The Normans galloped back and forth, but in this dim sky, the English could not distinguish the movement of the other side, King Edgar first noticed that the Normans on the opposite side began to use some sharpened dogwood stakes in front of the formation, forming a simple fence, and he immediately said to Hughed, beside him: "The enemy wants to prevent us from breaking the battle in the south, it seems that William wants to defeat the Bretons first." ”

Roger and Ralph couldn't hold back, but as exiled generals, they didn't want to take the initiative to ask about tactics, but they listened to Edgar continue: "Let the retreating people assemble under my banner, we don't fly the flag, go to the center to charge!" ”

At the King's command, all the knights began to pack their equipment, and the King's Border Longbowmen put their weapons in their saddles, their quivers filled with sixty arrows of all kinds, and their longbows hung from the stirrup, all the archers in the same way that the Danes had done in York. As soon as the king's elite had finished assembling, they turned to the left, pointing diagonally to the center of the Norman line.

By this time the Norman front in the south had been largely emptied, and all the elite horsemen had been taken north by Bishop Odo, with only the Earl of Mortan remaining to command the remaining soldiers, but they were also confronted only by a few defeated West Saxons and militias on the east coast of England, and both sides took advantage of the rest of the fighting, and in their north the fighting tended to heat up.

William de Vernon had just repelled a surprise attack by the Sussex militia when he suddenly noticed a forest of troops on the opposite side, and the Norman knight saw the strict appearance of the other party, and secretly said that it was not good. The horseback longbowmen were the first to dismount from their saddles, and as soon as they removed their bows, they began to approach the enemy, and as they hooked their arrows, the English knights at their flanks began to charge in formation. The flying arrows made many gaps in the Norman array, and the Normans who had been hit by the heavy arrows raised their shields to resist, but many of the unprotected infantry were still shot in large numbers. For the sake of command, the knight of William de Vernon had taken off his helmet and was protected only by the lock ring, and he was shouting orders to the soldiers around him, when suddenly a sharp arrow pierced his lock hood, and the hooked arrow blade slashed through his cheek and plunged into his earlobe.

As the English continued to rain arrows, there was some confusion in the Norman formation, and William Fitzconstantine was wounded in his right arm, wrapped in a piece of deerskin, and he regathered the remaining knights who had fought hard, despite the blood stained in his armor, and shouted: "The counterattack will soon begin, now let us tell the enemy that they will not be able to pass through this position!" ”

The Normans began to pray aloud among the wailing dying, and the English, who seemed tired of attacking from afar, finally began to accelerate under the leadership of the king, including the hundred Norman knights of Roger and Ralph.

The iron armor on the bodies of Edgar and the lords flickered from time to time in the dark sky, shining through the crystalline air in the eyes of the Normans, these Norman elites who had experienced bloody battles were not afraid, even William de Vernon, who had been severely injured by several arrows, and Nigel de Aubigne, who had been stabbed in the leg with spears, also had strong spears and waited for the enemy to step into battle.

The elite of the King of England's iron armor swung like scythes, and the Norman line was immediately opened, and as the English cavalry broke through, the Norman knights gathered behind them again, and then rushed to the enemy's flank, stabbing the enemy's horses with all their weapons. Edgar had found that the further forward the ground was less conducive to the rapid passage of the cavalry, so he was about to retreat and rearrange the ranks, when he suddenly heard the sound of killing coming from the back of his head, he looked back in some surprise, but saw that the Normans were still fighting with their knights, and he immediately ordered all the knights under his command to withdraw from the battle and retreat back. The Normans, however, did not pursue, but continued to line up in pools of blood, and opposite them, the English knights replaced their wounded horses and began to prepare for the next charge.

Heyard Barn was wearing a pale yellow shirt that had already been soaked in blood, and even the chain mail was full of slash marks, and the iron coat, which had been washed with vinegar and sand, was now like a tattered mess, and the inner lining of the garment was full of tears. The English lord continued to charge repeatedly with the king's prancing horse, until he suffered a sharp pain in his lower abdomen, but his armor was pierced by an ash spear, and his intestines flowed from within. The seriously injured Yorkshire Governor was immediately rescued by several horseback Sein, Edgar looked at the Norman position of less than a thousand people on the opposite side, and then looked at Hugh who was lying on the snow, and couldn't help but say hatefully: "You have seen, the opposite side is the most tenacious and cunning warrior among the Normans, this group of mongrels has gathered and scattered repeatedly, hurting so many of our lords and knights, if you let them go today, the reputation of the English people will be ruined from now on, do you want to give up?" ”

Ulf and the Northumbrian knights were the first to roar, their vengeful voices like wounded wolves. Roger and the others were dissatisfied with the King of England's call for the enemy to be the first class warrior among the Normans, and they all swore to the King that they would fight to the death against the stubborn enemy.

Edgar finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that everyone was not falling, and he threw his whip to the ground, and the corners of his eyes were raised, and he shouted to all the princes and nobles: "There will be no step back today!" ”

In the midst of a burst of agitated horns, the English knights left their saddles and dismounted to form an iron wall, and the king drew his sword in the front row of the first line, and looked back at all the people, these Northumbrian and Norman warriors were the essence of the kingdom, although they had taken turns to fight, but they did not show any fatigue. Edgar exhaled slightly, the white mist melted into a light cold, and without the slightest hesitation, he wrapped himself in a large formation and forced the enemy army.

The English were swift and unkind, and on their flanks the longbowmen boldly left their positions and approached to shoot the Norman sergeants, whose dismounted knights, whose armor and shields were shot like hedgehogs by the arrows, and fell to the ground in number. Seeing the sight of no feathers, the Norman knights of England Sain and Roger, fearing that the glory would be taken away by these archers, began to speed up their charge, Ralph raised his sword and took the lead in meeting the enemy, the armor sleeves of this Breton lord were decorated with brass rings, and with the flip of the wrist, a splash of blood splashed in this golden light. On his side, the English and the Normans were fighting together, although the Norman line was not small in number, but it was under siege everywhere, the continuous rain of iron killed and wounded too many lord knights, these remnants of Norman sergeants could only fight themselves in the absence of organization, Nigel de Aubigne was caught in a bloody pool by Roger's Normans and Ulf's Danes, this Norman knight finally dropped his spear, held his shield in both hands, and began to say the last prayer in pain, before the final prayer was pronounced, was pierced into the eye socket by a Danish sword, and the top of the skull was shattered, which was miserable.

Bishop Liss saw William Fitzconstantin and William de Vernon fall one after another, so he had to take over the command, but there were not many men left to command. King Edgar climbed from a pile of corpses to the slope where Bishop Lisel was, and behind him sprung up countless demonic sword-wielding warriors, and around them, more than five hundred Normans had fallen!