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When the group came to Machi Village, Sun Dingliao suddenly fell into a trance.

There is no wall in Machi Village, and there is a circle of ditches outside the village. The stagnant pond at the entrance of the village is soaked with newly harvested bunches of hemp stalks, and the stench is unpleasant.

The village was full of adobe houses, and four or five mothers-in-law and aunts gathered in the shade of the trees, moved the small bench that was not too high, sat upside down, rolled up their trouser legs, and rubbed twine while talking.

A bunch of hemp rests horizontally on the thigh, the mother-in-law and aunts pinch one end of the two hemp blanks with their left hand, and rub the other end of the two hemp blanks down on the calf with their right hand, and when the left hand is released, the two blanks are automatically twisted into a strand. The mother-in-law kept renewing the hemp blanks, and the twine kept extending.

The yellow dog kept wagging its tail around the mother-in-law, and Sun Dingliao felt as if he had returned to the Central Plains.

The local soldiers brought in the old men of the village.

The old man said that the people of their village had all migrated from Kounei and had lived in Machi Village for several generations.

Sun Dingliao asked the old man to send mules, horses, and people with thick ropes to pull boats at the mouth of the Shimen Shuihe River, and if there were strong laborers in the village, they would bring food and tools to Shimen Shuigou to help.

The old man's eyes suddenly lit up, "The general wants to guard the stone gate?" ”

Sun Dingliao nodded.

The old man hurriedly replied, "Yes, yes, yes, as much labor as it takes." There are a few villages nearby, so I'll let the descendants call someone. ”

Chief of Staff Sun Ding led the team out of Machi Village and went straight to the mouth of Shimen Shuigou.

The Shimen water channel at the mouth of the ditch is 150 zhang wide, and there is a long earthen wall on both sides of the river close to the foot of Daqing Mountain.

There is a earth-breaking city on the east side of the river, which is 20 zhang wide from east to west and 50 zhang long from north to south. The north wall of the earth castle is the long wall. The west wall is close to the river, the width of the wall base is less than three zhang, the width of the top of the wall is about one zhang, and the height of the wall is more than two zhang.

On the west side of the river is a earthen city of the same size, but it is badly damaged. Except for the north wall and the east wall immediately adjacent to the river, only the wall foundation remains in the rest of the directions.

Local soldiers said the two cities had long since been abandoned. Respectively called the east wall ditch barrier city and the west wall ditch barrier city, the two cities are collectively called the front mouth of the Shimen waterway, and the back mouth of the Shimen waterway in the north of the mountain corresponds.

Sun Dingliao entered the mouth of the ditch and walked seven or eight miles, the middle of the river valley stretched out from the west side of a hill, and the Shimen water meandered through the east side of the hill. The northern slope of the hill is steep vertically, the southern slope is gentle, and on the slope there is an irregular town with walls and beacon towers.

The soldier introduced that this is the Stone Gate Barrier City. Since the battle on the grassland did not pay attention to relying on the pass, there were only more than 30 defenders in the city, and the task was only to check the entry and exit certificates of the passers. Sun Dingliao immediately put these more than 30 people under his account in the name of Tabu Nang.

Climbing the north wall of the stone gate barrier, Sun Dingliao gasped.

Facing two mountains and one water, this is the stone gate!

At the bottom of the ditch, which is less than 100 zhang wide, the Shimen water changes the calm and peaceful downstream, and the river water jumps and jumps between the gravel and makes a rumbling sound.

The east and west mountains that form the stone gate are both gravel mountains, the top of the mountain is about 20 zhang high, and the span of the slope on the side facing the water is almost the same as the height of the mountain. Horses can't rush up this kind of slope, and people have to use both hands and feet to climb.

The mountain on the west side of Shimen is slightly higher, the ridge is connected with the hill of Shimen Barrier City, the north of the mountain is a ditch, and the ditch water that is like nothing flows into Shimen Water, in fact, forms a protective ditch on the northeast side under the mountain.

The mountain on the east side of Shimen is slightly lower, but it viciously penetrates into the hinterland of the river valley like a tongue, forcing Shimenshui to make two big bends here. The ridge on the east side stretches southwards until it winds behind the Stone Gate Barrier.

Staring at the east side and the ridge behind him, Sun Dingliao asked the soldiers guarding the stone gate uncertainly: "Is that the wall?" ”

The soldier replied, "Yes!" The wall on the mountain and the long wall in the north of Qiankouzi were left by the Zhao State during the Warring States Period! ”

The dark side wall of King Zhao Wuling stretches for more than two miles on the ridge, and more than thirty percent of them are built relying on mountain hazards, and the height is only three feet.

There is a poem that praises:

Riding and shooting Hufu to defend northern Xinjiang,

The hero is worthy of the King of Martial Spirits.

Handan's singing and dancing finally stopped,

The scenery of the meanders is old and reckless.

Looking at the clouds, there is no hoof,

There are eagles flying in the sky.

Two thousand and hundreds of years ago,

Only basil with earthen walls remained.

-- "Ascending the Great Mountains to Visit the Ruins of the Great Wall of Zhao", Jian Bozan.

This is it. Sun Dingliao pointed to the left and right and ordered Kong Youxing: "You stay here and wait for the follow-up men and horses, and set up artillery on the top of the two mountains and the barrier city." If the people come, let them renovate the border wall of Zhao State. ”

Sun Dingliao went deeper into the ditch, and the road began to be difficult. Shimenshui was on the left side of the valley for a while, and on the right side of the valley for a while, and Sun Dingliao had to keep getting off his horse and wading on foot.

Six or seven miles later, a flat-topped mountain appeared on the west side of the river, which the locals called Broken Shapozi. The east side of the broken sand slope is washed by the river and is almost perpendicular to the ground. If it weren't for the fact that it is surrounded by mountains and has no back road, it would be a natural fort.

After passing the broken sand slope and going deeper for a few miles, a ravine appears in the mountains on both sides, forming a "ten" intersection with the Shimen waterway.

Sun Dingliao smiled secretly, if the Hongyi cannon of Manchukuo wanted to cross the word "ten", it would take a lot of effort.

Sun Dingliao returned to Shimen Barrier City before dark, but he didn't expect a dragon to be waiting for him.

A dragon was originally located in a place called Erli and a half in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, and it was only a few dozen miles away by land from the front of Shimen Shui.

The reason why Erli and a half is called "Erli and a half" is because the Yellow River is close to the steep south cliff of Daqing Mountain in that section, and the distance between the river and the mountain is only two and a half miles in the shortest place. A small river flows out of the valley of Daqingshan, crosses two and a half miles and flows into the Yellow River, and cuts a good passage into two sections.

The cattle and sheep that migrated west were all piled up by the small river of two and a half miles. The six rafts sent by Sun Dingliao were put to great use, and a dragon used them to build a pontoon bridge over the river, and the cattle and sheep crossing the river began to slowly evacuate.

Yilong said that on the west side of the small river ditch for two and a half miles, there is also an abandoned ancient earthen city close to Daqingshan, and it can be considered to use the ancient city to prevent Manchukuo from killing from the east.

There is a village near Tucheng, and most of the people in the village enter Daqingshan from a small ravine in the mountains, and then burn kilns and open mines in a large ravine that runs east-west to make a living. That ditch is overgrown with willow trees, so it is called a wicker ditch. There is fine china clay in the wicker ditch, and there are several coal mines. Most importantly, there is a small iron mine and iron-making furnace in the wicker ditch.

Yilong said that most of the people who are driving their cattle westward on the grassland are nomads who can pull away all their belongings with a wave of a whip. Many farmers and herders are reluctant to leave their fields and pastures, but they are unarmed. If they could use the coal and iron ore in the wicker ditch to build weapons, these people could be recruited as infantry, and at the worst they could cause chaos in Manchukuo with weapons.