"Do you transfer the 1st Legion, the strongest legion in Normandy?"

On this issue, William thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to let the First Army hold on to the territory for the time being, after all, the Normandy public is his basic plate, and there can be no mistakes.

With his 34,000 troops, plus the mobilized vassal army, he would gather 60,000 troops in the Norman kingdom of England, an army that was second to none even in the Holy Roman Empire, the overlord of Europe.

And if he continues to gather more troops, not to mention whether the Norman kingdom and the Normans can hold on, with the poor road conditions of the Kingdom of England, more troops means more trouble and more attrition, and it is likely that there will be a large number of non-combat attrition, which he does not want to see.

In fact, even if you muster a large number of troops against the cunning Vikings, it is useless, and when the Vikings do not have an advantage in numbers, they will not attack head-on, but choose to raid, or even do it coldly.

Only a combination of land and navy could truly solve the Viking threat, so William ordered the commander of the North Sea Fleet, Dirk. Fan. Osterzelle led a fleet to sink the Vikings' longship, depriving the Vikings of their ability to come and go, and this was the right way to open it.

Dirk. Fan. Osterzelle was a naval talent discovered by William five years earlier, and his two cousins, Van Anderson. Frederick and Gerbo of the House of Osterzelle were also well-known, each serving as commander of a detachment.

William was expecting the experienced Dutchman admiral to bring him victory.

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In the Bay of Biscay, numerous Castile soldiers, sent by Ferdinand I to support William's reinforcements, are entering the cabin.

Ferdinand I, as William's father-in-law and ally, asked William for help, and he naturally agreed.

He immediately gathered a strong force of more than 22,000 men and sent his confident commanders, Nuno II, Duke of Portuga, and Eneco, Count of Biscay. Morality. Led by Harrow, this army is an elite unit that has been trained after a hundred battles with the Moors, and he is confident that this army can help William change his situation.

It took Ferdinand I less than three weeks to assemble such a large army, not because William asked for help, but because he was preparing to launch an Aragon holy war against the emir of Zaragoza and capture Zaragoza.

When William's emissaries arrived in Burgos and asked for help on William's behalf, Ferdinand I gave up attacking Burgos. The idea of the Emir Nation was to use this assembled army in support of William.

In addition to William's in-laws and covenants, one of the reasons why Ferdinand I was so cheerful was that the economic and military support of the Norman kingdom to the Castilians was also very important.

Whether it was the mineral resources of the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, the timber resources, the Moorish slaves, or the livestock such as Andalusian horses and merino sheep, the Norman kingdom imported a large number of commodities for many years, and the royal family of Jimena and the Castile people relied on the export of these goods to the Norman kingdom for huge profits.

At the same time, in order to strengthen the armament, Ferdinand I and the nobles of Castille ordered ordnance materials such as weapons plates and longbows from William, because the plate armor produced by the Norman kingdom has strong defensive power, the sword is indestructible, and the range of the longbow is even comparable to that of trebuchets, so every year they import a large number of ordnance materials from the Norman kingdom.

With William and Uraka. Jimena became fiancée, and the Norman kingdom and the Spanish kingdom of Castille grew closer and stronger, and the two sides became inseparable allies.

As the future son-in-law of the Castiles, William sought help from Ferdinand I and the Castilians when he was in trouble, and they were naturally willing to help.

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Not far from the Kingdom of Castile, the Kingdom of France underwent a shocking upheaval here - Duke Robert of Burgundy. Morality. The Burgundian 'Elders' were embraced by rival factions and rebelled to seize the throne of France.

As the half-brother of the current king Henry I, Robert of Burgundy, who had a strong claim to the Kingdom of France, even occupied Paris in 1033 with the help of the Empress Dowager Constance, and expelled Henry I to Normandy, if it were not for the help of Robert I, Duke of Normandy, to return to Paris, he would probably become the new king of France.

Once so close to the throne, but was driven down by his brother, the Duke of Burgundy Robert was naturally unwilling, and even launched a rebellion after getting the Duchy of Burgundy, but unfortunately it was quickly quelled.

This time, William and the Normans, who had put great pressure on the Kingdom of France, turned their attention to England, according to intelligence, William was deeply involved in the war with the local nobility of England, and even the Vikings were involved, thinking that William would not be able to end this hard war in a few years.

William's pressure on the Kingdom of France was greatly reduced, and the first thought of these French princes was not to rally around Henry I and take advantage of William's lack of time to give the Norman Kingdom a moment, but to support Robert, Duke of Burgundy, to launch a rebellion.

The reason for this is that the princes of France deeply felt the threat posed by Henry I.

In recent years, in order to strengthen the royal power and centralized rule, Henry I first plotted to recover the county of Sens, and then from the Count of Bourges, Gilles. Morality. Bourges recovered the county of Bourges.

Previously, Henry I had only two counties, Paris and Orleans, and was trapped by the French princes on the tiny Île-de-France, and because of this, Henry was even teased by other kings as the king of Île-de-France.

But after Henry I recovered the counties of Sens and Bourges, the territories under his direct jurisdiction more than doubled, and the power of the direct jurisdiction increased exponentially, which brought a great threat to the French princes, who feared that if the Capetian royal family continued to grow, they would extend their hands to their territories under the pretext of taking back the territories in their hands, which the French princes absolutely did not allow.

In particular, Thibaud, the Duke of Champagne, was extremely dissatisfied with this, originally he was extremely dissatisfied with Henry I's independence of the Archdiocese of Reims from the Duchy of Champagne, and then Henry I took back the de jure territory of the Duchy of Champagne, the county of Sens, instead of transferring the Count of Sens to him, which was simply a serious provocation to him, which was unbearable.

It was to be taken by the Duke of Champagne Thibaud. Morality. Blois launched a faction that supported Robert Duke, Duke of Burgundy, to seize the throne of France, and was subsequently joined by many French princes, including Baldwin V, Duke of Flanders, Gichome VII, Duke of Aquitaine, and Pons, Duke of Toulouse. JI Xiaomu. Morality. Toulouse, with the exception of the Count of Vimanduis, who did not join, was joined by almost all the French princes.

In the name of supporting the seizure of the throne by Robert, Duke of Burgundy, they undermined the power and power of the Capetian royal family, and launched a rebellion.

Among them, the French princes had different intentions, the Duke of Aquitaine, Gichiome VII, wanted to be crowned King of Aquitaine, the Duke of Toulouse wanted to learn from the Norman kingdom to become independent from the Kingdom of France, the Duke of Champagne wanted to seize Sens and Reims and then covet Orleans, and the Duke of Flanders wanted to annex the county of Vimanduis.

The French princes had different purposes, under the banner of Robert I, Duke of Burgundy, they launched a rebellion, and now King Henry I of France was numb, and the Kingdom of France was full of rebellious princes, and no one was on Henry I's side.