On the coast, the sea breeze blows the flag of England, and the militiamen's tents are stationed on the coast of the Isle of Wight, where King Harold builds a line of defense against his kingdom.

Odegar and his group climbed down a thick hemp rope from the sea cliff, gasping for breath as he watched the militiamen's movements.

Leofrick, who was following him, helped his nemesis Tofei to stand firm, and at the same time frowned at the scene of the soldiers in front of him who were free and idle, and couldn't help but ask: "Almighty Lord, Odega, you really take it seriously, huh?"

"They will come, once the wind is in their favor. The Normans would come ashore in the night, and by daybreak there would be nothing but ashes. Odgar didn't relax, but turned his head to look at Leofrick and patiently explained his concerns.

A shadowy three-eyed raven stared sharply at them from a tree on a sea cliff not far from them, while the other one had already crossed the English Channel to Normandy, trying to search the coastline for William, the bastard duke, near Caen.

In Caen's castle, William issued a series of policies for several months that would support his invasion plans.

Although at first the Normanic people had no faith in their lord's attempt to conquer the same religion across the seas and try to usurp the throne by killing a king who had been chosen by the Lord for his people after the anointing of holy oil, William quickly reacted to this, realizing that he needed a higher level of power to support his actions.

William, Duke of Normandy, and Matilda, Duchess of Normandy, were devout believers, and although a large part of the effort was to atone for the couple's act of marrying while being distant cousins, they donated two majestic monasteries as a sign of piety.

Coupled with the fact that William sent an envoy to Rome to glorify his aggression, he brought enough tribute, and had enough justification—that Harold, the former King of England, had promised to pass on to him fifteen years earlier, and even the current King of England? Gwynson himself had been arrested two years earlier when a storm had swept him from the English Channel to the French territory during a voyage while still being an earl, and it was William who rescued Harold and brought him back to Normandy, where Harold swore an oath to religious relics, promising to support William's claim to the throne of England and to declare allegiance to him— These factors led William's envoys to list the terms advocated by William and submit them to Pope Alexander, but the other party approved and accepted all of William's terms, and even gave the bastard duke a banner representing the Holy See, so that his soldiers could take the upcoming battlefield.

It was really important for William to have the support of the Holy See, and in terms of declaring legitimacy, he could be said to have declared his sovereignty over England in accordance with God's will, and all those who opposed him were guilty, which made William's division famous, and it could even be regarded as a war of up and down.

And now, William, who was gathering a huge fleet, horses, and soldiers in Divo-sur-Mer, near Caen in Normandy, had succeeded in suppressing public opinion under the protection of the Lord, which strengthened him. All of this was bad news for King Harold and Anglo-Saxon England - With the exception of the unusually long north winds, which lasted throughout the late summer, these strong winds, which helped the Vikings to sail quickly southward, became the greatest obstacle to the safe passage of the English Channel by William himself and his fleet in the south, and he was forced to stay where he was, and the wind did not change as in previous years, and the bastard duke had to consume food and grass every day to feed his idle soldiers and horses, and the gathering place had begun to gradually become flooded with manure made by men and horses that had not had time to be transported......

On the other side of the Channel, the recruiter and the lanky Leofrick saw a similar scene, and they even spotted their new king, Harold, walking along the coastline idly in the company of his most loyal and intimate brother, Goss Gwenson, Earl of East Anglia.

Harold was still unaware of the Viking threat, and although he had been stationed there for a short time, he and his brother had focused on the enemy on the other side of the sea.

Goss was half a step behind his brother, he looked at the unusually English Channel, and said to his brother in front of him with some concern: "Anyway, it's still a matter of time." ”

Harold saw his brother's brow furrowed, and he turned back to Goss in a relaxed tone and asked, "Have you heard what people thought of him in Normandy?"

"What do you think?" Goss asked suspiciously, unaware of the sarcasm in his brother's mouth.

His enemies called him "William the Bastard", Normandy called him the Stooge, and even the inhabitants around Alençon used to laugh at him by hanging animal skins on the walls and beating them on his walls—for which he once shed tears. Harold gossiped to his brother about William's well-known information.

Hearing this, Goss first smiled with his brother, and then his expression returned to a little serious: "So he cut off the hands and feet of those people. ”

"Hahahaha......" Harold laughed, "hehe, but can you blame him?"

Goss finally stopped worrying, he took out the bread in his waist bag and nibbled on a large bite, looked at the brother in front of him, and remembered that he had abandoned his wife Edith Sfanic for twenty years in order to consolidate his relationship with the northern nobles who had been damaged by Tosti, and then married the sister of the Count of Northumbria and Mercia, and her name was also Edith, so he said to his brother with a smile, "At least you have a queen, so, two Edith?"

Harold raised an eyebrow and snorted slightly proudly.

"Their meeting must be interesting, will you let me see it once?" Goss continued to joke about his brother, sister-in-law, and ex-sister-in-law—Harold didn't answer this time, but reached out and snatched a bite of bread from his brother's hand and ate it.

Goss, who had been robbed of his bread, looked back at the conscripted militia who were rushing to join the line: "But what do you think about this bastard, we can't wait here forever. ”

A few days later, the northerly winds, which had trapped William and his army in Caondivo, had sent the Norwegian king Harald Hadrada to the place he planned to attack, and they had entered the Uss River by sea.

At this time, the king of Harold on the Isle of Wight still did not know the movements of the Vikings, he waited and waited, but the war never happened, the king of England boldly hoped that his kingdom was safe, and William, who had already entered the harvest season, could not come back to stir up trouble this year, because he himself was facing a big problem, and the two months of service provided by his taxes were almost over, because the reputation of William of Normandy and his brother Tosti who had been in trouble against him had consumed a lot of his army, and the people of England also needed these soldiers to help collect food during the harvest period。

Therefore, Harold had begun to gradually disband his troops, ordered his fleet to return to London, and let the long-serving nobles and their soldiers return to their fiefdoms first, and even some long-serving militiamen began to return to their respective villages to help with the harvest, and he himself began to return to London, leaving only a few newly drafted militia regiments like Leofrick and Tofi and a small number of professional troops to guard the Isle of Wight.

And the most pitiful of all were the peasants who had just arrived in the north of England, and how did they know that hundreds of miles north the Vikings had quietly landed hundreds of miles north, when they had just arrived on the Isle of Wight, and had been routinely waiting for William, whom almost all the Anglo-Saxons thought would not be coming again this year.

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