Emperor Xin learned that when the Zhou army invaded the territory of the Shang Dynasty, Ji Fa had already left Baixing.
The available troops in his hands were only three divisions on the left, center and right with 10,000 men.
Almost all the existing militiamen within Wang Ji were transferred away by the army that conquered the east.
He had no choice but to issue an order to urgently recruit young people from all walks of life in the kingdom, including slaves and slaves.
Even prisoners in the prison were recruited, and even young concubines were recruited as soldiers.
The equipment issued to these people is only a bronze gun.
Even a bronze gun cannot be owned by everyone.
Most of them can only use hoes and sickles.
At this time, Emperor Xin was not only short of soldiers, but also short of generals.
They had to let the masters of these slaves serve as leaders, and recruit some veterans from the third division to supplement them.
In this way, a division of 160,000 people was put together.
Adding the three divisions on the left, center and right, the total was 170,000, known as 700,000.
This rabble, under the leadership of Emperor Xin himself, took the initiative to attack the Zhou army's camp early in the morning the next day after the Zhou army arrived in Muye.
The result is of course almost the same as the world Hua came from.
Just because Emperor Xin had the chariot reamer presented by Hua, the course and outcome of the war changed somewhat.
Before the temporarily recruited front army was on the verge of collapse, Di Xin threw a hundred chariots into the battle in a suicidal attack and successfully destroyed more than a hundred Zhou army chariots.
If Emperor Xin could make up his mind, he would place his elite troops in the center of the front army, confront the Zhou army's fierce warriors, and let the slave soldiers follow on both wings.
If your own elite can break through one or several gaps in the opponent's line, there may be hope of changing the situation of the battle.
At least it won't happen that the hundreds of thousands of former troops will be defeated, and in turn, their own elite will be crushed.
In addition, in the Battle of Makino, there was no large-scale defection of former disciples.
It was just because the front army composed of slaves was defeated, resulting in a stampede and overwhelming the last three divisions of the left, center and right.
There were indeed some nobles of large, medium and small backgrounds who had colluded with Zhou Fang in advance or were dissatisfied with Emperor Xin and led their servants to turn against him, such as Wei Ziqi.
But compared with the 160,000 people, it only accounts for a small part.
The following story has already happened in the world where Hua comes from.
The loser burned himself to death, becoming the first martyrdom king with clear and credible historical records.
The victor reveled in Chaoge's palace, beheaded the loser's burnt corpse, and gave him the posthumous title of King Zhou.
Then he ascended the throne and became emperor.
After he ascended the throne, he escorted more than a hundred ministers, big and small, who were trusted and close to King Zhou during his lifetime, as well as soldiers who had fought tenaciously against the Zhou army on the battlefield, to the sacrificial place.
First, they cut off their limbs and let them cry and writhe in the blood, and then put them into boiling water and cooked them alive.
Finally, the sacrifice is offered to God.
The 50,000-strong merchant army did not sit idle.
They divided their forces and attacked hundreds of large and small towns within the Shang Kingdom that were still loyal to Emperor Xin, massacring hundreds of thousands of merchants.
In the palace of Chaoge King, Zhou Wu King Ji Fa, Jiang Ziya, Ji Dan and a group of important ministers are discussing a major issue, whether the Shang Fang still needs to exist.
Several ministers believed that they should stay.
The reason was very simple.
The Zhou army would eventually return to Haojing, and it was impossible to guard the merchants thousands of miles away for a long time.
Finally, merchants also need to manage themselves.
In this case, Shangfang should certainly continue to exist as a country.
Ji Dan was opposed and believed that Shang Fang should no longer exist.
He looked at the "view of the world and the view of the dynasty" in his Zhou Rites, and saw that the Shang Dynasty was a dynasty dominated by the whole world, not a country.
Since King Wu of Zhou has become the son of Heaven, Zhou should be the next dynasty.
Two dynasties cannot appear in the world at the same time.
Therefore, Shang cannot exist, even if it exists as a Fang country.
Jiang Ziya also opposed it, but the reason for his objection was different from Ji Dan's.
He was based on pragmatism.
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He solemnly said to everyone: "Don't forget, there is a third great country in the world, Xia Fang.
If there was no Fang country, I would also support keeping Shang Fang.
But because of Xia Fang's existence, we can no longer keep Shang Fang." , we must completely destroy it.
Now our goal must be to destroy Xia.
Only by destroying Xia can we truly be dominated by the world.
And the current Shang is just like the Li Kingdom back then, we are on the road to destroying Xia.
A big hidden danger.”
Jiang Ziya's concerns are not unreasonable.
In the world that Hua came from, Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou, began to lead merchants to rebel against the Zhou Dynasty only a few years later.
King Zhou Wu already understood what Jiang Ziya meant and nodded.
Ji Dan asked: "What's the explanation for complete annihilation?"
King Zhou Wu's eyes flashed with a sharp cold light, and he sneered and said: "Of course we will destroy it just like we destroyed Li State."
Jiang Ziya said: "It cannot be exactly the same as Li Country.
We have to keep the lower-class civilians and slaves to fight for us."
At this time, the princes and nobles who greeted the "Zhou Army Volunteers" were not only celebrating with their crowns, but also debating whether Wu Geng, the son of King Zhou, should be appointed as the new Shang King or Wei Ziqi should be appointed as the new Shang King.
But they didn't know that a disaster was coming.
The massacre and plunder first started with Chaoge, and all the royal families with the surname Shang were massacred, regardless of whether they had led the way for the "Zhou Army Volunteers".
Wu Geng's headless body was abandoned on the street outside his mansion.
Wei Ziqi's pleas and expressions failed to stop the Zhou soldiers from cutting off his head.
The entire Chaoge City was ablaze.
Immediately afterwards, the action to destroy Shang Fang was extended to the suburbs of Shang Fang's Wangji.
Jizi, who had gone into hiding as a savage in Five Elements Mountain, was also found and hanged on the spot.
The various Fengdian fiefs were not spared.
Zilu's father, Ziang, was also beheaded, and all the nobles with the surname Zi in the entire city, except for the young men and young women, were slaughtered.
These young men became slaves of others.
But these towns were not burned down, because they would welcome new owners.
A large number of civilians and middle-level nobles came from Zhou Fang.
Wang Ji of Shang Dynasty divided it into several feudal states and assigned them to several brothers of Ji Fa to manage.
In the end, the massacre even expanded to Haojing in Zhou Dynasty, and the Shang nobles who had previously been exiled to Haojing were also massacred in batches.
After a month of massacre, Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya finally felt relieved.
Begin to withdraw Zong's Sixth Division and the Seven Nations Allied Forces to Haojing.
At the same time, a large number of Zhou people migrated to the Yin region, and the original merchant civilians and slaves in the Yin region were selected and strong.
The Zhou people who immigrated mixedly formed eight standing divisions, known as the Eighth Division of Yin, which were permanently stationed in the Yin region.
In addition to guarding against the Xia Kingdom, this army also had to guard against the 100,000-strong eastward-conquering army commanded by Fei Lian far to the southeast.
Although that army may have disbanded on its own due to the lack of rear supplies.
During these few months, Hua was not idle either.
Xia State was engaged in all-out war mobilization.
The two militia camps in the north and south have been summoned to full capacity, and the militiamen stationed in each city and town have entered a state of full combat readiness.
After receiving Hua's messenger, all the former Shang stronghold guards on Nanshang Road expressed their willingness to obey Xia Fang Nanbo's dispatch.
At the same time, China sent a team with a special mission to march down the Huaihe River.
They were going to contact Fei Lian, who was thousands of miles away in the east
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