"Your Majesty, please hand over to me the battlefield of the Duchy of Burgundy, and I assure you that I will conquer the Duchy of Burgundy and dedicate to you the title and domain of the Duke of Burgundy." Duke Rodrigo bowed and pleaded with William.

When Duke Rodrigo's words were finished, the Norman nobles on the field suddenly broke out into a burst of discussion, and they all glared at Duke Rodrigo, if it weren't for William's presence, the two sides might have fought a long time ago.

In the eyes of the Norman aristocracy, the Duke of Rodrigo, a Spaniard, was just a fortunate man, he was originally just a down-and-out nobleman of Castile, and he only went to the dukedom after gaining William's trust, so the Norman nobles were very jealous of Duke Rodrigo, and they wanted to replace him as William's trusted legion commander and Duke of Munster.

Therefore, when Duke Rodrigo disagreed with them, the Norman nobles opposed it.

The native Norman nobility and the foreign nobility canonized by William were the two opposing factions in Norman China, with the foreign nobility being the weaker and Duke Rodrigo at the head of this faction.

"Calm me down, what kind of body is it to be noisy above the main hall?!" William shouted, and the scene suddenly fell silent, and the Norman nobles who had been pointing at Duke Rodrigo did not dare to squeak anymore.

"Lord Rodrigo, the Second Legion is the main force of our Norman Kingdom after the First Legion, if the Second Legion is arranged on the battlefield of the Duchy of Burgundy, I will return to Normandy, and there will not be enough troops to use to support Flanders.

I'm sorry, but I can't accede to your request. William shook his head, and after much thought, he still couldn't agree to Rodrigo's request.

"Your Majesty, you only need to assign me an infantry brigade and a cavalry regiment of the Third Legion, and with the addition of more than 6,000 Norman militia regiments and 600 Norman knights, I only need 12,000 troops to completely defeat the Duke of Burgundy and dedicate victory to you." Duke Rodrigo's face was full of determination and confidence, and he looked up at William and said.

"Well, Lord Rodrigo, I can give you an infantry brigade of the Third Legion, six thousand Norman militia and six hundred Norman knights, but the cavalry regiment of the Third Legion can't give you, can you accept it?" William pondered for a moment, nodded slightly, and said.

"Your Majesty, I am willing to accept it, please hand over the battlefield of the Duchy of Burgundy to me!" Duke Rodrigo did not bargain with William, although he did not have a single strong cavalry regiment in his hands, but against those remnants of the defeated army, these six hundred Norman knights were enough.

"Alright, Lord Rodrigo, the battle of the Duchy of Burgundy will be handed over to you." William nodded and solemnly promised: "By the way, Lord Rodrigo, do you have a candidate for the commander of the Third Legion?" ”

"Back to Your Majesty, Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont was my recommendation, he was my lieutenant, and I knew he was competent enough to be the acting commander of the Third Legion. Duke Rodrigo recommended.

After Rodrigo's words, Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont then stepped out of the ranks, knelt before William, and shouted for His Majesty.

William knew of this man, he was his newly canonized Viscount Hereford, a young nobleman only thirty years old, the late Honfroy. Morality. Son of Beaumont, heir to the Beaumont family among the Norman nobility.

"Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont, are you willing to take on the responsibility of commanding the Second Legion? William asked, looking at the visitor.

"I do, Your Majesty! I will command the Second Army Corps and fight for you. "Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont replied in a sonorous voice.

"Well, what a Beaumont, quite like your father Honfroey back then, and you are enough to take on the responsibility of inheriting the name of Beaumont." William raised his right hand and motioned for the two to get up, exclaiming.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." Blonde Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont hurriedly thanked him.

"Duke Rodrigo, go and gather your troops and go south to Dijon.

Roger. Morality. Count Montgomery, Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont, Faller. Viscount Osborne, you and the other three of you will quickly lead the Second and Fourth Legions, as well as the headquarters of the Guards Legion, and follow me north to Normandy to support the Duchy of Flanders. William issued a series of orders.

"Yes, Your Majesty." Roger. Morality. Count Montgomery, Roger. Morality. Viscount Beaumont, Faller. The three Viscounts of Osborne stood up and bowed in response.

"Rudolph. Morality. Baron de Valen, you have taken my orders to Normandy, Brittany, Anjou, and Valois, to mobilize the militia and the Norman knights in my domain, and then assemble in Rouen.

Richard. Morality. Baron Crel, wait for my order to go to London, and give my order to Duke Hubert, and make no mistake!

......”

William issued several orders in succession, and it was clear that he was going to mobilize the whole country, not only the standing army under his command, but also the defenders of England, as well as his dukes and earls and vassals who would also join the war with their levies, and it would be a full-scale war.

Some people may think that William's move is a big fuss, mobilizing more than 80,000 troops or even more soldiers across the country, what a difficult task it will be, and if you want to defeat the invading alliance of HRE princes and Vikings, you don't need to mobilize vassal troops at all.

But William naturally had his considerations in doing this, since the HRE princes were instructed by the HRE Emperor Henry III to jointly invade the Norman Kingdom, and the HRE also officially declared war on him, then once William defeated the coalition of the HRE princes, Henry III was likely to end the war with Hungary and gather all the forces of the HRE Empire to attack the Norman Kingdom, which he did not want to see anyway.

In the face of the behemoth of the Holy Roman Empire, in the face of the HRE Emperor Henry III, the most powerful emperor of the Sallian dynasty, this monarch who was far more powerful than the previous Otto emperors of the Rudolf family of Saxony, even if it was as strong as the Normans, did not dare to easily oppose it.

The invasion of Lower Lorraine, Luxembourg and the Netherlands in the northwest of the HRE was likely to be the precursor to a full-scale invasion of the HRE, and after William defeated the combined forces of the Vikings and the three princes, he would probably face the HRE army of Henry III.

The powerful Duchy of Saxony, the Duchy of Upper Lorraine, the Duchy of Swabia, the Duchy of Bavaria, the Duchy of Brandenburg, the Duchy of Bohemia, the Duchy of Provence, the Duchy of Carinthia and other princes will become Wilhelm's enemies, which is equivalent to being the enemy of most of Europe, otherwise Wilhelm is worried.

What's more, in the current Pope of Rome, Leo IX, who was personally supported by Henry III, would be even more passive if the Pope excommunicated William and excommunicated him again.

Whether it was to seize the Kingdom of France, or to defeat the HRE Empire and the Vikings in Norway and Denmark, a general mobilization was inevitable.