Chapter 257

At about 2 p.m. on August 7.

The sun and the wind.

The slender Weilan water drop glided across the boundary between Harrington Bay and Gretel Bay and docked lightly in front of the water gate of the Royal Navy dock.

Watergate is the local people's name for this thing. In fact, it is just a low wooden bridge more than 100 meters long, connecting the twin islands of northern and southern Ireland at the northwest end of Bermuda.

This is determined by the design of the Royal Navy dock.

As an important naval base radiating from Great Britain to the thirteen states of North America, the Royal Navy dock occupies the Northern Ireland island with the widest open sea area and the best hydrological conditions on Bermuda.

The island is located in the northwest of the islands and looks like a semicircle. Its northwest coast is straight and faces the Atlantic Ocean. The southeast coast is arc-shaped and convex, facing the main island of Bermuda across the sea.

The two shorelines end at the north and south ends. The north corner is the entrance of Harrington Bay, Cape comishenna, and the south corner is the location of the big water gate, close to the island of Southern Ireland.

The Royal Navy dock makes full use of the geographical conditions of the island. The huge yard head with more than 20 deep-water berths extends outward like comb teeth and is built side by side on the northwest coastline.

On the island, totally closed management is implemented. The towering bank like a city wall wraps the outline of the whole island. The wall is covered with giant guns and sentries like a forest. It hides functional buildings such as administrative buildings, dormitories, warehouses, docks and so on.

There are only two channels from the island to the base.

The large ship with a draft of more than three meters went north, bypassed Cape komeshina and berthed in the military port. After strict entry examination, it entered through the heavily guarded main gate.

Small boats with a draft of less than three meters turn south, turn into the bell mouth after passing the large water gate, enter the shallow bay wrapped in the embankment, and get off at the loading and unloading wharf.

Weilan water drop chose the latter.

Dressed in formal clothes, Lorraine stood in front of the cabin with an umbrella sword and looked up at the strange building in front of him while Orvis communicated with the sailors.

Dashuimen is a bridge connecting the two islands. It is estimated that it is also a sea crossing bridge.

However, the northern and southern Irish islands are basically an island from the base of the island, with a distance of less than 70 meters from each other. Even with the approach bridge, the sea crossing bridge is only 100 meters long.

The bridge is made of wood, with six pier buildings on opposite sides. The straight bridge deck is more than four meters high. It really looks like a [door].

Although the door is connected to the ship, the bridge is not a common suspension bridge. The so-called boat raft is built on the center line of the bridge. Its shape is a long wooden strip with a width of less than 20 cm, which is probably the smallest boat raft in the world.

It seemed that the negotiation was not going well. Alves quarreled with the sailors on the bridge for a long time and angrily reported to Lorraine.

"Captain, the sailor said that Weilan shuidi is a foreign civilian ship. If you want to land on the island, you have to go to the military port for examination."

"Can't you accommodate?"

"The star officer is a stubborn fellow."

"That's difficult. After all, for Kingston, I should be exploring in Maya..." Lorraine sighed and stepped forward with an umbrella. "Who's the star officer, please?"

A dignified head poked out of the bridge: "the supervisor is cleaning up military discipline. As soon as you should visit, please go to the military port for formal review."

"Don't accept external visits, do you?"

"Yes! The governor should have negotiated with the governor yesterday." his head held up his chin and refused thousands of miles.

"No wonder the lion went to Hamilton yesterday..." Lorraine muttered in a low voice and raised his head. "The external visit is not accepted. What about the internal visit?"

His head was stunned: "private affairs do not belong to internal visits."

"But visiting relatives, right?"

"Of course, visiting relatives... Sir, do you have any relatives working in the base?"

"I guess so."

"Who?"

"Rear admiral of the Royal Navy, under the new world fleet and under the commander of the continental sub fleet, Mr. shack Francis Drake."

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The officer on duty spent five minutes digesting Lorraine's application and another 15 minutes confirming the release.

Twenty minutes later, the sailors on the bridge hurriedly removed the wooden strips. The Weilan shuidi advanced. The slender mast was supported slowly through the bridge deck and entered the wide shallow water behind the bridge.

Presented in front of Lorraine is a funnel-shaped coral reef group, pink sand beach and pink sea surface. The sea surface under the sun presents colorful colors like colors, which makes people almost forget the troubles in the world and just want to sink into the water and enjoy peace.

But this is Shaq's territory

People who haven't seen for a long time are under the eaves. Lorraine is full of depression. Even the most beautiful scenery can't move him.

Now he just wants to get Leonard out quickly. Even the vital information will be after he gets it out.

Alves clearly understood Lorraine's mind.

The ship passed the Watergate, sped all the way into the bell mouth, and soon found an empty plank road in the shallow bay and anchored the ship.

Captain Armani, who met yesterday, stood alone by the plank road with a sincere smile.

"President Drake, the governor has heard that you are coming and is waiting for you in the reception room."

Lorraine secretly deflated his mouth: "sorry, I'm here to communicate the misunderstanding that our employees were detained by the Royal Navy for no reason. The governor manages everything every day..."

"If it is to solve the problem of illegal invasion last night, you need to see the governor more, because the matter has been handled by the governor himself, and even people have been handed over to the governor's security office."

"Oh, how fast..."

"What did you say?"

Lorraine took a deep breath: "I mean, I need to see the detained employees before formal negotiation."

"What if we don't allow it?"

"Then I should go." Lorraine smiled. "As far as I know, the Royal Navy dock has not issued a ban on private meetings in the base before yesterday. Similarly, there are no relevant provisions in the internal discipline regulations of the Ministry of the Navy."

"So whether my employees were illegally invaded or detained for no reason? The mainland sub fleet did not want to talk. My lawyers asked the military court of the new mainland fleet. Anyway, Bermuda should agree with Kingston's answer."

Armani blinked: "president, are you serious?"

"Every word is well thought out, captain. You need to understand that I'm not here to plead with the Navy for mercy, but to clarify the misunderstanding and return the innocence of my employees."

An hour later, Lorraine saw Leonard detained in the guard cell of the Navy administration building as she wished. Of course, this behavior was approved by shack, and no physical contact in any form was allowed, and the whole process must be fully monitored by Captain Armani.

To put it bluntly, it's business.

Western law in the 18th century is far from complete as that of later generations. Under the dual oppression of religious rights and feudal rights, the development of law is difficult.

However, many basic principles and rights of later generations have taken shape at this time.

For example, in the face of a conviction dispute, the defender has the right to meet with the parties in a restricted environment before the implementation of the defense, so as to fully and correctly grasp the actual situation and be authorized.

This is the case now.

False entry is a felony. The upper limit can reach treason. Some ordinary people can also be characterized as spies, but it also has a lower limit. According to the degree of [entry], it is completely possible to be considered as [false entry].

Before coming, Lorraine was not sure about Leonard's state.

What he was most worried about was that Leonard was caught in a confidential place among confidential information such as the intelligence department, the archives or the governor's office, with that information and relevant documents in his hand.

In this case, Leonard was almost dead.

There are two keys to his death and immortality, one is whether the information is around, and the other is whether he is in an indisputable place.

So he asked Orvis. Fortunately, Leonard didn't intend to compare intelligence in the base at all, but planned to buy a wider range of intelligence by hand.

In this way, Leonard's chances of survival were much better.

Then at the Watergate, Lorraine found out that Leonard was caught or accidentally, because shack began to clean up the military discipline of the base yesterday. Before that, it was obvious that the Northern Ireland island had loose control over visitors.

Lorraine is more confident. When facing Armani, he even has the confidence to shout out [detention for no reason] to spy on Leonard's current situation.

As a result, Amani didn't disappoint him at all. He made the whole thing clean with a sentence [transfer to the police and security office].

Leonard was not caught.

With Shaq's character, if the crime of treason or espionage is involved, he will organize a military court overnight, and Leonard will also be transferred to the military court for detention pending trial. However, he can't be taken care of by the security office with the meaning of private soldiers.

So far, there is only one problem left.

What was Leonard like when he was arrested? Whether Shaq made a big fuss to force Lorraine to ask for an interview, or did he really notice something and intend to cheat the truth through Lorraine's behavior.

All this will be clear when you see Leonard