77, Zimeng Fortress (2) (Meng)

In the case that the rebels only have an average **, this fortress is an iron pass that is difficult to overcome. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

This basement is a dungeon. All towers have dungeons. Like many underground torture chambers at the time, this one had two floors.

The first floor, which is entered through a small door, is a fairly spacious domed room, which is actually on the same plane as the lobby on the first floor. On its wall there are two vertical parallel grooves, which pass from one wall through the dome to the other, leaving a deep imprint on the dome, as if they were two rut marks. It's a rut, a groove pressed out of two wheels.

In the old feudal era, the punishment of dismemberment was carried out here, but not in the same noisy way as the dismemberment of the corpse.

Two wheels are used, which are large and thick enough to touch walls and domes. One arm and one leg of the victim are tied to one wheel, and the other arm and leg are tied to the other wheel, and then the two wheels turn in reverse to dismember the victim's body.

This requires a lot of effort, so the wheels leave grooves in the stones.

There is also a cell underneath this cell, which is a real dungeon. It had no door, only a hole, and the victim was hung naked from a hole in the center of the upper cell with a rope under his armpit. If he was still alive, people threw food at him through the hole.

There was wind in the hole. The lower cell was hewn underneath the hall on the first floor, and it was less like a room and more like a well. There is water at the bottom of the cave, and the cold is pressing. The cold wind freezes the prisoners in the lower cells to death, but it keeps the prisoners alive because it feeds air into the cells. The prisoners who went to the cell groped under the dome and could only breathe air through the hole, but once they entered the hole, or once they fell, they could not get up again. Therefore he had to be careful in the dark, or he would become a prisoner

room of the prisoners. It's a matter of life. If he wants to live, this hole is danger, and if he is tired of life, this hole is liberation. The upper cell is the prison, and the lower cell is the grave. This overlapping phenomenon is very similar to that of the society at that time.

Our ancestors called this the "Death Hole". It no longer exists, and the name loses its meaning. Thanks to GE Life, we can be indifferent when we hear these words.

Outside the round tower, above the notch that had been the only import forty years ago, a hole wider than the other guns could be seen, on which were hung the ruined ones. Pierced barbed wire.

On the other side of the tower, in the opposite direction of the gap, there is a three-hole stone bridge with little damage. There was originally a building on the stone bridge, but now only the broken wall remains, which are obviously the remains of the fire. The swarthy roof truss was like a human skeleton, from which the light shone in, and it accompanied Yuanpei like a corpse with a ghost.

The ruins are now completely destroyed and gone. How many kings have spent centuries building their estates, and a peasant can reduce them to ashes in just one day.

The castle was built on large chunks of slate, which were found everywhere between Meyan and Dinan, and were scattered among the thorn bushes and heather, as if the giants had thrown stones at each other.

The round tower is the fortress, and under the round tower is a rock, and there is a river in front of the rock, and in January it is fast, and in June it dries up to the bottom.

The fortress, although not complicated, was almost impossible to conquer in the Middle Ages. It's a pity that the bridge weakened it.

When the ancient Mongolian people built the fortress, there was no bridge, only a drawbridge that could be cut with an axe. The Kim family was a viscount at the time, loved drawbridges, and was content. But when they became marquis, and left the lair for the court, they built a three-hole bridge over the rapids, thus opening the gate to the plain, that is, to the court. Neither the marquis of the tenth century nor the marquise of the eleventh century cared if the fortress was rock solid or not. They no longer follow tradition, but imitate the Forbidden City.

On the west side of the round tower is a fairly high plateau, and beyond that there is a plain. The plateau is almost connected to the round tower, separated only by a deep ditch through which a tributary of the Red River flows. The bridge is the link between the fortress and the plateau, it stands on a high pier, and a large Han-style building has been built on the pier, just like Weiyang Palace. The building is more habitable than the round tower. However, the customs were strict, and the lords generally lived in cell-like rooms in the tower. The buildings on the bridge resemble small castles, and there is a long corridor inside the fort that serves as a population and is called the guardhouse. In fact, it is on the first and second floors

between, above it is the library, and above the library is the barn. And the tall windows that are inlayed,

Half-exposed columns between windows and round carvings on the walls. This three-story castle, with spears and muskets on the lower floor, books on the middle floor, and rice on the upper floor, all seems a little rough, but very noble.

The round tower next to it looks fierce.

The eerie round tower overlooks this humble and small building. From the platform of the round tower it was possible to destroy the stone bridge.

These two buildings, one broad and the other elegant, do not echo each other but clash with each other. The two styles are not in harmony, although both have similar semicircles, but the classical arch decoration is completely different from the Changbaishan style semicircular arch.

It should be noted once again that from a military point of view, the stone bridge is almost a traitor to the round tower. The stone bridge beautified but at the same time disarmed the round tower, which was decorated but thus lost its power because the stone bridge placed it on the same plane as the plateau. From the forest side, Tuta is still an impenetrable fortress, but from the plain side, the round tower is no longer invulnerable. In the past, it was a round tower that controlled the plateau, and now it is a plateau that controls the round tower. As soon as the enemy gained a foothold on the plateau, just

Can quickly capture the Stone Bridge. The library and barn were also beneficial to the invaders and not to the fortress. What libraries and barns have in common is that books and straw are flammable. Therefore, the construction of this bridge in Turg was a strategic mistake.

However, at the height of the morale of the feudal dynasty, the rulers believed that they would not be attacked by anyone again. Still, the builders of the stone bridge took several precautions. The first is fire prevention. They placed an iron hook under the three windows facing downstream—which was still half a century ago—and hung a sturdy fire ladder as high as two stories from a stone bridge, which was more than a normal three-story building. The second is anti-attack. Between the stone bridge and the round tower is a heavy, low iron gate. The iron door is arched and leans on

A large key is opened, and the key is kept in a secret place by the owner.

Once the door is closed, it is difficult for any ram or cannonball to blast open. You have to go through a stone bridge to reach the iron gate, and you have to go through the iron gate to enter the round tower. There is no other way.

Therefore, this fortress is still a one-man fortress, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the rebels must pay a lot of flesh and blood if they want to attack.