"It is said that it is dangerous in ancient times, but it is not Yu's work that makes it so sparse and chiseled!" Zhang Cheng chanted.
"General, is this the Sacrifice Cliff you were talking about?" Liu Ying got off the carriage and walked to Zhang Cheng's side.
Zhang Cheng stretched out his hand, took Liu Ying's small waist under the watchful eyes of the guards, and said softly: "This is it. It is said that during the "Civil Disaster", Chitoda Kun of Cangshang Fort died in the battle, and his daughter
Tian, 19 years old,
However, she was able to lead her troops in a bloody battle without taking a step back. However, in the end she was outnumbered and was besieged on this cliff. Unwilling to be captured and humiliated, she threw herself onto the cliff and died as a martyr. The locals dug a cliff into a cave and buried her here.
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In the early years of Tianshun, the emperor issued a special edict to commend her for her spirit of sacrifice and martyrdom."
At this time, Liu Yan also got off the carriage and walked to Zhang Cheng. She heard her sister say sadly: "If the general dies for the country, the slave family will also throw themselves into the cliff here and die!"
"Where are you going to dance? Is it fun? Yan'er wants to dance too..."
Zhang Cheng was speechless, and stretched out a hand to take Xiao Liuyan into his arms. He asked softly: "Sisters, do you really want me to die for the country?"
"ah……"
Liu Yan screamed in surprise, and Liu Ying also realized that she had made a mistake. She covered her cherry mouth with her little hand and said softly: "General, please forgive me. I made a mistake. Please punish me, General."
"Hmph, how dare you curse me to die for my country? Let's see how my whip will punish you and the two sisters tonight!"
Although Liu Yan was small, she was very clever. When she heard this, she leaned into Zhang Cheng's arms and smiled infatuatedly. Liu Ying on the other side had a delicate face flushed red and said coquettishly: "General... hello.
Bad..."
When Zhang Cheng saw the different shy postures of her two sisters, she couldn't help but feel a little nervous. If she hadn't been at this moment and surrounded by so many personal guards, she might have punished them with whips immediately.
"General, this must be the statue of Tian Kun's daughter."
Liu Ying looked up and saw a statue, so she tactfully changed the subject and asked.
Zhang Cheng also looked around and saw a building that was more than a foot high and nearly a foot wide. It was a combination of line carvings and bas-reliefs, showing the image of a sacrificial warrior wearing a cloak and having a quiet face while holding the mudra of subduing demons.
"Exactly, this is the statue of the 'Sacrificial Master'. It was built in memory of Tian Kun's daughter."
Regarding this "Sacrificial Master", according to "Xuanhua Prefecture Chronicles": "Longmen Gorge" is five miles northeast of Yunzhou, that is, the Sacrificial Cliff. The two mountains face each other like gates, with walls thousands of feet high. Below it, clear water outside the fortress pours along the cliff.
, there is a sound of Cong gurgling, that is, "Shan Jing Commentary": The south of the Gushui River is the gorge, which is the so-called Dugu Gate. The stone frame and wood are half cut into the cliff to form the Guanyin Pavilion.
The stone carved by you is a statue of a great warrior who sacrificed his life. According to records, during the Civil War Incident in the Ming Dynasty, Chitoda Kun died in the battle at Cangshang Fort, and his daughter threw herself off a cliff here.
Zhang Cheng looked at the statue of the "Sacrificial Master" and said: "Legend has it that in the past there lived a pair of sisters-in-law near Longmen Cliff. The sister-in-law was treacherous, but the sister-in-law was kind-hearted.
One year, their mother-in-law was seriously ill and could not be cured for a long time. The younger sister-in-law saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart, but the sister-in-law was worried on the outside, but secretly happy in her heart, wishing that her mother-in-law would die soon.
Later, the aunt and sister-in-law went together to make a wish to the Bodhisattva: 'As long as I can save my mother, I am willing to sacrifice my life and jump off a cliff.'
Sure enough, it didn't take long for my mother's illness to really get better. My sister-in-law said, "The Bodhisattva has appeared and I'm going to fulfill my wish." My sister-in-law also pretended to go with her to fulfill her wish.
The two of them walked towards Longmen Cliff. As they walked, the sister-in-law stumbled deliberately and fell to the ground. The sister-in-law said: 'Sister-in-law, I'm leaving first.'
After that, she jumped up and disappeared. The sister-in-law first thought that her sister-in-law had fallen to death, but when she looked around, she found that her sister-in-law was not dead, but sitting in a lotus pot.
She felt regretful and shouted: "Auntie, wait a minute." She also jumped from the cliff, but when she landed, she fell into a puddle of meat.
After that, a black bird appeared near Longmen Cliff, flying and calling: "Auntie, wait a minute."
It is said that this black bird was transformed from that sister-in-law, and she is regretting her treachery!"
"Ah, that sister-in-law is so disgusting, she deserves to be turned into a blackbird." Liu Yan said quickly after listening to Zhang Cheng's story.
"Haha, you sisters are generally pure-hearted and kind-hearted. They must have been reincarnated as fairies in the sky and will not turn into blackbirds." Zhang Cheng said, hugging her even tighter.
On the cliff, in addition to this statue of the "Sacrificial Master", there are many other poems, inscriptions, and carved stone carvings, such as "Longmen Cliff", "Sanlu Throat", etc., especially the "Shuofang"
The four characters "barrier" are more than ten feet high from the ground, and the characters are as big as a house.
Zhang Cheng looked around and saw dangerous cliffs standing opposite each other, towering into the clouds, like a slightly opened heavenly gate, following a stream along the water, but it was an extremely dangerous and dangerous north-south hub.
He led Liu Ying and Liu Yan back to the car, and started driving slowly, looking at the cliffs on both sides, estimating that the height was nearly sixty feet long, and that the distance was about a mile long.
Walking along the Sheshen Cliff, we can see that the widest part of the canyon is more than thirty feet, but the narrowest part can only be crossed by a single rider, and the canyon here is also a "Y" shaped throat.
Turn here and go west, leading directly to Cangshang Fort, Maying Fort and other forts. If you go northeast, you can go to Zhen'an Fort, Maoyu Fort, Dushi Fort and other forts, which have been battlegrounds for military strategists of all ages.
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Zhang Cheng and others protected the carriage, passing Sheshen Cliff and heading north, passing by Maoyu Fort without entering. There were some small forts along the way, all built along the valley of the Baihe River, but they are now in dilapidated condition.
He headed north from Diaohao Fort. It could be seen that the north road was in dilapidated conditions, military households were severely lost, and most of the fields were abandoned. He estimated that the number of troops that could be mobilized for combat on the entire north road would not exceed 2,000.
To give an overview, even if the entire North Road was added together, the number of troops that could be mobilized would probably not exceed 5,000 men and horses, and the number of those with combat capability would probably not exceed 2,000.
Banbidian Fort is not big. The wall is about forty-seven feet long and nearly forty feet wide. There is only one fort gate, which is located in the northwest corner of the fort. Opposite the fort gate, there is a small earth temple.
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According to the "Minutes of Reading History Fangyu": "In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing's reign, the enemy invaded Maoeryu from Dushi, Shenjing, Zhenmen and other piers. The road was blocked and the road was blocked.
The fort is fortified here."
"The fort is in Pingchuan, with mountains on its east and west sides and a wall beside the road, so it was named Banbidian." Later generations wrote it as Banbidian.
Zhang Cheng and other people arrived at Banbidian Fort before dark. Banbidian Baihu Gucheng invited Zhang Cheng into the fort, but it was a bit dilapidated and could not be compared with Yunzhou Fort.
, let alone the Red Castle.
Gucheng had no choice but to give up his bedroom and asked Zhang Cheng to stay with him for one night. He also asked his mother-in-law to kill a chicken, and then he managed to put together a table of dishes to entertain Zhang Cheng and the others.