After the Argentine internal meeting, Fellner rushed back to Corrientes with his own guards.

While the province of Misiones was plagued by war, Corrientes, which bordered it, was peaceful and unaffected by the war.

"General, Sarmiento is too much! I can't swallow this breath if I don't take our northern provinces into account at all! ”

In the courtyard guarded by the soldiers, Fellner complained to an old man in his fifties and sixties in front of him.

"The provinces of Juyi, Mendoza and Sarmiento's Córdoba were co-opted by Mitre to support Sarmiento and oppose the rupture of the Buenos Aires Union, and one province of Corrientes alone could not deal with Sarmiento and Mitre behind him.

The situation is stronger than the man, Ferner, you have to learn to be patient. ”

"Patience, patience, since the general stepped down, I have been enduring for six years, and I don't know how long I will endure such days." The more Fellner spoke, the more angry he became: "At the meeting, Sarmiento, with the support of Mitre, forced Corrientes to send two thousand men to join the reinforcements, under the command of the designated general of the Union army.

Checkmate! Sarmiento was about to take away two thousand troops as soon as he came to power, and if he had secured his seat, Corrientes would not have fallen into his hands, and then we would not have the slightest strength to resist!

General, aren't you in a hurry? ”

The old man's face darkened, and he was clearly dissatisfied with Ferner's way of speaking.

"General, I was overly excited for a while, and my speech was a little inappropriate, don't be angry, but you are the backbone of my old superiors and local provinces, and the Federal District (referring to Buenos Aires) is too pressing, and you still have to make up your mind what to do!"

"I'm still a backbone, the provinces of Huyi and Mendoza were bought by Mitre, and now they recognize Misaento, I'm just an old man who has been used and thrown away, and I don't have the heart to participate in national affairs."

The old man's tone was flat, and there was no sadness or joy on his face, if Fellner hadn't seen his slightly trembling right hand, he really believed what he said.

"The general is very gracious, as long as you take the lead against Misa Ento, there will certainly be many provinces that support your claim, and then we will unite the forces of the provinces to hold Mitre and Misa Ento accountable for the defeat of the war, and force them to relinquish power and replace you in the exercise of the duties of the president."

The defeat in the Paraguayan war affected the domestic political situation in Argentina, Mitre was forced to resign from the presidency under pressure, and pushed the oligarchic representative of the province of Córdoba Misanto to the throne, while he himself continued to hold the military command of Buenos Aires.

The old man next to Ferner was not an ordinary person, he was Mitre's previous Argentine president, Urquiza, who was defeated by Mitre in 1861 in the battle between the local oligarchy and the federal totalitarian forces, so Urquiza was ousted from the presidency and replaced by Mitre.

Losing the presidential throne, Mitre did not let Urquisa go, he secretly supported Urquiza's old rival Delky, and took advantage of the exhaustion and low morale of Urquisa's troops to take the province of Antrerios in one fell swoop, so that Mitre lost his base and completely lost the strength to confront the government.

Losing control of the army and losing control of the territory, Urquisa openly retired in the province of Anterios, secretly conspiring with his subordinates to make a comeback, but an incident happened more than a month ago that forced him to leave his painstakingly run hometown and live in Corrientes.

More than a month ago, Urquiza was assassinated by more than fifty assassins armed with rifles in the country manor, and was able to escape thanks to the desperate protection of a group of soldiers who had followed him for more than a decade.

After the assassination, Urquiza smelled danger and did not dare to stay in the province of Antlerios, so he had to choose to leave.

Urquiza's years of experience in political and military struggles told him that now was not the time to come ahead against Mitre, and that he was always waiting for the right moment, so no matter how much Ferner tried to persuade him, he did not promise easily.

Ferner's persuasion for more than ten minutes was ineffective, when a guard walked in to report the news.

"General, there are three Indians out there who want to see you, and he says he wants to make a big deal with you."

"Where did the natives make trouble! Don't you see me and General Urquiza discussing something important? Get them out! ”

Fellner was in a bad mood and shouted at the guards who entered the room.

"Wait."

The guard turned and was about to leave, but Urquiza, who rarely spoke, stopped him.

"The Indians are strange here, so you might as well meet them."

Urquisa spoke, but Ferner couldn't refuse, nodding his head for the soldiers to let him go.

Walking into the room, the three Indians removed the camouflage on their faces and revealed their true faces,

"The two generals, Colonel Sun Qisheng of the Wehrmacht in Rio Gran de Lower Surgo, have come to make a deal with the two of them on the orders of the prince."

"You're Chinese, come to Corrientes, aren't you afraid that I'll catch you and shoot you?" Fell said in a cold and threatening tone.

"I'm here to make a deal with the general, as for what the general wants to do with us, let's read the content of the deal before making a decision."

Sun Qisheng was neither humble nor arrogant, and did not take Fellner's threat to heart at all.

Although the intelligence department under the General Staff was set up early, the Chinese rebel forces did not have the opportunity to arrange personnel to obtain information during the thousands of miles of battle.

The first batch of intelligence personnel were mainly selected from the special forces, and the selected special forces soldiers and some remnants of the Ming Dynasty formed an advance team, disguised as Indians and went deep into the mountains and forests of northern Argentina, responsible for establishing a base in the mountains, absorbing Indians to strengthen their strength, and preparing the Chinese troops for future operations in advance.

In addition to developing his own intelligence personnel, Li Mingyuan also instructed the intelligence department to use bribery and other means to recruit foreigners as intelligence agents and obtain information from them.

Brazil and Argentina are the main areas for the Chinese to develop intelligence personnel, and in order to carry out intelligence, the Chinese have paid a large amount of money to buy off Argentine small businessmen and ordinary people who are doing business in the border areas; after several months of screening and investigation, the intelligence department has identified more than 20 Argentines as long-term intelligence personnel, and has obtained from them the basic situation between the main forces in Argentina and the contradictions and conflicts between the various forces.

Based on the information obtained, Li Mingyuan secretly instructed Sun Qisheng to meet with Fellner to seek cooperation between the two parties.

Sun Qisheng was not afraid of Ferner's threat, and turned his head and motioned to the two subordinates around him to take out the letter he was carrying.

The letter was written on two sheets of paper in the form of cipherlands, and two disguised Chinese officers took out the letters, processed them with the characteristic pen they carried, and then changed the cipherwords into plaintext and wrote them on a piece of paper.

After the invention of the telegraph, countries with conditions have begun to transmit information with telegraph ciphers, and the use of paper to record secret language is only a traditional way of transmitting information, which is not very advanced.

After receiving the translated letter, Ferner glanced at it a few times and respectfully handed it to Urquiza.

A thin piece of paper had only a few hundred words on it, but Ulkina had read it for five or six minutes.

Slowly putting down the paper in his hand, Urkina turned his eyes to the window, staring at the sky outside the window without saying a word.

Ferner, on the other hand, looked at the paper on his desk, unable to make a decision.