Although William and King Edward II of England had a good relationship, this did not mean that William could ask for help from the other party for free.

In order to induce King Edward and his noble vassals to send troops to Wales, William ceded the Earldom of Beuys, which was geographically important near England, to the Kingdom of England.

Bowyshire is the highest county in Wales, the geographical location is extremely advantageous, not only easy to defend and difficult to attack, but also the agricultural conditions are not bad, equivalent to the Guanzhong region of the Kingdom of Wales, can follow the terrain without hindrance to attack the surrounding counties, but also calmly defend attacks from all directions.

William's ceding of such a geographically important county to England was enough to reassure King Edward and his vassals of the Norman presence in Wales without worrying about whether the Normans would harm England's interests.

The lineup of this expedition is not only on the side of the Duke of Mercia, relying on him alone to attack the county of Bowys, at most it can only attract part of the troops of King Grufiz, but in the face of endless mountains and dense forests, the army of the Duke of Mercia is unable to break through the defense line of the county of Bowis in a short period of time.

The most effective way now is to carry soldiers to land on the coast of Gwyneth, the northern kingdom of Wales, occupy the coastal and plain hills of the Gwyneth kingdom, and then cooperate with the army of the Duke of Mercia to encircle and compress the army of the Grufiz kingdom in the mountains and forests.

However, the current situation did not allow William and Rodrigo to take such an approach, and the Irish expeditionary force led by the Earl of Mephistopheles was trapped in the Dublin County and could barely resist the combined raids of the Irish princes and the Norse-Gaelic people, maintaining an undefeated balance of power.

But Count Rodrigo knew that if the Count of Mephistopheles was still unable to make a breakthrough on the battlefield, the Irish expeditionary force of more than 16,000 men would be in an extremely disadvantageous situation, with lack of supplies, disease, hunger, low morale, etc., and in the long siege, the soldiers who were not determined would even lose their self-confidence and spread panic to others.

Now he had to choose between insisting on the attack on the kingdom of Gwyneth and giving up supporting the army in Dublin, or the warriors giving up the attack on the northern kingdom of Gwyneth and giving up their hard-earned gains and sending the main army to support the Irish battlefield, which was undoubtedly a difficult decision.

Thankfully, Harold. Godwin's arrival solved the problem, and he was ordered to support the Normans with knights and elite troops from Winchestershire, Dorset, and Somerset in Wickes.

As Earl of Cambridgeshire, Suffolk and Essex, Harold. Godwinson also brought part of his own territory into the war, and the total number of Godwin's reinforcements exceeded 8,000, which was less than a third of their army, which shows the terrible strength of Godwin.

Harold. Godwinson (1022 – 14 October 1066 AD), commonly known as Harold II, was the last king of Anglo-Saxon England. Harold became King of England from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings on 14 October, during which the Norman invasion of England was conquered by William Norman the Conqueror. His death marked the end of Anglo-Saxon rule in England.

Harold was a powerful earl and a member of the famous Anglo-Saxon family. Historically, in January 1066, after the death of Edward the Confessor, Harold convened the Council of the Magi and was successfully elected King of England, where he was crowned King at Westminster Abbey.

In late September, he successfully repelled the Norwegian invader King Harald of Norway at the Battle of Stamford Bridge. It was only about two weeks later that his army hurried back to the south of England to engage William the Conqueror at Hastings.

If Harold hadn't lost a large number of elite troops at the Battle of Stamford Bridge, William and the Normans, no matter how strong, would not have been able to defeat Harold's royal guards.

As the second son of the Godwin family, Harold. Godwinson had an older brother named Swain. Godwin, an older sister, Queen Judith, and five younger brothers and two younger sisters.

Thus, the Godwins were a prosperous family, not only prospering, but also owned large estates in the vast south of England, with Winchestershire, Dorset, Somerset, Suxeys, Surrey, Kent, Oxfordshire, Wiltminshire, and Norfolk under their control.

Since Hardknout's death, the Godwins served as kings and helped Edward the Confessor gain the English throne. Then the new king married Godwin's daughter Edith, so Earl . The Godwin and Godwin families reached the pinnacle of his power.

Harold. Godwin is the second son, and is not logically the first in line to the throne, and should not be as active as he is now, and his father treats him as an heir.

It's all thanks to his stupid big brother, Sven. Godwin, the eldest son of Godwin, did not admit that he was a member of the Godwin family, but instead claimed to be the illegitimate son of Canute the Great, who had the right to inherit the throne of England, and coveted the throne.

In the end, this stupid Swain was eventually exiled, kidnapped by bandits on the way, and his fate is unknown.

It is also a coincidence that as William's destined enemy in the future, Harold . Godwin actually helped William, the future enemy, and fate really played a big joke.

In fact, now William does not show a thirst for the throne of England, has always existed as a cousin of King Edward, on the premise of no conflict of interest, William and the Godwin family have a good relationship, and many goods of the Norman kingdom are sold to England through the hands of the Godwin family, bringing many countless benefits to the Godwin family.

Therefore, in the eyes of the Godwins, the Norman King William was not much of a threat to them, especially since William's succession to the King of England had not yet been determined.

As the most powerful princes in southern England, the Godwin's aid to William was not gratuitous, and he paid a full 80,000 pounds of silver in cash and more commercial benefits, as well as a third of the size of the county of Gwent.

In William's view, the cost of these benefits was insignificant, but the county of Bowys and the one-third county of Gwent, which was close to England, was worth it to have the strong support of the Kingdom of England.

These insignificant territories were only temporarily deposited in the Kingdom of England, and he, who had long regarded the throne of the Kingdom of England as something in his pocket, did not take this loss seriously at all, and at least after the war he would still have the richest coastal and plain areas of the Kingdom of Wales.