With the ground being so muddy it caused the armor that the knights were wearing to act like a kind of suction cup. Imagine trying to walk through a foot of mud and that mud is sucking your legs down every time you try to take another step, slowing them down to the point of exhaustion.
Then the long bowmen could run up in their leather shoes and use a long knife to stab you in the armpit or behind the knee. This theory was explained in a documentary I saw but I forget the name of it. (probably one of those battlefield docos)
Knights were dragged off of their horses into the mud, pinned down by a couple of men while 1 or more men used their mallets/other blunt weapons to bash them silly, or pulling daggers/rondels and trying to stab gaps into that armor.
But drowning a fucker might be a little easier, if you and two of your buddies drag him to the ground, two of you hold his body, one of you presses his face into the mud until he stops squirming- move onto the next one. This is what eyewitnesses to the battle described- vicious, horrifying murders.
It's certainly a grisly scene to imagine- these gallant, expensively dressed/armored/armed French knights, supposedly the best of the best.... and they're being dragged off of their horses by "filthy peasants" where they get their noble heads bashed in, or their noble eyes stabbed. Imagine the righteousness the British troops felt in that moment, if they could think beyond the terror of the moment- here's this high-falootin' faggot noble, thinks he's better than you, you've spent your entire life bowing and scraping to the likes of this guy... and now you and your brother are stabbing him in the armpits as he squirms and begs for mercy in the mud.
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