Three Hundred and Forty-Six, There Are Too Many Surprises

The doors of the auditorium were closed.

Among a pile of warm corpses, Lorraine was talking and laughing with the newly captured Baron Torresias.

Talking and laughing is literal.

Although the captured one was nervous and the captive was in a dilemma, but with the social skills cultivated by the aristocratic tradition, at least on the surface, they were still able to maintain their dignity and restraint very well.

In fact, not long ago, Lorraine was not as calm as he seemed now, and there was no other reason. There were too many surprises tonight, too many to handle.

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

Immediately afterwards, Blackbeard jumped to the front of the stage, replacing Lorraine and attracting the attention of the entire fortress.

And then there's Torresias...

Meeting Torresias in the bunker was the last and most important accident of the night, and its weight almost overwhelmed the entire operation.

Faced with such a hot potato, should we kill it or keep it?

The answer seems to be unique.

Torresias is a serious Spanish nobleman, not a descendant of nobles with a "de" in their names, but a real baron appointed by the emperor and blessed by the cardinal as the head of a family.

Although the title of baron is low, as long as he is a nobleman, he has unparalleled privileges granted by the gods in the white world.

Killing him meant that Lorraine had to take a huge political risk.

Because there is no impenetrable wall in this world.

After the operation to seize the sea is over, the fact that Lorraine and the Drake Chamber of Commerce acted as mercenaries in the contingent will soon be known to everyone, and even the news that Lorraine, as a troop scout, sneaked into the fort to preside over the sabotage operation It is not too difficult to hide from the investigation of interested people.

It is the obligation of privateer merchants in this era to accept employment from their own military and fight bravely. This is 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 produces a U-turn.

A noble baron died without dignity in the bunker. Just this alone is enough to turn justice into personal anger. Lorraine and his Drake Chamber of Commerce will directly enter the despicable list of the entire Spanish kingdom.

After figuring this out, Lorraine just wanted to scream up to the sky...

He turned his head desperately, worked hard, tried his best, and tried his best to think of a way to bring the baron out of the civilian army camp alive before the explosion started, but the result was sad. Reason told Lorraine that before the thunder exploded, anyone who saw There is basically no possibility of practical implementation of the seemingly safe method.

The militia barracks is Torresias' home.

To bring him alive to the ground before the explosion, he only needs to yell in the middle of the road, and all of Lorraine's hard work in the past month has to be wasted.

As for staying in the bunker and waiting for the explosion to happen...

No one can guarantee how many parts of this underground barrier will collapse after a large-scale explosion. If he is buried alive by his own plan, Lorraine suspects that even the good-tempered Niord would not be willing to take him in, an idiot soul.

There is a way to have the best of both worlds, such as controlling the scale of the explosion, turning the shocking thunder that was enough to overwhelm the entire civilian army camp into a small lightning that only blasted the ordnance into ashes.

Without ordnance, the combat effectiveness of the civilian army will definitely drop sharply, but it is necessary to use means to preserve most of the gunpowder and store shells independently. In terms of combat readiness, the bunker fort, which only lacks propellant powder, has become a new generation of British siege. Great threat.

Fortunately, Hannah came up with a new way of thinking.

This idea is no longer based on the counterattack ability to destroy or even destroy the bunker. She lowered the standard to "delay", that is, set a second detonation point at a passage relatively far away from the arsenal, and use explosives to make the only passage into and out of the auditorium as far as possible. It may collapse in many places.

One stone caused a thousand waves, because of Hana's proposal, the siege plan finally returned to the right track that could be implemented.

Barto, who had been dragging his feet all the way, finally began to show his own value.

In the field of blasting, he learned from Yachalin, and he was the one who was most familiar with gunpowder and played the best game among the people brought by Lorraine.

He is solely responsible for setting the detonation point and deploying the detonation mechanism, which is expected to take about an hour.

Hannah stood guard at the gate of the auditorium just in case, Lorraine had nothing to do, so he simply chatted with Torresias.

"Your Excellency, I heard that the Watergate Tower was attacked." Lorraine casually asked an impolite topic, "As the defense commander of the San Carlos Fortress, I thought you would definitely go there to preside over the overall situation. Who I know, I will meet you in the bunker."

"I didn't expect to meet British scouts at the Gospel Fort." Torresias shook his head helplessly, "Mr. Drake, I'm already your prisoner, please tell me the truth. The attack of the two majors was really not from the hands of the British?"

"I actually saved Major Marat's life."

"Mara..." Torresias blinked, "Is he treason?"

Lorraine couldn't help laughing: "No, no, to be precise, it was the Spanish alias I used to enter San Carlos to protect him, not the British mercenary Lorraine Drake."

"So you lied to him."

"This is an accurate statement." Lorraine nodded in approval, with a look of reminiscence on his face, "I went to Major Marat that day. I originally wanted to use the political contradictions in San Carlos to lobby the major to destroy the city defense or attack the militia. We will establish an advantage in the next siege battle, and we never thought that we would encounter an attack. So I dare not take credit for saving him..."

"You..." Torresias thought about his words, "It sounds like you had a direct confrontation with the attackers, do you know their identities? Have they ever told who is behind them, even if it is a deliberate misleading lie You can also..."

Lorraine raised his hand to interrupt him: "Your Excellency the Baron, do you still remember the encirclement and suppression operation against a big pirate on the San Juan River seven months ago?"

"That Thomas the Fly?"

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

"Implicated?" Torresias had a strange expression, "Master and apprentice? Opponent? Or...lover?"

"They seem to be after 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 what the Pirate Kings are after, why did you give up the obviously more valuable ships and property, but chose the Pirate King's personal items that should be worthless to a nobleman? Is it mere Curiosity is actually worth tens of thousands of pounds in your heart?"

"Maratha..."

"Yes, because of your dissatisfaction, Major Marat told me a lot. How much do you think he knows, and how much did he say?"

Torresias immediately shut his mouth.

After a moment of silence, Lorraine raised his legs with a smile on his face: "Mr. Antonio de Torresias, probably the relaxed atmosphere made you forget some things. I can probably remind you."

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

"We are in a hostile relationship. Although hurting you or humiliating you is against the civilized world's respect for noble blood, if I just kill you, it will be a great achievement for me."

"Life is precious, Your Excellency Commander."

Lorraine folded her ten fingers on her knees, with a warm smile on her face like spring wind turning into rain.

"I've also received an orthodox aristocratic education, and I'm not some kind of kidnapper. I won't threaten you with things like chopping off your head if you don't tell the secret, but I'm really thinking about it." your worth."

"For example, if your body was hung on the bell tower of the church at the moment of our army's siege, would the resistance encountered by the heroic British soldiers be weaker, and would we have to pay a little less blood to win the victory? "

"It's tempting, really, as tempting as the idea of ​​chopping off your head for not telling the secret, and it'll save me a lot of trouble, at least I won't have to worry about getting you out of the heavily guarded world while you're alive. The militia barracks, you say, don't you?"

"The Fortress of the Gospel of Santa Maria has a secret passage leading directly to the lake. It is not troublesome to lead me out of the barracks alive, and you don't need to have a headache at all!" Torresias' face was pale, and he spoke quickly, "Also, Thomas the Fly In search of the legendary Fountain of Youth, it seems to be very close. His gains are recorded in his voyage diary in secret language. This diary is now kept in my manor on Zapatra Island, including my notes on deciphering the secret language. And the information collected by three generations of our family for fifty years is all there."

"As God bears witness, I am your prisoner!"

"I demand security and treatment commensurate with my identity, and I also authorize you to dispose of all my personal belongings, including those in the San Carlos Fortress and all property on the island of Zapatra."

"You are standing by the edge of the mysterious Fountain of Youth, Mr. Drake. But in case something happens to me, you may lose it..."

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