"Keep firing, the longbowmen are firing at full range, the cavalry is attacking, and the infantry is then following and crushing them in one fell swoop." William had thought that there was going to be a tough battle to fight, and he even dug a trench and set up fortifications to prepare for a tough defensive battle, but when he observed the results of the first counterweight trebuchet volley, William knew that the group of outcasts was about to collapse, and he had already locked in the victory.

William did not hesitate, and immediately ordered his soldiers to attack, and he wanted to annihilate this group of outcasts here in one fell swoop.

The elite Norman army, which numbered more than 18,000 people, began to operate in an orderly manner like a tight machine under William's orders.

The first to attack were the counterweight trebuchets, torsion ballistas, and bed crossbows of the Instrument Regiment, and the dense and echeloned fire coverage directly smashed the opponent's formation into a sieve and destroyed it completely.

After the fire was over, except for the counterweight trebuchet, which was still throwing stone projectiles with a grinding disc, the rest of the equipment stopped attacking, and it was time for the longbowmen to play.

I saw thousands of longbowmen bending their bows and arrows in front of the trenches, aiming at the nearest mob armed in front of them, and a round of rapid fire came from the nearest mob armed forces, and fifteen or sixteen rounds of dense arrow rain were all shot out in the blink of an eye, and how many of the displaced armed people opposite William were able to stand up and resist intact.

Then the more than 3,000 cavalry units deployed on both flanks of the army began to attack, completely crushing the mob forces that had almost collapsed, and driving them towards the mob forces that had not yet collapsed.

Almost at the same time, William's infantry also crossed the trenches and fortifications from the pre-set passages, and rushed quickly towards the dense clusters of outcasts, relying on the cover of longbowmen and the help of cavalry troops, they crushed the mob after group, using the fleeing outcasts to completely disrupt the opposing formation.

Now the sheer number of displaced people can no longer provide sufficient protection for the displaced forces, but has become an obstacle to them, and the indiscriminate escape of the army has not only disrupted their formation, but also hindered their escape route.

There was no way back, and the vagabonds who pursued behind them surrendered to William very shamefully, he had neither a sense of glory and honor, nor was he bound by laws and oaths, and in their eyes surrender was not a shameful thing at first sight, and it was already a blessing in misfortune to be able to save a life.

"Leave these people alone, tell them to get out of the way, those who surrender on their knees will live, and anyone who is still standing will be considered to be resisting and kill them.

The whole army continues to pursue, and our first goal is to capture the leader and accomplices of that heretical sect. William ordered to the generals beside him, and then he looked at Baron Andrew and said, "As for these exile captives, Andrew, you are responsible" to lead some infantry, longbowmen and cavalry to gather these exile captives and keep them in custody. ”

"Yes." Although Baron Andrew was very unforgiving, in his mind that he should be the vanguard of the First Army and active on the battlefield, rather than responsible for collecting prisoners after the war, which was not his job, he still accepted William's arrangement.

William naturally has his intentions in this arrangement, there are not many generals he can trust, and among the generals who can take on great responsibilities, except for a few people such as Count Hubert, Count Richard, and Count Rodrigo, only Andrew is the most suitable for William.

Whether it is his command ability or his steady character, it is not comparable to other young generals, even Faller, who has made great progress.

Therefore, after much deliberation, William finally entrusted Baron Andrew with the important task of collecting the captives and exiles.

The pursuit continued, and among the 14,000-strong pursuing troops, there were more than 2,000 cavalry troops, and William, with the heavy cavalry units as the lead, rushed to kill any enemy who tried to gather, and used light cavalry to hold back the outcasts who tried to escape, and finally the infantry of battalions and companies charged one after another, and the mob was defeated by armed forces.

Normally, these mobs would have gotten to their knees and raised their hands in surrender, no matter how much they hated the Normans.

William's target wasn't them, though, he had always been targeting the Cleanist heretics and their cathars, the only ones in the fleeing crowd who could maintain their structure.

William was holding on to this group of puritarian heretics for a reason, and in his opinion, the ideas of this group of puritist heretics were extremely dangerous, and they were like the White Lotus cult of the Celestial Empire, who made it their mission to oppose the nobility and the government and spread their own heretical beliefs.

This group of heretics is a group of unstable factors, and if they are given a little, they will organize a heretical rebellion, just like the siege of Sleiisburg by the outcasts.

In William's well-known history, during the French Revolution hundreds of years later, this group of Christian heretics, including the Huguenots and the Jansenians, played an inglorious role in this rebellion against the king.

These heretical sects, mainly bourgeoisie and intellectuals, colluded with the liberals, slings, and nefarious nobles who were intent on rioting, guillotining their king Louis XVI and his family, and bringing bloodshed to the French people, the Great Purge and the Reign of Terror enveloped post-revolutionary France, followed by the outbreak of the war against France.

In William's view, the revolution was not a progressive movement, and the horrors of the Jacobins who came to power later showed what they were.

At the same time, William was extremely sympathetic to the last king Louis XVI, who was guillotined by mobs and heretics, this king was a noble figure, he was not as extravagant as his ancestors Louis XIV and Louis XV, he had a group of mistresses, he was very simple in his ordinary life, he was an ambitious and accomplished king.

It was only when the king's power in favor of the American Revolutionary War depleted the treasury and plunged the French government into a financial crisis that the heretical, liberal, bourgeoisie, and ambitious aristocracy seized the opportunity to unite to overthrow Louis XVI.

Louis XVI was completely innocent, he was a wise and benevolent monarch compared to the previous monarchs of the Bourbon dynasty, but his only mistake was to forgive this group of heretics, stop their persecution, and restore the freedom of worship of the heretical sect.

This is undoubtedly a mercy and gift to these heretics, but it turns out that these heretical sects are a bunch of ungrateful white-eyed wolves, a bunch of back-and-back guys who have personally guillotined the benevolent king and his family, as well as the hegemony of France in Europe.

It can be said that the crimes they committed were unforgivable, especially since William was now a great nobleman and a great prince, and he was very disgusted with them when he looked at the heretical sects of the French Revolution.