"What about our losses?" King William lay down in his tent and listened to the Count of Mortan report to him.

"Your Majesty, the number of known casualties is about two thousand eight hundred, and the number of knights killed and wounded and captured is five hundred and forty-seven, of whom Count of Troyes Oddor, Walter Giffar de Longueville, Emery de Tual, Guy de Saint-Lizier, Humphrey Fitzzanfried, Hugue de Grande Mesnier, Yves de Beaumont, ......"

As the king listened to these illustrious names, he could not help but see a series of faces, some young and vigorous, others in their twilight years, many noble knights from all over France, noble warriors from all over the principality, both loyal followers and unruly potential rivals.

But the most serious blow to his personal reputation was the defeat that William realized that he would be in a very dangerous position, that the conquest of England would almost be considered a failure, that the weakness of Normandy would not only attract the covetousness of old enemies, but that the unfulfilled promise of fiefdom would destroy the loyalty of his supporters inside and outside the principality—there was no unilateral loyalty in the world, and even close relatives could not be reliable when there was not enough in return.

"How's the Count of Ioul's barracks?" The king continued.

"The losses on the right flank were not as serious as ours, about three hundred people were killed, and the casualties of the knights were sixty-nine." At this point, the Count of Mortan paused, "But there is something wrong with the Count of Iu at the moment, and he has shut himself up in the camp alone and refused to come out. ”

William looked up and fixed his eyes on the expression on the brother's face, as if he wanted to find something, and finally he sighed: "I hope he doesn't think about it and do something." ”

Bishop Otto of Essex, who was stationed in Essex, had learned of the war in the west three days before the feast of St. Mary's Magdalene, and when he heard that Edgar had been crowned King of England at Westminster, he was silent and sighed to himself, and asked the noble Breton knight, "Is there any news of the king?" ”

Ralph de Guale replied: "According to the sentinels, the king has now retreated to the south, and it is difficult to know the exact circumstances. ”

"Let's also prepare to retreat, immediately pull out the camp to the south, cross the sea from the Heishui River, and in a few days it will no longer be safe here." Bishop Bayeux finally confessed to the Ralph Knight.

After the results of the Battle of St. Albans, Henry de Beaumont of Warwick surrendered to Hereward on his own initiative, and by August the Normans of Cornwall, Wessex, Sussex, and Essex had crossed the sea and evacuated, and King Edgar's envoys then arrived in the southern counties, and by the time Malcolm, King of Alba, who had been crowned at Westminster, began to return with his army to York, all of England had been recovered.

Edgar, based in London, quickly dispatched troops to important strongholds and ports such as Winchester, Canterbury, Dover, and Exeter to take control of these strategic points. When the Bishop of Warchester came to inform Edgar of the results of the final spoils count, King Edgar of England was crowded with nobles from all counties of England who personally pledged their allegiance to the king on behalf of the regions.

Bishop Warchester heard King Edgar's voice coming from the crowd: "My lords, we are very grateful for your faithfulness, and your service to the throne will not be forgotten, and for this reason we declare that the Danish gold in these lands will be waived for one year. ”

Bishop Wachester asked Earl Moka, beside him, "What land?" ”

Moka, who had just been made the new Earl of Mercia by the king, replied to the bishop: "It is the domain of the Godwin, and these local nobles have come to show their allegiance to your majesty. ”

Woolfstein was a little staggered, but the Godwin's estate was not a small amount, from the time of the Earl of Godwin to the time of King Harold, these territories were found in Cornwall, Wessex, Sussex, Kent, Mercia, East Anglia, and even in York in the north and the Isle of Wight in the south, with no less than ten vast territories ranging from fifty to one hundred Hyde. With so many territories under the direct crown of Wessex, the bishop was a little shaken for a while.

King Edgar, dressed in a pale yellow robe, came before the Count of Moka and the Bishop of Woolfstein, and the two lords immediately saluted, and then heard the king speak: "Is there any news from the Count of Northumbria?" "Walsioff, Earl of Northampton, was made the new Earl of Northumbria by Edgar at Westminster, and the Earl of Moca, who had been stripped of his fiefdom by the Normans, was given the fiefdom of Mercia, and the rest of the Earls of Edwin and the Earl of Moca in York and throughout the north were returned to him by the King.

"Lord Walsioff has just left Winchester, and will soon return to London." Moka, Count of Mercia, replied immediately.

"Okay, now let's discuss the next military arrangements." As he spoke, the king paced to an oak table with a map on it.

"The defense of the eastern coast this year is temporarily in the responsibility of the Northern Militia, and I am going to leave this matter to the Count of Northumbria. You will go with me to Sussex, and once the militia of the south has been gathered, we will train on the Isle of Wight and be ready to defend ourselves against the enemy in the direction of Normandy. ”

The two lords nodded in understanding, and the Earl of Moka asked again, "Caladog's army has returned to Wales, and only the border longbowmen we hired are still stationed in Barkin, are they also heading south?" ”

Edgar nodded: "Yes, they will be accompanied by royal guards, and I will go north this winter to meet with King Malcolm in York, and these Welsh guards will also follow the guards." ”

Bishop Warchester, seeing that the king seemed to have finished speaking, hastened to speak: "The spoils of St. Albans have been counted, and the equipment seized from the battlefield includes three thousand four hundred spears, two thousand seven hundred shields, three hundred and fifty swords, four hundred and eighty sets of chain mail, one hundred and twenty pairs of chain gloves, one thousand sets of lintel, and five hundred war horses and three hundred pack horses......

After patiently listening to the report, Edgar pondered for a while, and finally pointed to the map, and said to the bishop: "All the gold and silver seized are shipped to the treasury of Winchester, and for the time being they are enough to support our war this year." As for the gear, I'll take it with me to the camp on the Isle of Wight. Then he suddenly remembered something, and asked, "What is the state of the coinage?" ”

The Bishop replied, "The Wallingford Mint will soon be ready for work, His Majesty's head is in the works, and the Morton Mint will be restored about the next year." ”

King Edgar expressed his satisfaction and added: "For the time being, there is no need to produce too much, just according to the amount of Harold's time." ”

Edgar was not currently worried about the royal family's income due to the large estates of the Edward and Godwin families of the Confessors, but the large number of refugees and the villages and towns destroyed by the Normans in these areas would continue to be a problem. If the war with the Normans continued, with the current state of the country, the loss of the counties would be extremely serious, but Edgar could not think of anything for a while, so he had to put it aside for the time being.