Chapter 330: Humiliation (2)
Chun Yu Wanyun was sluggish for a while, and pretended to be happy and raised her arms and said, "Okay! The palace is trying to ride a horse with the king of Lanling County and enjoy the beautiful scenery of Taihang Mountain! β
Chun Yu Wanyun's words were undoubtedly filled with a commotion, and Sun Jincao, Ye Lingfang, Shi Lidan, Renduo Xuelian and others who were standing on the side all looked at each other.
Xiao Tzu Rin glanced at the four concubines and wives and said with a smile: "These ladies and palace maids are all Khitan warriors who accompany us, and a warrior will become a girl immediately; It's interesting to chatter and cheer along the way! β
Chun Yu Wanyun wanted to sacrifice herself in exchange for the safety of her sisters, but she didn't expect Xiao Tzu Rin to gain an inch; All women should accompany the Khitan Tatars.
Chun Yu Wanyun was so angry that her eyes were on fire, but she endured it again; Looking at Xiao Tzu Rin, he said, "The decision of the King of Lanling County is a bit interesting, we only have a few horses; This will save the girl a lot of walking! β
After a pause, he said: "The king of Lanling County asked our women to ride all horses for the protection of our brothers, do a few men want to ride horses first?" β
"Yes, yes!" Xiao Tzu Rin hurriedly spoke, waving his hand to Wu Wei, Hou Fang and the 10 old soldiers: "You men can ride horses first, and the princess and girl will come after us on horseback!" β
Xiao Tzu Rin made a decision to die, and his decision coincided with Zheng Shuang.
If there is a difference, it is the cat and mouse game, Zheng Shuang and his loyal soldiers in the right wing of the Great Song Dynasty are cats; As early as on the road ahead, he opened his bloody mouth and waited for the arrival of Xiao Tzurin, a male rat, with 300 descendants.
Zheng Shuang adjusted the plan to destroy the enemy on the side of Yunmeng Mountain, intending to let 5,000 soldiers bravely capture 300 Tartar soldiers; 15 Song troops against a Tartar soldier is not an eagle catching a chicken?
Zheng Shuang was plotting a plan to capture Xiao Tzu Rin and 300 Sini Iron Horsemen on the side of Yunmeng Mountain, and 12 men from Wuwei rode first; Doesn't this let them report to Zheng Shuang?
I'm afraid this is called a crooked beating, or a blind finch touching a wilted ear of grain!
Wu Wei and Hou Fang heard Xiao Tzu Rin say this, and looked at Chun Yu Wanyun to ask for her opinion.
So far, Chun Yu Wanyun can only say to Wu Wei and Hou Fang: "General Wu, General Hou, since the king of Lanling County has asked you to take the first step, then you can step forward and open the way!" If there's any obstacle, find a way to remove it! β
Chun Yu Wanyun hinted to Wu Wei and Hou Fang that they should go and report to Zheng Shuang; Let's just say that Xiao Tzu Rin changed his means, and let the girls with red sleeves and fragrance accompany a gallant Tartar soldier on a horse.
When Xiao Tzu Rin saw Chun Yu Wanyun say this, she couldn't help laughing: "The one who knows me is separated by Princess Nalan at night!" β
Xiao Tart Rin thought that this could quench the thirst of the Tartar soldiers who had not seen meat for a long time, but how did he know that a big net had been opened in front of him......
The Taihang Mountain in June is picturesque, and there is still some time before it gets dark after the sun sets; Zheng Shuang summoned 5,000 forbidden troops from Yunmeng Valley to gather together, and he stood on a high platform to mobilize before the battle: "Brothers, do you know where Yunmeng Mountain is where we stand? This is the place where the battle between the two armies of Zhou took place when King Wu of Zhou was defeated! β
He cleared his throat and raised his voice: "The Khitan Tartar Xiao Tart Rin didn't know the height of the sky, and he actually led 300 heavy armored cavalry to go deep alone; Let's learn from King Wu of Zhou today, and annihilate the Khitan Tartars here! β
Zheng Shuang said, and told the 5,000 soldiers the whole process of the battle of Zhou Muye:
The king of Shang first conquered the northwest Li, and then leveled the southeast; Despite the victory, the recklessness of military force exacerbated social and class contradictions; In the end, the army was defeated and self-immolated, and the Shang Dynasty perished.
In 1050 BC, King Ji Chang of Zhou Wen died of illness, and his son Ji Fa succeeded him as King Wu of Zhou; After King Wu succeeded to the throne, he still adhered to the mandate of King Wen and continued to take advantage of the Shang Dynasty's temporary lack of time to look westward to expand eastward.
Two years before the Battle of Muye in 1048 BC, King Wu of Zhou had watched his troops in Mengjin (Mengjin County, Henan); In the "Historical Records", it is said that "there are 800 princes who will meet the alliance unexpectedly".
In fact, it was not unexpected, according to the oracle bone inscription; This dispatch of troops has long been in contact, and many countries between Guanzhong and Jianghan have participated; But I am afraid that there are not as many as eight hundred princes.
At this time, there was a fierce civil strife in the Shang Dynasty, and King Yin killed his uncle Bigan and imprisoned another uncle, Jizi; Some of the nobles who were implicated, such as Weizi, judged the situation and defected to the Zhou State.
King Wu of Zhou undoubtedly obtained a lot of confidential information about Chaoge from the Yin Shang nobles who came to Ben, and the time was ripe; King Wu decided to send troops to attack the merchants, and at the same time notified the princes of the alliance who were in Mengjin to send troops together.
The strategic plan of the Shang Dynasty was: while the main army of the Shang Dynasty was stranded in the southeast, the elite troops penetrated deep into Wangji with lightning speed to defeat the defenders of Chaoge; In one fell swoop, he captured the Shang capital and occupied the political center of the Shang Dynasty and collapsed the Shang regime; Leave the remnants of the merchant and their vassals leaderless, and then defeat them individually.
On January 26, 1046 B.C., Prince Wu of Zhou led 300 chariots, 3,000 Huben (elite warriors) and tens of thousands of infantry to the east.
On February 21 of the same year, the Zhou army arrived in Mengjin and joined forces with the Yong, Lu, Peng, Pu, Shu, Qiang, Wei, Ji and other tribes, with a total of 45,000 troops, and many monarchs of Fang came in person.
On February 26, it rained before the coalition forces could complete their formation, and history said that the coalition forces had "six divisions".
Military historians speculate that it was about 300 chariots, 3,000 tigers as one "armored division" as the first echelon.
The remaining 40,000 people were divided into five divisions to form a phalanx in the rear, which was the second echelon.
Later, the coalition forces continued to advance eastward in the rain, crossing the Yellow River from Bidi (now Bishui Town, Xingyang City) and heading north, to Baiquan (northwest of present-day Hui County) and turning east.
In the early morning of the 27th, in the pasture, King Wu of Zhou solemnly swore and said: "As the saying goes, the hen is in the morning, it is the misfortune of the family; Now the king only listens to the woman's words, and even the sacrifices of the ancestors are abandoned; He did not appoint his royal brothers, but gave fugitive slaves to important positions; Let them endanger the nobles and disturb the Shang state. Today, my Ji Fa is executing the punishment of heaven! β¦β¦ Soldiers, work hard!" The morale of the officers and men of the Zhou army was greatly boosted.
In terms of Chaoge, as soon as the first batch of emergency military intelligence arrived, the coalition forces themselves followed on the back foot; I was really caught off guard.
There weren't enough elite soldiers in Asaga's Castle to break the enemy, and there were no chariots available; It is difficult for infantry alone to compete with a powerful chariot formation.
Di Xin was shocked to hear that the Zhou army was coming, so he had to hastily arm a large number of slaves and prisoners of war, and go to Muye to meet the battle together with the army guarding the national capital.
According to the Historical Records, the total number of troops dispatched by the king of Shang was 700,000.
The Zhou army was first challenged by LΓΌ Shang with hundreds of elite soldiers to deter the merchant army and disrupt its position; Then King Wu of Zhou led the main force to follow up and kill, completely disrupting the opponent's formation.
The slaves and prisoners of war in the merchant army had no fighting spirit and defected one after another; Since the Shang king forced these slaves and prisoners of war into battle, he naturally escorted them in the rear with his cronies to prevent them from rebelling or escaping.
These few loyal Janissaries were also the last cards in the hands of the Shang King, but the disciples in front ran back in panic under the powerful impact of the Zhou army; was blocked by elite soldiers in the rear.
There are not many enemies in heroes, under the impact of the crowd; These warriors were also unstable, and the slaves fled for their lives; In addition, he was pushed by the crowd behind, so he turned against each other and beat up indiscriminately.
Coupled with the attack of the chariots, armor soldiers, and infantry of the coalition forces behind him, Di Xin's last front could not be defended, 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.
Seeing that the general trend had gone, the king of Shang returned to the court and climbed on the deer platform, "clothed himself with pearls and jade, and burned himself to death in the fire"; The Shang Dynasty officially fell.
When King Wu of Zhou rushed to Lutai, he stabbed the corpse of King Shang 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 and brought back to Zhou Jing, where they were killed as human animals to worship the ancestors of King Wu.
The next day, King Wu, surrounded by several generals, held a grand "ordination" ceremony in the Shang Palace, indicating the success of the revolution.
In the Battle of Makino, King Wu of Zhou won a complete victory, and as many as 180,000 merchants were killed; Three hundred and thirty thousand were taken into slavery.
Such a large number were not all soldiers, but also a large number of civilians, and the Zhou people also hunted on the land of merchants, tigers, bears, rhinoceros, deer and other animals; Under the name of King Wu alone, more than 10,000 heads were hunted and killed, and a large number of jewels and possessions were plundered, and Peiyu alone reached 180,000 pieces.
In less than two months, the main battle was over; In mid-April, King Wu set up a sacrificial chamber in the Shang capital and won the victory to his 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.
After Zheng Shuang finished telling the battle of Muye, he saw two fast horses galloping over; When they arrived, it was Wu Wei and Hou Fang.
Wu Wei and Hou Fang rode Xiao Tart Rin and 300 Sini Iron Riders each with a girl, and Xiao Tart Rin hugged Chun Yu Wanyun As soon as he finished speaking, Zheng Shuang's face turned blue with anger.
Chun Yu Wanyun is the noble concubine of the Song Court, and the wife of Xue Shisan is commanded in front of the palace; is still his future mother-in-law, who actually created such a great shame.
Zheng Shuang was angry for a while, and issued to the soldiers: "15 people capture a Tartar soldier alive, don't kill them, capture them all alive, and then escort them back to Bianjing to sacrifice ...... prisoners."