The reason why William treated these dissenting nobles with such rude methods was mainly because he was in a bad mood.

The source of William's irritability was a piece of information about Anjou sent by Emma yesterday.

At that time, when William received this information, his part-time job was like thunder, and he directly overturned the precious paper and candles on the desk.

However, William, who has learned to hide his emotions, will not show his anger, because it will affect the mood of the noble generals and soldiers who follow him, and directly affect the morale of the army.

However, today, William saw that the Count of Nantes and the others and the Count of Youdes' rebels had already secretly agreed to play in front of him, and the anger that William had accumulated in his heart finally broke out, and directly treated the Count of Nantes and others as rebels.

"Damned Count of Jofroy, now I should call thee Lord Jofroy III, Duke of Anjou, worthy of being my lifelong enemy." William thought hatefully in his heart: "I didn't expect you to endure until now, a group that concealed the death of the Duke of Anjou, Folks, and kept it a secret, and waited until I led the army to attack Brittany before officially taking over the Duke of Anjou, so that I did not have the extra energy to interfere in the succession of the Duchy of Anjou, and I wasted a great opportunity to seize the Duchy of Anjou."

What is even more hateful is that if the Duke of Frroy and His Majesty Henry I have blatantly entered into an alliance, it is all against me. ”

In William's original vision, the two forces of the Duke of Anjou, the Count of Joufroois, and the two young nephews of Jofrois, supported by Robert of Burgundy, would become opposing forces, and they should balance power with each other or fight to the death, whatever the outcome would be in William's favor.

However, due to the defeat of Robert Duke, Duke of Burgundy, in the war with King Henry I, he was unable to put his two sons on the throne of the Duke of Anjou.

Without the support of the Duchy of Burgundy, the sister of the Count of Jofroy, the wife of the Duke of Burgundy, also put away her minions, bowed in front of the Count of Jofroy, wagged her tail and begged for mercy, waiting for the opportunity.

At that time, William was concerned about the situation of the Duchy of Anjou, but at that time, it was at a critical juncture in dealing with Brittany, and the Count of Youdes was about to succeed in rebellion, so he directly ignored it with contempt for the half-crippled Duchy of Anjou.

But in any case, William did not expect that the Count of Jofroy would be able to get the Duchy of Anjou he wanted so quickly, without giving William any chance to intervene, which undoubtedly made William gnash his teeth at Jofrois.

Now that William's two arch-enemies, the Duke of Anjou and King Henry, have joined forces against him, how can William stay in peace in the Duchy of Brittany?

Therefore, in order to speed up the counterinsurgency and return to the Duchy of Normandy as soon as possible, William had to use some extraordinary means instead of continuing to make peace with these nobles.

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The first to strike were fifteen counterweight trebuchets and more than a dozen torsion trebuchets and torsion ballistae under the command of William and Claude.

Stone bullets pierced through the dense crowd with a sharp whistling sound, bringing up patches of 'snow' fog and residual 'branches', ploughing deep ridges and ditches, and finally slamming into the city wall full of aristocratic coalition troops and rebels.

With a bang, a large piece of the originally intact city wall was gnawed off, and countless noble coalition and rebel soldiers screamed and fell down the city wall more than ten meters high, and countless broken bricks and stones with 'snow' water fell to the ground and kicked up puffs of smoke and dust.

In just this round of stone bullet shooting, the aristocratic coalition and the rebels lost nearly 1,500 men, accounting for more than one-eighth of the total number of the two armies, such heavy losses were enough to collapse the average aristocratic army, and in fact it was true.

Faced with the continuous flying boulders and the dense array of longbows and arrows in the sky, the aristocratic coalition undoubtedly collapsed.

The collapse seemed to be a plague, and it was so contagious that the screaming and fleeing aristocratic coalition broke up the formation of the Yudes rebels guarding the walls, leaving them on the verge of collapse.

In the end, they were completely crushed by the Normandy knights, led by Rodrigo and Faller, each from the flanks.

Each scarlet spear pierced through the bodies of several enemies, and the raised hooves of the horses crushed the fallen enemies into pulp, while the infantry following the knights and cavalry raised their halberds and mercilessly harvested the remnants of the enemy soldiers.

Dealing with the coalition of nobles outside the castle, Rodrigo led his army with cavalry as the lead and swarmed through the gap in the wall that had been blown down by trebuchets, no matter how the rebels of Count Judes, who held the castle, were unable to resist the Normans who were like wolves.

When Count Yudes, who was staying in the main building of the castle, heard the news that the castle had been breached, he immediately screamed like ants on the hot pan and packed up his belongings in a panic, preparing to escape through the secret passage in the castle.

Although William's Norman cavalry had stormed the castle's main building, the greedy Earl of Uddes had already collected his treasure and gold coins in the storeroom, and he could not bear the wealth he had looted for more than ten years.

"Captured, captured the rebel leader, Count Domonia." A young knightly officer, holding the pale-faced Count Yudes in one hand, turned and shouted behind him.

Looking at his obscene and stiff body curled up by Count Yudes, he really couldn't imagine that this was for the honorable Earl.

"Sean. Knight Congreve, well done, you have done a great job, and I will ask His Highness William for you. Baron Rodrigo ran over the young knight's shoulder and complimented.

"Lord Baron." Sean. Knight Congreve said with a flattered look on his face.

Sean. The most revered figure of the Knight of Congreve was Baron Rodrigo, who, in just a few years, went from being a down-and-out knight and mercenary leader to a respected knight and legionnaire.

I heard that Duke William is still interested in canonizing him as a noble earl, and is still choosing a fief for Baron Rodrigo, I believe that good news will come soon.

Baron Rodrigo smiled and patted Sean who had taken you with him. The Knight Congreve turned his head and ordered the soldiers on the left and right to keep a strict watch over the captured Count of Yudes, and led the people to continue the search for another rebellious nobleman, the Count of Nantes.

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The work of collecting the spoils of war and prisoners of war continued until 10 p.m., but by this time Baron Rodrigo had searched all over the castle and could not find any trace of the Count of Nantes, so Rodrigo had no choice but to reinstate William.