Chapter 33: King Wu Destroys Shang

The guards of Michi County are Zhang Kui and Gao Lanying.

Jiang Xiang looked at the generals;

Who are you waiting for to challenge?

Chonghei Tiger stood up, and I would like to go.

Okay, General Chonghou Hu led 5,000 to challenge.

Long Hui was a little faintly uneasy at the moment, and sure enough, not long after, the soldiers reported that Chonghou Hu was killed by Zhang Kui.

What the? How could Chonghou Hu be strong in martial arts? Could it be that this Zhang Kui is so powerful. King Wu looked at everyone, what should I do now?

Huang Feihu offered advice; King Wu, Jiang Xiang, this Zhang Kui and his wife are indeed very high in martial arts, according to my opinion, let's take a detour to Mengjin, and wait for all the princes to gather and attack the court together.

What is General Long's good plan?

I think it's okay to take a detour to Mengjin. In the end, the army made a detour to Mengjin, and the Mengjin defenders immediately fled when they saw the Western Zhou army. After arriving at Mengjin, the army began to encamp, waiting for the arrival of the other princes.

A few days later, Jiang Wenhuan, the Eastern Bohou, and the Southern Bohou, Eshun, Yong, Lu, Peng, Pu, Shu and other tribes rushed to Mengjin one after another, and the total number of the coalition army reached 120,000.

At this moment, in Chaoge, the king received the news that the rebels had gathered in Mengjin, so he ordered someone to urgently assemble the royal guards, and armed a large number of slaves, gathered 170,000 people, and personally led the troops to Makino to meet the battle.

King Wu of Zhou solemnly swore and said: Si Chen, the hen, is a misfortune in the family. Now the king only listens to the words of traitors, and even the sacrifices of his ancestors have been abandoned. He did not appoint his royal brothers, but let fugitive slaves hold important positions, allowing them to endanger the nobility and disturb the Shang state. Today, my Ji Fa is to carry out the punishment of heaven, and the morale of the soldiers of the Zhou army is greatly boosted.

The Zhou army first led more than 20,000 soldiers by Long Hui to challenge it, shocking the merchant army and disrupting its position, and then King Wu of Zhou himself led the main force to follow up and kill, completely disrupting the opponent's formation. Since the slaves and prisoners of war in the merchant army had no fighting spirit and defected one after another, since the king forced these slaves and prisoners of war to go to war, he would naturally escort them in the rear with his cronies to prevent them from rebelling or escaping. These small number of loyal guards are also the last hole card in the hands of the king. However, the disciples in front ran back in a panic under the powerful impact of the Zhou army, and were blocked by the elite soldiers in the rear. There are many heroes and enemies, and under the impact of the crowd, these samurai are also unstable. In order to escape for their lives, the slaves were pushed by the crowd behind, so they turned against each other and fought indiscriminately. Coupled with the attack of the chariots, armor, and infantry of the coalition forces behind him, the last line of the Emperor Xin could not hold it, and he had to hurry up and flee the battlefield. The remnants of the merchant resistance continued for a day, but there was nothing to save the day. Emperor Xin, the king of Zhou, saw that the general trend had gone, returned to the court, climbed the deer platform, "clothed himself with pearls and jade, burned himself to death in the fire", and the Shang Dynasty officially perished. When King Wu of Zhou rushed to Lutai, he stabbed the corpse of Emperor Xin with "Qinglu", and personally beheaded him and hung the flag for public display. In addition, more than 100 ministers and nobles of the Shang Dynasty were captured.

The next day, King Wu, surrounded by several generals, held a grand ceremony of "receiving orders" in the Shang Palace to celebrate the success of the crusade. But the capture of Yindu did not mean the end of the war, and the more important task was to eliminate the remnants of the Shang Dynasty in the east. The coalition forces then divided into four routes and marched to the southeast to conquer the remnants of Shang and the loyal Fang State. The remaining merchant army was defeated by the enemy on both sides because the rear base had been lost, and most of them were defeated after fierce fighting.

The coalition forces carried out a long period of massacres and looting. In the Battle of Makino, King Wu of Zhou won a great victory, with as many as 100,000 merchants killed and 130,000 taken into slavery.

In less than two months, the main battle was over. Mid-April. King Wu established a sacrificial chamber in the Shang capital and won the victory to the ancestors. The location of the sacrificial chamber was chosen in Muye, and it was this place that laid the foundation of the 800-year great cause of the Zhou Dynasty.

However, the Battle of Makino did not completely wipe out the Shang Dynasty, and part of the original territory of the Shang Dynasty served as a fief of Wu Geng, the son of Emperor Xin, and established the Yin State as a continuation of the Shang Dynasty.

The 30,000 soldiers brought out by Long Hui suffered more than 4,000 casualties, and King Wu of Zhou sealed Su Hu as the north of the town, and the territory was Beihai and Chongcheng, and the territory of Long Hui was the territory of Yongwu Hou, Binzhou, Jizhou and Enzhou.