After William and the Duke of Richard separated at Warwick in Mercia, they each headed north in a different direction.

The Earl of Richard started in Warwickshire and traveled north, passing through Derbyshire and Chestershire, and finally arriving at the Lancastrian Army, where he defeated Leofric, Duke of Mercia. The last remnants of the more than 10,000 remnants of Hewesai were defeated.

If the opportunity arises, this force of nearly 30,000 men will suddenly attack Yorkshire from the junction of Yorkshire and Mercia, and form a flanking attack with William's army.

The other main force was led by William, including all the elite standing legions and a large number of feudal knights, elite mercenaries, etc.

William was to lead the force from Warwickshire, east into Leicestershire, then along the River Trent into Lincolnshire, and then directly along the River Trent and the River Wool towards Yorktown.

He tried to force Sawn in Northumbria with a step-by-step approaching strategy. The Duke of Northumbria was at war with himself.

Only in a decisive battle can William take advantage of his army's well-armored and well-trained army to destroy the enemy's living forces at the lowest cost.

It was not that William did not like sieges, but that in siege battles, the advantages of the Normans would be offset by the strong walls, and the two sides would be bogged down in a life-consuming war, which he was extremely unwilling to see.

At that time, a large part of the reason why William retreated was because the York wall built by Constantine the Great in ancient Rome was too tall and strong, even if William had many siege equipment and gunpowder weapons in his hands, but in the face of the York city wall nearly ten meters thick, he did not conquer it in a short time.

By that time, the Vikings had landed on the Yorkshire coast, not far from Yorktown, and he was reluctant to risk being raided by the Vikings.

Now the situation is indeed different, and when the Norenbrian and Vikings are united, they will be much more courageous, and they will probably have the courage to go south in droves to fight William to the death.

This was what William was eager to see, and he was confident that with only 34,000 troops, he would be able to oppose a combined Viking and Northumbrian army.

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As William had predicted, he was confronted by a combined force of Vikings and Northumbrians upon his entry into Lincolnshire.

However, William was a little surprised that the 45,000-strong Wieno coalition did not wait for William's arrival in Lincoln, the county capital of Lincolnshire, but was stationed in the small town of Grantham after 30 kilometers.

The Vikings and Northumbrians were indeed clever in their hands, and they were entrenched in the town of Grantham, William's way north, and William had to fight with them.

But this was something that William couldn't ask for.

The town of Grantham was founded hundreds of years ago in the Saxon era and it was the Danes who turned it into an important regional centre.

In the 12th century, the Great North Road was diverted to pass through the town, giving it the name Grantham on the map. Transportation has always been the backbone of the town.

In the 18th century, a canal was dug to bring coke, coal and stone into Grantham, and to transport corn, malt, flour and wool out.

However, Grantham's real development came after the construction of the railroad in 1850.

The most majestic building in town, the spire of St. Woolfram's Church, can be seen from all sides of the town. But for us, the most distinctive and significant buildings are the splendid Victorian Town Hall, and the statue of Sir Isaac Newton towering in front of it, the most famous figure in the town of Grantham.

To such an inconspicuous town in the middle of England, two of Britain's greatest figures were born, one was Margaret. Margaret Thatcher, one was the great natural scientist Isaac Newton.

Grantham is so talented because of the elite education here that feels like England.

One of the most famous is Isaac Newton's alma mater, King's School Grantham.

King's School Grantham, Lincolnshire, England, is a boys' boarding school, it is not only the alma mater of the famous British 17th century physicist Isaac Newton, but also 80 of the school's students recently underwent a collective IQ test, the results showed that 32 students had an IQ of more than 148, meeting the strict standards of joining the "Mensa Top IQ Club", and 8 of them had an IQ of 160 and 161, which is already on par with the IQ of Einstein or Stephen Hawking!

As a result, King's School has been described by the British media as "the school with the most talents".

However, the town of Grantham remained unremarkable in the 11th century and, despite its geographical advantage as a major transport artery in Lincolnshire, seemed to have been forgotten and did not develop considerably.

And today, the town of Grantham is about to suffer a terrible war.

The battle unfolded on the outskirts of Grantham, and both sides deployed their own troops, but because William's army was more organized, the Vikings and Northumbrians were still half a beat slower than the Normans, although they had been prepared.

The first to start the battle between the two sides were the cavalry units of the Normans and Northumbrians.

On the battlefield, William did not see much Viking cavalry, because it was extremely inconvenient to transport war horses from the sea, and as a pirate, there were very few Viking cavalry, and only a few hundred scout cavalry formed with local war horses after landing in Yorkshire.

But at this point, this bit of cavalry is not useful at all.

The cavalry on both sides seemed to be about the same number, about 8,000 men, but in terms of cavalry quality and equipment, the Normans were far superior to the Northumbrian cavalry.

As soon as the cavalry of the two sides came into contact, the Norman knights cut into the line of Northumbrian cavalry like sharp knives without hindrance, dividing them into chunks of various sizes.

The inferior iron weapons of the Northumbrian knights could not harm the Norman knights protected by steel plate armor, and their chain mail was often pierced by spears and swords.

The tight wall advance was even more unbeatable, and every time he met an enemy, the Northumbrian knight had to face several weapons stabbing at him, and he was unable to parry.

In front of the Norman knights, the Northumbrian knights were like young children, and they were easily overturned to the ground by the Norman knights.

Soon, the horn of retreat sounded from the enemy's main formation, and the Northumbrian knights retreated.

However, the Normans did not seem to want to let go of the fat that was about to be obtained, and they let go of their speed and galloped, following the Knight of Northumbria in hot pursuit.

Since most of the horses under the Norman knight's seat are Andalusian horses or Norman horses with Arabian horse blood, their explosiveness and endurance are stronger than those of local English horses.

Soon, the Northumbrian knights who retreated in a hurry were entangled by the Norman knights, and they could only watch their companions being killed by the Norman knights, but they could not ask this group of devils.