King William did not respect the Church for good reason. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

First of all, he was a Norman, and the Normans originally believed in the Norse gods, and only converted to the 'heresy' of God in order to settle in Normandy, so it is impossible to say how religious their faith was.

Of course, the main thing was the wedding of King William and his wife, Princess Matilda of Flanders, because William and Matilda were distant cousins, so in repentance of this wedding, William donated St. Stephen's Church (men's convent) and Matilda donated St. Trinity Church (women's convent) - note that this is not just two monasteries, this includes nearly 4,000 acres of land around the monastery!

Since then, King William has understood that faith can be bought with money.

He then used the money to buy the Pope's support for his invasion of England, which convinced William that the so-called faith was completely worthless in the face of gold coins.

That's why he had such contempt for the soldiers of the Duchy of Dehebas, who had fanatical faith, and he was so sure that once the soldiers armed with faith tasted the blood of rust, their courage would immediately crumble!

At this moment, the Norman iron cavalry has already fought with the heavy cavalry of the Earl of Connell, only in terms of the number of equipment, at this moment, the cavalry of the Earl of Connor is not inferior to King William, and even superior in numbers! But it's not just the numbers and weapons that determine the winner, it's the training and discipline that matter!

After a round of cavalry guns collided with each other, the cavalrymen of the first row on both sides were killed, and the howls of the cavalry and the war horses were heard endlessly. The cavalry in the second row was a little slower, and they did their best to turn their horses' heads, even if they only deflected at a slight angle, and they could survive!

This is a competition of riding skills between the two sides, but both sides have ridden horses for most of their lives, and even if there is a gap, it will not be too big, far from the point where it can determine the outcome of a war, so at this time, it is the best embodiment of King William's command art!

Count Connor's hoplite cavalry, most of their charges were disorganized, completely unorderly, and their heads were gushing with blood at this moment, all of them were fighting bravely, and the heads of the horses in the front and back rows were even chasing the horses in the front row! With such a narrow distance, once the front row falls, the back row doesn't even have time to react!

But King William, despite the fact that his cavalry was also composed of nobles and knights, was also a group of arrogant people, but King William had enough prestige to suppress these fellows, and to give them strict training and discipline. This also means that King William can use his cavalry to the fullest and show his talent for war!

"Quick! Let the heavy cavalry all disperse, disperse! ”

"Order, the cavalry of the third and fourth rows dispersed! Surround from the flanks and charge against the enemy's heavy cavalry! ”

At that time, seeing that their own side collided with the enemy's cavalry, the commanders of the two armies unanimously made the decision to let the cavalry in the rear row disperse. But to be honest, at this time, the battle has already begun, even if the herald is to ride a bloody horse, it will be too late!

At this time, it's the usual training.

The heavy cavalry of the Earl of Connor finally stopped after the senseless death of a large number of cavalry, and then could only stand in confusion, but King William's Norman iron cavalry, according to the usual training, did not slow down around a crescent arc, and launched a second charge against the enemy's surviving heavy cavalry!

The fundamental reason for such a huge gap is that King William left enough space between each row of cavalry and cavalry to facilitate the cavalry's turning and changing formations to attack, and used iron and blood discipline and ruthless iron mask to ensure the resolute execution of orders!

The hoplites, who had been hit so hard in the confusion, were about to collapse almost instantly! After all, with the spears and spears reflecting the sharp cold light, coupled with the acceleration of the horses galloping at forty kilometers per hour, the Norman iron horsemen only needed to hold the weapons in their hands horizontally, and they could easily stab the hoplites on the opposite side!

Having defeated the enemy's hoplites, the remaining infantry looked to the eyes of these Norman horsemen as if they were a small sampan struggling to survive in the stormy seas, which could be overturned at any moment!

"It's over!"

At that time, seeing that his cavalry unit was wiped out by King William's Norman iron cavalry at once, Earl Connor closed his eyes in despair.

However, at this moment, a frenzied roar erupted among the coalition forces: "Charge! For the glory of St. David!! ”

Immediately afterwards, the soldiers of the Duchy of Dekhbas, who had been recruited only on an improvised basis and had only undergone a little bit of training, shouted slogans feverishly, brandished clubs, wood-clad spears, daggers, short swords, and other crude and rudimentary weapons, and rushed madly towards the speeding cavalry in a fanatical and even distorted manner. Shock the Normans' ironclad heavy cavalry head-on with flesh and blood! Crushed, trampled, smashed, pierced! And yet still crazy, fanatical, extreme and never-ending!

"This ...... This...... This bunch of maniacs!! ”

King William was dumbfounded, this was originally what Earl Connor said when he looked at the Norman assault infantry who were not afraid of death, but now he said it himself!

However, King William is indeed surprising, there are a total of 4,000 soldiers in the Duchy of Dehebas, of which more than 2,000 are lightly armored or even unarmored cannon fodder soldiers, these cannon fodder use their bodies as human stumbling blocks, allowing their bodies to be torn, trampled, and crushed, but they just didn't take a step back! With their flesh and blood, they blocked the steel pace of the Norman Iron Horseman!

Such fanatical beliefs, such fears of life and death, the cannon fodder with their earth-shattering roar, and noble spirit of sacrifice, so that all the friendly troops on the entire battlefield were deeply inspired, and greatly shocked the Norman soldiers, at this moment, the battlefield that was originally decided by the overall situation, may usher in a second turnaround!

"Charge! Soldiers! Charge! Don't let the warriors' sacrifices go to waste!! ”

At that time, Count Connell, who had come to his senses, bit his tongue violently, and forced himself to wake up from the shock just now with a piercing pain, and then roared desperately, waking up the soldiers around him, and then the soldiers also roared, and for a moment the roar resounded in the sky!

And now, the Norman horsemen, who had just hit the man too well, realized that they had made a fatal mistake - perhaps not a mistake, after all, they had just destroyed more than twice their own infantry with a single blow - they had penetrated too deep into the enemy!

Moreover, they are surrounded by a quagmire made of corpses, and at this moment, even if they want to withdraw, they must first steer the horses out of this quagmire before they can run with confidence!

But will the enemy give them this chance?

"Forward, forward! St. David's bless us! Kill all the demons who invaded us! ”

One of the soldiers who rushed to the front, his cape disheveled, shouted excitedly like a ghost more than a human, and then he was whipped away by a passing Norman knight wielding a battle axe. But at this moment, several other soldiers had already gathered around, and immediately cut off the horse's legs, and grabbed the reins. The Norman cavalry panicked, pulled the reins of the horse, and the horse's legs were raised high, and then stepped heavily on the head of an unlucky man directly in front of him. Directly stepped on a.

But that's the end of it.

The front legs of the war horse that had just stepped on a head had not had time to land, and there was already a wail, and the hind legs were directly cut in two, and collapsed to the ground, and the Norman cavalry could no longer sit on the horse, and suddenly fell down and hit the ground first, and the mind of the seven meat and eight vegetarians was not clear, only felt a flash in front of him, the dazzling sunlight, the strong smell of blood, and the spear that flashed with cold light......

This situation is just a microcosm on the battlefield, although the Norman iron cavalry is still majestic, and can pull a few pads before dying, but no one will think that it is a good deal to take a cavalry that has undergone more than ten years of training and exchange it for a few cannon fodder soldiers.

"Kill them! Kill them!! Kill them all!! ”

King William, who also woke up from shock, his mind had completed the triple jump from surprise, fear, and anger, fear was naturally the fear of the enemy in front of him to abandon life and death, and anger was the anger of a group of insignificant little insects who dared to challenge the king!

Perhaps even King William himself did not realize that, although he showed anger on the surface, he did have a fear of the enemy army in front of him in his heart - as a foreign conqueror, if everyone resisted desperately like the enemy army in front of him, then King William, even if he had more soldiers, would not be enough!

"So, today, they all have to die here, they have to! Not a single one can run! ”

PS: The heavy cavalry rushed to kill each other, I checked a lot of information, but I just can't write that taste, if I have to write it, I will write it like before, so ...... Alas, it's still too tender......