The MacDonald's family, a clan located on the outer islands of the Scottish Highlands, is unknown, but in later generations, the descendants of the Macdonald family conquered the world in another form after immigrating to the Americas hundreds of years later: McDonald's, the world's number one fast food brand rich in burgers and fries.

It was also the affectionate brand of McDonald's that William remembered that there was such a Scottish Highland clan and came up with the idea of uniting the MacDonald family.

The MacDonalds' two major enemies, the Grant Clan, which ruled the outer islands and the Highlands, and the Campbell clan, which ruled South Gail, were two of the major clans that supported King Macpeth, and their territories were already targeted by William.

As enemies of the Grant clan and the Campbell clan, the Macdonald family was naturally very active, and when the Normans returned to Stirling Castle, the capital of the Lothian Empire, the MacDonald family sent more than a dozen guides and soldiers who were most familiar with the highland terrain to Stirlingberg, intending to guide Count Rodrigo to the highlands.

According to the plan, the whole army was divided into two routes, one route was Jarland in Ireland. Morality. Ponthieu and Albert of Wales. Feng. The two Dukes of Hohenzollern jointly led 12,000 soldiers to set out from the country of Galloway, near the west coast of Scotland, and went north to the country of Arguelbe, first sweeping the Campbell clan, and then cooperating with the MacDonald clan of Islay to march north to the Earl of Mary to eliminate the Grant clan.

On the other hand, the Duke of Rodrigo personally led the team, including the Second Legion, part of the English Legion led by Lancelin, Baron of Buckingham, and the English aristocratic vassal army led by Ferdinand, Earl of Lancaster, with a total of 20,000 men.

From Stirlingberg, this large force would march north to Forth Bay, occupy Edinburgh, and then go north to Fife, Strathsen, and Atholl to occupy all three of them, and finally encircle the Scottish capital of Gaurybe, owned by MacPace.

In order to prevent Macpeth from escaping, William not only sent a large number of cavalry to fight with the Second Army, but also ordered Admiral Dirk to lead the North Sea Fleet to blockade the waters near Forth and prevent Macpeth from escaping by boat.

According to the battle reports sent back from the front, everything seemed to be going well, and the Duke of Rodrigo not only wiped out the Campbell clan in South Gael, but also defeated the remaining Nosgaeles, and besieged Gori with his soldiers, and then was able to capture William's old enemy, King MacPace.

The Normans swept across the Scottish Highlands, wiped out the Norsgaels at will, and with the help of the MacDonalds, it seemed that the attack on the Scottish Highlands was not as difficult as William imagined.

Of course, this is also thanks to the help of the MacDonald family, if this family did not provide the Normans with important information and guide the way, perhaps the Normans who were not familiar with the terrain would have been ambushed by the Scottish clans who had been prepared for a long time.

The situation was decided, and it took only a little more than a month for the Normans to occupy most of the Scottish Highlands before winter, and besiege Goli Castle, and it was only a matter of time before Goli Castle fell.

A few days later, winter arrived, and the climate in the Scottish Highlands seemed even colder, and William had to order some of his troops to temporarily withdraw to Lothian for the winter.

As for the soldiers who were responsible for holding the high ground and besieging the city of Gori, William prepared sufficient warm clothes such as cotton clothes and quilts for them, and there was no shortage of food and drink, so as not to lose the previous gains due to the weather.

With the huge Norman kingdom to supply tens of thousands of sets of cotton clothes, it was still more than enough, plus William had already prepared, long before the first snow fell in Scotland, tens of thousands of sets of cotton clothes were sent to Rodrigo's supply office.

With the onset of winter, the smoke of the Italian battlefield seems to have dissipated slightly, and the Italians ushered in the peace that had been won for half a year.

Bohemia, which had been scheduled to march into Italy to supply Brzedislav, Duke Aldebert of Austria and Count Dieterpod of Bavaria, was captured by the victory of Rivoli of the Lombards, and his army was in the territory of the Duchy of Carinthia, Crainbir, and did not dare to advance lightly.

After meeting Duke Conrad III, who had fled back to Carinthia in disarray, the Duke of Bohemia and others became even more cautious, lest they be defeated by the Lombards and Italians.

As far as they knew, Rivoli's defeat was entirely the result of the Lombards' bravery, while the Tuscan Italians, who were in charge of the right flank, were completely like embroidered pillows.

The strength of the Lombards, Duke Otto III of Swabia, was well understood, and the Lombards defeated twice their own army and knights in a frontal battle with only more than 10,000 soldiers and more than 1,000 cavalry, and their terrifying combat effectiveness was terrifying.

By the time Otto III fled back to Swabia with his knights, he had less than a thousand knights at hand, and the remaining more than 1,500 were either killed, captured, or lost in the war.

The following month, Otto III collected his defeated troops and recruited more soldiers in his domain, while he also asked the royal family and the rest of the princes for reinforcements.

However, even so, Otto III managed to gather only six or seven thousand troops, most of whom were soldiers who had been scattered in battle.

What worries him even more is that the morale of this army has completely fallen to the bottom, and after the battle of Rivoli, they no longer have the courage to fight the Lombards.

Fortunately, the main force of the Duchy of Meissen, led by Duke Ludwig of Thuringia, and the Franconian legion, which was directly under the royal family, arrived in Swabia.

However, although the arrival of new reinforcements quickly restored the combat effectiveness of the Central Route Army, this was not good news for Otto III.

As the general of the defeated army, Otto III was removed from his position as commander of the Central Route Army and replaced by Duke Ludwig of Thuringen, after which he could only lead his own Swabian legion, which was subordinate to Duke Thuringen.

With the re-increase of the HRE Empire, the pressure on the Italian states increased sharply, and the Duke of Provence was defeated by the allied army led by the Duke of Saxony, and the Italians were afraid that they would suffer from the embarrassment of the enemy.

Fortunately, winter is coming, even in Italy with a Mediterranean climate, it snows, and the Alps are already a completely silver-white country, and no one wants to risk an avalanche at this time to cross the Alpine passes and enter Italy in winter.

There is no doubt that winter has given the Italians a precious respite, but the war after the beginning of spring will also be even more brutal and ruthless.