"Lord Duke, this is the third time that our attack has been repulsed again! If you continue like this, you won't be able to capture Chartres in three days, so please use the last resort. Baldwin. Morality. The Count of Brionne retreated from the front with his soldiers and came to the Duke of Richard to plead.

"And what about your opinion? Jeffrey. Morality. Earl of Manteville. The Duke of Richard was not in a hurry to take a stand, he looked at the silent Earl Geoffrey, wanting to hear his opinion.

"Back to the Duke, our greatest task is to attack Paris from the flank, and the army of Thibaud, Duke of Champagne, is the greatest stumbling block in front of us.

Our primary goal is to accomplish the tasks assigned to us by His Majesty William, not to take into account the feelings of the Taoist church. "Count Geoffrey is reasonable, convincing, and it can be seen that he has thought deeply.

"Okay, then we'll use fire oil to burn the Chartres church, but you must remember to take precautions against fire, and the barrier should be built in advance to prevent the fire from spreading to other parts of the city." Duke Richard nodded, finally deciding to agree with their suggestion and said.

"I will be cautious and will not be careless." The two responded in unison.

"Sir Humbert, you have led the cavalry outside the city in advance, and as soon as the Duke of Champagne breaks through, you must immediately pursue him and be sure to capture him." After the departure of Earl Baldwin and Earl Geoffrey, the Duke of Richard gave an account to his aide-de-camp, Sir Humbert.

"Yes, Lord Duke." Sir Humbert could not help but smile with joy, the Duke of Richard had given himself the credit for capturing the Duke of Champagne, and with the merits of this battle, it was not difficult for him to obtain the title of viscount, and even the title of count was not out of reach.

The battle began again, and Thibaud, the Duke of Champagne in the Chapel of Chartres, looked at the Norman infantry and was full of disdain, because he had already led his soldiers to repel three Norman attacks, and this time would surely be no exception.

However, it was not long before the shocking thing happened, as the Normans stopped 150 meters in front of the Chartres church, and then dozens of small torsion catapults and bed crossbows were withdrawn, leaving a bewildering mind.

"Did the Normans want to break through the church's defenses with these small catapults? They're too self-conscious. The Duke of Champagne laughed, and pointed with his right hand pointing to the dozens of carefully discreet catapults and bed crossbows below.

"Yes, yes, Lord Duke, the Normans must have lost their brains." "Their manager must be a fool." The words of the Duke of Champagne immediately drew a chorus of echoes.

However, they did not rejoice for long, and the Normans outside the church carefully removed the fire oil bomb and placed it in the net pocket of the carefully torsional catapults, each of which stood a soldier with a torch.

The other nobles did not react to this, but Thibaud, Duke of Champagne, who had traveled to Rome and Constantine, soon discovered what the Normans were up to.

"It's Greek fire, and the Normans are going to throw Greek fire and burn this place!" Thibaud, Duke of Champagne, suddenly screamed and said in a loud voice.

Greek fire is a liquid incendiary invented by the Byzantine Empire that can be burned on water, it is an early hot weapon, mainly used in naval warfare, "Greek fire" or "Roman fire" is just the name of the Arabs for this terrorist weapon, and the Byzantines themselves call it "fire of the sea", "mobile fire", "liquid flame", "artificial fire" and so on.

Greek fire has repeatedly contributed to the military victories of the Byzantine Empire, so it is quite famous, even if the European nobility has not seen the true face of Greek fire, but they have heard of its prestige and supreme power.

"It's demonic flames, it's hellfire!" "The Normans are going to burn us here, they are demons, they are fallen devils!"

The nobles around the Duke of Champagne immediately cursed with horrified expressions, and they could only soothe the horror in their hearts by cursing the Normans.

"Everyone, everyone! Don't panic, my lords, they haven't attacked yet, we still have time, we need to break through the church with the knights quickly. The Duke of Champagne did his best to appease his nobles and try to make amends.

"yes, we can't stay here, we have to break out." "To stay here is to die, Lord Duke, and we will break through together."

They also realized that cursing the Normans would not help at all, and that it was imperative to get out of here as soon as possible.

Soon the Duke of Champagne and his nobles were entangled in some knights riding horses to break through, and at this moment, the small catapults and bed crossbows outside the church also began to wield, and the basketball-sized fire oil bombs were ignited and smashed into the Chartres Chapel, and the broken shrapnel flew everywhere with the sputtered fire oil, and then the flames began to burn along the fire oil.

In a few moments, billowing smoke had surrounded the entire church, and the flames swept into the sky, and the Normans a hundred meters away were overwhelmed.

At this moment, there was a riot in the Norman encirclement, and the Duke of Champagne led his nobles and knights to break through the two lines of defense set by the Normans and rush out of the city of Chartres.

The Duke of Champagne looked at the nobles and knights who followed him with some tears, he had hundreds of nobles and nobles, nearly 2,000 knights, and more than 15,000 powerful princes before, but at this time, only the few people in front of him who broke through were less than 300 people, it can be said that he lost most of the strength of the Duchy of Champagne here, even if he returned to the county of Troyes unharmed, he had no strength to fight again.

After leaving the city of Chartres, the Duke of Champagne felt a little better when he saw that there were no pursuers behind him, and he and the nobles around him had a kind of joy for the rest of their lives, but before they could be happy, a Norman cavalry of up to five hundred men appeared not far ahead, and Norman cavalry also appeared on all sides, and it was obvious that they were surrounded.

The Norman knights didn't seem to want to wipe them out at once, but gradually narrowed the encirclement, compressing it into a small space within a radius of less.

"Thibault, Duke of Champagne, you are completely surrounded, so you can't be caught quickly!" Sir Humbert shouted, "You had better not try to break out, or the sword in our hands will not take into account your noble status." ”

The nobles who followed the Duke of Champagne looked at him with pleading eyes, hoping that he would come up with an idea to surrender to the Normans.

"Huh, we can surrender to you, but I demand that I and my nobles be treated with respect and favor." The Duke of Champagne snorted softly and looked at Sir Humbert and said in a loud voice.

"I promise you, as a nobleman, you deserve preferential treatment. Please lay down your arms, dismount and be bound, and do not make unnecessary resistance! Humbert replied in a loud voice.

With a clanging sound, countless weapons were thrown to the ground, and the nobles consciously dismounted and surrendered to the Normans.