Republican Era: From the Start at Whampoa's First Class, Build an Army to Crush All Opposition

Autumn, 1924. Guangzhou was in turmoil as the Grand Marshal’s headquarters used force to bring the warlords of Guangdong to heel.

Hand over your troops? Then you’re at their mercy. Openly defy them? You’ll be wiped out.

With his family facing certain annihilation, Lin Zhenbang, son of a powerful Guangdong Army commander, slammed his palm down and smashed the sand table in the war room!

“Hand over my troops? I’ll take four hundred thousand silver dollars to Whampoa and become the granddaddy of those future generals!”

Carrying crates full of gold bars, Lin Zhenbang strode onto Whampoa Island, violently wrenching the gears of history onto a different course!

Riding the momentum of the Northern Expedition, he frantically recruited and expanded his forces, transforming a motley force of fifteen thousand into an iron beast of three hundred thousand fully armed soldiers!

Pacify the two Guang provinces, crush the warlords, march north to conquer the Central Plains!

Use the great powers’ capital to build arsenals, and foreign technology to make heavy artillery and tanks. Caught between rival factions, he took an iron-fisted approach and forged an “Iron-Blooded China” with massed troops ready for battle!

From then on, China was no longer a playground for the great powers, and the backbone of its four hundred million people was finally strengthened!

After that, Lin Zhenbang used an army of a million as his chess pieces, quelling internal unrest with one hand and pointing his sword eastward with the other, holding Britain and America in check. War reshaped the Far East, and the humiliation of the old era came crashing down.

“We thought Whampoa was training a revolutionary army, but we never imagined it would hatch a war beast that devours the world!” - An envoy of a great power

“He didn’t just crush the pride of the Kwantung Army. He ground the dignity of the entire empire under his heel.” - The Japanese Prime Minister

An iron-blooded warlord rises with unstoppable force, crushing anyone who dares defy him.

And the man standing at the pinnacle of power, faced with the united protests of the great powers, merely exhaled a ring of cigar smoke and said coldly, “You refuse to accept it? I’ll shell you until you do!”