Across the stone wall of the manor, the Mercian soldiers saw the smoke and dust raised by the men and horses on the road, as if it was a repetition of the defeated scene under the city of York, facing thousands of cavalry, such a crisis on the bird's nest curtain, no one was lucky. After Count Edwin saw the strength of the other party, he ordered everyone to lay down their weapons, and Count Moka did not object, the situation was like this, only the title was left to be bound, and there was a way to go out.

On the opposite side galloped a few horses, and the first knight burst out of the trench, took off his pointed nose guard, and cried out: "I am the Earl of Northampton, whose soldiers are above, and why are they fortified by the avenue?" ”

Count Moka was nervous, hearing this familiar voice, he could hardly believe his ears, he immediately shouted: "We are Edwin and Moka, Count of Mercia, and it is full of Mercia, please wait!" ”

The main entrance of the manor was opened, and the two counts rushed out from the inside to the horse of Count Volsiov. After some talking, the tension was gone, and the Earl of Northampton sent two horses and brought the two lords to Edgar. After seeing the prince, the Count of Mercia and the Count of Northumbria were as excited as if they were reincarnated, and finally calmed down, so they intermittently recounted what had happened for more than half a month.

When he learned that the two lords had been attacked by only about a thousand Norman knights in York, Edgar began to think, and the whip in his hand did not move, and after a while, the prince asked the two earls, "We are going to send an army to York, and I wonder if the two lords have the strength to go south with me now?" Earl Edwin looked at his brother, and replied after a while, "We want to go to Chester to fetch our sister Queen Edith......" Before he could finish speaking, Earl Morka hurriedly interrupted: "Now that we see your lordship, we plan to go west to Chester alone, and I am willing to take all the remaining Mercia Sain to York with your lord." ”

The prince nodded, and seeing that Edwin did not speak again, he had the horses and several carts brought in and handed them to Count Mercia, and then Count Moka began to sort out the three hundred soldiers who followed, and after everything was in order with the arrangement of the guards and Theon, he and his brother left the manor.

Edgar, knowing the Normans of York, and having received the two earls' men, decided to make a trip north to York before King William could find a fighter, and if he could find a fighter, he would try to capture the fortress. He incorporated the newly joined Mercians into the ranks of the squires to protect the supplies, while more than 450 knights marched in the ranks of the training, with columns arranged in all directions for protection, and the Earl of Northampton led a squadron as spearhead and continued southward.

The road was on the west side of the Yorkie Moors, and the English did not care to enjoy the scenery of the mountains and rivers, so they walked at sunrise, cut the grass and fetch water to feed the horses at dusk, and camped under the stars at night. There are not many villages in this area, and there are no people in the wilderness, except for the armor discarded by the Mercian fleeing along the way. Edgar did not urge his subordinates, but only recuperated his horsepower and gathered his spirits, so that he passed through this valley plain safely, and York was already in sight.

The situation in York was still in chaos, and after a large amount of booty and prisoners had been delivered to the king half a month earlier, Earl Robert had intensified his efforts to send knights to plunder the neighbourhood of York, and the English and Danes were so devastated and devastated that they cursed the "crows", "worms" and "miscellaneous" with their teeth, and soon even the magistrate of County William began to take it anymore and decided to persuade the earl to his face. Coming to the residence of the Earl himself in the makeshift castle, the interior was decorated with a huge deer head, and the Earl stood in a robe with a diamond pattern, as if waiting for the Lord William, who said to the noble and brave knight: "This is the sixteenth day, and your Excellency should be satisfied, for I have received petitions almost every day these days, and York is now full of thieves, and the villagers of the vicinity are fleeing to the western mountains." If we can't stabilize the situation in the city, we won't be able to explain it to the king. ”

The Earl sneered: "Your Excellency thinks too much, the king has a lot of trouble to worry about, not to mention that we are only collecting legitimate rewards." But rest assured, my lord, my knights and I will soon go north, there is not much oil and water here in York, the English have already collected a round of taxes in the spring, and most of them have been given to the king after we have seized them, and now the rest of the booty is not enough for the soldiers to share. I have decided to make a trip to Durham, and I have heard that the gold and silver in the churches there are good, and the king intends to punish the bishop of Durham severely. If you stay here, you don't have to go together. ”

William Mallett apparently did not want to witness the Earl's plundering again, and was somewhat relieved that this group of proud soldiers had left. Then he spoke: "We haven't heard from Benicia recently, and we don't know much about the current power of the rebels, do you wait for the king's reinforcements to arrive before leaving?" ”

Earl Robert waved his robe sleeves impatiently: "The main rebel forces of the two Earls of England in the north have been defeated by us, only Guspartik can't shrink back and support a puppet prince, what danger can this kind of self-righteous rat generation have, if we go north smoothly this time, maybe we can capture these rebels and the two earls who escaped in York and send them to Nottingham together." ”

The magistrate of County William seemed to have something to say, when a squire pushed the door open and entered, handing a letter to the earl. This sudden incident interrupted the conversation between the two, and the magistrate gave a salute and left the castle. The Earl of Robert looked at the letter from the King in his hand, which said that the negotiations with the King of Denmark had failed, and that the King needed to send reinforcements originally sent to York to East Anglia for defense, and that the nearest reinforcements might not arrive until two months later. Since the king could not control the north for the time being, he could only rely on his own men and horses to pacify the surroundings of Deira, thinking of this, the troubled earl yelled at one of his attendants: "Don't be here, go and order everyone who is still outside to return to York today and prepare to go on the expedition!" ”