Chapter 347

The auditorium was closed.

In the middle of a pile of warm bodies, Lorraine was talking and laughing with the newly captured Baron torresias.

Talking and laughing is a literal meaning.

Although the captive was uneasy and the captive was in a dilemma, with the social skills cultivated by the aristocratic tradition, at least on the surface, they could still maintain dignity and reserve.

In fact, not long ago, Lorraine was not as calm as she looks now. For no other reason, there were too many surprises tonight.

First, the difficulty of the main task has been greatly upgraded. Without warning, it has changed from simply blasting a militia battalion to finding, controlling and destroying its core arms warehouse in a heavily guarded underground fortress.

Then Blackbeard jumped to the stage and attracted the attention of the whole fortress instead of Lorraine.

Then torresias

Meeting torresias in the bunker was the last and most important accident tonight. Its weight almost crushed the whole operation.

In the face of such a hot potato, should we kill or stay?

The answer seems to be the only one.

Torresias is a serious Spanish aristocrat. He is not the descendant of those aristocrats with a word "de" in the middle of their names, but the parent of a family. He is a genuine Baron appointed by the emperor and blessed by the cardinal.

Although the Baron's title is lower, as long as he is an aristocrat, he has incomparable divine privileges in the conventions of the white world.

Killing him means that Lorraine must take huge political risks.

Because there is no airtight wall in the world.

After the sea taking operation is over, the story of Lorraine and Drake chamber of Commerce as contingent mercenaries will soon be known to everyone. Even the information that Lorraine, as a troop scout, sneaked into the fortress first to preside over the sabotage operation can not be concealed from careful people.

Accepting the employment of their own military and fighting bravely is the obligation of privatizing businessmen in this era, which is similar to the attitude of every maritime power.

Therefore, Drake's participation in the capture of San Carlos will not destroy the relationship between the chamber of Commerce and any Spanish authorities. However, if Lorraine kills torresias or leaves torresias alone in the explosion area, the nature of the event will change in a U-turn.

A noble Baron died in vain in the bunker without dignity. Justice alone is enough to turn into private anger. Lorraine and his Drake chamber of commerce are directly on the despicable list of the whole kingdom of Spain.

Having figured this out, Lorraine just wanted to roar up to the sky

He tried his best to turn his mind, work hard, and try his best to think about the way to take the Baron out of the civil military camp alive before the blasting began, but the result was sad. Reason told Lorraine that any seemingly safe way was fundamentally impossible to implement before the thunder exploded.

The militia barracks are the home of torresias.

Before the explosion, he brought the living him to the ground. He only had to shout in the middle, and all Lorraine's efforts in the past month had to be put into water.

As for staying in the bunker waiting for the explosion

No one can guarantee how many positions of the underground barrier will collapse after the large-scale explosion. If it is buried alive by his own plan, Lorraine suspects that even the good tempered niord may not be willing to take in his stupid soul.

There is no way to have the best of both worlds. For example, control the scale of the explosion and turn the shocking thunder that was enough to break down the whole civilian military camp into a small lightning that only blows the ordnance to ashes.

Without ordnance, the combat effectiveness of the people's army will certainly decrease sharply. However, it is necessary to use means to preserve most of the gunpowder and store shells independently. On the issue of war preparedness, the bunker battery, which is only short of propellant, has become a great threat to the British siege.

Fortunately, Haina put forward a new idea.

This idea is no longer based on the counterattack ability to destroy or even destroy the bunker. She lowered the standard to "delay", and set a second detonating point at the channel relatively far away from the arsenal to blow up the only channel in and out of the auditorium with explosives as much as possible.

One stone aroused thousands of waves. Because of Haina's proposal, the siege plan finally returned to the right track that can be implemented.

Bator, who has done all the way, finally began to reflect his value.

In the blasting, he learned from acharin, who was the most familiar with gunpowder and played the best among the people brought by Lorraine.

He is fully responsible for setting the detonating point and setting the detonating mechanism. It is expected that the process will take about one hour.

Haina kept her guard at the entrance of the auditorium. Just in case, Lorraine had nothing to do, so she simply chatted with torresias.

"Baron, I heard that the Watergate tower was attacked." Lorraine casually opened a topic that was not polite. "As the defense commander of San Carlos fortress, I thought you would personally preside over the overall situation. Who knows, I would meet you in the bunker."

"I didn't expect to meet the British scouts at the gospel barrier." torresias shook his head reluctantly. "Mr. Drake, I'm already your prisoner. Please tell me the truth that the attack on the two major really didn't come from the British?"

"In fact, I saved major Mara's life."

"Mara..." torresias blinked. "Is he treason?"

Lorraine couldn't help laughing: "no, no, no, to be exact, it was the Spanish pseudonym I entered San Carlos, not Lorraine Drake, a British mercenary."

"So you deceived him."

"This is an accurate statement." Lorraine nodded his approval and showed a look of memory. "That day I went to major Mara. I just wanted to use the political contradictions of San Carlos to lobby the major to destroy the urban defense or attack the people's army, so as to establish an advantage for our next siege. In fact, I didn't expect to encounter an attack. So I didn't dare take credit for him in preserving him..."

"You..." torresias thought over his words. "It sounds like you had a frontal confrontation with the attackers. Do you know their identity? Did they say who was behind them, even if it was a deliberately misleading lie..."

Lorraine raised his hand and interrupted him: "Baron, do you remember your encirclement and suppression of a big pirate on the San Juan River seven months ago?"

"The fly, Thomas?"

"That's him. Thomas the fly, one of the pirate kings in the Caribbean. The attacker this time is another pirate king, Blackbeard. As far as I know, there seems to be some unknown involvement between them."

"Implicated?" torresias's expression was strange. "Master and apprentice? Opponent? Or... Lover?"

"They seem to be looking for the same thing. Do you know what that is?"

Torresias shook his head again and again. "I don't know what the pirates are looking for."

"That's strange. Since you don't know the pursuit of the pirate kings, why do you give up obviously more valuable ships and property and choose the pirate king's personal belongings that should be worthless to a noble? Does your curiosity have tens of thousands of pounds in your heart?"

"Pull him..."

"Yes, major Mara told me a lot about his dissatisfaction with you. How much do you think he knows and how much did he say?"

Torresias immediately shut his mouth.

After a moment of silence, Lorraine crossed her legs with a smile: "Mr. Antonio de toresias, perhaps the too loose atmosphere has made you forget something. I can remind you about it."

"You are the garrison commander and civil officer of Fort San Carlos, and I am a mercenary of the Royal Navy of England who is about to attack San Carlos."

"We have a hostile relationship. Hurting you or humiliating you is against the respect of the civilized world for noble blood, but if we just kill you, it will be a great achievement for me."

"Life is precious, commander."

Lorraine folded her fingers on her knees and put a warm smile on her face.

"I have also received an orthodox noble education. I am not a bandit who abducts people and extorts money. I will not tell you threats such as cutting off your head without telling you the secret, but I do think about your value."

"For example, if your body were hung on the bell tower of the church when our army attacked the city, would the resistance of the heroic British soldiers be weaker, and would we pay less blood if we wanted to win?"

"It's tempting. Really, it's as tempting as the idea of cutting off your head without telling the secret, and it can save me a lot of trouble. At least I don't need a headache. How can I take you out of the heavily guarded people's army barracks? You say, right?"

"The gospel barrier of Santa Maria has a secret road leading to the lake. It's no trouble to take me out of the barracks alive. You don't need a headache!" torresias was pale and spoke quickly, "In addition, Thomas the fly is looking for the legendary fountain of youth, which seems to be very close. His harvest is recorded in his sailing diary in secret language. This diary is now collected in my Manor on zapatra Island, including my notes to crack the secret language and the information collected by three generations of our family for 50 years."

"As God's witness, I have become your prisoner!"

"I demand security and treatment that match my identity, and I authorize you to control all my personal belongings, including those in Fort San Carlos and all the property on zapatera island."

"You are standing by the pool of the mysterious fountain of youth, dear Mr. Drake. But if I have something wrong, you may lose it..."