Chapter Eighty-Six: The People's Hearts Are Lost, and the King of Martial Arts is Defeated

At this time, Jizi did not leave Chaoge, and stayed in the Prime Minister's Mansion to complain bitterly. Wei Ziqi is different, and he gets together with the Taishi and the Young Master. Wei Ziqi stood among them and said: "The king is unreasonable, abolish the prince, appoint traitors and villains, and crowd out loyalty, Yin Shang is irreparable."

"The king doesn't need us anymore, what's the use of us staying in Chaoge?"

Cheng Bigan walked out of the inner room and said, "Those who are ministers have to fight to the death." Jizi stood behind him and said, "Prime Minister, I will go into the palace with you to meet the king."

At this time, Di Xin was sitting in the Star Picking Tower, watching the dancing girl's singing and dancing very boring. Fei Zhong looked at his complexion, invited Shi Juan to play his lewd music, the dancers danced beautifully, and suddenly the glamorous sound aroused the excitement of Di Xin, dancing and drinking together, and shouting joy with the ministers. Cheng Bigan broke into the Star Picking Tower, paused, retreated left and right, and said, "Uncle Wang, you are here and have something to ask for." Uncle Wang was angry and said: "There is no way to faint the king, content with pleasure, indulged in beauty, it has only been a few hundred years since the demise of Xia, if you don't learn its lessons and work hard, do you want to repeat the mistakes of the past?"

"Boldly compare, the lonely east and the west, attack Beidi, Beidi surrendered, attacked Xu Yi, came to destroy Jiumiao, promoted capable ministers and generals, and carried out a series of military and political reforms, how can Xia Wei be compared with Lonely."

"You are stubborn and self-serving, but you don't know how to introspect, the vassal countries are against you, and you are in danger but you are content to enjoy here, after killing the virtuous, you are crowded out of the loyal and good, and you are close to the villain, how can you face the knowing king under the spring."

"Here's the man, take down Bigan," the armor rushed out and stood on either side. Di Xin walked down and said: "I heard that the heart of a saint has seven tricks, and I want to see if Uncle Wang's heart has seven tricks." In the twenty-ninth year of Emperor Xin (1047 B.C.), Cheng Bigan was in the punishment of digging out his heart, and before he was dedicated to Emperor Xin, Jizi was afraid of it, pretending to be crazy and willing to be a slave, Wei Ziqi left Chaoge, Taishi, and the young master took away the sacrificial vessels, and the musical instruments fled to Xiqi, entered Hojing, and defected to King Wu Jifa. Wuwang Ji Fa thought that this was the best time to cut down the army, and raised troops in Haojing, Chonghou You Hun led his troops to Xiqi and said: "Ji Fa, you are rebellious, dare to oppose my Yin Shang, this Hou advises you to collect your troops quickly, otherwise a catastrophe will come."

Wuwang Ji Fa walked up and said: "Traitorous official, you have done all the evil things in Chongguo, and I want to take your sacrificial flag to encourage the morale of the army," Wuwang Ji Fa looked left and right and said: "Where is the armor?"

The armorers on both sides stood up, You Hun looked at the armorers on both sides, and said, "Ji Fa, don't regret it."

"Take down this thief," the armor soldiers on both sides took You Hun down and beheaded him, and then attacked Chongguo, and Chongcheng was in a hurry. As early as the reign of King Wen of Zhou, King Wen attacked Chonghou Hu, lost Fengjing, and had to retreat to Chongcheng to claim to himself, and still monitored Xiqi. Now Chongcheng is in an emergency, and its military situation is transmitted to Chaoge, and Di Xin is transferred back to Chonghou Hu, and the evil is ordered to guard the border city and stabilize the border pass. Chonghou Hu rushed to Chongcheng and concentrated his troops and horses to stop the Zhou division from advancing eastward, and the Zhou division was trapped. Chonghou Hu climbed the city tower and looked out of the city, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers outside the city, and ordered his soldiers to repair the city wall to make it strengthen the city wall as solid as gold. Jiang Shang sat in front of the chariot, faced Ji Fa who was standing on the chariot, and said: "Your Majesty, Chonghou Hu is a fierce general of Yin Shang, and you can't fight hard, so we will suffer, so it is better to retreat and camp for ten miles and discuss the strategy of attacking the city."

"Okay, I'll listen to my father," and then ordered the soldiers to retreat and camp for ten miles. The soldiers on the tower watched the retreat of the Zhou division, and said happily: "Retreat, retreat."

"The enemy army is only temporarily retreating, and must not slacken to guard against the enemy's sneak attack."

Martial King Ji Fa returned to the camp tent in armor, sat in front of the desk and faced the generals, and said: "Everyone, Chongcheng is strong, easy to defend and difficult to attack, I don't know what your good plan is?" He looked at Jiang Shang and said, "Father, what is your strategy for this?"

Jiang Shang stood up and said: "Emperor Xinzi has been fighting for many years, the battle line is too long and the troops are insufficient, we wrote a letter to Xingguo, Qi Guo, and Misu, so that they can send reinforcements to form a siege of Chongcheng, and then besiege but not attack, if Chongcheng has no reinforcements within three days, it will be chaotic, and we will take advantage of the chaos."

"Okay, Lone will write a letter and send messengers to the three princes of Xing, Qi, and Misu, so that the three kingdoms can send reinforcements to relieve the plight of Chongcheng." The next day, the armor outside the city increased to more than 100,000, forming a joint siege of Chongcheng, and the Zhou army took turns to attack it, so that Chongcheng could not take care of the beginning and the end, even so, Chongcheng was not captured. King Wu of Zhou returned to the camp again and said, "Chonghou Hu can't hold out, what should he do?"

Jiang Shang said: "Your Majesty, it is better to attack the city than to attack the heart."

Then King Wu of Zhou wrote a note and sent it down, saying: "Emperor Xin has no way, Zhou soldiers have no way to fight and no way, God should straighten out personnel, and those who are honest can protect the people of one side from being slaughtered." Then they were written in hundreds, thousands, and the army was gathered outside the city to release arrows on the city wall, and the soldiers on the city wall picked up the arrow feathers they had shot, opened the paper tied to the arrows and looked at them, or exchanged heads and ears, and the defenders began to relax and have no intention of fighting again. At this time, Chonghou Hu inspected the defenders on the city wall, and when he saw this, a soldier asked, "Do you want to disobey the military order if you don't hold the city?"

The soldier took out a note and said, "Master Hou, look."

"This is to bewitch the hearts of the army, and those who disturb the hearts of our army, behead! Burn these notes and swear to fight to the death against the Zhou army. ”

Chongcheng had run out of ammunition and food, Chonghou Hu sat behind the desk to write a letter, and sent the dead soldiers to rush to Chaoge with this letter to highlight the siege, asking the court to send reinforcements to relieve the siege of Chongcheng. After receiving this letter, Zoe immediately went to Lutai and met Di Xin and said: "Your Majesty, the Zhou soldiers have besieged Chongcheng for several days, and I am afraid that Chongcheng will be in danger once it is broken."

Now that there are no soldiers to send in Chaoge City, Di Xin can only say: "Isn't Lone flattering the destiny of heaven? What can he do? ”

The soldiers in Chongcheng had not been able to wait for the arrival of reinforcements, and the soldiers in the city had no food supply for several days, killing horses to satisfy hunger, or gnawing on grass roots and tree bark, or killing old and disabled soldiers and eating them. The demon wind in the city is constant, like a ghost howling. When the lonely moon was empty, the soldiers lay in front of the city, wailing, "Hungry! Hungry! "Or there may be sobbing. At dawn, the Zhou soldiers gathered outside the city, built a stove to make food, and shouted to the city: "Brothers in the city, come down and eat with us when you are hungry." The soldiers in the city also couldn't bear the hunger, abandoned the city and fled, and the soldiers defending the city became fewer and fewer. The general defending the city stepped forward and said, "Master Hou, the Zhou army is a benevolent and righteous army, let's open the city and surrender."

Chonghou Hu inspected the soldiers on the city tower, and he couldn't bear it in his heart, and said, "Kaicheng surrenders." Chonghou Hu stood on top of the city tower, looked down on the mighty Zhou army and drove into Chongcheng, and shouted: "Your Majesty, the ministers have been loyal." Then he drew his sword and killed himself.

King Wu Ji Fa gathered 800 princes and announced to the princes: "Yin Shangzi has committed a great crime, and he must join forces to fight." Therefore, following the will of King Wen, he led 300 chariots, 3,000 tigers, and 45,000 soldiers wearing armor to the east. On the afternoon of December in the 29th year of Emperor Xin (1045 B.C.), all the troops crossed Mengjin and met at Mengjin. Ji Fa, the king of Zhou Wu, rode in a chariot to the front of the army, and said to the eight hundred princes: "Everyone must be diligent and not slack." Later, the "Tai Oath" announced to the army, saying: "Di Xin listened to the words of his wife and concubine, cut himself off from heaven, violated the principles of heaven, alienated his own brothers, abandoned the music of his ancestors, and used the music of ** to string and change elegant music to please his wife and concubine, so the lonely concubine sent a substitute for heaven." Ladies and gentlemen, the opportunity to cut down merchants has arrived, and you can follow the lonely attack to attack Chaoge. "In the early morning of the Jiazi Day of the second month of the thirtieth year of Emperor Xin (1044 B.C.), King Wu Ji Fa led a large army to assemble in Makino on the outskirts of Chaoge and held an oath. Wuwang Ji Fa stood on top of the chariot with Huang Yue in his hand, waved the flag and said: "Princes, clans, and soldiers from the West, you have worked hard."

"Yin Shang is willing to serve the virtuous king and create a great cause together, not hard."

"Lone swears with you, the monarchs of the neighboring countries, Situ, Sima, Sikong, Yalu, Shi, Qianli, Centurion, and the soldiers of the Ling, Shu, Qiang, Ji, Wei, Peng, and Pu tribes, point to your Ge, line up your shields, and Lone hereby swears. The ancients had a saying that the hen did not crow, and if the hen crowed, the country would decline. Now Di Xin listened to the words of the woman, abandoned the sacrifice of his ancestors and did not reciprocate, left his family and country, and let his brothers of the same clan not use, but listened to slander, and respected the traitors and fugitives of the four countries so much, valued them so much, trusted them, reused them, let them wreak havoc on the people, and wreak havoc on the Shang country. Now Gu Ji respectfully executes the punishment of heaven, all princes, all soldiers, I hope that your bravery, such as tigers, wolves, jackals, and departures. We are not to meet those who come to surrender and let them be used by us. Soldiers, follow me to fight, if there are retreaters, slow soldiers, demagoguery, behead! "The princes led their troops to join the alliance, with a total of 400 chariots, arrayed in Makino.

Di Xin heard that Wu Wang Ji sent Chen soldiers to Makino, led 700,000 troops to resist, and pointed Feilian as a general to go to Makino. In fact, the imperial court has no soldiers to send, and the 700,000 troops are made up of slaves. The two armies confronted each other, and Di Xin stood on top of the chariot and shouted, "Ji Fa Xiao'er, come forward to talk."

Ji Fa drove in front of the two armies, and Di Xin said: "Ji Fa Xiao'er, you have been favored by Yin Shang for generations and established the country, and now it is really a great rebellion to raise troops to commit crimes."

"Unenlightened monarch, you listen to slander, exclude loyalty, do not fear the gods and do the opposite, and act alone for the heavens, the son suffers, the sins you have committed are not allowed by heaven to be crusaded against, and you will not restrain your hands to descend when will you wait?" Then King Wu Ji Fa drove back, sent Jiang Shang and the centurion to challenge, and galloped against Di Xin's army with a pawn. Although the Yin Shang army was large in number, it turned against the army or abandoned its armor when it was attacked. Ji Fa led the army to attack it, and the Yin Shang army was defeated, and Fei Lian drove over, saying: "Your Majesty, you retreat to Chaoge first, and the last general will meet the head-on attack." Fei Lian led the chariot and cavalry to attack the Zhou army and fight. Di Xin fled back to Chaoge, climbed the deer platform with Su Daji, and said, "Beauty, you haven't danced for a lonely person for a long time," and then picked up the wine and drank it himself.

"Okay," Su Daji stepped back, her long sleeves flew out and beat the drums on both sides, dancing enchantingly, she pulled out the sword at Di Xin's waist, raised the sword with one kick, turned around on tiptoe and put the sword between her neck, killed herself, and said, "Your Majesty, the concubine is gone." Di Xin rushed forward, hugged Su Daji in his arms, and said, "Beauty, you go, Lone will come later." The temple people went up to the deer platform and said, "Your Majesty."

"Hurry up and pass on the prince."

"Yes, the slave will go to the East Palace to summon the prince." The crown prince Wu Geng followed the temple people to the deer platform and said, "Father."

"Geng'er, Uncle Wang once said that you are the most like Lone, eloquent and eloquent, and deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, with the spirit of an emperor. The bad guy will do it alone, and the good guy will do it, so that all the infamy in the world will come to the lone person, and the lone is not afraid of the infamy. Remember, after his death, he commended Wang Shubigan for his merits and built a mausoleum to win the hearts of scholars all over the world. Fei Zhong gathers the wealth of the world, does the things of villains, and after the death of a lonely, he will kill and gather wealth for himself for future events. ”

"Father," the crown prince Wu Geng wept bitterly when he heard this.

"Geng'er, do you remember?"

"Erchen remembered."

Fei Lian fought against the Zhou army, killing and repelling several enemy attacks, and under it was a mountain of corpses and rivers of blood. Wuwang Ji Fa stood on top of the chariot and sighed: "General Feilian, a really fierce general." Then the army pressed up, Fei Lian was knocked off his horse by the chariot, and he grabbed Changge alone and rushed to kill in the army, fought hard, fell, the chariot ran over him, the horse's hooves trampled over him, and the corpse and mud mixed into blood, water and flesh. The army invaded Chaoge, Di Xin sat in Lutai and ordered the people to light the fire**, the luxurious palace Lutai and the Star Picking Tower were burned, and the battle of Muye captured 100 Yin Chen. In March, Jiang Shang was ordered to defeat Yin Chen's Fang and return to offer prisoners; In March Wuchen, King Wu sacrificed to King Wen in Muqing and announced the decree; In March Renshen, Lu He was ordered to defeat the Yue Opera Fang and returned to offer prisoners; In March, Hou Lai was ordered to defeat Yin Chenmi's gathering in battle and return to offer prisoners; In March, Shenjia, Bai Yi was ordered to lead the tiger to defeat Wei and return to offer prisoners; In April Gengzi, King Wu Ji issued an order to Chen Ben to cut down Peng, Baiwei to cut down Xuanfang, and the new wasteland to cut down Shu, and Chengdu fell; In April, Yisi, Chen Ben, and Xinhuang defeated Pan, and Shu returned, and reported to King Wu that they had captured Huo Hou, Ai Hou, Yi Hou, Xiao Chen, and other forty-six people, and Bai Wei returned from defeating Xuanfang, and reported to King Wu that he had captured Xuanfang's king, etc. Bai Wei was ordered to fight again, and then came back to sacrifice prisoners; From Xinhai to Yimao in April, King Wu built a room in Muye and held a gift to his ancestors; In June, King Wu Jifa held a ceremony to offer Yin Yu prisoners in the Zhou Temple; In June Xinhai, King Wu Ji Fa sacrificed to the heavens; On the second day of June, King Wu Ji Fa held a ceremony to offer the remnants of the vassal country in the Zhou Temple. Yin Shang perished, Wuwang Ji Fa was the son of Zhou Tianzi, the capital was Haojing, the country name was Zhou, and he began to divide the princes, which means that the old era has ended and the new era has arrived.