Won Charlotte and Hugo, Count of Chalon. Morality. Samuel's allegiance, the revolt on the battlefield of Burgundy, was finally quelled by the Count of Hugo's pacification.

With the Count Hugo as the object of the bone, most of the Burgundian nobles swore allegiance to William, offering their loyalty and their knees.

After pacifying the battlefield of Burgundy, William's next target was the Duchy of Aquitaine, and he was to go south to Bourbon, join up with the Count of Bourbon, Count Auvergne and others, and march east to Saint-Gerton, Poitiers, and Bordeaux.

Before William's departure, Count Hugo joined William's march south with his soldiers and the conscripts contributed by the Burgundian nobles.

To be honest, this army is still very combative, otherwise it would not have fought with Duke Rodrigo for so long, and there are quite a few of them, as many as five or six thousand, and the number of knights is even eight or nine hundred, which is a big supplement for William.

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William's army marched south, and no one dared to stop him, because it was simply a mantis arm, and the examples of King Henry I of France and King Harald IV of Norway were enough to warn those who were not able to do enough to discourage their ambitions.

However, William's southward army did not march fast, on the one hand, the number of troops under his command was too large, and the supplies relied on by so many troops could only be transported by convoys, which was several levels less efficient than the convenient sea and river transportation.

In order to make up for supplies, William had to spend several days in the vicinity to collect supplies and baggage.

Fortunately, most of the nobles here have moved closer to William, relying on the food supplies they have contributed to support him for more than three months.

At the same time, along the way, many French nobles brought their own dry food to join William's command, acting as the leading party and driving the king.

In order to meet and arrange these French nobles to join, it really took a lot of time for William.

Finally, in early May 1051, William and his army arrived at the Château de Sant in the county of Saint-Gerton, across the river from Bordeaux, the capital of the Duke of Aquitaine.

Standing in the way of William is the Gironde River, which is 3 to 10 kilometers wide and 75 kilometers long, which is the name of the confluence of the Garonne and the Dordogne in southwestern France, and is the largest and longest triangular bay in France, which can be directly connected to sea boats.

Above the Gironde is the Garonne, which is located in southwestern Europe and is a river that crosses France and Spain, and is also the most important river in southwestern France and one of the five major rivers in France.

Originating in the Pyrenees in central Spain, the Garonne River runs northwest through Toulouse, Agen, Périgor, Bordeaux and Saint-Gerdon, and flows into the Atlantic Ocean along the Gironde estuary. In addition to the Gironde estuary, which is 72 kilometers long, the Garonne River is 575 kilometers long.

Although the long Garonne River and the wide Gironde Bay in front of him could not resist William's advance, who told William that he had a large number of warships and warships to control the Bay of Biscay and the Garonne River, and countless transports and merchant ships to transport soldiers and heavy supplies for him!

From the start, Willian, who had superior forces, had already sealed the victory.

However, William did not rush to cross the river to attack Bordeaux, and after capturing the Château de Sant at Saint-Gerdon, he ordered his troops to divide into two routes, one to the north to capture the counties of Poitiers and Tual, and the other to capture the counties of Saint-Gerdo and Angoulême in the south.

Remember to be anxious about the march and battle, William had not yet established himself here, and if he was eager to go south to Bordeaux, he could not guarantee that the enemy behind him would come to cut off his rear.

Moreover, the capture of Poitiers, Tuar, Saint-Gerton, and Angoulême, and the opening of the link between William and Anjou, and Normandy, was very advantageous for him to obtain supplies and replenishment of troops.

In addition to the above arrangements, William also had Hugo, Count of Charolais, under his command, act as the vanguard, leading the noble forces of Aquitaine southward, opening the way for William to go south.

William was in no hurry to go south, and could take over the counties of Aquitaine one by one, while his opponents could only watch him grow stronger and powerless.

His opponents waited for a long time, and finally came out early, and Pope Leo IX excommunicated William again on the grounds of the brutality of the Norman King William's unauthorized confiscation of church assets and the unauthorized falsification of the church scriptures.

For this hand of the Pope, William had already been mentally prepared, from the moment he drove away the Pope's envoy, he had expected such a result, but he didn't expect it to come so soon.

Pope Leo IX was not exhausted, and he personally intervened in Vienna, Austria, to persuade Emperor Henry III and King Andrei I of Hungary to reach a peace agreement, so that Emperor Henry I could devote his main forces to the war against the Normans.

Henry III's army was actually already at a disadvantage, not because his army was defeated, but because his large army and extremely large number of German knights were no match for the Marza cavalry, which came and went without a trace in the Hungarian steppe.

The vast Hungarian plains are a natural battlefield for the Marzas, who are light cavalry perfectly adapted to the steppe battlefields, and they are familiar with everything here.

In the face of the huge HRE army, the Marza cavalry soared above the steppe sky like an agile and sharp goshawk.

It swooped down from the clouds, appeared and disappeared suddenly, biting off chunks of flesh or scratching vital parts of the clumsy elephant of the HRE Empire with each sortie.

Henry III was overwhelmed and lost in the Hungarian steppes, leaving nothing to do with the elusive Marza cavalry.

Had it not been for Pope Leo IX's peace peace, Henry III's HRE army would have suffered a crushing defeat in Hungary, as it has historically been.

Eventually, under pressure from Pope Henry I, Emperor Henry III of the HRE and King Andrei I of Hungary reached a peace agreement that ended the war, which seemed pointless to the Pope.

However, both Henry III and Andrea I were not convinced by this result, and Andre I thought that he was about to defeat Henry III and win the final victory, but was unexpectedly pressed by Pope Leo IX to make peace with the other party.

In his opinion, this meant that the blood of the Malza people had been shed in vain, and such an outcome was unacceptable to him. It is conceivable that Andrei I and the Marza people will definitely do something on the border of the HRE Empire.

Emperor Henry, on the other hand, could not let go of his son, and he considered it a shameful thing to make an unconditional peace with a "barbarian chieftain", and he was deeply ashamed, and secretly resolved in his heart to go to war with Hungary again after defeating the Normans.

However, Leo IX's mediation was a great success, and he succeeded in focusing the attention of Henry III and HRE on the Normans, which were not going to be much better.