Vikings: Journey of the Juggernaut

Chapter 61 Set sail!Captain Sparrow's Past

On the day of the journey, at the pilot dock of the Kirigakure Strait, the members of the raiding fleet were saying simple goodbyes to their families.

"Reilly and I went to rob. Mellie, you are home alone. You need to take care of yourself. There are a lot of dried salted fish hanging on the wall. If you are hungry, just grab them and eat them..." Itiya was instructing earnestly.

"Kaisen, have a safe journey, and Rayleigh and Jackham, the same goes for you, waiting for your triumphant return." Skadi's intellectual voice also came out.

"Father, mother, I will train hard at home and I won't let you down when you come back..." This is what Wayne was saying.

"The weather is gloomy, I hope it doesn't rain..."

Following the sounds that reached their ears, the raiders on the dock boarded their respective warships one after another. Because of his uncle's invitation, Kaison first went to Sparrow's small warship, Rayleigh, and Yi. Tia and Jecam were arranged by Bassomo into the large warship.

Among the three warships, the large warship had 34 raiders. As the commander of the fleet, Bartholomew was also the captain of the ship. Sophia was the mate of the warship and had the same status as the captain.

The medium-sized warship has 22 people, the captain is Staff, and the small warship has 14 people, and the captain is Sparrow. Both small and medium-sized warships have no mates.

"Let's go, set sail!"

The three warships slowly disappeared from the sight of people on the shore.

After sailing out of the strait, with a favorable wind, everyone did not need to paddle too much. Bassomo walked up to Rayleigh and several newcomers holding a golden-brown stone the size of a fist: "This is for you to play with."

This stone is sun stone, an uncommon ore.

Rayleigh raised the stone in his hand to his eyes, pointed it at the gloomy sky, searched in all directions for a while, and soon found the position of the sun, and there was light coming out of the stone.

For Viking navigators, the sunstone was equivalent to a compass for the future, so that they would not get lost in the vast and vast sea where they could not distinguish between east, west, north and south.

The compass does not necessarily need to sail south. Depending on the angle of the compass scale, you can sail straight in all directions, either all the way to the east or all the way to the west...

The principle of the sun stone is to lock a fixed anchor point according to the position of the sun in dark weather. If you put a wooden bar on the ground, you can determine which direction is based on the shadow cast by the sun.

Although the sun is moving, it is in the same direction at fixed time points every day. For example, today's dawn and tomorrow's dawn, the sun is always in the east.At this point in time, it can be used to calibrate whether the fleet's sailing direction has deviated.

Other time periods such as noon or evening are also acceptable, as long as you remember the direction of the shadow at each time.

Of course, the fleet has not yet left Scandinavia and can sail all the way along the jagged coastline.When we reach the Western Territory, we need to use the positioning of the Sun Stone to cross the North Sea and reach Great Britain.

It is said that the weather over the North Sea and Great Britain is gloomy most of the time.

After a few hours, the fleet sailed away from the northern border and entered the central region. The central region was in the midst of a melee between tribes, and billowing smoke of gunpowder could be seen from time to time along the coast.

In the evening, the fleet occupied a bandit's nest along the coast. The melee in the middle also caused countless people to be displaced. There were so many bandits in each nest.

Reilly and Jackham couldn't pick up heads. There were only a dozen people in this bandit group, and the raiders who had been holding back for several months killed them all in one wave of charges.

They also saw Captain Sparrow's actions for the first time. Although he never killed anyone, he blocked many dangerous attacks for his subordinates.

Under the night, the man with a bamboo hat hanging on his back by the campfire was still carving the wood in his hands as before.

"Uncle, let me introduce to you, this is Rayleigh and Jackham." Kaysen pulled his two partners over.

The man with a light beard and a slightly aged face stopped what he was doing and looked at the two young men with peaceful eyes.

Jerkham has been a genius since he was young, and Rayleigh, who has had an amazing time this year, and Kayson, are the future of the tribe.As long as these three people can grow up safely, then they will have nothing to do and can just be a salted fish waiting to die.

Thinking of this, Sparrow smiled: "Hello."

"Hello, Captain." The two replied.

"Captain, are you carving your wife? She looks very gentle." Jackam looked at the faceless wood that had not yet been formed and said.

This guy's speech has improved, and both Rayleigh and Kaysen were slightly surprised, but also very pleased.

"Haha, you can see it. She is indeed very gentle." Sparrow looked very happy.

"Yes, I can see it." Jackham nodded, and then asked doubtfully, "But why does your wife have no face and no eyes?"

"..."

The three people around were stunned.

Sparrow exhaled heavily and told himself not to be angry. His wife said before she died that being angry hurts the body.

"By the way, Captain, I just saw you blocking a lot of attacks for your teammates, but why didn't your sword kill people?" Jackam asked again in confusion.

Rayleigh was also a little confused. In the wavelet battle just now, the captain in front of him had many opportunities to kill the bandits, but he did not take action. He left it to the soldiers around him to deal with it. He was only responsible for blocking attacks.

"If you kill too many people, you have to go to the Hall of Valor." Sparrow replied casually.

"what……"

Hearing his answer, Jecam opened his mouth in surprise, "As a warrior, isn't our pursuit to go to the Hall of Valor after death?"

Sparrow paused, a trace of nostalgia flashed in his eyes: "My wife is not a warrior."

A gust of wind blew the hair on his temples, making his face look even more desolate.

Both Jackham and Rayleigh felt a little lost at this moment.so……

This man didn't want to kill more, and voluntarily gave up the opportunity to go to the Hall of Valor and become a hero, just to go to hell and reunite with his wife!
It turns out...this is Captain Xianyu!

……

Seeing that the air was a little quiet for a moment, Jackham scratched the back of his head and said a comforting word: "Captain, you will definitely go to hell after you die."

"..."

After being stunned for a while, Sparrow laughed and said, "I like what you said."

"By the way, Captain, please don't go out to die on purpose." Jackham added again.

"Of course I won't."

Live well, this was the last instruction left to him by his wife before her death.

When his wife was alive, she liked to stand quietly on the river bank and watch him practice swordsmanship on the Blackwater River in a boat alone.

……

At dawn the next day, the raiding party continued to set off. Although there were many bandits in the central area, facing the red-eyed crow flag and dozens of powerful warriors, it was clear that no one dared to cause trouble.

Jecam couldn't wait to fight, but every time a few pirate ships appeared in his sight, they would slip away before they even got close.

Always out of touch with the fight.

After four days, the fleet entered the Western Territory. The power of the Western Territory has long been formed, and it belongs to the territory of each earl. It is rare to see gunpowder smoke along the coast. Looking from a distance, it is a peaceful land.

Three more days passed, and the raiding team arrived at its destination at noon. The western border was close to the Taghwan Port on the North Sea, where the fleet needed to be resupplied.

The next half day was left for the team members to have their own fun. More than ten people from Rayleigh, led by the veteran soldier Sam, started to appreciate the scenery of this most prosperous port in the Western Region.

This port not only has large longhouses, but also has many Western European two-story building structures. At the same time, Viking warriors from various regions can be seen everywhere.

In the large open space along the port, there were crowds of people. The idle Viking warriors were separated into countless venues. In each venue, wrestling matches were going on, with people shouting and the sound of fists hitting the flesh. Everlasting.

Walking into the crowded crowd, I didn't know who bumped into someone, and there was a clear sound of a horn cup falling on the ground, and curses were heard in my ears:
"My wine, you bastards don't have eyes when you walk?"

"I think you don't have eyes, right?" Jekam immediately replied. Commander Bassomo had said that after leaving the North, he could not be humble or weaken the prestige of his tribe.

No matter who is right or wrong, it is the other person's fault.

"Boy, do you know who I am?" A young strong man on the other side who was no weaker than Jecam glared fiercely at him.

How dare you talk back! !
Jecam was furious, grabbed the man in front of him by the collar, widened his eyes and said, "Do you know who grandpa is?"

"What nonsense are you talking about? Let's have a fight." Outsiders were booing around him.

"Find a place to have a wrestling match." The young strong man shook off the hand holding his clothes, and then walked towards a relatively empty field.

Jackham followed a few steps, seemed to see something, and shouted: "Wait!"

"What, you don't dare?" The young man's eyes were full of disdain.

"The bamboo hat on your back." Jackham walked over and pulled off the bamboo hat hanging on the man's back, then tore it in half, and said dissatisfiedly, "What kind of grade? Learn from Leli and wear it." Hat."

"..."

Mist Crow and the others looked at each other and couldn't help laughing.

The old warrior Sam gave this guy a thumbs up. He was so arrogant when he went out: "Jackam, you are already a mature tribal raider."

The people who fell in the eyes of the other party were furious. This guy simply had the heart of a bear and the courage of a leopard.

"Bjorn, show him some color."

The people around him quickly moved away, leaving an open space in the middle.

"If I don't deal with you today, I won't call you Bjorn." The young strong man threw his ax to his companion.

"Take care of me, you are not strong enough."

Jakam also untied his two-handed sword and gave it to the warrior beside him, and walked towards the opponent aggressively.

No more unnecessary nonsense, the two of them just got into a fight.

"Jackam, well done!"

"Bjorn, beat him!"

Amidst the excitement, the hard-fought hand-to-hand battle lasted for nearly 4 minutes. Finally, Jecam defeated his opponent with a crossbar.

"Boy, do you know who grandpa is now?" Jackam let go of the man and raised his fist.

(End of this chapter)