu's unique views on the political situation and her extensive recruitment and introduction immediately aroused her desire for knowledge.

"Xiyi, do you have a crush on this girl?" Li Zhangda, who was older than Ye Ting, looked at Ye Ting with a smile.

"This girl seems to be familiar with your family?" Ye Ting's face was hot, and he hurriedly used words to hide his embarrassment, and came to answer the question.

"She is a regular visitor to our house. Her father and I are both Dongguan villagers and Li clansmen, and we are neighbors with the same voice, so the two families are very close. Li Zhangda also told Ye Ting that this girl's name is Li Xiuwen, who is 17 years old, and is a top student of the Provincial Zhixin Girls' High School. His father's name was Li Shaolin, and he made a living in business, and Li Shaolin's wife was very virtuous and enthusiastic. Li Shaolin has two daughters, the eldest daughter is married, and Li Xiuwen is the second daughter. Therefore, Li Xiuwen is very generous, enthusiastic, pure and flawless. Finally, Li Zhangda patted Ye Ting's shoulder blade with his hand, "Xiyi, I'm not as clever as a matchmaker, don't believe it, I'll send someone to call Miss Xiuwen over, you can see if she is a good woman who is generous." ”

"No, no, it's not appropriate." Ye Ting hurriedly stopped, but his face turned red all of a sudden, exuding a scorching light.

Not long after, Li Xiuwen was called by Li Zhangda. She came to the living room and smiled sweetly: "Uncle Li, this gentleman is good, is there something wrong with me?" ”

"Oh, that's the case, this gentleman's surname is Ye, his name is Ting, he is a top student of Baoding Military Academy, and he was the captain of the guard of Generalissimo Sun Yat-sen, the two of us talked about women's rights today, and I took the liberty to invite you here, I want to hear your female students' opinions, don't blame you?" Li Zhangda cleverly fabricated a reason for Li Xiuwen to come over in the tone of his father.

"Well, we students often discuss this topic related to women's liberation, and of course we would like to hear from them." Li Xiuwen smiled, neither the twisted shyness of a girl who has never seen the world, nor the wild uninhibited uninhibited girl who is not informal, but kneaded generosity and shyness into the best beauty of a decent girl - quiet.

So, Li Zhangda and Ye Ting talked about women's rights with fake and true. From the historical process of the formation of male superiority and inferiority over women over thousands of years to the shackles of cultural and traditional concepts on women's rights, from the "May Fourth" Movement fighting for women's rights to the value of women's own rights, and so on, the sea and the sky are vast, and every word is beautiful, which makes Li Xiuwen listen to it fascinating. Ye Ting, who came into her eyes, was not only dignified, but also very knowledgeable, and the conversation was full of insight, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of admiration. When Ye Ting was about to leave Li Zhangda's house, Li Xiuwen took the initiative to send Ye Ting downstairs, and welcomed Ye Ting to her house when he was free. Ye Ting looked at Li Xiuwen face to face, and felt that she was too beautiful, like a hollow valley orchid, a pear flower with rain, or a water plant. He fell in love with her all the more.

The next day, Ye Ting went to Li Zhangda's house again. Li Zhangda asked him if he was in love with Li Xiuwen, and Ye Ting also bluntly told him that he was in love with Li Xiuwen. However, he also bluntly told that Zhou Tiancun had his wife named Huang Chun. This marriage is purely "the order of his parents, the words of the matchmaker", it was completely arranged by his parents, and his father forced him to get married.

"Let me ask you, do you love that Huang family?" Li Zhangda stared at Ye Ting with his eyes like an awl.

Ye Ting sighed with his eyebrows tightly locked: "How can you talk about love or not?" At first, it was just a exchange for my father to agree to me going out to study. ”

"That's not it. I can't remember which famous person said that 'a marriage without love is equal to a grave'. I think that makes sense. Li Zhangda further enlightened and said, "You told me in the past that you helped your two younger sisters who were child daughters-in-law to break free from the chains of feudal marriage, why, today it is your turn to lose the courage to be the gravedigger of a feudal marriage without love?" On this issue, it is almost like your indomitable military temperament, which can only say that you are being a deserter and a coward! ”

Ye Ting knew Li Zhangda's good intentions, but his face was still heavy. Judging by his slightly tired look, he had been thinking hard all night last night. He knew that it was immoral to maintain a loveless marriage with Huang Chun, which was not only against his wishes, but also brought pain to Huang Chun. If he really loved Huang Chun, he would have brought Huang Chun to his side, sharing the joy of husband and wife, both of them were physically and mentally happy, and they both felt that life was unbearable. But in reality? Not to mention that he rarely had sex with Huang Chun in the early years, but he had a certain desire for ** in the past few years, but he still didn't want to sleep with Huang Chun, but strangled this desire in his heart very cruelly. Huang Chun is also flesh and blood, but she can't get her husband's love, isn't it also extremely painful? This loveless marriage is indeed a grave, no, hell! However, despite this, Huang Chun and herself have been married for ten years after all, and she also gave birth to a child who died prematurely, if she proposes a divorce, can she accept it? Even if she agrees, what do her friends and relatives think of her? What do the folks think of themselves? Ye Ting thought left and right in this fierce struggle of contradictions, tossed and turned, and still hesitated.

"Let me ask you again, do you really love Li Xiuwen?" Li Zhangda's question was much more blunt than the first time, and there was an obvious accusation in the bluntness.

Ye Ting replied skillfully: "It can be said that 'everyone is looking for her thousands of times, and suddenly looking back, but that person is in the lamplight', how can you not like it?" ”

"Well, let me ask you again, should you live for the loved or be willing to be a martyr for the unloved?" The airflow of Li Zhangda's questioning made Ye Ting feel some pain.

"Of course you should live for the people you love." Ye Ting finished speaking with certainty, and the words changed, "But I wonder if Miss Li Xiuwen also has love for me?" Also, according to my situation, I wonder if Mr. and Mrs. Li Shaolin are willing to accept me? ”

Li Zhangda smiled heartily when he heard this. He told Ye Ting that he went to Li Shaolin's house last night to propose marriage to Ye Ting, and Li Shaolin and his wife first asked Li Xiuwen if he was interested in Ye Ting. Li Xiuwen shook his head and nodded, and then Li Shaolin said that he had seen Ye Ting more than once when Ye Ting came to Li Zhangda's house as a guest, saying that Ye Ting was a rare general among the soldiers he had seen, and as for Ye Ting's wife in his hometown, as long as he dealt with it decisively, they agreed that the little girl Xiuwen and Ye Ting would establish a romantic relationship. Li Zhangda finished speaking happily, and habitually patted Ye Ting's shoulder blade: "There is a saying, 'Flowers can be folded straight and must be folded, don't wait for no flowers to fold skills'." Xiyi, when it is broken, it is broken, and the big husband is also! ”

"Okay, I'll go home right away!" Ye Ting stood up and knocked his heels excitedly, "Salute!" The little brother has taken his leave! ”

"That's what I think of Xiyi." Li Zhangda couldn't help but extend his thumb to Ye Ting with joy.

Ye Ting returned to Zhoutian Village, and proposed to Huang Chun the idea of ending the marriage that night, and hoped that she would find a husband who could live together and depend on each other, and gave her 300 yuan of Guangyang, saying that he would continue to help her financially in the future. Although Huang Chun is illiterate and hyphenated, she is still a believer in "three from four virtues", she knows that she is not a good match with Ye Ting, Ye Ting does not love her, but she is bound by the feudal tradition of "a good woman does not marry a second husband", and expressed her approval of Ye Ting's idea, but she also proposed that she would not leave home after divorce, and decided not to marry again, she is a member of the Ye family when she is alive, and she wants to be a ghost of the Ye family when she dies. He was grateful to Huang Chun for his reasonableness, understood Huang Chun's choice, and repeatedly told Huang Chun that if he had difficulties in the future, he must write to him and tell him that he would definitely help. The next day, Ye Ting said goodbye to Huang Chun and his fellow villagers and returned to Guangzhou. Huang Chun, who was honored by the villagers and younger generations as "Ba Niang", never married again, and bought a nunnery in Tamsui Town with the Guangyang left by Ye Ting, and often lived in the nunnery to eat fasting and chant Buddha, and went back to the village to do some farm work when he was busy, and also sent water and food to the guerrillas led by Zeng Sheng during the Anti-Japanese War, and also gave a gun that Ye Ting left at home in his early years to the guerrillas; When Ye Ting later lived in Macau, she also took the letter Ye Ting wrote to her to see Ye Ting in Macau. After the liberation of the country, when Ye Jianying was presiding over the work of Guangdong Province, he wrote a special document instructing the local people to give full protection to the old man's life. Huang Chun completed her ordinary and extraordinary life at the age of ninety-one and was buried next to the grave of Ye Xisan and his wife, fulfilling her lifelong wish.

Ye Ting returned to Guangzhou and started a passionate love with Li Xiuwen. They went to walk in the quiet woods of Central Park, and talked about literature and martial arts together, and the common language and common feelings made them truly love each other. They all feel proud that they are all bold creators of their own destiny and love.

At this time, the work of "taking Russia as a teacher" led by Sun Yat-sen was carried out quite well. Borodin, who was sent to China from the Comintern to serve as a revolutionary representative in Guangzhou and a trainer for the Kuomintang organization, was highly regarded by Sun Yat-sen and served as an adviser to the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee and a senior adviser to the Kuomintang. At this time, Chiang Kai-shek also won the trust of Sun Yat-sen because of his loyal support for Sun Yat-sen's three major policies of "uniting Russia, uniting the Communist Party, and supporting peasants and workers", and was sent by the Kuomintang Revolutionary Committee to the Soviet Union to inspect the military, and after his return, he served as the principal of the Whampoa Military Academy. Ye Ting also had the idea of going to the Soviet Union to study military affairs, and strengthened the study of Russian, and at the same time he asked Li Xiuwen: "I will go to Russia for further study, do you agree or not?" ”

"What you decide is also my yearning." Li Xiuwen replied very cleverly and clearly, and the dimples on his face were covered with honey.

"Then we're going to be away for a long time, aren't you afraid?" Ye Ting deliberately sank his face, looking a little heavy and worried.

Although Li Xiuwen was reluctant to leave Ye Ting for a long time, considering that Ye Ting went to the Soviet Union for further study and would be able to serve the country more after he came back, he smiled and said fondly: "If you leave, I will naturally miss it." However, 'if the two love for a long time, how will it be in the morning and twilight?' I'll wait for you to come back. ”

"Xiuwen, I love you!" Ye Ting, who was excited, hugged Li Xiuwen tightly in his arms. They hugged passionately, they kissed wildly, and the two people poured the torrent of love for each other into each other's hearts through hugs and kisses.

"I came back from the USSR and we got married right away." Ye Ting's cheeks were flushed with love, and his eyes were hot on Li Xiuwen.

"Hmm." Li Xiuwen, who was also burned by love, lit a little clotted collar, and his charming gaze was just like the smoke of the night, and the moon also broke his soul.

"Then I'll go see the Generalissimo tomorrow!" Ye Ting really talked to Sun Yat-sen and Liao Zhongwu about his hopes the next day.

"Okay, Xiyi, you will go to the Soviet Union to study military affairs this time, and you should also pay attention to contact with the backbone of the Communist Party there." Sun Yat-sen immediately expressed support for Ye Ting's choice, and pointed out to him that he should do more work on the cooperation between the KMT and the CCP while studying.

"Xiyi, the words of the Generalissimo are very important, we want to carry out the national revolution, and we can't unite more political parties and people from all walks of life." Liao Zhongkai, dressed in military uniform, was majestic, and he smiled when he spoke, obviously he appreciated and valued Ye Ting.

"I'll keep that in mind." Ye Ting paid farewell to Sun Yat-sen and Liao Zhongkai in a standard military posture.

Then, Ye Ting found his classmate Deng Yanda again and explained his intentions. Deng Yanda immediately allocated a sum of money from the provident fund of the First Division as support for Ye Ting.

At that time, the Beiyang warlords, supported by Japanese imperialism, tried to prevent the Communist Party and the Kuomintang from sending people to study in the Soviet Union. They set up checkpoints at several major checkpoints and strictly checked passers-by. Ye Ting took a letter of introduction written by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China to the Moscow branch of the Communist Party of China, disguised himself as a skilled worker who went to the Soviet Union to make a living, first took a boat from Guangzhou to Shanghai, and from Shanghai to an ocean liner via Nagashima, Japan, to the Soviet Union's Far Eastern seaport city of Vladivostok, and then took a train across the vast Siberia from Vladivostok, which lasted half a month before finally arriving at the destination Moscow.

At that time, Chinese students studying in the Soviet Union were concentrated in the Eastern Workers' Communist University in Moscow. The vast majority of the university's students came from the Soviet Union, which belonged to the ethnic minorities of the Asian region, and some came from China, Japan, Korea, Mongolia and other countries. Almost all of the Chinese students studying abroad were Communists and the Socialist Youth League, and Ye Ting became the only Kuomintang member to study at this school. Among these Communist Party members were Wang Ruofei and Wang Yifei, Nie Rongzhen, Li Lin, Xiong Xiong, Fu Lie, Fan Yi, and Mu Qing, who had finished their work-study program from France. Ye Ting soon met and got to know each other again, and they became like-minded friends with each other. In their Chinese class, the subjects studied mainly politics and Russian. In terms of theory, there are works such as Marx and Engels' "Communist Manifesto", "Capital", "Critique of the Gotha Program", and "Anti-Dühring", Lenin's "State and Revolution", "A Fundamental Problem of Revolution", "Military Program of the Proletarian Revolution", and other works, as well as the history of the world revolution, the history of the workers' movement, and the history of the Russian Communist Party. This new field of knowledge is almost completely new to Ye Ting, so he is eager to learn, take notes carefully during lectures, actively speak during discussions, and insist on "thinking when in doubt" and "thinking when asking". The students said that Ye Ting and them became a model of "KMT-CCP cooperation".

October of this year marks the seventh anniversary of the October Revolution in the Soviet Union. Ye Ting and the students of the Chinese class were invited to Red Square to visit the grand celebration, which exterminated the smiling faces and flowers of the Soviet people who had been exploited and oppressed, and held up the parade and celebration with great enthusiasm. Stalin and other leading comrades of the party and government of the Soviet Union waved to the procession and to the viewing platform where the Chinese class was located, and Ye Ting and his classmates in the Chinese class were also scorched by this huge heat wave, and their passion boiled. Ye Ting, in particular, vividly read the great significance of the "proletarian revolution". Soon after, the Fifth Congress of the Communist International was held in Moscow, and Li Dazhao, one of the founders of the Communist Party of China, attended the congress as a representative of the Communist Party of China, and went to Moscow to visit the students of the Chinese class at the Eastern Workers' Communist University, and also reported to them on the situation of the revolutionary struggle in China, hoping that they would return to China after completing their studies and take up the role of the pillars of serving the motherland, so that Ye Ting deeply felt the greatness of the Communist Party of China and the sacred mission shouldered by it. His assumption was reached through the use of dialectical materialism and historical materialism in the comparative analysis of the Kuomintang, which had a mixture of revolutionaries, warlords, and politicians, and the Communist Party, which had lofty ideals and vigorously waged revolutionary struggles. At the same time, he also conducted a profound analysis of his own concept of "strengthening the army and enriching the country" in the past, and realized that this concept is not only naïve, but also does not conform to China's reality. At present, the country is a warlord war, the imperialist powers are eating the law of the jungle, the people of Lebanon are brutally killed, hungry and cold, and the country is barren and backward, and it is terminally ill. How can there be a strong army when the country has not been completely eradicated? Look at those warlord forces, which one is not a rabble? Only by smashing the old apparatus that rules the country can there be hope for the country and the people be reborn. The goal of the Communist Party is to completely smash the old world!

"I want to apply to join the Communist Party of China." Ye Ting boldly expressed his desire to Wang Ruofei through full mental preparation.

"We would like to introduce you to the Communist Party of China!" Wang Ruofei held Ye Ting's hand tightly, and he was sincerely happy that an outstanding talent like Ye Ting had joined the Communist Party.

On December 1, 1924, the Moscow branch of the Communist Party of China held a branch meeting attended by as many as 70 people, and unanimously approved Ye Ting's entry into the Communist Party of China through the introduction of Wang Ruofei and Wang Yifei to Ye Ting as "a former soldier", "with revolutionary enthusiasm", and "very willing to stand in the proletariat and be the vanguard of the revolution". Ye Ting's joining of the Communist Party of China enabled him to leap to a new height in the journey of revolution and to a new realm in his thinking. As a result, he also became a double party member who was both a "member of the Communist Party" and a "member of the Kuomintang".

At this moment, another piece of news came that made Ye Ting happy: Stalin, in accordance with the needs of the Chinese revolution, decided to set up a Chinese class in the Red Army School in the Soviet Union to train outstanding military talents for China. Ye Ting immediately applied, and soon his application was realized. He and more than 30 Chinese students, including Wang Yifei and Nie Rongzhen, were transferred from the "University of Tokyo" to the Red Army School and began the extraordinary years of studying military affairs in the Soviet Union.

The instructors who taught at this Red Army school were all senior commanders at and above the division level who had been selected from the Soviet Civil War, and they had rich experience in actual combat as well as a very high theoretical level, and their teaching methods were a combination of classroom lectures and on-the-spot drills, and the combination of classroom tactical analysis and field simulation and actual combat made Ye Ting's military knowledge more and more profound.

Half a year later, the Chinese class of the Red Army School was completed.

At this time, the revolutionary situation in China was that the workers' and peasants' movement was flourishing, and the revolutionary base in Guangdong was further consolidated, laying a reliable foundation for the Northern Expedition to unify the whole country.

The Comintern and Stalin decided: the Chinese class returned home in batches.

When Ye Ting arrived in Vladivostok, a piece of news came that made him extremely sad and confused: Mr. Liao Zhongkai had been assassinated in Guangzhou. Ye Ting attended a memorial service for Dr. Sun Yat-sen's unfortunate death in Beijing in Moscow only half a year ago, and now Mr. Liao Zhongkai, who is Mr. Sun Yat-sen's right-hand man, has been plotted by hostile forces, and the two leaders have passed away one after another. This bloody struggle is so cruel! It makes man wise and great, and fanatic and mad!

Ye Ting returned to Shanghai with a heavy heart, and Wang Ruofei, who returned to China before him, took him to see Chen Duxiu, the head of the Party Central Committee and the head of the Organization Department. Chen Duxiu is a small figure who looks like a pedant, and his expression is quite arbitrary and self-serving. At this moment, he held a distribution list in his hand, asked him if he was Ye Ting, and told him that he was assigned to Guangzhou, and after arriving in Guangzhou, he went to find Chen Yannian, secretary of the Guangdong District Party Committee of the Central Committee, and Zhou Enlai, Minister of Military Affairs, and then they assigned him specific work.

Ye Ting left Shanghai for Guangzhou and met with Chen Yannian and Zhou Enlai. Zhou Enlai warmly welcomed Ye Ting's return to China and told him to serve as chief of staff of the Fourth Army of the National Revolution, which had been expanded from the former First Division of the Guangdong Army.

"Xiyi, do you have any opinions?" Zhou Enlai asked modestly.

"Obey the organization's assignments." Ye Ting politely saluted Zhou Enlai, and then turned around and left after Zhou Enlai's warmly stretched out hand.

When Ye Ting settled down at the Ye Clan Ancestral Hall in Guangzhou, the first thing he did was to visit Soong Ching-ling, the widow of Mr. Sun Yat-sen and a representative of the Kuomintang left, and express his admiration and condolences to her. Song Qingling did not forget Ye Ting's courage in fighting bravely to save her from disaster when the rebels attacked the presidential palace, and told Ye Ting with concern that there would be many twists and turns and tribulations in the revolution, and if there were any difficulties in the future, she would try her best to help, and keep Ye Ting to eat together. Ye Ting said that he still had to rush to No. 12 Baizi Road, Dongshan to visit the late Mr. Liao Zhongkai's wife, He Xiangning, and her children, so he took his leave and left.

In the past, Liao Zhongkai's apartment is now hung with black curtains and white gauze streamers on the lintel, giving people a solemn and sad feeling. Ye Ting walked into the hall, and saw that under Liao Zhongkai's posthumous portrait, He Xiangning and Liao Chengzhi's mother and son were weeping, and walked a few steps to He Xiangning, bent down to hold He Xiangning's hand, and two lines of hot tears rolled down, slammed on the floor, splashing white water: "Sister He, you must mourn!" The assassination of Mr. Liao shows that there is still an undercurrent and whirlpool in the torrent of revolution that cannot be underestimated. But, we, ho, and Chengzhi," he said, glancing at Liao Chengzhi, who was only a teenager standing beside He Xiangning, and said in an accentuated tone, "We and Chengzhi will inherit Mr. Chengzhi's legacy and carry the revolution to the end!" ”

"Xiyi, thank you for coming to see me just after returning home. In the future, you and Chengzhi will want men to be self-reliant. The more hostile the forces are rampant, the more you must train yourselves to be brave and bold, and at the same time to be cautious at all times! He Xiangning was not without sadness.

"Little brother, remember the teachings of Sister He." Ye Ting has such respect for the Liao family, not only because Liao Zhongkai is Sun Yat-sen's staunch revolutionary assistant, but also because Liao Zhongkai is his fellow villager in Huiyang, who has taught Ye Ting a lot in the past, and can be described as Ye Ting's mentor and friend. Ye Ting often visited He Xiangning's mother and son, a kind of soldier who was provoked by the evil forces to return blood to the enemy, and the courage of the soldier forged in his chest.

Ye Ting had a strong anger to punish the evil forces, and was eager to lead the team on the expedition immediately. At this time, the National Revolutionary Army launched the Second Eastern Crusade against Chen Jiongming.

Ye Ting marched east with the army.

Just after the National Revolutionary Army wiped out Chen Jiongming's rebels in one fell swoop, Ye Ting, who was in Huizhou, received an order to transfer him to the 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Fourth Army as the regiment commander.

Ye Ting was so excited that he couldn't help but clench his right hand into a fist, and the knuckles "gaba" exploded. Ye Ting knew that almost all the officers at all levels of the battalion, company, and platoon of this regiment were Communist Party members, and they were military armed forces under the leadership of the Guangdong District Committee of the Communist Party of China. When the first batch of students graduated from the Whampoa Military Academy, with the consent of Mr. Sun Yat-sen, some leaders of the Communist Party of China first selected Xu Chengzhang, Zhou Shidi, and other military cadres of the Communist Party members of the first batch to form the "Generalissimo's Mansion Ironclad Convoy." Although there were only more than 150 personnel, they were brave and tenacious, and won brilliant results in many battles. Subsequently, the communists in Guangzhou, Mao **, Zhou Enlai, etc., proposed to form an infantry regiment under the direct leadership of the Communist Party in each army in the National Revolutionary Army, but unexpectedly, they were opposed by the Communist Party itself. The 34th Regiment of the 12th Division of the Fourth Army was resolutely organized under the personal auspices of Chen Yannian and Zhou Enlai of the Guangdong District Party Committee.

Ye Tingyi, the first regiment commander of the New Revolutionary Army under the direct leadership of the Communist Party of China.

Unprecedented.

How could Ye Ting not be full of pride!

Ye Ting immediately took office.

On this day, the officers and men of the regiment formed a square formation, holding their heads high, neat and solemn, waiting for the arrival of their regimental commander.

When Ye Ting wore a tweed officer uniform and stood heroically in front of this new army of officers and soldiers, he saw that the officers and soldiers of the platoon, company, and battalion were in high spirits, and there was no malaise and looseness of the warlord army, and he sincerely felt that the communist army could be described as a tiger and leopard army. After rigorous training, this unit will be invincible and invincible!

Under the sun, the officers and soldiers of the whole regiment watched as they watched Ye Ting, the head of the regiment, who was plated with a layer of gold armor, mighty, fierce, and majestic.