Chapter 186: Border City

Gaoligong Mountain is located on the border of the Great Song Dynasty and the Great Liao Dynasty, it is said that there was once a Jingpo tribe called 'Gaori' who lived on this mountain, and they proudly called this place 'Gaorigong', and 'Gong' means 'place' in Jingpo language, and 'Gaorigong' is 'the place where the Gaori tribe lives'. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

I don't know how many cold and summer times have passed, 'Gaorigong' has become 'Gaoligong', and the Gaori tribe has long been left behind in history, but their names are eternal with Gaoligong Mountain.

As the largest Hengduan Mountain Range in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, its significance is not to climb high and look far away, nor is it the hidden beast in the mountain, but when you stand on the top of the towering Gaoligong Mountain, take a step forward, you will set foot in the territory of the Great Liao Dynasty, and take a step back, you will set foot on the land of the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, Gaoligong Mountain also has another name - Liangjie Mountain, which is the most spectacular wall in this land, dividing the territory of the two dynasties in the Northern Regions.

Not only that, there is also a place called a line of heaven in the center of the Two Realms Mountain, where the mountain peaks seem to have been split by a giant axe that opened the sky, and a gap of 100 zhang wide was split in the middle of this border wall, which is the only passage connecting the Great Liao Dynasty and the Great Song Dynasty.

For hundreds of years, in order to resist the invasion of the restless Great Liao Dynasty, countless soldiers threw their heads here, spilled their blood, went forward one after another, and buried their bones.

After Tie Xuan and Bai Yunfei separated, he and the old fox drove for three days and finally came here.

Extremely far away, the city wall in the distance is towering and tall, about dozens of zhang high, about 100 zhang long, at the end of the city wall on both sides is the high mountain and dangerous peak that stretches endlessly, it can be said that it is a good terrain that can be said to be a husband and a man who is not open. On the city wall, Tie Xuan clearly saw a half-cut strong bow and hard crossbow sticking out of the battlements, the arrows with the thickness of the arms on them glowed with a cold cold light in the sun, and a pair of soldiers with bright armor were patrolling back and forth, and the entire city wall looked like a giant beast with its mouth open and sharp fangs, as long as the enemy approached, it would be torn apart immediately.

However, these are not the things that Tie Xuan cares about the most, the most surprising thing for Tie Xuan is the color of the entire city wall and the traces of the axe and chisel carving left on it, he heard that the city wall of Gucheng is made of the strongest black iron stone in order to block the invasion of the south of the Great Liao, so what he sees now should be the black city wall.

But what he saw was not black, but red, no, it didn't seem accurate to say so, what color was left of the blood that almost covered the city wall after the wind and frost had dried up over the years, Tie Xuan couldn't tell for a while. There is also the black iron stone, but it is claimed that the sword does not hurt, and the water and fire do not invade, but now, what are the scratches one by one.

At this moment, Tie Xuan, who was standing outside the solid city, had respect for a city that had not yet entered for the first time.

Closing his eyes, Tie Xuan quietly felt the vibration of his heart brought by the city wall, and the sound of Tie Ma Jingo's killing seemed faintly heard in the wind, as if he had seen the bloody battles in the long river of history.

In the third year of Taizu, Da Liao sent 150,000 troops to invade the Great Song Dynasty, and it was just when Taizu swept away the heroes and could not withdraw, so he sent the general Mengshan to lead 50,000 soldiers to defend the two realms of the mountain, Mengshan while resisting the enemy, while organizing the people to build the city wall, hundreds of thousands of soldiers fought countless times for their respective dynasties under the two realms of the mountain. In the end, Da Liao lost 80,000 soldiers, and after the arrival of Taizu's reinforcements, he saw that it was impossible to disobey and retreated.

In this battle, Mengshan was seriously injured, and there were only more than 10,000 of the 50,000 soldiers left, and everyone was wounded. That is, after that war, the city was given the name of the city by Taizu Qin when it was completed, which means solid.

In the seventh year of Yuanzong, the rebellion of the seven kings swept the whole dynasty, the Great Song Dynasty fell into a beacon fire, the Great Liao took the opportunity to send 200,000 troops to invade the city, at this time, the third generation of Mengshan who guarded the city led 80,000 soldiers and 50,000 young men to defend the city desperately, bloody for 72 days, and finally beheaded more than 100,000 Liao soldiers, forcing the Liao soldiers to retreat. After this battle, Yuanzong gave the name of the god of war of the Mengjia family, the general seal of the Zhenguo, the Marquis of Yongning, and let his descendants Yongzhen Gucheng, hereditary replacement.

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Bloody battles again and again have created the prestige of Gucheng, and also achieved the name of the undefeated god of war of the Mengshi clan of the Gucheng General's Mansion.

"Is this the solid city, it really deserves its name, you see the majestic city wall, and it is not in vain that Lao Tzu came here desperately. Fat Dragon Pang Changgong crossed his hands on his hips, stepped on a raised stone, and said with a look of pointing to the country.

In this regard, the remaining three people just smiled, no one paid attention to him, everyone quietly looked up at the city in front of them, each with their own thoughts.

After walking for about half an hour, Tie Xuan and his party came to a not far from the gate of Gucheng, and before entering the city gate, he had already seen the black iron sculpture that he would inevitably see before entering the city.

I saw that on both sides of the road, there were rows of soldier sculptures cast by black iron stone, I heard that these are the most heroic soldiers who fought in every battle, in order to commend and commemorate their achievements, from the first generation of General Meng, they specially found skilled craftsmen to carve their appearance with extremely strong black iron stone and placed them on the road to enter the city, for every passer-by to enter the city to admire their heroic posture.

Thousands of sculptures are presented in front of you, this kind of shock to the soul is by no means clear for a while, especially since each character is so lifelike, as if it were a real person, and at the bottom of these sculptures there is a vertical stone tablet, which is engraved with the life deeds of this person.

Tie Xuan had respect for these soldiers who were desperately defending their homes and country, and at the same time, he also remembered the dense forest of tombstones behind his village, where the people lying there were not inferior to the sculpture soldiers on both sides of the road, because they were all warriors who fought and died for the same fiery faith in their hearts.

Tie Xuan roughly swept a few stone tablets and found that the closer the sculpture was to the road, the longer it would take for the person to die in battle. This sculpture is not ranked according to the rank of the military, but completely according to the order of death from front to back, this kind of respect for soldiers suddenly made Tie Xuan have a good impression of the great generals of the past dynasties.

Because it wasn't wartime, no one checked them when they entered the city, but Tie Xuan glanced at those soldiers in full armor with heroic faces, and in an instant, he felt a faint evil aura envelop him.

Whether a person has gone through the trials of life and death can be seen from his eyes, and even more simply can be judged from his temperament.

This is a soldier who has really experienced life and death on the battlefield, although he Tie Xuan has not killed anyone (Zhang Zhen killed by Tie Lan with his body is not counted), but he has experienced life and death battles many times, and this feeling is very familiar to him.

Looking at the leopard in the tube, it was seen from time to time, and from the body of a soldier, Tie Xuan already felt that this was a place completely different from Yuehe City.

As soon as I entered the city, the most striking thing was not the bluestone avenue that could accommodate four carriages at the same time, but the city gate that could be faintly seen at a glance.

Because it is located in the gap between the mountains, so the solid city is different from the general city, it only has two city gates, the south gate and the north gate, Tie Xuan enters the south gate, if you go out of the north gate, then it is considered to the land of Daliao. And in order to facilitate the movement of the army in wartime, there is no obstacle on the way from the south gate to the north gate, so there are not so many urban divisions in Gucheng, a straight road divides the east and west two urban areas, the east is the military and political district, and the west is the civilian area, which is clearly distinguished, and the three of Tie Xuan are going to the east district.

Although it was noon, the three of them were hungry, but even the fat dragon, who had been shouting the most hungry in the past few days, did not say a word at this moment, and followed behind Tie Xuan with a solemn face.

After half an hour, after several twists and turns to ask for directions, at the deserted prison gate, Tie Xuan and his party stopped their pace, and the destination of their trip arrived.

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