didn't have time to punish the nobles who took the lead one by one, William just wrote them all down in his little black book one by one, waiting to calculate the general ledger together in the future, for these nobles who took the lead in rebelling, William was not afraid to figure them out with the greatest malice.

After gathering all the troops, William led his army to Sleisburg, the county of Bruges, and the first step was still the elite First Legion and the Guards Brigade directly under William, with a total of 18,000 men, and the third legion and three knights of the second echelon, also about 18,000 men, who slowly followed behind William as the backup of the first echelon.

It's not that William doesn't want to slow down and gather all his troops together, but Baldwin V, Duke of Flanders, can't wait that long, maybe it won't be long before Sleisburg is breached, and the hapless duke will be mercilessly hanged in the streets by the mob, or maybe he will unfortunately be infected with the plague and die.

William had to rush to Sleisburg before this happened and defeat the mob, otherwise Baldwin V would become the first duke to be hanged by the mob, and William's face would not look good, and the reputation among the nobles would become very stinky.

What's more, William had just signed a peace contract with the other party, so he couldn't let him die, otherwise the person who inherited the Duke of Flanders would not be Van . If the people of the Flanders refused to recognize the treaty signed between William and Duke Baldwin, then William would be embarrassed.

When the time comes, will William fight the Duchy of Flanders again, he does not want to be entangled in Normandy by the war with the Duchy of Flanders like the United States was dragged on the battlefield in Vietnam.

William hurried all the way, and after five days of rapid marching, he approached Sreisburg.

As far as the eye can see, there is a black figure around Sreisburg, and countless ragged refugees gather around Sreisburg and refuse to leave.

Among the refugees, there was a group of better-dressed refugees who patrolled the crowd, stronger and more commanding with weapons in their hands, and I guess these were the men of the careerist.

Perhaps there were many of them, and there were countless cannon fodder for them to drive, but Baldwin V was afraid of them, and William was not.

After a hasty rest, William began to command the whole army to set up the battlefield, and all the siege equipment such as counterweight trebuchets, torsion ballistas, and bed crossbows were gathered by William and gathered in the middle, ready to surprise the refugees.

As for the rest of the elite infantry, they began to pick up the special Celestial Empire-style armor shovel in their hands and began to dig trenches, arranging horses and spikes to block the enemy.

The last cavalry and longbowmen remained in the rear, and a less intense but time-consuming battle ensued them, and it was up to the cavalry to capture them all.

Just as William's army was forming up and building fortifications, the careerists, who had been focusing on attacking Sleiisburg, noticed the Norman army placed on their side.

This careerist is named Simon. Morality. Originally a minor nobleman in the Duchy of Flanders, Belibast became the descendant of a down-and-out nobleman who lost his title and territory after the decline of his family.

Just when he was cornered, he luckily took refuge in the Cleanist heresy, relying on his own ability to climb to the position of the leader of the party, with the strength of the Cleanist faction, he once again stood firm and firmly rooted in the territory of the Duchy of Flanders, slowly developing, accumulating strength.

When it comes to Christian heresy, Puritarianism is on the list, and it is also translated as Purity or Purity. It is often used to refer to various sects influenced by Manichaeism that believe in the dualism of good and evil and insist on abstinence. It is one of several small sects in the patristic era, one of the Christian heretical sects that spread in the countries bordering the Mediterranean in Europe in the Middle Ages, and is also a religious-political movement. It is also transliterated as "Cathar pie" or "Kachar pie".

The Puritans originated in the Balkans, and their predecessors were Manichaeism in the late Roman Empire. At that time, Manichaeism in the West did not disappear completely. As a result of the contact between the Eastern and Western worlds, including the expulsion of the Paulineites and the Bogovemilites from Bulgaria by the Eastern Roman Emperor, these two factions moved to the west, and because of the rise of the Crusaders, Manichaeism re-emerged in the West, and merged with these sects that had been introduced to the West, giving rise to the Puritists, whose influence extended to the Balkans, northern Italy, and southern France.

The Puritans denied the divinity of Jesus as the supreme creature, believing that Jesus had come into the world to take them out of the material world, to free them from this sad cycle, and to reveal the truth of their salvation.

And Christ is the life-giving Spirit, and He is only a form in this earthly world, and Christ is not born of a woman, so he has no human element, and his physical body has no substance, so he has neither death nor ascension. Thus the Puritans opposed the doctrine of Christ's incarnation and resurrection.

Even the Holy Spirit is only the creator, the head of all spirits, including angels and human souls.

This is definitely a heretical existence in Christianity, denying the divinity of Jesus and the Trinity, and advocating non-monotheism, which is definitely a heresy among heresies.

Now that the Cleanists were in their heyday, this heretical sect of Christianity was on the move, developing branches everywhere, and Simon's branch was one of their newly developed North-France branches.

At first, he had to endure it again, but the invasion of William and the Normans gave him an opportunity, and the fire of ambition burned in his heart for a long time.

Simon led his Cleanist priests and believers to lurk among the refugees, using his demagogic abilities to rally around him a large number of refugees who hated Normans and nobles.

With these people, Simon formed his own and the Cleanist Apologists, through whom he controlled the movements of the hundreds of thousands of refugees.

However, Simon became a refugee and lost a refugee, he was able to do this with the help of the power of refugees, but it was really because he scattered his cathar army among hundreds of thousands of refugees, so that he could not react and respond in time after sensing William's threat, and could only watch William prepare for the war.

In less than three hours, the siege equipment had been assembled in place, especially the powerful counterweight trebuchets had been loaded with huge stone bullets weighing three hundred pounds, and only by waiting for William's order, this dense group of refugees could make fifteen bloody alleys.