In the afternoon, Xu Mo stood on the deck of the Vestelos, leaning on the side of the ship and looking out to sea. As the ship's second stormtrooper, this time of day coincided with his turn to be on duty on deck.

In the Baltic Sea in summer, the days are long and the nights are short, and although it is close to evening, the sun is still fierce, shining on the endless sea in front of you. There are a few white clouds like marshmallows floating in the sky, and the clear sky is a faint sky blue, and although it is connected to the turquoise water, it can be said that the sea and the sky are the same color, and there is no obvious distinction at all.

At this time, the southeast monsoon is blowing on the sea, the wind is not strong, the wave is no more than a meter high, and the speed of the ship is only 6 knots, and the sharp bow of the Vistelos breaks through the waves, leaving a white mark on the sea. The waves split by the bow of the ship unwillingly continued to lap on both sides of the hull, making the battleship sway slightly from side to side, and Xu Mo on the deck seemed to feel like he had become a baby swaying in his mother's arms.

Just as Xu Mo was feeling the vastness of the sea and sky, a child's voice sounded in his ears: "Your Excellency Anderson, you'd better not look at the sea for a long time, it will affect your eyesight!" ”

Xu Mo was startled, looked back at Blakeney standing behind him, and said with a smile: "Thank you, little Blakeney, the sea view is so wonderful, I forgot for a moment that the sunlight reflected on the calm sea surface can damage my eyesight!" ”

"Lord Anderson, don't call me Little Blakeney, you have to call me Lord Blakeney!" Blakeney pouted dissatisfiedly, he was another non-commissioned officer on duty.

"Yes, Lord Blakeney, please forgive poor Alfred!" Xu Mo furrowed his brows and pretended to have a bitter gourd face.

"Hehehe! Well, I forgive you! Blakeney laughed heartily at Xu Mo's grimace, "Lord Anderson, can you tell me about your knightly training?" Do you have to put on a heavy armor, and then you need four people to carry it on the horse? ”

"Huh? No, there are no cavalry with full knightly armor anymore, and now the cavalry uses scimitars and muskets, like we say......" Xu Mo struggled to recall his pitiful knowledge of European history.

Although Xu Mo knew very little about the cavalry knowledge of this era, Blakeney still listened to it with relish, with the curiosity and longing unique to young people in his expression.

"Lord Blakeney, why do you have to fight on a warship at such a young age?" Xu Mo's heart moved, and he asked Little Blakeney.

"My grandfather was a naval admiral, my father was also a navy, my family is a naval family, and I hope that I will be an outstanding admiral in the future, just like Sir Drake of England." Blakeney's eyes sparkled as he spoke of his ideals.

"Lord Blakeney, you will succeed." Xu Mo encouraged meaningfully, "Okay, it's time for us to go on patrol, let's talk again next time?" ”

"Of course, Lord Anderson, it was a pleasure to chat with you!" Blakeney put on his three-cornered hat and touched the brim in salute.

Xu Mo also touched the brim of his hat with his fingers, turned to leave, and wandered around the deck. Suddenly, Xu Mo frowned, he saw a person who surprised him a little.

This person was kneeling on the deck, wiping the deck of the ship vigorously, wiping the sweat dripping from his forehead from time to time, and the young man's face was full of flesh, it was Hurd who Xu Mo had injured in Stockholm.

At the same time that Xu Mo saw Hurd, Hurd also saw Xu Mo, but Hurd obviously knew that the identities of the two had become superiors and subordinates, and they did not lose their minds like when they were at the dock, and attacked Xu Mo desperately. He touched his forehead with an expressionless face, saluted Xu Mo, and then continued to wipe his deck, but between actions, he used a lot of force, as if he was going to cut off a layer of sawdust from the deck.

Xu Mo's eyes flashed, he didn't have any grudges against this young man, and the harm he had done to him before was just a scene to let Dina enter the fleet smoothly. However, since Hurd is here, it means that the tension between them will continue. I just don't know if he wants to enter the fleet himself, gain fame and fortune, and win Mersa's heart, or if he was instigated by others......

Just an ordinary person, Xu Mo quickly put Hurd's matter behind him, walked near the main mast of the battleship, and focused on the two people he was observing.

The two men, a man and a woman, were deck sailors who were rubbing the deck like Hurd. The woman is the sail operator, also known as the sail liner, who is now sitting on the crossbar of the mainmast coordinating the sail lines. They were none other than Selena and Ahan, the other two reincarnators on the Vestelos in addition to Xu Mo and Dinah.

The two of them felt Xu Mo's gaze, and they couldn't help but speed up the movements of their hands, Xu Mo was the current officer on duty, and there was a little contradiction with the two of them before. Regardless of whether Xu Mo was a reincarnation or not, the two of them didn't want to be caught by Xu Mo and punished.

At this time, Dina came out of the cabin to breathe, walked along the side of the ship, and when she saw Xu Mo, she smiled and saluted, and the two staggered past without talking. However, in Xu Mo's soul imprint, Dinah's communication came.

"BOSS, those two reincarnators, I've already probed with the real eye, that big man's perception is very different from me, the strength attribute and physical strength attribute have reached about 25, and the other attributes are below the single digits, and the natural ability has also been proven, as you expected, it is a defensive talent MT. The female reincarnation perception is similar to you, and she is an agile reincarnator like you, but her attributes are slightly lower than yours, and her other abilities are unknown. ”

"Well, very good, if they take the initiative to contact you and ask you to join their team, be a little more ambiguous and have a little more information!" Xu Mo replied quietly.

"Got it! BOSS, that female reincarnation is probably an extremely rich man in reality! Dinah said suddenly.

"Oh? Why? Xu Mo asked in surprise, he didn't see anything from Selena's actions.

"Hee-hee, boss, when it comes to observation, you're far worse than me as a reporter. That woman is a sail rope, you see how many sail cables are densely packed on this battleship, how can she be able to maneuver freely if she is not trained, even if the plot character she possesses has the ability to handle sails, it will take a lot of time to practice to be able to get used to it. Dinah grinned and began to educate Xu Mo.

"Yes, you're right, this woman should be very familiar with sail operation in the real world, so she should have worked on a sailboat, and even owned a sailboat herself. Excluding small sampans in the real world, there is no doubt that most of them are antique yachts, and with such a yacht, the wealth and status that this woman has, tsk, it's amazing! Xu acquiesced to Dinah's judgment.

"Hee-hee, BOSS, you have to go against her, but be cautious, such a strong woman can be shrewd, be careful of capsizing in the gutter!" Dinah teased Xu Mo happily, "Ah, little Blakeney is over there, I'm going to find this cute BOY to play, BOSS, you can take it easy." ”

Seeing Dinah running to tease little Blakeney in a serious manner, Xu Mo suddenly couldn't cry or laugh.

Soon, night fell, and the sea breeze in the Baltic Sea began to strengthen at night, and the temperature dropped, filling the sea with water vapor and forming a faint mist. At this time, Xu Mo had already finished his shift, but he was still very interested in going to sea for the first time, and accompanied Gerhardt on duty to inspect the deck.

Gerhardt was the oldest of the officers, the oldest of the 37-year-olds, who had been a naval admiral in Hamburg after being discharged by an incident and recruited by Hedram to join his fleet.

Gerhardt has a strong personality, a rigorous style, superb swordsmanship, and extraordinary leadership skills, but he also has the usual characteristics of a Germanic officer, that is, his expression is serious and rigid, and he is taciturn. Xu Mo accompanied him to inspect the battleship, turned around twice, but couldn't talk to him twice, and suddenly felt bored, and left in a gloomy manner, taking a single-barreled telescope to observe the sea.

Suddenly, Xu Mo saw a faint light in the telescope, but it was not there. Putting down the binoculars, Xu Mo rubbed his eyes, and raised the binoculars again to look in that direction. In the mist of the night, Xu Mo saw three points of pale yellow light, but in the mist, they were looming, not very clear.

"Go and call Lord Gerhardt!" Xu Mo no longer hesitated this time, and immediately ordered the sailors beside him.

"It's the stern light, which sends out a combat readiness alert!" The experienced Gerhardt looked at the telescope only once, and immediately judged that the three yellowish lights were the stern lights of a ship.

"Turn the rudder, keep up with it, we can't fight at night, wait until dawn, see what kind of ship it is, and then we will make a decision." After the brass bell of the battle readiness alert rang, Hedram soon came to the deck of the battleship, "Well done, Alfred, you have behaved like this on your first voyage to the sea, and you should be called 'Lucky Alfred' in the future." ”

"Thank you for the compliment, Admiral, please give me the honor of being the first to be on its deck after dawn!" Xu Mo touched the brim of his triangular hat with his fingers and saluted.

"Well, if it is determined that it is a merchant ship of the Hanseatic League, I allow you to lead the stormtroopers to capture the first prey for Vestelos and win the glory you deserve!" "But now, our stormtroopers, you must go and rest first." ”

"Your Excellency, glory belongs to Sweden!" Xu Mo smiled and said, "I'll retire first!" ”

One last glance at the direction of the unknown ship, Xu Mo walked towards the cabin, his heart swelled with excitement, he had never had a day like tonight, longing for the dawn to come.

Perhaps, this will be the first naval battle in his life, belonging to the medieval war of knights at sea!

(The chronological history of the earth to which this volume refers is circa 1612, and the period from the fifth century to the beginning of the bourgeois revolution in England in 1640 is regarded as the Middle Ages.) Of course, there are many theories about the Middle Ages, the mainstream being the 5th to 15th centuries AD. ）