The Normans were threatened not only by the Scandinavian kingdoms of Denmark, Sweden, and Finland, but also by the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Poland, near the Baltic coast.

The Holy Roman Empire was quite wary of William's fierce advance in the Kingdom of Norway, and Queen Agnes even had the idea of sending troops, but now that the power of the Holy Roman Empire was controlled by Archbishop Aino II of Cologne and the other three bishops and princes, she could not do anything about it.

But did the Archbishop of Cologne and Arno II, the Archbishop of Mainz and the Archbishop of Trier, and the various princes oppose the sending of troops to the Kingdom of Norway?

The answer is no, they all understand the truths of "cold lips and teeth" and "under the nest, there are no eggs", only not much Anno II and the Queen Mother/Emperor Party led by Queen Agnes fought fiercely, and even broke out a low-intensity civil war, and the two sides were very wary of each other, for fear that after they sent troops to Northern Norway, the other party would take advantage of the fire to rob.

As for the Kingdom of Poland, this Dorga had previously been a quasi-ally of the Normans, but since Wilhelm sent a large army to occupy the Duchy of Mecklenburg and Pomerania, relations between the two sides fell to a freezing point.

The Poles regarded Mecklenburg and Pomerania as their own territory, and they did not want to see others encroach on them, even the Normans with whom they had a cooperative relationship.

During the six months that the Normans occupied Mecklenburg and Pomerania, the Poles tried their best to regain these two territories from the Normans, sending emissaries to negotiate the ownership of the Pomeranian territories on the one hand, and organizing armies to oppress the Pomeranian periphery in an attempt to make the Normans obediently spit out the territories they occupied.

But William was such an easy compromiser? He once said that "not an inch of land in the Norman kingdom is superfluous", and even William's allies, the Castiers, would not be allowed to ask William for land.

Wilhelm forcefully rejected the Polish territorial claims to the Duchy of Pomerania, and on the other hand, ordered Mecklenburg and the Dukes of Mephistopheles and Dukes of Pomerania, as well as the Norman nobles, to strengthen the defense of their territories and confront the Poles in the border areas with Danzig and Svupsk.

On the one hand, Wilhelm sent an envoy to Poland to intimidate the Polish king Casimir I by sending an envoy to Clakow, forcing him to return home, and on the other hand, he sent the Nordic Guard to Mecklenburg and the Duchy of Pomerania to support Mephistopheles and Albert.

The Norse Guards, originally formed by William at the Battle of Stamford Bridge a few years earlier with captured Norwegian and Danish soldiers, began with more than 3,000 men and grew to 5,000.

These days, as William's rule in the Kingdom of Norway continues to expand, there are also countless Norwegian nobles like William who surrendered to him and knelt down to offer his loyalty.

William drew 6,000 men from these Norwegians who were loyal to him to join the Nordic Guard, making the force directly outnumbered tens of thousands of people, enough to be called the Nordic Legion.

The commander of the Nordic Guards could not have been the red-haired Eric alone, but in addition to him, there were also the young Sami chief Niyola, the warrior of the Boton tribe from Finland, Meniko, and the Count of Bergenhus, Briyjoff.

Among them, Breitjuf, Count of Bergenhus, surrendered to William on his own initiative, and when he heard that William had led the Norman army to conquer the capital city of Trondheim and capture their king Magnus II, he was already hesitant to surrender to William.

When William led his army south, the timid Earl of Breydulf personally went to William's camp and swore allegiance to him.

In fact, there was another important reason for the surrender of Breyjuf, that is, he had his only son, the three-year-old Swayne, who was the son of his old age, and Breyjuf was very fond of his son Swayne, and when the Norman army pressed south, he was afraid that his son would be harmed, so he surrendered to William.

Originally, when he was young, he was also a heroic Norwegian warrior and a warlike general, but because of his old man, in order to protect his son's safety, he chose to surrender to William.

This time, William's Nordic Guards sent to the Pomeranian front line will naturally not be all, only the Nordic Guards he discharged this time and the three thousand veterans led by the red-haired Eric, with the three thousand Norwegian warriors recruited from the Sami tribe, and the remaining five or six thousand people are led by William himself.

The Nordic Guards are a wolf in William's hands, and except for the red-haired Eric, who has to be trusted, the rest must be firmly at his side, and the army under his command will be used to deter them from acting rashly.

William and Duke Hubert led the Second Guards Corps, the Standing First Corps, and the Second Brigade of the Nordic Guards, totaling more than 25,000 men, and advanced to the south.

Thanks to the Count of Bergenshus, William successfully led the Norman army to the southern part of Norway, and routed the combined forces of the southern Norwegian nobility.

After defeating the southern coalition of Norway, the next step was to attack in all directions, and the territory without the defense of the nobles and the army was like a half-clothed beautiful woman, unable to resist the men.

In just five days, William led his troops to take all the Rogalan, Agdel, Telemark and other parts of the Kingdom of Norway, and successfully connected with the occupied territory of Duke Rodrigo.

While William and the Normans were rejoicing in their impending victory, a forgotten heir to the Norwegian throne, Magnus's brother-in-law, Gudo Brown. Clovin raised an army in the Duchy of Finnmark in northern Norway, targeting the city of Trondheim, the capital of the Kingdom of Norway.

Gudo. At this time, Cloving's cavalry naturally had a little certainty, and he was encircling the powerful Sami tribe, except for the Sami chief Niyola, the rest of the tribes surrendered to Gudo Kloving.

In fact, the Sami chief Niyola was unable to convince his father's tribe because of his young age, and many Norwegian warriors from the tribe defected to Gudo. Cloving's side.

Using the private forces of his own territory and the Finnmark tribes, the Sámi tribes and other tribes he had encircled, Gudoclovingian assembled a huge force of more than 20,000 men, although the combat effectiveness of this force was really doubtful, but the huge number of 20,000 alone was enough to make people fearful.