WI: Danes win at Englefield, ambush and kill Æthelred and Alfred shortly afterwards

Let's say the Danes utterly rout the Anglo-Saxons at Englefield, killing Earldorman Æthelwulf and the majority of the Anglo-Saxon force. Forced interrogation of a prisoner later reveals where the King and Aetheling are located, and shortly thereafter the Danes march on Æthelred and Alfred, killing both along with the majority of their army.

What happens next? Suffering two major defeats within a week of one another, losing the King and Crown Prince, losing two large armies, what do the Anglo-Saxons do now?

Would the Danes be able to entrench their hold over the OTL Home Counties? Would Wessex fold and concede territory just like the Mercians did? Is this the end to major Anglo-Saxon opposition to Danish rule? Does England stay disunited, perhaps with three major Danish states (Jorvik, the Southeast, and the Five Boroughs) and three major Anglo-Saxon (Rump Mercia, Rump Northumbria, and a weakened Wessex), with neither side having the strength to completely dislodge the other?
 
Let's say the Danes utterly rout the Anglo-Saxons at Englefield, killing Earldorman Æthelwulf and the majority of the Anglo-Saxon force. Forced interrogation of a prisoner later reveals where the King and Aetheling are located, and shortly thereafter the Danes march on Æthelred and Alfred, killing both along with the majority of their army.

What happens next? Suffering two major defeats within a week of one another, losing the King and Crown Prince, losing two large armies, what do the Anglo-Saxons do now?

Would the Danes be able to entrench their hold over the OTL Home Counties? Would Wessex fold and concede territory just like the Mercians did? Is this the end to major Anglo-Saxon opposition to Danish rule? Does England stay disunited, perhaps with three major Danish states (Jorvik, the Southeast, and the Five Boroughs) and three major Anglo-Saxon (Rump Mercia, Rump Northumbria, and a weakened Wessex), with neither side having the strength to completely dislodge the other?

That's it for Wessex. The Danes move in. They are probably followed by more Danish settlers who would otherwise go to Iceland or Normandy otl, thus reinforcing Danish rule which probably means rump Mercia and Northumberland are toast. Normandy is probably butterflied because too many would be raiders are settling into farms in Somerset and Suffolk with a cute Saxon wives.
Ireland otoh is probably eventual low hanging fruit.

Generally, the Vikings age becomes the Viking Conquest in the west. Part of the Vikings assimilation to the native culture was because they never completed a conquest and found themselves dukes and lordlings under the Saxons or the French. Here they are in charge and as a result, Britian becomes more Danish Celtic than Anglo Celtic.

More monasteries are looted and destroyed, which long term, probably slows the Christianization of Scandinavia. Lots of missionaries were trained in England otl.
 
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