Chapter 543

Valkiri goes north and East.

The distance from New York to Boston is not far. Even considering that the president's ship needs to sail close to the coastline in the territorial sea this time, it artificially increases the complexity of the route and makes valkiri drum up his sails and run. Four days is enough to anchor in the port.

However, Americans do not seem to pursue speed.

In order to take care of General Smith's old escort fleet, varkiri's speed was limited to 4-5 knots for a long time. It took two days to travel a fifth of the distance.

"The strong escort fleet made the voyage dangerous", which was Bell's pertinent evaluation of the U.S. Navy, which acharin deeply thought.

Lorraine also felt that bell was justified in his own heart, because although the voyage had become longer, his opportunities to communicate with Washington had not increased at all.

The president of the United States strictly abides by the principle of passengers. Together with his entourage, he will not step out of the designated space easily. Even the limited and necessary deck activities deliberately stagger the hot times.

If they didn't express their willingness to contact, Lorraine could only respect their wishes. Even, he simply avoided the chance to meet him. He really did that as long as Washington appeared, there would be no Lorraine.

In this way, the two sides are brewing, testing and moving forward without haste or slow.

It's windy today.

Lorraine compared the charts in the sun. The current position is probably near New Haven. We can barely reach the waters of Rhode Island tomorrow. Then the fleet will follow Massa and Nantucket to the edge of the continental shelf, turn north and make the final journey towards the waters off Boston.

The route is a suggestion given by a think-tank in Washington. The basic principle is to repeat meaningless tracing close to the coastline.

Their reason is that as long as the fleet is close to the coastline, valkiri can calmly land under the protection of the escort fleet and give priority to picking the president out of the crisis.

Seeing that they were so confident, Lorraine was embarrassed to tell them that there was no possibility of landing or nearshore along most of the coastlines with valkiri's draft.

"It turns out that western scholars also harm the country..."

Lorraine joked and locked valkiri's position with three cross lines. Suddenly, he felt the sun was dark.

Haina stood between him and the sun in her windbreaker. Her emerald eyes looked at him and inquired.

"Are you thinking about Washington?"

"No, I was thinking about Shaq."

With chuck's contacts in New York, the reason why Washington adjusted his itinerary was finally found out the night before leaving Hong Kong.

In fact, during the scheduled trip on April 10, because Lorraine was unwilling to hand over Valkyrie's dominance, Washington's plan to take Valkyrie to visit Boston has been officially rejected, and Hamilton failed to convince the opposition.

However, Shaq suddenly killed the general like Cheng Yaojin.

On a certain day in March, Admiral Shaq Francis Drake, Baron of Tavistock in England, the first commander of the North American fleet who had recently taken office at Chanel Basque military port, the Royal Navy's Newfoundland base, announced his first foreign visit plan.

He plans to visit Boston on June 15 aboard the first-class battleship HMS nipton, and invites the United States to discuss the maritime order and commercial development of North America in the open sea of Boston.

This sudden release caused an uproar throughout the United States.

In the hearts of Americans, Shaq is almost the most hostile to the United States among the senior generals of the Royal Navy.

During the war of independence, the sea closure led by him dealt a great blow to the external blood transfusion of the American Revolution. If Edward KENWAY, a freedom fighter, had not been born, the Continental Army would have been drowned on the shore by him.

Americans always remember this painful past, gratitude and guilt, until Shaq was suddenly transferred back to Europe on the eve of the decisive battle. These intense emotions finally gathered into the only ecstasy until victory.

But now, Shaq Drake is back.

Holding the navigation act in his hand and leading a powerful fleet enough to crush the U.S. Navy back and forth dozens of times, he entered Newfoundland close to the United States with more momentum than before.

What is the "North American maritime order" in his mind? The navigation act can make all businesses imported into the British colonies illegal. If he raises the banner of cracking down on smuggling again, does it mean that the American economy will be halved, or does it represent the advent of a new round of sea closure?

Washington can't sit still. The authority of the Ministry of foreign affairs is no longer enough to represent such negotiations related to the survival of the country. Washington must attend in person, but this means that the president shouldering the future of the United States must face the first-class battleship representing the strongest maritime force in the world.

Can America afford such a risk?

In front of the nipton, the U.S. Navy's fleet was as fragile as paper. Even if the four fleets went to the meeting together, Shaq could send Washington's ship to the bottom of the sea without hindrance, and then fly away unharmed.

This is not a question of whether Shaq will do it. For the safety of Mr. President, America must be prepared for the worst.

The president's staff had a heated discussion. In the process of the debate, Lorraine and valkiri were pushed to the front stage by Hamilton again.

Valkiri is powerful. Both the warship itself and the ship group under Lorraine have the unparalleled single ship strength of the U.S. Navy, and even the Portuguese navigator class are defeated in front of them.

If she becomes a ship for Washington to attend the meeting, she may not be able to defeat the monster Neptune, but at least she is more confident than the U.S. Navy to protect the president.

Moreover, Washington knows the connection between Lorraine and KENWAY, which is an unknown secret among the top US officials. It can not be said or discussed, but it is enough for Washington to build trust and confidence in Lorraine.

Finally, and most importantly, from the perspective of national system, the president's failure to take his own naval ship to the meeting is bound to hurt the international image of the United States. However, compared with turning to allies, hiring merchant ships is the least harmful choice to the image of the United States and the only choice that does not require the United States to pay a political price.

This is the sorrow of a weak country.

Facing the difficulties of powerful countries, they have no right to choose, let alone the right to refuse.

The plan to hire Lorraine and valkiri to protect Washington to attend the meeting was thus determined. Americans worried that Lorraine refused and concealed the most important task of attending the meeting, but cancelled the original trip to Boston, creating the illusion that the president wanted to take valkiri to Boston.

They don't know that Lorraine has got the truth from the free congressman, let alone the complex feelings in Lorraine's heart.

Lorraine had an intuition that the reason why Shaq disclosed his visit before Washington's visit to Boston was to make varkiri a ship for Washington.

Even what Shaq wants to see may not be Washington at all. His real goal is Lorraine. The frightened United States is just his tool to force Lorraine to meet, which is worthless in Shaq's heart.

This arrogant and unrealistic idea haunted Lorraine all the time, making him upset, angry and resentful.

Washington did not disclose his intention at the beginning of the meeting, which is the main reason why Lorraine has been reluctant to take the initiative to create communication opportunities.

Haina knew Lorraine's little temperament very well. Seeing Lorraine finally mentioned shack, she leaned against him and sat down beside him.

"Want to lie on my lap?" saw the ghost's opening remarks.

Lorraine was stunned for a long time and was angry: "coax me as your brother again?"

"Lie down?"

"Lie down."

Haina's legs are plump and soft, like the top leather pillow, emitting a faint aroma of jasmine.

Lorraine's upset precipitated suddenly, and reason gained the upper hand again.

"Americans always don't tell the truth." he closed his eyes and stretched out his hand to collect Haina's hair. "This is a mustard, which will affect us and them."

"Is that why you never see Washington?"

"It's one of the reasons," Lorraine thought. "Of course, the more important thing is interest."

"There are not many things we can talk about. One is the Navy revitalization plan, which is a great burden for the current financial resources of the United States, and the other is the revolving door, which is the foundation of the national fortune of the United States and should not be lost."

"I guess Mr. President is not ready yet. When he feels ready..."

"Where's Shaq?" Haina asked suddenly.

"Shaq?"

"You said you were thinking about Shaq."

"Ah... Yes."

"Do you want to make up?"

Lorraine shut up.

Haina didn't choose to wait. She directly asked, "do you want to make up?"

"It's never a question of whether he and I should make up." Lorraine bit her lips and nervously grabbed the words that most reflected her heart floating in her mind. "Our contradiction is not our own contradiction. It has nothing to do with our position, world outlook and values, and there is no hatred between us."

"He connived at his hatred and killed Helena. Helena can't live any more. We also..."

Haina gently covered Lorraine's forehead with her hand, stroked it gently, interrupted him, and she didn't hurry to answer.

She stroked silently and Lorraine suffered silently for a long time.

"Sorry."

"Thank you..."