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On a small island near Puerto Rico, the king's shopkeeper and the swarthy man walked into a simple wooden house.

I saw a thick man with a yellow scarf on his head, he was the general Hou Taiyuan in the mouth of the king's shopkeeper, and he was the general of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom's naval army.

After the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, Hou Taiyuan fled to Hong Kong with five or six hundred Taiping sailors, but was chased and killed by the Manchu Qing in Hong Kong, and had no choice but to sell himself to Cuba, and then when he was about to reach his destination, he killed the guards on the ship, robbed five or six merchant ships and started piracy in the Caribbean.

"Brother Nagata, what's the matter with being so anxious to find me?" Hou Tae-won asked.

"General Hou, in the past few days, there have been ships transporting Cuban Chinese workers to Peru, and I feel that it is a little unusual for them to do so."

"I know a little bit about what Brother Nagata said, four Peruvian ships full of Chinese laborers passed through the Caribbean Sea during the week, but the fleet was well defended, and we couldn't do anything to rescue them."

"I heard from Sun Liande that the Peruvians spent a lot of money to get the Cuban governor to release them in order to transport away this group of Chinese laborers.

I don't believe that Peruvians are good people to rescue Chinese workers for no reason, there must have been a major accident in Peru, so they can't wait to transport these Chinese back. Wang Yongtian speculated.

"Li Han, is there any news from Peru?" Hou Taiyuan asked the swarthy man who was standing with Wang Yongtian.

"Peru and the Caribbean are not adjacent to each other, except for this time to transport Chinese workers, Peruvians have not made such a big move in the Caribbean, so we don't know what is happening in Peru." Li Han, who was in charge of finding out the news, said.

The Panama Canal has not yet been opened, there is no direct shipping route from the Caribbean to Peru, and it will take a long time for the situation in Peru to reach the Caribbean.

And coupled with Pedro's blockade news, Hou Taiyuan and others still don't know about Li Mingyuan's uprising in Peru.

"General Hou, I have a way not only to listen to what is happening in Peru, but also to rescue some of my compatriots." Wang Yongtian learned that Hou Taiyuan had no news from Peru, so he spoke.

"What's a good way, Brother Nagata say it and listen to it."

"Today my grocers and I found that there were only five merchant ships and two small wooden sailing ships in the port of Bocrón, and we could gather our forces to ambush the Peruvian fleet on its path, and then attack while they were unprepared to capture the merchant ships full of Chinese laborers."

"We can still handle two small frigates." Hou Taiyuan thought to himself.

"Just do as Brother Nagata says." Hou Taiyuan's group of pirates now has only more than 300 people, and taking the merchant ship can not only increase their manpower, but also obtain weapons and materials on the ship, Hou Taiyuan decided to start without much thought.

"Li Han, gather the brothers, tomorrow we will make a big deal."

"Yes," Li Han replied, turning around to gather people. ……

At the end of the inspection of the military factory, Li Mingyuan, Liu Pu, and Sun Bin rode around the city of Arequipa.

"Director Sun, your legs are inconvenient, but you ride a horse very steadily, which is admirable." Li Mingyuan looked at Sun Bin, who was riding a horse like him, and praised.

"Shizi smiled, although my right leg is a little wrong, but riding a horse is still fine." Sun Bin said with a smile.

"Was Director Sun's leg injured in the battle some time ago?" Li Mingyuan asked.

"No," Sun Bin shook his head. "Before coming to the Americas, I served as a staff member in General Liu Jianye's army, and then in a night raid, I was wounded in the right leg and separated from the army, and then I came to the Americas." Sun Bin briefly introduced his experience.

"Director Sun understands the righteousness and abandons literature to fight against the Manchus, and he is my Chinese husband." Li Mingyuan said sincerely.

"The prince of the world has won the award, and he was dissatisfied with the oppression of my Chinese Miao by the Qing court at that time, so he joined General Liu's subordinates."

"What happened to General Liu?" After the Taiping Rebellion, peasant uprisings in other places did not end well.

It was better to be stealthy and go into exile overseas, and if you were unlucky, you were directly caught by the Manchu court and executed by Ling Chi. Therefore, Li Mingyuan was very worried about the fate of General Liu in Sun Bin's mouth.

"After I separated from the troops, I heard that General Liu had transferred to Annam with his troops."

Annam is the Vietnam of later generations, and now Vietnam is facing French aggression, and it will not be long before Annam will become a complete French colony.

"Annam, Vietnam," Li Mingyuan slowly chewed these four words, and suddenly a person's name flashed in his mind.

"Director Sun, is there a person named Liu Yongfu among the troops transferred to Annan?"

Liu Yongfu was the leader of the Black Flag Army in the late Qing Dynasty, and after the failure of the Chinese uprising, he led his subordinates to Vietnam, and with his 3,000 troops, he defeated the French attacks many times.

Later, when the First Sino-Japanese War broke out, Liu Yongfu led the Black Flag Army to Taiwan to fight against the Japanese invaders, although he was forced to withdraw from Taiwan because he was outnumbered, he also made a significant contribution to China's territorial integrity.

So after thinking of Liu Yongfu, Li Mingyuan immediately asked Sun Bin about his news.

"Among the troops transferred to Annan, except for General Liu, there are few generals surnamed Liu." Sun Bin recalled carefully and said.

"I heard that Liu Yongfu's troops use the black flag as the military flag, do you think about it carefully, is there such a team?" Li Mingyuan reminded.

"Black flag?" Sun Bin muttered to himself in a low voice.

"Shizi, I remembered, before I left, I heard that after General Liu Jianye's troops and another rebel army were reorganized, they used black pennants as military flags, I don't know if they are the troops you said?" Sun Bin raised his head and said.

"Black pennant, Liu Jianye." Li Mingyuan read the two words together.

"Yes, Liu Yongfu is his name after entering Vietnam, and Liu Jianye is Liu Yongfu." Li Mingyuan understood and said excitedly.

Sun Bin and Liu Pu looked at Li Mingyuan muttering names that they had never heard of, and felt a little inexplicable.

"Ahem." Li Mingyuan coughed to cover up his gaffe.

Liu Yongfu led a few hundred remnants of the defeated army to gain a foothold in Vietnam, expanded the army to several thousand, and then defeated the well-equipped French army several times with thousands of soldiers with roughly outdated weapons.

It can very well show that Liu Yongfu has outstanding military acumen, and Li Mingyuan is very much in need of this kind of military talent who can stand alone.

"Director Sun, I'll give you a task, and when we have a solid base, you will take my letter and go to Vietnam to invite General Liu here."

Sun Bin didn't understand how Li Mingyuan looked at Liu Jianye, who was thousands of miles away, but Liu Jianye was his old boss after all, and after the Chinese established a country in South America, they could bring him in to give full play to his talents, so he nodded and agreed.

There are not enough senior generals in the Chinese Independent Army, except for Zhou Guozhu, Li Sandou, and Zhang Ansong, who used to follow the king Li Shixian, and have experience in leading the army, the rest of the people are promoted in the line of fire, although there is no problem now, but it will also have an impact on the future development of the army.

Therefore, Liu Yongfu, a general rich in jungle warfare, is a talent that Li Mingyuan urgently needs, and the southern part of Brazil and Argentina is densely mountainous, and the environment is similar to the mountainous area of Vietnam, and Liu Yongfu came to be just the right place to play.

As for whether Vietnam would be occupied by the Vietnamese sooner without Liu Yongfu, Li Mingyuan didn't care at all.

China has been relatively good to Vietnam both in ancient times and after the founding of the People's Republic of China, and without China's support, Vietnam would not have been so easy to defeat American soldiers and unify North and South Vietnam.

However, soon after the reunification of Vietnam, more than one million Vietnamese Chinese were deprived of their property and then deported from the country, and some of these overseas Chinese returned to the mainland, some were accepted as refugees by Western countries, and a large number of overseas Chinese died at sea where they fled.

The Vietnamese turned their faces ruthlessly and used the money scavenged from overseas Chinese to develop their own industries.

ungrateful, shameless. Li Mingyuan hated them too late, so how could he care if they would be occupied by the French.

Just when Li Mingyuan and his party were about to go back, suddenly there was a cry for help from the street, Li Mingyuan did not stop, and immediately rode towards the source of the sound.