Huang Yue is familiar with the cleverly designed artillery holes, secret passages, and even warehouses in the city, and is a very good guide and narrator, thanks to the stories he often played hide and seek with his friends here when he was a child, and the stories he heard from adults. He even took us to find a hole in the house that had been abandoned for many days, the hole hidden in the corner of the wall was not large, and it had to pass through a dense shrub between the Moon City and the main city, which ordinary tourists could not find at all.

During the years of "digging deep holes and accumulating grain", many air-raid shelters were left in the city. As children, these mysterious caves satisfied our curiosity and became a playground for Scout expeditions, where we longed to find the treasures of the Forty Thieves or find a passage to another world. The cave is dark and damp, the smell is pungent, most people only dare to push forward 20-30 meters, if anyone can walk more than 50 meters, everyone will recommend him to be our leading brother. As scared as we are and conflicted in our hearts, sometimes we would rather find a monster's lair than find nothing. Unfortunately, apart from rats and crawlers, I didn't manage to spot any of the big monsters with my own eyes, not even the hair or feces it left behind, probably because I didn't have the heroic mission of Ultraman.

Later, the iron door at the entrance of the cave was locked by the adults, and then I had the impression that these holes were often occupied by banana sellers, and my interest in bananas was far less than that of the action movie heroine in Zhang Xun's computer, and I didn't pay much attention to the bomb shelter since then.

Huang Yue's luck seems to be better than mine, and he said that he had found copper coins and white bones in this cave when he was a child, and he didn't know if it was true. This cave was originally a secret passage leading directly to Huangcang Street in the city, which partially collapsed after the Taiping Army bombed the city, the war in the early years of the Republic of China and the years of the War of Resistance against Japan. After the cultural event, someone found guns, knives and hands hidden here after the martial arts fight.

We followed the stairs on the inner side of the city to the back of the cannon hole, the space in the cave is not large and shady, caressing the mottled big iron cannon lying quietly, touching the thick history, looking out from the entrance of the cave, the fierce scene of the attack and defense of the city that was killing the sky appeared in front of us, and the cave can still smell the smell of gunsmoke.

Coming to the largest iron cannon, Xiao Min excitedly wanted to sit on the barrel of the cannon to take pictures, I advised her not to sit, "I heard that the cannon here is made of Bodhisattva melting, and you will be punished if you sit on the Bodhisattva's head." Xiao Min was frightened by me and asked me to tell her the ins and outs of this, Huang Yue and Lin Zi also said that they had never heard of it, and they wanted to hear this story.

In fact, when I was a child, I was also frightened by my grandfather, who studied history at the National Central University and Fu Jen University during the Republic of China, and later became a history teacher at Changjun Middle School, and always liked to tell me historical stories.

I have the impression that he has two hobbies, one is that he likes to shake his head and sing poetry, he does not read ancient poems like we learn in school, but sings them like singing; The second is that I like to drink tea in the teahouse of the Star Pavilion, and when I was a child, I often pestered him to take me to the castle tower of the Star Pavilion to play.

Children are active by nature, in my grandfather's words, I was "jumping up and down like a monkey" at that time, and his old man's legs and feet were injured and were not able to rope, which was the sequelae left when he was the "old nine" in **, he always couldn't catch up with me, so he could only keep warning me verbally, asking me not to run around. For example, "If you don't obey again, I won't take you out next time", or "You see that your clothes are so dirty, I will go back and ask your mother to help you wash them", at that time, I was staying at my grandmother's house, and I was most afraid that my mother would come to check my post. It was also one time when I was about to climb this cannon, my grandfather, perhaps afraid that I would fall, so he scared me that the Bodhisattva would blame me, and if I sat on it, I would have a fever and I would have to get an injection. On the way back, he told me the story of the "red-robed general".

In the thirtieth year of Daoguang, that is, in 1850, Luo Bingzhang served as the governor of Hunan, and ordered several large iron Buddhas in the Iron Buddha Temple to be cast into two cannons, one large and one small, and placed them on the Tianxing Pavilion City, and the large 5,000-pound cannon was named "the general of the red robe". Governor Luo's original intention was to unite the gods and military prestige, and to protect the community and the people, but he didn't expect that this cannon would really be powerful later, and bombarded Xiao Chaogui, the western king of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, to their "Heavenly Father".

At that time, the Taiping army had besieged the city for 81 days, and it was impossible to conquer it for a long time, and the reinforcements of the Qing court continued to increase. Star City has become the only city that has not been conquered since the Taiping Army entered Hunan to conquer, and since then, the "red-robed general" has been covered with a layer of mystery.

"Maybe this cannon really weighs 5,000 pounds? Let's scramble. Huang Yue asked me.

"I don't believe you'll try to move!?" I say.

I whispered in his ear, "The ghost knows if the general at that time was this cannon and teased her." ”

"What about the small ones? What's the name of that cannon? Xiao Min asked me with great interest.

"The little one, of course it's called the 'little general in the green hat', haha." That's certainly the name I gave it.

Huang Yue smiled and said to her: "I know this, if you sit on it, you will definitely wear a green hat." Ah, you seem to have ridden on a small cannon just now, I don't know if it's a 'little general', don't blame me for bringing a green hat in the future, it's providence! ”

The two of them chased and ran away, their youthful figures dancing in the bright sunshine, hearty laughter echoing across the empty city walls.