The imminent war against the Duchy of Normandy and William was called the First War against France, because it was the first war in history in which all the Normans, Low Dutch, and Bretons in the Kingdom of France united against the tyrannical rule of the French.

If the occs of the four principalities of Aquitaine, Poitou, Gascogne and Toulouse had joined William's side, the war against France would have truly lived up to its name.

In the days following this meeting, the clouds of war that permeated France intensified, and according to the spy newspaper, a large number of grain, iron and other war materials were purchased in Paris, Orleans, Blois, Chartres and other places this week, and the price of these materials was more than doubled for a while, and serfs from the estates were conscripted and assembled in Paris under the leadership of knights.

Anyone with a discerning eye could see that this war was inevitable, and that King Henry I of France had contacted so many allies and spent so much money and material resources that they could not abandon the war against the Duchy of Normandy for any reason, and that the great price they had paid had to be compensated or even more from Normandy and its allies.

In the face of the approaching crisis of war, William did not sit still, and these days William gathered the Knights of Evre, Rouen, and Erbord, who had not yet been recruited in the country, to train them in formation and joint combat, and to provide them with a little armor and weapons to replenish.

This huge army, which totaled more than 12,000 men, included more than 1,200 knights, more than 2,000 cavalry, more than 2,300 heavy infantry, 1,300 archers, and more than 5,500 light infantry and levies.

Although this army composed of knights and their attendants, domestic soldiers and conscripted serfs was completely inferior to the professional standing army that was completely out of production, relying on the perennial joint combat training, the strict organization of the knights, and a large number of advanced weapons such as plate armor, its organization, discipline and armor rate greatly exceeded the limit that the army recruited by ordinary noble knights could achieve, and its combat effectiveness was also powerful in the face of the elite royal army of King Henry I.

In addition, William organized more than 8,000 militias in Rouen and Evre, selected the strong and warlike warriors among them, and reorganized them into the Third Legion of the Praetorian Guard.

After sending a number of noble generals and some graduates of the Knight Academy to serve as generals of the various units, this army looked like the main First Legion in appearance, equipment and plastic surgery, but William knew that they were far from reaching the level of the First Legion, and even the Second Legion led by Rodrigorober.

The newly built Third Army Corps numbered just over 6,000 men, including two infantry regiments of 5,000 men, a longbow regiment of 1,000 men, and a cavalry company of 120 men.

They will be led by William's most trusted Faller. Led by Baron Osborne, he followed behind the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard as a backup and supplement.

In addition to the Knights and the newly formed Third Legion, William's most confident main force was the First Legion of the Praetorian Guard, which included 7,500 men in three infantry regiments, 2,000 men in a longbow regiment, 1,500 men in a cavalry regiment, and 1,000 men in an equipment regiment, totaling 12,000 men.

They were to be led directly by William and Count Hubert to face the elite King's army and his allies in the direction of Paris in the south.

William also made detailed arrangements for the division of the battlefield, in which William and Earl Hubert led the First Legion, the Second Legion and the Knights of Eifre, a huge army of 22,000 men would be used against King Henry's elite royal army.

In the west, in Lower Normandy and Brittany, Rodrigo's Second Legion and the Knights of Mortán and Enman, an army of 13,500 men, were to be put in charge of the army of the Duchy of Anjou, led by Jofroy, Duke of Anjou.

Finally, the Knights of Rouen and the Knights of Urburg led by Baron Andrew, an army of only a few more than 8,000 men, were to defend and monitor the enemy in the east of Normandy, and to fight with the army of the Duchy of Flanders if they had spare power.

The huge army with a total number of more than 44,000 people is the limit of William's mobilization, with a population of nearly one million in Normandy to support an army of 44,000, its military and civilian Billy is one-twentieth, an average of twenty people to support a soldier, this kind of terrible military and civilian Billy can only be reached by ancient Rome and the Qin State in the East.

Of course, it was not without cost to mobilize such a large number of troops, and as one army after another was conscripted and armed, the gold coins in William's treasury and the materials in the cruelty disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye.

At present, William's gold coins are enough to spend more than five years on the army and the government, but it is worrying that the supplies in Normandy cannot be enough to supply the army for a long time, and the purchase of foreign countries may not be able to replenish the war materials in time.

William and his king Henry I, both of whom had already assembled their armies, could not have fed their armies for a long time without waging war, and now the war between the two sides was only a fuse and a spark to detonate.

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"Your Highness William, your mood seems to have deteriorated, do you need me to stay and comfort you?" Emma smiled charmingly, looked at William and said in a seductive tone.

"No, Emma, you should continue to report to me, I want to know everything about His Majesty Henry I and Paris." Now is not the time to laugh at each other with Emma, William has only war, war, war left in his heart, and if he loses, then he will have nothing.

"Understood, Your Highness. Where do you start with this information? Emma put away the charming expression on her face and said with a solemn expression.

"Then let's start with the family background of the new queen I asked you to find before."

"Our new queen is named Anna. Rurik is Yaroslav, who ruled the vast Slavic region. The youngest daughter of Grand Duke Rurik was only sixteen years old.

Yaroslav. Grand Duke Rurik is not simple, he has the Grand Duchy of Novgorod, the Principality of Ryazan, the Grand Duchy of Kiev, the Grand Duchy of Smolenk, the Duchy of Kievan Rus, the Grand Duchy of Volhynia, the Grand Duchy of Turov and many other duchy territories and titles, although he did not receive the title of king, but with his merits and strength he is indeed a real figure of the level of the emperor.

If the Grand Duke Yaroslav had not been so far away from us and had not sent troops to support King Henry I, we would have no hope of victory. Emma explained, with a grim face.

"God bless Normandy." William drew a cross on his chest and prayed to God sincerely.

William knew the power of Russia and the Slavs, even the mighty Napoleon and Hitler were defeated by endless gray cattle, and the rolling torrent of steel was terrified even by the American Empire.