The Duke of Upper Lorraine, the Archbishop of Trier, and the Count of Falz were captured, and the rest of the soldiers also laid down their arms and surrendered to the Normans, and not a single knight or soldier dared to resist the Normans.

"Rude Norman, I am Gerhard, Duke of Upper Lorraine. Shavatang, I ask to be treated as it deserves. The Duke of Upper Lorraine shouted as he pushed away the two Norman soldiers who were trying to capture him.

"Don't be rude!" When the Duke of Richard heard the shouts of the Duke of Upper Lorraine, he immediately appeared in front of everyone and stopped him.

The Duke of Richard was an old-school nobleman, and the most important thing was the rights and etiquette of the nobles, even in the face of the enemy nobles, he also required the nobles and soldiers under his command not to lose their manners.

The two Norman soldiers who tried to capture the Duke of Lorraine immediately let go of his body and retreated silently.

"Your Excellency the Upper Duke of Lorraine, you have suffered, I am Richard, Duke of Ulster under His Majesty William. Morality. Vasi, I apologize on behalf of the impudent soldiers under my command. The Duke of Richard came to the Duke of Upper Lorraine with an apologetic face and apologized.

"I didn't expect that there were reasonable and noble-born nobles like you among the Normans, and I am not a very unreasonable person, so I forgave them for their rudeness." The Duke of Upper Lorraine was a little stingy, looked at the Duke of Richard and said, "Please also ask His Excellency the Duke of Richard to quickly bring me to meet your sovereign, His Majesty King William." ”

"As you wish, Your Excellency." Duke Richard nodded and agreed.

With Duke Richard's warning, there were far fewer incidents of the Normans being rude to enemy nobles, and most of the HRE nobles were treated as they should be, with no shortage of good food and clean accommodation.

However, Duke Richard's actions caused the dissatisfaction of Duke Andrew, who came with him, due to the influence of William, plus his background was not noble, he was only from a knight's family, and he did not particularly value the enemy nobles.

When he saw that Duke Richard had given the precious food and clean tents to the captives of the HRE Empire, he was furious.

Of course, Duke Andrew is not an unreasonable person, not to mention that there is his majesty William in the city of Brussels behind him, so he naturally will not quarrel with Duke Richard over this matter.

But on the way back, Duke Andrew never spoke to Richard again.

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"Your Majesty, you are not dishonored! Our army has successfully annihilated the corps of Gerhard, Duke of Upper Lorraine, and captured Gerhard, Duke of Upper Lorraine. Shawtaun, Henry, Count of Palaties. Dozens of high-ranking nobles, including Ezzoun and Archbishop Yudu of Trier, as well as low-ranking nobles and knights, are countless. The Duke of Richard knelt down on one knee in front of William and briefed him on the battle.

"Duke Richard and Duke Andrew, you two are the heroes of this battle, please rise up." William stretched out his hands and motioned for the two to get up and speak.

"Thank you, Your Majesty." The two responded in unison.

"Roger. Morality. Baron Outwell! William looked at Roger, who was kneeling on the side, and said: "As a front-line general this time, you didn't obey orders and stayed in Zeeland Country without permission, this is an extremely serious act of disobedience, are you guilty?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister knows that he was wrong, please forgive me." Roger. Morality. Baron Ottwell listened to William's questioning and consciously and obediently admitted his mistake.

Baron Roger knew William's impartial character, and would not let go of any mistakes or leave out his merits, and with his role in this battle, he could at least add a large number of territories.

Sure enough, William changed his words and said: "I think you are still a first-time offender, and you have a good attitude of admitting your mistakes, I will bypass you this time, and you will not be allowed to commit it again next time, if not, I will be punished for several crimes, is it clear?" ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." Roger. Morality. Baron Ottwell bowed his head and accepted it humbly, but it was unknown whether he had heeded William's warning.

"However, I will not ignore your outstanding performance in this battle because of your mistakes, and kill your credit." William said impartially: "In this battle, you played an excellent role, taking advantage of our army's superiority on the water to frequently attack and harass the Upper Lorraine Army, delaying the enemy's movements, and creating valuable fighters for this great victory.

In the final battle, you firmly attracted the attention of the Upper Lorraine army, so that my Norman knights could easily defeat the enemy army from the rear of the Upper Lorraine army, and finally made a decisive attack and captured Henry, Earl of Palazzo. Ezzoon, a lot of credit.

I have decided to make you count of Ennaut, if you wish. ”

"Your Majesty, the minister is willing." Roger. Morality. Ottwell said excitedly.

Through his own efforts, he finally became a noble earl and joined the ranks of the high nobility of the Norman kingdom.

What made him even more excited was that his territory was in the rich city of Hainaut, rather than in the remote areas of Ireland and Scotland, which really made him very excited.

The richness of the country of Enoebo, which Roger had long heard of, was one of the richest places in the whole of Europa, after Italy, Normandy and Flanders.

You must know that when the Normans marched into Ainaut, Baldwin V, the former Duke of Flanders, who was entrenched here, relied on the support of the Ennob Kingdom to recruit more than 6,000 troops and mercenaries.

This is an extremely large number, and in a Europe full of princes, it is enough to wipe out the other weaker principalities.

After the occupation of Ainaut, the Normans even looted more than 20,000 pounds of silver in cash and countless riches from the court of Ainaut, which shows the wealth of the Enober kingdom.

After the canonization ceremony, he received a bag of soil from William, symbolizing the fiefdom of the country of Ainaut, and he officially became Count of Ainaut, Roger. Morality. Outwell.

As the saying goes, "if there is no backlog of cases, things will not be done overnight", there are no files piled up on the table, and the matter will not be dealt with overnight, and such a major matter as rewarding soldiers cannot be left overnight, otherwise it will greatly affect the morale of the army.

With the list of canonizations that had been drawn up, William read them out one by one and announced the rewards for them.

The Duke of Richard, who contributed the most to this, was given the title of Count of Blat, and he was finally able to say goodbye to the cold and barren Duchy of Ulster in the north of Ireland and obtain the rich and warm Duchy of Blat. William's reward was exactly what he wanted.

This was followed by Duke Andrew, who was in second place, who received the title of Breda.

This is a territory that is not inferior to the Bourges Kingdom in terms of wealth and geographical importance, and more importantly, this territory is connected to his old domain, which can greatly enhance its own strength.

The next was the canonization of viscounts, barons, and knights, and William gave them to Walter the Younger. Giffard read it out on his behalf.