Mysteries Through the Ages: The true identity of the legendary god of war.
In ancient myths and legends, the Yellow Emperor is always depicted with bright brushstrokes on the front, and Chi You, who is fighting against him, is portrayed as the embodiment of arrogance and bloodthirstiness. However, we might as well put aside these preconceptions and discover the truth behind history.
Chi You, named Xi Zhong, was the patriarch of the ancient Jiuli tribe and was worshiped by the clansmen as a mighty god of war. Under his wise and martial leadership, the Jiuli tribe was strong for a while, becoming the most powerful of all tribes in ancient times. The people of the Jiuli nationality have a simple temperament and advocate the spirit of striving for the upper reaches of the enterprise. As the patriarch, Xi Zhong is even more extraordinary, ambitious, and daring to be the first, and has won the support and support of the clansmen.
He was fierce and unyielding on the battlefield. Not only proficient in the layout of the battle formation and the way to use troops, but also a brilliant tactician. He is good at using the terrain to defeat the enemy and win by surprise. He has a steely body and god-like martial arts, which are difficult to injure with swords and guns, and cannot be penetrated by arrows. It can resist tens of thousands of enemies on the battlefield, and its courage is unparalleled. When fighting, he is extremely brave, the long knife in his hand can split the wind and the moon, and the giant axe falls and the sky is thundering. When the enemy heard this, his face changed, and he was terrified. But underneath the fierce image of this legendary god of war, there is a positive soul that cares about the tribal people.
His heart burned with a grand ambition to make the Jiuli tribe glorious and powerful under his leadership. Even in the chest, the ambition to completely unify the tribes has been faintly ignited. It was this great ambition to care about the future of the nation that drove him to resolutely embark on the road of fighting to the death against the illustrious Yellow Emperor.
The epic rise and fall of the Jiuli tribe.
Under the correct leadership of Xi Zhong, an outstanding leader, the Jiuli tribe gradually became strong and prosperous. They chose to establish their tribes on a fertile land between green mountains and green waters, undulating hills, and a land of mild seasons and abundant water and grass, suitable for hunting and farming. This rich natural environment provides a solid material foundation for the sustainable development of the Jiuli tribe.
Xi Zhong vigorously encouraged the people of the tribe to reclaim the land, enthusiastic about agricultural production activities, and cultivated cereals on a large scale. ** It also organizes craftsmen in the tribe who are proficient in metallurgical technology to make various agricultural production tools, and strives to improve the efficiency of agricultural labor. Inspired by his unremitting efforts, the Jiuli people gradually mastered the planting technology, learned various agricultural production skills such as irrigation, land preparation and soil preparation, weeding and fertilization, and scientific storage, so that the grain became more and more abundant, and the overall life of the tribe became richer and richer.
At the same time, Xi Zhong also began to vigorously develop the handicraft industry to further satisfy and enrich the material and cultural life of the tribe. He recruited intelligent and capable craftsmen from all over the world, and built workshops and started production. With his advocacy and support, the Jiuli tribe finally mastered the highest level of forging and smelting, weaving and silk reeling, paper making and printing, and brewing fine wine. Fine weapons, bronze vessels, silk fabrics, paper, and fine wine soon became widespread among the tribes and in the vicinity.
With the support of this strong economic strength, Xi Zhong also set out to establish and improve the tribal political system and establish a clan council body. He attached great importance to the building of the legal system and formulated a set of laws and regulations to punish crimes. Supported by an orderly and efficient political system, the Jiuli tribe flourished under Xi Zhong's leadership and grew to its peak.
The Battle of Chiyou" is magnificent.
The growing momentum of the once-prosperous Yellow Emperor tribe was undoubtedly a huge potential threat in Xi Zhong's view. With the rapid expansion of the two communities in recent years, conflicts of territory and interests have long been inevitable. Sooner or later, a decisive battle for the survival of the tribe will break out. So Xi Zhong made a decisive decision and decided to adopt a preemptive strategy, taking the initiative to attack before the enemy had time to be fully prepared, and strive to defeat the Yellow Emperor tribe in one fell swoop, so as to establish a situation of unifying the tribes.
At the dawn of an early morning, Xi Zhong waved his sword as an order, personally led the warriors of the Jiuli tribe deep into the hinterland of the Yellow Emperor tribe, and launched a surprise attack. However, the situation was somewhat different from what was expected, the Yellow Emperor had already received the news and made full preparations, and the two armies fell into a fierce street battle after the imminent outbreak. Although the Jiuli warriors fought bravely to kill the enemy, they still gradually showed fatigue. And the elite generals under the command of the Yellow Emperor began to besiege Xi Zhong himself.
In the case of being outnumbered by the enemy, Xi Zhong fought hard to resist the enemy army that was approaching step by step, knowing that the general trend had gone, so he could only choose to retreat to preserve his strength. So he resolutely ordered the army to retreat. The Yellow Emperor was also powerless, and allowed the Jiuli army to withdraw from the battlefield in an orderly manner. After this battle, Xi Zhong tasted the painful lesson of defeat, and he was also faintly aware of the strong advantage of the Yellow Emperor's military strength, and he had mixed feelings in his heart.
However, what Xi Zhong didn't expect was that the Yellow Emperor had already formed a new alliance at this time, and officially formed an alliance with the Yandi tribe, which was also eyeing the Yandi tribe, intending to join forces to strike first and eliminate the Jiuli tribe in one fell swoop.
Under the constant coercion and temptation of the Yellow Emperor tribe, the leadership of the Yandi tribe finally nodded and agreed to the plan to join forces to encircle and suppress the Jiuli tribe. **The Yellow Emperor knew that it would not be easy to capture Xi Zhong alive by attacking alone, so he set a huge trap that was carefully weaved. He sent an envoy to convey his magnanimous benevolence to Xi Zhong, expressing his willingness to reconcile with Jiuli, stop the war, and form an alliance by marriage, so as to achieve a prosperous era of peace in the world.
Xi Zhong was more straightforward by nature, and when he heard that the Yellow Emperor was willing to stop fighting and make peace, and let go of his past enmities, he also relaxed his vigilance against the enemy's actions slightly. He sent a wedding mission to the capital of the Yellow Empire to celebrate the marriage. However, this is already a trap, and what awaits them when the mission under the Yellow Emperor City is actually a frenzied siege of the Jiuli tribe mission by the coalition army.
Xi Zhong was shocked when he heard the news, and immediately led a large army to the east to meet the distressed mission. However, the situation is extremely precarious and outnumbered. Although Xi Zhong bravely fought bravely to enter the encirclement, he could not escape defeat due to the disparity in strength. The entire mission was annihilated, and Xi Zhong himself was seriously wounded. In the face of such a treacherous and sudden counterattack by a former ally, this conspiracy and shoddy blow was undoubtedly a heavy blow to the suddenly leaderless Jiuli tribe.
Beacons are everywhere;The bloody battle of Armageddon in China.
Despite the heavy losses this time, Xi Zhong, who quickly regained his senses, did not lose his fighting spirit. He still quickly adjusted his mentality, boosted the morale of the Jiuli tribe, and planned to make a comeback. He sent envoys to lobby the Quartet to form an alliance, and finally the Baiyue people in the east, the Sanmiao people in the west, and the Bashu people in the south agreed to join Xi Zhong's grand alliance, re-injecting Xi Zhong with strong fighting power.
After several years of recuperation, Xi Zhong finally felt that the time was ripe. He boosted morale, rose up, and led the tribes of the alliance to meet in a confrontation on a plain somewhere in the Central Plains, and finally ignited this vigorous decisive battle. The air was filled with a suffocating murderous aura, and the terrifying preparations of the two major alliances on the eve of the war seemed to herald a bloody storm that was so fierce that it bordered on cruelty.
When the dawn broke, the Xi Zhong Alliance, which had gathered thousands of people, bravely entered the battlefield under the personal leadership of Xi Zhong and bravely killed the Yellow Emperor's tent. Xi Zhongqin is a pioneer and extremely brave. The Yellow Emperor also led the army to meet the battle, wearing golden armor, non-stop, calmly responding to the crazy offensive of the Jiuli army. After encountering each other in the open field, the two armies soon fell into fierce hand-to-hand combat and fighting. Dense arrows covered the sky and the sun, the trumpets sounded, and the two armies fought endlessly.
In this life-and-death game, Xi Zhong fought hard to fight a bloody way, and bravely and decisively took the Yellow Emperor's tent and killed him. However, in the end, the victory was shattered when the morning star set. There was a betrayal incident within the coalition army, and some small tribes were weak, and they even turned against Xi Zhong and attacked fiercely from behind. Xi Zhong was too busy to take care of himself, and when he was hit by an arrow, he lost his horse and fell into the crowd. The coalition forces, whose morale had been greatly reduced, were eventually defeated and scattered, fleeing in all directions. In this battle, Xi Zhong was completely defeated.
Walk into the historical truth, Xi Zhong, who has succeeded in failure.
Historical memory as we know it is always selective. For a long time, historians and scholars have always depicted the Yellow Emperor with positive and bright brushstrokes, and portrayed Xi Zhong as barbaric, brutal, arrogant and arrogant. However, the truth is far from that simple. Because in fact, Xi Zhong himself was the most outstanding and wise politician and military strategist of that era, and he made great pioneering contributions to the progress and development of ancient civilization.
In terms of agricultural production technology, handicrafts and the development of productive forces, the Jiuli tribe under the leadership of Xi Zhong was obviously at a relatively advanced level at that time. Their exquisite farming tools forging technology and bronze smelting technology have brought productivity and production relations to a new level. In addition, Xi Zhong himself also attaches great importance to the construction of the legal system and social system, and has formulated a series of systems and regulations to promote the process of social civilization. It is in these aspects that Xi Zhong has made outstanding and great contributions to reform and enlightenment and social progress. However, in the end, it fell short