As Lorraine said, Americans do understand.

As soon as the pirate flag on the Jackdaw appeared, the entire pier and even the entire sea area suddenly boiled.

People come and go, and tell each other.

The crew of the Jackdaw couldn't figure it out until the two American gunboats formed a formal **** formation in front of them with anti-war signals, and they realized that Baltimore was welcoming them.

High specifications are welcome.

The navy escorted, the pier cleared the road, and a huge water tank was opened in an emergency. Seven or eight pilots ran and dispersed, sending the Jackdaw into this luxurious VIP ship room in the form of relay.

After a while, the ship stopped and the water gate closed.

The board was put down on the Jackdaw, Lorraine led Carmen to disembark slowly, standing on the side of the plank road, watching the pilot in the cabin smile without saying a word.

It's not that he deliberately entrusted it.

Living in a remote country, a smile or a greeting can often make people quickly integrate into the environment, and most of the time it is a blessing to earn a living.

But this moment is different from "most of the time".

On a larger scale, the Chesapeake Bay was strongly blocked by Shaq, and Baltimore, which was known as the Pearl of the Atlantic, fell into a deserted state, and there were almost no merchant ships in and out of the row of docks.

But this is not to say that Baltimore has no ships.

In fact, there are very few berths here, even if fishing boats are excluded, there are still a lot of ships floating on the sea.

Most of those ships are warships of the United States and France, and the total number may exceed twenty. The fortresses along the coast are also in a state of waiting for battle, and the armed guard has been extended to 60 kilometers outside the port. Lorraine met the US military ship on that invisible boundary.

This shows that Baltimore is always nervous about Shaq's reaction, with rumblings and shadows.

In this situation, the Jackdaw with the pirate flag broke through, and Lorraine could imagine the kind of anticipation and alert.

From an early age, the information that Earl Galves gave to Lorraine included all smuggling docks in the 13 states of the United States. The militias in each state are paid by the states themselves, and the arms delivered in Baltimore are targeted only by the Continental Army.

Arms smuggling involves a large amount of sensitive materials and money. It is understandable to choose a closed water tank as the delivery location, but Lorraine thought that they would complete the agreement at the ordinary berth before driving into the designated warehouse.

Driving directly into the sump and closing the water gate would be too urgent.

Although Lorraine is confident that the Americans will not repurchase a single ship of supplies as a rush, but without previous communication, Lorraine cannot guarantee whether they are welcome or interrogated.

The best way right now is to sit back and watch the changes, wait for the other party to show sincerity in communication, and then go downhill and stand in the active position to make up for the missing link of trust.

It's just that the other party seems to think so too...

Lorraine and Carmen waited by the side of the ship for a long time and no one came up to contact. There were thirty or forty armed infantrymen with guns scattered around the tank. The crew of the Jackdaw did not dare to disembark. The state of being diligent.

It's just a sump...

With the Jackdaw’s firepower and defenses, it may be difficult to get out of the dock, but if the water tank collapses, there will be no problem at all.

Patience competition.

The senseless stalemate lasted for half an hour, and neither Lorraine nor Carmen spoke. But Carmen's physical strength seemed to have reached its limit, his arm he was holding Lorraine heavier and heavier, and he was still faintly trembling.

Lorraine realized that he couldn't wait any longer, so he put on a regretful expression and silently raised his arm.

Catalina's voice rang from the deck.

"Raise the anchor, open the stern gun door, and reload with solid bullets!"

The clear voice echoed between the beams and pillars of the water tank, and the atmosphere in the tank suddenly became tense.

The infantrymen who were scattered everywhere held their steps in unison, pinching their long spears tightly, and wanted to lift their spears, but they did not dare to move without orders.

Seeing them, Lorraine became more confident, and his raised arms waved heavily.

Karen and Wang also appeared on the side of the ship, each carrying thirty sailors with guns.

"Muzzle up, line up! Reload!"

The sailors all knelt down on one knee on the deck, biting their teeth and biting open the paper shell of the lead bullet, and filling the heavy gun chamber of Charleville with ammunition.

"Waiting for battle! Waiting for orders!"

Huh! La!

All the rifles are raised neatly, the muzzle rises out of the board like a hedgehog, and each one maintains a subtle ten-degree upward.

The restlessness in the water tank was even more obvious, and the Americans endured it, and still did not speak formally.

Lorraine sighed deeply, tightened Carmen, turned around, and boarded the board.

His bright leather boots stepped on the boat board, and a meaningful sound was finally made from the corner of the water tank.

"Enough, sir. You are here to do business, but this aggressive look looks like you are preparing to go to war with the United States!"

Lorraine stopped without looking back.

"Business is the continuation of trust. I thought that the French had trust in American hearts, but now it seems that it is just wishful thinking."

A handsome young man in military uniform walked out of the crowd with a cold expression.

"Since you claim to be a friend of freedom, you should show your sincerity. Tenacious Americans are fighting against the strength and lack of medicine and medicine all over the West Coast, and Baltimore is our only hope. You should understand that there is no room for slack. "

"But I don't understand." Lorraine stood slantingly on the board, with his waist straight. "You see Baltimore as hope, but you sit back and watch the British block the mouth of the bay and let your friends who yearn for justice sink into the sea. , My crew and I have gone through life and death, and you still want me to express my sincerity! What sincerity? Was the arrest warrant signed by the British King himself?"

A red rhyme flashed across the young man Junxiu's face: "You clearly know that we only need you to proactively identify yourself!"

"I have already stated my identity!" Lorraine raised his hand ~lightnovelpub.net~ to the rose pirate flag lying on the tip of the mast, "I am a free pirate, a lawless madman, a British nightmare, and the darling of the sea. On the contrary, it is you, Mr. Officer, besides tying my hands on the shore and criticizing me, I have not seen anything that can be called sincerity. Speaking of which, I don’t even know your name."

The young man froze for a moment: "I am Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton, a lumberjack from Pennsylvania, a colonel of the Continental Army, and a military attaché to the commander-in-chief of Washington."

Unexpectedly, I didn't see John Adams who was talking about Baltimore, but he first met Adams' close friend Hamilton...

Lorraine raised his eyebrows and ordered the crew to disarm.

"Colonel Hamilton, I am Edward Kenway, a farmer from Louisiana, the head of the Rose Pirates, and also the freight forwarder of the Governor of Louisiana, the newly appointed Earl of Louisiana, Mr. Galvez."

"Freight forwarder?"

"Yes, all Earl Van Earl's aid to the United States will be delivered to my cargo hold once it arrives in New Orleans, and I will be solely responsible for the subsequent delivery, delivery, coordination, feedback and other matters."

Lorraine put on a gentle smile like a spring breeze, listening to the anchor chain falling into the water.

"Earl is the dignity of the world, even if he regrets, he can't act on his own. But he said that justice requires blood, and countless people need to shed blood for it."

He said, walking, walking across the long plank road, standing alone in front of Colonel Hamilton, condescending.

"Mr. Colonel, I am just a trivial messenger, a trivial maritime messenger who voluntarily sacrificed for the just cause of America."