"It is said that it is dangerous in ancient times, but it is not the work of Yu 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 waist under the watchful eyes of the guards, and said softly: "This is right here. 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 into the cliff and died. The locals dug a cave into the cliff and buried her here. .
In the early years of Tianshun, the emperor issued a special edict to commend her for her martyrdom. "
At this time, Liu Yan also got off the carriage and walked to Zhang Cheng's side. She heard her sister say sadly: "If the general dies for the country, the slave family will also throw themselves off 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 young, 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..."
Seeing the different shy postures of her two sisters, Zhang Cheng couldn't help but feel a little worried. If it weren't for the fact that there were so many guards around, he would 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 wisely changed the subject and asked.
Zhang Cheng also looked at it and saw a building that was more than a foot high and nearly a foot wide. It was a combination of line carving and bas-relief carving, 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 scholar", according to the "Xuanhua Prefecture Chronicle": "Longmen Gorge" is five miles northeast of Yunzhou, that is, the Sacrifice Cliff. The two mountains face each other like a gate, with a wall thousands of feet high. Below it, clear water outside the fortress flows along the cliff, and there is a sound of gurgling, which is the "Notes on the Mountain Sutra": the Gushui flows out of the gorge in the south, which is the so-called Dugu Gate. The stone frame and wood frame half cut into the cliff are the Guanyin Pavilion.
The stone carved by your Excellency is a statue of a great sacrificial figure. According to records, during the Ming Dynasty's Civil War Incident, Chitoda Kun died in 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 sister-in-law saw it in her eyes and was anxious in her heart, but the sister-in-law was worried on the surface, but secretly happy in her heart, wishing that her mother-in-law would die soon.
Later, the aunt and sister went together to make a wish to the Bodhisattva: "As long as I can save my mother, I am willing to jump off a cliff." '
Sure enough, it didn't take long for my mother's illness to really get better. The little girl said, "The Bodhisattva has appeared. 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 off the cliff, but after 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 by the sister-in-law, and she was 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. You must be the reincarnation of a fairy in the sky, and you will never change into a black bird." Zhang Cheng said, hugging her even tighter.
On the cliff, in addition to this statue of the "sacrificial scholar", 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. They followed the stream along the stream, but they were extremely dangerous and dangerous north-south hubs.
He led Liu Ying and Liu Yan back to the car and started driving slowly. Looking at the cliffs on both sides, he estimated that Gao Neng was nearly sixty feet long, and 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 were now in dilapidated condition.
He traveled north from Diaohao Fort, and it was obvious that the north road was in dilapidated condition, with a serious loss of military households and most of the fields abandoned. He estimated that the entire upper north road could mobilize no more than 2,000 troops for combat.
To give an overview, even if the entire North Road is added together, the troops that can be mobilized may not exceed 5,000 men and horses, and the number of combat power may 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. .
According to the "Minutes of Reading History Fangyu": "In the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing's reign, the enemy invaded Mao'eryu from Dushi, Shenjing, Zhenmen and other piers. The road was blocked because of the official change. Fort, fortify it here.”
"The fort is located in Pingchuan, with mountains on its east and west sides, and stands beside the road. Because of its name, 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 Chi 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.
