William, who was observing the battlefield, saw a cavalry brigade of six thousand men appear, and immediately turned his gaze to mediate a single telescope to observe the knights.

It was normal for the squire cavalry behind the knights to wear short-sleeved chain armor or leather armor, but when his eyes turned to the knights, who numbered as many as two thousand, William keenly noticed that there was a three-hundred-man knight army wearing full-body plate armor that was completely different from the other body-mail, and they were as dazzling as the moon in the night sky in a group of chainmail knights.

"These three hundred sets of plate armor were purchased from me at a high price, and the Count of Jofroy of Anjou has really paid for it." William laughed and muttered, "The young nobleman wearing the silver plate armor etched with gorgeous gold patterns is the Count of Jofroy, the commander of the Anjou army this time, and this knight army wearing full-body plate armor should be his elite guard." ”

In the distance, Count Jooffroy, who was talking to the noble generals beside him, seemed to look at the abrupt siege tower on the opposite bank, and smiled at William.

"He's a sharp guy." William was not rude, nodding to Jofroy.

When the Anjou army was less than two hundred yards from the Varennes, four thousand French archers rushed forward, running briskly until Valenne and the opposite bank, bows and swords ready to shoot at William's central army.

However, they attacked before they could reach range, and most of the arrows did not reach William's position, and thousands of Norman and Norse archers opened fire, a dense wave of arrows covering the sky and looming over their heads with a terrifying threat of death.

After only five waves of arrows, the French archers, who had suffered heavy losses, ignored the military order and retreated in a hurry with less than 3,000 remnants of the army.

"Damn untouchables," Count Joofroy, the commander of Anjou, let out a roar, looked at Count Vendée Falk and commanded: "Count Vendée, you will lead the infantry to force your way across the river and attack the enemy's left flank and center, and as for those archers, you must also gather them and let them provide fire support, and I will settle their crimes with them when the war is over, as long as they perform well, I will not mind letting them go." ”

The Count of Vendée was not a great general, and he usually worked as a diplomat at the Anjou court, but only the Count Vendée had the highest position in his army, and he was the only one who could suppress the unruly knights.

"If Frois, I will do my best, but the opponent's army is in full formation, and with the infantry charge alone, I really can't break through the opponent's formation after crossing the river beach." Although Falk, Count of Vendée, was not very confident, he still nodded in agreement.

As a supporter of Jofrois, although the Count of Vendée was not optimistic about the outcome of this war, Jean would still agree in the face of Joofrois's orders.

"You don't have to worry, Count Falk, I will first lead the knights to wade across the river before you attack, and attack the army of the bastard William, I know that there are not many knights on the other side, no more than fifteen hundred, and if you add knights, his cavalry force will not exceed four thousand, let this bastard William see the power of my Anjou knights now." Count Jofroy waved his hand and said confidently.

"Please be careful, we don't know what trap William has prepared on the other side, I think it's better to test it first." The Count of Vendée cautiously persuaded.

"What a mere bastard can do, I think he is just a sign put up by a group of Normandy aristocrats, and it is not worth noting. What's more, I have made a war agreement with my illegitimate son, and if I were to strike out on the verge of battle, wouldn't it make the nobles of all France laugh at me? Jofroy smiled contemptuously.

Since the Count of Voyes was so resolute, the Count of Vendée could not persuade him anymore, so he had to take the order and go.

In less than a quarter of an hour, the 3,000 defeated French archers were gathered up, regrouped, and placed in the rear of the infantry array to provide fire support for the whole army.

On the plain on the west bank of the Varenne River, the infantry array located more than 200 yards on the bank of the river slowly moved a gap, and the cavalry force of up to 6,000 people quickly advanced from the gap, and after hastily forming a team, they rode their horses and galloped, preparing to cross the river and attack the enemy array. The 18,000 infantry behind them followed the cavalry unit to attack again.

"You can begin, Hubert, and let all the longbowmen shoot at all their might at the local cavalry, leaving nothing to spare. In addition, Claude's equipment battalion and counterweight trebuchets were also ordered to bombard the local troops, disrupting the enemy formation. William commanded Baron Hubert.

"Yes." Baron Hubert didn't talk nonsense, and immediately answered the order and ordered the heralds behind him to use horns of different lengths and red Z-shaped flags to pass the order, and at the same time, several heralds left to pass the order.

These two systems of command were developed by William and Baron Hubert, and it took William a lot of time just to get all the knights and officers to memorize the meaning of each horn tune.

And this red background gold Z flag made of precious red dye was designed by William according to the battle flag of General Nelson of later generations, it has an unusual meaning, it represents victory and justice, when William raised the Z flag, he asked everyone to fight to the death, otherwise the blade of William's Guards will not show mercy to those shameful deserters.

Encouraged by William's raising of the Z-shaped flag, and supported by the sound of war drums, countless soldiers plucked up their courage to roar, and even the allied forces of the nobles of Erburg, who were not very war-willing, were driven by this exciting battlefield atmosphere, and began to prepare for the battle with a serious expression, and no longer coped with things.

The first wave of wading through the water came a thousand heavily armed heavy knights and their two thousand attendant cavalry, and the second wave of three thousand cavalry, including three hundred full-body plate armor knights, also began to slowly pick up.

Cavalry charges do not come in waves, and experienced generals usually divide their cavalry into several waves, using a continuous onslaught to crush the opponent.

The Count of Jofroy, who was very contemptuous of William, arranged for his cavalry to split into two staggered charges, in order to charge the enemy again after the first wave of cavalry had opened the gap and then routed the enemy, which was a common cavalry tactic in the Middle Ages.

Although the cavalry of Anjou was well armed, when the cavalry began to charge, it was also when the cavalry was at its weakest.

A dense rain of arrows in the sky began to approach with a whistling sound, but they were still confident in their shields and chain mail, they were not those archers who wore leather armor or even no armor.