The ancestor curled his lips and continued, "Although this kind of fighting method can capture many Huaiyi people back as human sacrifices, it cannot achieve effective territory expansion. Even if some garrisons are left to protect slaves and civilians trying to settle down and farm in the local area, the Huaiyi often raids, or their patron saints make waves and create various disasters, making people unable to settle down and have to leave. When the Shang Dynasty soldiers and civilians left and the Huaiyi returned, the repeated tug-of-war caused the Evil Heaven Emperor to eat the sacrifice, but it made both sides, including the Shang army, fall into endless revenge."

Heibo sighed: "So that's it. So that's it. In other words, the Shang Dynasty has not really won the Hundred Years of War against Huaiyi since Wu Yi? However, the historical materials and the oracle bone inscriptions were recorded. It was not until the time of King Zhou of Shang that the Shang Dynasty used large-scale troops to fight against Huaiyi in the east. It seemed that there was no war before."

The ancestor smiled slightly: "Because I tried it a few times after Wu Ding, I could not destroy Huaiyi in the end, and even some small border tribes could not be defeated. The remaining tribes in the north, the Baidi tribe in Bingzhou, and the Quanrong tribe in Guanzhong, gradually became a climate at this time. The Shang Dynasty's military use began to turn to the West and the North on a large scale. The Evil Heaven Emperor himself preferred the souls of the Qiang people as sacrifices, so he guided the Shang army and its servants to start using troops in this direction. The Ying tribe, as a large tribe in the Dongyi area of ​​the Shang Dynasty, moved to the Longdong area of ​​Guanzhong and became a Western doctor."

Dou Peng frowned and said in a deep voice: "So, after Wu Ding's death, the direction of the Shang Dynasty's military use was actually determined by the Evil Heaven Emperor? And he did not attack Huaiyi very much, but instead used troops to the West, the Qiang people and the Northern Di in the north, and those remaining ghost towns?"

The ancestor nodded and said seriously: "It is difficult to catch people on Huaiyi. Most of them live in seclusion in the deep mountains and build cave villages. In addition, there will be multiple villages. When the war is not good, they will retreat to alternative villages. Although the Shang army often wins, it is difficult to capture a large number of people for human sacrifices. Moreover, the labor force will fight here on an expedition, which is not worth the loss. Apart from increasing the hatred between the Huaiyi tribe, it has no major substantive effect. The two major demands that the Shang Dynasty wanted, one is land and the other is population. It can be said that the effect is very small."

"The Qiang people are different from the Beidi. There are a large population there for plunder. The chariots and cavalry of the Shang Dynasty can fight in Bingzhou and Guanzhong, where a horse is flat. Especially in Bingzhou, there are a large number of remnants of the Rongdi tribes and Guifang tribes. They do not have a unified lord. Although some tribes have thousands or even tens of thousands of soldiers and are powerful, they are incomparable to the Guifang army. Moreover, many of these tribes learned the Guifang advanced war technology after the Guifang invasion, which greatly increased their strength. They were defeated by the Shang Dynasty and even the Xia Dynasty's army. However, decades later, the Northern Di people who had Guifang's chariots, weapons, leather armor, saddles, and even the method of riding and shooting became the confidant of the Shang Dynasty."

Hei Rou shook his head and said, "Didn't this Bingzhou Rong have always existed? After Taosi was jointly destroyed by Guifang and Shimao tribes that went south, the Bingzhou area became the base camp of various Rongdi tribes. From Xia to Zhou, its capital was across the Yellow River to the Central Plains. Bingzhou became a wild land. Since ancient times, various barbarian tribes have been rampant. There is a generation of Shang, and it seems that they have not been expelled."

The ancestor often smiled and said, "Yes, Taosi or Anyi, some Shang Dynasty garrisons, but this was limited to the basin in the southern part of Bingzhou. After leaving the Huozhou Canyon, both Zhaofang in the Jinzhong area and Rong in the northern part of Jinfang were disobeyed by the Shang Dynasty and even refused to accept its title. These people often raided the Shang Dynasty in the early and middle periods of the Shang Dynasty, and fled far away when they encountered attacks. After the ghost side invaded, they learned about ghosts.

After many of the war techniques of the Fang Dynasty came and went like the wind, and soon became a confidant of the Shang Dynasty. Even when the Shang king went out to hunt, they were attacked and provoked by them. In normal times, they often attacked and plundered the Shang Dynasty's population, with the largest number of even hundreds of people. Just like the later Xiongnu and Xianbei often invaded the border and plundered the border people. At that time, there was no Great Wall, and the northern cities of the Shang Dynasty were unbearable, so there were several wars of the Shang Dynasty's personal expeditions."

The cloak curled his lips and said, "It's so strange. The Shang Dynasty defeated Gui Fang last time, but it didn't shock these barbarians and made them surrender obediently. Why did they rebel again?"

Heibo said coldly: "The barbarians rebelled against Wuchang. There were many dynasties. The Shang Dynasty did not take advantage of the opportunity to defeat Guifang to build a big city like Taiyuan on the Jinzhong plain and further advance its power to the north. This is the fundamental reason for the barbarians' rebellion. Until the later Zhou Dynasty, Tongye Fengtang sealed Tang and enfeoffed the Zhou Dynasty princes to the Jinzhong area and established Jinyang City. At that time, Duke Zhou might have wanted the prince to die at the hands of the Di people to avoid threatening the position of the emperor. However, he did not expect that it would eventually become the origin of Jin State. It can only be said that fate is a mess."

The ancestor nodded: "Yes, as the farming dynasty in the Central Plains, it is far from enough to expel the barbarians' military victory. They have to establish cities, cultivate farming on the riverside, and turn grasslands into farmlands, so that they can attract population, spread branches in cities and towns, and finally settle down for a long time. At this time, the Shang Dynasty only had a few cities in southern Shanxi, north of Huozhou Canyon, where there were grassland pastures everywhere, and Rongdi's homelands everywhere, and there were no changes because of defeating the ghost side."

"However, as Zhao Rong and Fang Rong rebelled one after another, the Shang king also began to use troops in this direction. At the same time, in Guanzhong, the Qiang people and Quanrong began to move in a strange way. At this time, during the period of their so-called Zhou Tai King, that is, the Gu Gong Tanfu, they were forced by the Kunrong tribe in the Quanrong tribe, and could not gain a foothold in the original land of Feng, so they could only escape. We said that the Zhou tribe escaped to Zhouyuan. In fact, it was not very accurate. They fled in two ways, one to the southwest, and the Qiang Rong, who had a marriage relationship with them in the Zhouyuan area, wanted to surrender to them. The other way was led by the eldest son and second son of the Zhoutai King, that is, Taibo and Zhongyong, who led half of the tribesmen to escape eastward, heading towards the land of Bingzhou, which had been occupied for a long time during their ancestors, Houji period." (End of this chapter)
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