Chapter 5657: The Burning of Lutai Ends the Shopping
Hei Pao gritted his teeth and said, "This kind of fighting style is close combat, fighting courage and will. Although the Shang army's royal division troops have always been brave and the Dongyi Legion is also very beneficial, they do not have an advantage in number after all. The real main force is less than 30,000, while the Zhou army has more than 60,000 or 70,000 troops, which is twice the combat troops of the Shang army. The chariots on both sides can no longer be effective, and the result of the fight between gods and immortals is difficult to affect the battle on earth. Moreover, if the priests and Zhenren Group led by Wu Geng are watching and do not fully assist in the war, it will even affect the magic power of the Evil Heaven Emperor in the sky."
The ancestor nodded: "Yes, as the Black Robe Venerable said, the priests on Wu Geng's side on the ground no longer killed the captured prisoners and death row prisoners. This made the evil gods and ancestors who were extremely dependent on the magic power supplemented by sacrifices no longer get fresh souls from the ground to maintain their magic power. Even the Evil Heavenly Emperor began to lack strength. At first, he could still face the opponent's Three Pure Gods and Twelve Golden Immortals alone with powerful magic. However, now, there are fewer and fewer helpers around him. The evil gods and the guardian gods of the Dongyi Ying clan were defeated and fell. Although there were many of the righteous immortals who were beaten to the Tao and disappeared, the subsequent immortals still rushed forward regardless of their own."
"Especially those guardian gods of the vassal states of the vassal states such as the Peng Kingdom chose to fight together. In this battle, these immortals who had practiced for thousands of years only seek revenge, and even put their thousand-year cultivation aside, many evil gods and ancestors were replaced by their life-threatening fighting style. If even these righteous immortals could give up everything, the evil gods were afraid. Even those evil gods who did not participate in neutral waiting and watching at the beginning began to retreat and flee the battlefield."
"Just like the result of the ground war, the evil gods around the Evil Heaven Emperor fought fewer and fewer evil gods, while the righteous immortals became more and more braver. The Shang army on the ground fell one by one, and teams were surrounded, divided and eliminated by the Zhou army, which had the advantage of numerical power. Even the general Eilai, who had killed countless Zhou army tiger soldiers with a bronze stick, finally fell down like a giant god after hundreds of arrows in his body. At the moment when he died in battle, hundreds of Zhou army soldiers rushed up and cut his body into dozens of pieces to vent the hatred that so many comrades died from his hands."
"The same is true for the Evil Heaven Emperor. The great god with extremely powerful magic power was finally hit by dozens of Taoist magic weapons at the same time under the joint attack of Taishang Laojun and Yuanshi Tianzun. In the sky, clouds were burning, and the sun seemed to shed tears. The roars of countless ghosts and dead souls echoed between the sky. The body of the Evil Heaven Emperor turned into a black fog in the sky. The countless souls that were swallowed by it were dancing everywhere between the sky and the earth, stirring like the black aura emitted by the evil dragon.
The soldiers on both sides could not tell the difference between the east, south, west and north, and even a large number of people were killed with their comrades around them. Blood flowed like a river, passing through the entire Muye Plain, and the ankles of the soldiers. King Zhou himself, under the desperate protection of dozens of loyal guards, was shed tears and unwilling to withdraw from the battlefield. If it weren't for the soul fog that radiated when the Evil Heaven Emperor fell and destroyed, I was afraid that King Zhou would not be able to escape from the battlefield."
"Because Wu Geng and the dozens of Shang Dynasty nobles who remained unmoved began to turn against each other. They took out the white headband that had been prepared and agreed with the Zhou army, and wrapped them on their foreheads and helmets to show the difference from the red Shang army armor. The arrow formation that had been raising the strings and was still triggering the arrows, but tens of thousands of arrows were also launched. However, the arrows were not the troops of the Zhou army and the eight allies, but the King of Shang Army of the same race and race as them, and the Dongyi Army Corps. This is the truth about the battle between Muye and the battle in front of the formation. The ones who really launched the last strike on our side were not the slaves who had already disbanded or were still fighting on the Shang army, but the army of these Shang Dynasty nobles."
Dou Peng sighed: "So that's it. No wonder Wu Geng, Wei Ziqi, and Ji Zi were later named princes by King Wu of Zhou and retained their fiefs. It turns out that in this Battle of Muye, it was King Zhou they betrayed!"
The black robe's brow was locked deeply and murmured: "It's not over yet, and it's not necessarily a loss. King Zhou, King Zhou escaped from the battlefield after all. As long as he can return to Chaoge and then go to Panshi to the east, there is still a large army of Shang Dynasty's eastern expedition, and there is still hope."
The ancestor said calmly: "King Zhou did think so, but the army was defeated, and there were only dozens of guards around him. With this kind of person, let alone restoring the country, I am afraid that even the Dongyi side would not be able to escape, and he would be harmed by strong men on the road. Moreover, the scepter of the Shang Dynasty, as well as the totem of the emperor from Cheng Tang when the founding of the country, was still on the Lutai outside Chaoge City. It was a private palace built by King Zhou in his later years to avoid those annoying conservative nobles who advised him all day long in his later years. King Zhou thought about going to Chaoge, where there were three thousand soldiers and horses, and there were always loyal and reliable wise men Jizi, who had different political views, would definitely accept himself, guard himself and take the national treasure of the Shang Dynasty and flee to the east."
Heibo gritted his teeth: "But he didn't expect that even Jizi would betray him, and even trapped King Zhou in Lutai and forced King Zhou to hand over these national treasures of the Shang Dynasty as a gift to surrender to King Wu of Zhou Ji Fa."
The ancestor nodded: "That's true, now everyone has revealed their true nature. King Zhou's son betrayed him, and the important ministers betrayed him. Only two favorite concubines and dozens of loyal guards fled to Lutai with him. The troops of Zhou were also chasing here at full speed, and even did not care about the remnants of the Shang army who were still fighting desperately on the battlefield. The matter of cleaning the battlefield was left to Wu Geng and Wei Ziqi's subordinates, and Ji Fa, Jiang Ziya, Zhou Duke, Zhao Duke, and the monarchs of the princes and Fang Kingdoms all rushed to Lutai as quickly as possible, because only by beheading King Zhou's head can he be considered a real merchant and truly completed a thousand-year revenge. No one wants to miss this honor!"
Dou Peng sighed: "But they still missed it. King Zhou did not give them the chance to lose himself like the Shang Dynasty sacrificed his enemy's head. He lit a fire, burned Lutai, burned the national treasure, and burned himself to death." (End of this chapter)