King Harold is dead, and only the remnants of the Godwin family are left in exile in Ireland and Flanders, Harold once believed that his personal leadership and family strength could replace the weak royal family, which had long been reduced to spiritual idols, and his father thought the same, and the powerful earl killed King Edward's younger brother, Alfred the Noble, this reckless action proved to destroy the unity of England, and the Godwin family has since been hated by many nobles. Now that the Mighty Power had been utterly destroyed in Hastings, England did not miss Godwin's descendants, and many were spreading rumors of the Wessex royal family at the Norman court across the Channel, while revolts broke out across England.

Since the rebellion near the Welsh border, the Welshmen of Edric the "Barbarian" and Gwynnes have successively defeated the Norman supporters, and Char, the castle governor of Hereford, was driven across the Lugar by Edric, and William, Earl of Hereford, could only guard the castle across the river; Bishop Odo continued to fortify forts in the eastern part of the kingdom, especially near the coast, where the "Saxon coasts" that had once fortified Roman fortresses still had ancient fortifications, and the Normans built new towers on the stone walls of the Romans and dug trenches around the ramparts.

In the autumn of that year, the inhabitants of Kent received aid from the Earl of Boulogne, who on the other side of the Channel, and promised to provide thirty ships of reinforcements to seize the fortress of Dover, and the Flemish knight, humiliated by King William, decided to reclaim his honor and quickly crossed the sea while the king was still in Normandy, arriving in Dover one night.

Dover Castle is the key to the port of Dover, located on the white shores of the English Channel, which the Franks called the Strait of Lamanches has protected the British Isles since ancient times. Through the night, the Flemish looked out from the ship to the northwest of the harbor was a Roman lighthouse, about eighty feet high, behind the tall building, across from a church, which had been burned down and rebuilt by the Normans. The Count of Boulogne was so confident that he shouted to his knights: "Tomorrow night we will drink in the fortress of Dover!" ”

The Flemish ships approached the night-shrouded white shore, and they prepared to dock in order. After Count Eustace landed with his sergeants in iron chain mail or linen and leather jackets, the subsequent equipment and supplies were unloaded from the ship, and about two hundred horses quickly disembarked, and the soldiers cut the grass for the horses and mixed some grain into fodder to feed the horses, helping them to recover quickly.

A Norman sentry spotted the enemy fleet and immediately rang the bell on the Roman lighthouse, which had been used by the Saxons as a bell tower for a nearby church, to warn the defenders of the castle. When the Normans entered the castle, they transported all supplies to the inside of the fortress, and the Normans built towers with pipes and pools to prevent drinking water from being cut off by the besiegers. During the months they were stationed here, the Norman army continued to fortify these defenses, and the besiegers could not bypass the fire of the archers and crossbowmen of the defenders on the towers when they approached the fortress through the barrier of the southern trench, and the enemy who tried to attack in the direction of the channel was also threatened by the defenders in the church.

The commander of the fort, Odo, Bishop of Bayeux and Hueg of Montfort, was still on the north bank of the Thames, and the Normans could not get any reinforcements for the time being, and as long as the Flemish continued the siege for more than two days, the nearby English militia would gather to join the siege. Eustace did not want to delay, he decided to attack the castle at once, hoping to take it directly with a surprise attack, and the Flemish army soon began to attack in the direction of the earthen wall that had been breached by the Normans, armed with spears with winged spines and zither-shaped shields or round shields, some soldiers were responsible for carrying ladders, and some knights drew their swords and took the lead in the attack.

The Earl of Boulogne was very familiar with Dover, and during the reign of King Edward, he had come to England as a relative of the king, but he became involved in a conflict in Dover, and he led his men to kill in the town, which led to a dispute between Dover and King Edward. Now that the old land has been revisited, the earl does not care about his feelings, and orders his subordinates to prepare to break through the Norman castle.

The Normans built a new enclosed wall along the collapsed earthen wall, and the original gate was reinforced with iron bars towards the church, where the Count of Boulogne expected the enemy to place the main force and cooperate with the army in the direction of the church, covering his soldiers with bows and crossbows. But in such a night, the effectiveness of the bow and crossbow will be greatly reduced, so there is more hope of attacking the city. One of the Earl's knights, Baldwin of Ghent, held a shield in the direction of his head, flanked by a spearman in a Phrygian fur hat, and they advanced side by side at the front of the line. In the darkness, the Flemish could not make out the defenders of the castle, and they only knew that the enemy would fight back as they ascended the walls. Strangely, until the position close to the trench, the enemy still did not fire a single arrow, as if the defenders had all disappeared, and not even the slightest sound could be heard.

Just as Baldwin was about to cross the trench, a fire lit up, and from behind the trench burst out a large group of soldiers, who pierced the night, and behind them were countless torches lit, as if thousands of enemy troops were coming, and in the midst of this massive attack, the Normans could faintly be recognized calling the name of Bishop Odo. Taking advantage of the fact that the siege formation of the Flemish army had not yet been launched, the enemy rushed into the array, desperately attacking the soldiers carrying the ladder, so that there were many gaps in the Flemish column, the enemy stabbed the Flemish soldiers who were caught off guard with their spears, several Norman knights waved their long swords in their hands and slashed vertically at the side of the enemy's swordsmen, some Flemish knights did not have time to block with the gauntlets of their long swords, and could only retreat, so the flanks of the column were penetrated by more and more Normans, and a crossbowman desperately grabbed the enemy's blade with his left hand, The right hand tried to attack with a short knife, but was impaled through the lobe of the lung by a Norman with a spear and a round shield next to him, and blood gushed from his mouth. Eustace, who was watching the battle in the rear, saw the chaos in front of him, and heard the shouts of the Normans, thinking that the main force of Odo had arrived, so he immediately gave the order to blow the order to retreat, and the Flemish people retreated, and the wolves rushed and threw their weapons and ladders on the ground, and the Norman defenders saw that the enemy, although they were numerous, fell into a rout, and pursued them more boldly, and slashed along the Flemish ranks fleeing in the direction of the ships, and many fell from the white cliffs where Dover was, Count Eustace escaped the pursuit with the help of a regained horse, and returned to the ship.

After the Count of Boulogne recovered, he inspected his troops, and they had lost most of their horses and baggage, and had suffered heavy losses in the retreat, and it was initially estimated that at least three hundred men had not returned, and the Count himself had lost his banner in the rebellion, and after this great defeat, the Count of Boulogne was extremely depressed, and this battle-hardened general had lost almost all his reputation under the city of Dover, and had lost the courage to oppose the Normans. The surviving Flemish people still shudder at the thought of the killing skills of the Norman army last night.

At the court of Normandy, Rao, the envoy of the King of France, congratulated the most powerful duke of France, a distant relative of King Philip of France, who watched the new King of England distribute to the Normans gold and silver never seen in Gaul, all kinds of precious and delicate vases and splendid garments woven with gold threads, all of which were brought back from England, and what stunned the King of France the most were the wine vessels used by the Anglo-Saxons made of huge buffalo horns, decorated with metal at both ends, This exotic treasure was as beautiful as the long and flowing hair of the young English nobles of the court, and in the midst of a shout of joy the King of England proclaimed to the Normans present: "All the gold and silver of England will be given to you, so that no one who has visited Hastings today can say that he has not profited from William's conquest!" ”