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Chapter 265 General... Are You Good or Bad!
"In ancient times, it was called dangerous, but it is not Yu's work to dredge it!" Zhang Cheng recited.

"General, is this the Sacrificial Cliff you were talking about?" Liu Ying got off the carriage and walked slowly to Zhang Cheng's side.

Zhang Cheng stretched out his hand, and under the watchful eyes of the guards, he took Liu Ying's waist, and said softly: "This is the place. It is said that during the "civil disaster", Qianhu Tiankun died in Cangshangbao. His daughter Tian Shi, aged 19 years old,
However, she was able to lead her troops to fight the bloody battle in person, without taking a step back, but in the end, she was besieged on this cliff because she was outnumbered. Unwilling to be captured and humiliated, she threw herself into the cliff to die. .

In the early years of Tianshun, the emperor made a special decree to commend her spirit of sacrificing herself and martyrdom. "

At this time, Liu Yan also got off the carriage and walked to Zhang Cheng's side, when she heard her sister say sadly: "If the general dies for the country, the servants will also throw themselves on the cliff here and die for each other!"

"Where do you want to dance, is it fun? Yan'er wants to dance too..."

Zhang Cheng was speechless, stretched out another hand, and took Xiao Liuyan into his arms. He asked softly, "You sisters, do you want me to die for the country so much?"

"what……"

Liu Yan screamed, and Liu Ying also knew that she had made a slip of the tongue, she covered her small cherry mouth with her little hand, and said softly: "General, forgive me, my family has made a slip of the tongue, please punish the general."

"Hmph, how dare you curse this general to die for the country, let's see how this general's whip will punish you and the two sisters tonight!"

Although Liu Yan was small, she was a clever ghost. She leaned against Zhang Cheng's arms and smiled foolishly when she heard the words. On the other side, Liu Ying's delicate face was flushed, and she said coquettishly: "General... hello Bad..."

Seeing the different shy postures of the two sisters, Zhang Cheng couldn't help feeling a little flustered. If it wasn't for this time, surrounded by so many guards, he would have punished them with a whip right away.

"General, this is the statue of Tian Kun's daughter."

Liu Ying raised her head and saw a statue, so she tactfully changed the subject and asked.

Zhang Cheng also looked at it, and saw a tall and nearly ten feet wide. It was a combination of line engraving and bas-relief, showing the image of a sacrificial man wearing a cloak and holding the handprint of the subduing demon with a quiet face.

"Exactly, this is the statue of the 'Sacrificial Master', made to commemorate the daughter of Tian Kun."

Regarding this "sacrificing man", according to "Xuanhua Mansion Chronicles": "Longmen Gorge", five miles northeast of Yunzhou, is the cliff of sacrifice.The two mountains face each other like a gate, with a wall as high as a thousand ren, and the clear water outside the fortress below flows along the cliff, with a gurgling sound.The half-cut stone frame on the cliff is the Guanyin Pavilion.

Your left and right are engraved in stone as the statue of the sacrificial Dashi.According to records, during the "Civil Change" in the Ming Dynasty, Qianhu Tiankun died in the battle of Cangshangbao, and his daughter threw herself into a cliff here.

Zhang Cheng looked at the statue of the "sacrificing man", and said: "It is said that there used to be a pair of sisters-in-law living near Longmen Cliff, the sister-in-law was treacherous, but the younger sister-in-law was kind-hearted.

One year, their old mother was seriously ill and couldn't be cured for a long time. The younger sister saw it and was anxious, but the sister-in-law was anxious on the surface, 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 myself and jump off the cliff." '

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the old lady's illness to really heal. The little girl said, "The Bodhisattva has appeared, and I'm going to fulfill my vow." The sister-in-law also pretended to go to fulfill her wish together.

The two walked towards Longmen Cliff, and as they walked, the sister-in-law tripped and fell to the ground on purpose, and the sister-in-law said: "Sister-in-law, I will go first." '

After all, she jumped and disappeared without a trace. The sister-in-law thought at first that the sister-in-law had fallen to her death, but when she looked around, she found that her sister-in-law was not dead, but sat on the lotus pot.

She regretted it in her heart, and shouted: "Auntie, wait a minute." ’ She also jumped down from this cliff, but after she landed, she fell into a pool of meat sauce.

Afterwards, a black bird appeared near the Longmen Cliff, and it flew and called: "Auntie, wait a minute." '

It is said that this black bird was transformed by that sister-in-law, and she is regretting her treachery! "

"Ah, that sister-in-law is really disgusting, she deserves to turn into a black bird." Liu Yan said quickly after hearing Zhang Cheng's story.

"Hehe, you sisters are generally pure-hearted and kind-hearted. You must be the reincarnation of the fairy in the sky, and you will never change the black bird." Zhang Cheng said, but his hands hugged even tighter.

I saw that on the cliff, in addition to the statue of the "sacrificing man", there are many other poems, inscriptions, and 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 all as big as a house.

Zhang Cheng looked around, only to see dangerous cliffs standing opposite each other, towering into the clouds, like the gate of heaven slightly opened, following the stream along the water, but it is an extremely precipitous and abnormal north-south hub.

He led Liuying and Liuyan back into the car, and started slowly. Looking at the cliffs on both sides, he estimated that Gao Neng was nearly sixty feet long, and the distance was about one mile long.

Walking through Sheshen Cliff all the way, it can be seen that the widest part of the canyon can be more than [-] feet, but the narrowest part can only be crossed by a single rider, and the canyon here is still a "Y"-shaped throat.

Turn here and go west, leading 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.

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Zhang Cheng and the others guarded the carriage, passed Sheshen Cliff and went northward, passing Maoyu Fort but not entering. There were also some small forts along the way, which were built along the valley of the Baihe River, but they are now in dilapidated condition.

He traveled northward from Diaohaobao, and it can be seen that the north road was dilapidated everywhere, the military households were seriously lost, and most of the fields were abandoned. He estimated that the entire upper north road could mobilize no more than 2000 troops for combat.

From a general point of view, even if the entire North Road is added together, the number of troops that can be mobilized may not exceed 5000, and the number of troops that can have combat power may not exceed [-].

Banbidian Fort is not very big. The fort wall is about 47 feet long and nearly [-] feet wide. There is only one fort gate, which is opened in the northwest corner of the fort city. There is a small earth temple directly opposite the fort gate.

According to the "Minutes of Reading History and Fangyu": "The old Benmin Fort of Banbidianbao, in the 37th year of Jiajing, the enemy invaded Maoeryu by Dushi, Shenjing, Zhenmen and other piers. Fortify here."

"The fort is in Pingchuan, with mountains on its east and west sides, and a wall standing next to the road, so it is named Banbidian", and later generations wrote it as Banbidian.

Zhang Cheng and a group of 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 that of Yunzhou Fort. , not to mention Red Castle.

Gu Cheng had no choice but to give up his bedroom, and asked Zhang Chengmian to make it for the night. He also ordered his wife to butcher a chicken, so he could barely make up a table of dishes for Zhang Cheng and his party.

(End of this chapter)