After the knights came to their senses, they began to worry about the number of enemies, and William saw that every knight was basically sad.

Also, more than 12,000 people are indeed too terrible for them, maybe some knights have never seen a big scene of more than 12,000 warriors in their lives, this is simply an impossible number, placed in the cultural circle of the Holy Spirit Holy See, many princely principalities are also of this strength, how can they not be afraid, yesterday was purely because of the earl's encouragement and morale was high.

Having said that, though, the glory and loyalty of the knights did not allow them to do such cowardly things, and if they fled, the Son and his parents and wives would also be disgraced because of them, as every knight thought.

For a while, the entire castle was filled with the sound of weapons grinding, and the civilians in the castle were making combat equipment day and night.

It's nothing more than arrows and shields, and they can't make technical equipment like long swords.

William and Norwen were wandering around the castle, and the maintenance and polishing of the equipment were all done by the servants, so they were still relatively idle.

Walking down the street, the coming war has made the streets noticeably crowded with pedestrians, and all the peasants on the way to the Cheker have taken refuge in the castle, which is conservatively estimated to have more than 40,000 inhabitants! As a result, the castle looks very crowded.

This number is now beyond William's reach, and all kinds of merchants are readily available, and even the war has not stopped the merchants' thirst for silver coins.

William passed by a weapons shop and couldn't help but walk in, and as soon as he entered, William found what they were missing - horse armor!

This horse armor is not full body protection, but the front half of the body is covered with chain mail, and the back half is a relatively thick cloth, after all, the weight of the all-iron horse armor is too large, and the back half of the war horse is not directly involved in the charge, and it will not suffer any damage, so whether it is cost-effective or practical, such a horse armor is more suitable for William.

This is not a theory, but a fact, most of the more than 120 knights under the earl are equipped like this, and they are far better equipped than knights like William, and the earl will subsidize some equipment in addition to their income from the fiefdom!

When the owner of the shop saw William put his eyes on the horse armor, he immediately understood his intentions, and said with a flattering smile: "Your Excellency, you really have a good eye, this kind of horse armor is the best horse armor in our shop, his quality is enough to prevent the chopping of the battle axe, and it is the best equipment for a knight lord like my lord!" ”

William glanced at him, he has seen a lot of this kind of trick, isn't it bound to raise the price, like this kind of businessmen who haven't escaped before the war, most of them are profiteers who want money and don't want to die, their goods generally don't have an accurate price, it varies from person to person, the price is raised if it is easy to slaughter, and the price is not good to give a real price.

William didn't care about what he said, and said directly: "Make a price, how much does this set of horse armor cost?" ”

His attitude was not good, and as a nobleman, even if it was the lowest, there was no need for him to be kind to a profiteer.

The profiteer's smile froze, but the smile did not disappear, and then he said, "As long as you have sixty silver coins, you are definitely worth the money!" ”

Hu Limu couldn't stand it anymore, and said directly: "But what a profiteer, will this set of half-body horse armor be more expensive than a set of full-body chain mail?" You filthy pig is slaughtering! ”

"How can you say that? I'm definitely worth it, a good set of armor on the battlefield can save lives! The merchant quibbled.

"I don't care about these, fifteen silver coins, I'll take it!" William said.

"Are you kidding, sir? Fifteen silver coins is like taking away such fine armor, and I can't sell it for less than fifty-five silver coins! "The profiteers began to bargain.

"I can't accept your price at all! This is unreasonable, a maximum of twenty-five silver coins, and if you still don't accept it, I will take this horse armor away in the name of collecting military supplies! "William took out his hole cards, he has the right to do anything that is good for the battlefield in wartime, in fact, even in peacetime, the nobles have a lot of cunning and plundering, and the merchants' guilds were born in the first place to prevent being taken by tricks.

"Your Excellency, you're quite unreasonable, our guild won't tolerate such a thing!" The merchant also brought out his last hole cards.

To be honest, William is really not afraid of these guilds now, his territory is completely closed and small-scale peasant economy, and he has no intersection with these guilds at all, even if they hire some outlaws to go to the village to sabotage William.

One is that he has the protection of the baron, and the other is that William is not like other poor knights, he has his own armed forces, and there are no large bandit organizations around him, he is fearless.

But even so, William will not be satisfied with the current situation, he will always have to grow stronger, and it will inevitably come into contact with these guilds at that time, and William will not want to offend them.

Although he didn't plan to clash with them, it didn't mean that William was afraid of them, and said: "Thirty silver coins, don't force me, I can introduce you to a business for thirty silver coins!" ”

The merchant rolled his eyes, such a price is almost the same, although he doesn't make much, but he can still make some profits more or less, it's always bad to have a conflict with a nobleman, as for the introduction business that William said, he purely thought that it was William's trick to let him reduce the price.

"Okay then, thirty silver coins are sold, and the adults can take him away after paying the money!"

"Yes, we want three!" William looked at the two behind him and said.

"Yes sir, Moa has plenty of stock here! Three horse armors are ready for you right away! ”

When he was ready, William looked at the three horse armors in front of him and said, "But Moa, we are here to fight, and we don't have that much money with us, and there are only twenty silver coins here." ”

Mo Moa's face was a little unhappy, and he was huge: "My lord, are you kidding me?" I'm a businessman, but you can't bully people like that! ”

"Don't get me wrong, how can we pay our bills? There really aren't that many silver coins on the battlefield, and when the war is won, how about I give you the spoils? Or wait for the war to end and you go to our territory to get the money, we will not pay the bills, believe in our credibility! William said.

Mo Moa was silent for a moment, then said, "Okay sir, but please write down an IOU!" “

William stopped the angry Urimu, wrote down the note, and then took the three horse armors!

"That Moa is just cheating on us, and he is so suspicious of us! Doubt the credibility of our aristocracy! Hu Limu said angrily.

"He's also afraid of losing, if it were me, I'd do it, everyone has a hard time, don't be so angry!" William persuaded.

Two days later, the servants of the castle began to travel around, conveying the count's summoning order to the various knights and nobles.

William and the others got dressed and followed the servants to the hall.

Entering the hall, and waiting for a while, when everyone had arrived, the Count began to speak.

"Knights! The infidels of the Chekels have officially begun their invasion, they have stepped into our territory, and their vanguard will be back this afternoon before reaching our castle, and we must be ready to give them a head-on blow! Get ready to put the knights! For the sake of the Father! This is a war between the Holy Church and the infidels! ”

"Defeat them!" All the knights present began to let out a victorious roar.

The knights disbanded and began to prepare, and William's three men, together with their well-armed men, were eleven heavily armed knights.

William stood in the room, and Vidal was putting on his armor.

"Alright, let's go down!" William said, holding the gauntlet, already wearing all the armor, tucking the helmet under his armpit, thinking about the coming war.

"Bang Bang Bang ......"

"Sir William, the Earl has gathered all the people and begun to assemble, the Checkels are already thirty kilometers east of the castle." The servant said.

William opened the door, nodded, and followed the servant to the hall again.

This time, the hall was no longer a place where the smell of food was exuding, but was filled with the smell of golden iron horses, and everyone put on their armor and waited for the coming war.

The Count, also dressed in armor, said: "We have received news that the Chekers have more than 10,000 soldiers, and the vanguard of them, four hundred hussars, has approached our castle, and in my experience, this should be their tentative attack. ”

"It's tentative, but we're going to wipe them all out! Let them know that we Lords, our Fathers, are not to be messed with! ”

After saying that, the order to attack was given, and the count meant that more than 380 knights were all dispatched to try to annihilate the other party in one fell swoop, and the bishop of the diocese of Denlenburg led the monks to pray to the heavily armed knights, so that they would believe that they were under the protection of God the Father.

William and the three of them mounted their horses in horse armor, were swept up with some so-called holy water, and followed the team to the outside of the castle, waiting for the arrival of the other party.

For nearly half an hour, the sound of rumbling horses' hooves could be heard in the distance, and more than 400 cavalrymen with uneven equipment appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

Most of them wore rudimentary leather armor, and some wore only a linen garment, but their weapons were relatively well-equipped, each with a horn bow, and the scimitar seemed to be equipped with a lot, probably because they were a striker, so they were well equipped.

They marched continuously after a short rest, apparently not in good spirits, while the Comte de Loire, on his side, was at ease, and in terms of equipment and physical strength, William's side had the upper hand.

The Chekels were four or five hundred meters away from the knights, panting and watching them.

The Count of Loire was also experienced, and he saw the fatigue of the other party, seized the opportunity, and gave an order, and all the knights began to charge.

William and the three of them kept the same speed, forming a triangle, and their subordinates invariably increased the speed of their horses, and surrounded the three of them, and the subordinates were accused of protecting their masters.

The other party was obviously a little flustered when he looked at the charge here, and there was a slight commotion, but he quickly returned to normal, and he also began to increase the speed of his horse and began to charge.

The Chekels first took up the horned bow and fired two rounds of arrows at William.

More than 800 arrows rained down, all the knights put up their shields to block the arrows falling from the sky, during which several war horses were shot by arrows because they did not have enough protection, and the owner was overturned to the ground, and in this case, it was undoubtedly the fate of being trampled to death by the war horses.

As for the three Williams, there was no such danger due to the horse armor, and it was really a wise decision to buy the horse armor, the three of them thought in their hearts.