The nobles on the viewing platform couldn't help but let out bursts of exclamation and admiration when they saw the wooden humanoid targets lying down one after another in the distance.

However, before they could come back to their senses, one storm after another swept across the land, and countless erected humanoid expressions were pierced and shot down in the dense rain of arrows, as if a violent wind had swept across the land, leaving only a mess.

After sixteen waves of arrows, the rapid and violent rain of arrows finally stopped, but the nobles on the viewing platform were still immersed in the afterglow of the previous longbow fire, unable to extricate themselves, even the two monarchs Ferdinand I and Henry I, who had maintained their composure before.

William turned his head back and forth to scan the expressions of the nobles in the stands, and William was very satisfied with the surprised look on their faces, especially the surprised face of Henry I, which made William feel particularly satisfied.

"It seems that I have been deterred by this, and I don't have to worry about some unsightly French nobles coming to provoke me all these years, even if it is Henry I, does he dare to fight me? If he comes again, I will remove him from the king's position. William thought to himself.

Then William waved his hand, and a full thousand longbowmen lined up in a neat formation after a little formation, and returned to the camp, and as for the long arrows on the target, their own militia would deal with them.

"William, can you, Norman longbowmen, give me some as instructors, so that I can also train some longbowmen. As for the sharp longbows and arrows, they also sold me some, and my craftsmen could not make such powerful weapons. Ferdinand I came back to his senses and turned to William.

"That's no problem, I'll send you thirty experienced elite longbowmen as instructors, enough to train a thousand skilled longbowmen for you. In addition, I will sell you six hundred Norman longbows a year, and I will guarantee that the goods are of high quality and at a fair price. William patted his chest and reassured.

"Can't I bring you the longbow more? It's not enough to bring a longbow like this, you must know that my army has to fight against the Moors, and if you count the attrition, 600 longbows this year will not be able to arm many longbowmen. Ferdinand I was not satisfied, and he wanted William to sell him more longbows.

"This can't be done, the production of this sharp purple shirt wood longbow is already low, in addition to meeting the daily consumption needs of my army, it is already my biggest limit to be able to produce six hundred longbows per year.

In contrast, the sapwood near the bark, which is called the "back", has good tensile resistance, and only these two parts of the wood can meet the elasticity and hardness requirements of the inner and outer sides of the bow.

The requirements for making a Norman longbow are so strict that even my craftsmen can't produce more of them with limited wood.

Of course, Norman longbows can be made from hard woods such as elm, hazel, ash or oak, but they are not as sharp as purple longbows.

The Norman longbows I usually use to train longbowmen are of this inferior type, and only in times of war do I issue my longbowmen with better purple longbows. William was not annoyed by Ferdinand I's urging, but patiently explained to him.

In fact, William, who monopolized most of the purple wood resources in Europe, could produce more purple shirt longbows, but under William's intentional control, the amount of purple shirt wood was low, and it was impossible to supply craftsmen to produce purple shirt longbows in large quantities, so this purple shirt wood longbow was particularly precious, and its price was even worth the external price of a set of full-body plate armor.

William deliberately controlled the amount of felling of the Purple Shirt Wood Longbow, just to limit the other nobles from copying off a longbowman, at least so that they would not have enough Purple Shirt Wood Longbow to use if they wanted to form a longbowman.

Of course, there was no such restriction in William's own words, and in the Royal Armoury in Rouen and in the White Tower Armory in Caen, countless transshipment routes from various places were gathered in Venice, and then imported by sea, where the purple shirt wood was properly stored.

As long as William wanted to, he could produce thousands of purple longbows in a short period of time at any time, and if he was given more time, he could make tens of thousands of purple longbows.

"Well, since you also have difficulties, I won't embarrass you anymore, and six hundred purple shirt longbows are enough for me to arm a six-hundred-man longbow army. Since the first-class longbow was produced in large quantities, sell me more so that I can use it to train longbowmen or arm other troops. Hearing William talk about his difficulties, Ferdinand I was also very considerate of William's difficulties, and nodded helplessly in agreement.

"Thank you for your understanding, Ferdinand." William nodded in acknowledgement.

After William and Ferdinand I finished discussing, the nobles and nobles on the management table came over and asked if they could buy this sharp purple shirt longbow from William, which included not only the Duke of Champagne and the king's cronies, but also some other nobles from earls and below.

For the nobles who would sooner or later become William's enemies, William would not buy them the longbow of purple shirtwood, at most the lesser longbows made of hard wood such as elm, hazelwood, ash, or oak would be sold to them in small quantities.

Therefore, William directly rejected their request and sent them to Count Hubert to deal with them.

Since this grand joint military parade had achieved the expected deterrent effect, so that Henry I and his nobles did not dare to act rashly, William did not stay in Paris for long, and bid farewell to Ferdinand I, and William once again led all the soldiers out of Paris with Count Hubert.

Before leaving, William also sent an envoy as an ambassador to France of the Duchy of Normandy to the Kingdom of France, and built an embassy in the city of Paris that looked like a small fortress, and even placed a battalion of infantry, as well as many other personnel, including intelligence officers engaged in espionage work.

Of course, William's move was naturally opposed by Henry I, but when he thought of William's sharp soldiers, William immediately relented and agreed with William's decision.

William left Paris and marched north, his goal was to engage the Flemish raiders and bring back the Duchy of Flanders, led by the Count of Boulogne.