Chapter 225: Shocking

The tall and strong Norman horse, the shiny full-body plate armor and horse armor, the scarlet cavalry spear raised high, and the neat cavalry queue, composed of some of the personal guard cavalry, really shocked everyone present, even Ferdinand I, who was there before, couldn't help but be shocked by the elite of the guards knights under William, not to mention Henry I who was sitting on the side.

In the war, Henry I's army was wiped out by William in one fell swoop in the night attack, and in the subsequent siege of Fort Siege, William's elite knights and heavy cavalry did not have the opportunity to play, so even if Henry I fought William several times, he still did not have the opportunity to see William's famous Guards knights, and now he has this opportunity to observe them up close, how can he not devote himself to it.

Henry I's eyes were directly attracted by this elite guard knight, no matter how he compared it to his own guard knights, William's guards knights were too much more than himself, and he didn't even dare to imagine if he led three times the number of heavy cavalry to defeat this guard knight in a frontal charge.

It wasn't just Henry I who thought so, but even Ferdinand I.

Ferdinand I had boasted in front of William that his Castille knights were the most powerful, enough to be the teacher of the Norman knights, but from now on, he was a little arrogant, and as far as these guards cavalry displayed by William were concerned, their combat effectiveness was already more than stronger than the Castille knights.

Ferdinand I then turned his gaze to the Norman cavalry, which was not yet present, and he found that in addition to this cavalry, there were thousands of cavalry and this cavalry wearing the same equipment, except for the rare difference in their elite, but also in terms of weaponry, discipline, and spirit.

"It seems that I have to talk to the knights who went to William's place, so that they are not so arrogant, otherwise there will be a conflict with the Norman knights, and it will not end well." Ferdinand I couldn't help but think to himself.

Just when Ferdinand I and Henry I were absorbed by the elite knights of the guard, the corners of William's mouth showed an imperceptible smile, what he wanted was this effect, to let everyone who participated in the parade know that Normandy was powerful, that Normandy was unchallengeable and not to be humiliated.

It didn't take long for the knights of the Guards to reach the viewing platform where William was, and he raised his right hand high and slammed forward, and Faller, who was leading the cavalry of the Guards, immediately met and ordered the whole army to charge.

Woo woo... Woo woo...

The sound of the trumpets rang out, and to the sound of the trumpets, the cavalry began to gallop and begin to accelerate.

Boom Boom... Thundered...

The roaring hooves of horses resounded like thunder through the heavens and the earth, and they were transmitted to all directions in bursts, as if announcing their arrival and their majesty.

The sound of the horses' hooves is so neat and rapid that it is not at all as motley as the knights of Castille or the knights of France, it is almost like a good symphony concert.

Less than 100 meters in front of the viewing platform, the cavalry of the guards had accelerated to the maximum, and in the sound of whining horns, all the knights put down the six-meter-long vermilion cavalry spears, and the three rows of cavalry spears formed a neat array of spears, and a small red background double lion flag on the front section of the cavalry spears was fluttering in the wind, which was very beautiful.

At this time, the beauty of rules and balance is a moving beauty of power, and no one can remain calm in the face of such power.

The nobles present looked at the guards cavalry with a look of longing in their eyes, they knew that in addition to the well-trained cavalry, the weapons and armor on their bodies were also one of the important factors of their strength, so they who were not able to train elite cavalry immediately set their sights on the full-body plate armor, horse armor, cavalry spears, and swords they were wearing, hoping to buy these advanced equipment to arm a more elite cavalry.

Among them, except for Ferdinand I, who had agreed with William in the early morning, all the princes and nobles, including Henry I, all wanted to buy these sturdy-looking cavalry plates and horse armor from William.

For those nobles who licked their faces, William sent them directly to Count Hubert to deal with, he did not like to contact these hypocritical French nobles, but Henry I resisted the eagerness, and just sent some of his direct nobles to discuss with William about the purchase of plate armor, which really surprised William.

A few hundred meters away from the viewing platform, the Guards cavalry completed the turn, during which the formation was not chaotic at all, and after a short period of time, the whole team came towards the viewing platform again.

A group of nobles who watched this cavalry of the Guards were really amazed by them, whether it was equipment, discipline and elite, they were not inferior to the ironclad paladier of the Eastern Roman Empire, and even surpassed.

When the cavalry of the Guards was gone, William's light cavalry unit was next.

Dressed in half-body plate armor and armed with sabers, shields, and javelins, this cavalry was a light cavalry that used javelins as a ranged weapon.

In the eyes of the nobles on the management platform, this cavalry had nothing to marvel at at all except that it was well-equipped, and they could at most sigh at the wealth of Normandy, and even the light cavalry could wear a suit of plate armor.

However, if they did take a dismissive attitude towards these less-than-looking hussars, they would probably suffer a great loss, and the Norman hussars' javelins and cavalry knives would teach them how to behave.

Ferdinand I, who had trained the Norman light cavalry in the same way as William, saw the strength of this cavalry, the sharp javelin and cavalry sword were invincible spears, and the half-body plate armor was an all-encompassing shield, and the combination of the two was extremely terrifying.

Ferdinand I also tried to arm his hussars with imported half-body plate armor and fought them and the Moorish hussars, with the result that the smaller light cavalry directly defeated twice the number of Moorish light cavalry.

A thousand light cavalry hurried by, followed by a phalanx of William's heavily armored halberders, half-armored spearmen, and heavily armored sword and shield men, and a line of spears, glittering halberd axe blades, and sharp Norman swords, all telling the people how well equipped this army was.

With the sound of neat footsteps, the army walked past the viewing platform at an unhurried pace, leaving only a group of stunned nobles staring at the infantry dumbfounded.

In their cognition, only knights are the most important combat force, and the infantry under their command are mostly conscripted serfs, and some are just mercenaries, they have never seen such an infantry regiment armed to the teeth, which is completely outside their cognition.