The wind is biting, and the icy Norwid territory is full of the murderous smell of winter, eager to freeze every molecule into ice.

William's army had camped fifteen kilometers away from the Norvidian tribe, and they had already been frozen for a day's journey, even though each of them had excellent equipment to protect them from the cold.

Fifteen kilometers, this distance is impossible for the opposing patrol, therefore, William can rest here with peace of mind.

Bonfires burned in the camp, and the nobles did not need to bring much food with them, because according to the oath between the kings and ministers, the food that the vassals needed to go on the expedition was provided by the feudal king.

This food was a big burden for many nobles, but for William, it was almost nothing.

With the wealth and grain production of Denlenburg, the food supply of 20,000 people is not yet handy, although this is also a considerable amount, but this is only less than a tenth of the grain stored in William's granary.

Bonfires burned in the camp, and almost everyone except for those assigned to the vigil leaned on the side of the campfire to keep warm.

Behind them were the tents where they slept at night, and in each tent a team of ten people was assigned a bonfire.

It is very sad to be cold and snowy, when have the soldiers from the hinterland of the mainland experienced such a battle, it is already terrible to be able to have a few heavy snowfalls every winter, and it is already terrible to drop to a low temperature of more than ten degrees below zero.

Here, the temperature is at least minus 30 or 40 degrees Celsius, and the humid water vapor used to be blown inland by the seashore is blown inland, and the air becomes extremely humid.

The humid cold air is the most terrifying, they are able to penetrate the thickest and warm cotton clothes, and take away the temperature of the people inside.

Even after walking for a long time, there will be frost hanging on the armor and cotton clothes, this kind of cold is not the physical kilometer of dry cold at all, but a spell attack, no matter what, it is difficult to resist.

Therefore, the soldiers who were roasting the fire were not very warm, and the hot chest and cold back were the truest portrayal of them at this time.

Even the campfires couldn't warm their backs, which showed the cold weather, but fortunately, William's logistics were always very good, and he came out with enough food this time.

In order to cope with the cold weather, he waved his hand and directly released the supply, allowing the soldiers to eat freely, preferably to boil a pot of soup to warm up.

In this way, the smell of meat wafted from William's direct army in Denlenburg, and there was a burst of sucking and chewing sounds of eating meat and drinking soup.

Sheep cheese, jerky, broth, and boiled sticky wheat porridge, the treatment of the Denlenburg army wanted to be rich.

The Iron Cross Knights, on the other hand, are better treated, and they have more food to choose from, including honey and sugar, as well as more delicious ingredients.

Of course, William would not favor one over the other too much, and he also opened restrictions on the armies of his vassals, allowing them to eat freely.

Of course, alcohol was absolutely forbidden, and William didn't want his soldiers to get drunk tonight and not be able to fight tomorrow.

And so, after a cold night, the brass trumpets sounded to wake up the soldiers, and the brass trumpets finally lifted the whole camp from their sleep.

The soldiers were neatly dressed, and all the equipment was put on their bodies with the help of their comrades, and then they walked out of the relatively warm tent, assembled a small team at the door of the tent, and then went to find the column commander, assembled a column, and after a column was assembled, they went to find the brigade commander and assembled into a brigade.

A dozen brigades, including archers, crossbowmen, light infantry, heavy infantry, light cavalry, knights of the Iron Cross, and then vassals, led their armies, assembled in the open space outside the camp.

"Lord Earl, the troops have been assembled, please instruct!"

Norwin walked over to William's side and spoke loudly to William.

He is now the father of two children, and since he married Miss Moya, he has become more and more family-oriented, and the family is very harmonious.

Now among the three, only the thirty-two-year-old Hu Limu is not married, but he is not in a hurry at all, anyway, he has a lot of lovers, and even has as many as four illegitimate children.

If you just talk about the number of heirs, even William is not as good as Hulimu.

William looked at the army in front of him, as well as the vassals in front of the noble army, and nodded.

At this time, he was also wearing a special luxurious armor, riding on the back of a group of thousands of selected war horses, and the war horses were also wearing a golden horse armor, which looked very noble.

With a wave of his hand, he said in a voice that was not too big or small, but with incomparably majestic sound: "The whole army is set off, and the target is the Norweed camp!" ”

With that, he took his sumptuous fully enclosed helmet with colored feathers, and two flag-bearers on his side, and walked towards the Norwedian camp.

The troops did not march fast, because they were wearing heavy armor, and it would be irresponsible for their own lives to not wear armor in this enemy's territory.

Look at the busy, unaware of the impending danger.

William did not have the slightest pity, he said expressionlessly: "Archers, crossbowmen, prepare to shoot at once, wait for my orders!" ”

His order was issued, and it was immediately strictly carried out by the soldiers, and three thousand archers and fifteen hundred crossbowmen came to the front of the troops, ready to shoot.

"Ready!"

William raised his hand, his order was conveyed, and then the officers of all ranks of the archers and crossbowmen immediately prepared the soldiers to shoot.

The archers and crossbowmen took aim and set their sights on the Norwedian tent.

"Shoot!"

William gave the order, and the herald next to him immediately lowered the flag in the water and gave the signal for the troops to shoot.

"Whoosh ......"

The sharp arrows cut through the cold wind, and although the power of the arrows would be weakened to a certain extent in this cold wind, it was still full of lethality.

Thus 4,500 arrows fell into the camp of the other party.

Fifteen hundred of them were powerful crossbow bolts, and the rest were arrows.

But even so, the tents that were not too thick on the other side could not withstand much, and only some wooden houses could withstand the attack of arrows.

And those tents can only resist the shooting of some arrows, and the powerful crossbow arrows are completely defenseless, and they have been pierced one after another, and the people inside are naturally not spared.

A round of arrow strikes caught the opponent off guard, and just one volley caused four or five hundred casualties to the opponent.

After all, there are so many covers, and arrows can't actually cause too many casualties, that is, a deterrent.

And after the other party was hit by the arrow, he also slowly eased up in the initial chaos and began to organize in an orderly manner.

First of all, a group of Norweed warriors, numbering about four or five hundred, carried battle axes and round shields, and walked to the gate of the camp gate to defend it.