"Idiot! Useless waste! ”

When William, who was far away in the palace of Leon, read the battle report sent from the front and learned that the front line had been frustrated, he could hardly help but curse.

The situation on the front line of Toledo William had also heard before, a group of Frankish nobles led by the Count of Lucion kept ordering, in order to covet merit and spoils, despite the dissuasion of Duke Rodrigo, wantonly plundered villages and towns along the way, so that they were ambushed by Toledo's defenders and lost 2,000 men, including nearly 100 elite Frankish knights killed and wounded.

It can be said that at this time, William's entrepreneurship suffered such a heavy casualty for the first time, in vain and without any commendable results.

Count Lucion and the others were anxious for quick success, and kept ordering reckless actions, and the Duke of Rodrigo and the Duke of Odo did not do their best, because of the discord with the Count of Lucion Hugue and others, after a little dissuasion, they watched coldly and sat back and watched the other party suffer defeat, which is also extremely serious in any case.

At that time, taking advantage of the time gained by the Guard Knights, Hugue, the Earl of Lucion, who had a lot of battlefield experience, tried his best to gather his men and went to support the Guard Knights.

Hugben, Count of Lucion, attempted to lure the Moors to a more open terrain to attack, but this strategy was spotted by Abdul-Hakam. The Moors withdrew their troops to the mountains, forcing the Frankish army of the Norman Empire into a difficult position.

Anxiously waiting, the Count of Lucion and the others still did not wait for the news of the arrival of Rodrigo's reinforcements, how to ask for the dilemma next, whether to retreat or risk breaking through, the noble generals decided to risk breaking through after some discussion.

As the French attacked, even the infantry began to struggle because of the fragmented terrain, while the Moors, who occupied the high ground, intensified their attack, and in addition to bows and crossbows, they even dropped rolling stones and huge logs down the hillside, inflicting heavy casualties on the French.

Soon, the French noble generals lost control of their troops, and Hugue, Count of Lucion, and others had to take advantage of the night to escape.

They managed to escape, but the rest of the men suffered heavy losses, and by the time they did, they were left with only a few dozen fallen knights and a hundred mounted sergeants, and the rest of the old and weak captives, civilians, and mercenaries were lost to the Moors.

Two setbacks and failures have brought the blindly optimistic noble knights to their senses and have to re-examine their opponents.

"It seems that I have to conquer in person, and only by sitting in myself can I subdue these unruly nobles." William feared that the war might drag on indefinitely, and that it would become a scorching battle, so he had to take matters into his own hands.

Two days later, William immediately led the 1st Guards Army, the Nordic Guard and other direct troops south to the city of Madrid, not far from Toledo.

God still seems to have favored William and the Normans, and he had just set off for the south when he brought them a rare warplane.

It all started with the successive victories of Abdul Hakam, a veteran of the Abad dynasty in Seville, who came from the Amiri family, who ruled Murcia, and was a relative of the Abad royal family, who gained great prestige in the successive wars, and Abad Murtaimid, who was the commander, was somewhat incompetent, which he could not accept as the heir in any case.

Abdul Hakam's brilliant victory outside Toledo left Abad Murtaimid jealous and afraid. He felt that he had to make a name for himself in order to reduce the influence of his uncle Abdul Hakam, otherwise there would be fewer and fewer people to support him, not to mention that Rodrigo's men were raiding the territory he controlled.

So Prince Abad Murtaimede planned to give the Normans a little color, and he personally led 10,000 infantry and 800 cavalry to besiege the city of Parra, north of Toledo.

Upon hearing of the siege of Parla, Duke Rodrigo immediately came to the aid with a mixed force of 5,000 men and horses.

Prince Abad Murtaimid overestimated the number of reinforcements and, out of an abundance, decided to withdraw the siege. The Moors were slow to carry a large amount of booty and prisoners, and the sudden swelling of the Harama, a tributary of the Tagus River, caused unexpected trouble for the retreat, and Duke Rodrigo, who had knowledge of the situation at the front, took advantage of the morning fog at dawn to attack the Moorish troops, cutting off the long retreating troops with great ease.

The retreating prince Abad Murtimid was unable to organize his troops to resist the Norman raid, and his splendid costume immediately attracted many Norman knights to besiege him, and he was soon wounded and captured.

The defeat of Prince Abad Murtaimede's forces meant that the city of Toledo had been completely opened to Duke Rodrigo, and there were no more troops left in the city except for a few defenders.

As for Abdul Hakam, who they had been vigilant about, there was no need to worry at all, because they had already figured out the situation inside Seville from the wounded and captured Prince Abad Murtaimid.

At this moment, the Abad royal family is actually just a weak royal family with a thin personality, except for his father Abad Murdedid, there are only three young boys left.

The capture of Prince Abad Murtamead means that the balance in Seville will be upset, and all the foreign princes in the country will take advantage of this opportunity to jump out one by one to seize the position of the emir of Seville.

The one with the greatest chance of usurping the throne of the Emir of Seville is Abdul Hakam, the uncle of Prince Abad Murtaimid and the Amiri family of Murcia. Once the other party knows about this, he must be eager to lead the army to march towards Seville to usurp the throne.

After defeating tens of thousands of Moorish troops and capturing Prince Abad Murtaimede, Duke Rodrigo made a quick decision and immediately approached the city of Toledo with 5,000 cavalry.

Because most of the mobile forces and elites in the city were taken away by Prince Abad Murtaimid, the defenders who remained in the city themselves were no match for the Normans, and now when they saw their master, Prince Abad Murtaimid, was captured, their morale plummeted, and they had no idea of resisting at all.

At about 3 p.m., the gates of the city of Toledo opened, and the defenders of the city knelt on the ground, swords in both hands, and bowed their heads in surrender to Rodrigo.

On the second day of Rodrigo's occupation of Toledo, William also joined Odo's Second Guards Army and led his troops to the city of Toledo.