After a day's training, Edgar was bathing his horse, polishing his brown fur brush. In his vicinity, the knights tended their horses or maintained their weapons, while others shed their soaked shirts and entered their tents.

Today's training has increased the weight of equestrianism, especially the regulation of cavalry mounting, horse control and other movements, such as the use of reins and halter chew various postures, the previous life of Lieutenant Thomson did not like the "guard of honor style" popular among British cavalry officers in the 40s of the 19th century, the kind of superstition of neatly lined up, tall horses and cavalry, straight as a shaved ornate uniform, and so on. From the Crimea to Egypt, he felt deeply the weakness and incompetence of many cavalrymen who had gradually lost their professional skills in peacetime, and the fact that officers valued the cut of military uniforms more than the cutting of sabers, and that he rarely considered combat skills, all of which he hated at first. However, now in the face of the English cavalry, he has to train them first into a qualified guard of honor, otherwise they will not be able to complete all kinds of normal tactical movements, if it is a single cavalry charge training and aiming target training is not a problem, once it is necessary to train in a formation to charge and aim collectively, it will fall into chaos. The Knights in Normandy may not be able to solve this problem of cooperative attack either. However, in order to improve the attack ability, such training must be completed. To this end, Edgar ordered to make a number of side-by-side target posts, standing side by side on the ground at a distance of one horse, and in solo charge training, the cavalry would pierce or split the target with a sword, and in group training, they would need to keep a queue side by side, accelerate to a big stride at the normal pace of the charge, and slash the target, and then judge their individual results and the results of the collective queue. This is also the reason why all cavalry must be allowed to undergo uniform "honor guard training", otherwise the effect of cavalry impact can only rely mainly on psychological effects, and the actual results of the battle will be greatly limited, and if they can only advance in formation, lacking the skills of using weapons to attack efficiently and accurately, they will also not be able to effectively cause damage. The target posts used in the training of the spear charge were large bayonet targets with a shield fixed on the top, which was very similar to the form of knightly competition.

However, the melee on horseback can not be ignored, especially the melee in the cavalry battle, the lethality of the cavalry gun in the melee is relatively limited, although some lancers in Eastern Europe can draw the enemy cavalry to the point that they can't face themselves, but in terms of killing efficiency, it is more convenient to use the sword, after all, it is still more difficult to attack with the other hand holding the gun when controlling the horse left and right, in such a tense melee, it is a very troublesome thing to maintain balance on horseback and attack, you need to cross the reins and grab it from it, and the other is holding a sword, In this way, you can avoid being blocked by the reins or accidentally cutting the reins, and if you accidentally pull too hard, the horse's mouth will be affected by the chew, and the tension will become unstable, and the rider will lose balance. This training process involves the rotation of the horse with the sword, and it is necessary to be nimble and balanced, always taking care to protect the horse from any harm. Edgar thus repeatedly told all the knights that equestrianism was the most important thing in the melee, and that a master of swordsmanship could never match a master of horseback on horseback.

The knights of this era do not seem to have a relatively complete melee training, this kind of combat is neither the stabbing and slashing of the infantry array, nor the single duel between the skirmishers, its form is in between, which is also the reason why the cavalry spear is less effective in this kind of group melee, if it is a formation of stabbing or fighting alone, the cavalry will either form a phalanx to advance and overwhelm the enemy, or can rely on the advantage of length to whip the enemy's horses, but the cavalry melee is between these two forms, so as to maintain a high degree of control over the horses during the battleIt is more appropriate to keep moving forward in the group melee, not to be tempted by any thoughts, and to swing the sword like lightning.

Edgar's advice to the English was to use a lance or sword when charging, to abandon spear drawing melee if the enemy was not repelled by our fearless ferocious onslaught, and to try to knock them down if the enemy's horses were small, and to stab them in the face with a sword. If the enemy is strong on a single horse, with strong horses, and excellent swordsmanship and equestrian skills, then do not fight alone with the opponent, so as not to be attacked by the opponent around the side when controlling the horse. If you must fight alone, give priority to attacking the enemy's horse, or slash the horse or cut the reins, and rely on equestrian skills to constantly try to detour the enemy's horse to attack the enemy's shield or armor where it cannot be protected.

Such intense training seemed too much for the elite Anglo-Saxon warriors, but Edgar felt that time was too little, and during this time, he devoted almost all of his efforts to it, just as Cromwell trained the Iron Cavalry during the Civil War. In 1643, the Lord Protector had seen the plebeian cavalry being beaten to pieces by the gentry-born royal cavalry a year earlier, so he made up his mind to train two regiments of elite and defeat the two-sided attack of Prince Rupert's cavalry in Marston Moor.

On the second day, during the sword training, Edgar focused on the six basic moves for attacking and defending with the sword, as well as the moves to choose in different situations and the corresponding parts to attack or block. After a few little practice, he found that most cavalrymen easily forgot the main points of training and correct movements when they were distracted, and often reacted instinctively. He patiently made sure that everyone did not deviate from the normative system of training: "Pay attention to the direction of the blade, don't attack with the blade, you can't shoot the enemy to death, you have to rely on the power of the slash." Keep your arms straight and always use your wrists to carry your sword! ”

After correcting a series of moves, Edgar proceeded to give the order to attack the enemy's head and face, the right side of the thigh, or block the left side, and counter the opponent's wrist with the third slash...... All training was done by repeating the horse, and then on horseback while controlling the horse, in order to train the cavalrymen's attention control. Each time Edgar completed the demonstration of resolute and beautiful movements, it had a stunning effect, but the subsequent training and correction quickly transformed him into the image of the devil, and no one remembered that the prince was only a 17-year-old young man, and the Anglo-Saxon nobles gradually became accustomed to it and thought it was a godsend.

The pace of war is getting closer and closer, and Northumbria cannot sit back and watch the others be defeated by the Normans one by one, perhaps the Earl of Guspatrick is still hoping that the king of Alba, Malcolm, will send troops from Scotland, or the Danish king Sven will come to the aid along the whale road, Edgar has determined that the most critical moment can only rely on the strength of the northerners themselves, and the Mercians, Welsh, Scots or Danes must see hope before they will make up their minds to join the war against the Normans, and York is not the key, William himself and his elite main force were the obstacles that had to be overcome, and without the king's army and retreating, the nobles would not even have the confidence to defend, and the Scots and Danes could turn themselves into bargaining chips at any moment. To this end, Edgar lived in the camp every day, reorganizing the army, and at night checking and supervising the progress of the defenses, including the repair of fortifications and the storage of supplies, and with the help of the Bishops of York and Wachester, everything was in order, and a Kerr from East Anglia helped Edgar to record all the supplies and construction details, and Edgar had to draw up a logistical plan based on these materials, just as an officer of the Prussian General Staff Headquarters drew up the deployment of troops and materials according to the battle plan, Although there was no need to establish a train schedule, Edgar calculated the supplies for each defensive fortress and the size of the supply required for field troops. The current results are relatively optimistic, in terms of material and transportation capacity, the north can even support the deployment of more than 10,000 troops, but without Danish or Scottish reinforcements, Edgar does not have so many field troops available.

According to information from Gerspatrick, Earl of Benicia, King Malcolm of Scotland, although he did not promise to send troops in person for the time being, was willing to help persuade some of the English nobles in the Lothian region to join Edgar's army, which was currently under the influence of the Scottish king, but the main inhabitants were Anglos, and the local nobility was relatively independent. Edgar knew that this was what would become Scotland's Low Countries, and that Edinburgh was the former northern fortress of the Anglos, originally the royal city of Golddein, the northern kingdom of the Britons. After the Britons were defeated by the Angles, only one kingdom of Strathclyde remained in the north, which was later attacked by the Picts and eventually annexed by the Scottish kingdom of Alba, while the Lothian region was annexed by the Kingdom of Northumbria, and until more recent times, it was controlled by Scotland. For the northerners, however, Lothian was not Scottish proper, but the English subjects of the Scottish king, who were traditionally closer to the English of Northumbria, had the same customs, and intermarried with each other. After Edgar declared his rebellion, some of the nobles of East Lothian had already joined his cause, and if he had the support of the King of Scotland, it was very likely that other nobles of the Low Countries would join, and Edgar expected that King William would send troops to the north in the summer, and at that time, no matter how many reinforcements joined, he would have to go south, break the power of the Normans, and avoid the mass submission of the nobles of Mercia and Northumbria, and as long as the rebellion in the north continued, the Scots, the Danes— Even the King of France would not let go of this opportunity.