At the beginning of June 1037, after more than half a year of campaigning, William finally led his army back to the county of Evreux, but this did not mean that William could stop and rest for a while.

In order to stabilize the newly occupied counties of Enman, Mortan, and Rouen, which belonged directly to William, he appointed Baron Rodrigo as the military commander and consul of Enmanshire, with full authority over all military and political affairs in the county of Enman, leading 2,500 men of the 3rd Infantry Regiment of the 1st Janissary Regiment and 500 independent cavalry battalions as pillars, and cooperating with the local knights and militia to guard against the southern counties of Anjou.

As one of William's two most trusted generals, Baron Rodrigo will form a new Praetorian Guard Second Legion with 3,000 men from the 3rd Infantry Regiment and the Independent Cavalry Battalion, while Lieutenant Baron Faller and Vice-Baron Jeffrey will assist him in commanding the Second Legion as his lieutenants.

The corps would include two infantry battalions of 5,000 men and a cavalry regiment of 1,000 men, as well as a newly built longbow regiment of 1,500 men, bringing the total strength of the regular army to 7,500 men.

As a very powerful class, the longbowmen played a pivotal role in William's war for nearly half a year, it once defeated the vanguard infantry of Cay in Burgundy, and also killed and wounded a large number of charging Anjou knights, greatly killing and wounding William's elite troops of the enemy, and inflicting a great morale blow to the enemy.

Therefore, William decided to set up an independent infantry regiment of longbowmen in the newly established Second Legion of the Praetorian Guard, called the Longbow Regiment, with a capacity of 1,500 men.

Baron Rodrigo and his second regiment of the Praetorian Guard, their mission was not only to defend the Duchy of Anjou, as one of the two major military commanders of Normandy, he was responsible for the defense of Lower Normandy, including the two counties of Mortan and Enman, and commanded the knights and militias of the two places to spy on the Duchy of Anjou and the Duchy of Brittany.

After these two duchies became William's target, William assigned Baron Rodrigo the task of guarding and peeping into the two duchies, and he will also be the vanguard of William's capture of the two duchies in the future.

As William's most trusted general, Baron Hubert, the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard led by him directly decreased by more than a third after separating the forces of Baron Rodrigo.

In order not to make the balance of power under the two generals, William decided to expand the First Army of the Praetorian Guard into three infantry regiments of 7,500 men, 2,000 longbow regiments, 1,500 cavalry regiments, and 1,000 equipment regiments, a total of 12,000 men.

Eventually, William's Guards Regiment was expanded into the Praetorian Brigade, with a 2,500 infantry regiment, a cavalry regiment of 1,000 and a longbow battalion of 600 men, for a total of 4,100 men.

Calculated that the strength of the regular army under William's direct command will be reached

With a size of 23,600 troops, even in the heyday of the Duchy of Normandy, it would never have been able to dispatch more than 20,000 troops.

Of course, for this great expansion, William was prepared to use all the war reparations and ransoms paid by the Duchy of Anjou as military expenses for the expansion of the army, which was a huge amount of money of up to 200,000 pounds of silver, and you must know that England's financial revenue at this time was less than 80,000 pounds of silver.

In addition to expanding the Praetorian Guard, William's military realignment also dispersed his various knightly and militia units back to their respective territories.

For example, the Knights of Mortine, the Knights of Rouen, and the Knights of Evreux were all left to return to their estates after completing their military service, and the militia of the 6,000 Counts of Évreux were also dismissed by William and returned to their hometowns, and William had almost no other troops left except for the standing army.

As for the last coalition of nobles led by the Earl of Eiburg, William was retained, and he took advantage of this opportunity to directly announce his acceptance of the allegiance of all knights and barons in the Earldom of Earl, and asked them to dissolve their allegiance to any other lords, and only to William.

William's move was to directly deprive the Earl of Eiburg of control over his knights, and without the allegiance of his knights, the knight of the Earl of Earlburg, who had a title of earl and dozens of estates, was just an empty earl.

This, of course, caused strong resentment among the Earl of Öbourg and several powerful local barons, and even on several occasions they were ready to raise an army to resist, but looking at the terrible Praetorian Guards stationed beside them, the nobles and the Earl of Öburg could not help but shudder and sacrifice their knees.

Taking advantage of the submission of the nobles of the Earl of Auburg, William formed about 600 knights in the alliance of knights and nobles into the Knights of Castle, which directly obeyed William's orders, and appointed Baron Andrew, the commander of the Knights of Rouen, to concurrently serve as the head of the Knights of Castle.

As a rising general, he won William's trust and praise for his outstanding performances in these battles, and in reward for his efforts in capturing the Count of Jofroy, William appointed him to command the knights of Rouen and Castle as commander of the military forces of Upper Normandy.

Such an important position was conferred by William Andrew, who made him directly from a regimental general to a military commander in his own right, joining Hubert and Rodrigo to become the Normandy Triumvirate.

After taking back the power of the county of Earlburg, William no longer forced the Earl of Castle and others to stay, so he asked the Earl of Castle and others to return to their own territories.

William's return to the Duke's Palace in the county of Evreux was not only to deal with military affairs, but also many other affairs to be dealt with by William, especially the issue of agricultural production.

Due to the war, the vast Normandy region, including Evreux, has missed the planting of spring-sown crops such as rye and barley, and it is foreseeable that this year's grain output will be greatly affected.

Therefore, the winter wheat harvest from the beginning of summer and May was particularly important, and William not only dismissed all the knights and militia units, but also let them return to their respective estates to harvest the winter wheat while the summer harvest had not yet passed.

In addition, William took the lead in the fields, rolling up his sleeves with his own Praetorian Guard, and reaping the heavy wheat with a long-handled sickle made from the same captured weapons.

It was only at the end of the busy harvest season that William was relieved that the winter wheat sown last autumn had not been affected, otherwise William's territory might have been in a real crisis of food shortages.

In a few months' time, the autumn harvest of rye and oats and the sowing of winter wheat will be very busy, given the vast amount of cultivated land in the plains of Normandy.

Although the summer harvest was very hard, William thought it was all worth it, and the heavy wheat and the granary full of wheat made all Normans feel that the hard work of the year was worth it, and that the future life was happy and hopeful.