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Still, many loyal Shang troops fought on, and a very bloody battle followed, depicted at the end of a poem in the ''[[Shijing]]'':
{{poem quote|text=
The troops of Yin-shang,
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The grand-master [[Jiang Ziya|Shang-foo]],
Was like an eagle on the wing,
Assisting [[Zhou Wu Wang|king Woo]],
Who at one onset smote the great Shang.
|char= [[James Legge]] (translation)
| title=''Da ming'' ({{zh|c=大明|labels=no}}, "Great brightness", poem #236)
| source=[[Shijing]]{{efn|The final words of this poem, "會朝清明", do not have an agreed-upon meaning, even accounting for poetic variation. Legge (1871) has "That morning's encounter was followed by a clear bright [day]."{{sfnp|Legge|1871|p=436}} Shaughnessy (1999) and Chen (2021) give "Meeting in the morning, clear and bright."{{sfnp|Shaughnessy|1999|p=310}}{{sfnp|Chen|2021|p=181}} Nivison (2018) reads the final two words as a date term, yielding "this occurred in the morning, Qingming [Day]".{{sfnp|Nivison|2018|p=113}}}}}}
The Zhou troops were much better trained, and their morale was high. In one of the [[Chariot (Ancient China)|chariot]] charges, King Wu broke through the Shang's defense line. Di Xin was forced to flee to his palace, and the remaining Shang troops fell into further chaos. The Zhou were victorious and showed little mercy to the defeated Shang, shedding enough blood "to float a log".
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