The military mind is to find the trajectory of major events from the chaos, so Edgar is not superstitious about his own experience, he knows that he does not have a history of independently commanding tens of thousands of battles on his resume, and he did not even command thousands of cavalry before coming to this era. In his previous life, military education left only various paper records - nothing more than some Roman numerals attacking Arabic numerals, such as the IV Corps attacking the 3rd Div (Third Division), a good education allowed him to see the cruel Prussian black flag and the glorious Imperial Eagle in these dry numbers, but this did not mean that he could command troops of this size.

The problem at hand was simple: Edgar had amassed a large army, known to his enemies across the Channel as the Anglais, which included in fact the various peoples of the island, and even the Flemish and Normandy tribes. He grew up in an era of superiority over the Ancien Regime, which was ten times more advanced than his military and political system.

The whole kingdom mobilized 23,000 troops, and the 3,000 troops on the southeast coast were handed over by Edgar to Baldwin, Earl of Lincoln, which was a great challenge for the young man, not only to assist his father's Boulogne army with the assistance of the fleet, but more importantly, the prince of the kingdom of England was also in his military tent. Baldwin did prove his military talent in Italy, but the arrangement still shocked the kingdom: it was probably not unheard of for a royal family to fight with an earl, but it was quite another for a future king to serve under a foreign lord.

Edgar didn't care about this, although his son was a duke, and he might be the natural lord of the army in this era, but Edmund had no military experience, and if it weren't for his bloodline, it would be impossible to command even a hundred people, let alone a full army of 3,000. Baldwin was different, he was a young son with no inheritance, he was educated to be a monk in his youth, but later embarked on a knightly path, and this background made him a rare all-round man of civil and military affairs, and Edgar was even more convinced that a future king of Jerusalem would be capable of commanding 3,000 armoured soldiers.

So, without hesitation, he put his son under Baldwin's military tent, which was nothing, and Edgar told himself that King William of the Netherlands had served as an adjutant to the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War, and that former "thin man" Billy was not complacent because of this military experience?

The real trouble is the 20,000 people on the Isle of Wight.

The expanded barracks looked a little livelier than London's, with heavy ruts rolling on the manure-covered pavement, and the well-armored English knights were as elated as if they were jousting in a joust, and everyone, including the oldest Earls and Sein, had more confidence in their king than in him himself. The king, however, was worried that he was about to enter a territory with 20,000 mouths of unfamiliar terrain.

The whole of Normandy is a large barracks, where hundreds of thousands of people are proud and stubborn, their lords have been watching everywhere for decades, and the younger generation is even more competitive, and the memory of Hastings is imprinted in his bones, and he will not be willing to submit to a people who has been conquered by his duke. Edgar knew that although he was victorious, he was not necessarily the elite of the past, and the older generation had long since withered, such as this time, the Count of Mercia could not answer the call, and it was said that the most powerful lord in the kingdom could now only lie in a hospital bed and dream of a young man and a long sunset. And the young man, accustomed to peace, has not been in the battlefield, but he likes to knock wine glasses on the king's table, and talk about war as if it were a ball.

Edgar sometimes feels that he has forgotten about the war, maybe the war is indeed similar to the ball, what is the feeling of the battlefield? Chaos is an overly brief description, and everyone who attends the ball will have a different memory of it, and between the cabaret and the countless flirts, the joys and sorrows of any two people are different, and the eyes are very different, so the memory of a ball is like the memory of a battle, and there is often a lack of coherence between the different versions.

Standing in front of the map, Edgar scanned east along the Normandy coastline shown on the map, and on the white pebble coastline north of Rouen, there was a Norman castle in Fécon and Dieppe, the former was built by the ancient "Longsword" William, and is now one of the duke's garrisons, which means that the city must be heavily garrisoned. Further east are Iu and Pontillo, and according to information provided by Robert of Normandy, the lord of these two places, Robert, is related to the Count of Guy by marriage, and has a rather bad relationship with the Duke of William, which is easy to win over in the current situation. Edgar surveyed the distance from the Château de Pontillo to Boulogne, but couldn't help but stop at the Château de Montreuil, which was Philip Capet's royal castle and the only direct coastal leader of the French king, and Edgar hesitated: Will Philip intercept him?

His wife had just corresponded with Philip, and it was said that the king of the Franks was touring the southern kingdom of Catinade, which together with Philip's father, Henry I, had acquired almost half of the royal kingdom, and Philip had told his sister that he was "wandering in the forest of Fontainebleau", but at this juncture, would the French king really go south to shoot deer? Edgar knew that he was taking a risk, and that the absolute supremacy of the Royal Navy was not something to be won easily, and his opponents at sea included the Count of Flanders and the King of Denmark, behind whom was Augustus, who controlled Rome. And on land, it is not clear which heir the Normans will stand behind them, and Edgar is not as optimistic as Robert: once the British army has landed, will the Norman lords see the duke's eldest son as an accomplice and puppet of the invaders? Robert's supporters were scattered to the east and south of the duchy, which meant that the attitude of the French king was crucial, after all, the two great neighbors south of Normandy were under the influence of Philip, and the Count of Anjou seemed to be too old to be too ambitious to be troubled by his advanced age; However, the Duke of Normandy's son-in-law, Stephen de Blois, was at this time regent of Chartres, and Edgar remembered the young knight in Saint-Lo Yaowu a dozen years earlier, who, if he had joined William Loufus's side, could march west into Norgent Castle in a day, and stifle Robert's supporters in Berem and Alençon, so that they could not go north.

However, these were the things that Robert should have been concerned about, and King Edgar was more concerned with the communication from Calais-Boulogne to Pontilio, and once the coastline was controlled, the Flemish would not be able to advance towards Rouen and join William Loufus. The French armies in the fortresses of Montreuil, Colby and Beauvais would also be quickly cut off by the British.

"My lord, how many men do you think it will take to capture Pontillo?" The king finally took his eyes off the map.

"A hundred cavalry is enough." Only one man in the tent dared to boast like this, and the king never doubted the words of the Spanish knight.

"This operation is crucial, and once successful, we can rely on the advantage of the inner line and concentrate all our forces to defeat the invading enemy individually." In all these years, only Count Rodrigo was able to discuss this kind of military science with the king.

Count Rodrigo, the lord of Pembroke Castle and brother-in-law of the King of England, immediately understood what the King meant, England would not trust anyone, so the plan was drawn up directly on the basis of a centripetal offensive against the British army by the enemy from all sides of Bruges, Amiens, Rouen, and Breituil.

"I'll go to Calais at once." The Count's answer pleased the king greatly.

Fifteen days later, the British army moved south to Boulogne, and the peace ended.