The miserable "ornament" on the wall was so hideous that Herry Ward recognized his young brother at a glance, and his chest was instantly filled with grief and rage, and the Englishman rushed to his uncle's place, anxious to find his mother and learn about the tragedy.

His expression was so horrible that he could barely enter the monastery until his shouting attracted the old abbot himself. Abbot Brand was a Dane, and in the days following King Harold's death, Peterborough Abbey fell into unmanaged chaos, only to get better slightly after the old man petitioned the newly crowned King William. When he saw Heriward, his dazed eyes immediately recognized the nephew, who was much like Brand when he was younger, when Brand was a student who liked to debate.

After sunset, in the dim light of the fire, Hereward finally found out the truth, and a Norman named Frederick, said to be the cousin of Baron Mortimer, William de Warren, arrived in Peterborough, where he took his soldiers and began to collect Danish gold on the king's orders. Soon after, Frederick's soldiers tried to enclose the land of the Hereward family, with the help of the abbot, Herriward's brother and mother tried to escape to the monastery for refuge, but were dragged out of the monastery by Frederick's order, his younger brother was killed by Frederick in order to protect his mother, and his mother soon died and was buried in the monastery cemetery by Abbot Brand, which happened less than half a month later.

When he reached the door, he saw his nephew take out a piece of chain mail and a Frankish sword, put on his armor and tie his sword in the night, put on his shield again, and mounted his horse and left. The abbot sighed and worried for him, for the conquerors were in a state of lawlessness, good people had no recourse, the Normans were killing people everywhere in England, and the church was in a precarious situation. By taking advantage of the darkness, Herry Ward approached the Norman quarter, and they occupied the tall banqueting hall on the shores of Lake Fulton, where they were now setting up a drinking party. The Englishmen hid the "swallow" by the lake and secretly approached the banquet hall, and a drunken Norman came out, not noticing his presence, and went straight to the lake, so Herry Ward leaned forward and gagged his mouth and nose, and instantly cut his throat.

The hall was brightly lit, and the Normans were all dressed in robes, and no one was in armor, and suddenly a tall warrior in chain mail entered with a sword, and no one knew him, and Frederick saw that he was fierce and unpleasant, so he immediately rushed in the direction of the fireplace, where a round shield hung on the wall. One of the Normans closest to Hereward, though drunk, hurriedly raised his arm to block when he saw the English swinging his sword, and one hand was cut off, and then he was suffocated. Now there were only six Normans left, and they drew their swords one after another, and most of their drunkenness was gone, and Herry Ward, dressed in green shirt armor and covered with fine short-sleeved chain mail, drew his Saxon dagger from his waist with his left hand, and raised his sword in his right hand, and confronted the enemy. The Normans were very experienced, and instead of besieging them in one group, they would only interfere with each other, they divided into two rows, surrounded Hereward from three directions, and tried to push the English into a corner by slowly moving forward. Frederick held his shield behind him, his teeth rattling and his expression of cruelty. Heriward knew very well that the space in the banquet hall was limited, which was not conducive to long-term maneuvering and dodging, and once he lost space, he would fall into a disadvantage, he immediately took the initiative to attack forward, blocking the way with the Saxon knife in his left hand, and skillfully wielding the long sword with his right wrist, in this kind of battle, the most taboo is to stab, and it is impossible to rely on his eyesight to attack in all directions, only swing the sword and keep chopping, Heriward attacks violently, leaving no gaps for the enemy to be close to, and constantly changing the direction of the body, The enemy on the left suddenly folded his legs and spun back slightly when he attacked him, and at the same time used the distance to make a gesture of attacking the enemy directly in front of him, but while the opponent was defending, he slashed at the nearest enemy on the right, and this ferocious slash slashed through the poor man's chest, cutting him down. Hurry Ward didn't stop, he swung his sword and retreated, striking as soon as the enemy appeared in a gap, slashing the enemy in the middle to the ground like lightning. These two high-speed successive attacks obviously disconnected the Normans on three sides, Frederick saw this and raised his shield to make up for the middle position, and cooperated with his comrades on the right to attack Herriward, Herry Ward's left Saxon knife swung forward, his right wrist swung horizontally, and the sword body was in the middle position, but Frederick blocked it with his shield and stabbed up with his sword. Hereward could only retreat continuously, obviously his weapon was inferior to the enemy with a sword and shield, at this moment, the Normans on the left suddenly attacked, Frederick was blocked before he could step forward, so he retreated with a shield, but saw that the English immediately threw the Saxon short knife out of his hand, the Normans on the opposite side were caught off guard, the face was almost shot, and hurriedly gave way to the side, so Herry Ward took advantage of the gap on the left side to his exposed arm with a sword slash, leaving a perfect wound along the direction of the arm. The gap left by the badly wounded opponent gave the Englishman a respite, and he immediately straddled to the right back, close to an enemy who was trying to detour back to his right rear, and the blade of the sword leaned slightly from a low position and slashed upwards, cutting a terrible wound in the opponent's calf, the enemy was immediately incapacitated, and now there were only three enemies left.

The Normans were becoming more and more vigilant, and the terrible Englishman, who was stained with blood as if he were a demon from the night, was so stressed that Frederick's teeth were almost clawed. The Englishman was still dancing his sword at a fast pace, and suddenly the Norman to Frederick's right threw down his weapon and rushed out to try to escape, but his back was exposed, and he was slashed by Hereward until he was close to his spine. Frederick roared at this, threw down his shield and stepped forward, grasped the hilt and head of the sword with both hands, and slashed down in a frenzy, the Englishman's arm was unprotected, and he quickly retreated a few steps behind him, and approached the fireplace, where he kicked the tibia of the other young Norman who was left, and knocked him down, but turned towards the center of the hall. Frederick continued to approach, raising the sword in his hand, but because of his drunkenness, his reaction was not as agile as that of the Englishman, and he fell into a disadvantage in the Englishman's next turnaround attack, and another Norman was trying to get up to help, and Herry Ward had already slashed a sword from above Frederick's right eye socket, all the way down to the entire mouth and nose, and Frederick's skull was cut into a long tear, almost split in half.

The remaining young man was paralyzed and tried to stand up, but could not get up at all, and the Englishman stepped forward, stepped on his cheek, and cut off his head. Then he killed several of the seriously wounded Normans one by one and cut off their heads. He cut open the Norman robes, wrapped all his heads, and wiped his sword clean with Frederick's splendid robes, before re-sheathing it.

After daybreak, the Englishmen of Peterborough were horrified to see that all the Normans' heads had been pierced with spears, and that the trees were outside the city gates, and that these foreigners were accustomed to shave the back half of their hair to reveal the round hind heads, while the head of the Englishman at the gate had disappeared.