On the 21st of the same month, Zhou Jun arrived and joined forces with tribal forces such as Yong, Lu, Peng, Pu, Shu, Qiang, Wei and Xun (Wang Ji was a businessman and a minister). On the 28th, Zhou Jun entered from Jinmeng East in the rain, crossed the Yellow River from Bidi (now Sishui Town, Xingyang, Henan Province) and entered Baiquan East (now northwest of Huixian County, Henan Province). Marching at a speed of nearly 30 kilometers every day, I went straight to Shangdu Chao Ge (now Qixian County, Henan Province) and arrived in Mu Ye (now Xinxiang City, Henan Province) on February 26th.
After Zhou Wang learned the news, he had to dispatch troops urgently, but at this time, the main force was far away in the southeast, so it was impossible to dispatch troops immediately. So we had to arm a large number of slaves against Zhou Shi, and the Book of Songs said that "the journey of the Shang Dynasty will be like a forest". There are 700,000 people in history, which is somewhat exaggerated, but the troops are definitely much more than Zhou Wuwang's army. On the morning of 27th, Zhou Jun solemnly swore to recount all kinds of atrocities in Shang Zhouwang, which is the "pastoral oath" recorded in history books.
At the end of the swearing-in, King Wu ordered a general attack, advanced Taigong Lu Shang took hundreds of elite troops to attack, and King Wu led the main force to follow up and kill. The slaves and prisoners of war in the Shang army had no fighting spirit and defected to attack Zhou Wang. Zhou Jun defeated the Shang Army in Mu Ye (now Xinxiang City, Henan Province), and the Shang Army collapsed in an instant. When Zhou Wang saw that the tide was gone, he fled back to Chao Ge in panic and boarded the Lutai. He was "bejeweled and died of self-immolation", which is called "Makino War" in history.
In the battle of Makino, King Wu won a great victory, killing180,000 people, capturing 330,000 people, killing rhinoceros, tigers, bears, deer and other animals, and getting a lot of jewelry and property. After the victory, King Wu stabbed Zhou Wang's body with "Guanglu", and then Zhou Wuwang conquered the local governors of Shang Dynasty, expelled Fei Lian, the general of Shang Dynasty, and wiped out the remnants of Shang Dynasty one by one.
Because before the Qin Dynasty, China had the tradition of "rising and falling the country, succeeding the peerless", so it still retains the fief of Wu Geng. After the Battle of Makino, the merchants' forces in the southern expedition were not completely eliminated, and some forces remained in Dongyi, which was not completely eliminated until Zhou Chengwang and Duke Zhou's eastward expedition.