When the first wave of thousands of long arrows fell from the sky and slammed into the bodies of the Anjou knights, countless blood flowers bloomed like red lotuses, bewitching and beautiful but accompanied by the giant scythe of death.

The weak stab-and-arrow armor was powerless to prevent 90 cm long arrows from penetrating the knight's body, let alone the leather-clad cavalry. In this rain of arrows alone, more than 100 knights were killed on the spot, more than 150 knights fell to the ground and were wounded, and the casualties of the attendant cavalry were even more heavy, and six or seven hundred people directly lost their combat effectiveness, and most of them died.

Just suffered a rain of longbows and arrows, and the first wave of knights who attacked lost nearly one-third of their combat strength on the spot, and even the French knights with high fighting spirit couldn't help but become confused, and they hesitated to raise their shields to defend.

"Damn it, Baron Raymond, let the knights withdraw, I'm going to let the armor-clad guards attack, this time I'm going to have my bastard William captured and tortured to vent the hatred in my heart." Count Jofroy cursed and ordered one of his commanders, Baron Raymond.

"Yes." When Raymond received the order, he did not bother to salute, and immediately rode away, because if he delayed here for a minute, the knights who were under the attack of arrows would be more dangerous.

However, when Raymond led the front-line cavalry back to the battlefield, they were still attacked by two waves of bows and arrows, and despite their best efforts to defend themselves with shields, they still suffered one hundred and fifty knights' casualties, and twice the number of squire cavalry.

When the Count of Voyes rectified the defeated army and counted the casualties, Rao was mentally prepared and he was still shocked by more than half of the casualties.

With less than 1,600 knights in his hands, Count Joffroy, who was in the middle of 3,000 cavalry, suddenly turned red-eyed, and he ordered the whole army to be crushed as if he were a gambler with a red eye, not only the cavalry troops, but also the 18,000 infantry behind him.

If the Count of Frogis does not leave a way for himself to retreat at this time, if the cavalry, which is the vanguard, does not retreat and retreats again, then the defeated cavalry and the living infantry will collide with each other, causing the whole army to be disorganized, and the army of Anjou will not be far from being destroyed.

However, in the eyes of Count Jofroy, the casualties suffered this time were entirely due to the carelessness of his own cavalry, not to mention that he also sent 300 knights wearing full-body plate armor as strikers, and the full-body plate armor with super anti-arrow and anti-stab ability was one of the sources of his self-confidence.

After making preparations, the cavalry of Anjou, led by the three hundred plates of the Guard, led by the Plate Armor of Jofrois, raised their shields and jogged across the river, instead of wading across the river in a charging posture.

Sure enough, if the Count of Frroy's plan worked, and although they suffered a rain of seven or eight waves of bows and arrows on the way across the river, they lost only a few hundred knights and about 400 squire light cavalry, and the Anjou cavalry that arrived in front of William's line after crossing the river exceeded 4,000 men, including more than 1,400 knights.

Perhaps William deliberately released the water, and did not suffer the devastating blow of the longbowmen's arrows during the crossing of the river, and did not even use the counterweight trebuchet, in order to leave the cavalry force that posed the greatest threat to William here.

"Hubert, order the longbowmen and archers to shoot with all their might, and let the longbowmen retreat when they approach their positions, I don't want to see any casualties on them.

Leave the work of dealing with the Anjou cavalry to the Norman halberders, Norman spearmen, and Norman sword and shield hoplites.

In addition, Claude's counterweight trebuchet and ballista were also instructed to shoot, not to keep, with explosive shells and fire bombs. William took advantage of the opponent's team to instruct Hubert.

"Yes." Baron Hubert immediately used a trumpet and a banner to convey William's order to the whole army, and in addition he ran down the conning tower, took up his sword and shield, mounted his horse, and stood by behind the infantry with the cavalry troops around him, waiting for the best time to attack.

Whoa... Whoa...

Before the Anjou cavalry two hundred yards away could charge with all their might, William's 2,800 longbowmen and four thousand Norman bows and arrows scattered across the various armies fired with all their might, and a dense rain of arrows hung over the heads of the Anjou cavalry, no matter which direction they used their shields to resist, there were always arrows that hit them.

"Charge, charge, as long as the opponent's bow and arrow troops are defeated, there is nothing to fear from the bastard William." The Count of Jofroy shouted, and immediately led his three hundred full-body plate cavalry to lead the charge.

The best-dressed Count of Jofroy was certainly not afraid of William's longbowmen, he had tested the defensive power of this plate of armor, and the opponent's arrows were completely powerless against it.

"For Jouflroy, for Anjou!" The knights behind him, encouraged by the Count of Jooffroy's lead, rode after their Count and charged towards William's position.

The Duchy of Anjou had the most elite heavy cavalry in Europe, and the knights of Anjou were elite, and they were all very strong in battle, and on several occasions, inspired by the Count of Joufroois, even rushed in front of the Normandy army.

They stabbed with their spears, drew their knights' swords and roared and roared, but they were still unable to do any great damage to the Normans.

The galloping horses were held back by rows of trenches, and even if they were lucky enough to cross these obstacles, the knights who had lost their speed were not even as good as a heavy infantry, and countless spears stopped them from moving on.

The knights who stopped their horses roared unwillingly, and the halberd soldiers hooked the knights off their horses with the hooks on their halberds, chiseled their helmets and shields with the axes and awls on the halberds, and finally pierced the bodies protected by chain mail with the spear heads on the halberds.

Cavalry equipped with spears increased their charging power but reduced their hand-to-hand combat capabilities, leaving them powerless against halberd attacks.

Of course, dismounted knights are the opposite, dismounted knights are not only good at charging and hand-to-hand combat, but also have stronger combat effectiveness than cavalry.

The knights who survived by turning over and dismounting were about to take up their swords and shields to fight, but they were surrounded by Norman hoplites and dismounted knights, and the terrain and some Norman spearmen who were good at dealing with cavalry were occasionally stabbing at the lone knights.

Even if the knights of Anjou were lucky enough to rush up, in the case of raining arrows, having no terrain advantage and unable to complete the charge, of course, they could only be chopped into meat sauce one by one by the Normandy infantry, except for the Chinese army, the same situation was the situation on both wings of William's army, and no knight could be spared.