Chapter Ninety-Three: Attack on William
Name: William Alexander
Title: Conqueror
Title: Duke of Normandy, Knight of Kings
Life Race: Human, Dragon
Rating: 85
Rank: Fourth Order
Combat effectiveness: 98
Intelligence: 88
Glamour: 93
Skill: [Body of Steel] After bathing in dragon blood, the whole body is like steel and iron, and it is indestructible
Skill: [King's Miracle] Cleanse your hands with water and touch the patient again to cure the patient's disease
Skill: [Manifest Destiny] Favored by Fate, God's Chosen Monarch, Born Ruler
Skill: [Dragon] Transform into a dragon
Skill: [King's Privilege] can do whatever you want within a certain range
Nearly 1,000 warships set out from Normandy and crossed the English Channel, aiming at the land of England, where the 12,000 troops sailing on the sea, as well as the livestock and food on board, made all the warships crowded and noisy, and Duke William woke up from such an environment.
The pungent smell made him frown, and a vague shadow kept swaying around him, this voyage was for the conquest of England, not for the enjoyment of the outing, so William had to endure the harsh conditions of the ship.
The noise and shouts came and went in the dreary cabin, Duke William got up from his bed, coughed lightly, and listened to the shouts outside, and his heart could not help but be annoyed, and he said loudly, "Quiet, you all quiet me down." ”
With a "bang", Duke William walked out of the cabin and threw away the clay pot in his room, and the sound of the clay pot falling to the ground soon alarmed all the noisy people, and the whole ship fell silent at once.
"His Royal Highness." The sailors and warriors of the ship bowed to Duke William, and his fleet was in complete confusion.
"What's the matter, Knight Gawain, why are the soldiers on my ship so noisy?"
"Your Royal Highness, as you can see, a meteor has appeared in the sky, and the soldiers are rumoring that this is an ominous sign for the conquest of Britain."
A middle-aged knight came to Duke William's side and told him what had happened before, when a meteor suddenly fell, a legendary bad omen for the Norman soldiers who were about to step into a foreign land and enter the act of conquest, a warning from the god Odin.
The Normans were actually the Vikings, and during the long period of Roman Empire's rule, their prestige and influence spread throughout all the territories of the empire, from the Atlantic Ocean in the west, to the east to the west, and even to the Owenyou Wall in England in the north, and to the upper Nile River in Egypt in the south.
However, even the Roman Empire, which ruled over such a vast territory, did not extend its influence to Scandinavia, Northern Europe, even as far away as the European continent, England believed in Christianity, while the Scandinavians still believed in their gods, Odin, Thor, and Valhalla's Valkyries.
In the late period of Charlemagne, the Scandinavians had already shown their prominence as pirates, which made Charlemagne in his later years a headache, and the Navians, Norsemen, Vikings, Danes, and Norwegians were all called these islands.
Believing in the great god Odin, and then plundering everywhere to tie up Charlemagne's empire, Italy, Germany, France are the target of Viking extortion, even England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland are not spared, Vikings are rampant throughout Europe, and even the Byzantine Empire in the east has their presence.
The Normans were also a branch of the Vikings, because they invaded Normandy and established their own country, the Duchy of Normandy, and at the same time used force to make the French king and the Duke of Normandy recognize this feudal relationship, so the Vikings who invaded Normandy were immediately Frenchized, which was manifested in the fact that the Duke led the army to be baptized and converted to Christianity.
"Who is talking nonsense, this is obviously God declaring to us, our victory is of course, look at the flag above our fleet."
Duke William drew his sword and shouted at his knightly nonsense, pointing his sword at the ship's flag waving in the wind, the flag of Michael, the flag of the Papal States representing the Pope, the flag of the Holy Roman Emperor, and William's own flag of the Duchy of Normandy.
"We are blessed by God, and the meteor falling towards England does not mean that we will fail, but that the current puppet king of England, Harold, will fail, which is a bad omen for them, but a great omen for us."
Duke William said in front of his soldiers, and for a moment the soldiers who originally thought that the meteor was passing by and that it was a bad omen for this expedition to England instantly felt that they were wrong, how could this be a bad omen, it was a good omen at all.
Duke William's words were somewhat quibbling, but the Normans, like his Viking relatives, were full of martial virtue and muscles, and naturally they were not very good at intellectual problems, not to mention that no one would question that God was not on this side.
If God is not on the side of the brave Normans, will he still be on the side of the cowardly Anglo-Saxons?
Seeing this, Duke William breathed a sigh of relief, and after stabilizing the morale of the army, it was time to think about the next thing.
Although the Normans disguised themselves as an orthodox Frenchman, a devout Christian, a close friend and vassal of the French king, deliberately dissociated themselves from their former beliefs and barbarian origins, and in fact secretly believed in the great god Odin and Thor, the god of thunder, and there were many Normans who wanted to enter Valhalla after death, even if there were devout Christians, they understood the Bible differently than ordinary Christians.
For example, the teaching of Jesus Christ is to let people know how to forgive, if someone hits you on the left cheek, then you should not fight back, according to Christ's teachings to give up your right cheek to him to beat, the Normans who are full of martial virtues do not like such teachings, so when the Norman priests led by Cardinal Robert teach the doctrine, they will contact the content of the Old Testament of the Bible to preach.
Blessed be the LORD my rock, who has taught my hands to fight, and my fingers to fight. And Yahweh was a warrior, and Jehovah sent the seraph to kill the firstborn of all the families of Egypt, and Yahweh destroyed the world with a great flood.
Oh my God, this is even more ferocious than the great god Odin and Thor, the god of thunder, and it seems that this great god is even more powerful than the gods of Norse mythology.
Therefore, all the Normans worshipped the god Jehovah as the god of war, and the Vikings, who had dealings with the Normans, declared themselves "friends with God and enemies of the world."
"Jehovah, God of War, bless us with victory, attack!"
The warriors below heard Duke William's words, and spread among themselves on different ships, and for a moment their emotions were high, as if victory was at hand.
Duke William closed his eyes slightly, he understood that this was an obstacle to him from the Celtic gods or the British saints, but he would not care about this, as a monarch, he had long been qualified to be immune to most of the influence of the gods and saints.
"Your Highness, England is ahead, and we have arrived." Knight Gawain suddenly looked at the land in front of him, and then walked over and said, and for a while the cheers rang out, one after another.