1922年2月初,孙中山组建海军陆战队,任命叶剑英为海军陆战队营长。10月,孙中山组织讨伐叛军陈炯明,任命叶剑英为东路讨贼军第8旅参谋长。 1924年3月,孙中山组建建国粵军,叶剑英任第二师参谋长。5月5日,受廖仲恺邀请,叶剑英被委任为黄埔军官学校教授部副主任。 1925年3月,粵军第二师攻占广东梅县后,叶剑英奉广州留守府命令兼任梅县县长。 1926年7月,北伐战争初期,叶剑英任 Early February 1922, Sun Yat-sen formed the Marine Corps, Ye Jianying appointed as Marine Corps battalion commander. In October, Sun Yat-sen organized a campaign against the rebel Chen Jiongming and Ye Jianying as the chief of Staff of the 8th Brigade of the Zerouzer Army on the East Road. March 1924, Sun Yat-sen formed the founding of Guangdong, Ye Jianying second division chief of staff. On May 5, at the invitation of Liao Zhongkai, Ye Jianying was appointed deputy director of the Whampoa Military Academy professor department. In March 1925, the second division of the Yuejun Army captured Meixian County, Guangdong Province. Ye Jianying was ordered by the left-behind government of Guangzhou to serve as the county magistrate. In 1926 July, the early Northern Expedition, Ye Jianying Ren