Di Xin and Ji Fa

Di Xin levied year after year at Chaoge, while in the west Ji Chang had already gathered the lords and built up his walls. After Ji Chang’s death Ji Fa succeeded him and met eight hundred lords at Mengjin.

The Shang army still held the passes at Sishui, Jiepai and Chuanyun, and Ji Fa and Jiang Ziya took them one by one on their march east, while Di Xin sent out royal orders from Chaoge commanding his garrisons and the levied troops of the lords to block the Zhou army. The armies drew up at last at Muye, and the front rank of the Shang host turned its halberds about and opened the road to the royal city for Zhou.

As Ji Fa drove into the city, the Deer Terrace had already been swallowed by fire and Di Xin was dead upon it. The Zhou soldiers put out what was left burning in the palace and took the treasuries in hand; Ji Fa came down from his chariot to sacrifice to heaven and earth, and settled the ancestral temple of Shang and its surviving people separately — and the royal banner of Yin came down that day.