On the second day, the five battalions of five hundred men that had set out again to attack the knights' manors began to slow down.

Yesterday's skyrocketing fire and a few fish that slipped through the net alerted the surrounding knights, and they gathered their men and closed the manor to prepare to defend the manor's wooden castle.

Although there were only a few cavalry, seven or eight heavy infantry, thirty or forty light infantry, and archers totaling more than fifty men, these knights were able to stand in the way of William's side by virtue of the geographical advantage of the small civil forts built on the high ground.

There was no chance of a surprise attack, and the generals who cherished the soldiers decisively withdrew the soldiers, and took out the two bed crossbows allocated to shoot at the gate of the manor.

Rumble... Rumble...

With two loud bangs, two bed crossbow guns were inserted deep into the wooden gate, and the two ropes attached behind them were pulled outwards in unison by the soldiers outside the door.

"One-two-three, pull!"

As the slogans rang out, the ropes attached to the bed crossbow guns straightened and creaked.

With a 'boom', the gate of the manor fortress was pulled down in a short time, the gate was opened, and the heavy infantry commandos who had been prepared rushed into the manor fortress in a swren.

In the face of the swarming William's soldiers, the knights' estate, which has less than a few dozen people, is simply unable to resist, and the knights who see the situation is not good often choose to surrender to the William's army.

However, these stupid knights even demanded to keep their weapons, possessions, and estates, and the red-eyed Williams simply ignored the barking of these defeated dogs, and directly slashed at each other and killed them.

After sweeping the manor for gold and silver, their respective generals marched with their armies to another manor, and the captured manor was left to a small group of soldiers and serf conscripts to defend it. Butler Maury sent someone to receive it.

In addition to the battalion-sized troops of 500 men on the four routes in their respective directions, William's Chinese army was nearly 1,000 men, and they were led by Sir Hubert to escort food, grass and ordnance all the way north, and the target was the leader of these knights, Jensen. Sir Bernard.

After a morning's march, smashing open the gates with a torsional ballista and capturing two knights' manors, William clearly noticed that the knights were alert and gathered his forces to defend the manor fortress.

William didn't care about this, for William, who had captured more than thirty manors so far, even if the remaining forces in the knight's manor were gathered, it was only the scale of more than a thousand people, whether it was quantity or quality, they were not William's opponents at all.

"Sir Hubert, order all the Departments to assemble on our side! Now that the other side is on the alert, there is no point in us scattering and sweeping like this, as long as we gather together and concentrate on attacking Jensen. Sir Bernard, these knights are a mess! William rode his horse alongside Sir Hubert, turned his head to Hubert and said.

"Yes, His Royal Highness William, I think the same way, now we can't give each other time to gather troops, we must kill each other in one go!" Sir Hubert also turned his head to look at William and nodded in agreement.

"It seems that the four armies we have divided are too scattered, and only three of them will be able to arrive in time for three o'clock in the afternoon, but fortunately our cavalry is not far from here.

I believe that with the superiority of two thousand troops, the counterattack of these knights is nothing but a futile struggle.

Go ahead! Sir Hubert, we're going to get up to speed, we can't give them enough time to recruit soldiers and assemble against us! William said with a smile and a nod.

"Yes, His Highness William." Sir Hubert tapped his right hand on his left shoulder, gave William a military salute, and said in a sonorous voice.

Looking at Sir Hubert, who had left his home, William turned his head to look at the vast plain ahead, and he couldn't help but feel the pride and ambition of who belonged to the country.

......

Five miles away, Jensen. Sir Bernard's manor castle was bustling with knights and soldiers entering the castle at all times, making the castle, which could accommodate thousands of people, crowded and chaotic.

This castle is arguably the largest after William's Fort Vernon, and only Sir Johnson, who owned six estates, had the financial resources to build it.

In the hall of the main building of the castle, more than twenty knights gathered shouted angrily, and they all spoke out to teach William a lesson.

"Quiet! Knights, be quiet! "Sitting at the top of the table, Jensen. Sir Bernard's face was solemn and solemn, and he shouted to the knights present.

Hearing Sir Jensen's words, the scene suddenly fell silent, and all the knights were silent, turning their heads to look at Sir Jensen expectantly.

"I think you've all received an ultimatum from the bastard William for the past two days!" Sir Johnson held up an open letter in his right hand and said, "It says to give us three days to consider it, and as soon as this letter is issued, William the Bastard leads his army to attack."

Seeing that the date on this was three days ago, did he think that he could defeat us through such a despicable sneak attack? ”

When the knights on the field heard this, they cursed William's shameless behavior loudly:

"Hybrid William, as despicable as his female mother!"

"Yes, he has no aristocratic demeanor at all, he is a despicable and filthy fellow!"

"We must fight back, we must not sit still!"

"Yes, we can't let him get his way!"

......

"Well, it is to fight against the vile and shameless mongrel William that we are gathered here. But—" said Sir Jensen, after a pause, "however, our forces are absolutely weak, and William's sneak attack has destroyed at least half of the manor, and more than thirty knights have been killed.

Now we can only gather here about thirty knights, and the army is no more than 1,300 men, most of them serf conscripts, unable to defeat the army of mongrel William in the field. ”

When they heard what Sir Johnson had said, they were all dejected, and some even looked desperate.

"Don't worry, everyone!" Sir Jensen looked around at the crowd and said confidently and loudly, "I have contacted His Highness the Earl of Mortan, and he will send his knights to support him in two weeks.

All we need to do is gather our forces to defend this castle, and when reinforcements from Lord Earl Kaye arrive, it's time for William the Bastard to die!"

Lord Earl Cay promised him nothing of the land and estate of the Barony of Vernon, and the humiliation and losses we suffered before can be recovered from the hands of the bastard William, and the land and property of the manor in his hands can be cut at will! ”

"Oh!"

Inspired and instigated by Sir Jensen, all the knights present raised their hands and cheered.