Chapter 323

"One, two, up!"

"One, two, up!"

With their feet on the reef and their hands dragging the trawl, the sailors made every effort to drag the deep rope out of the water.

After a while, a nearly rotten wooden box covered with seaweed was dragged up. People carried it on their shoulders and threw it into the submachine boat. They rowed hard towards the golden deer moored far away.

The golden deer was also in a frenzy.

Under the command of Carmen and Noah, more than 20 nimble sailors hoisted the transported underwater treasures to the side, broke the wooden boxes, poured and washed them bucket by bucket with seawater until they were confirmed to be clean, and then shoveled these scattered precious things into the basket, paid pounds and registered them.

This is an unparalleled huge harvest.

The salvage has been carried out for more than an hour. According to the feedback of yachalin at the salvage site, it has entered the final cleaning.

They fished out more than 140 kilograms of gold, 1.2 tons of silver and three small boxes of huge and transparent gemstones from the seabed. The preliminary valuation has exceeded 40000 pounds.

This makes Lorraine magically think of the lost corner and the harvest.

Because of the submachine, he lost a readily available class V ship, but it was also because of the submachine that he bumped into the treasure ship where the Spanish slept at the bottom of the sea. The recovered property happened to be equivalent to the value of a destroyer, just like God's compensation.

It made Lorraine feel good.

Two and a half hours later, after searching for the sunken ship, the golden deer returned home to join the fleet.

Nelson looked at Lorraine discontentedly: "Drake, you're two hours later than the assembly time. I need to explain!"

"Every submachine boat is very important, my supervisor." Lorraine smiled like a spring breeze. "My submachine boat was stuck on the reef and the golden deer couldn't get in. In order to save time as much as possible, I threw almost all the crew into the water and soaked all day."

"Uh... Really?"

Nelson looked at the sailors on Lorraine's ship who were as clean as white pigs. He had to admit that Lorraine's words were very persuasive.

After all, based on his understanding of Lorraine, Lorraine was more competent than most soldiers when he was incorporated into the army, in addition to caring about wealth and risk.

Letting sailors dive for no reason... It's not like Lorraine's style.

The thunder in the governor's palm was held high and gently put down. After paying attention to the next time, the fleet set sail again.

The newly launched fleet was reduced to six.

The black sheep returned to Royal harbor with the North San Juan, leaving only four assault boats, and then the cable was towed behind the Eros.

After driving for five hours without wind and waves, Lorraine finally saw the silted San Juan Beach in his vision.

Under Nelson's order, the fleet anchored 500 meters offshore. The Eros and the Cyclops put down their boats to undertake the task of patrolling and guarding, and the warning line spread three kilometers away.

In the cordon, the golden deer shouted to lower the submachine, and Lorraine called acharin and Carmen to his side.

"The first half of the sea operation is a landing battle. After the landing team succeeds in seizing the beach, the command of the fleet will be handed over to the grassland lion and Colonel Cornwallis. In order to keep the land operation confidential, the naval operation will not be carried out until Managua is captured."

"So you'll have a long break next."

"While I was away, acharin was responsible for bringing the fleet back to Royal harbor, and the golden deer needed to be repaired. Those unexpected joys were sent back to Lusi by Carmen, and the sailors on board were rewarded with ten pounds each, which was regarded as a special allowance for the flagship."

"After dealing with this, Carmen, you take Noah back to New Orleans. Although you can't help on the voyage, Katrina can discuss at least a few more. Recently, too many people have been drawn from the road label."

Carmen narrowed his eyes and said, "my captain, aren't you going to land with Noah?"

"Noah..." Lorraine's white eyes nearly turned to the sky. "A pretentious Puritan is willing to fight side by side with asasin, but doesn't want to watch the witch use evil magic. What can I do?"

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The personnel plan will be finalized soon.

The Drake chamber of commerce produced a total of 12 small boats, excluding Lorraine, henna and Barto, and selected 48 excellent sailors, mostly experienced stormtroopers, and four skilled boatmans.

Small boats leaned against two large ships in pairs to unload supplies, ordnance and army.

In the Navy, in addition to the boat operators assigned to small boats, only Nelson and his 20 man guard landed, and the Guard commander was staff sergeant John Sikes.

In the army, there are four reinforced companies, each with 100 infantry, 10 marching drums, 10 flag lieutenants, 10 gunners, 2 land guns, 5 officers including company commander, adjutant, artillery commander, Sergeant commander and chief of the Department, totaling 540 people, as well as major Spencer and his 20 member guard.

In addition, the military supplies, water and medicine for 700 troops to fight and consume, and the busy landing operation lasted from afternoon to midnight. The landing forces of the four companies and related personnel and materials, including artillery and ammunition, were all sent to the beach.

Lorraine watched the fleet pull anchor and glanced obliquely at Haina who followed behind, like a silent shadow.

"You have to apologize first."

"Hum!"

Huh? Lorraine blinked angrily for a long time, shook his clothes and decided to go to Nelson to play.

Nelson was discussing with major Spencer about the plan to enter the river tomorrow morning before the bonfire. When he saw Lorraine coming, he waved quickly.

"Drake, where is your big fishing boat waiting for us?"

Lorraine looked at the map for a while and pointed to the big bay from the north to the east of the river: "Trini River Bay, this is the place unanimously selected by the aboriginal sailors. There is a large sandbar for our ship to dock."

"How far is this bend from us?"

"About 15 kilometers along the river bank."

"15 kilometers... It should not be too deep into the jungle." Nelson covered his chin uncertainly. "After removing the boat operators, we actually have 585 people. After the small boat takes up arms and supplies, we can transport 10 people, and the large boat can transport 50 people, which is 420 people. That is to say, even if we squeeze, at least one company needs to march through the forest."

"Officers need to take the lead!" major Spencer waved his arm vigorously. "My guard and I walked together, and the artillery and horses followed me to make room for the remaining sergeants."

Lorraine looked gloomily at the two careful people.

"Sorry, I heard when I was in lucifields that two companies should be arranged to walk alternately. Why now..."

Nelson smiled bitterly: "originally, the transportation capacity was insufficient, and the soldiers naturally didn't complain, but didn't you add two big ships..."

Lorraine opened his mouth: "so they think the capacity is enough and everyone doesn't want to March?"

Nelson nodded softly.

"Which fool leaked the news in advance?"

Nelson looked at Spencer in embarrassment. Spencer coughed awkwardly: "my adjutant told him that he was a cousin of the chief of the Department in the second company, and then the whole landing force knew the next day..."

"More than that." Nelson scratched his nose to hide his expression. "The army criticized Mr. Spencer for reusing a pirate. It seems that... Outlaws will tarnish the sanctity of this great action."

Lorraine was surprised and asked, "army?"

Spencer continued coughing: "sorry."

"Don't be sorry," Lorraine took a deep breath. "If there's such a fool on my ship, I'll hang him on the mast."

Spencer coughed worse and worse: "please do this without telling me. He is my wife's cousin. I can't watch him abused..."