With this scream, everyone on the battlefield froze, and turned their eyes to the Danish royal family's flag of Irivan, where a tall and strong voice was slowly falling, and the Danish nobles and the king's guards near him were in chaos like headless birds.

When William saw this, he immediately realized that the figure under the banner of the Danish King of Irevan must be King Swain II of Denmark, and the other party was likely to be attacked and did not know whether he was alive or dead.

He looked excited, looked left and right, and shouted: "King Swain II of Denmark is dead, he is dead by an arrow!" ”

He couldn't help but be thrilled that if King Swain II of Denmark was indeed killed, his Danish army would immediately crumble, and Denmark's allies, the Norwegians, would be shaken, making this an excellent opportunity not to be missed.

In the wars of the Middle Ages in Western Europe, both kings and nobles fought side by side with their knights, with few exceptions.

Kings can certainly boost morale, especially when the battle situation is unfavorable, but once they are in battle, they will lose control and influence on their own troops outside the battle location, and thus lose the ability to control the whole battle, which is probably the reason why the kings took the lead and finally failed.

Moreover, if the king or emperor were captured and killed, it would cause irreparable political damage, and the entire kingdom would be plunged into turmoil.

For example, in the Battle of Hastings in 1066, King Harold of England was killed by William and lost the battle, in the Battle of Stamford Bridge in 1066, King Harald IV of Norway was killed by Harold and the battle failed, in the Battle of Legnano in 1176, the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick I was raided by two groups of cavalry that broke through from the rear, Frederick's escort was annihilated, the emperor himself fell off his horse and was seriously wounded so that the battle failed, and in 1199, King Richard the Lionheart was killed by an arrow while quelling the Aquitaine rebellion, The death of these kings led to the defeat of the battle.

In these battles, the emperors and kings were not in the first position of the front line, rather than commanding the battle from the relative safety of the rear, but the side of the emperors and kings who took the lead lost the battle.

In fact, it was not only William who was aware of this, but all the Normans present knew it, and the Danes and Norwegians who were in the commotion and panic in front of them were proving it.

Alerted by William's shouts, the Normans opened their voices and shouted with William: "King Swain II of Denmark, he was killed by an arrow!" ”

All the Normans shouted victory as they raised their weapons and rushed towards the Danish and Viking coalition forces that had wavered in the front.

Because of the unexpected fall of King Swain II of Denmark, the Danes and Norwegians, who were caught in the riots, were powerless to stop the Norman attack, and their lines were torn open several times, and countless Norman soldiers swarmed through these openings, tearing them into several lines of various sizes.

Not only did the Danish army begin to disintegrate, but even the army of their ally, the Norwegians, began to crumble under the Normans, and the combined Danish-Norwegian forces were largely ineffective.

The war continued, and although most of the Danish front had collapsed, there were still many brave warriors fighting bravely against the Norman attack, especially the seat of King Swain II of Denmark under the banner of King Irrivan, whose king's guards and some Danish warriors, numbering less than 2,000 men, were still stubbornly holding out.

The Danes' insistence on defending their king reminded William of the battle he had with Harold of House Godwin at Hastings a few years earlier, when Harold's Guards and Elite Combat Regiment had erected a tight wall of shields to guard Harold's fallen position, and it was not until all the guards were made that the Normans were able to obtain Harold's body.

William admired the courage and loyalty of these Danes, but he would not show mercy to his enemies because of this, he knew very well that being soft on the enemy was cruel to his own people, and that if he let the enemy go, he would eventually hurt himself.

The battle at Stamford Bridge began in the morning with William's raid on the west bank of the River Derwent and continued until late afternoon, when William and the Normans finally sealed the victory, and they were only a stone's throw away from the seat of the Danish king's banner.

Just as the war was coming to an end, Tolgils, Earl of Scone, who was in charge of guarding the ships outside the harbor of York. Arak arrived with the Danes' remaining 2,000 men to reinforce him.

Tolgils, Earl of Skåne, did not want his participation to reverse the outcome of the battle, he only wanted to save his monarch, King Swain, even if all he could get was the body of a king, it was better than King Swayn being obtained by the Normans.

Unfortunately, Tolgils, Count of Skåne, and his 2,000 troops had died on the long journey, and when he arrived at the battlefield with his army, there were less than 1,800 soldiers under his command.

Although they were exhausted from the long journey, they resolutely went into battle armed to save their king.

The Normans' attack was halted by the stubborn counterattack of Tolgils, Earl of Skåne, who did stop the Normans' frenzied offensive momentum and quickly interspersed the position of the Illivan banner.

Unfortunately, they were quickly outnumbered, and even Tolgils, Count of Skåne, was killed on the spot by the Normans.

At this point, all the Danish soldiers had been annihilated by the Normans, and their king, King Swain II, who was still alive, was captured by the Normans.

At the same time, their ally, Prince Olaf of Norway turned his back on the Danes at the last minute, fleeing with the last remnants of his defeated army to the harbor line where the fleet was anchored.

In this regard, William had already prepared an army in case of emergency, and he immediately sent a cavalry regiment that retained intact combat effectiveness and ordered Roger. Morality. Altwell led his troops in pursuit.

Thousands of Norwegians fleeing in panic were no match for the Norman knights, who were cut and surrounded by the Norman knights, and were annihilated along the way, until eventually their monarch, the Norwegian prince Olaf, was killed by Roger. Morality. Ottwell was captured and brought before William.

However, William did not have time to deal with this matter, and he was sending his troops to pursue the scattered Danes and Norwegians, even the returning Roger. Morality. Altwell was also sent out by him to hunt down the remnants of the enemy.

The Normans watched the Danes and Norwegians in a frantic pursuit, numerous routs were killed and captured, and many Danes and Norwegians drowned in the river as they fled.