Fort San Carlos.
As an important military fortress, the defense here is unexpectedly lax.
Lorraine came up from the sensitive river with more than 20 heavily armed people. He had no identity certificates and no acquaintances to guide him. He easily entered the city with only a landing permit from the port authority before the ink was dry. He did not encounter any difficulties when entering the city.
The scene in the city is also desolate, with uneven dirt roads and dirty narrow alleys.
As a settlement in the center of the rainforest, most of the buildings here are wooden houses made of local materials. The plates are simply cut, but there are few carefully decorated color paints. The bark of each room is mottled, with grass, wild flowers, climbing trees and vines, and even strange mushrooms.
The tallest building in the fortress is the chapel in the center. The bell tower with a spire is about fifteen or six meters higher than the watchtower of the city wall.
The most exquisite building in the fortress is the residence of the garrison commander built on the shore of the lake. It is four stories high, with a red top and beige walls. Even the climbing vines have been trimmed and occupied about, but there is no contamination with the main wall.
The carriage went through the lane with few pedestrians, turned left and right, and stopped in front of a three story wooden house.
The wooden house seems to have a history and is by no means well maintained.
The old wooden wall was patched like Masek, and the wood was filled with wood. However, the owner did not choose a better replacement or inlay, but nailed it in a perfunctory way.
Lorraine saw the sign of the wooden house, new Cadiz, and was convinced that she had really come to a hotel.
He helped Hannah jump out of the carriage, winked, and freemanny knocked on the door of the hotel.
"Come, come, come!"
His voice roared out of the room. Lorraine looked at the sign and trembled, and the thin floating ash trickled down from the edge of the sign.
The door opened with a bang, and a middle-aged woman with big arms and round waist and an apron was blocked in the corridor, with a flattering smile on her face.
"Welcome to the comfortable new Cadiz! Gentlemen, what can aunt poliani do for you?"
Freemani raised his chin proudly. "How many rooms are there in your hotel?"
"There are 18 rooms on the East and West floors."
"Eighteen rooms..." freemanny estimated, "go and clean it. We''ll take it all."
"All......" aunt poliani hesitated for a while. "Sorry, there are already guests in the eight rooms in the West building. I don''t think there are many gentlemen. Why don''t you make do with it and only live in the East building?"
"Wrapped?" Lorraine frowned. "Is there such a big crowd in San Carlos in the dry season?"
"Usually, there must be no." when Lorraine asked, aunt poliani was much more cautious, "but unfortunately, several adventurers came from the other side of the lake more than ten days ago and occupied the West building."
"Mr. adventurer?"
"It seems that they came to look for some ancient treasure. Twelve people went to the rainforest in three days. So far, no news has come back."
"The adventure team of rainforest treasure... Is it an obsession of Maya civilization?"
This group of brave people in pursuit of mystery gave Lorraine great interest.
"Freemani, go check in. The time is... A month should be about the same."
"Yes, my Lord!"
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Perhaps the dirty and dilapidated Hotel facade infinitely lowered people''s psychological expectations. Lorraine found that the room in new Cadiz was unexpectedly good.
There are ten rooms in the West building. Lorraine and Haina live in a luxury suite with two bedrooms on the third floor. LEV, Daniel, Barto and freemani each occupy a single room on the second floor. There are five standard rooms on the first floor. Ten stormtroopers live together in pairs, and all the people brought by Lorraine are just arranged.
Lorraine followed the maid to the so-called luxury suite. She saw that the furnishings inside were not luxurious, but they were new, clean and clear. From the window, she could overlook the scenery of the lakeside wharf.
He stood by the window and looked at the San Carlos moored quietly in the distance. He was unconscious.
"You want to rob the boat?" Haina asked suddenly.
Lorraine subconsciously glanced into the room and found that the door was closed and the previous maid had long disappeared.
He sighed.
"Five company people''s army, two company grenadiers, eight shore defense guns, a brigantine and a full crew of sailors. The armed forces of San Carlos are much more than Nelson guessed based on the information we already know. In our current state, it is unlikely to conquer here."
"So you want to rob the boat?" Haina asked a second time.
"Seizing a boat is only one of the reserved means, not the only choice." Lorraine pointed to the scenery outside the window. "You see, with the church square as the center, this small fortress presents a very different scene."
"The west city is very clean. The ground is paved with stone slabs, flower beds are built on the wharf, fountains and benches are also built on the church square, and there are many more people on the street, most of whom wear military uniforms."
"The northernmost red roof and yellow wall, according to the pilot, is commander torresias''s official residence. There is a stone barracks in front of his official residence. Not surprisingly, it should be the civilian army barracks."
"From north to south, there is a beautiful lakeside wharf next to the commander''s residence. There are only two ships in the berth. Brigantin is obviously the San Carlos and another large slup. Not surprisingly, it is our neighbor, the ship of the adventurers."
"The port authority at the lakeside wharf is very large, which far exceeds the demand for tax cards here. I guess the sailors will stay there. The playground on the back of the port authority is where they train."
"Further south is the water gate of the San Juan River. There is a suspension bridge with stone towers on both sides. There are also garrisons. Since the people''s army controls the fortress, the two Grenadier companies should control the suspension bridge."
"See? The pilot said it was a military city, but from the planning of the city, I think the west city is the real military city, and the east city where we are... It is probably the place used by the Spanish to settle the stranded businessmen in the wet season."
Haina tilted her head and thought for a while. When she found that there was no point, she simply asked, "what are you going to do?"
"Well... Two things."
Lorraine went to her desk, spread out the paper, and said as she wrote.
"The first thing is to establish a communication channel with Nelson. When I got off the ship, I arranged a task for drogo. He came to town every day on the grounds of delivering wine."
"Daniel stayed to connect with him and asked him to find a way to send my letter to Nelson without using green dew, and bring back the dynamics and plans of the army."
Hannah nodded.
"The second thing, even the little pilot knows that the commander and the two major are not superiors and subordinates, but collaborators, which only shows that they don''t get along well, and they still don''t get along well in the open."
"We need to understand the extent of this disharmony. Whether it is pretending to fight, falsely cooperating with the snake, never communicating with each other, or whether we want our opponent to bear the failure and die on the spot... This will determine our next direction of action."
"To understand this, we have to go to the military city."
As he spoke, Lorraine put away his pen, folded the stationery, baked the red paint, took off the chest ornament of the tuxedo, poked heavily on the paint and covered the private seal.
He stared maliciously at Haina.
"Castilians and Moors often have relatives. There are many relatives of different skin colors in the family. How about being my cousin once?"
"Ah?"