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In 1687, among the princes and Fang States of the Xia Dynasty, although there were many defectors, there were still many who supported the Xia Dynasty, and it was not without those who were loyal to the Xia Dynasty. In the eastern region, there are four subject states that are loyal to Xia Wei: one is Feng Wei (Peng, Wei, Xu, Du, Huaxian, Henan), one Gu (his surname, Fan County, Puyang, Henan), one is Kunwu (his surname, Xuchang, Henan), and one is Wen Guo (his surname, Jiaozuo Wen County, Henan). The power of these four Xia vassal states is not small, and the area where they are located is close to Shang. After Tang destroyed Ge, he conquered some princes and Fang countries who did not return to Shang, the so-called "nine conquests and the world is invincible". However, these four Fang states insisted on making Shang their enemies, and they monitored Shang Tong's activities and often reported to them.

Tang and Yi Yin and Zhong Yu are determined to get rid of these four wings. Just when he was preparing to attack Fengwei, he learned that Tang was still continuing to conquer the princes and expand the power of Shang, so he sent envoys to Shang to summon Tang into the court, Tang knew that the strength was not as strong as Xia, so he led his entourage to the capital of Xia without refusing. When Hou Lugui learned that Tang had arrived, he ordered Tang to be imprisoned in Xiatai.

In 1686, when Yi Yin and Zhong Yu learned that Lu Gui had imprisoned Tang, they collected many treasures, toys, and beautiful women to give to Lu Gui, and asked for Tang to be released. He was a money-greedy and womanizer, and he was very happy to see the many treasures, toys and beauties sent by Shang, so he ordered Tang to be released back to Shang.

The matter of Hou Zhu imprisoning Tang caused even greater panic among the princes and Fang Guo, and they all defected to Shang, willing to help Tang destroy Xia, and on the same day, 500 princes went to Tang to form an alliance.

After Tang returned to Shang, the painful experience of being imprisoned strengthened Tang's determination to destroy Xia. After consulting with the minister, it was decided to keep the light in obscurity for the time being, so as not to arouse the vigilance of the minister.

In 1683, after three years of recuperation, the Shang army launched a surprise attack and destroyed the Wen State (Jiaozuo Wen County, Henan).

In 1681, the king of Kunwu, Xia Bo, relied on his ability to lead his army to attack Shang. Yi Yin saw that Kunwu was desperately loyal to Lu Gui and was bent on being an enemy of Shang, so he asked Tang to lead his army to meet Kunwu. In the first battle, the Kunwu army was defeated, and the Kunwu army retreated.

Subsequently, Shang and the princes met in Bo (Suiyang District, Shangqiu, Henan) to jointly conquer the Wei Kingdom (Huaxian County, Anyang, Henan). The merchant then captured the kingdom of Fenwei. After that, Gu Guo (Fan County, Puyang, Henan) was recruited.

Taishi Ling Zhonggu cried and gave the evil omen of divination to Xu, who disdained it. Zhonggu defected to the Shang state, causing great repercussions among the princes and expanding the influence of Shang.

In 1680, the Shang and the princes allied forces captured the state of Gu.

In order to show his determination to conquer Xia, not to occupy territory, but also to show goodwill to the Great Peng State that had taken refuge in him, Tang agreed that the children surnamed Peng would continue to be in charge of the Fenwei Kingdom, so the Fenwei Kingdom also became a member of the princes who crusaded against the Xia Dynasty.

At this time, there was another great drought in the world. Tang took Yi Yin's advice and stopped paying tribute to the Xia Dynasty in order to test the strength of the Xia Dynasty.

When the news reached the Xia capital, Shang Tang saw that he could still mobilize the forces of the Jiuyi clan, and knew that Xia's power was still very strong. Shang Tang knew that the time was not coming, so he immediately pleaded guilty to Lu Gui, humbly expressed his submission, resumed the tribute, removed the mustard in Lu Gui's heart, and won the time to wait for the opportunity.

Fei Bochang defected to Shangguo.

In the winter of October, Hou Lugui mobilized the people to dig mountains and build water conservancy to alleviate the drought.

In 1679, during the construction of water conservancy, Qushan Mountain collapsed, which was considered a bad omen in ancient times. The virtuous minister Guan Long wanted to admonish more moral politics in the morning, and this landslide Guan Longfeng seemed to be a warning from God, so he wrote many times. Lu Hui was very angry and put Guan Longfeng to death.

Shang Tang told the princes about this, and the leaders of Jiuyi also saw that the Xuqi would not last long, so they did not listen to the dispatch and rebelled one after another, greatly weakening the power of the Xuqi.

Shang Tang decided to take advantage of this favorable opportunity to send troops to Kunwu. The Kunwu people, the hardcore supporters of the Shang and the princes' alliance to conquer Xia, made Lu Gui see that the form was not good, and sent the main force to join forces with the Kunwu people.

In 1678, before the Xia Dynasty army supported the alliance of Shang and the princes, they attacked Kunwu, destroyed Kunwu, killed Xia Bo, the lord of Kunwu, and entered the land and people of Kunwu.

The descendants of the Kunwu clan had five kingdoms by the end of the summer, including Wen (Jiaozuo Wen County, Henan), Kunwu (Xuchang, Henan), Gu (Fan County, Puyang, Henan), Wei (Puyang, Henan) and Yousu (Linzhang County, Hebei).

Subsequently, Shang Tang swore an oath in Bo (Shangqiu, Henan) and announced the crime of performing the crime. Shang Tang officially launched an army to fight Xia. Tang Hezhongyu and Yi Yin led an army of seventy chariots and 5,000 foot soldiers to the west. He mobilized the army of the Xia Dynasty and drove out the royal capital of Shenxun (Yanshi City, Luoyang, Henan). The two armies of Xia and Shang met at the field of Narujo (Fengqiu County, Xinxiang, Henan) and started a general battle.

Before the battle began, in order to boost morale, Tang summoned the Shang army who participated in the battle and the princes and the troops of the Fang State who came to help Shang and Xia, and read an oath of the war, that is, the "Tang Oath". After the mobilization of the Shang army, their morale was greatly boosted, and they all expressed their willingness to fight to the death with the Xia army. The morale of the Xia army was low and people were resentful. On the day when the two armies fought, it was just in time for the weather of heavy thunderstorms, and the Shang army did not avoid the thunderstorms and fought bravely, and the Xia army was defeated and retreated.

Seeing that the defeat was out of control, Xia Yi did not even dare to return to the capital, so he led 500 remnants of the army to flee east to Sanshu (Dingtao, Shandong), and Xiayi was captured by the coalition forces. Seeing that Xia Ji's troops were defeated and fled, Sanshu Bo immediately deployed troops to protect Xia Wei, and threatened to fight to the death with Tang. Tang and Yi Yin saw Xia Wei defecting to Sanyu, that is, they waved their troops eastward. The Shang army and the Sanshu army fought at Yu (left to right) (present-day Wenshangbei, Shandong), and as a result, the Shang army defeated the Sanshu army, killed Sanshuo, and seized Sanshubo's treasure and property.

Xia Wei saw that Sanyu was destroyed by Tang again, so he still fled south with the five hundred remnants. Tang and Yi Yin led the army urgently, and Xia Wei fled to Nanchao (Shou County, Anhui) and defected to the Nanchao clan, which was Xia's allied tribe and a descendant of the ancient Youchao clan. Later, Nanchao gradually became the common name of the nest-dwelling people in the land of Jingchu.

The merchant army chased to Nanchao, and Xia Wei wanted to escape from Nanchao again, but he was caught by the merchant army as soon as he walked to the city gate. The soup placed Xia Jiliu in the Pavilion Mountain of the South Nest.

In order to completely wipe out the remnants of the Xia Dynasty, Tang and Yi Yin led their armies westward. Because some of the more powerful and loyal Fang states such as Wei, Gu, Wen, Kunwu, and Sanshu were destroyed by Shang Tang, the Shang army did not encounter major resistance on the way west, and soon occupied the capital of the Xia Dynasty, Shenxun (Yanshi City, Luoyang, Henan).