The fifty thousand Shang Army soldiers stationed at the foot of the mountain were caught completely off guard, utterly unprepared.
The soldiers wore thin summer armor, which could not withstand the sudden onslaught of extreme cold at all.
The biting wind and snow pierced through their armor and seeped into flesh and bone. Countless soldiers froze until their limbs went rigid, shivering uncontrollably. Weapons slipped from their hands one after another, frost gathered over their mouths and noses, and their breaths turned to mist.
Wails, screams, and cries of alarm rose and fell throughout the army. The Shang Army, which had originally stood in neat formation, fell into utter chaos.
The soldiers scattered in all directions, but the ice-sealed ground trapped their steps, and many of them toppled straight into the snow.
The cold entered their bones and sealed their meridians. Great numbers of Shang soldiers had no time to flee before they froze stiff amid the vast white snow, their corpses buried beneath frost and frozen across the wilds of Mount Qi. The entire camp had become an icebound purgatory.
Seeing that the Shang Army's morale had completely collapsed and the whole force was in chaos, Jiang Ziya withdrew his spell and raised his hand to give the order.
The Immortal Officials and soldiers of Xiqi all charged out, riding the wind and treading the snow as they killed their way into the Shang Army's chaotic camp.
The Shang Army had long since lost all fighting strength and had no power to resist. The Zhou Army advanced like split bamboo, taking advantage of the situation to encircle them, and captured the main commander Lu Xiong, along with the three deputy generals Fei Zhong and You Hun, in one stroke.
The three commanders were escorted before Jiang Ziya.
Fei Zhong