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Chapter 205 Battle of Makino
Su Yue clicked on the next PPT page and said: "The Battle of Zhuolu is too far away from us in time and has countless mythical colors, but there are few historical records.

Now we have more historical materials about this battle, but it is even more mythical!

It is the Battle of Makino described in "The Legend of the Gods"!
However, "The Legend of the Gods" is a novel after all, and we cannot take it seriously, so let's take a look at the real story of this battle now!

But first, let me say that this is just what I found, and it may be slightly different from what you know. "

Meng Jin's meeting
After King Wen Jichang died of illness, his eldest son Ji Fa succeeded to the throne, namely King Wu of Zhou. After King Wu succeeded to the throne, he still upheld the destiny of King Wen and continued to expand eastward by taking advantage of the opportunity that the Shang Dynasty had no time to go west for the time being.

King Wu of Zhou who commanded the coalition forces to attack King Zhou of Shang

In 1048 BC, two years before the Battle of Muye, King Wu of Zhou visited Mengjin (now Mengjin County).

"Historical Records" says that "the eight hundred princes who allied themselves with Tianjin unexpectedly met unexpectedly" were actually not "unexpectedly met". According to the oracle bone inscriptions, there had been contacts for this troop dispatch, and many countries between Guanzhong and Jianghan were involved. But I am afraid there are not as many as eight hundred princes.

Timing
At this time, fierce civil strife broke out in the Shang Dynasty.

Emperor Xin killed his uncle Bigan and imprisoned his other uncle Jizi. Other implicated nobles such as Weizi sized up the situation and defected to Zhou.

King Wu undoubtedly obtained a lot of confidential information about Chaoge from the visiting Yin Shang nobles.

The time was ripe, King Wu decided to send troops to attack the merchants, and at the same time notified the princes in Mengjin to send troops together.

Strategic Plan
The strategic plan of conquering the Shang Dynasty was: while the main force of the Shang Dynasty was stranded in the southeast, the elite troops penetrated into Wangji with lightning speed, defeated the Chaoge defenders, captured the Shang capital in one fell swoop, occupied the political center of the Shang Dynasty, and disintegrated the Shang Dynasty. The government left the remaining merchants and their affiliated states leaderless, and then defeated them one by one.

The "Book of Songs: Ming Dynasty" records this incident, calling it "Xie Expedition (coordinated conquest) against the Great Shang" or "Wang Expedition (quick attack) against the Great Shang", which is quite similar to the German "Blitzkrieg" of World War II.

Pastoral Oath
January 1046, 1 BC (both "Shangshu" and Ligui inscriptions call it "Jiazi Day", but the year is unknown.

This entry adopts the perspective of "Xia, Shang and Zhou Dynasty Project"). King Wu of Zhou personally led 300 chariots, 3,000 Huben (elite warriors), and tens of thousands of infantry to march eastward.

The "Li Gui Inscription" records King Wu's business expedition "in the Jiazi Dynasty"

On February 2 of the same year, the Zhou army arrived at Mengjin and joined forces with the Yong, Lu, Peng, Pu, Shu and other tribes. The total number of the coalition forces reached 21, and many kings of Fang Kingdom came in person.

It rained before the coalition forces were ready to set up their formation on February 2. Historically, it was said that the coalition forces had "six divisions" in total.

Military historians speculate that there were about 300 chariots and 3,000 tigers forming an "armored division", the first echelon.

The remaining more than 40,000 people were divided into five "divisions" and formed a square formation at the back, which was the second echelon.

Later, the coalition forces continued to march eastward in the rain, crossing the Yellow River (Yellow River, one said it was crossed by Mengjin) from Sidi (today's Sishui Town, Xingyang City), and then headed north to Baiquan (today's northwest of Huixian County), then turned eastward.

On the early morning of the 27th, in the pasture, King Wu of Zhou solemnly swore: "As the saying goes, the hen in the morning is the misfortune of the family. Now King Zhou only listens to the words of women, and even abandoned the sacrifices of his ancestors."

He did not appoint his royal brothers, but appointed escaped slaves to important positions, allowing them to harm the nobles and disrupt the Shang Kingdom.

Today, I, Ji Fa, am executing God’s punishment! ...Fighters, work hard! "The morale of the officers and soldiers of the Zhou army was greatly boosted, which was the "Oath of Shepherd" recorded in "Shang Shu". At dawn on the 28th, the coalition troops entered Muye. "The Book of Songs" records: "The Muye is vast, the sandalwood chariots are brilliant, and the Siqiao is Pengpeng.

When Wei's master worships his father, Wei's eagle rises at the same time. King Wu of Liangbi attacked the great merchants and went to the Qingming Dynasty. "

Makino Showdown
As for Chaoge, as soon as the first batch of emergency military information arrived, the coalition forces themselves followed suit, and they were really caught off guard.

There are not enough elite soldiers in Chaoge City to defeat the enemy, and there are no available chariots. It is difficult for infantry alone to compete with the powerful chariot array, not to mention the morale of the Zhou army is strong.

Emperor Xin was shocked to hear that the Zhou army was attacking, so he had to hurriedly arm a large number of slaves and prisoners of war, together with the troops guarding the capital, and march to Muye to fight. According to "Historical Records", the total number of troops dispatched by Emperor Xin was 700,000, and other documents record it as 170,000.

"The Book of Songs: Ming Dynasty" says: "The journey of the Yin and Shang Dynasties is like a forest."

"Book of Yi Zhou·Ke Yin" records: The Zhou army was first led by Lu Shang to challenge hundreds of elite soldiers, which shocked the merchant army and disrupted its position. Then King Wu of Zhou personally led the main force to follow up and attack, 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 Di Xin forced these slaves and prisoners of war to go to the battlefield, he would naturally escort them with trusted troops in the rear to prevent them from rebelling or escaping.

These few loyal guards are also the last trump card in Di Xin's hand.

However, the disciples in the front ran back in panic under the powerful impact of the Zhou army, and were blocked by elite soldiers in the rear.

A hero is outnumbered by enemies, and under the impact of the crowd, these warriors are also unstable.

In order to escape for their lives and being pushed by the crowd behind them, the slaves turned against each other and started fighting randomly.

Coupled with the layer-by-layer attacks by the coalition's chariots, soldiers, and infantry behind him, Di Xin's last line of defense could no longer be held, and he had to hurry up and flee the battlefield.

The remaining resistance of the merchant army continued for one day, but they were unable to save the situation.

Seeing that the situation was over, Emperor Xin returned to Chaoge, climbed to the deer platform, "covered his pearls and jade, and burned himself to death in the fire." The Shang Dynasty was officially destroyed.

When King Wu of Zhou rushed to Lutai, he stabbed Emperor Xin's body with a "Qing Lu" and personally beheaded him and hung a flag to show the public.

In addition, more than a hundred ministers and nobles of the Shang Dynasty were captured. They will be brought back to Zhoujing and killed as human sacrifices for King Wu to worship his ancestors.

war result
The next day, King Wu, surrounded by several generals, held a grand "ordination" ceremony in the Shang Palace to express the success of the revolution.

My charming and short-lived ancestor: Ou Ho, that means many people now think Di Xin is a good person!

Who in the clouds sent a brocade book: Indeed, but to be honest, a lot of dirty water has been poured on Di Xin and Brother Zheng in recent years.

Wuduyi: Yes, just like Daji has never met Emperor Xin a few times, the Qin laws formulated by Brother Zheng are not that outrageous, but how many people believe it?
The pig came to the bowl quickly: Agreed! In the eyes of the world, Qin Shihuang is still the tyrant, and King Zhou is still synonymous with debauchery and immorality.

Pay attention, this woman’s name is Xiaomei: Yes, it’s so sad.

My charming and short-lived ancestor: So, sometimes we really can’t be blamed. It can only be said that the acceptance of knowledge is different.