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The Bayeux Tapestry shows work immediately got under way to build an aweinspiring expeditionary force. Rows of Normandy trees went down to the axe to emerge as 400 dragonheaded ships. Loaded onto the ships were coats of mail, bows, arrows, spears and the most indispensable item of all vast casks of wine. And packed so tightly into the boats that they supported each other, were perhaps 6, 000 horses, three for each knight. Across the Channel, Harold responded by proving that he too, was a phenomenal military organiser. As the crack troops of his army, Harold could call on the elite of perhaps 3, 000 " huscarls", professional soldiers trained to handle a twohanded axe that, if swung right, could slice right through a horse and its rider at one blow. |
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bèi yè guà tǎn shàng zhǎn shì le tā men rú hé lì jí tóu rù jīng lì, zǔ jiàn yī zhī lìng rén jìng wèi de yuǎn zhēng jūn duì. fǔ tóu xià chéng pái de nuò màn dǐ shù bèi kǎn dào, yáo shēn biàn chéng le sì bǎi sōu lóng tóu chuán, chuán shàng zài mǎn le kǎi jiǎ, gōng jiàn, suō biāo, hái yǒu zuì bù kě huò quē de dà tǒng dà tǒng de jiǔ. mǎ pǐ bèi jǐn jǐn xì zài chuán shàng, hù xiāng kào zhe, zǒng gòng kě néng yǒu liù qiān pǐ měi míng qí shì sān pǐ, zài hǎi xiá nà biān. hā luó dé háo bù shì ruò, tā yě jí lì biǎo xiàn zhe zì jǐ chū zhòng de jūn shì zhǐ huī cái néng, hā luó dé zhào jí sān qiān" zhàn fǔ qí bīng", zuò wéi jūn duì de jīng yīng lì liàng. zhèi xiē xùn liàn yǒu sù dí shì bīng, shàn yòng shuāng shǒu fǔ, zhǐ yào shǐ yòng dé dàng, jiù néng yī jǔ pī kāi zhàn mǎ hé qí mǎ zhě. |