The Godwin family amassed more than 13,600 troops, including Harold. Godwinson's East Anglia of six thousand, Earl. Godwin and his two sons, Swain and Tostig, led Wickes' 7,600-odd troops, and this was only the strength that the Godwins hastily assembled after the Black Death, and if they were in the heyday of the Godwins, they could have gathered more than 20,000 troops.

The two marched on London and Middlesex in the Confessional's home of Edward the Confessor, with Wickess's army encountering the Confessor's royal legion in Reading, the capital of Oxfordshire.

Not surprisingly, the hastily retreating remnants of more than 3,700 troops were routed by twice the number of Godwin's army, and all but a few Norman noble knights and Anglo-Saxon nobles escaped, and the rest fell into the hands of the Godwins.

It can be expected that Edward the Confessor will definitely not feel well in the future without the support of the direct legion, and he will not be able to escape the fate of being controlled without military power.

The first to arrive in London was Harold. Godwinson's East Anglian Army, who broke through into the Middlesex Army, was the first to besiege King Edward's London, and then joined forces with the arriving Wickess Army to besiege the city.

Seeing that the situation was not good, King Edward urgently recruited the Duke of Northumberland and the Duke of Mercia to send troops to the king, and at the same time bought time to stabilize Duke Godwin by negotiating peace.

Judging from the situation on the battlefield, it seems that the Godwyns are victorious, and the Godwins with tens of thousands of troops have surrounded the city of London and King Edward's place, and with a gentle push, the rule of the Wickess dynasty will collapse.

Earl of Wicksey. Godwin never took Edward seriously, and a coward who did great things at the expense of his life was not worthy of his seriousness.

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In Normandy, William learned that the Godwin's army had surrounded London, and that Edward the Confessor was trapped, and he knew that now was the best time to send troops.

After King Edward's power was wiped out by the Godwin, William only needed to defeat the Godwins and seize their vast territory in the Kingdom of England, and he could replace the Godwins as the most powerful faction of the King of England, controlling Edward the Confessor to achieve the goal of blackmailing the Son of Heaven to order the princes.

The port of Le Havre, the largest port city and trading port in the Norman Kingdom, is now once again home to more than 500 Galen warships, transports, dragonheads, Kirk ships, and various merchant ships, all of which were recruited by William to transport troops to the Kingdom of England.

A huge force of up to 18,000 men was methodically landing on the decks of the Galen transports, countless supplies were loaded onto merchant ships and Kirk ships by animal cranes, and countless Galen and Dragonhead warships were cruising the English Channel outside the harbor, driving out any ships that could be used.

The first batch of troops to land in the Kingdom of England was only 18,000 men, not because William did not have enough ships to transport troops and supplies, but because he really did not have many troops to deploy.

After deducting the troops to suppress Ireland and Wales, he also had to keep enough troops to guard the fortress castles of the Duchy of Normandy and the Norman Kingdom in case of the ill-intentioned King Henry I of France, the veteran Earl Hubert led the First Army to guard the house, and Count Rodrigo was responsible for guarding Ireland and Wales, so that William could use less than 20,000 troops, which was already his limit, including William's Guards Legion, Count Richard's Knights and standing militia units.

This army was not elite, the standing army had less than 8,000 men, and the rest were mostly knights and squires of the Order, as well as standing militia units called from all over the country.

However, William was confident that even the weakest standing militia units were much stronger than the average soldier of the Godwin family's army, and with the most elite Guards as the backbone of this army, the superior Norman expeditionary force was enough to defeat the Godwins.

William had already seen the Godwins as dry bones in the grave, and he habitually rehearsed in his mind a post-war situation - William controlled the south of England and became the cardinal to control the kingdom, while the Duke of Mercia and the Duke of Northumbria would unite the local Anglo-Saxon nobility against William, and he really valued the native Anglo-Saxon nobility represented by the Duke of Mercia and the Duke of Northumbria.

On May 15, 1044, just as William was about to cross the sea and set off for himself, a sudden hurricane appeared on the surface of the English Channel.

In such weather, it was impossible to cross the English Channel by boat, so William had no choice but to postpone the departure for the time being, and ordered the army to be repaired and put on standby at the port of Le Havre.

Fourteen days later, on May 29, 1044, William, who had been delayed by a hurricane, took advantage of the weakening winds to order his entire army to cross the sea and land.

William did not choose the port of Dover in Kent as the landing site for his troops, but chose the village of Pevensey in Kent, on the south coast of England, where William was fortunate to encounter no resistance.

William was one of the first to step off the ship and land on the coast, and when he landed on the beach, he accidentally fell face down, and it was undoubtedly a shame to fall in full view of everyone.

In order not to make a fool of himself in front of his army, he stood up with sand in his hands and shouted, "I now have British land!" ”

This situation is similar to the story of Caesar's conquest of Britain thousands of years ago, and the nobles next to him immediately reacted and praised William as the Caesar of the time, and in their description, the Normans would conquer England under William's leadership, and achieve the same great achievements as William Caesar.

"William! Caesar! ”

"William! Caesar! ”

"William! Caesar! ”

The cheers were one after another, knowing that William had ordered the armies to continue to hurry up and land, and the cheers subsided.

Upon hearing the news of William's army landing, Earl Godwin, who had just annihilated Edward the Confessor's army and besieged London, hurriedly gathered all the troops he could find, leaving the necessary troops to continue the siege of London, and then sent his most confident son, Harold, south to defend against the enemy. Harold placed his troops on the road from Hastings to London, at the Ninelak Hill, six miles from Hastings. Behind him is the Andrida Forest, and in front of him is a valley.