Chapter 177

When the sun rose, the fleet finally bypassed the East head of the khayawi Peninsula and berthed at the private wharf of the Robert manor under the guidance of the pilot.

This is a small single plank road wharf. The architectural pattern is similar to the sea exploration Wharf in bashiba town. A long wooden plank road is built in the beach area with insufficient water depth and extends forward until the water depth reaches the standard.

Luobei wharf refers to the 7.4M commercial port standard. It is medium in the wharf and can easily accept class VI ships, while the outer edge main berth can barely accept class IV and class V ships. Except for a few giant merchant ships, it can generally meet the draft needs of all classes of merchant ships.

Under the Halloween fleet are small ships that do not enter the battle line. Badgers and wasps are level 6 and the golden deer is level 5, so there is no obstacle to entering Hong Kong.

Soon after the three warships had anchored, Nelson and Collinwood got off the ship one after another and joined hands with Lorraine waiting on the plank road.

Nelson looked a little tired: "the purpose of the action has been achieved?"

"273 prisoners, 84 killed, 2 dead and 27 slightly injured on our side. Captain Rashid has asked people to check the list of the manor, and no one has been leaked. That is to say, the French still don't know the news that we have put the army on Martinique."

"I heard it landed from the cliff in the south?"

Lorraine shrugged. "You don't know that a group of dry ducks can't afford the plan of landing on the beach. Seasickness alone is enough to kill them."

"That's not what I meant." Nelson smiled and shook his head. "Kasbert said that if it were you, there should be a way to make recommendations to captain Rashid."

"Is that why you chose me to join the advance team?"

"The only reason."

The three laughed at the same time.

After laughing, Lorraine took the power of attorney signed by Mr. Robey from Noah and handed it to Nelson.

"There are four more troublesome prisoners. As far as I know, Mr. Robey is a gentleman in France. He was a Viscount seven generations ago. His family has marriages in holy Rome and Spain."

"People with status..." Nelson frowned and took the authorization. "He wants to exchange our things for freedom?"

"I suggested he sign it. How to say... He and his children are looking forward to Barbados holidays."

"It seems that you persuaded him again."

"It's a businessman's duty to persuade others to accept reasonable suggestions." Lorraine smiled dumbly. "I'm just doing my duty."

After the fleet landed, the supplies prepared for the eighth company were moved out of the cabin in batches, including guns, guns, dry food, bedding, vehicles and horses, and piled up like a mountain by the plank road.

No one knows lesheed's next plan or how long he is going to stay at Robey estate.

In the next 20 days, the sea and land sides will act independently around Martinique's sea and land forces until the 23rd to complete the preparation for the attack on Le Francois.

The pressure on both sides is not light.

At sea, the French have double artillery advantages. Both in quantity and quality, the Defense Fleet is far more than the Halloween fleet.

On land, the number of troops stationed on the island is ten times that of the eight companies. The number of troops stationed in the fortress town latrinite alone is as high as two companies.

Both lines are weak, with few enemies. After a short cooperation, both sides will return to their own solo dance.

No one needs to worry about each other, because in the next long time, we won't have the spare power to cope, and we don't have to care about each other's life and death.

In this way, the situation does not seem to be different from that when they did not communicate with each other at first. The two sides only established a very limited "trust", and indeed established a communication channel that may not be used at all.

Then Nelson was willing to believe that the eighth company would not surrender to the enemy on land and sell the plan, and Rashid was willing to put his retreat on the sea, at least verbally.

"What a blind action..."

The golden deer was immersed in the busy pre war preparations. Lorraine completely forgot his worries about the post war, and did not even attend the final farewell to Rashid and others.

"Peace of mind" is sometimes so cheap.

In the late afternoon, a large amount of materials were finally carried away, and Mr. Robey's family embarked on the voyage to Barbados together with the temporarily requisitioned sloop Fuxing.

The lightly loaded golden deer turned around in the broad Bay, formed an inverted triangle formation with badger and wasp, and fell to the end alone.

The sailor trotted to Lorraine: "report to the captain, order the governor to set sail, sail to the northwest and keep the formation!"

Lorraine nodded: "bell presides over the sail and rudder, acharin presides over the fleet coordination, heading to the northwest, the target is leloran port. The golden deer, sail, set sail!"

"Target leloran, set sail!"

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The small ship swayed gently with the water waves. Here is the family glory, a sloop with an enlarged cargo hold.

Family glory and revival are both the property of Robey manor. It can be seen from the name that they repose Mr. Robey's magnificent dream of reviving the family.

Of course, the colorful bubble has been blown up almost now, and a few soap stars are sticking to his last tuxedo and heading to the prison camp in Barbados.

The family Rongguang has become a scout ship of the Easter fleet. It has appeared in the sea off leloran since last night, like a serious fishing boat, one by one, praying for the gift of the sea.

Every sailor of this era believes that the sea has spirit, niord, Poseidon, Mazu, aiya, ruloux

No matter what they call it, male or female, they take great pains to pay attention to the physical and mental health of sailors.

People with evil intentions can't get the preference of the sea, just like the family glory keeps underground nets, but the real catch is not as good as the fishing rod in Lorraine's hand.

Another stupid fish took the bait. It was a salmon weighing less than one kilogram. Lorraine glanced at it with disgust and struggled whether to release it or continue to let white ear eliminate the criminal evidence.

Before she could figure it out, Noah came close, picked up the bucket and splashed all the big fish and shrimp back into the sea.

Lorraine opened her mouth innocently: "this... Noah..."

"Don't feed white ears any more!" the shy girl was rare to be strong. She stared at her big curved eyes and her little face turned red. "The bow pulled the net to feed it, and you fed it at the stern. Now white ears only eat fish. If she forms a bad habit, she doesn't want to catch mice!"

"It's only one day, isn't it?"

Lorraine looked sympathetically at the white ears on Noah's shoulder and saw the four big words "life is loveless" in the vertical pupil of the kitten.

The cat has obviously given up the struggle

He sighed and threw away the fishing rod: "how's the condition of the wharf?"

"Compared with last night, it hasn't changed much." Noah turned her hands on the splint. "There are five ships in the berth, two of which are armed merchant ships, skuna and brigantin. Six hours ago, another brig entered the port. The people who landed have found out that it is the frigate of the Defense Fleet, the lucky horseshoe, but the purpose is unknown."

"Information three hours ago?"

"The next exchange is in an hour. Maybe we can find out the intention of the horseshoe."

Lorraine nodded noncommittally: "what about shore defense?"

"18 forts were confirmed on the shore, and only 7 of them were located at sea."

"11 shore guns with unknown whereabouts are more troublesome than that horseshoe..."

Lorraine touched her chin and her eyes twinkled.

"Take some risks, the white flag is hung on the main mast, and the family glory enters Hong Kong. Acharin!"

Acharin, who was dozing off with nothing to do, suddenly woke up: "yes! Captain, I'm here!"

"Next, we'll play Mr. Robert's merchant ship. We should negotiate with you. The others polish their eyes, close their mouths, and find all those shy forts. No one is allowed to fall!"

"Yes, sir!"