The Duke of Champagne softened, and William was immediately relieved, in fact, William's words before were not even too sure that he himself could be realized, he just used the Duke of Champagne's eagerness to get out of trouble to scare him.

Therefore, after the two reached an agreement on the covenant, William immediately had a triplicate covenant drawn up, which recorded in detail the terms that had been reached between William and the Duke of Champagne.

In the presence of Hamelin, the Archbishop of Normandy, who came with the army, William and the Duke of Champagne formally signed the Covenant, and the three-part covenant was retained by William, the Duke of Champagne and the Archbishop of Hamelin.

After the signing of the Covenant, although the Duke of Champagne could not be released immediately, William immediately ordered a larger and more comfortable tent for the Duke of Champagne to live in, and the rest of the Captives of the Duchy of Champagne were also treated better, at least the Normans who guarded them would not be so rude.

At the same time, after William announced the Covenant to the prisoners used, the prisoners of war belonging to the Duchy of Champagne no longer rebelled against the Norman guards, and even voluntarily cooperated with the orders of the Norman soldiers, because they saw hope of survival, and with the constraints of this Covenant, they believed that the Normans would not harm them again.

On the other hand, the other French prisoners of war in the camp looked at the prisoners of war of the Duchy of Champagne angrily, and they regarded them as traitors who had betrayed them, lackeys of the Normans, and could not be easily let go.

Perhaps out of jealousy, or because they wanted to vent their fear and anger against the Normans, and to blame the betrayal of the Champagnes for their defeats, the French prisoners of war and the prisoners of war of the Duchy of Champagne were pitted against each other, and there were frequent fights between the two, and they were fought in groups of tens or hundreds.

Usually in these conflicts, the Normans favored the prisoners of war of the Duchy of Champagne, who were not punished in any way but were rewarded with valuable meat, while the French prisoners of war were severely punished, with a sentence ranging from one year to several years of hard labor.

In this way, under William's operation, the camp of more than 13,000 prisoners of war was divided into two distinct factions, of which the smaller Champagne side was from the higher upper class and enjoyed the preferential treatment of the Normans, while the larger number of French prisoners of war came from the side oppressed by the Normans and Champagne together, and they were responsible for almost all the labor and heavy work.

Seeing that the situation was about the same, William immediately announced that two thousand militiamen would be selected from among the Champagne people to guard the prisoners of war and transport the baggage.

This order, given by William, was welcomed by all Champagnes, and almost all prisoners of war who met the conditions for recruitment were involved in the draft.

The militia, selected from nearly 4,000 Champagne prisoners of war, were of high quality, and because they could oppress the French, who were usually powerful, they worked so hard that William's militia captains complained that the Champagne men were about to steal their jobs.

By the time William had taken care of the military affairs, it was already the next morning, and it had taken William a whole day, perhaps Henry I had fled back to Paris.

However, William was not too worried, because Henry I's main elite had been annihilated, and his other allies were held back by William and his allies.

When the army was assembled, William ordered the whole army to advance to the county of Castle on the eastern front, where there was the leader of the rebellion and the claimant of Normandy, the Count of Castle, he was the enemy that William had to deal with, otherwise if he fled elsewhere, then he might be used as an excuse to attack the Duchy of Normandy, just like Henry I attacked Normandy this time.

As for the battlefield on the Western Front, William was not worried, he believed that even in the face of the combined attack of the aristocratic forces of the Duchy of Anjou and the Duchy of Poitou, Count Rodrigo would be able to resist the attack of the other party with his elite Second Legion and two knights.

You must know that the standing army trained all year round is not comparable to those noble levies and waves of knights, its elite degree far exceeds them, usually William's standing army can win in the face of double the enemy army, its position defense ability is even more outstanding, without several times the force can not break through Rodrigo's position.

Therefore, William was not at all worried about the Western Front presided over by Count Rodrigo, but the Eastern Front supported by Count Richard and Baron Andrew made William very worried.

It's not that the army is not strong anywhere, with a total of 14,000 troops of the Knights of Evreux, the Knights of Rouen and the Knights of Urburg, facing a noble coalition of no more than 20,000 people, with years of training and advanced weapons and equipment, it is not difficult to stop them.

But what worries William is something else, that is, the problem of incompatibility between the generals, Andrew and Richard, one is young and vigorous, and the other is stubborn and tough, and the only thing they have in common is pride.

With such a stark difference in personality, William was very worried about what kind of conflict between the two would lead to the other party's exploitation, especially when both of them were leading a knightly order of equal strength, their conflict would be magnified several times over, so that it would affect the situation of the battle.

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While William was marching with his army, His Majesty Ferdinand I, his ally and dear father-in-law-to-be, was leading his army across the Pyrenees into the territory of the Duchy of Gascony in France, where he was confronted by the army of Gichome VII, Duke of Aquitaine, who had led the army to quell the rebellion.

The two armies met on the plains of the Duchy of Gascony, and in terms of the number of the two armies alone, the armies of Ferdinand I and the Duke of Aquitaine were evenly matched, but the army of the Duke of Aquitaine was mostly composed of noble knights and levies, and the fighting power was weaker, while the army of Ferdinand I on the other side was mostly composed of elite knights, heavy infantry and archers, who had fought against the Moors for hundreds of years and had stronger warriors and better tactics.

Therefore, there was no doubt that Ferdinand I would win this battle, and he personally led the Spanish knights to defeat the weak Duchy of Aquitaine's army with a single blow, and then pursued the situation, and finally captured several counts and nobles of the opposing side.

Having enjoyed the fruits of his victory, after three days of plundering the Duchy of Aquitaine, Ferdinand I did not forget his son-in-law-to-be, William, and immediately set out to march north, ready to kick the ass of King Henry I of France.

However, at this time, Ferdinand I did not know the news of William's victory, so he still ordered his army to accelerate towards Paris.