From the perspective of the new era, the overview of the expedition of the Shang Dynasty is described

The historical materials of the Shang Dynasty excavated from the Yin Ruins are all left after The Migration of Pan Geng to Yin (1401 BC). As for the many wars waged by the Shang Dynasty against all sides before Pan Geng moved to Yin, there is no record of the Shang army's conquest of Dongyi, The Conquest of Banfang, and the Conquest of Xirong contained in the Bamboo Book Chronicle. According to the situation developed after the destruction of The Shang Tang Dynasty, it can be analyzed that the war during this period was mostly a war waged by the Shang Army against the hostile tribes in the heart of the Central Plains.

After the middle of the Shang Dynasty, all parts of the Central Plains had long been subordinated to the Shang Dynasty, and the political, economic, military, scientific and technological aspects of the Shang Dynasty during this period were significantly improved compared with the late Summer and early Shang Period. Because of this, the Shang Dynasty was able to gradually control the more remote frontier areas of the Xia Dynasty.

At the same time as the rapid development of the Shang Dynasty, the remote foreign tribes in the four directions of the Central Plains, such as the Di in the north, the Zhuqiang in the west, and the Jingchu in the south, after a long period of reproduction and development, their strength has gradually improved and entered a period of expansion. Among the many foreign tribes located on the periphery of the Central Plains, especially the Northern Di and Western Qiang raids on the Shang Dynasty were the most frequent, and the Shang Dynasty, whose national strength was also in the ascending period, naturally had to defend the land and the people in the face of invasion. For example, the reason why Emperor Wuding of Shang Gaozong conquered ghost fangs and earth fangs was caused by their raids on the Shang Dynasty's subordinate territory "Lan" land.